After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

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

Jimmy Kimmel wasn't suspended because of what he said. He was suspended because the FCC threatened his employer. That's state-sanctioned censorship and it is a GIANT RED FLAG 🚩🚩🚩 that authoritarianism isn’t *coming* it’s ALREADY HERE. Today it's Jimmy. Tomorrow it's the rest of us.

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Fox host, Brian Kilmeade, calls on the government to murder homeless Americans. No. Really. #RadioFreeAmerica www.newsweek.com/fox-news-hos...

It should alarm every American to see the President exploit a tragic shooting to threaten persecution of his political opponents and civil society. This is straight out of the authoritarian playbook — and it’s profoundly un-American.

What does every fascist dictator do before fully consolidating power after a coup? Militarizes the nation’s capital. Shout out to @jollygoodginger.bsky.social and all the honored veterans holding the line at Union Station. To the Guard: remember your oath is to the Constitution, not to one man.

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

✅ Vote YES on 50! The fight for fair representation is national. While states like TX, FL, & NC use partisan gerrymandering to rig elections, CA is fighting back. Prop 50 lets us level the playing field and counter their maps. It’s a strategic necessity to protect our voice in Congress. #YesOn50

Target CEO fired! SMITE!!!!

In Andor and in real life, the people rise. We refuse to bend the knee to an authoritarian power grab. #IHaveFriendsEverywhere

As a DC resident I do feel that the city has been overrun by "violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals" and I would like them to leave the White House and stop destroying the federal government.

Imagine if Biden did this.

You know how people called women hysterical for predicting the right wing would take down Roe v. Wade (which they've done) and then attack access to birth control (which they're doing)? Hear me when I say that women's very right to vote is next. www.npr.org/2025/08/09/n...

After being asked specifically, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's staff refuses to explicitly say that women should have the right to vote. slate.com/news-and-pol...

She was right all along.

😂 😭

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

weird how the guy born into obscene wealth, bailed out repeatedly, allowed to fail upwards forever until he fell ass-backwards into the presidency, and then was declared by the Supreme Court to be a Very Special Boy Who Can Crime Forever never stops whining about how everything is rigged against him

i continue to think that “family annihilator” is a useful frame for the trump administration futurism.com/white-house-...

Unfortunately, this is where we are headed... shameful...🥺

i think i disagree with the idea that the ferritor should have been allowed to follow his own path during his schooling, neglecting assignments and being coddled for his apparent genius. i think, in fact, that this was the problem. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-boy-ge...

This is a guy who lies about all his numbers, from the size of his condo in NYC to his own height and weight. So it’s no surprise he wants to lie about economic numbers now.

Before all companies completed their surveys, the results looked good for Trump. But you have to count all the ballots to know the final results. It doesn’t mean it’s rigged.

RECAP OF THIS WEEK: 1. Trump said Epstein “stole” 14-year-old Virginia Guiffre from him. 2. Trump gave convicted child trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell immunity and moved her to a luxury prison. 3. Major news outlets confirm the FBI employed 1,000 agents to scour 100,000 documents to redact Trump.

First it was “I barely knew him,” now it’s “we were best friends until he started stealing the barely legals out from under me.”

Trump says he will fire the labor statistics chief after the jobs report shows his tariffs are hurting American workers. This is like getting the teacher fired because you got a bad grade.

The numbers don’t lie. Trump is sabotaging our economy— And is ready to fire anyone who doesn’t tell you otherwise. This is what dictators do.

Laguna Beach protest, July 19th, 2025. Cohosted with @indivisible47.bsky.social

Activists have documented instances where ICE goons, AKA Secret Police, make racially motivated stops of random individuals at DTLA Union Station, despite court orders.

This article is a must read for anyone who wants to better understand the Trump admin’s political pressure on care providers to stop providing gender affirming care - and how it’s something you should be worried about, even if you’re not trans. As a reminder, this is impacting OC already.

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

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This moment was gold

Turns out the best way to make a deal to get out of your child sex trafficking conviction is to have one of your clients get elected president.

Scotland knows.

🚨 BREAKING: new video shows ICE is operating a detention facility on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where people are being held for days or weeks at a time without showers, medication or a change of clothes, sleeping on the floor, and with minimal food and outside contact.

Trump didn’t just deport migrants—he sent them to torture chambers. 252 Venezuelans were beaten, sexually abused, starved in El Salvador’s hellhole prison under his crackdown. Rotting food. No sunlight. No lawyers. Republicans cheered. This was state-sponsored human rights abuses.

The governing party of the United States is shutting down the federal government to cover-up evidence the president sexually abused children so he can continue trying to implement dictatorship. That's just a true statement about the world!

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

makes me want to lay on the highway

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

When a network lays off one of America’s greatest satirists, it’s not because he failed. It’s because he succeeded too loudly.