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When you get raptured, do the clothes you're wearing get left behind?
It's going to be even more effective than congestion pricing
Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
This anecdote from Miles Taylor about Stephen Miller allegedly suggesting drone strikes on boats of migrants during Trump 1.0 seems relevant given the recent US lethal strike on a vessel in the Caribbean. www.treason.io/p/read-one-s...
Sarcasm
“The suspension triggered strong responses across social media and beyond. Hashtags like #CancelDisneyPlus and #CancelHulu trended as users shared screenshots of their canceled subscriptions.”💪
But only visually I'll bet
Any rich dems want to fund an independent science news and commentary outlet, hmu (climate, vaccines, energy, public health, biomedical research, assults on science writ large, etc)
I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.
While you still can, if you’re asking “who’s Sinclair?” John Oliver has you covered:
Poor drafting seems highly likely
Anyone who agrees to this is no longer a journalist
"She was just 17, you know what I mean"
Seems weird, but I can't say I know a whole lot about visas.
the $100k is retro-active? wtf
“A reporter who publishes only what the government ‘authorizes’ is doing something other than reporting,” said Katie Fallow, deputy litigation director at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University @katiefallow.bsky.social
I see an "Antifa" logo, so it has to be a real organization. You can't just make one of those on your own.
At least Trump's dropped the pretense that this is about Charlie Kirk and is instead really just about him not wanting to be made fun of.
If they don't report on inflation it doesn't exist
Many of us are numb to it, but almost every day he publicly confesses that he is at war with our laws and Constitution.
🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel. Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣 This is a must-watch. 🔥
and a retired meteorologist shall lead us
With full alt text
As if I needed more reasons to dislike him
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The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years. Pinochet was ousted with a referendum. And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists. Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.
yes! congressional control of the purse applies to the white house as well. you can defund stephen miller.
I'll forgive *anyone* who continues to support this bullshit
•ABC: fires Kimmel for mocking Trump •CBS: fires Colbert for mocking Trump •ABC: fires Moran for slamming Stephen Miller •MSNBC: fires Matt Dowd for saying “hateful thoughts lead to hateful actions” •FOX: Champions Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of America’s 600K homeless people
in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.
Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
Important point: don't indulge any hair-splitting about whether Kimmel's statement were accurate. CONSERVATIVES JUST PLAIN LIE ALL THE TIME and they don't get pulled off the air or made to grovel. He was silenced because a corporation wanted to curry favor with Trump. That's the important thing.
Some killings you're allowed to joke about.
it is germany, 1938 pick a side
The DOJ removed a study on its website that found "far-right attacks" outpace "all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism."
The Trump-Miller administration's single-minded focus on migration is starting to impact the availability of drugs in the US, according to this detail from a very good investigation @wsj.com published today. www.wsj.com/world/americ...
I've also seen something about how he thought Kirk was full of hate. Not that that makes him left either, of course.
The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk
A reporter just asked the U.S. president a perfectly legitimate question about his attorney general's vow to prosecute people for constitutionally protected speech. He responded by threatening to prosecute the reporter. The threat itself is an abuse of power. It ought to be an impeachable offense.
I look forward to moving on from Trump
under this language charlie kirk would not have been allowed to speak on clemson’s campus
They want to kill little kids
There's no excuse for the Vice President of the United States to use a heinous killing as an occasion to baselessly frame political opponents as accomplices to murder while threatening to use the power of the government to attack them. This dangerous rhetoric will only fan the flames.
Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.
"The goal, they said, was to categorize left-wing activity that led to violence as domestic terrorism, an escalation that critics said could lay the groundwork for crushing anti-conservative dissent more broadly." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
They’re treating the murder of Charlie Kirk like the 9/11 terror attacks, as an excuse to go to war. But this time they’re going to war against the US.
Not a headline that can appear in an actual democracy. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
Yeah, you can call it fascism
They never had any intention of solving any problems or fixing anything. Just power for the sake of creating a country in their own image.
1/2. Charlie Kirk frequently called for other people to be killed. Remember that time when Charlie Kirk called for Joe Biden to be executed? I do. He didn't even bother to posit any particular crime.
I had almost forgotten about George Will.
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.
Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
At this point, the fact that anyone in the press just reports what Trump (or anyone who works for him) says at face value is more an indictment of them than of him. The man never says anything that isn't a lie - and that should be the up-front lede of every single story about his claims
Maybe they meant the town in Westchester
Remember when Elon banned Elonjet because he was so concerned about safety and doxing for principled reasons?
We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet
Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk
I hadn’t seen this. Kirk, the moderate free speech guy who did politics the right way per some liberals (!), called for Biden to be executed. Meanwhile Joe Biden put out a very strong statement condemning Kirk’s killing. Both sides!
He seems really broken up over Charlie Kirk
this is a controversial take but nobody with any sort of ethical backbone (especially journalists or educators) should be using websites owned and operated by white supremacists actively stoking race war
Ah, that's a shame. Saw them twice, 1st show was good but felt under-rehearsed, 2nd show they really had the material together (I never saw the 80s KC lineup, unfortunately). Both shows were a lot of fun regardless. My only complaint: it looks to me that they used AI to generate that elephant logo
Did you get a chance to see them?
Get a grip
Now you've done it
This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem
I won't quote-tweet our main character of the day, but if your complaint is that Charlie Kirk's words are being taken out of context, I'd encourage you to skim through the Media Matters tag for his name. They have hundreds of posts about Kirk and most have longer clips that give the full context.
there is this whole clique of people who simultaneously insist that liberals should have tougher skin and stop getting so upset about slurs and then also lose their minds when i say harsh words about their work or person
Don Jr went on Fox to attack people who call their opponents fascists. Yes, this Don Jr:
No problem
In Columbia Heights D.C., memorial signs are going up for residents abducted by the state. (📸 Igor Bobic)
It's too late for that anyway. We all know who Trump is.
Amazing how 1 semester of college is somehow more influential than the previous 18 years with the family
That's because he's a free speech absolutist
this whole thing is strong evidence that we're living in a simulation IMO
yeah but those lame-ass fish that don't do well without water. what losers
Rarely does this regime give such a compliment to the folks fighting back. Please work to make this courage contagious: nokings.org
I know it's not exactly breaking news that some "free speech" warriors are total hypocrites, but I still feel it's important to call it out when it happens.
But their name has to be Kim
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
The actual demand needs to be about clawing back the DOGE/Vought assault on Congress's Constitutional appropriations power, the White House's ongoing & lawless shutdown of federal government agencies
If that statement doesn't, nothing will
Let’s revisit “Before becoming FBI director, Kash Patel appeared eight separate times on a podcast hosted by far-right conspiracy theorist Stew Peters, who promotes Holocaust denial.” www.npr.org/2025/05/14/n...
This administration is filled with complete idiots and people willing to do what idiots tell them to do
True. And it does say on camera too. I do wonder what he's going to do between the end of the interview and 9:30 pm or whatever.
He'll probably phone in too
What an idiot
I have a theory that owners of pro sports teams suck
I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.
If you're represented by a Republican in the House, call their offices to demand they join this. Be sure to tell them you know it just needs one more signature and it should be theirs.
When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.
Losing my goddamned mind. We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.
The expectation, from the complicit mainstream media, that every single person on social media hold themselves to a HIGHER standard of respect than the freaking PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES will never cease to amaze me.
Andrea House 