This ought to be engraved somewhere.

Disney fired and unfired Jimmy Kimmel the right way. by Ezra Klein

genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so.

I'll continue to be "I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win"-posting, so figure I should address this point that seems to come up every so often Q: "is it still 'winning' if only *some* good things happen in the near term instead of total planetary eco socialist revolution?" A: yes

Not a denial

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

They don’t seem very sad that he died

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

when they used to say "twitter isn't real life," what they meant was they thought progressive viewpoints were overrepresented there.

Six Kirk stories on the NYT home page before you get to a silly little story about the President publicly demanding his political foes be charged with crimes.

Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

so trumpworld is going to nazify tiktok like they did twitter

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

vote choice among indian american citizens in 2024. these folks are not MAGA / trump fans

It's important to remember when GOP Reps and Sens are yelling about the 'violent left' that they routinely tell reporters and colleagues how theyre afraid to do this or that because their own supporters routinely threaten violence agains them.

genuinely believe that a large number of political, economic and media elites do not realize that nearly half the voting public did not vote for trump

“Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man, in a move parents described as “outrageous” and “upsetting.” Meta has 100% stopped even *pretending* not to be astoundingly evil. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

So here is me being dismissive: Richard Hanania did not in fact do a deep dive into the data and his claims about crime rates are bullshit. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Bluesky is simultaneously an unimportant ghost town and the source of all evil in the universe.

As with all the revealed preferences about campus speech & viewpoint diversity, all the accusations about “socialism” were really confessions.

Just a reminder that Richard Hanania is not a centrist and has not changed his white supremacist views. The data most definitely doesn't show crime rates are about race unless you ignore every other causative variable (urban/rural, poverty, population density, etc.).

Just a reminder that if you ever visit an Atlas Restaurant Group location you are putting money in the evil Smith family's pockets

Halal meat is exactly the same as regular meat. Folks freaking out about kids eating it at school are telling on themselves.

Are we all ready to admit, once and for all, that the culture wars over "free speech" this last decade or so have been entirely about the *content* of the contested speech, not procedural commitments to speech as such?

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to 5.

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

Freedom from government censorship polls with 90% support. There are no "broad divisions" on this, except perhaps in the newsrooms of big corporate media.

This Week's Onion Magazine:

Van Hollen: "Those who cave in -- those like ABC who cave in -- what they do is give the bully an even bigger appetite. When they appease they bully, they put all of us at risk."

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

oh man, it's almost as if our industry is broken and doesn't have the barest sense of professional ethics!

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".

It’s notable that no reasonable person thinks that a SCOTUS ruling on this would turn on legal questions. Republicans have turned it into a wholly political body.

What the Gandy discourse demonstrates is how many people on here think effective protest looks like this. That's because they're online LARPers who think of mass movements as a kind of collective emotional catharsis, rather than something that is built over time, an institution with a structure.

The Republican Party as it is currently constituted will destroy the United States — politically, economically, socially and culturally. The democratic reform of our federal system isn't only justified in itself, but necessary to force its moderation into a party compatible with liberal democracy.

Let me just say a simple thing. Democrats have no obligation to provide the votes to fund the destruction of our democracy. If you want my vote for a bipartisan budget, there need to be protections to stop Trump's brazen lawlessness.

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years. Pinochet was ousted with a referendum. And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists. Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

The way people lost their minds over a line on a syllabus was definitely prompted in part by outrage at acknowledging the ubiquity of sexual violence—and, by extension, their own complicity in it.

Anyway Me Too was a women’s free speech movement.