Have a feeling this is not going to end well for anyone.

BREAKING: Starbucks just announced a $1 billion restructuring and will close 59 unionized stores — nearly 10% of union locations. It includes the Roastery in Seattle, one of its busiest shops. CEO Brian Niccol made $100 million in four months last year.

The people “enforcing” immigration law under this administration understand what their real job is but we’re all supposed to pretend it’s something else

I really wish people would stop talking about autistic people (like me!) as a “risk” instead of a neutral and naturally occurring subset of humanity who get born mostly because other autistic people exist in our bloodline. It’s really exhausting. We’re human and ✨can hear you.✨

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This Day in Labor History: September 23, 1891. A battle broke out in Lee County, Arkansas, in the Mississippi Delta, between members of the Colored Farmers Alliance and others, both black and white, who opposed their organizing for better wages in cotton picking. Let's talk about this complex time!

"I remember, in 1933, when Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor, how the masses cheered. But we were not among them. We knew that they meant what they said. We had to do something, we couldn't just stay silent. But we also knew, that it can cost us our heads." www.youtube.com/watch?v=PATk...

My grandpa was a proud member of ANTIFA.

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you… Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest. The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

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.

open.substack.com/pub/houseofm... Wrote about the radical act of returning to one's body in a digital age designed to detach us from them.

we aren’t going to be able to make up for what they’re stealing from people who need it. but setting up a recurring donation—whatever you can afford—to your local food bank is one of the easiest & most effective ways to help people in your community. find one near you:

What are the names of the U.S. Navy officers carrying out these orders to serially bomb civilian boats that pose no threat to their own vessels, killing everyone aboard? Surely they’ll want to take personal credit for this honorable service and perhaps wear a little campaign medal on their chest.

🚨 ‼️ big big yikes on this

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

HIM (movie) is so fucking good and with respect. everyone I see saying it’s dumb is dumb 😘 But maybe I’m one of the few that thinks “Holy Mountain but make it football” while putting the middle finger up is like, peak cinema. Instant favorite. Fucking loved everything about it.

"If standing up against fascism is what cost me my dream job I held for 10 years, I would do it again 100x stronger."

The hypocrisy from Trump's FCC Chair is staggering but unsurprising. It should be clear by now that to MAGA, protecting freedom of speech was always secondary to wielding the power to punish anyone who questions this regime.

Why does his face look like that. Why is he giving Bitcoin to the state capitol. Like this is a biting political art installation and you are telling me it’s being sincere? This isn’t like Bansky or Indecline or something?

They’re in this for the book deals and fancy parties not telling the truth. And it shows.

I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi. This is *not* normal. I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.

Liberalism and especially democrats are too trusting of the media. And the constant pleading to the media to “do better” after what we’ve experienced from the Gore campaign to Iraq and up to now sounds fucking clueless. It’s got to goddamned end.

Now that my “defeatism is bad” post has gotten enough “no, defeatism is good” and “how can you say that everything is fine” replies, I’m muting it. I don’t think it’s hard to hold both “bad, and will almost certainly get worse” and “not all-powerful, nor forever” in your head at the same time.

Btw very important to say that the FCC has not at all said what Kimmel said that was so objectionable! This is classic chilling effect - there are no rules so everyone stops talking www.theverge.com/news/780471/...

We all need to scream that the emperor has no clothes right now. And we need to do it loudly and cussedly and in strategic relationship with each other. Because they are TELLING US what scares them most, right now. And it is unapologetic truth-telling.

Back when I was in college and wrote for the school newspaper I wrote a whole thing about the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which eliminated media ownership restrictions, and how that was going to fuck us over forever and people were like "Dan, I dunno this is an art school," well eat shit fuckos.

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

While you still can, if you’re asking “who’s Sinclair?” John Oliver has you covered:

Checking in on this

genuinely crazy that this is happening on behalf of charlie kirk of all people

Imagine if Jimmy Kimmel had said that we should get together and bail Tyler Robinson out because he's a true patriot. But that's what Kirk said about Pelosi's attacker! Vance Boelter got interviews on Blaze! Trump pardons J6ers! You cannot in good faith compare this.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

If you're still pretending that the Republican Party has the slightest interest in democracy, or the Constitution, you're either a complete imbecile or you're working with them.

Coates nails it with the Lost Cause analogy. "The rewriting and the ignoring were done not just by Confederates, but also by putative allies for whom the reduction of Black people to serfdom was the unfortunate price of white unity."

this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers

@archive.org preserved the original study, which you can find here. web.archive.org/web/20250911...

This happened in the Free Speech circle where students gather to discuss & debate. I went to Tech during the run up to the Iraq war & I spent hours in this spot & some convos I had there I remember to this day cause they changed me forever. It’s called FREE SPEECH CIRCLE.

Story after story about how it's shocking Charlie Kirk's accused murderer could have done what he did when he grew up with such a great family. His family took him to gun shows, bought him a gun, and encouraged him to learn how to get good at shooting guns, which is why he succeeded at murder.

I do understand what everyone is saying about this, but please also understand the problem alone isn’t that he liked to be on the computer, the problem is he was raised in an IRL culture that is hollow and empty and valued guns and consumerism & kids will fill the void & this is not a new problem.

This is the way. You cannot hover and police kids you have to raise them in a way so by the time they are around this shit they won’t be a part of it. It’s starts from birth. You have to teach your kids! Inoculate them against mental poison. Raise them to be able to stand up & speak out.

No better time to post Hunter S. Thompson on 9/12/2001. www.espn.com/espn/page2/s...

In the blurring of memory that comes with time, it will fall on historians to point out that the deployment of the military to cities, the disappearances of student activists and immigrants, and the federal takeovers of policing all *preceeded*, not followed, the death of a demagogue.

We must end the scourge of gun violence in America. We also need to have honest conversations about the ways internet platforms profit from fear, hatred, and division. Both are vital to the future of this country.

This is also the exact vibe of Charlie Kirk obituaries. Nary a mention of how he said he’d hypothetically force his daughter to deliver her rapist’s baby at age 10

From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!) Receipts: zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...