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Worst presidential line of succession in the history of the United States. • J.D. Vance • Mike Johnson • Chuck Grassley • Marco Rubio • Scott Bessent • Pete Hegseth • Todd Blanche • Doug Burgum • Brooke Rollins • Howard Lutnick • Keith Sonderling • Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Trump calls Somali Americans "garbage" and said today about Ilhan Omar: “She comes from a country that is a non-country." If he'd been alive in 1915, he would've said that about Italians. If it was 1850, he would've said it about the Irish. He traffics in ethnic hate. We have to stop him.

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

The Kennedy Center was never the city’s most daring arts venue. It was something better: all ours.

It really is a crime family. “If Kushner wasn’t the son-in-law of the President, he would be under investigation by the F.B.I.,” Virginia Canter, the ethics lawyer, said. “No one else could get away with this.”

worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth.

under remarked on aspect of trump is his deep hatred of natural beauty and the natural world.

One of the most frightening things about the Republican attempt to overthrow our democracy is how many people are completely unaware that the Republicans are attempting to overthrow our democracy.

"Hegseth and company are promoting an ultimately nihilist cult of death," writes @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social. "Meanwhile, America’s own dead are dishonored, as Trump has used their repatriation to display his Maga merch and fundraise off the victims of war."