I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Dear BBC. Dear CNN. Dear New York Times. The Trump administration lies all the fucking time. Hope this helps.

Let the picture of the little five year old boy standing facing the car and the old man being dragged out of his house with no shirt on, let those images burn into your brain. We don’t have to be this country. We don’t have to live this way.

Donald Trump was a choice, Republican voters made for us.

As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.

Hell, they won’t even allow us to get criminals out of the Oval Office

Every now and then I just pause and think that … we could have just elected Kamala Harris, and we’d still have an economy that was the strongest in the world; we’d still have an American-led trans-Atlantic order; we’d be assured that our universities would remain the envy of the world; … (1/x)

By the time major media agree that it's a dictatorship, it will be so far along that they'll be afraid to call it a dictatorship.

ooh, call on me, I know the answer

#HandsOff Providence, RI

It’s still hard to believe the simple fact that this is all self-imposed. Everything that’s happening right now wasn’t the result of some foreign adversary destroying the country. We did this all to ourselves by electing the dumbest motherfucker to ever rule a nation.