Angus Johnston

The risk of malfeasance in the November election is real, and serious. But the Trump administration doesn't have a magic wand. It has tools of repression. And we have tools of resistance.

Charlie Kirk was shot during an audience Q&A. I swear that the following transcript is real. Question: "Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last ten years?" Charlie Kirk: "Counting or not counting gang violence?" He was shot a split second later.

One thing about never-Trump Republicans, during Trump II particularly: They understand that the world they knew is dead. They have no investment in either reviving the former GOP (because they understand it's impossible) or maintaining the pre-2016 Democratic Party (because it's not their party).

“When you look at the factors weighing down Democrats, it’s not crime or trans rights or wokeness. It’s the deep-seated belief among independents and Democratic voters that Democrats are weak and feckless.”

DO NOT WANT

This is not the Lev. 24 passage that Kevin was referencing most pointedly, but hell, let's throw it in, too: "Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the Lord your God."

BREAKING: @grammar-girl.bsky.social and I have invented another cocktail. It's not in the same class as the Sullivan, sadly, but it's a tasty one. I give you... The Geoffrey.

Oh my goodness a Jim Thompson Echo McGuire.

I am certain—though I cannot even begin to articulate why—that an Echo McGuire written by Chandler would be a woman, and a Hammett Echo McGuire would be a man.

Gotta love a name that Jack Kirby, Raymond Chandler, and Donald J. Sobol would have been equally thrilled to have come up with.

I just learned that Buddy Holly's high school girlfriend was named Echo McGuire. Good lord. I'm in love.

Lil' ainjil.

A lot of institutions and companies need to be printing out this post and pinning it up in their executive suites for future reference.

This is extremely my shit, Ron Wyden.