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“Democrats need to let it be known that any and all Trump accomplices who carry out corrupt or illegal actions on his behalf will face accountability later. It’s the only language these authoritarian thugs will ever understand.” newrepublic.com/article/2006...
Democratic New York lawmakers — as well as City Comptroller Brad Lander — were arrested by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers Thursday after demanding access to an alleged detention facility run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at 26 Federal Plaza.
If enough of the talent and large name writers show solidarity and stand together there is a chance that Kimmel gets reinstated, but more importantly the corporate suites will understand they die if they go against the populations beliefs. Make it so costly that the studios are forced to acquiesce
Naperville rise up
If Wheaton, of all places, the home of Wheaton College and a shit ton of reactionary right wing churches and people, kicked out ICE, then hell has truly frozen over
Not to be a snitch, but I know where they can find lots of Antifa members... Arlington national cemetery, WW2 section... #Antifa
"Right now, the most important thing is for us to come together as Americans and stop listening to those voices who would push us apart. That is why asking me to stop beating you with this sock full of quarters will only further divide our nation." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ask...
bari weiss and tucker carlson there has to be at least some concern from media people on the right that trump will use this against conservative enemies as well. over, say, epstein. (as just one possibility.)
A unanimous, 9-0 decision by the current Supreme Court.
I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".
We just had the evening news here in Germany, and it was reported that the U.S. government is cracking down hard on public political dissent and freedom of opinion, which is exactly what it is and how it would be reported if it were happening in any other country. www.tagesschau.de/ausland/repo...
Chatting with one of my friends rn is just us sending Onion stories back and forth
Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
At the heart of it fascist are cowards of the highest order and weak beyond compare that is why they must use the apparatus of the state to try and dominate and control the narratives around them. Fascist are thin skinned cowardsThey cannot stand when people mock them, so we must mock them more.
These people belong in prison
This. This is privilege and what a lot of Americans think is their due — risk-free access to the spoils
Still blaming Washington Post for Redford’s death, they broke his heart
Very glad to hear Kimmel is suing
For the children
It’s mostly the authoritarianism tho
“MAGA spent years demanding to know what’s in the files collected during the criminal investigation into Epstein’s sex trafficking ring. And then when Trump put his people in charge of the Justice Department and they saw the files, they clammed right up.”
I personally don’t find spinelessness entertaining
When America eventually gets out of this, it needs to make business leaders fear to break the law. At minimum Teddy Roosevelt levels, possibly more. Many are apparently operating under the belief that lawbreaking and rights violations are all upside for them, no need to worry about consequences.
What the eff is a Faith Director
I hope I live to see all these cowardly little fucks crawl back underneath their rocks
see? they are actually capable of being part of the relevant news cycle. thanks to jeffries for a clear statement. i can quibble with the content but they hit the cycle and ill take it.
Dylann Roof Judge arrested after being accused of buying child sex abuse material from the UK, DOJ says www.kptv.com/2025/09/16/j...
As someone who worked with many courageous journalists in a 4-decade newspaper career, it sickens me to see how American media owners have embraced fascism and betrayed the public trust.
You will never not fuck me up talking about Melissa Hortman and her dogs.
"the freedom to speak becomes meaningless when disconnected from the possibility of being heard". This is a heartbreaking piece from @alondra.bsky.social on the regression of scientific progress and why she's resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress. time.com/7285045/resi...
"One of my closest allies was murdered so If you expect to be protected, you must bow before me" makes zero sense and it is not worth pretending otherwise.
From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards." www.wired.com/story/uncann...
“Jimmy Kimmel was not doing late-night comedy the right way and I did not envy him” -Ezra Klein, probably
"He had it coming..." - Ezra Klein
First Colbert, now Kimmel. Last-minute settlements, secret side deals, multi-billion dollar mergers pending Donald Trump's approval. Trump silencing free speech stifles our democracy. It sure looks like giant media companies are enabling his authoritarianism.
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
While we worry about “executive overreach” or “judicial power grabs,” all three branches are united in enabling the shadow-casters—corporations and their allies—and in grabbing power away from us. www.weekendreading.net/p/shadows-an...
As I've said, it was possible to tell oneself from ~1975-2000 that politics was just a debate about policies, but this was an unusual period of our history. Leaders in politics and media didn't grow up in a world where deep factionalism was normal and don't know how to handle our return to it.
Kash Patel and Republicans won’t tell the truth about the Epstein Files — so I will. I entered into the Congressional Record reporting about Trump being told his name is in the files and Ghislaine Maxwell’s comments to Todd Blanche about Trump’s cabinet.
No FBI director has ever behaved like this.
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 think Democrats win by being the best version of the Democratic Party: a forceful, assertive, dynamic liberal coalition that stands up for the rights of the vulnerable, unrelentingly opposes the endless corruption and bigotry of MAGA and Trump, and wants a fair prosperous America
The fascist Republican apparatus, up to and including the president, made false assertions about the shooter based on zero evidence; for days afterward that apparatus desperately tried to pin the murder on trans people; we know police chronically plant evidence. Anyway let's see those texts!
So being anti-hate is coded leftist, cool cool
He should never have been on the ballot
Heroes
I know I’m naive but it is pretty wild that the president of the United States just publicly declares he and the military killed some guys on a boat, multiple times, and the entirety of Congress doesn’t immediately hit a giant red IMPEACH button
Do not stop demanding
Every Republican needs to be asked what they are doing to mourn Robert Redford and if not, why not
Seems to have broken Robert Redford’s too
Good. Hope they eat each other alive.
the Karen Attiah firing was very obviously pretextual and I hope the union works WaPo over on her behalf and to her benefit
Americans need to learn some non-civility from their British cousins
Be a bigger asshole, people. For the children.
BREAKING: A historic coalition of national & California labor unions led by the AAUP filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the illegal & coercive use of civil rights laws to attack the University of California system & the rights of their members.
Get RFK out
Kristi Noem personally joined ICE in Chicago for a raid—but detain U.S. citizen by mistake. He was woken up by an explosion—that literally blew the doors off his house. Agents handcuffed him and featured him in a propaganda video—which they released even after arrest was proven to be a mistake.
Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.
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I saw goody proctor celebrating charlie kirk’s assassination
trump approval hits a new low in today's yougov/economist poll. now worse than he was in yougov's data at this point in 2017 www.economist.com/interactive/...
NeoLiberal wishcasting and normalcy bias are literally allowing the country to be destroyed in plain view while all pushback is being stifled as “incivility” by the elites within the supposed opposition party.
must be something wrong with my internet, I just woke up and tried to find the massive Democratic party pushback to all these attacks on the first amendment and nothing's coming up in my browser
Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk
Guys thank you for allowing me to fly you to my private island. Have fun but please respect my boundaries vis a vis minors trafficking. That’s just for me, sorry. Help yourself to ANYTHING in the fridge tho
No lies detected
You can’t defeat fascism by capitulating with it. You absolutely cannot beat fascism by burying your head, and pretending electoralism will save you. You cannot reason with fascism because it is intentionally unreasonable. You have to excise it from society like the cancer it is.
Get him fired, next up RFK Jr
one of the clearest signs you're dealing with a strong and principled political movement is when they want to make it illegal to make fun of them
People don’t hang themselves from trees
Robert Redford (1936-2025) should be remembered as much for his social conscience as for his talents as a storyteller. This 1976 interview about ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN is a sobering reminder of what we’ve lost. #RobertRedford #FilmSky
The only thing we can say for sure is the WH wanted to murder whoever was on board
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Just take a moment. The whole thing is a scam. They are terrible at governing. Terrible. And all the noise is to distract from their fundamental incompetence in governance.
Just say it clearly: Because the incumbent was assassinated.
This lawsuit is so fuckin embarrassing for everyone involved Also great job orgs that were like yeah we'll just pay him the bribe I mean uh settlement and surely he'll go away and leave us alone and not develop an even larger appetite, no I've never read If You Give a Mouse Cookie what's that
this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers
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RIP Robert Redford
You can also vote from abroad if you used to live in one
This
I think Charlie Kirk made the country a worse place. I believe his murder makes the country even worse Why Charlie Kirk was killed, by John Ganz
The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness. Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.
We really underestimate how helpful it is to Trump to take the Washington Post out, given the work it did to expose his corruption (and ties to Russia) in his first term.
Everybody gamely says “Vance hosted Kirk’s podcast” instead of “the regime officially turned the major channel into state-controlled media just as it began its violent crackdown on any opposition or dissident messages.”
All that sanewashing and the NYT still gets sued. What’s the takeaway, America? Keep your head down or get louder? I vote for Door #2.
Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this. You're welcome
I’m fine with Kash Patel being the first crack in the wall as long as RFK is the second
Today, JD Vance urged Republicans to put on the "full armor of god" to fight their opponents. Tonight, some of the most powerful people in tech will gather to hear Peter Thiel—who created Vance—give a secret lecture on the Antichrist. It's all the same talking point, folks: politics as holy war
He should never have been on the ballot
Get RFK out of there
Democratic elected officials, here's some unsolicited advice. People are looking for leadership. Right now. This moment. Someone, anyone, take the konch and forcefully respond to JD Vance and Stephen Miller's promise to declare war against America. Speak up now. Press conference today.
@chuckschumer.com is not up to the fight.
I know there is a lot going on but getting this guy out needs to be priority #1
34 interviews confirmed & growing
I know it’s very Trump 1.0 to talk about gaslighting but the way Vance is just gaslighting us all about what led to Kirk’s death is infuriating.
Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases
JD Vance is not my family