Here’s a free version. It’s well worth reading. Klein has an outsized opinion of himself if he thinks that he needed to write nonsense whitewashing Kirk’s legacy in order to sit in grief with people who mourned his loss. It’s absurd. Coates makes Klein look feckless and uninformed.

the thing about Coates - and I'm 100% not the 1st to say this - is that he stands as a real heir to a Black American intellectual tradition stretching through Baldwin and Douglass if you read those latter figures, they were fucking CLEAR-EYED (as is Coates) about how awful things are. yet you try.

A coalition of University of California faculty, students, staff, and labor unions is suing the Trump administration.

The big news tonight is two-fold — Trump's "domestic terrorism" memorandum and James Comey's reported indictment — and both are signs that Trump's authoritarianism is here. Now. Both situations, though, show how weak Trump actually is. That will be coming tonight, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

He promised to reduce drug prices by 1500% so no worries

Student journalists are at it again!!

Trump raised $8 million for Hurricane Helene survivors. Where did it all go? The presidential campaign bad-mouthed FEMA while using crowdfunding to donate to evangelical nonprofits. grist.org/accountabili... #Climate #GoFundMe #Trump #Disaster #FEMA #Evangelical

PRAISE BE

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you… Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest. The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

I know we are inundated with bad news these days but I want to take a moment for good news. Massively good news. They are figuring out how to treat Huntington’s disease successfully.

An Update: I received an email canceling my contract as a columnist at @startribune.com after sharing this story publicly. (I had written columns past the one-year contract already + been asked to continue on in July).

The heel turn is a full break at this point

They were internment camps camps before. Now, they have undeniably escalated into concentration camps. Going to need intenationals-the EU-to stop being cowardly and intervene. Sovereignty should end at crimes against humanity.

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i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Someone canceled a ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND dollar wedding

22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, says her experience in federal detainment could only be identified as “human trafficking.” And she’s not staying quiet about the women she was forced to leave behind. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...

Viktor Orban has made Hungary one of the poorest countries in the EU www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Lol. Lmao.

This was always the goal and don’t forget that this happened because of the Democrats/Joe Biden. TikTok was in zero danger of being banned and the ban was non existent until Biden/Dems worked w Gallagher to revive it because people were using the app to speak out about Israel’s genocide.

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

I think two things can be true at once: 1) the Trump/Miller plan of a splashy military invasion was foiled, expertly 2) they are using their ICE Gestapo to extract terroristic revenge

This is just ridiculously awful (and glaringly illegal, but that won't prevent the administration from wrecking people's lives over it while it plays out in the courts). Read the whole thread for more context:

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

The thing everyone can do right now is to find your lane if you don't already have one and work that lane diligently and with commitment.

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.

the list of conditions that qualify you is fairly extensive, but may I suggest a simpler route: lying seriously, I just checked the “I’m eligible” box online when scheduling and the pharmacist didn’t ask me shit, they just gave me the shot

While you still can, if you’re asking “who’s Sinclair?” John Oliver has you covered:

yes! congressional control of the purse applies to the white house as well. you can defund stephen miller.

82F today in southern Wisconsin, but it looks like this. 😜🍂

•ABC fires Kimmel for mocking Trump •CBS fires Colbert for mocking Trump •ABC: fires Moran for slamming Miller •MSNBC: fires Dowd for calling out hate speech •FOX: Protects Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of homeless Corporate Media Has Failed Us www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-cancel...

I think this comparison is largely right. Yes, it’s a replay of McCarthyism’s ugliest aspects but that was fueled by a widespread sense that the country faced dire external dangers while this is about a deeply unpopular president’s grudges.

Are you fucking kidding me

Tttthhhread

I love this so much

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

every single day, at least one member of this administration says something in public that's absolutely disqualifying for public service or civil society, which is what makes all of the condescending admonishment from people like klein so hard to take

Ffs

At the point where need to seriously start asking if these two are actually on the take from the GOP to help them consolidate because nothing they ever do serves any other purpose

*deep breath* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

What's happening to Media Matters is such obvious bullshit. Musk's lawsuits against them are entirely frivolous, but he knows he can use his wealth to drown them in legal fees. It's disgusting.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers issues executive order protecting COVID vaccine access after federal restrictions confused pharmacists and limited eligibility.

Do not put your name on a website to register for a rally in this political climate. What the fuck's wrong with y'all. Are there any people of color that work at this org who might knock some sense into your peach colored heads.

Excellent yes

The reason this isn’t a big story for the media like it was when Biden mixed up a name isn’t because Trump has always been dumb or Trump has always been a dick or Trump has always been dumb and a dick; it’s because the media likes him