NEW YORK… ICE puts a photographer in the hospital… Completely out of control

From @BulwarkOnline — Republicans are lying about the Dems wanting to fund health care for undocumented people. Not that @RepTimBurchett has ever cared about the truth. www.thebulwark.com/p/republican...

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

#Indivisible #NoKingsThreeRivers

“Show us your warrant!” “Ma’am, you’ve been watching too many movies. We’ll show you the warrant after we’re done.” 🤔 *busts in the door with babies crying*

FIRE BRENDAN CARR! IMPEACH AND CONVICT DONALD TRUMP! Our civil liberties cannot be infringed! #freespeech #firebrendancarr #impeachtrump #convicttrump #restoreliberty

I'm glad Kimmel's show is set to return. I applaud the many movie stars who signed a letter in his defense, and I applaud the Disney protesters, those on the streets and those who canceled their subscriptions. We must continue to fight for our rights, lest they be infringed. #freespeech #kimmel

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Remember that MLK said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

It’s not about Jimmy Kimmel. It’s about the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. If you diminish the importance of this situation, you have completely missed the point of a constitutional democratic republic.

FIRE BRENDAN CARR! IMPEACH AND CONVICT DONALD TRUMP! Our civil liberties cannot be infringed! #freespeech #firebrendancarr #impeachtrump #convicttrump #restoreliberty

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

When the authoritarian government decides what is on TV you’re not watching entertainment you’re watching propaganda.

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

The silencing of Colbert and Kimmel is horrifying. This administration is spitting in the face of one of our most fundamental civil liberties. Free speech is our right! WE MUST FIGHT FOR OUR 1ST AMENDMENT RIGHTS! The next NO KINGS protest is relatively soon. I better see you there! #freespeech

Again: The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left." It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power. (@taxgreed.bsky.social)

The murders of Charlie Kirk and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman are part of a dangerous rise in political violence. We cannot accept this as the norm. We must do whatever we can to reduce the anger and hate that are consuming and destroying so much of the country.

Acts of political violence aren’t acceptable. Non-political school shootings aren’t acceptable. Sacking the legislature isn’t acceptable. Military occupation of peaceful American cities isn’t acceptable. Abductions conducted in courthouse hallways by masked agents of the state aren’t acceptable.

I completely concur with Ezra Klein here. SHUT THE GOVERNMENT DOWN AND STOP THIS AUTHORITARIANISM!! We must show republicans that AMERICANS WILL NOT STAND FOR TYRANNY!! SHUT IT DOWN!! #democrats #democracy #fightback #governmentshutdown #nokings #senate #senatedems youtube.com/shorts/ACzrh...

Oooooh looks like we have a spreadsheet to do. We'll get after it.

I just got a very similar response from House Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN), so it looks like republicans' tradition of defending literal genocide and man-made famine remains healthily intact. The depths of depravity of these villains are an abyss into hell. #tennessee #andyogles #freepalestine

"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." —Justice Sonia Sotomayor

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @Rattoons1776)

After contacting my Tennessee Senator, Marsha Blackburn, and demanding, in the strongest possible language, for an immediate end to the famine and genocide in Gaza, this was her EVIL, WHOLLY UNACCEPTABLE response. Shame on you, Senator! SHAME ON YOU! #tennessee #marshablackburn #freepalestine

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Layoffs wreck studios. Institutional knowledge is SO valuable in the games industry. When you eventually replace that laid off employee, I don’t care if they’ve got 30 years of experience and dozens of games under their belt. They still have to learn the pipeline, the software, the systems.

resistance through art

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

The U.N. and W.H.O. have declared the situation in Gaza a man-made famine. That means people are dying of starvation. This depravity is beyond unconscionable. END THE GENOCIDE AND FAMINE! FREE GAZA! Contact your reps and demand ceasefire and aid now! www.congress.gov/members/find... #freepalestine

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

It’s happening. Slowly but surely.

CINDY MCCAIN: “The desperation is overwhelming.”

Couldn't agree more. Well said, Mayor Johnson. Well said.

Q: “Are you worried all this pushback could provoke Trump to follow-through with sending the National Guard?” MAYOR @brandon4chicago.bsky.social Johnson: “As a descendant of slaves, can you imagine if my ancestors had that same rationale?“

“HOW CAN THEY NOT FEED THE KIDS? While last year Tennessee and Indiana joined the Summer EBT program, this year their Republican governors chose to opt out of the federal program.” Hey @GovBillLee, quick question — how do you sleep at night? capitalandmain.com/how-can-they...

When I and others were harassed off Twitter and sent death/rape threats on Reddit and YouTube, I was told repeatedly, that’s the cost of free speech, deal with it Okay free speech absolutists, got anything to add here?

Walmart spent $35.3B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024, enough to give each of its 2.2M employees annual bonuses of $2,719. Last year, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay of just $29,469. Textbook corporate greed.

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “The real offender here is a President who thinks he can use the powers of his office to run vendettas... the kind of gratuitous viciousness that has increasingly defined Trump’s return… it’s turning out to be worse than we imagined.” www.wsj.com/opinion/john...

⚡️ UPDATE: KILMAR FREED from jail… fox17.com/news/local/k...

Every tyrant in history has sought to stifle criticism of himself and his regime. But America was founded on criticism. American democracy was built on dissent. Every institution, group, firm, or individual that surrenders to Trump’s wanton tyranny invites more of it.

Microsoft shuts down questions about layoffs and Israel ties at Gamescom 2025

BREAKING: Massive protest in Washington DC against Donald Trump right now.

D.C. TODAY…

Hey, do you live in Washington State and have been affected by the Visa and MasterCard porn censorship bans? Please get in touch with me! I have an in-person meeting with State Senator Alvarado coming up about this topic and I would love to bring stories from people who've been directly harmed!

Today I learned that a game I made in partnership with Jennifer Ann's Group has been de-indexed on Itch. A Thousand Cuts is a texting game - no other graphics, no depictions of human forms literally at all - about how hard it is to report sexual assault to Title IX adjudicators at universities.

WATCH: “THIS IS A VANITY PROJECT.” Kanew says @govbilllee’s Tesla tunnel is moving at “the speed of corruption” and won’t benefit Tennesseans, and his money is on it not getting finished - leaving Nashville with holes the size of Governor Lee’s ego.

The Trump administration is now seeking to replace PBS with “Prager University,” a far-right propaganda organization that isn’t actually a university. One of their “kids videos” has Christopher Columbus telling them that slavery was “no big deal” and “better than being killed.”

Unionized workers at Arkane, a Microsoft-owned studio, demand that Microsoft divest from Israel's "sinister project for Gaza" aftermath.site/microsoft-az...