So we’re going to get a countdown right? Because TikTok is one of the few places on the internet to find some joy currently (sorry BSKY, a lot happens here but it sure ain’t joy.)

Today, I was laid off from Cascade PBS along with my entire team and most of the newsroom. I'll have more to say, but I have loved my time as news editor alongside some of the best journalists I have ever worked with. Every time a newsroom closes, stories go with it. The silence that follows is loud

So there’s really no reason to sign back up then…

This doesn’t suddenly mean everything’s ok btw the first amendment is still very much under attack

BREAKING: Cascade PBS, which operates the website Crosscut, is laying off 19 people, reportedly including its entire news staff. In an email to staff, CEO Rob Dunlop blamed federal cuts, saying the nonprofit is "winding down our longform, written journalism."

We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes. That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.

U-turns are possible! (if we are willing to make major turns)

It’s ok guys, @schumer.senate.gov said “fuck” on Bluesky the other day he’s totally in this fight.

Verily, you cannot change the Democratic Party overnight or even in time to prevent the consolidation of fascism. BUT, you can change how they communicate in three minutes. And by gum, America would notice.

Ooohhh Chuck used the F word! What the fuck are you gonna do about it, @schumer.senate.gov?

Sinclair should absolutely be broken up. Corporate media consolidation is poison for democracy. That consolidation now fuels the fascist regime.

The media allowing Trump plausible deniability on Project 2025 during the campaign is right up there with Iraq War stenography in craven, lazy disgracefulness

Switched to “Liquid Glass” and… it’s fine? An unnecessary update, but fine.

Don’t hurt Dear Leader’s feelings

GOOD. The boycott is only just beginning. Corporate America can either side with fascism, or with the people who generate their profits. They can’t have it both ways.

Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.

I interrupt my doom-posting about American democracy to bring you this gripe about the American aviation industry: Why can’t we do like basically everywhere else in the world and assign the gate at landing based on what’s available vs it being pre-assigned, traffic jams be damned?

There was a HUGE contingent of very hacky comics who went anti-Biden/pro-Trump claiming that "woke scolds" were "canceling comedy." Feels like maybe they should be speaking up?

Kimmel will be a wake-up call for a subset of people who previously didn’t really think it was that serious. But I think we’re going to have these moments indefinitely until the fascists are no longer in power.

From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards." www.wired.com/story/uncann...

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

Man, a lot of crazy shit has happened since Epstein’s birthday letter was released a week ago Monday.

The first person who picks up the phone at your local Sinclair or Nexstar station is underpaid, ashamed, and had nothing to do with this. Ask to be transferred to the General Manager’s voicemail.

•ABC: fires Kimmel for mocking Trump •CBS: fires Colbert for mocking Trump •ABC: fires Moran for slamming Stephen Miller •MSNBC: fires Matt Dowd for saying “hateful thoughts lead to hateful actions” •FOX: Champions Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of America’s 600K homeless people

Please, please, please, independent journalists (or platform hosts, idk) I want to quickly Apple pay per article. I’ll give you $1-2 to read a single article. It will scale much faster than everybody begging for new subscribers.

One reason the West Coast is the Best Coast is that the ABC, CBS, and NBC evening newscasts run 3 hours later here and can be updated to include news that breaks after their east coast broadcasts. In Seattle, CBS and NBC had the late breaking Kimmel Muzzling story. ABC showed nothing.

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.

I don’t feel represented by anyone in government. I feel like no one is really fighting back. The entire democratic caucus in the house and senate should be speaking with one voice, but instead we have door mats @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

C’mon, you’re almost there. Waiting for one office-holding Dem to start calling for a national strike.

Beyond cancelling Kimmel's show are about 200 writers and crew members in LA who just lost their full time gig.

The way to prevent this is to get in the streets immediately. Waiting until October 18 is, in my view, foolish.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

Politics hasn't been this simple in a long time: do you think it's good for one man to exercise unchecked, arbitrary power or not. Those are the two available ideologies right now

What is to prevent Brendan Carr from canceling the licenses of affiliates who accurately report election results unfavorable to Trump? Or a scandal involving a Trump associate? Or bad economic numbers. Unbridled authoritarianism.

📣 As the Trump Regime tries to Nazify America, a reminder that FLIPPING THE HOUSE BLUE is critical to reining them in, and donations are part of achieving that. #Blue26 Reminder: Donations to "TBD" districts go to the eventual Democratic nominee. secure.actblue.com/donate/house...

reasonable elites assume that there is a bottom, that eventually this all loses steam, that the checks kick back in. but that is not the lesson of authoritarianism and its consolidation.

Just so I'm clear: TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft. TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism. Free speech, everyone.

Schumer is living in a delusion. He cannot lead an opposition party now.

For anyone who hasn’t already, it’s time to turn off legacy media. It’s over.

This is all he said.

ah, well

"Multiple execs felt that Kimmel had not actually said anything over the line, the two sources say, but the threat of Trump administration retaliation loomed." They will never learn that capitulation doesn't work. Never

We're coming up on the 10th anniversary of this Tweet. I feel like I should buy it a birthday cake.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

coates is genuinely a generational writer

Tim Walz: "I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe -- a tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras ... where are the 'don't tread on me' people?"

First of all, how you gonna split Italy 3 ways? Either way I still choose G.

Oh. Windsor Castle.