the decline of organized labor in the US is a large problem

Like the tactics they adopt in China to talk around censorship. We’re already there.

Age yourself with a film you saw in cinemas as a kid

Good of him to let us know, a lot of people holding their breath for this endorsement

It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University

US departures lounge, Toronto Billy Bishop Airport, late afternoon last week.

Sure seems like Adams only pulled the plug on his campaign after he couldn’t get anyone to pay him to do it.

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.

KENEDJR1.BMF

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

at this rate I'm going to be saving more and more on subscriptions each month

This is a ten minute video broken up into parts for Bluesky from two australian doctors who made it into Gaza. The video starts with them saying the baby formula they brought with them was taken away and that Israel bombing the hospital in front of them and lying about giving warnings

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

"And in conclusion..."

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

now is the time of dillweeds

Cuomo is running against Mamdani, but Mamdani is running against a situation most people dislike. This is why Mamdani will win.

After a full week of “the new Acela breaks 120 for 5 minutes Tuesdays and Wednesdays and the coffee is rank”

grindcore 996 (grinding my teeth 12 hours a day)

starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:

1. the definition of a great headline is not a headline that scores your points for you; 2. Buying into the premise that the solution to crime is troops is not the point you want to score.

“courage not calculus” is a good line

Will have to prove I’m alive on company slack before everyone gets all excited

The view is crisper from the other side of the border. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/6bbe4c1...

Now you know what Ukrainian internet looks like every time putin vanishes to get more face fillers.

Time to start smoking

25 years ago I remember being reading something that introduced me to daily journalism in almost the exact same satanically manipulative terms: the completely mercenary art of insinuating yourself into murder victims' family homes to get the photo of the deceased, scoop at any costs, etc etc.

"Honey, I don't have much time. I've been arrested by ICE and they are sending me to a detainment center. I love you and the kids, I will be OK, please call our attorney" -- John Shin, DACA resident, speaking to his wife last week. She hasn't heard from him since www.fox13now.com/news/local-n...

Do not pass go, proceed directly to fugue state

Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."

This is interesting, and seems to ring true. I used to teach writing and it's genuinely hard to imagine doing that now. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

Tim Walz : trans rights are human rights JB Pritzker : we’re taking names of all you fuckers and coming after you Gavin Newsom : lol my pr firm made another meme while i guest starred on another right wing podcast

Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

“It is a famine within a couple hundred metres of food.” This is a war crime.

This is the rhetoric of dictators — across time & geography — that freedom (for some) must be sacrificed for security, reinforcing the power of the regime. Instead of engaging in fights about crime rates, the opposition to this madness needs to hammer on this authoritarian frame over & over again.

war on cities cont’d

If you're looking for a tipping point to conclude "OK, the U.S. is now authoritarian," this seems like it.

the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech

i finally realized who his ass looks like it is glass joe from punch out

I’d also like to think it was a further step in public recognition that flight attendants are there to save your asses and must be treated as such.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men not to post enough

“She's supportive, she helps me, but she does not think I need that many buses.”

Isn’t this how War Of the Worlds ended

If you don't understand how ridiculous the original Nazis were, you don't know to be scared about the ridiculous things that come out of the mouths of the current Nazis. There is absolutely no conflict between being a clown and committing genocide.

The Overton Window didn’t stand a chance once we created a media model that specifically incentivizes saying crazy things.

Now is the time of monster savings!

"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state. The other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."

Why play curiosity gap footsies with this? Isn’t “about to call in the national guard for no reason” a good time to be direct?