OLIVER: “In Russia, when Putin rose to power, TV satirists were among his first targets… Putin was driven to madness by how he was mocked on a puppet show… the lesson is it’s not safe to let one show slide because there are currently others.”
OLIVER: “In Russia, when Putin rose to power, TV satirists were among his first targets… Putin was driven to madness by how he was mocked on a puppet show… the lesson is it’s not safe to let one show slide because there are currently others.”
Strange, the bully is kicking my ass even though I've been telling everyone how much I respect him. Maybe he hasn't heard
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.
This.
While 🇺🇸 farms go under…
Trump wants to stomp out dissent but we refuse to be silent. We must use our economic power to pressure ABC/Disney. Encourage everyone you know to cancel their Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ subscriptions, and post their cancellations to social media using the hashtag #BoycottDisneyABC. 🧵
Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt. Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.
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Trump just designated “Antifa” as a terrorist organization, on par with ISIS and Al Qaeda. As a reminder, “antifa” is short for “antifascist”. They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left. This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up. www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...
They are literally canceling culture
Get angry at the fascist’s enablers. Get pissed off at every college, university, law firm, media company, tech billionaire, bank CEO, Republican elected official, government official, and private individual who caved to the fascist. They’re to blame. He couldn’t be a fascist without them.
This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.
I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...
Weird that free speech suddenly seems to have developed a cover charge and a bouncer
Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"
Just so I'm clear: TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft. TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism. Free speech, everyone.
Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved
If you think the president is a tyrant and you're running for office to oppose him the only platform you can have is "Give us enough votes to impeach and remove this menace." Otherwise what's the point of electing you?
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
This horrifying. Every MSM outlet that continues on X should confronted with the conduct of this disgraceful owner who they legitimize with their presence.
it really is astonishing how quickly it goes from “civil war” and “blood in the streets” to “wow guys it’s just a sad tragedy” when it becomes inconvenient
Big sigh. Watch this. Can you see why the Yankees’ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting? No one wished death on this man, but what we’re seeing right now is too f*cking much.
Charlie Kirk was a martyr for free speech, which is why we're going to deport anyone who "makes light" of his death.
thank god we’re all against political violence
It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.
This is such a funny element to the Kirk eulogizing: they can’t describe him the way they’re describing him *and* show clips of anything he actually said or did
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
charlie kirk got shot by a nutjob so we have to ... ? arrest george soros? rendition media matters? grimly curious to see where this goes.
Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
NEW: The Trump administration surpassed 1,000 agreements with local police departments to effectively deputize their officers to act as ICE agents. This program, known as 287(g), makes our communities less safe, encourages racial profiling, and drains our resources.
The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.
Do you think that if a Dem President had been exposed with a letter like this today, that top GOP consultants would be telling their leaders to pass bipartisan budget bills and focus their messaging on popular tax cuts? It's utterly insane.
I could swear there was a whole right-wing conspiracy movement / cult focused on unmasking the secret pedophiles in elite circles who run everything, anyone know what they’re up to these days?
The road to fascism www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Clearly, everyone should be driving around 9000 lb luxury electric SUVs and trucks. Else you're not serious about climate change.
Second Amendment for me but not for thee.
Live footage of Mitch McConnell giving interviews saying Trump's second presidency is “most dangerous period” since Second World War.
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
Pritzker: Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next
That time i came home and found them ready to sled down the stairs directly into an armoire. 🔥 This is the same group that our cities and police hope behave perfectly walking to school instead of forcing drivers to be safe by design. Kids are predictably unpredictable and we must account for that
Stuart Stevens, currently to the left of most democratic leaders on the Hill
Found on Mastodon... fediscience.org/@kaiarzheime...
I do not understand why government officials resign when asked to do something bad. The resignations will no longer be treated by the public like a scandal. It’ll be out of the news within 24 hours. People should stay and force the White House to fire them. Do not make it easy.
[eyes narrowing] make it double meat
Two years ago it was widely accepted that bombing hospitals was unconscionable and impermissible. Clearly, we no longer live in that world. The only we can return to it is if there are real public consequences for those who have allowed this. The alternative is a continued slide.
If a person was being irresponsible with a handgun in public, most people would be rightly upset. We all know that a car can be just as deadly, yet we don't expect the same level of responsibility out of their operators. If you almost kill me with your car OR your gun, I'm gonna be equally mad.
Just casually laying the groundwork for violent repression of the opposition
We've speculated about the many ways the Trump era could end, but I'm not sure "Jonestown style mass suicide of cult leader and his Cabinet" has gotten enough attention. I think these spineless weasels will do whatever he says.
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
The sheer amount of time, money, and resources this government has spent to torture one random guy is astounding.
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
A lawless regime increasingly open in its impunity
He’s wanted to declare martial law from day one. Bypass all checks and rule as a tyrant. Many have speculated how he’d do it. Now his gambit is clear. DC was a test. He’s using manufactured crime stats to send troops into blue states & cities. This is not a drill. Democracy is at defcon 1.
Here’s what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files
You do not have to like John Bolton to see this for what it is.
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Doh! I meant*Bread* of course.
Brad might take the prize for both the softest sounding and most awkward looking 70's band. But that is truly a wonderful and lovely song.
To be a better parody, the truck needs to be lifted a couple feet and the tires about 8 sizes bigger.
They love trying it with slavery. You turn your back even for a second and they’re like “black people loved being bought and sold.”
Maybe letting cars overrun our cities wasn't the best idea, Exhibit #8 zillion:
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
Pedestrianized streets let kids be kids (and let parents relax a little)
This is absolutely wild. #txlege
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu: “Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”
Making it illegal to build new homes for yuppies does not keep older homes affordable. Rich people just buy the old homes and build luxurious new homes inside their walls, which drives up the price of housing. I understand that this is unsatisfying to people who want housing for the neediest first.
Very bad sign when masked, unidentified agents of the security state are not just grabbing people off the street but openly identifying with the regime's politics
If you do not see where this is headed by now, no one will ever be able to sway you until it is far far far too late
Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪
This might make me a carceral urbanist but I think that you should have to go to jail if you flee the scene after killing someone with your car while driving home from a restaurant where you were drinking alcohol. We need to enforce real consequences to create a deterrent for bad behavior.
I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.
Some of the most comfortable people in history whose altogether lovely lives have been sustained and buoyed by decades of immigration, cooked their brains in fear and hatred and decided to embrace the most noxious nativist politics of our time, brutality they think will never be aimed back at them
The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.
Four of the over 225 owls carved, chiseled, and sculpted into the walls, doors, columns, light fixtures, and grates of Walter Library at the University of Minnesota.
Nothing to do with performance or merit: purged from the military because of their identity and then robbed of the retirement they worked for.
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Mexican entrepreneurship knows no limits… Behold the ICE officer piñata 🪅
The only thing that will make some people follow the rules is when not following the rules results in the destruction of their car.
Except that some cars might get totaled, so SDOT will put in flex posts instead. 🙃
weird how the guy born into obscene wealth, bailed out repeatedly, allowed to fail upwards forever until he fell ass-backwards into the presidency, and then was declared by the Supreme Court to be a Very Special Boy Who Can Crime Forever never stops whining about how everything is rigged against him
RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775. I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
The raw milk people are hilarious. All you have to do is meet one (1) cow and smell the situation in which they are producing that rawness and you will pasteurize everything you own for a week
i miss DEI
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
To be fair, they have to sell the dream. And the dream of all drivers is to not ever encounter other drivers.
the thing is that in wealthier, more liberal areas, the "viewers like you" may well make up the lost funding. in poorer, rural, more reactionary areas, that's the end of PBS and NPR and their affiliates
this is a disgrace and a national shame
Heartbroken by the news. I was blessed to be able to cover War Pigs and get your recognition. Ozzy Forever 🤘🏿
Hunter Biden of all people said some true shit and it went viral. People are desperate to see some passion. We're desperate to see fight. My message to Dem leaders and consultants is simple. If Hunter fucking Biden can capture our attention and you can't, maybe that's worth reflecting on.
Right-wing cancel culture run wild! They’re not only canceling Colbert, global relief, the federal work force and their promise to release the Epstein File. Now they’re canceling Congress!
we are currently watching an entire political party run cover for the most notorious sex trafficking ring in modern human history
Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?
"...the risk of being murdered underground is... orders of magnitude less than the risk of dying from a traffic accident elsewhere in the US. Cars are deadly, and any transportation policy that encourages their use over public transportation is pretty much by definition anti-safety."
The verdict is in from the nonpartisan CBO: Trump's billionaire tax giveaway will add $3.4T to the national debt and kick 10M people off their health care — and that doesn't include the 4M+ who will lose their care if Republicans don't extend the ACA tax credits. Shameful.