Even if this is true, and for a self important spotlight hog like Comey I could definitely believe it’s true, the prosecution is so nakedly corrupt it almost doesn’t matter

I joined Front Burner at CBC News for a conversation on Jimmy Kimmel, corporate censorship, and the state of US media in 2025.

Former John Fetterman staffer gives honest, heartfelt advice on The Right Way to advocate for Palestine

ICE is doing things that all Americans are going to be called to answer for.

Sniper reportedly shot detainees at Dallas ICE facility

Australian doctor in Gaza: "[The Israelis] are trying all types of weapons on these people... They bomb families at the beach, so families with the kids, moms, dads, aunties & uncles, they all arrive in pieces. And you don't know whose hand is this and whose leg is this. It's kind of a horror movie"

haha... hey little guys... whatcha up to

Very good Mr. DeNiro, may I ask you your views on vaccines

hmmmmmm

Per Samba TV analysis, Kirk memorial was watched by mostly old white people

ICE agents held a man’s five year old autistic daughter and taunted him with “Is that your daughter” in an attempt to get him to come out of the house. They were rebuffed but two days later took him from his car.

I think long term his days are numbered. Late night is doomed. But this is better than going out like Stan Chera for a banal, factual comment in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination.

Kimmel coming back

Next up from the @wired.com Politics issue: @noahshachtman.bsky.social with the definitive look at Elon Musk's outsize role in the space race. "Even before the election, I had been asking US space officials: ‘You have yoked yourself to a very mercurial personality. Doesn’t that concern you?’"

how much did google pay to slip an entire magazine of corporate propaganda into this weekend's @irishtimes.com newspaper disguised as public communication about AI

sounds like they stuck the landing on the program www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/n...

Sinclair can’t even air a Charlie Kirk tribute—because of woke

As with so many cases of the “Palestine exception” to free speech, Khalil’s detention was treated by much of the media as being implicitly justified by baseless accusations of antisemitism against him. theintercept.com/2025/09/19/j...

Ezra Klein 🤝 Neera Tanden Despite the overwhelming popularity of abortion rights in all states, we should surrender instead

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

A man caged by ICE was found dead in his cell inside a Long Island jail 18 hours after arriving there.

Starbucks says surveillance clears an employee who’d been accused of writing “Loser” on a cup when someone ordered Charlie Kirk’s “favorite drink.” The accusation was originally posted by a Republican party official. It forced the store to shut down for safety. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/19/v...

The same fear, miscalculations, and hostility to free speech that informed coverage of Khalil are now resulting in corporate media censorship of its own on-air personalities.

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.

Deportation would be a far more dangerous and brutal consequence of speech the White House doesn’t like than a suspension from late night hosting duties.

This is what it looks like when ICE violates our First Amendment rights.

I'm at @theintercept.com this morning with an essay on Mahmoud Khalil, Jimmy Kimmel, and the failures of corporate media in Trump's second term.

this isn't complicated, cancel culture is when you make people on the right feel bad for the things they say or companies enforcing their user policies, the full power of the federal government coming against your free speech is totally different

Jared and Ivanka are quietly frustrated

This is ofc a far greater attack on free speech than Kimmel going off the air

Kimmel comments were banal lib bait. He didn’t even really make a joke and the way he framed it was far more careful and boring than a lot of other people did. That makes this worse imo

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

The tech billionaire assault on media is really paying off. The institutions are all so weak they can’t stand up for themselves at all—tbc much of this is their own fault—and now a despotic regime is tightening the screws.

Banger of an essay

NEW: A movement is growing to ignite a 'techno industrial renaissance' in the U.S. Its harnessing relationships with MAGA heavyweights and Big Tech honchos to make that a reality. Gift link: www.inc.com/sam-blum/mee...

Adam Jentleson stands for nothing—and he wants the Democrats to follow that model

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

the tech VC takeover of American media continues

struggling to cash in, how sad

I think it’s great that young people want to enter a journalism career. I do think they should be older than one day tho

Starting on this book (“Mastering the Universe” by Rob Larson) then moving on to “Democrats: A Critical History.” Wrapping up this little three-book series with “Owned” by @eoinhiggins.bsky.social

Folks, I know things are a little bit crazy right now, but Lindsey Adler’s fluffy goofball Fisher was involved in a bad situation today and is facing some serious medical care and bills. Anything to help would be extremely extremely appreciated. All the money goes to Fish. gofund.me/db767a303

everyone mourns in their own way

10:51 AM: The hecklers veto is censorship 11:04 AM: Speech isn’t free from consequence like embarrassment Guess which one of these is left coded and which is right coded in context

INSIDE STEPHEN MILLER’S REIGN OF TERROR My first print mag feature with the wonderful @swin24.bsky.social and @andrewperez.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Anything is possible but don’t you think that if there was a real link to trans people/libs/the left that this administration and the FBI would have come out with it already?

OUT NOW: @michaelehayden.bsky.social and I made one of our “Who the Hell?” episodes for Charlie Kirk to counter the gross revisionism and lies in mainstream press. We covered how he died and how he lived — honestly Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4Pxo...

oh well, onward and upward

Interesting promo email this morning