“Everything Trump touches is diminished. The military has largely resisted that corrosive dynamic, but cracks are beginning to show. Officers in the Armed Forces need to protect the integrity of their institutions & the honor of the enlisted men & women they lead.” open.substack.com/pub/michaelw...

White House unveils "walk of fame" with portraits of all the presidents in gilded frames, except for Joe Biden who is represented by a picture of an autopen. abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump...

The prosecutors involved should face serious professional sanctions.

BREAKING on MSNBC: Former FBI Director James Comey is expected to be indicted in the coming days in the Eastern District of Virginia, where a prosecutor who opposed bringing the case was recently fired, three sources familiar with the matter told MSNBC.

What happened NFTs, everyone pushing them seems to have disappeared? Almost like the whole thing was a grift

NEW: DHS issued a warning earlier this year about extremist use of Discord to radicalize US kids. from @kevincollier.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

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

Elected officials are the chosen officers of the people, they carry a democratic mandate, they are oath-sworn to uphold the Constitution, which makes civil disobedience by them potent in a way private citizens are not.

Big day for wrongthink.

Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC

There be dragons here.

Free speech ftw www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

ah, well

First amendment, but only so long as you toe the line.

JD Vance to Europe: you losers have a "free speech" problem Europe: eh....

Haha!

To folks who live in the country known for "freedom of speech" who say they are living in the "land of the free, home of the brave" etc etc: Do not make jokes that the government doesn't like. Do not mock the administration. Do not say things they don't like.

The actual story is not reflected in the headline: ABC cancels Kimmel after threats to its business from Trump administration.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr thanks Nexstar Media for their decision on Jimmy Kimmel. (Important to note, ABC has pulled the show indefinitely nationwide.)

Seems bad, yall.

You can watch the full Kimmel clip here, and he just says: "We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to desperately categorize this kid who murdered Charlier Kirk as anything other than one of them..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j3Y...

So this is incredible. FCC boss Brendan Carr is claiming he can go after DIsney/ABC because Kimmel said Kirk's shooter was MAGA. Two problems with this: (1) He can't and (2) Kimmel didn't actually say that. He just said that MAGA world was trying to prevent people from claiming he was MAGA.

Second comedian cancelled. Americans see where this is going, right?

Hard to think of a more on-the-nose encapsulation of how far the online speech wars have swung in the year of our lord 2025 than major U.S. corporations racing to fire people whose tweets offended Milo Yiannopoulos

This wrongly assumes good faith and intentions on both sides. That is simply not the case. It may take another few years for Klein to realise it. For the far right it's not about fair disagreement or "debate", it's about destroying your opposition through any means necessary.

This is very cool. If you stretch skin it becomes more permeable. This means we might be able to administer vaccines just by rubbing them into the skin, as long as we stretch the skin first. This one I wrote for @newscientist.com was a fun one. 🧪 #health www.newscientist.com/article/2496...

How Putin plotted to blow European aircraft out of the sky vsquare.org/revealed-how...

Ta-Nehisi Coates perfectly exposes the cowardice of politicians and commentators when it comes to “free speech.” And yes, that hideous @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social piece. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

The king is dead! #TraitorsIRL

I would like to remind everyone that the #Nazi order to euthanize those with mental health issues (and other #disabilities ♿️) was called Aktion T4. This involuntary euthanasia killed 300K people by conservative estimate. Kilmeade is promoting Nazi killing protocol. Literally, he is saying we should.

Gonna be a big day for housing announcements here in Canada. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Seems bad.

I see.

Regular reminder that “debate” is stupid and being considered good at it just means you’re a windbag with nothing necessarily clever or insightful to say

this might be the truest thing I’ve read this week

You had one job

Alien: Earth is both incredible and intense

Near Minsk, Belarus, a new military base is being built that may be used to store the “Oreshnik” missile system. Construction began in June 2024 near the village of Pavlivka, south of Minsk. The construction site covers more than 2 square kilometers. www.radiosvoboda.org/a/skhemy-sek...

I don’t mourn Charlie Kirk much, though I do feel empathy for those who cared for him. But I am grievously concerned for what is going to happen to this country next, because political violence never rests easy on the marginalized.

The US is about to go through some things.

Poland confirmed downing Russian drones in its airspace during a mass aerial attack on Ukraine overnight on Sept. 10 in what is the first case of a NATO member engaging Moscow's military assets over its territory during the war.

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Israel bombed Qatar Russia attacked Poland A train exploded in Lithuania Charlie Kirk was shot It's only Wednesday.

Prime Minister @donald-tusk.bsky.social Despite all the fatigue, sometimes irritation, and historical memory, let us once again restore the proper importance of this obvious fact. Ukraine is fighting Russia today, a Russia that directly threatens Poland.

*An interesting thought exercise* "The Third World War started in February 2022, but Ukraine was considered a regional war. After Russia's attacks on the Baltics and China's invasion of Taiwan - initially using robots - it became a global war." Starting between Autumn 2025 and Autumn 2027.

Some of the 'light' reading material the U.S. State Department sent Ireland’s social media regulator ahead of a meeting earlier this year. “Across Europe, governments have weaponised political institutions against their own citizens.” www.thestory.ie/2025/09/03/u...

We probably need to start a support group that meets regularly and has coffee and donuts in the back of the room.

I would again ask people to read the Supreme Court judgment in @righttoknow.bsky.social -v- Commissioner for Environmental Information, which carefully outlines the powers that the President does and *does not* have. It's the leading authority. courts.ie/view/judgmen...