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Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air after our government threatened a private company with retaliation, marking a dark moment for free speech in our nation. More than 400 artists across our nation signed on to say: We refuse to be silenced by those in power.

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

I have no idea how law students are supposed take seriously anything they learn in constitutional law when the Supreme Court's entire approach to precedent and stare decisis is just "does Mister Trump want us to overturn it right now" ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

Eggsy and Jimmi were both just excited to see the neighbor’s cat (who came by for treats) but for some reason the pic ended up looking like a scene in an 80s movie where the nerd shows up with flowers and the girl he loves is already on a date with someone else

Francis: George, please help me, my grandchildren are making fun of me because I named one of my characters Wow Platinum. Is it really that bad? George: Francis, I’m going to be honest with you… Francis: Yes? George: It’s the best name I’ve ever heard in my life. (They hug)

YOU FUCKING KNOW IT FUCK YEAH

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

Notably and unusually, neither Fox News or Newsmax is carrying Trump's autism press conference live

@alexanderchee.bsky.social I am at a formalwear outlet looking at cheap suits and I am currently checking out their selection of pre-owned tuxedo shirts and… 🧐

This got me good. Scroll down, skip the into and go straight to the story - I think it's better to read the commentary after.

You ever read something that makes you feel like a complete child in your efforts?

Everything is awful right now but reading this for the first time last night was awesome and I recommend doing the same if you need a boost. 5 min read

happy first day of fall

The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

Just a friendly reminder that in the mid-80s, Knorr (the powdered soup and gravy company) had a weird scarecrow mascot made of vegetables.

Donald Westlake kept taped above his desk a card that read “Weird Villain,” because he had trouble spelling both words.

Note: Stealth NYT edit. (Thanks to the eagle-eyed reader who saw that!)

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

A day in Toho heaven

Jesus Christ

under trump i made $75k/yr, under biden i made $200k/yr and bought a house, under trump i make $100k a decade older and more senior than when i made $75k and i work in manufacturing, which bidenomics surged and which trump tariffs are trying to destroy

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

They abandoned the whole free speech thing as soon as people started saying things that genuinely offended them. It wasn’t that they were so tolerant that they accepted nazi talk as a necessary evil to protect speech writ large, they just liked saying and hearing slurs bsky.app/profile/jame...

In private conversations in recent years, Trump has referenced the opening scene of the de Palma movie SCARFACE in discussing his claims that foreign governments are nowadays loading caravans and what not with criminally insane & violent people; no I’m not kidding

Trump and Vance’s contradictory messages on these killings: 1: Our glorious military carried out hyper-precise attacks on dastardly drug smugglers. 2: If you’re an innocent fisherman, watch out because we might kill you by mistake!

POV: you are me and you have cheese

#birds #photography A Man Feeding Swans in the Snow in Krakow. A killer photograph by Marcin Ryczek.

imo a fair conclusion to draw about dem leadership's obstinance in the face of revolt from their voters is that they'd rather win an intra-party fight with their left wing & their own voters than maximize potential electoral gains in the midterms

OUT: leap days IN: 278-day February every 1000 years

If the Grinch was red... well I don't really like to think about that

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

They like Trump and want to help him

Both guys with extremely in-character views on what growing up in Irvine was like:

All hail the best patent drawing ever

Dear Jeffrey,

her name couldn’t really be WILL OBEY

Happy they're speaking out now. Wish they would have don it 8 months ago. Feels far, far too late.

Anyone who agrees to this is not a journalist

Reading about the origins of the name “the big apple” and holy shit

The media landscape in future America must feature credible, relatable, interesting local news for normal people, and it must be robust enough to meet them where they are: reading, listening, or watching (or whatever fourth thing youths are doing these days). We need an oasis for every news desert.

I would call this “consciousness of guilt” in an eventual domestic trial or international war crimes tribunal.

"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" is a great line

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A new party! How does he come up with these brilliant and original ideas?

My nephew called me “unc.” It’s over

the department in my town that handles parks and trails and pools and stuff is called "Leisure Services" which kicks ass imho

Obsolete Joke: An American tells a Russian that people in USA have the freedom of speech and that he even could go to the White House and shout: "Go to hell, Ronald Reagan!" The Russian answers: "Oh, we also have freedom of speech. I, too, can go to Kremlin and shout:" Go to hell, Ronald Reagan!"