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21 years ago today - Yanukovych eggsassinated in Ivano-Frankivsk. The pro-Russian PM and then presidential candidate, visiting western Ukraine, was struck by an egg thrown by a protester, collapsed egg-stremely dramatically, and was bundled into a car and rushed to hospital.
Trump pushed Kimmel into going full resistance lib for the biggest audience he will ever have. Another masterclass from the president.
Trump lashes out as suspended TV host Kimmel returns to air
“I can't believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back. The White House was told by ABC that his Show was cancelled!”
The Kimmel monologue was 18 minutes of extraordinary, raw television that will be hated by the people who wanted him off the air for good. Trump and Brendan Carr lost this one as badly as it's possible to lose.
not a single fuck was given, not a single apology made
uh it's right in the open joe
It’s not too late to reject the fascists, but it’s damn close.
Well there was a Buzz Lightyear movie that implied lesbians existed so now I hope you understand
Cybersecurity experts who spoke to TPM described the situation with Kristi Noem's poorly hidden secret Facebook as "sloppy," "inadvisable," and a problem for "basic operational security." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-sec...
How did so many Democrats convince themselves that human beings respond to positive incentives only, never negative incentives? People respond to both. Be nice, welcoming, civil, and offer a positive vision, sure. But people feeling bad about their bad decisions is one way they make a different one.
Full on far right talking points, Trump lives in a totally warped version of reality.
"It's pretty clear that Russia says 'we are at war.' But in Europe, it's more that this can be managed. This is about deterrence, not defense," Ed Arnold, senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), told the Kyiv Independent.
Headlines matter. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
The treatment applied to Russian oligarchs for Russia invading Ukraine now applied to a Brazilian judge for Brazil upholding rule of law democracy.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published a report on Sept. 23 detailing the vast scale of torture committed by Russian forces on Ukrainian civilians held in captivity in occupied territories.
Certainly an improvement, we'll see how long it lasts. But it's odd that he writes about NATO as if it was not an alliance in which the US has historically been the leading member.
Conservatives love to darkly say stuff like “you aren’t prepared for what’s next, we’re not going to be moderate anymore, you have no idea what you’ve unleashed” and then cry like babies when you call them fascists
Russia has started using a new tactic to hinder Western weapons shipments to Ukraine: drone strikes on railway infrastructure. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Jimmy Kimmel's return tonight showed us a lot of good stuff -- that economic power works, that people who believe in democracy are a majority, and that dictatorship is not destiny In the grand jury and on the streets, regular folks fight back and win. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
French President walking to the UN but unable to get there because of Trump's motorcade seems like an apt metaphor for America's role now on the world stage
big part of this is because they sent the health reporters, not the political reporters
Typically when presidents are oblivious to things the press would go on with a news cycle about how the president is “aloof” and out of touch. It’s just one of many things Trump can exhibit without consequence.
Trump made the comments after Poland became the first member nation to fire at Russian aircraft earlier this month since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war.
Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana doctor who chairs the Senate health committee, is calling on the Department of Health and Human Services to release any evidence tying acetaminophen use during pregnancy to autism, noting that “the preponderance of evidence shows that this is not the case.”
This man changes his mind every five minutes …
“The hidden electronic maze was so powerful, it could have sent an encrypted and anonymous text to every human being in the United States within 12 minutes, McCool said. It could have overwhelmed cell towers, toppling New York City’s cell service...” www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/u...
stark raving mad 😳
Goebbles or Miller?
This ought to be engraved somewhere.
The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
By the way, when Ingraham asks Homan about the 50 K in a bag, and he doesn’t deny it but just says I did nothing illegal, it’s pretty obvious that it or something very much like it happened. And if it did, crazy to shut down investigation so soon. Pretty clear administration isn’t being straight.
Because it is apnews.com/article/west...
A Chinese cargo ship visited the occupied port of Sevastopol in Crimea, under sanctions since 2014 — faking its route and making an unprecedented series of stops by a major foreign vessel to one of the Ukrainian ports seized by Russia. w/ @chriscook.news @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/3Ibs2b9
From crisis to cannabis: Sri Lanka’s president surprises with pro-market pivot reut.rs/4gAsNY1
Oh dear. It seems Dr. Oz’s company sells Trump‘s big autism cure. What a crazy happenstance.
I don't think anyone has ever looked more like the kind of guy who would take a 50K cash bribe than Tom Homan does.
The thing about Originalism is that the Framers were absolutely terrified about the concentration of type of power the majority is simply handing Trump today. There's a reason Congress appears in Article I and the executive in Article II.
Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.
Tom Homan grumbled about the struggles he’s endured as border czar as he faces bribery allegations.
The makers of Tylenol have to weigh the pros and cons. On the one hand, Trump is telling people not to take their product. On the other, he's single-handedly spiking nationwide demand for headache relief.
When your AI is training itself by interacting with the worst parts of the internet, how did you think it would end up? Yup, just like that.
This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material. www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...
It's really rather dumb that the ownership and market structure for video content almost nobody actually watches over the air is still built around the legacy regulations for restricting vertical integration in over-the-air tune-your-dial-to-the-right-frequency local broadcasting.
you look at all of this and it tells a very clear and unmistakable story no matter what the conservative justices say at conferences or in interviews or whatever they tell themselves
A pop up box on Tylenol dot com
you know the autism tylenol announcement is a complete embarassment because even the most sycophantic trump fans out there aren’t even talking about it seriously
To counter Trump’s statement about Tylenol and pregnancy, this from Canada ⬇️ Pregnant women ‘should not feel guilty’ about using Tylenol: Ontario Pharmacists Association - there is no link to autism #Canada Trump is an idiot!! www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/0...
Tylenol should have given to the inaugural committee, I guess.
Tylenol posted this on their instagram 😂
Tylenol should have bought Trump crypto.
I guess Trump and RFK Jr weren’t happy with the studies that said sperm from older men significantly raises the risk of autism.
Good hed from @apnews.com
Notably and unusually, neither Fox News or Newsmax is carrying Trump's autism press conference live
The only way this guy's going to make autism disappear is by placing it in the Epstein files.
sorry, but i'm skeptical this guy is making a good faith effort to figure out autism
I can make the following statement because this is what multiple studies have shown: If your child has is on the autism spectrum, it is NOT because you took Acetaminophen while you were pregnant. ACETAMINOPHEN. DOES. NOT. CAUSE. AUTISM. There’s no proven causal link. There is NOT.
This autism press conference is an insult to science and medicine. It is a bunch of shameless male quacks shoveling bullshit at pregnant women, families and people with autism. This is a historic embarrassment for America and it is wildly dangerous.
Ingraham: They said you took $50,000 in cash in a bag from an undercover FBI agent… Homan: I did nothing criminal or illegal.
I know why. Before, we tried science. Now, we’re giving nonsense a shot.
county sheriffs depts gonna be showing a bunch of hamhead dudes in stab vests and folded arms looking tough over a table filled with wal mart store brand tylenol
Six Republican justices are speed-running our collapse into a dictatorship and they don’t even have the integrity to explain why. (But we all know why.) slate.com/news-and-pol...
Silver lining, but this is hilarious "We didn’t wait 20 years for Bobby to finally speak and then get served Tylenol as an answer," anti-vaccine group Georgia Coalition for Vaccine Choice wrote."
This isn't about antifa, this is about the NGO's. The goal here is to eliminate philanthropic support to major liberal groups through intimidation. They're going to starve liberal groups of funding while hitting them with millions in legal fees from investigations. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Wall Street Journal fires back at Trump over Epstein birthday letter lawsuit
The point of all this is (a) to make autistic folks feel less than, and (b) to try to make the mothers of autistic children feel like bad mothers for taking harmless medicine while pregnant.
“.. The ECB found that around 26% of its survey respondents reported switching away from U.S. products.” “.. High-income households are more likely to switch away from U.S. goods ..” @reuters.com www.reuters.com/business/eur...
So many crazy details in Ben Terris's story about Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together: nymag.com/intelligence...
not enough money to protect Ukraine's democracy but plenty to bail out this crypto dork after he tanked his economy
US sanctions wife of Brazilian judge who oversaw Bolsonaro prosecution The new sanctions are a part of ongoing pressure campaign to undermine the prosecution of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
If you think a group of conspiracy theorists cracked something in 6 months that experts haven’t been able to for decades you might need a conservatorship
SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.
They're doing what they've always done, playing to their own peanut gallery like there's nobody else in the world. It is not what a strong operation does. You have a headache or the rain hurts your knee, what the hell else are you going to do?
This is my all-time favorite example of just how much of a joke "democracy" was in the Solid South. (For context: in the 1930 census, SC recorded a population of 1,738,765; even subtracting under-21s, 104,325 votes is a paltry number of people permitted to participate in the democratic process.)
He was betrayed by those he was close to. Persecuted for his beliefs. Publicly crucified to serve as a cautionary tale to his followers. Then, by divine grace, he was resurrected. The people rejoiced. Needless to say, I’m referring to Jimmy Kimmel.
During the so-called Spanish flu pandemic, there was a conspiracy theory in the USA that aspirin ... invented by a German pharmaceutical company ... was responsible for the flu. Trump's grandfather died in that pandemic. One of the first Americans to do do. Perhaps they carried on believing it.
But seriously, who are the women who have been blaming Tylenol for autism for 30 years.
Predator drones are monitoring anti-ICE protests www.salon.com/2025/09/22/p...
in point of fact, FDR’s open line of communication with black leaders like A. Philip Randolph absolutely strained his relationships with southern lawmakers and he did it anyway under the view that he was president for the whole country
We’ve had a number of thoughtful conversations about how to get you to stop selling the stock please ok thx
The other thing is, Trump ran on an express platform of "I will be unbound by any law"
generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)
the sycophancy for trump aside, very hard to overstate the arrogance of this majority in dispensing with a precedent that has served this country and both of its political parties well for nearly a century.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
“Oh but he deserve an award” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
it's kind of wild that SCOTUS essentially rules as if there will be no future Democratic presidents when there will obviously be one, and any attempt to flop on jurisprudence is essentially grounds for court reform
For the first time, Ukrainian forces hit two Russian Be-12 Chayka amphibious aircraft in occupied Crimea, Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) reported on Sept. 22.
"No sleep for the main funder of Hamas" read the signs outside of Benjamin Netanyahu's residence this evening, as a former president joins the protestors.
“Under a third of American adults are Trump voters, and 53% are Trump disapprovers — with 48% intensely opposed.”
Disney reverses course on Kimmel. Lessons: -Trump's anti-Constitutional stances, anti-1A in this case, are unpopular -Popular resistance via expression and spending choices can have an impact -Many corporate leaders are weak, amoral people who'll bow to threats unless they face countervailing ones
Musk’s companies are unlikely to build the weapons themselves. But getting them into space, and getting them to talk to one another, that is most certainly in their wheelhouse. What’s at stake if he’s given an outsize role in the weaponization of space?
"Reactionary" is too mild to describe MAGA ideology. They don't just oppose progress; they derive their positions from seeing what their enemies like and then attacking it, even if doing so has no purpose beyond causing misery. Hence the hostility to solar/wind, the Hyundai raid, and so forth.
They rush when they want to rush and they slow walk when they want to slow walk and it’s an ideological decision always in either direction.
Occasional reminder that Congress could put a stop to this tariff nonsense at anytime.