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Microsoft hikes Xbox prices in US once again as tariff challenges persist reut.rs/4mp1roK
“.. the data is .. used to determine the weighting of specific goods and services in the Consumer Price Index for the year ahead.” @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/09/19/b...
There goes the First Amendment.
Every single Senate Republican just voted to make your healthcare more expensive. When premiums sky rocket it’s them you should thank.
This is why there's no point in highlighting their glaring inconsistencies. They gleefully argue in bad faith, knowing that doing so when the other side argues in good faith gives them the advantage.
They have literally no values, no commitments, no underlying philosophy. They're just grifters and opportunists.
RFK Jr.’s handpicked vaccine council voted to stop recommending a combination vaccine for measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella, in what “seems to be an agenda of Kennedy’s own design,” Katherine J. Wu and Tom Bartlett report:
David Letterman on his career mocking presidents: “Beating up on these people, rightly or wrongly, accurately or perhaps inaccurately, in the name of comedy—not once were we squeezed by anyone from any governmental agency, let alone the dreaded FCC.” Watch more: bit.ly/4n0Uv2p #TAF25
When you meet someone who wants you to be institutionalized, prosecuted, or killed, you should be asking yourself: what do I have in common with this person? Tomorrow from Ezra Klein
Sen. Susan Collins says Congress may only revisit Trump’s $1 trillion cuts to Medicaid if there's "evidence" of Americans getting sicker — even as 61,000 Mainers face losing coverage and rural hospitals risk closure. Read more here.
Donald Trump is clearly the malignant King of Cancel Culture. They have no respect for the First Amendment. Everything the far right extremists said to the American people about how they would lead was a big, fat lie.
Van Hollen: "Those who cave in -- those like ABC who cave in -- what they do is give the bully an even bigger appetite. When they appease they bully, they put all of us at risk."
Free speech? Really? It cost Jimmy Kimmel his job.
BLOOMBERG: Labor Dept. officials “who took the Department of Government Efficiency’s ‘Fork in the Road’ offer earlier this year have returned as full-time workers, after collecting their full pay and benefits for months without performing their job duties.” news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
So what if someone calls himself Tyler Robinson? Will Starbucks call the FBI?
NEW: Republican-led Senate votes to confirm 48 Trump nominees at once After triggering the "nuclear option" to change the rules and allow en bloc votes by a simple majority. A party-line vote of 51-47. And a very important new precedent for the Senate. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
1. Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC. If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.
Cowards. Shameless, morally bankrupt cowards.
ROVE: “.. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/they...
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
Himes: ABC took Jimmy Kimmel off the air because Brendan Carr, the chairman of the FCC, didn’t like some things Kimmel said.. I’m talking to you now because I’m just getting so damn sick of people who claim to be for free speech but turn out to only support free speech for people they agree with.
Sinclair, run by right-wing media mogul David Smith, says suspending the Jimmy Kimmel show isn’t enough. It is going to run a tribute to Kirk during Kimmel’s time slot. Sinclair stations will run not consider putting Kimmel back on air until he apologizes and donates to Turning Point USA
Remembering how Jon Stewart spent all of last year telling me that he’d grown more nuanced and wise after his retirement and that Trump v Dems wasn’t as black and white as people claimed. What a ridiculous fuckwad he turned out to be.
WSJ: “For high earners and many older Americans, the economy looks robust .. “.. For many others, momentum has stalled .. ‘They don’t have a home, they don’t have a large .. 401(k) and they are the most concerned about losing their job ..’” @jeannewhalen.bsky.social www.wsj.com/economy/us-e...
Weird right? He used to support the first amendment
It’s happening. The takedown of Jimmy Kimmel is likely the start of a campaign to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to use the power of the White House to wipe out Trump’s critics and his political opponents. But we aren’t powerless. We can mobilize and organize. Now.
Republicans aren't just covering up Trump's connections to Jeffrey Epstein. They're also covering up for the banks that financed Epstein's child rape operation.
After Trump’s FCC chair, demanded ABC take action against against Kimmel for his comments on Kirk, Nexstar, the largest operator of ABC affiliates announced it would pull Kimmel from its stations Then ABC said it was taking Kimmel off the air Nexstar is seeking FCC approval for a $6.2B merger
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A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
Just the FCC Chairman platforming a youtuber that was caught taking money from the Russians. www.npr.org/2024/09/05/n...
“.. I fear it will turn the military from being an apolitical institution to being a political one.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
This is it. Cancel culture, but for real. The Twitter Files, but for real. Actual, unadulterated collusion between the government and media-owning corporations to censor Americans. Shame on the MAGA libertarians and fake-heterodox civility cops who helped pave this road to authoritarianism.
The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.
“Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t doing politics right.” —Ezra Klein
Former CDC Director Susan Monarez said at a Senate committee hearing Wednesday that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did not call her after a gunman opened fire at the agency’s Atlanta headquarters. https://to.pbs.org/4n4Ll4R
#TheMiddleMile 👀
If corporate America can’t see the irony of their suppression of free speech in connection with the murder of a figure who stood for free speech, we’ve lost our freedom: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
the Colorado school shooter from the same day that Charlie Kirk was killed posted himself holding his gun on Twitter / X where he followed multiple far right accounts weird how you wouldn't call on Elon Musk too to testify at an online radicalization hearing
KAINE: Did you or career scientists ever brief Sec. Kennedy about recent measles outbreaks? HOURY: We did not brief Sec. Kennedy
FOX news host suggests we euthanize the homeless, someone goes into two encampments and starts shooting. 13 people shot and Jacob Frey and the media are just talking about it as the new best reason to clear the encampments
These deaths are a real feather in the cap of Brian Kilmeade and Fox News.
Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...
Trump didn’t run on a “Defund The NIH” platform but that’s what the NYT reports he is doing. Just what America wants: more illness! “Disease good; cure bad”
Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases
“.. It’s a scary thought to have the kind of Fed chair that’s willing to sacrifice the central bank’s independence out of loyalty to the president,” Mankiw said. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
“The goal with the mRNA is for that not to be available to anyone, because no one should be using that one,” Ladapo said, in an apparent reference to the COVID-19 shots. www.tampabay.com/news/florida...
Trump spent his 2024 campaign promising Americans he'd lower grocery prices. Virtually all major grocery categories are now more expensive than they were a year ago, however, some substantially so.
NYT: “.. In May, during a tour of the Middle East, the president made a stop in the U.A.E. to announce the chips deal. “.. Mr. Trump made no public mention of the $2 billion transaction with his family company.” @nytimes.com @ericlipton.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
Under Trump, FDA seeks to abandon expert reviews of new drugs www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...
SPECIAL REPORT: A large swath of the U.S. currently does not have the basic, ground-level immunity necessary to stop the spread of viruses that had once receded into the past, a six-month NBC News investigation in collaboration with scientists at Stanford University finds.
@normornstein.bsky.social: "OK, let's see. Hitler was the product of a democratic election. Erdogan was the product of a democratic election. Duterte, Orban, a long list of autocrats. After gaining power, they subverted elections and created dictatorships."
Some guy named Donald Trump, October 2024.
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"Joe Biden is a bumbling, dementia-filled, Alzheimer's, corrupt tyrant who should honestly be put in prison and/or given the death penalty for his crimes against America." -Charlie Kirk (07/24/23)
The thing to understand about the language policing of the MAGA folks declaring angrily that (accurately) calling Trump a fascist is incitement is that this standard only goes one way. Their violent rhetoric is 'legitimate,' after all, because they don't view you as fully human anyway.
We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.
Huntington Beach, CA - Members of Patriot Front, and several explicitly Neo-Nazi active clubs marching through Huntington Beach right now. Led by “Culture War Criminal” Ryan Sanchez, they are mostly being received warmly by a Charlie Mirk memorial demonstration at Huntington Beach Pier.
scattered to the wind like a bunch of gnats.
Huntington Beach, CA - As Patriot Front, Ryan Sanchez and Neo-Nazi groups are leaving they began to pummel one man in a leather jacket, who told me he was there to mourn Kirk but “hated Nazis.” Attackers include members of the GDL and Robert Wheldon.
American consumers are downbeat about the economy, according to preliminary results of a monthly survey conducted by the University of Michigan. Read more: https://cnn.it/4gmH7Di
Pulte is the guy Bessent threatened to punch in the face right? I can see why.
A sneering midwit with inherited wealth got the facts wrong, and accused an honest public servant—Lisa Cook—of fraud. His meddling created a crisis well beyond his portfolio, undermining the Fed. Bill Pulte can do the right thing and resign. If merit still matters, he should be fired.
NEW: A judge warned Friday that the Trump admin is "with a wink and a nod" deporting people to Ghana, only for Ghana to quickly re-deport them to countries where they face torture and persecution. w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
In case you missed it….Senate Republicans voted down an amendment to make more of the Epstein files public – the next move in their coordinated attempt to cover this story up.
WSJ: Paramount Skydance is preparing a majority cash bid for Warner Bros. Discovery that is backed by the Ellison family. The bid will be for the entire company, including its cable networks and movie studio www.wsj.com/business/med...
@matthewjdowd.bsky.social said nothing wrong. Go read his quote. On point. Pathetic move by MSNBC leadership.
Whether it’s Republican politicians joking about the murder of Melissa Hortman or Democratic politicians expressing their condolences after the murder of Charlie Kirk, both parties have a extreme rhetoric problem.
These are all people who wanted to kill their enemies before Charlie Kirk was shot, are more vocal about it now, and will keep lusting for it long after Charlie Kirk has been buried. Today’s biggest event could have been a dog farting and they would have reacted by wanting you dead.
HitlerSuckfest1488: "This has radicalized me."
Donald Trump thinks he has found a diabolical loophole through which he can rescind billions in foreign aid without congressional approval, and the chief justice gave us an ominous signal that the Supreme Court will agree. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Three people are in critical condition after a shooting at a high school in Evergreen, Colorado, according to St. Anthony's Hospital. Evergreen is 28 miles southwest from Denver. Read more: https://cnn.it/3VvN47r
CNN: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer moved on Wednesday to force a vote on releasing documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case, putting the contentious issue front-and-center in the chamber.
A panicked Trump asks for protesters to be removed from a DC restaurant tonight
sorry to report my finest work remains relevant
Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist. Read more: 🔗 on.wsj.com/4nGGdnJ
Rodney Bridge, a resident of Perth, Australia, whose 16-year-old son took a hallucinogen bought from Silk Road and then jumped off a hotel balcony in 2013, called Mr. Ulbricht’s comeback tour “a disgrace.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/t...
“.. The administration ‘has all but declared that all Latinos, U.S. citizens or not, who work low-wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time .. and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agents' satisfaction.’” - Sotomayor @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That Fundamental Interests Of United States Of America Would Be Irreparably Harmed If It Race-Based Harassment And Detention By Masked Thugs Were Even Temporarily Halted
SCOTUS just said these were fine, including stops based on looking Hispanic or speaking Spanish nypost.com/2025/09/08/u...
Here's my updated chart of #SCOTUS's rulings to date on emergency applications from the Trump administration. See if you can spot the pattern...
The Roberts Court is overtly devoted, as a matter of judicial and political philosophy, to supporting the policy agenda of Donald Trump. These are DISCRETIONARY rulings - the Court is ruling, repeatedly and usually without explanation, that EQUITY requires that Trump’s agenda advance.
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
Three SCOTUS stories before lunch on a Monday when the court isn't even in session perfectly encapsulates how the increasing importance of the shadow docket has completely reoriented how the court operates and what captures the public's attention.
Wouldn’t it be more accurate to call it the Trump Docket?
The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.
Behold, a former Neil Gorsuch clerk.
Did IOI even do any sort of due diligence, like at all?
Thinking about this moment ahead of RFK Jr's Senate hearing tomorrow.
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