The People’ll listen to a dragonfly preach, or so I heard. They say it’s a living cathedral, carrying its windows on its back. #AskAFairySmith Photo: Elaine Schuch

When this admin does something outrageous, it’s almost always a case of “which billionaire is behind this particular terrible idea?” Now, for the case of the compact with universities, we know the answer 🎁

New York City, I can see a future with you. And it’s one we can afford. Our new ad just aired during The Golden Bachelor.

Go for it folks

Psst hey everybody

it’s time 🧛

When you feel personally stuck? The absolute no shit fastest most selfish way to fix it is to help someone else. It gives you the feeling of unsticking something. It floods your brain with what is possible instead of impossibility. Hope, that flighty bitch, can be coaxed into a long visit.

So where it says "he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed", it's only unless the vibes are off (Us Const. Art II sec 3)

This weekend was official #sunrise at the #southpole! Which happens at the autumn equinox. Unfortunately, the weather was very overcast, as you can see from this picture (credit: winterover Sim) during the official sunrise day! #whiteout @NSF @NOAA #Antarctica

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FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK

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NARRATOR: SOMEWHERE in these VAST and SHROUDED halls, long after daylight has FLED, do I hear its TERRIBLE HORKING

Ghouls

This morning, Heather Cox Richardson & I discussed how past political power-holders consolidating power (or TRYING to) by silencing their opposition says A LOT about our current moment. It's up on our YouTube channels. Here's mine. Trust me. It speaks to right now. www.youtube.com/live/NPsA7uZ...

Deep shade: 'Rule 8 governs every pleading...regardless of ... the urgency or importance (real or imagined) of the dispute'

FCC these days

SCHOOLED

I don't vote in Illinois and I'm not paying close attention to this race, but I'd sure like to see more candidates and elected Democrats putting their bodies on the line like this. I don't even care if it's a campaign stunt. Kat is out there taking risks, and we need to see leaders fighting.

How you can give ABC a piece of your mind on the Jimmy Kimmel situation: support.abc.com/hc/en-us/art...

[authoritarianism]: It’s about domination…. The incoherence IS the point

Page One. @wsj.com

It’s a good song

The great #fastfolk songwriter #jessewelles just noted: “Jimmy Kimmel let me sing “the poor” in front of the nation on his show. no one else would let me do that. this is a slippery slope.” Glad I began riding the Jesse train back in 2024: revkin.substack.com/p/an-electio...

Next they'll cancel Yoda for basically saying the same thing.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.” That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.

Suggestion: A strike of musicians, writers, hosts, actors, lighting, electricians--everyone, shutting down all TV studios, until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. This is the kind of action we need, instead of sitting around just waiting to be gutted.

It’s not this, and FCC goons can still interfere, but all over the country are college stations probably with available airtime for community reporting and locally produced media. Assets that exist and are accessible (for now). There are about a thousand of them. Everyone go get a radio show pls

X marks the spot

What Robert Redford contributed to American films via Sundance is genuinely immeasurable. He was also an extraordinarily talented director--Ordinary People and Quiz Show are two of the best American studio movies of their eras--and an actor who somehow wore his incredible charisma almost shyly. RIP.

Encourage everyone to read this @jamellebouie.net column from earlier this week, clarifying as always. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o... 🎁

Billionaire Trump donor Elon Musk owns X. Billionaire Trump ally Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post. With this acquisition, both CNN and CBS News would be owned by billionaire Trump donor Larry Ellison. Oligarchs’ monopoly over our media is spiraling out of control.

JFC What kind of a network lets this kind of person keep his job as tv show host

Make little guys.

RFK Jr.’s new report that claims it will make childen healthy again ignores the number one cause of death for childen in the United States: gun violence. Fellow Defend Public Health member @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy talked to the LA Times about this. We didn’t ignore it in our IHAT report.

your move, jesus

“I was reminded that our city is so much bigger than any one sporting event. And also that one man can never be bigger than us all.”

All of this and then some.

As ICE increases presence in Boston, a great resource to report ICE sitings to help keep communities safe www.lucemass.org

This is outstanding

Great article! It finds that rodents’ thumbs with nails (not claws) is pivotal to their origin, evolving in concert with plants developing hard nuts and seeds. High-force gnawing with incisors is best with a good grip! Curiously, only rodents have a mix of nails (thumbs) and claws (fingers)

A Classic

So Trump approved a botched military mission during which SEALs killed a number of North Korean civilians, and then likely illegally the Trump administration never briefed Congress about it

I love my state

Hey FYI that lady we helped about a horse is back home with her partner and kids. And as a good deed never goes unpunished but should never go unrewarded, I have to tell you she's already passing it forward. So she's the first one chipping in her surplus, she wound up with a bit spare at the end.

Oh noes A beloved cultural institution grinds to a halt

Good morning. Immigrants are #HereToStay.