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One thing that bothers me tonight in particular is how so much of this is happening because of grand and sweeping capitulation by the media, by companies, by Congress, by people in power. Even when they don’t have to — they simply comply, acquiesce, and appease.
The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”
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.
What does Jimmy Kimmel really think about Charlie Kirk? His own words: "Senseless murder." "A lot of extraordinarily vile responses." "Some people are cheering this, which is something I won't ever understand." Why is the FCC is really targeting him? He went on to make fun of Trump for 10 mins.
ABC’s decision was announced almost immediately after Nexstar, which owns dozens of ABC stations across the country, said it would no longer air Kimmel’s program. Nexstar is currently seeking approval from Trump’s FCC for a $6.2 billion merger with rival TEGNA. www.mediaite.com/media/tv/tru...
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
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Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
Welcome to 1984.
MY GOD, I HAVE A NEW HERO. SHE HAD THEM SO HOOKED AND THEN BAM, SHE ATE THEM, BONES AND ALL.
Bye bye, First Amendment. Hello, fascism.
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 anybody’s following ABC on here and follow them and then report them for being bias . They just canceled Jimmy . Because Donald Trump got them to do it because of something he said.
I am amazed at just how inept the Democrats’ congressional leadership is on this moment of crisis. Trump is moving troops into blue cities and declaring war against the left, and these guys are complaining that the GOP Congress is pushing a partisan budget. Jesus Christ, wake the hell up.
How did Dr. Monarez go from being “a public health expert with unimpeachable scientific credentials” who had the “full confidence” of Secretary Kennedy into being a “liar” and “untrustworthy” in less than a month? She refused to rubber stamp his anti-vaccine recommendations.
Sorry I was late to your wedding, my flight was canceled because my pilot posted a Charlie Kirk quote verbatim in the comments of an Instagram Reel.
Hard to think of a more on-the-nose encapsulation of how far the online speech wars have swung in the year of our lord 2025 than major U.S. corporations racing to fire people whose tweets offended Milo Yiannopoulos
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More than 1 in 4 unemployed workers have been out of work for at least 6 months. Nearly a million people could be pushed into poverty by Trump’s tariffs. Meanwhile, Trump and Republicans have gutted the social safety net. He is creating the perfect storm of economic misery.
Melania remains Undefeated as civic goth fashion template
The Fed lowering interest rates will increase inflation. This move will just make money cheaper for the wealthy.
Some kids just came by canvassing for Mamdani. An absolute delight. Ten out of ten ground game.
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Bill Cassidy behaved today as he should have behaved during RFK Jr.’s confirmation. The problem is that now he can’t unring the bell. His actions in confirming Kennedy and convincing others to do so has already caused irreparable damage to science and public health in the United States.
Trump is bronze
A wholesome and much needed TL cleanser.
Brainworm says what now?
This is another major scandal that in any normal country would result in the immediate impeachment and removal of the president.
GOLDMAN: How is that not legally allowed? PATEL: Do you know how court orders work? GOLDMAN: Actually, Mr Patel, I was a real prosecutor for 10 years
JD Vance: We do not attack or commit violence against people because we disagree with their ideas. (He does. They do.)
bernie sanders finally calls israel's siege on gaza a genocide
Powell: "In the near term, risks to inflation are tilted to the upside and risks to employment to the downside -- a challenging situation." (In other words, stagflation)
“People are scared” So are little children doing lock down drills in their kindergarten classrooms. Not to mention no amount of security can protect you everywhere people can buy and carry guns in America.
Sen. Marshall: “Would you agree with me, at this point in time, that you're not the right person for this job?” Dr. Monarez: “If I am put in a position of having to say I will cede the scientific integrity to retain my job, then I am not the right person for the position.”
Raskin to Patel: "In a few short months, how did you go from being a crusader for accountability and transparency with the Epstein files to being part of the conspiracy and coverup? The answer is simple. You said it yourself -- because of who is on that list."
“I don’t like it,” Fox News' Kennedy said. “Because all it takes is one fishing boat with a broken radio or people who don't speak English and you're killing innocent civilians, and I do not like that.” www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
SWALWELL: Did you ever tell the AG that Trump's name is in the Epstein files PATEL: The AG and I have had numerous discussions about the entirety of the Epstein files S: Did you tell AG that Trump's name is in the files? P: *crashes out* S: We'll take your evasiveness as consciousness of guilt
Two things Kash didn't know. 1) Who Dylan Roof is. 2) That Shein, in which he has a significant investment, is a Chinese company.
Vance on Trump's strikes on boats: "I wouldn't go fishing right now in that area of the world."
These strikes clearly show Trump is a war criminal. Where's the media?
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Trump silences Ben & Jerry's? Even Ice Cream isn't safe?
is this good
ALSOBROOKS: Did you receive a call from the secretary upon reports an active shooter at CDC HQ had shot at employees? MONAREZ: I did not speak to the secretary on the 8th or any successive day A: So are you telling me the HHS secretary failed to even give you a courtesy call? M: He didnt call me
Wow- Cassidy says that "I understand that Sen Mullin implied there was a recording of the meeting between Dr Monarez and Sec Kennedy. I will note that if materials have been provided to Mullin, they are official committee records...if it does not exist, I ask Mullin to retract his line of questions"
KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this? PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information? KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI
As someone who has said good things about Adam Jentleson in the past - anyone looking to downplay climate change after the past 10 years have been the 10 hottest years on record should be in jail, not working in politics.
ALSOBROOKS: Do you believe Secretary Kennedy is incompetent and dangerous to the American people's health? HOURY: I think he should resign
Monarez: "Kennedy made another set of assertions associated with CDC that were particularly pointed and hurtful and disparaging ... he said that CDC employees were killing children and they don't care"
kash patel, 2024: we must release the epstein files and oust the cabal kash patel, 2025: the guy charged and jailed for sex trafficking kids didn’t sex traffic anyone actually
Headline: President Manbaby orders servile deputy AG to prosecute those who boo’d him at dinner.
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CC: Brian Kilmeade
This is why they’re deleting studies
These people calling for bipartisanship! Even now! It’s a level of delusion that defies credulity.
PATEL: The estate of Epstein has a voluminous amount of information that they have not released LIEU: Wouldn't it be great if the FBI subpoenaed the estate? P: The estate is under no obligation to provide that information L: That's just false. You're the frickin' FBI! You can subpoena information
Sen. Bill Cassidy: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expected you to change the childhood vaccine schedule, despite a lack of science or data to support that move? Former CDC Director Susan Monarez: "Correct."
BALDWIN: We're left wondering who's advising Kennedy or if his own conspiracy theories are enough to dictate who can get a vaccine. Did you ever brief him? HOURY: No B: You were chief medical officer at CDC. Would you say it's harmful to the public if he's not informed by experts? H: Very much so
The man who was rage tweeting at 3:30am about how unfairly he is being treated was born a millionaire, spent his life receiving handouts & free passes and will sleep tonight in Windsor Castle after being feted by the King of England. Life’s a bitch.
Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”
“My mommy made me King.” “You lucky dog. I had to make myself King.”
Because the feckless mainstream media in America has been cowed into complete submission.
In the days since someone said we should kill the homeless and mentally ill, the unhoused have been shot and lynched from trees in multiple states, yet @foxnews.com.web.brid.gy Brian Kilmeade, that someone who said it, still has a job.
You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.
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"
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Tim Walz: "I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe -- a tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras ... where are the 'don't tread on me' people?"
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“Stay in your cars! Tell everyone to stay in your houses.” Illinois state senator Karina Villa out in the street warning folks about ICE
"This type of language spurs on depraved people, deranged people who who take that as a cue." Right, Speaker Johnson?
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor urged a greater emphasis on civic involvement and education, questioning whether some Americans had been clearly taught the difference between a president and a king: https://cnn.it/3InS0Im
Why is the right so angry? They control the entire government and they’re still miserable f*cks. Joy Reid nailed it.
Yes, release the Epstein files!!!
A thought I keep returning to — and that’s underscored by today’s news — is that a legacy publication or a deep-pocketed investor could hire an astonishing array of talent right now and make the best newspaper in America overnight.
The GOP is the most shameful, hypocritical movement in world politics.
Hiding the truth.
WOW -- a screaming Patel crashes out in response to Schiff's questions about Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and calls him "the biggest fraud to ever sit in the United States Senate" and "an utter coward" and "political buffoon"
Paying attention yet?
Failure to ugly cry over a dead podcaster now a Federal offense.
The Trump administration has already added nearly $40 billion in new federal subsidies for oil, gas, and coal in 2025, a report released Tuesday finds, sending an additional $4 billion out the door each year for fossil fuels over the next decade.
Soybean farmers tighten their belts, doing their part in the trade war they voted for. Chinese boycotts are no joke, and farmers are starting to find out. What’s worse, they’ll vote republican next time
A simple breakdown
This is quickly mushrooming into a real international incident www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.
absolutely repugnant, gutfeld completely dismisses the assassination of melissa hortman, calls it a "bull shit" example of political violence
Shit getting real dark really fast
Today is the day of the special election to fill the seat of former MN State Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot by a right-wing extremist.
my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"
In honor of Robert Redford one of my very favorite movies and the soundtrack by John Barry is perfection.
No wonder they don't want Charlie quoted…
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Platner: I think Collins has tried to create this charade in which she’s always the moderate voice in the room. But that’s nonsense, and everybody knows it’s nonsense. Susan Collins does not represent the interests of working Mainers