Ed Bott

It's 1934 in America.

GO 👏 TO 👏 THERAPY

Just for context, the alleged conduct that the Trump administration is going after here happened a couple of days before the Access Hollywood tape emerged.

If my government has a rooting interest in another country’s elections, or if another country’s government has a rooting interest in mine, then I need to pay attention to what happens in these countries’ politics. Plus our neighbors, economic partners, key allies and rivals… it’s a big world, kids

Audi owns Volkswagen and yes, we're all going to draw some comparisons

She's making a lot of sense.

High level observation from some of our election rumor work this season: The Trump admin & right wing media ecosystem are focusing a lot of energy on California — which with all of their congressional seats and the long counting period could set the stage for some "rigged election" shenanigans.

The replies are awesome.

The president of the United States will be performing at a political rally in Corinth, Mississippi tonight. It should be interesting to hear what he has to say, given recent events and today's report from the Judiciary Dems.

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

Holy shit. "AG Todd Blanche Instructed Maxwell Not to Discuss a Specific Survivor Whose Account Implicated Trump ... Five Women Accuse Trump of Rape or Sexual Assault in Epstein’s Company or Presence ... Criminal Ties Among Trump, Epstein ... Paolo Zampolli and Known Pedophile John Casablancas"

After the election results in Brazil and Serbia, he When It Happens Clock just moved 5 minutes closer to midnight.

Shorter Yarvin: "These results can't be legitimate. Nobody *I* know voted for Lula."

Chef's kiss.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Everyone thought Lula was cooked, hopeless. Then he bought a phone and started posting and now he's gonna get a 4th term. The lesson is to never stop posting.

If you had told me at any point in Lula's 1st or 2nd term not only that I would be rooting for him in the future ... but also that I'd be rooting for his *4th* term, when he's *80*, after multiple corruption convictions... and that I would think it was of *urgent global importance* for him to win...

YESSSSSSSSSSS!

People will say it’s bad that Mayer couldn’t answer this herself, and they’re right. They’ll say it’s bad she asked AI, and they’re right. But I am here to say that it’s bad that she looked at this wack ass output and called it “perfect”

Be like Serbia, America.

Grandpa can’t even accurately remember his own racist slurs.

here, write it down so it’s easy to repeat: an illegitimate supreme court allowed an insurrectionist barred by the 14th amendment to take office and his pardons aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on

Trump wanted to create an Orban style autocracy & take away everyone’s liberties. But Orban knew u need to be popular when u put that into effect. But in just 20 months Trump failed so hard he’s more unpopular than any midterm Prez in 80 yrs. Chump just doesn’t have the cards. 🤣

All this time I never knew Clinton in 2000 could have directed DOJ to sue to make sure Florida election officials in Broward county were allowed to question voters on if they were confused by the ballot design when they voted for Buchanan.

Restoring constitutional democracy after we fix the Supreme Court should entail invalidating Trump’s entire term because the 14th Amendment plainly disqualifies insurrectionists from public office. The rule of law can’t survive when a tyrant can immunize all of his minions from federal prosecution

In case you missed this batshit crazy ad... It's from Bobby Jindal's America Next PAC. And yes, that's the same group that paid $250,000 to Timmy Teepler, father of Tommy Teepler, who tried to heckle Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan.

Roadkill is really cheap.

tHe eLItEs ArE gEtTiNg RiCh

There are individual cats with 3 billion views

striking how WaPo can write a headline with such moral clarity when they want

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

Give this a listen. It’s becoming par for the course. And Democratic candidates - especially female candidates - now get it from both sides of the political spectrum.

My doctor has ordered me not to read anything by Matt Yglesias because my blood pressure can't take it, so I really appreciated this absolute demolition of Yggy's latest smug bullshit.

The replies are great.

“also please do not google ‘working with cia in cuba history’”

"At a hearing on Friday, Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said it was strange that prosecutors had not sought an indictment in the case." Yes, strange. Presumably even ... irregular? (gift link)

Six sept.

Six sept.

they have the potential to do the funniest thing.... www.theinformation.com/articles/dat...

This from @lexfri.xyz does a very good job of capturing the essential arguments about the site formerly known as Twitter, which is most assuredly not a good place.