John Burnham

How racist and desperate do you have to be to look at this and say, “Got ‘em!”?

"Nobody asks Mike Rogers why he’s part of a party where leaders seem so willing to impose their faith on society."

Trump is BIG MAD about Obama saying the White House now looks like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory: "He's not a smart guy. He's not smart at all ... for you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president"

Trump’s deportation force is giving ordinary people new ways to threaten, torment, and punish their neighbors. And sadly, some of them are making the most of the opportunity.

Michael McDonald, who does some of the best turnout analyses, shows that Dem and (especially) nonaffiliated voter turnout is up over 2022, while the GOP is down. michaelmcdonald.substack.com/p/florida-ea...

Hey Gemini what is my kid's name and what does she look like, I'm at her school play and I can't figure out which one it is

So many lives ruined. Good people trying to make it, following the rules. Shattered by this cruel administration. But we *all* own this. The MAGA who cheered it, the Repubs who wanted lower taxes on the wealthy, the Dems who didn’t vote, and even those of us who did. We *must* fix this. Vote!

I'm old enough to remember when Jared Kushner thought it was a good idea to use the Russian embassy to conduct secure communications during an American presidential transition

They called the cops on this 3-year-old Black boy because he was kickin the white kids' ass on the soccer field.

Here’s a Bolsonaro-aligned congressman straight up announcing the coup plan

“.. Video footage, Sheriff Greene said, clearly showed a woman being punched in the face. ‘I know what people saw, and if I saw that video, too, I’d be like, ‘My God, why didn’t the police do anything?’” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u...

Humbled to have the 44th president with us in our movement to demand more for working people in Michigan. Change is in the air. 🤝

Trump says if Republicans lose the election it is voters’ fault

NEW on @zeteo.com — Venues are *pulling out* of hosting Vivek Ramaswamy for his bus tour across Ohio in the closing days of the election. “We’re getting calls that people don’t want him there,” a top Ohio Republican says. “It’s that damn ad.” From @andrewperez.bsky.social and @swin24.bsky.social:

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

The media lost its MIND when Obama tried to make some small changes to the press pool system. Now Trump is quite openly rendering it into a North Korea-esque state-media system and ... has a single journalist or outlet stood up to protest?

The Right’s Fascistic Fever Dreams Are a Sign of Weakness MAGA wants us to believe that Trump can simply declare “martial law” and wipe away the system - but it’s just not true. A threat assessment before the midterms. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵

Barack Obama just endorsed Angie Nixon for U.S. Senate! She may not have the full backing of the Democratic establishment, but she’s building support from the biggest names in the party. LFG! 🔥

Obama argues that we won’t fix our political problems unless we rediscover our moral compass first

“Several conservative organizations …— including the Heritage Foundation and American Moment — have pressed White House counsel to either prepare pardons or put in place funding for the legal fees necessary to defend junior staffers from criminal and congressional probes or potential lawsuits.”

no matter how sure you are that these guys have broken a whole bunch of laws, you aren't nearly as certain as they are

"Surely 11 days is enough time for this saga to pass from public attention as the voters head to the polls — you know, the whole downplaying of documented child sexual abuse, while the top Republican in your state is publicly begging you to stop." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/vivek-rama...

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

"While it’s true that I’m less guilty of the climate catastrophe than is the head of Exxon, it’s also true…that many of us wish we could simply punish some bad guys for what is, in truth, an 'unsustainable' way of life that we all share and that only a small number of us are willing to give up."

A Halloween display that scares both kids and adults:

HUGE CROWD for James Talarico in Galveston 🔥 This county voted for Trump by double digits.

Maybe it makes me a credentialist, but I hate how we constantly elevate guys like Yglesias — who have no relevant education or work experience. In politics, he's never run for office, worked on a campaign or served as an appointee. On policy, he has a BA and has never worked in government.

Some cities it's just not worth fucking with

Remarkable. I don't know how to explain what journalism is to two of the largest media outlets in America. Journalism is not repeating an obvious, comical lie, then tacking on who said it at the end.

If you encounter ICE, here's what every New Yorker should know.

Wow! Make Amy Acton governor. “I am making a promise to Ohioans...that no one in my state will ever, ever be invisible to me."

Again: Why does Musk have operational control over any *military grade* version of anything. That’s not how DOD contracts work.

In MAGA, parental estrangement is a big issue — and parents are held out as blameless victims. I suspect that's one reason why Vivek Ramaswamy ran an ad celebrating Amy Acton's vile mother. And why MAGA — including Vance and Trump — are backing him. www.salon.com/2026/10/23/r...

This is what the Republican Party unambiguously is; whether you choose to support it is up to you

This is what the Republican Party was offering the American people last night heading into the midterms.

Trans voter to @aoc.bsky.social: Trans people in America feel like they've been abandoned by the Democratic Party, that we are a losing issue, that it's not worth defending us. What do you say to that? AOC:

Simon Andriesz, British banker and whistleblower who exposed Howard Lutnick's many ties to Jeffrey Epstein, was found dead last week of an apparent suicide, raising many suspicions, especially due to his last social media post. www.rawstory.com/howard-lutni...

Then watch when Talarico comes on stage with the Chicks. youtube.com/shorts/miGu9...

All of the people who got us into this mess will make plenty of money on the way down too

Guys, please stop calling Trump a far-right authoritarian

ICE causes man to wreck while his children are in the car, then tries to pry his kids from his arms. They got the wrong guy. Toward the end of the video, an ICE officer says law requires the person recording to back up 25 feet and threatens with pepper spray. (There is no 25-foot law.)

EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth wanted Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s globe for his office. His staff broke it. The Pentagon denied us access to take photos, but we obtained some anyway. A story in global affairs: wapo.st/3WF2YQo

Alaskans don’t want data centers raising prices. Energy costs are already squeezing families, and data centers would only make it worse. So why does Dan Sullivan want data centers? Because his family’s business would profit off of them.

Across multiple states, the GOP has sought to weaken institutions limiting its power. In North Carolina, legislators stripped authority from Dem. governors. In Wisconsin, Republicans threatened to impeach a Supreme Court justice to protect gerrymandered maps.

I don't know what the sadder explanation here would be. That he's so used to Trump's "never apologise, always double down playbook" that he does it even when he knows it's a bad idea. Or that he's so marinated in the Twitter mind-melt he can't even recognise things that cross the line anymore.

Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

These people have embraced nothing but sheer degeneracy at this point. Every single one of them lacks even the most basic moral characteristics required for participation in public life. A movement filled with nothing but the most gutter cretins.