One of my autumnal knits for #showmeyourknits #knitsky 🧶. The pattern is Shenandoah National Park by Nancy Bates Designs, and I made it for a friend last year.

Dutch late night TV has its take

Why is the right so angry? They control the entire government and they’re still miserable f*cks. Joy Reid nailed it.

Pence: "State ownership of business is very common in China & Russia. Taking a percentage of sales of Nvidia, taking a percentage of stock of Intel is inconsistent w/ free market principles, and I think it's taken our country to a very perilous place and I think we need to resist that very strongly"

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".

Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting owns all these local media stations and many others all across America. This is not journalism, it is scripted propaganda.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

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

What’s on my needles for #WIPWednesday? My aunt can no longer knit the family stockings so I am making the one for my baby grandson! It’s an old Bernat pattern and my first intarsia. I also cast on the ribbing for a top-down blue sweater. #knitsky 🧶

Political violence and threats are not the answer. This is a watershed moment — we can choose to stay silent and live in fear, or we can choose to be loud for peace and compassion. We must work together to stop this crisis, and it should start from the top with the President.

This was my #showmeyourknits #wip until yesterday when I frogged it. Not happy with the pooling of the second skein of the variegated yarn. I will alternate skeins next time.

Changing the name of the Department of Defense will cost billions.We could build units for all unhoused veterans. Or give service members a pay raise so 35K active duty members wouldn’t have to rely on food stamps. Or… or… or…

There is no possible legitimate reason to do this. It’s what despots do. It’s petty. It’s dangerous. It’s unAmerican. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

It's time to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr from government before he kills us all

I casted on this Zeen Top short-sleeved sweater last night. I’ve never done a construction like this before, but I’m digging it so far! Yarn is Ancient Arts Feldspar Merino DK/light worsted. #wipwednesday #knitsky 🧶

Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.

Where are all the corporate media headlines demanding his resignation? Where are the all the assumptions that about specialists visiting the White House meaning the president is dying? They did this daily with Biden. Why not now? Are they covering for their cash cow? Are they paid to cover it up?

We are not bending the knee. My response to AG Bondi and President Trump.

I mean….aren’t Americans concerned about our increasing isolation as a result of Trump?

Kamala Harris nailed it. We warned everyone the stakes were too high to hand the guy built for Project 2025 another shot — but noooo. Ever have one of those mornings you just want to throw the window open and yell, FUCK YOU ALL? Yeah, that.

Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."

You are living through the unthinkable: the president of the United States using the military to seize domestic power. The greatest crisis of executive power in American history, at the hands of the worst, most corrupt, and most unfit president in American history.

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

This week’s #showmeyourknits is baby items. I made this Mountains of Japan hat (modified slightly) for my baby grandson. I used Malabrigo Rios Casapueblo and madelinetosh Vintage Silver Fox. #knitsky 🧶

I for one am concerned.

Is it just me, or does anyone else find it frighteningly surreal that the terrible atrocities, injustices and war crimes of faraway lands that we studied in history books when we were kids are now being committed, promoted and even celebrated by our own U.S. government, on a daily basis?

A message for the most “transparent Administration” in history: Release the Epstein files.

Morning Coffee Socks are off the needles! #showmeyourknits #knitsky #knitgift 🧶 🧦

What’s on my needles for #wipwednesday? Getting closer to finishing Morning Coffee Socks by Kay Litton! #knitsky #knitsocks 🧶

Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

First it was troops in L.A., sent to provoke and assault peaceful protesters under the banner of “immigration enforcement.” Now it’s troops in our capital to disappear the homeless. See the pattern? Sooner or later, the monster comes for us all.

Dems. Wanna get your polling out of the gutter? Stop talking about redrawing house maps in blue states and do it. Go big. Don't match them seat for seat. Blow them out of the water. Then endorse Mamdani. You're welcome. Love, Allison

PBS News is not going anywhere. We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air. We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.

Bondi reportedly put 1,000 people in 24-hour shifts for two weeks in March to review the Epstein files. She made them flag mentions of Trump. And then ... She decided she couldn't release anything. 😯

Can everyone share this?

He doesn’t remember nominating Jerome Powell.

Blue is this week's theme for #showmeyourknits - here's mine, which I finished a couple of weeks ago. My second sweater ever. Pattern is Derecho by Berroco, yarn is Berroco Remix Light in Mist. #knitsky

If you can't put the pieces together by now, we can't help you.

WTF?!? Border Czar Tom Homan claimed that ICE and Border Patrol agents don’t need probable cause to detain people they suspect are undocumented, saying they can do so based on factors like physical appearance. This is straight-up racial profiling, not law enforcement.

When a government starts targeting former intelligence officials, law enforcement leaders, and anyone who once investigated or criticized those in power, it’s not just a red flag, it’s a page straight from the authoritarian playbook.

Canadians are vacationing at home. International tourists are choosing Canada. It's not just the insults, or the tariffs. It's too dangerous to go to America. ICE's powers are without limit. We can't go to a country that treats international visitors as new enemies instead of historic allies.

What could possibly go wrong here?

Post-BBB newsletter on what's coming for us next and what we can do. substack.com/home/post/p-...