Nothing says "we abhor political violence" more than a soft-focus feature on Kyle Rittenhouse: www.foxnews.com/politics/kyl...

The most significant real-world question about this new US TikTok is whether accounts will be automatically ported over -- with follower lists and a similar-enough FYP. No influencer can simply rebuild their following in 2025. The personal economics of core users/creators are very important!

Kyle Rittenhouse is there.

winter haters unite* 💪 *unity rally to be rescheduled if it is dark, cold or in any way unpleasant

For the record, the NYT reverted back to actual news at some point in the last hour.

Six Kirk stories on the NYT home page before you get to a silly little story about the President publicly demanding his political foes be charged with crimes.

Reminds me that the only time the GOP has been forced to define "woke" in court, this is what they said: Woke means "the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them." So.....tell me more about the "Woke Right." www.fox13news.com/news/what-do...

This whole H1-B visa fiasco feels like an extension of the "you're an NPC" culture on the Right. A total lack of appreciation of or care for the interior lives of other humans. No one has interiority except people who agree with them. It's anti-empathy.

what’s next, acting according to a set of shared morals in an effort to make the world fairer and safer for everyone? it’s a slippery slope, Josh

They’re calling it the most over-played hand of all time

There is how the piece defines "woke": "A legal and rhetorical framework that mirrors the unforgiving tactics that critics say the left used to make academic theories about social justice mainstream." "Unforgiving tactics" have nothing to do with woke! FFS.

OMG! NEW YORK TIMES!! That's not what "woke" means, if it hasn't been divested of all meaning by now. Misunderstanding and confidently misusing the language of other cultures makes you look unprofessional and sloppy. Among other things.

A cool thing about political coverage the past decade has been the widespread deployment of words without shared definitions, like "woke." Turns out the NYT thinks "woke" is just a synonym for scolding and cancel culture! Would've been good to know that a long time ago.

Stories get corrected. Jokes fall flat. Sentences don’t work in print like we wanted them too. The First Amendment exists to protect speech, even when it misfires. People smarter than us knew that only getting stories or jokes with a White House (or City Hall) approval would be a disaster.

All we can do as humans is do the work to leave this place a bit better (or at least less worse) than how we found it. That's all any human has ever been able to do. Let's do that.

I can't believe we're in at least Day Three of a "should people sign up for protests" conversation -- mostly because 99% of the people weighing in have no clue what they're talking about yet are shockingly confident they're correct.

I know there's some skepticism about @katmabu.bsky.social's campaign on here....but if you follow what she's actually doing -- direct action protests, setting up food and school supply distributions, etc -- you gotta tip your cap. It's an unconventional and potentially powerful campaign approach.

This is all part of the plan that was drafted before Trump took office. Maybe we should be talking about the "police-ification of the military" in addition to the militarizing of the police. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

"Companies are learning the hard way that giving Trump what he wants won’t appease him — it will only stoke his appetite." CNN's @amorrow.bsky.social saying things that need saying. www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/b...

"Giving Trump what he wants won’t appease him — it will only stoke his appetite."

"Across Corporate America, companies are learning the hard way that giving Trump what he wants won’t appease him — it will only stoke his appetite. (It seems some folks have forgotten the sage wisdom of the 1985 classic “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.” Spoiler alert: The mouse has some more demands)"

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.

I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.

This loathsome interregnum is a period of vast uncertainty, sure, but it's also one of truly delirious opportunity. If it was going to happen, and it was always going to happen, then we live now on the cusp of a magnificent work. To live is to suffer, to survive is to have power over the world.

I really like this Fareed Zakaria reframing of "industrial decline" as really a decline of community. It also points the way toward a more open, welcoming, community-focused brand of politics that builds off the very American traditions of Elks Clubs and bowling leagues and school boards.

"Marvin, what do we do now?" The final scene of The Candidate is one of the most realistic, bracing takes on modern American politics ever. Goddamn, it's so good. youtu.be/myEpap3TxVs?...

what if I don't want "commonsense reform" I just want all the guns to go away

Just gonna put out there for the record that assassinating people is bad no matter how much you disagree with them

i do not like political violence

It is fine to keep hammering away at "release the files" but there is a real danger here of underplaying how much this is itself already a smoking gun.

I do not like many of the things that are happening.

any word on this

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

#SCOTUS all-but overruled a unanimous, 90-year-old precedent through an unexplained "administrative" stay this morning, and that's only the second-most-problematic thing it did before lunchtime.

Not really persuaded that the minority party has to come up with a constructive and positive policy counter-message before it can allow the chaotic and tyrannical ruling party to go through the spectacle of a government shutdown

One thing I really dislike about Trump Era political coverage is that we're not even holding Trump up against his OWN metrics. This is just objectively the opposite of the central economic plank of his campaign. And yet it plays almost no role in our national economic politics.

In case you're wondering how Fox is playing an objectively terrible and deeply worrying jobs report:

"You'll take out the people." To paraphrase Mitt Romney, the BLS is people, my friend. It's not a robot or a machine. It's people, with their unique and complex mix of honor, dedication, and fear for job security.

June jobs revised down to NEGATIVE 12,000. Imagine how different the politics of the summer would have been if we knew there was jobs contraction way back in June. These quiet revisions have been a huge boon to Trump politically.

One of the worst post-pandemic jobs reports overall and in a ton of individual sectors.

Some cool headlines from today.

Good info to put at the very bottom of a story.

los angeles angels of anaheim ass department

A judge and the executive branch need to decide what to do about the inevitable illegal horse massacre.

Really unpleasant to read this primer on the easy-to-achieve steps for anyone -- even US orgs -- to be declared a "terrorist organization." It basically comes down to the State or Commerce Depts asserting it, with minimal judicial or congressional oversight. assets.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bl...

Some real "series of tubes" stuff going on these days.

“launch operations”

This is the stasis we have settled into around the Second Amendment....and I sadly don't see much chance we don't settle into the same stasis around childhood vaccine requirements.