The kids think that they want a hard liberal arts curriculum. Slightly chuffed.
The kids think that they want a hard liberal arts curriculum. Slightly chuffed.
It’s impossible to get reasonable to accept that all of this is exactly what a lot of people want — and not purely along ideological poles.
Michelle, Brian Chesky, and I launched the Voyager Scholarship at the @obamafoundation.bsky.social to provide the next generation of leaders with the tools they need to succeed and make an impact on their communities. Today we're thrilled to welcome the newest class of Obama-Chesky Voyagers.
Some of us do.
Apple's new #AutoMix feature in #AppleMusic is sooooo good.
fun to watch RFK in these press conferences and see that he is even more deranged than the president
Gupta: It is safe. That’s what the best-quality research shows. And how irresponsible, using the podium of the WH to put this out there when you’re not even offering an alternative. That is dangerous. An untreated fever is dangerous. Untreated pain in pregnancy is dangerous.
Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.
A pop up box on Tylenol dot com
Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.
DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now." ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."
Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery]
If you’re wondering why the oligarchs propping up a regime would put so much effort into dividing citizens into a zero-sum set of factions, their freedom to engage in rank corruption and profiteering just might have something to do with it. newrepublic.com/article/2005...
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.”
Should read. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
And when the selective prosecution claim are brought by Trump’s enemies such as James, look for district courts to resolve on express constitutional grounds to bar re-trial. Although that wouldn’t prevent courts of appeals from reversing and permitting re-trial.
lol
Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X
“Of course, you realize this is all blatantly illegal” “Sure, sure, but they weren’t nice to our cult leader!” “Uh … touché.”
"St. Mary’s Sacred Heart Hospital in rural northeast Georgia will close its labor and delivery unit next month... "The closure is one of Georgia's first casualties of the GOP budget reconciliation package, colloquially known as the 'big beautiful bill'... www.newsfromthestates.com/article/rura...
Who out there is old enough to remember when Republicans lost their minds when Bill Clinton talked to his attorney general for five minutes on an airport runway?
WELKER: Do you believe Brendan Carr's comments were appropriate? RAND PAUL: Absolutely inappropriate. Brendan Carr has got no business weighing in on this.
Dude I know idiocracy comparisons are overblown but come on
This is quite the post. 1. He unambiguously directs his AG to go after those who investigated him for his crimes 2. He admits being influenced by online chatter He is mob bossing out in the open, because he knows he has corrupted every federal law enforcement agency into submission.
there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.
Murphy continues to be a really clear voice
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People on the right and left are sick of big corporations - like media companies - having become such a dominant force in our economy and our culture. Whichever party offers a vision to break up concentrated economic power has the potential to capture a new alignment of voters.
This. This is the way.
Farmer speaks out at GOP Rep. Alford's Town Hall: “Trump is not helping the farmer. When are you gonna stand up for us instead of kissing his ass for these trade deals?"
Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.
Newsom’s people are so good at this.
Bye!
Short staffing puts patients at risk. Unless Kaiser keeps up with other employers, staff will dwindle, the skill mix will change, wait times will increase, and patients will suffer. That's why @ofnhp.bsky.social members are taking this bold action. www.opb.org/article/2025...
Vote with your dollars.
President Johnson, in a November 9, 1968 letter to the Smothers Brothers: “It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”
lol they really done fucked it huh?
In a normal government this guy would be fired instead of imprisoning people "It is still a crime for anyone to seek money to improperly influence federal contracts, the legal experts said, whether they are a public official or not, and whether they ever delivered on their promise or not."
🎯 #Authoritarians #Comedy #Art #Music #Poetry #Thought #Progress
If you want a list of reasons why Conservatives and Evangelicals love Trump, it is all right here.
Karen Attiah made critical comments about *men who are white supremacists* and @washingtonpost.com said that they are a protected class Be clear about what they were saying That white supremacists are a protected class
You guys have to read the termination letter that @washingtonpost.com sent @karenattiah.bsky.social because they essentially accused her of anti-white racism because she mentioned that Charlie Kirk was a white man 😵💫 Then they called her a “risk.” 🤡 karenattiah.substack.com/p/why-washin...
The Republican party apparently thinks that making fun of people’s deaths is absolutely abhorrent, unless the people dying are your perceived political enemies.
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Narrator: Once they redefined losing as winning, they were off to the races…
TRUMP: That's why I sued the New York Times two days ago for a lot of money KARL: A judge just threw that out TRUMP: I'm winning. I'm winning the cases.
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
To be absolutely clear on what just happened here, Trump ousted this veteran career prosecutor *precisely because* he would *not* cook the facts to bring a corrupt prosecution against one of Trump's leading enemies. To Trump, refusing to prosecute his foes for fake crimes is a firing offense.
IT'S TIME FOR THE TRUTH TO COME OUT!!! TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.
Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)
So dangerous.
Thread.
Quote from Ty Cobb - DJT’s former attorney. Harsh, but consistent with everything we've observed of Trump in action this year. #ProudBlue
They are f*cking lunatics
The one good thing about this “run America like a business” nightmare is that more people are beginning to realize how corrupt and craven many businesses truly are. Take notes. Never forget how they abandoned us. Don’t forgive their complicity.
Saying Anti-fascism is terrorism is like saying chemotherapy is cancer.
Our democracy is collapsing in real time. Much of the damage will be irreparable. If you’re waiting to say or do something, you better not wait much longer.
Everyone needs to listen to more George.
Vaguely important
We have gotten the whole Jimmy Kimmel imbroglio wrong. Desperately wrong.
Trump signs an EO on H-1Bs raising "the fee that companies pay to sponsor H1-B applicants to $100,000"
When Fox can't ignore it, you know it's bad.
tl;dr to Bob Iger: DON'T BE SUCH A MOUSE
Grateful for my local independent pharmacies and for science and for vaccines. I got all of them, both arms. Gladly and reverently.
My DC metro stop has the longest escalator in the western hemisphere. The elevation change is higher than all of south Florida, where I’m off to now!
None of this is normal. 🎁
Yesterday, Air Force One: Trump said the quiet part out loud… He threatened to yank broadcast licenses from networks that criticize him. “They’re giving me all this bad press, and they’re getting a license. I would think maybe their license should be taken away.”
The fascist words and actions of Trump and his Cabinet don’t shock me. They literally told everyone they were going to do this in Trump’s Project 2025. What does shock me is the men in ICE, FBI, LEO, CBP, and military uniforms who gleefully carry out the illegal and fascist orders on a daily basis.
Trying to imagine the reaction on Fox News if they were discussing gun reform after a mass shooting and a guest said "For all the concern about the Second Amendment, what about the amendments that all these victims lost? They have no amendments right now. None." I bet they'd agree wholeheartedly.
America was given Project 2025 in writing and failed an open book test. In case you didn’t know, Brendan Carr was one of the authors.
I don't recall St. Paul saying that black women lacked the brain capacity for jobs that should go to white men, but perhaps the Cardinal is working from a different Bible.
This really is worth your time. Well done, @thedailyshow.com
Trump is launching a full blown attack on free speech while his harem of billionaires buys up every media platform. This is no coincidence. It’s a coordinated attack on your fundamental right to speak freely without worrying if you’ll lose your job or worse.
This is an important point. Setting yourself up on a dais under a banner that says "Prove me wrong" is the schoolyard bully's idea of debate. If you take the time to actually watch clips of Kirk "debating" you will instantly see that what is actually sophomoric point-scoring, not genuine debate.
Worth the 9 minutes listening to @briantylercohen.bsky.social about #Kimmel
“What we’re seeing is an unprecedented attempt to silence disfavored speech by the government,” said Brendan Nyhan, a political scientist at Dartmouth College. “Donald Trump is trying to dictate what Americans can say.” https://to.pbs.org/46AYg7U
I went to fact check my belief that tv & film industry’s unionization rate is still higher than private sector’s. It is. Also happened upon this piece. jacobin.com/2023/11/holl...
the hand is way too big, but otherwise? brilliant.
I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES (sound) DAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2025 THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES OUR FREEDOMS... RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU NOW UNDER ATTACK PROJECT 2025 FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS OUR RIGHT PLEASE LISTEN "When society is under threat comedians are sent away first" Please understand what is at stake
In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.
Counterpoint: they are allowed to do that.
A small thing, but notable: In the last three or four weeks Obama has been posting on social media about our current crisis of democracy with an urgency and frequency that simply wasn't forthcoming from him in the previous seven months of this new administration.
A willfully ignorant dictator. I hope ABC, WaPost and CBS are proud of bowing down.
LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.
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Whoever writes the headlines and tweets for the New York Times is one of the most powerful media figures in the world, but the paper will not tell us who it is or why they make the decisions they do. No visibility, no accountability.
Those of us who said Trump was a fascist got scolded for overreacting, catastrophizing, exaggerating, taking him too seriously. But we were right. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/we-were-ri...
Didn’t we have a whole Supreme Court case (Cakeshop v.CCRC) that says, yes in fact you can deny them.
If you’re going to cancel Kimmel for saying the shooter was MAGA, you should also cancel everyone who said the shooter was some kind of liberal activist. Politicization of a murder works both ways.