I stand with my fellow journalists being targeted for doing their jobs. I hope media companies will do everything in their power to support their employees, especially those who are most vulnerable to attacks. freedom.press/issues/nonci...

Letter of recommendation: Make a deep skillet of your favorite taco or burrito filling, cover it with cheese and broil the lot of it until lightly charred and gooey on top, then scoop it up with tortilla chips. Repeat as needed, which will be often. smittenkitchen.com/2024/05/blac...

Kinda want to see a sample of Kash Patel's handwriting for no reason right now

people are starting to speak up about the Argentina bailout

Thread of the Day 🥇

Trump’s crazy speech at the UN exemplified his administration’s approach to the world. The lies, insults, and threats are not some negotiating tactic, it’s how America operates now: lawless and anti-cooperation instead of leading. I joined @gregsargent.bsky.social on the Daily Blast to discuss:

‘We Know Better’: Experts Watch in Horror As Trump Admin Hides Record of Right-Wing Violence talkingpointsmemo.com/news/we-know...

By the way, this is also why Project 2025 seeks to do so many things that corrode the sources of American power, wealth, and influence. The Christian Nationalists know they'll lose the culture war unless they can destroy science, education, public health, public investments to infrastructure, etc.

Ric Grenell, Kennedy Center president, organized a claque of Republicans to heckle a musician critical of Trump. It's like junior high school www.washingtonian.com/2025/09/23/l...

Hillary Clinton: "When I hear people like Kennedy talking about getting back to a time where we aren't vaccinating, we're drinking raw milk - yeah, & people didn't live! I mean, this is so crazy, it's so wrongheaded, it's so shortsighted and it's going to cause deaths... it already is costing lives"

I’ve said it before, will doubtless say it again: These folks are going to be permanently resentful because they’re seeking political power as a substitute for cultural power, and it’s never going to give them what they actually want.

Trump/MAGA are trying to gaslight us into believing that anti-Jimmy Kimmel America is vast and deep, that MAGA's grip on the culture is unshakable, that mobilization is futile. But this episode has demonstrated the opposite. Let's not forget it. Thoughts on this: newrepublic.com/article/2008...

Trump's explosion of rage last night over ABC's reinstatement of Jimmy Kimmel shouldn't be greeted with fear and weepy hand-wringing. It should be seen as a sign that his authoritarian designs are running into very deep resistance and that he's weak and losing on many fronts.

Dude. Have you noticed they seem to see through the various kinds of propaganda bullshit smokescreens that get blown online? I'm sure my sample is skewed, but GenZ and GenAlapha might be better immunized against the kinds of trivial bot-fueled social media nonsense that fueled QAnon/MAGA.

Probably just natural selection in action; an entire childhood of exposure to TikTok "challenges" like, "eat a teaspoon of cinnamon" and "eat a Tide pod™" has thinned the herd. 🧐🤔😜🤣

Trump's collaborators work hard to hide his bad faith, and long as they do, his lies keep their hold on us. But make them feel the heat of public anger – make them understand the clock is ticking – then their behavior changes. With that, Trump’s power wanes. www.editorialboard.com/kimmels-come...

I'm not sure what's going on, but this year's freshman class is giving me ... what was that word ... hope? They're energized and excited, they're doing the reading and doing it well, they're asking great questions and offering smart answers too. Is this just me or are others seeing it?

Sounds silly to say Jimmy Kimmel’s TV show was an important fight to have, and a significant victory, but it’s true. The regime’s resources are limited. Make things harder for them anywhere they push. They’re pretending they have more power than they do. Symbolic losses like this undermine that.

One thing we've learned in the last 12 hours: The Sinclair-Nexstar ban on Kimmel, in terms of his reach, means nothing in an era when late-night shows have an afterlife or simultaneous life on streaming. Kimmel's average audience is 1.6M. On YouTube, last night's monologue is already at 8.4M views.

From invaluable @calmatters.org, funding update for Calif Prop 50. "Support" lets CA gerrymander to offset TX -"Support" has 100x more "small-dollar" money -Nearly all "oppose" money comes from one person: Charles Munger Jr, like DJT a princeling heir Vote YES calmatters.org/california-v...

What do mermaids and marines have in common? The parts 'mer-' and 'mar-' of these words have the same origin: the Proto-Indo-European word *mori, meaning "large body of water". It has descendants in many languages, including the Germanic, Romance, Slavic and Celtic languages. Click for more: 1/

We had the first Flash Rapture™ and there was so much other crazy shit going on that nobody noticed. Traditionally The Rapture events are driven by a grifting cult leader like Harold Camping and take years to mature. This one happened in a handful of days and appears to have arisen on TikTok.

When you have an administration that so constantly, shamelessly, openly lies, pretty soon there’s no faith in any information streams coming from the administration, so there’s no way to convey true information in a way that lands right, which leads to more chaos.

BREAKING A federal judge found it "appears ... that multiple employees of the Department of Justice may have violated" local rules in SDNY guaranteeing Luigi Mangione's right to a fair trial. Full order here storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Imagine it's 2002 and you're sitting around watching the Man Show and a time traveler appears in the room and tells you about the past 48 hours

Hillary Clinton unloads about RFK Jr. and Donald Trump, warning about the danger they pose to America’s health.

The Democrats should begin building a case for law and order -- for restoring the equal and moral administration of justice. Do it now, as Trump’s power grab reaches a tipping point. Promise to hold accountable anyone tempted to break the law in his name. www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/23/i...

[The White House removed official transcripts of Trump’s remarks from its website in May, claiming it was part of an effort to “maintain consistency”.] All the better to hide his ongoing mental decline. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

GOOD NEWS! For the first time ever, Huntington's disease has been successfully treated. A groundbreaking new miRNA treatment, AMT-130, slowed the progression of the disease by 75%. These results are likely to support the first approval of a genetic treatment for the rare neurodegenerative condition.

Leadership is a characteristic of an individual. It is NOT a position to which somebody can be appointed.

RFKJr is going to keep this from you, too. It's a good thing mRNA treatments escaped containment before he became HHS sec'y.

There's a lot going on, but this weird story about the Secret Service finding a bunch of fake cell phones at several locations in New York City near the United Nations is worthy of some of our attention. #NatSec #InfoSec Information security *is* national security.

Why Won’t Farmers Rebel Against Trumponomics? Because They’re Rich. The majority of “family farmers” aren’t working-class strivers. They’re affluent, politically connected businessmen who know when their next bailout is coming.

whoa. Every single one of the Sinclair advert buyers on this list is automotive or automotive related (insurance). That is one aspect of the power in our society held by car companies that I haven't seen studied enough.

Kimmel's return felt like a win, because it was. And it felt different because Kimmel and others were talking about a fundamental — perhaps the fundamental — American right: The right to disagree. To speak. To write. To make jokes about people in power. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

to me, the “column” is less a form than an opportunity (and a challenge). you’re telling me i have as much space as i’d like to make an argument about anything i’d like to an audience inclined to pay close attention? well let’s see if they’ll read 2000 words on democratic legitimacy. (gift link)

“Trump and his allies are not just making a claim of overweening presidential authority; they are making a bid to transform American government itself. …they are trying to redefine the 2024 presidential election into something wholly new, an enabling act for presidential dictatorship.” It was not.

Dear @sangernyt.bsky.social: Instead of relying on what “news organizations consider,” report it straight: the proposed rules set out by the Department of Defense under Secretary Pete Hegseth seeking to establish new constraints on journalists are *unconstitutional*.

Statues of President Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein on the National Mall show the First Amendment continues to be upheld in one of our most sacred civic spaces for freedom of speech, expression, association, & the press. (I spoke with a Washington Post reporter about what this means.)

Welp, I was wrong about it staying up. The removal of this satiric statue by the Park Police early this morning without cause now showed how the First Amendment is not being upheld. Freedom of speech is under dire threat in the USA. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

I thought: of course they removed some guerrilla monument. But: they had a permit through the weekend.

Conversation of the Day 🥇

Whatever the conman from Mar a Lago said to Senator Lindsay Graham on the golf course that prompted his 180° turn must have been really quite persuasive. ⛳️ thehill.com/homenews/sen...

a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...

For my birthday next year I’m going to have all my friends create drawings, letters, and poems that make us all look like huge creeps and compile them into a book. It’s very normal and NOT weird.

Hillary Clinton: "Good lord -- the things that have been said about me, the lies that have been propagated. If I had only known I could call up the FCC chair and say, 'Take this person off the air! Off with his head!' You have to laugh about it so you don't cry."

"Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative.” Bowing down to a bully never works. And we can’t become numb to this corruption in plain sight.

Schrödinger's Shooter exists as both a deranged leftist motivated by dangerous rhetoric AND as a misunderstood troubled youth who needed Jesus until the waveform collapses

Bankrupted from a ransomware attack. The bad guys guessed a password. thehackernews.com/2025/09/how-...

"Power to the people, with ice cream at midnight! Taste it and see. Not everything in the world is going to hell." 🎞️🎞️ www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...