We're singing No, Cubs, no No, Cubs, noooo Hey Chicago, taking the L Mourning a guy who's racist as hell

Doing to WaPo what we’ve done to Target and Disney is essential. And Amazon, while we’re at it, because the same oligarch owns both.

“Carr, fully aware of Trump’s stated desire that Kimmel should be the ‘next’ network late-night host to lose his show, grabbed on to the tiniest thread of grievance and spun it into a direct assault on Kimmel, ABC and the First Amendment.” Yes. Thank you for saying this. Yes.

Republicans spent the last 24 hours trying to justify ABC pulling Kimmel based on reasons other than intimidation and threats from the Trump admin, then Trump goes full Col. Jessup & pisses all over the narrative & admits he ordered the Code Red because Kimmel hurt his feelings.

The Kimmel suspension is a much bigger deal than you know. It's really about a growing alliance between Trump and the companies that own America's local TV stations - like Nexstar - to turn local TV into Trump propaganda. 1/ Let me tell you the short story. It's chilling.

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JOINT STATEMENT: Hollywood Labor on Pulling of Jimmy Kimmel Live w/ @sagaftra.org @directorsguild.bsky.social @afm-union.bsky.social

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.

Brendan Carr in 2019 👇🏽🤔

Thou shalt not call yourself a “free speech warrior” and then spend all your time getting people fired for using free speech.

Apparently an evergreen post.

Meanwhile, Brian Kilmeade, who advocated killing all homeless people, still has a cushy Fox job.

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.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr thanks Nexstar Media for their decision on Jimmy Kimmel. (Important to note, ABC has pulled the show indefinitely nationwide.)

Here is the quote that led ABC pull to Kimmel: “The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them & doing everything they can to score political points from it. In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.”

EVERY. WORD. Brilliant essay by Ta-Nehisi Coates on the truth about Charlie Kirk and the media's complicity in hiding it.

Gonna say this very very very slowly The main issue with putting your name on a protest list is not whether the government has your name It is you providing information about where you are/will be That is *legally* actionable

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.

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

Banning books. Banning words. Banning ideas. The alarm bells should be on high for everyone and anyone who cares about freedom and humanity. Silence in this moment is complicity. Erasure is the precursor to eliminationism.

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@jtunes6.bsky.social aorry to butt in but consider organizations serving your areas, or even other ones in this curated directory. I'm in NYC but am supporting orgs in TN and TX just because they're good. Local Journalism Directory | Media and Democracy Project share.google/QFxIJdVVWZO8...

Joy Reid. Karen Attiah. Gene Robinson. Jonathan Capehart. There are lots of others. Circumstances differ. But really sad to see new organizations not keeping super-talented Black staffers. The news industry spent decades talking about diversity, improved some from 2014-2020 and is now going back.

OH NO.

Meet Justin Chermol, the Jeffries aide who shit all over Sen. Chris Van Hollen.

The Saturday Spectacular. This morning's start in Chicago.

In a *second* update to today's story about the IMLS funneling money into a "Freedom Trucks" project–& how it, as well as the announcement for it–are tremendous regime propaganda, it was unearthed that the $14 million came from robbing IMLS's National Leadership Grants. bookriot.com/imls-freedom...

So TAKE DOWN THE POST.

Man, it is block party on here these days.

So after days of Republicans blaming and vilifying Democrats and trans people for Kirk’s murder despite having no clue who the person was, we find out it’s a white guy from a Republican family in Utah who loved guns.

Timeline cleanse. This sweet girl needed rehoming. She’s been with us for two weeks and we are in love.

I'll ask that you both report (to the in-app moderator of your choosing) AND block the sock-puppet accounts (the 1-2 step 🕺🏾) don't feed the trolls or they'll stick around.

Read to your kids so they’ll have an ounce of empathy, I’m begging you

Former President Barack Obama joins many other prominent Democrats in condemning the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Reposting this video clip from Steve Kerr after the school shooting in Uvalde in 2022.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

Yep.

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"The school shooting industry" is one of the most grisly phrases crafted in recent memory.

My God. Chills.

We’re pleased to exclusively announce the longlist for the 2025 National Book Awards for Young People’s Literature. See it here.

🚨🚨HERE IT IS: We got Trump’s birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein that the President said doesn’t exist. Trump talks about a “wonderful secret” the two of them shared. What is he hiding? Release the files!

Trump minimizes domestic abuse during a talk at the Museum of the Bible: "Things that take place in the home, they call crime ... If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see?"

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Proud and grateful to have this guy as our governor.

Most red states are just violently gerrymandered states. AND — as I’ve said before and will say again — if you genuinely care about liberation, you want liberation for EVERYONE. Freedom is not to be hoarded.

Who is Lori the Librarian, new idol of the book banners? She's a superhero who defaces little free libraries and "takes down" librarians and educators. But *what* is she? A PragerU-like animation by a couple who have been campaigning against DEI for years. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker will be Jen Psaki's guest on The Briefing on Friday night, 9pmET on MSNBC to talk about Donald Trump's threat to send the National Guard to Chicago, and much more.

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