I think it REALLY important to distinguish the parts to the Jimmy Kimmel show. The content was paid for and released. Kimmel will use it to grow his YouTube channel so he can bypass future censorship. But he's not ON the airwaves in many places. The fight is nowhere near done BUT

Writing a post on Discount Goebbels. Was the "Eating cats and dogs" moment last year: An effective dog-blowhorn for the racists Miller needed to energize? A near-disaster for the Trump campaign? Just another of Trump's gaffes we've become numb to?

In this scenario NVIDIA would set up an entity to buy its own GPUs and then lease them to OpenAI. This isn’t exactly what Enron did, but it’s sure getting close!

It's less viral, but he's also good at interviews where he doesn't absolutely obliterate someone. It's like getting a call from someone who is a professional chef but also an MMA fighter inviting you to "a thing at a warehouse" on a Tuesday night. Maybe it's food. Maybe you're getting choked out.

Donald Trump's Crypto & AI Czar already has HUGE conflicts of interest. Now, he could be overstaying the clear time limit of his role so he can keep influencing crypto policy. We're launching an investigation into yet another example of possible Trump admin corruption.

"In March, the authorities in Haiti hired foreign military contractors to operate armed drones to target gangs that terrorize the capital, Port-au-Prince. The contractors work for a company owned by Erik Prince, a prominent supporter of President Trump." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/u...

Let's combine the fact that the UN said someone directly in front of Trump shut off the escalator and that yesterday he effectively blamed women for autism. 🤔

I think it's right that the order for prosecutions of Trump's allies is worse (though he did the same in the first term). On Homan, though, it's totally unsurprising given that Bondi is covering for all of TRUMP's own bribery in plain sight.

A giant SIM farm in the NY area with 100,000 SIMs was most likely used for spam/scams and even swatting US officials—which led the feds to find and dismantle it. (Speculation it was going to be used to attack the the UN General Assembly seems like...a bit of a leap.) www.wired.com/story/sim-fa...

Obituary: Libertarianism, 13, Dies in Argentina Chainsaw Accident www.thenerdreich.com/libertariani...

Last week @repdexteror.bsky.social noted that jailing one of her constituents had cost tax payers $15K. Which explains why people are dying in custody; GEO gets paid to keep them there. Which raises more questions about Tom Homan's bribe.

Someone cleverly switched off the escalator in the UN building just to mess with Trump as soon as he arrived.

This is a really great piece on the import of shame.

Two things abt Trump's temporarily dismissed lawsuit v NYT escaped notice: 1) Trump DIDN'T contest the most damning things in a @peterbakernyt.bsky.social article cited. 2) Trump asked for $5B more than he did last year, claiming his brand value has ballooned. www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/23/d...

Donald Trump Wants a $5 Billion Premium for Confessing His Weaponization Claims Are Bullshit www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/23/d...

This helped me see all sides of it and realize some small, but important blind spots. It’s about 16 min in length but very worth it. @emptywheel.bsky.social is a must follow imo.

Trump was standing less than a mile from the Bergdorf Goodman department store where he sexually assaulted @ejeancarroll.bsky.social when he said this.

Sometimes it's weird to live in a country where the govt can just ... do good things.

Since Trump babbled to the UN about how safe DC is now, WaPo had this report on a recent shooting. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

So the SIMs were used to swat people in govt. No mention IN HERE of China. Also, say, are we ever going to learn where those bomb threats during the election were called in from? edition.cnn.com/2025/09/23/u...

This is best story by far about the SIM farm uncovered in New York by Secret Service. The intent of the farm is not, as suggested by other stories, to disrupt Secret Service protection of dignitaries attending the UN or taking out mobile service for all NY but about managing criminal enterprises

RFK Jr: The Amish don't have autism The Amish:

Welp, time to win the shutdown. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tx5...

A reminder that Antifa panic was created by Microchip, who pled guilty to attempting to get Hillary voters to text their votes in 2016 and who also described helping to make the John Podesta files go viral by creating bullshit controversy.

FUN FACT: Autism was first diagnosed at least 40 years before Tylenol was created.

I'm not the first to notice the reinvention of @wired.com from mouthpiece of tech ideology to showing everyone else how to do journalism today, but this cover is something else. The inclusion of their own hagiographic covers in the back is a nod to that shift, which is beautiful. Also…

How to lose a government shutdown If you expect Chuck Schumer to save us, who's the fool?

Multiple people protected by Secret Service who are still US officials but who have privacy concerns. (They would tell us if it were Trump, bc Narcissism.) Located 35 miles from UN in abandoned apartment buildings, described to be in tri-state area.

On what basis does the Secret Service speculate that this apparent communications system MIGHT be used to crash a cell network? Who would do this? Why? Does USSS know? Or not? And why announce this investigation now, in mid-stream? Bad way to protect its integrity. Good way to alert bad guys.

As you consider Bessent's one-two punch Bessent -- first bailing out Milei only to have Argentina replace America's soybeans in China -- remember that Bessent owns a ton of North Dakota land. Bessent's policies are likely to lead his "neighbors" to get foreclosed. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...

Libertarian until you need the government to bail you out

Yesterday, Scott Bessent announced the US would bail out Javier Milei's Argentina. Today, China announced a huge soybean purchase from Argentina, extending its replacement of American crops for South American crops. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Reminder that Mahmoud Khalil is still being deported for his 1A protected speech.

The bot has become self aware.

Donald Trump: Don't call us fascists. Also Donald Trump: I'm declaring opposition to fascism terrorism (unlawfully).

In an ideal world, all the people writing, "Prosecutors are under pressure to charge Trump's enemies" would mention John Durham and Hunter Biden. Treating those as normal prosecutions was part of what got us here.

Now that everyone has had a chance to "grieve" hoping the undocumented Polish workers who built Trump's Tower and some historians of slavery send Stephen Miller some lessons about who built the things he claims to love.

It's genuinely exciting that Sinclair has decided to make themselves visible.

Designating Antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization” is legally meaningless. But ominous. Designating narcos as “terrorists organizations” didn’t authorize use of force, but nonetheless paved the way for lethal strikes in the Caribbean on “terrorists.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Lefty pundits got what they wanted: A likely government shutdown. Time for everyone to commit to win the shutdown. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7e5...

I keep saying, this guys numbers are TERRIBLE, he is VULNERABLE...now is the time for people to push back against Trumpism

I will write more tomorrow. The lawyers will write more tomorrow. But naming the non-group Antifa as a terrorist group is not what, legally, Trump claims to be doing.

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

This is correct. To the extent there is an actual "antifa" it is a loose network of anarchist collectives that have no meaningful funding or "traditional" organizational infrastructure. This is about scaring rich people and foundations away from supporting any activism that actually works

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MAGA's Horst Wessel Moment: Using Charlie Kirk's Murder to Advance Authoritarianism MAGA is using the murder of Charlie Kirk to mobilize their cult & incite hate against all their critics, but the majority is fighting back with our voice and money. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

Marcy is right. Disney wants the bleeding to stop. They will say what they need to now to make it happen. What will Nexstar & Sinclair do? Were THEY in the talks with Kimmel? What about the institutional investors? Is there a stipulation in the deal about what Kimmel can or can't say?

We don't even know if this is just for him to point out that the far right totally did what he said they were doing.