The East Village is hootin and hollerin

Fox News has “corrected” a piece about videos of Black women complaining about losing SNAP benefits, finally pointing out that they were AI-generated. Since these videos don’t involve real people, I imagine there’s little liability for so-called “news outlets” reporting racist AI propaganda as fact.

CBS News has reportedly disbanded its race and culture unit, which was formed in the wake of George Floyd's murder in 2020 NBC News eliminated its editorial teams for NBC Asian America, NBC BLK, NBC Latino and NBC OUT earlier this month

Donald Trump's masked agents believe that their actions are immune from investigation or accountability — they're not. I've signed an Executive Order today establishing the Illinois Accountability Commission to create a public record and capture the impact on our communities.

I was already really sad about Diane Keaton passing but I looked at her upcoming projects on IMDb and there were some great projects in the works for her. What a loss.

Like it’s not even ranking as a crisis that we’re murdering Venezuelans at sea these days.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

I love that we live in a world where we're all supposed to now praise Trump for his peace-making and ignore the fact that at least 20,000 Palestinians have been killed on his watch, with bombs & bullets - & rhetorical support! - that he supplied to Israel. That's all erased now.

The number of believe it is established fact that the democrats are trying to save healthcare for undocumented immigrants (not their phrase) is truly frightening.

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

whoever runs for president in 2028 on the campaign slogan of "transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place" has my vote tbh

at this point you have to acknowledge that there is no way that these guys don't try to mess with the 2026 midterms. there is absolutely no respect for the legitimacy of the opposition

Even before this latest gutting by Trump, the US has never supported the arts like our traditional allies. And it shows. And now look! It turns out when artists are supported in creating art, the economy thrives. Thank you Ireland.

Trump withholding federal funding for the Hudson Tunnels to punish his political opponents is a blatantly illegal action that threatens nearly one hundred thousand working class jobs, wastes taxpayers money, and damages the safety and economic wellbeing of our nation.

“Fuck you make me” is the energy I’m here for

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This is absolutely true. If the NYT covered this the way they covered trans care, you all would finally understand what dangerous shit their trans care coverage has been.

If Roy Cohn and Joseph Goebbels had a secret love child, Stephen Miller

Once again.

So Kimmel gets fired for supposedly misidentifying the shooter as MAGA (though that’s not quite what he said.) When do all the Fox hosts who misidentified the shooter as transgender get fired then?

Resistance ramps up inside CA's newest ICE prison "Yesterday, over 100 immigrants detained at the California City ICE Detention Center launched a peaceful collective action, including sit-ins and meal refusals, to protest severe abuse and neglect." www.ccijustice.org/post/retalia...

Disney and ABC need to feel serious consequences for their collaboration with Trump and MAGA in censoring Kimmel. Economic consequences. Same with the owners of CBS and other organizations that capitulate. The only thing they understand or care about are their own bottom lines.

Disney has Tron: Ares, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Rental Family, Zootopia 2, Ella McCay, Avatar: Fire and Ash, and Is This Thing On? opening this year. I hope the talent involved in these movies curtails all planned publicity until the company reverses its decision about Kimmel.

The double standards are coming from different galaxies at this point.

Just watched Lions to Lambs directed by & starring Robert Redford as well as Meryl Streep & Tom Cruise. Aside from the fact that every movie Redford directed had something vital to say about our country that is only more relevant today, why has no one else cast Tom Cruise as a politician? Genius.

*9/16/2025 noncooperation thread* "Funded by donations from the British public" - they're noncooperating across the pond, too! 2/

In his new piece--which is largely about the reaction to his last piece--Ezra Klein says that he is deeply shaken by Charlie Kirk's murder essentially because they were in the same business: They both did public politics. This is honest on his part. It's also the problem. >

We're watching them work themselves up to a nationwide pogrom and all we can do is comment sardonically.

New from me — There’s been a lot of ink spilled since Charlie Kirk's murder about the "right" way to honor his death. Getting liberals fired from their jobs and forcing devoted civil servants to resign in disgust couldn’t be a more fitting tribute to his life.

How is it that so many well paid thinkers can’t say something like, “we are categorically opposed to murder and we are opposed to everything for which Kirk stood.” I really don’t get it.

I've never thought there was a bad time to be honest about the fact that a horrible person is/was horrible. But after this week's whitewashing of Kirk by the media and political commentariat, it feels not just permissible but essential to fight both sentimentality and dishonesty at top volume.

Watch the wall to wall coverage end now that the call is coming from inside the house. Alas. Onward.

He was right even if the shooter was a communist.

who won the Vietnam war, I’m having trouble remembering

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

They absolutely feel like they are completely beyond accountability and that there will never be anything that can touch them. People who don't think they will ever answer for their crimes are more dangerous than anything.

Standing in front of the U.S. Capitol, a group of eight survivors shared emotional stories of abuse and demanded more transparency from Congress on the government's investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

And, speaking of Epstein buddies, no one puts it better than @jefftiedrich.bsky.social

I just checked @nytimes.com and there’s not a peep about the fact that the president had a scheduled appearance half an hour ago that hasn’t happened. After days of speculation about his health. What would they be doing if this were Biden???

Someone please kill me right now.

Top four stories on the Atlantic right now. Tell me again how they have their finger on the pulse of regular Americans’ concerns

I just scrolled through @nytimes.com main headlines and saw not one article or opinion piece about Trump’s mental health or public absence. I personally think more important things are happening but given how they hammered Biden, the double standard is appalling.

A pre-dog-walk 🧵 on the pandemic. To me, the lesson of the pandemic is a very familiar one, although as far as I can tell, no one is talking about it or learning it (which is also familiar). It's about the contrast between America's two political parties.

It’s so hard to process that we have a Presidency that is dedicated to the unchecked use of racism-driven force and authoritarianism, and could also slide into complete destabilizing chaos because somebody says something mean on the Emmys.

And with Trump openly tying deployments to his personal need for “appreciation,” this move looks far less about security and far more about authoritarianism.

Every military base in the USA has a government supermarket. They’re called commissaries. Soldiers love them.