This!

About to be the family that owns TikTok.

On the principle of “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” this article fails to reach even a low bar. I mean the article — which I read three times — not just the headline. We can only conclude that the "extraordinary claims require... " principle is not in use for this protagonist.

THIS 👉

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

Good to see that nine months into what polls say is a deeply unpopular Trump second term, our political press is finally doing the work to show how voters have turned against… Kamala Harris. [deepest sigh in recorded history]

Unreal. The casual reader of this @nytimes.com hed and subhed will have no inkling whatsoever that Trump's "characterization" is wildly false and that it's a bad faith *pretext.* Time to get better at conveying the fundamentally pretextual nature of these authoritarian decrees already.

War-ravaged Portland

War ravaged Portland.

that we have built an alternate media ecosystem in which every American city is an apocalyptic hellhole - completely unmoored from reality - and the political system has collapsed to the point that the president can use this fabrication to send troops against his own citizens is a staggering failure

35% of our food crops are dependent on pollinators, yet there is still so much about bees we don’t know. The University of Illinois & USDA’s research into bee genomics will protect bees & strengthen crops that depend on pollination, benefitting both consumers and farmers.

I'm curious if they *really* want Comey testifying, under oath..?

Statement from Senator Mark Warner, ranking Dem on Senate intelligence committee

A federal grand jury in Virginia has indicted James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, a culmination of President Trump’s relentless effort to exact retribution for investigating his 2016 presidential campaign over possible ties to Russia While the charges www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

“Calling the government’s authoritarian attacks on free speech ‘authoritarian’ isn’t allowed,” explained the authoritarian government official. “In the name of free speech, the government will employ state power to silence its critics,” he continued. “So watch what you say.”

Two days ago he called Russia a paper tiger.

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

This post wins the internet this week

On the pod @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social is so good on Trump's UN speech: A "shallow reality show version" of global affairs where "he’s the main character and everybody is just reacting to him." But the international audience knows "that’s not how the world works." newrepublic.com/article/2008...

And continuing…. Who among us thinks David Bowie looks “visibly exhausted” in this photo?

I really didn’t get up this morning to rag on the NYTimes, but isn’t the implication with this wording that predictions of the Rapture could’ve take come to pass in a less than obvious way?

More supposition as fact from the NYTimes. Nothing about Kimmel’s making fun of Trump’s crocodile tears over Kirk’s death.

Listen to Jimmy, kids.

Rule #1 for journalists: Accept nothing at face value. Attribute everything. Correction: “Disney executives, WHO SAID THEY WERE wary…” Disappointing.

Thoughts and prayers to the Upper West Side boutique that had these in the window earlier today. Maybe there's a store in Boise that will want them.

We are not “on the edge of fascism” any longer. It’s here and it’s only going to get worse.

If our laws depend on Trump’s voluntary compliance — and Congress won’t lift a finger to defend the laws it has passed — then the president is unleashed. We are left to the whims of a man who cares about only himself, a man who is willing to discard any law or standard to satisfy his lust for power.

All headlines just from today 🇺🇸

A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died. https://cnn.it/4ndDYbl

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/w... The entire premise is beyond disturbing, but a few of the passages herein will sent a cold chill down my spine.

This is the First Amendment I remember. A timeless classic that I don't cite nearly enough.

Meanwhile, back in the real world . . . Bagram Air Base was built by the Soviet Union in the 1950s. What an idiot.

When the key source for an explosive allegation in your Charlie Kirk story tells you, a few hours after you published: "Oh, it was all such a long time ago. I misremembered.... I don’t really know. I just can’t remember stuff so well.” In today's Laurels/Darts. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

“A reporter who publishes only what the government ‘authorizes’ is doing something other than reporting,” said Katie Fallow, deputy litigation director at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University @katiefallow.bsky.social

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After Trump fired the last director because the numbers were terrible for him. Nothing to see here.

“In nearly four decades of reporting and writing, I have never seen commanders so concerned about issues that could tarnish the U.S. military’s independence and standing. They swear an oath to the Constitution, not a president, and they don’t want to break it.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

After months of smearing this guy as a possible terrorist or terrorist supporter who they needed to eject as soon as possible back to Egypt, the trump administration today filed a motion in court basically going, eh nvm Glorious taxpayer funded use of time www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

@pbump.com Philip, I preach and preach and preach to my students about stopping what they are doing and photographing when they hear that small voice inside saying to be attentive. Thought of you when I shot this. :) Best wishes. I've enjoyed your work for a long time.

We've entered an era where a federal judge must take a president's lawyers back to Fundamentals of Composition. Not surprising or the least of our troubles, and Merryday limiting the revised complaint to 40 pages is pretty funny. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/b...

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

We know it’s wrong, the accusation doesn’t have merit, the law and principle are on our side, we have a lot of money to cover legal fees and weather any fallout, but he might get mad at us, so we had to. We anonymously leaked to the press that we felt bad about it, that counts for something, right?

"Charlie Kirk staked out anti-democracy positions on all of those, but Ezra Klein pretends he didn’t. :

PSA: A "Major Terrorist Organization" (MTO) is not a thing. The Immigration and Nationality Act *delegates* power to the State Department to designate *FOREIGN* terrorist organizations (FTOs) based on certain criteria. It doesn't apply to domestic orgs. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

I’m old enough to remember when Bob Iger, whose company recently paid $16 million to settle a meritless Trump lawsuit, and who just indefinitely suspended Jimmy Kimmel under pressure from the Trump administration, was a chair for the **Committee to Protect Journalists** dinner.

@pbump.com Had to share. Enjoy your work. Thanks for what you do. Never let the bastards best you.

The meme aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s death (1/2)

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