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The disappearance of America’s leadership class at a time like this means that the rest of us have to be leaders. We can no longer wait to be led by those with the power and authority to lead. You must lead, I must lead, all of us must lead. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.

Dutch late night TV has its take

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

BREAKING: President Trump promotes unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without new evidence. (via @apnews.com)

Angela Paxton filed for divorce from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in July, accusing her husband of adultery. The records were placed under seal, but a group of 8 news organizations are arguing in court that the records are of public interest.

*9/22/2025 noncooperation thread* “The most important thing is to be respectful and responsive to what the day laborer community wants.... Our number one purpose is to be responsive and dynamic. We set up the table, listen to their needs, and respond.” 5/

*9/22/2025 noncooperation thread* The administration would be thrilled to let ppl go into bankruptcy over medical bills. The good ppl at Undue Medical Debt would not. I give to @unduemeddebt.bsky.social monthly; on average, every $1 buys/erases $100 in medical debt. If you can donate, pls do! 4/

A gunman opened fire at a wedding in New Hampshire, killing one and injuring several others. It’s heartbreaking that a joyful occasion turned into tragedy because a dangerous person had access to a dangerous weapon. This is the reality of a country that refuses to act. www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/u...

Publicize everyone who signs.

Amazing speech.

🧵in June, Angie Rodriguez, a refugee from violence in Columbia, reported to INS offices in San Francisco for her asylum application when she was arrested by ICE. She was held at the Mesa Verde detention center in Bakersfield, where she learned she was pregnant and, later, miscarried

RELEASE.THE.EPSTEIN.FILES‼️ #CancelDisney

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵 While people celebrate the life of a racist today, I will give you the names of a few White people who those same people refuse to acknowledge. They made the ultimate sacrifice. Honor them.✊🏾(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

"Some say we can ‘solar-engineer’ ourselves out of the climate crisis. Don’t buy it" [even if it's being sold by the #NewYorkTimes] | My evergreen @theguardian.com commentary with Ray Pierrehumbert: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Remember Winnie Greco? The cash-in-the-chip-bag lady? You may recall this longtime Eric Adams adviser is also at the center of fundraisers with the hallmarks of illegal, "straw" donations. These activities were under investigation. One of the big Adams-world mysteries is ... what happened to them?

OPINION: "Faculty in blue states are significantly more likely than those in red states to report that their institutions uphold their constitutionally mandated First Amendment rights," Mayhew writes. "This implies a potential disconnect in how freedoms are experienced and protected"

Tom Homan was free to accept a $50,000 cash bribe because he knows he’s in the whiteness protection plan.

Sorry but this really underscores the fact that you really DO need to read the book. Here's a snippet:

I've learned that both national security prosecutors and public integrity investigators were on Greco's trail. And I've got strong reasons to believe the national security side of the probe complicated the corruption angle.

Lost creator Damon Lindelof has also pulled his Star Wars project. He says he can’t in good conscience work for the company” until Kimmel is back in his chair.

Newsom’s people are so good at this.

AOC responds to the Tom Homan story.

It was quite the week.

Happy Constitution Day 2025. Who would ever have thought the constitution would be at its most precarious and menaced since the Civil War if not ever? But it’s where we are. We have to fight fight fight. A republic, if you can keep it.

Stephen Colbert: “Tonight we’re all Jimmy Kimmel…. With an autocrat, you can’t give an inch. If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive, and clearly they've never read The Children's Book If You Give a Mouse A Kimmel.”

Reaction's to ACIP's vote are coming in. The American Academy of Pediatrics says the meeting "promoted false claims and misguided information about vaccines as part of an unprecedented effort to limit access to routine childhood immunizations and sow fear and mistrust in vaccines."

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.

They’re going to fire a US attorney because they couldn’t find evidence for a crime that was manufactured by the administration? Banana republic shit

Walz: This is North Korea style stuff. And it's being done because this is a weak, thin skinned man who's failing as a president. All of the things he promised are not happening. It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly, this is a terrible president

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power. This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.

"This is why we fought the Revolution – because we had a King in England who was locking people up ... because they disagreed with him and voiced dissent. ... We're sending a message – we won't be silenced." Sen. Chris Van Hollen

Ruffalo: I'm reaching out to all of my brothers and sisters in the entertainment industry, to join us...They're coming after celebrities because they know we are the last ones to actually be able to have our freedom to speak. So use your platform wisely, use it generously for this movement. #NoKings

You can’t talk about cleaning up crime in D.C. while a 34-count convicted felon is running the country.

Stephen Colbert calls the Jimmy Kimmel decision "blatant censorship" and says: "With an autocrat, you cannot give an inch."

“With an autocrat, you cannot give an inch,” Colbert said. “If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

This was just last year! 9-0 Supreme Court ruling: A “government official cannot coerce a private party to punish or suppress disfavored speech on her behalf.” Moreover, "a government official cannot do indirectly what she is barred from doing directly." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

In America, we defend free speech in terrible times. We defend free speech even when it’s offensive. We defend free speech. www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/p...

Fascism has arrived in America: The seven tactics of an authoritarian. 😳👇

Worried about the future of journalism, as corporate media bends the knee to the authoritarian Trump regime? Please consider supporting the independent, nonprofit newsroom of @motherjones.com.

We’re protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility and an agent came out to tell us to go away. We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”

My body hurts and will probably hurt way more tomorrow. But it’s a lot less pain than what our neighbors are enduring inside the Broadview ICE facility.

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.

Demonstrators voiced their support for Jimmy Kimmel on Hollywood Boulevard and outside of Disney Studios in Los Angeles.