The Podcasting Industrial Complex Is Maturing Podcasting is no longer a scrappy little industry of hobbyists, it's gone mainstream and is evolving.

Nearly 7 million views for ABC's official YouTube video of Kimmel's 28-minute monologue overnight. It is already the most-viewed Kimmel clip of the year on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

What's at stake in this election? Fairly-drawn voting maps, our right to collectively bargain, fair funding for public schools, and much, much more. Check your voter registration now --> Vote.org buckscountybeacon.com/2025/09/the-...

Good. https://www.theverge.com/news/783507/eu-regulators-apple-google-microsoft-online-scams

Fully agree -the question is Are @peertube and @loops and any #atproto video solution up to the task? Hope so. https://podcastindex.social/@js/115254741072473252

So Elon has known is father was sexually abusing children for decades and has done virtually nothing about it. Sounds about right. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

The Secret Service said it dismantled a massive network of electronics in the New York City area that investigators believe was used to threaten U.S. officials and was capable of cyberattacks that could knock out large sections of cellular communications.

Trump making Gadaffi's UN speech look normal.

Trade deals coming along nicely. 🇧🇷

B.I.N.G.O!

"I have friends everywhere" is kinda the perfect rallying cry on about 3 levels.

As of writing, here are current actions to spread the boycott (use #BoycottDisneyABC): ❌ Do not stream/watch these shows: Monday Football, Dancing w. the Stars, 9-1-1, Golden Bachelor ❌ Cancel your Disney+ subscription ❌ Contact advertisers to have them drop […] [Original post on channel.org]

All eyes on John Oliver tonight.

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.

Meet the Press put together a clip of Trump vowing in January to "bring back free speech to America," followed by him saying last Friday that negative coverage of him is "no longer free speech"

Reporters, this is when you ask him what day it is. And how to spell his name. Have him count backwards. Just see how that all turns out.

"We’re Walling Off The Open Internet To Stop AI—And It May End Up Breaking Everything Else" This is a very interesting analysis from @mmasnick.bsky.social. www.techdirt.com/2025/09/08/w...

SCHUMER: I hope and pray that that Trump will sit down with us and negotiate BASH: And if he doesn't, I'm just confirming that you'll vote no. Is that correct? SCHUMER: We are hoping that he will negotiate with us BASH: And if he doesn't? SCHUMER: We must get a better bill than what they have

Ah so it's not just Larry Ellison and Marc Andreessen, but the Murdochs too? Remember how the Democrats went all in supporting this idea based on a moral panic? Any of them want to admit they fucked up?

I beg of you, please, do not make me have to defend Bill Maher from government censorship

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.

Remember, courts have already rejected Trump's claim that Venezuelan refugees coming to the US were an "invasion" and an act of war sent by Maduro. But Trump doesn't care about reality. He just needs to (1) create fear and (2) have someone to bully.

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

To recap, Trump signed a proclamation saying that after midnight tonight, no one with an H-1B visa may enter the US unless they have paid $100,000. However, anonymous White House officials are saying it doesn't apply to people with current H-1B visas — yet there is NO official guidance! None!

Look at academia giving me a little hope

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

Trump said he’d lower costs. In reality, his reckless tariffs are driving grocery prices higher.

Social media sites exacerbate hateful and divisive rhetoric that is fracturing our democracy. We need rules of the road to ensure Big Tech doesn’t profit from inciting violence.

A story in three acts.

It’s oddly comforting when people who push deeply immoral public policy are shown to be horrible people generally. Like, it would be unsettling if Homan were a straight arrow who paid for operations for orphans.

If you're a cable host interviewing Tom Homan, at the very least you need to ask him about accepting bribes to influence government contracts. Or -- hear me out -- you could wordlessly pull a thick envelope from your coat pocket and slide it to him across the table with a stage wink.

AOC responds to the Tom Homan story.

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

TikTok will be co-owned by China and Trump allies, Paramount was sold to a pro-Trump billionaire who's also set to buy Warner Bros, X is owned by an apartheid-bred fascist, WaPo and Meta are owned by Trump-cowering billionaires, and Murdoch owns the Fox empire. Here's why media has a liberal bias.

As the Trump administration is expected to add a $100,000 fee for H-1B visas, here's what we know about H1-B visas www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... 🧵

One person familiar with the federal investigation said that “thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

The US operations of TikTok will be majority-owned and controlled by Americans under a deal reached this week, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

Just a reminder that Brendan Carr wrote a chapter of Project 2025, even though that violates the law which prohibits gov't officials from using their positions for political advocacy like that. www.techdirt.com/2024/07/23/f...

My non-work project this morning is figuring out alternative ways for my kids to stream Bluey. Since we'll be canceling our Disney+ subscription now. I know I'm not the only parent doing this.

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

Yes. Yes it is. #ABC #JimmyKimmel

Apple’s new AirPods are one of the strongest examples yet of how artificial intelligence can be used in a seamless, practical way to improve people’s lives, Brian X. Chen, who covers consumer technology for The New York Times, writes. nyti.ms/41Uy3zC

Neera Tanden explains how Dem prevail in GOP shutodwn open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

This is just astonishingly bad.

A federal judge's mild ruling in the Justice Department's suit over Google's search engine monopoly has critics worried that the tech giant can now monopolize artificial intelligence.

The president signed an order earlier this week to send Tennessee state National Guard troops, along with officials from various federal departments and agencies, into Memphis, in an effort to fight crime. It's one of several U.S. cities Trump has singled out for such a move.

Obama: We have to recognize that on both sides there are people who are extremists  But I will say that those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the government behind extremist views.