John Roberts's "there's no such thing as corruption" and "the president has the right to use the DOJ as his personal law firm" jurisprudence is really working out well for us.

Lol no

And note that the lede reporter on the Homan scoop ended her 25-year career at the Washpost just last month, decamping to NBC News. Will Lewis, the Post’s CEO, had urged people to leave if they didn’t “feel aligned” w/ the company’s “significant reinvention journey” www.thewrap.com/carol-leonni...

it was literally in a bag www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

“Stop the Count”: food-insecurity version. 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Interesting @aselrod.bsky.social point about Trump's efforts to erase the history of slavery: It comes at a time when the American people's historical awareness has actually been on the rise, and it's *this* that must be rolled back at all costs: www.liberalcurrents.com/maga-is-revi...

A reminder to people in positions of authority: caving to the bully will not save you, so you might as well do the right thing

When everyone was clamoring for more civics education over the last couple years, some of us warned that that meant a very different thing to people on the far-right. This is the white nationalist version, a Trojan horse for religion in the schools and for censorship of a full history.

In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to 5.

The thing about this spoiled tantrum is that the best way to respond is NOT TO SIMPLY GIVE IN TO THE SPOILED TANTRUM.

"America may not be an actual autocracy. But it increasingly seems to be playing one on TV." [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/a...

The best way to honor the memory of this free speech warrior is to say free speech is bad now

For the class of people running things in this country, America was just a vibe, basically. All the rah-rah, chest-beating, flag waving stuff. None of them meaningfully believed in any of it. Just swept aside completely in the face of literal cartoon villainy. Minimal resistance. Whoosh. Gone.

the most important thing for everyone in this country right now is to practice self preservation. they are entirely rolling back the first amendment and the ability to protest, be careful

Far more dangerous than Trump, I think, is how quickly the last eight months have pulled back the curtain on America's elites and shown everyone how venal, how cowardly and how utterly mediocre the foundation of our society has been.

remember "the twitter files" when they were like "haHA! evidence that the government was pressuring twitter to do their political dirty work!" and now the president just fires reporters and comics off the tv when he's cranky

Nice pull, Carl. Seriously, read this statement they launched on day one of the administration and see how long you can make it before you feel like you're going insane.

The Free Speech President has now pulled two of the three major late night hosts off the air through threats and intimidation because of their jokes. Obviously I’m behind Jimmy Kimmel 100% in the face of this fascist garbage. Speech against this admin isn’t just being chilled, they’re freezing it.

On social media Wednesday night, after Kimmel’s suspension was announced, The Onion’s Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social wrote: “[it’s] Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love.”

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

This is all he said?! This is why ABC (in response to threats from Trump's FCC) is taking Kimmel off the air?!

This is why we're a think-and-DO tank

your friendly reminder that “civility” is a tool of the oppressor to maintain the status quo and quash any resistance to existing systems, no matter how inequitable and violent those systems may be

man if only senate republicans very concerned about changes in vaccine guidance had had any say in confirming the guy making the changes who made very clear that he was going to change them

The right wing billionaires are soon going to control almost every single major media outlet.

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all levels of media in the united states is controlled by the far right tech oligarch now

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

GOP: Democrats are a murder cult that must be destroyed and their bones and blood must be ground into dust Meanwhile Dems:

Conservatives believe free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/atru...

looking forward to a piece by bari weiss, thomas chatterton williams, jonathan haidt, et al., about how expelling, arresting, firing and criminalizing individuals for their speech on college campuses in response to the death of charlie kirk is stifling the free speech he supposedly championed

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

absolutely repugnant, gutfeld completely dismisses the assassination of melissa hortman, calls it a "bull shit" example of political violence

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

I am activating the nuclear-grade subtweet machine here but I cannot stand the genre of article that goes "Trump is wrong to attack XYZ institution—but XYZ institution *does* need reform" and then just says we should discuss reforming XYZ institution but doesn't propose a coherent plan of its own

Outrageous

Everybody gamely says “Vance hosted Kirk’s podcast” instead of “the regime officially turned the major channel into state-controlled media just as it began its violent crackdown on any opposition or dissident messages.”

November 17, 2021 www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...

guys i'm ngl i don't think they actually cared about free speech on college campuses

The diminishment of prominent Black journalists is the latest indication that a period of progress in America has ended and a period of retrenchment is in full bloom. trib.al/VSbmOMm

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You know who else supported brutally exterminating people they considered subhuman?

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Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup

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Grudging respect for the Third Way folks for that line. My thoughts on Trump Accounts below 👇 rooseveltforward.org/2025/06/10/t...