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This is a huge win for free speech and a massive credit to the millions of people who expressed their outrage and sent a clear signal with their voices and their wallets. And it's a credit to Bob Iger and Disney as well that in the end they did the right thing. ca.news.yahoo.com/jimmy-kimmel...

Sebastian Junger and Patrick O'Brian had the same editor! "Try rewriting with the goal of leaving out everything you possibly can... and if the reader has to scramble a bit to understand, that’s okay." What a terrifying note for a writer www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Up til 2 months ago, Carol Leonnig was winning Pulitzers for the Washinngton Post. Now MSNBC gets to present her stellar journalism

Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.

"Many people saw parallels between Andor and the real world. I see them as well, particularly in the events of the last week...Their goal is to instill fear...Don’t let them. Educate yourself. Organize...Because the story’s not written-the pen is in your hand." deadline.com/2025/09/ando...

JUST IN: Bureau of Labor Statistics postpones key inflation data report

The most consquential news this week."'If people cannot access vaccines, we will see the return of diseases that once caused serious health issues for children,' said Dr. Sean T. O’Leary, infectious diseases committee chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/h...

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Union that reps the musicians on Kimmel: “This is not complicated — this is State censorship, happening in 🇺🇸… a direct attack on free speech… we stand with all those who will be out of work because of government overreach.”

What Kimmel should do is file a civil rights suit against the FCC.

"Last year, NSF ended support for its other Antarctic research ship, the ARSV Laurence M. Gould, citing escalating costs and budget constraints. That left the Palmer on its own."

This is extrajudicial execution, without any clear threat to the US, no authorization from Congress, and far beyond even Article II. The military is not the president's personal hit squad. Or wasn't, until now.

NEW: Maurene Comey, daughter of James Comey, sues the Justice Department over her abrupt firing from her job as a federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

“Harvard quietly ended its Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program in May — shuttering a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply … The UMRP was not involved in making admissions decisions.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

A new McCarthyism: WAPO fires their last black columnist because she: A. posted frustration about the gun violence problem post -Kirk without due respect (apparently) and B. Posted direct quotes from Kirk disparaging black women’s intelligence.

Fired for literally just quoting Kirk’s public words, with no additional commentary. “To quote Kirk is to dishonor him” is such a wild claim. (See also its corollary: all the pundits praising him never quote him.) The political press corps has been making its brokenness so absolutely clear.

It shows how far into authoritarianism we’ve descended that journalists can be fired for simply acknowledging what a right-wing activist said and not participating in collective hagiography. Democracy dies in darkness indeed.

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

Washington Post’s commitment to personal liberties does not extend to employing people who criticize gun violence or accurately quote, without comment, Charlie Kirk’s words

NEW: In a moment of peril, Florida lawmakers allowed Citizens Property Insurance, its insurer of last resort, to take disputes before judges whose salaries it funds. The company has taken 1,500+ insurance disputes to mandatory arbitration, where it wins more than 90% of final hearings.

💸NEW: "Trump Media General Counsel Sold Every Share He Could—Becoming Second Insider To Cut Stake" me, for @forbes.com

Well, well, well, how about that: “Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as ‘vacation home,’ documents show” www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

Bad Bunny, one of the biggest musical artists in the world, said he avoided the US in his tour because he thought ICE would set up ouside his shows.

My God

DHS "has not responded to questions about the system from members of Congress, and numerous election officials NPR spoke with expressed concern about what else the Trump administration could do with the data it acquires from states."

“Rules are made to be broken,” Supreme Court majority opines in ruling setting aside the rule of law.

Penn State is searching at the Assistant Professor level in in American political behavior, broadly defined. We are seekign someone who can offer undergraduate and graduate courses in political methodology or social data analytics.

It's important to remember that "Team Don't Fight" isn't just the folks left over when you've identified everyone on "Team Fight." "Don't Fight" isn't just an absence—it's a strategy. It's a plan: "If we don't fight now, the process will play out, the voters will reward us, and we'll win."

All of the U.S. military service academies are canceling lectures and ceremonies which feature speakers critical of President Trump. Dark times.

Your “Catholic” “Pro-life” VP folks.

Today, Governor DeSantis shared his plans to end vaccine requirements in the state of Florida. We are concerned that today's announcement will put children in Florida public schools at higher risk for getting sick and have ripple effects across their community. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Florida schoolchildren will no longer be required to be "immunized against illnesses such as measles, mumps, polio, chicken pox and hepatitis B."

Somebody alert the Florida DOT

It's been 70 years since Emmett Till, a Black teenager visiting relatives in Mississippi, was lynched by a mob of white men.

Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

It’s hard to overstate how big a deal this is - for the economy (ours and globally), for the rule of law, and for the proper and efficient function of government. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Corporate statism, to quote the WSJ editorial page

First They Came for Black History hyperallergic.com/1035834/firs...

BREAKING: Amphib USS New Orleans Suffers Fire Off Okinawa — USNI News news.usni.org/2025/08/20/b...

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I know it's partly an effect of the scale of the graphic, but this really makes it look like MOST OF INDIANA is going to be a concentration camp! "Crossroads of America" (just like it was in the 1920s...).

The Trump admin’s goal is over 100,000 people in detention on average every day, by the end of the year. Tens of thousands of those beds would be located in facilities similar to the Everglades detention camp in Florida.

Who is running the Herald's social media accounts?

A useful WaPo map of where Trump Storm Troops are actually operating in DC. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202... If you know DC, what this map tell you is: They're making the gaudy show of strength in areas where it matters least and will do least good. Except for sheer spectacle.

DC punches back: Trump says there's an "emergency" on crime in the city, but AG Schwalb says, "There is no greater risk to public safety in a large, professional police force like MPD than to not know who is in command." @ryanknappy.bsky.social has the story: www.courthousenews.com/dc-sues-trum...

On what grounds is this a legitimate law enforcement action? It seems more like paramilitary harassment of an elected official.