Shutdown City, baby It’s Wednesday. There are 398 days until the midterm elections. A Reagan judge fights for freedom, the Trump economy blows and Republicans can’t govern for crap.

Rick McKee @rmckee.bsky.social

Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social

Has he looked at his boss?

Obama is Exactly 💯 Correct ! And ROEVEMBER Is Just Around The Corner.......

Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke."

Yep 👍🏾

Jimmy Kimmel is back tomorrow. In an era when Trump wants to silence pretty much any criticism - Kimmel’s return is more than late-night TV: It’s proof (I hope) that free speech is still alive in America.

I hope. We need doctors.

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

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Don’t like a TV show? Don’t watch it. I liked Jimmy Kimmel, so I watched. I hate Fox News, so I don’t. Problem solved.

And this coming from the same people who scream “medical freedom”

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.

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

Because of RFK Jr., “CDC scientists were blocked from using clinical data to make decisions, public communications about vaccines were halted, Covid and flu preparedness programs were scaled back,” former CDC staff tell Congress. www.statnews.com/2025/09/16/c...

Statement from Post Guild Leadership: The Washington Post Guild condemns the unjust firing of columnist Karen Attiah

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Oops 😬

oh my

This... is what happens when America loses its standing in the world. All of this bullshit with Qatar and Poland... would have NEVER happened with competent leadership in the US.

RFK Jr. should’ve never been confirmed, & he’s proven that every day since. Children are literally dying from measles because of his lies & reckless anti-vax agenda. He is a threat to our health & our democracy. Public office has no place for deadly, deranged delusion. It’s time for him to resign.

Figures

Love this

ICE is turning around, and the Chicago Police Department is standing by their city!

Florida is about to become one big disease vector. So many retirees live there. It’s criminal.

Could Trump have Covid?

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

PRO DEATH WHITE HOUSE—The Trump administration will move to pull the COVID vaccine off the U.S. market “within months,” says one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s closest associates. www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

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Satire, art, humor, beauty, pleasure, creativity. These are not luxuries, they are necessities. We need all of these things to keep bringing light and hope to the world, in a dark time.

NEW: For years, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pushed discredited theories linking vaccines to autism. Now, scientists studying the condition fear he has preconceived notions that will harm the field and taint new funding for research. propub.li/41JYl7o

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

That much evil shouldn’t exist in the same space

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Spotted: FBI / ATF agents on the streets near NoMa Gallaudet station. Chilling.

PRITZKER: "Trump knows he's going to lose the Congress in 2026. That's why he's going to his allies and hoping that they can save him. It's cheating. Donald Trump is a cheater. He cheats on his wives. He cheats at golf, and now he's trying to cheat the American people." Boom! 🎯

None of these tactics have worked before. What are y'all basing this strategy from? As in what data, evidence? Hope doesn't count.

@genefortexas.bsky.social: "We're buying time for Texans to wake up... To not only deal with TX but deal w/ this in every other state. If ppl who lie, cheat, and steal are allowed to win the day, that is the end of our country... Get off your ass! This is our last shot at saving the American dream."