Disney reverses course on Kimmel. Lessons: -Trump's anti-Constitutional stances, anti-1A in this case, are unpopular -Popular resistance via expression and spending choices can have an impact -Many corporate leaders are weak, amoral people who'll bow to threats unless they face countervailing ones

Gently: instead of whatabouting the Kimmel thing, you can use the win to motivate people who are new to collective action. Don’t punish behavior you want to see, especially if you want to see more of it.

Putin keeps probing NATO's tolerance for incursions into its airspace. He knows Trump won't honor Article 5; this follows Russian drones in Poland and Romania in recent weeks.

NEW REPORT from Forbes has revealed the Trump family has doubled its fortune—to a total of about $10 billion. For Donald Trump, his White House comeback has been “the most lucrative year of his life,” with POTUS raking in $3 billion, two-thirds of which came from cryptocurrency. trib.al/U2Sm4vo

AND THEN THEY LOST. THEY ALL FUCKING LOST TO REPUBLICANS. IT WAS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO AND THEY NEVER GOT ELECTED AGAIN BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST VOTED FOR THE REPUBLICAN. DO ACTUALLY NOT FUCKING COMPREHEND WHY THAT HAPPENED

NEWS: The Congressional Progressive Caucus — which represents nearly 100 members in Congress — has just voted to endorse the Block the Bombs Act, to block weapon sales to Israel. First time any major congressional caucus has backed legislation to end US aid for Israel’s destruction of Gaza.

I want this guy to win everything so badly. We need 100 of him in the Senate.

The Atlanta Hawks are the most consistently overrated team in the NBA. I don't know what it is about them that makes pundits want to slob their knob the second the make a good decision, but it happens every year. Like, I like their team fine, but the hype they get ... sheesh.

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

Senate went nuclear and it barely made the news: apnews.com/article/sena...

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

I just spoke to NYC Comptroller Brad Lander as he left police custody following his arrest at immigration court. Here’s what he said:

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

The media allowing Trump plausible deniability on Project 2025 during the campaign is right up there with Iraq War stenography in craven, lazy disgracefulness

Disney adults, now is your moment. For the first time in your life, people need you

cancelling Disney+ and Hulu is well and good but it’s not a huge hit on an individual level but Disney adults? people who spend real money at the parks? you guys can make a dent, call ‘em up and tell them your vacation is postponed until they pull their heads out of their asses

on the bright side at least charlie kirk is still dead

Watch this video. Mimi is a constituent of mine. She testified at a shadow hearing today about caring for four U.S. citizen children who were detained and torn from their parents.

Karl Rove and Tucker Carlson are showing more opposition to fascism than Democratic leaders and liberal pundits I'm going to go lie down.

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".

That man strangling his wife is doing marriage the right way By Ezra Klein "Look, at the end of the day they have to live with each other, so she has to own up to her part. It's not enough to oppose domestic violence, she has to apologize and venerate him."

It was never about FREE SPEECH. It was always about the protection of HATE SPEECH.

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wearing my university of austin hat and desperately refreshing the pages of my heroes in the intellectual dark web waiting to read their full-throated defenses of jimmy kimmel

South Park is now the voice of journalism in America

Every artist, journalist, and commentator fired for daring to criticize the president or just report something they don't like or have a color they don't like needs to sue these corporations out of business.

ABC will now be forced to air Matt Gaetz's chucklefucks hour in place of Jimmy Kimmel

Important insight: having a billion dollars is bad for your brain and well-being

The Trump Economy

All these talking heads, including Newsom, think that because a neo-Nazi, religious extremist will go on their podcast, it must mean they want to have dialogue. Except Kirk was VERY EXPLICIT he did not want dialogue or dissent. The man wanted to destroy dissent to his political project. JFC, mang.

Ezra Klein is the perfect example of the type of person who "stayed on twitter to to change people's minds."

It’s like Ezra Klein saw how terrible Nate Silver has become and thought, hold my beer, stats boy.

It's wild to me how ostensibly smart people cannot/could not/will not see what is so obvious. @mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes. www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...

My prediction for the Knicks depth chart: C: Mitch - KAT/Yabu - Hukporti PF: KAT - Yabu - Diawara SF: OG - Hart - Dadiet SG: Bridges - Deuce - Shamet PG: Brunson - Clarkson - Brogdon Main rotation: Mitch, KAT, OG, Bridges, Brunson, Yabu, Clarkson, Deuce, and Hart. Huk and Brogdon next

I've loved Malcolm Brogdonfor years. Every time he's been available I've wanted the Knicks to grab him. He's just a really good player who gives you everything you could want from a role player. Only problem is injuries. That's why he's a depth piece.

Gotta say, the vibes around this Knicks team are pretty great right now. Impeccable talent, deep bench, a coach who will actually scheme for the players he has. We can beat anybody.

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

Along with Wired, 404 Media, Zeteo, The Handbasket, and Talking Points Media.

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

This seems not good.

It's been a rough week for me seeing two of my favorite teams honor Trump and Kirk. When does basketball season start again?

Perfect example of why Democrats want a change in leadership. And the statement makes it sound like he's going to make an endorsement, in which case why not make it now? It'd be one thing if he went no comment on endorsement, but now it sounds like he's going to back Cuomo just B4 the election.

It's one thing for a random NY politician to make a quip like this but Jeffries is national leadership. He's the leader my own Rep in the House is supposed to follow. I don't think it's funny, I think Jeffries is undermining the whole party with this insult and by failing to endorse Mamdani.

Cut Clemons

Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, endorsed Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City on Saturday and called on his party’s leadership to do the same, criticizing them for a delay that he said allowed President Trump to exploit Democratic divisions.

Last September Charlie Kirk claimed that Haitian immigrants in Huntsville were "raping your women and hunting you down at night." He said that rural Alabamians faced a future in which Haitian immigrants "will become your masters." www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

Meanwhile:

My dog finally cooperated with me to take a great picture!