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@kenklippenstein.bsky.social with the receipts, actually talking to the shooter's friends. Surprise! Not the left, or even MAGA. Another white kid who spent countless hours online and "was an edgelord who wanted someone to get blamed … to rile people up.” www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...
Such a classic #MLB story. Class acts all around and another reason why I love baseball so much! www.cleveland.com/guardians/20...
UCLA’s funds reinstated after yesterday’s court order! Thanks to the brave researchers and their amazing counsel, including Dean Chemerinsky, who brought suit. This is just another turn in the ongoing fight, but a great result for now.
Tell me again how Convicted Felon Donald Trump going after James Comey but not Tom Homan, who was caught ON VIDEO TAKING A BRIBE, isn’t political retribution. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #FuckTrump #TrumpIsACriminal www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
BREAKING NEWS: TYLENOL RESEARCHERS FIND DISTURBING LINK BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND JEFFREY EPSTEIN
Thankfully it’s up at 9 million views on YouTube so people like me (who couldn’t watch it on air) found a work around.
BREAKING: Further confirmation that the shooter targeted immigrant detainees, not #ICE agents. All three #shooting victims were people ICE was holding and processing at the center. The shooter died of a self inflicted would and has been described as a white male www.fox4news.com/news/dallas-...
If you want to contact NextStar and tell them to stop the censorship this post they made about it has their contact info - www.nexstar.tv/nexstar-abc-...
Kudos to Nancy for sharing this list from USA Today. Resist and persist, friends!
Former DACA recipient dies in ICE custody after being hospitalized
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Nexstar made a deal to acquire broadcast conglomerate Tegna in a $6.2 billion deal, which will require government approval. They’re continuing to refuse to air Kimmel.
Same in southern Ohio and I HATE it! These guys are STILL suppressing free speech!!
BREAKING: Democrat Adelita Grijalva has won the special election in AZ-7 to fill her late father's US House seat. The discharge petition to release the Epstein files needs one more signature, and she's expected to sign it. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Go guards!
The Guardians were 12 1/2 games behind the Tigers 29 days ago. They’re now tied for first place. How many teams have ever been that far out that late in a season and finished first? That would be zero.
Can’t in Columbus, Ohio. I am so pissed! How can they do this on local stations? www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/09/...
Trump is complaining about Jimmy Kimmel's return to ABC and seems to be threatening the network with another lawsuit (the predicate is unclear). "Let's see how we do. Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative."
#abc6 in #columbusohio won’t be playing @jimmykimmel.com tonight. Instead they’re replaying the news. Why? Because they’re owned by #Sinclair who expects an apology for….checks notes… free speech. 🙄 www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/09/...
They'll blame Tylenol
🤔 #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory
Rural health clinics are closing after Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill,’ raising the legislation’s political risks www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/p...
Icymi the first time this ran, here’s a refresher: Vaccines today are more efficient and contain far fewer stimulants to the immune system than some used decades ago www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/h...
"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.
Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.
They tried to silence him. They tried to silence us. But collective outrage is louder than corporate cowardice. Never forget: when we rise together, we win. ✊🔥
Today’s autism announcement was just as bad as we feared Trump blamed Tylenol & vaccines for autism They encouraged women to just “tough out” their pain They praised people who don’t “need” meds or vaccines These are eugenicist talking points & they’re devastating to the disability community:
This should be getting a lot more attention. And no journalist should sign it. "The idea that a member of the Pentagon press corps or a reporter writ large can only write what the government tells them to, that's not how it works in the United States of America." www.rawstory.com/pentagon-267...
Tylenol use is safe in pregnancy, lowest effective dose. Don’t listen to the utter nonsense emanating from the highest office in the land today. Speak to your medical provider.
ALSO, RFK Jr is a eugenicist.
tl;dr: This is encouraging folks to look for ways to go after an imaginary “group.” While some will certainly try, this doesn’t even purport to give them any new authority to do so. It just says “enforce the laws.”
AUTISM and TYLENOL A study of 2.5 million children showed a small association between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism—but this finding DISAPPEARED when full siblings were compared. “Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism…” Full article:
I’m telling you, at the rate this news cycle is going, Bluesky needs to add a “facepalm” reaction to skeets!
Let’s be clear: you unsubscribing from Disney did it. Nothing else. Follow the 💰
Now do Colbert!
I was definitely one of those ticked -off Catholics! C’mon Leo, be the light!
apnews.com/article/tyle...
If we’re unable to organize politically, freely contest political decisions, peacefully and democratically vie for power, then we no longer live in a democracy. At that point, we’re once again subjects. That’s why we’re fighting so hard for our rights in TX. www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
“The obvious next step in that playbook is to expand from targeting immigrants to go after anarchists, leftists, and other opponents of the regime…” What does that mean? How can we prepare to weather the storm? Read this @crimethinc.com how-to guide
WEST VA. your SENATOR Female senators who voted to keep the Epstein files from being released: Katie Britt AL Lisa Murkowski AK Ashley Moody FL Joni Ernst IA Susan Collins ME Cindy-Hyde Smith MS Deb Fischer NE Marsha Blackburn TN Cynthia Lummis WY PRAY ON THAT 🙏 Shelly Moore Capito WV
God I didn’t know how much I needed this after the last week.
Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
On Earth 2.0, this would be The Story of the week, a firestorm of corruption, cover-ups, and scandal. Tom Homan, the thuggish head of Trump’s immigration brute squad was videotaped accepting a $50,000 cash bribe… and the Trump DOJ shut the investigation down. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
This could be “the largest public corruption scandal in the history of the United States"—amounting to a $2B bribe from an Emirati royal and the sale of the world’s most valuable artificial intelligence chips to the UAE, despite national security concern. trib.al/iZEOnGq
Gotta use that resistbot! resist.bot/petitions/PV...
Remember all those times we couldn’t tell whether Biden’s social media posts pressuring the attorney general to prosecute republicans were meant to be DMs?
🪧 Text NOKINGS to 50409 to find your nearest October 18 protest. It takes seconds to find it. Pass it on. #nokings
Journalists who cover the Defense Department at the Pentagon can no longer gather or report information, even if it is unclassified, unless it’s been authorized for release by the government, defense officials announced.
“Trump can’t pull something like what he did with Kimmel and expect to avoid mass pushback... Trump is immensely unpopular, and Republicans are likely to lose at least one house of Congress in the midterms—which could significantly limit his ability to silence other prominent voices.”
Republicans have the house, senate, and presidency, yet many in maga are still convinced they are the victims. You’re only a victim of being mislead to believe Trump cares about anything but himself
There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
A horrifying, completely necessary reality in a developed country in 2024-2025. Absolutely heartbreaking.
The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Just a reminder to use @resist.bot to make your feelings about these and other issues known to your reps. Here’s one I signed today after the fallout from Kirk’s murder: resist.bot/petitions/PI...
Lots of good information about digital operational and information security here www.turnoffyourphone.org
To each their own!
Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.
If you’re referring to the church, I don’t agree. That’s hasn’t been my experience as a lifer. While it’s absolutely not perfect, I’ve seen wonderful growth under our previous Pope and now Leo, too.
NEW: Ayman Soliman, whose detention sparked a community uproar and became a test of counterterrorism powers in immigration court, was released from an Ohio jail Friday as DHS abruptly withdrew its deportation case against the children's hospital chaplain. By @hannahallam.bsky.social
lol
Excellent point! It’s just flabbergasting.
LENO: “Usually it’s the truth that winds up getting canceled.”
I honestly would have been fine with intentions because I feel bad for anyone who is murdered, but ours gave his whole homily on just Kirk and that did not sit right with me, esp. considering how Kirk used to talk about the Catholic church.
As a Catholic, I’m getting really sick of these hot takes on Charlie Kirk. I actually left mass last week because of one of them. Don’t they recall when two actual, practicing Catholics (the Hortmans) were murdered earlier this summer!? Or the school children who were killed earlier this month? 🤦🏻♀️
Catholic here: walked out of mass last week when a visiting priest spouted something similar. If Dolan means he’s similar to Saint Paul before St. Paul converted, maybe? After all Saint Paul definitely attacked people for who they were, ridiculed them, & made them feel less than...
This is the first rodeo for a lot of people currently under threat for having dared to criticize Charlie Kirk, even while condemning the violence against him. Here’s some advice for trying to surviving it from someone who’s been here before.
That was fast. This is also why you don’t surrender to autocrats - you fight them and beat them.
9-0 “Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.” I'm reposting this because: 1. I saw it posted twice without alt text (please use alt text) 2. Note the plaintiff
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 22–842 NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, PETITIONER v. MARIA T. VULLO ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT [May 30, 2024] JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR delivered the opinion of the Court. Six decades ago, this Court held that a government entity’s “threat of invoking legal sanctions and other means of coercion” against a third party “to achieve the suppression” of disfavored speech violates the First Amendment. Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan, 372 U. S. 58, 67 (1963). Today, the Court reaffirms what it said then: Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors. Petitioner National Rifle Association (NRA) plausibly alleges that respondent Maria Vullo did just that. As superintendent of the New York Department of Financial Services, Vullo allegedly pressured regulated entities to help her stifle the NRA’s pro-gun advocacy by threatening enforcement actions against those entities that refused to disassociate from the NRA and other gun-promotion advocacy groups. Those allegations, if true, state a First Amendment claim.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yobyqjt4hs5icoihvaombhhn/bafkreibdecduqqpqlv3rfatpddnmhbxibnllljrctyhxmkbbbfd6x23tda@jpeg "Click to view full size")
They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
You asked for it! We delivered Quack-O-Grams to our members of Congress urging them to #ImpeachRFK, and get that Quack out of office! There's still time for you to get in on this fluffy, feathery action: Send your own duck at zurl.co/W1ZnB and keep the momentum going! 🦆
we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...
btw journalists are not obligated to tell the white house anything about their sources, to be clear.
You could make the argument that The Professor Watchlist was a gimmick that the young Kirk could use to raise his profile and money. But he never disbanded it, even as it was clearly used to harass and intimidate.
Please go to support.abc.com and "submit programming feedback", tell them to reinstate Kimmel. Takes about a minute. Let's flood them.
New flag from FCC Chair Brendan Carr: "I think it's worthwhile to have the FCC look into 'The View' and some of those other programs."
Van Hollen is dead on. ABC caved to a bully and handed him a feast. Appeasement doesn’t tame tyrants it fattens them up. Every time the press bows, the bully grows bolder and we all pay the price. Time to stop feeding the beast and start fighting back.
🚨read this about how the White House is demanding biographical information about people interviewed for news stories on issues related to trump. All these experts have had the same experience. Read their posts. It’s another way the WH is intimidating people. Chilling stuff.
Pointing out law breaking is a vital part of resisting.
Sen. Alex Padilla: "This isn't about one comedian or one television personality or any one network. It's about whether we as Americans still have the freedom to laugh at those in power, to question authority, and to tell the truth without fear of retribution."
Part of our constitutional crisis is that Republicans are stopping Congress from playing its fundamental oversight role.
Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/
If Susan Collins is one of your Senators, she’s the chair of the very powerful Senate Appropriations Committee. It has subpoena power, can call hearings, etc. Here’s a @resist.bot petition just for Mainers: Hammer her with calls📱too! resist.bot/petitions/PT...
"A few high-profile people got shaken down and everyone else got the message. A general chill spread over the country’s media, but it took a while to entirely freeze over." www.thenextmove.org/p/i-saw-how-...
Late-night television host Stephen Colbert gave a full-throated defense of Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday night and called President Donald Trump an “autocrat.”
Senate went nuclear and it barely made the news: apnews.com/article/sena...
My latest: "Don't Obey Snowflakes In Advance" Trump and MAGA's authoritarian march reveals a weak, insecure party that knows it has lost the masses and can't win without abusing its power. Fortunately, we are the majority and have the numbers. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
Twenty years after the comedy went silent, Russia is a sadistic, warmongering fascist regime run by a mad centibillionaire. That’s a future that could be ours — whole argument of "Road to Unfreedom" — but also one we can stop — see "On Tyranny" and "On Freedom." www.nytimes.com/2000/06/18/w...
73% of U.S. adults say that freedom of the press is extremely or very important to the well-being of society. www.pewresearch.org/fact-sheet/t...
Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
👀⚖️ #nyc #ice
I served under Wheeler at FCC. The FCC I knew was rigorously impartial and adherent to the letter and spirit of the law. Its staff was knowledgeable and meticulous. Carr is violating constitutional rights and the Communications Act. He is abusing agency power. Congress should impeach Brendan Carr.
David Letterman Says Kimmel’s Suspension Is ‘Just Not How This Works’ .. it IS how it works right now... but makes the excellent point what a little pouty boy is Trump who cannot weather a late night comic www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/a...
1st amendment Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Not the sign of a healthy democracy. Yikes!
Trump's administration is surging federal officers in Chicago — not to improve public safety, but to create chaos. Officials came here for a few hours for publicity, then left without providing any answers or information. I'm asking you to join me in demanding answers.
PBS News is doing more to expose the facts than the FBI… 📌 Many young extremists who grew up on social media and never knew life without school shootings now see public violence as a way to go viral. So the chaotic confusion we are seeing right now is possibly by design.
resist.bot/petitions/PN... As a literature lover and professor, I gotta sign this one. Hope you do, too. #resistandpersist #resistbot @resist.bot
@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com: Trump wants us to talk about Jimmy Kimmel. So we'll talk about Trump & Jeffrey Epstein. youtu.be/nAHLpcIEjyw?...
