And thanks to @driftglass.bsky.social, this is one subscriber The Bulwark will not get.

You’ve always been welcome. Just not by enough of the right people. But your reach and influence have been much greater than your humility allows. Same for your wife. Stay the course, friend. I’m not sure this country will survive, but if it does, it will owe it to you and the few people who …

Predicted it. Documented it in real time. Watched them colonize what little was left of the "liberal" legacy media and use those millions of $$s in free promotion to grow their own corporation. All while being hectored by fellow liberals. /shrugs/ I know when I'm not welcome.

Let’s redefine it for whatever’s left of the thinking people on our planet.

“Democrats desert legacy media for new outlets Important article but note that @driftglass.bsky.social predicted this would be the Bulwark outcome years ago. Nobody paid attention. Argh! These are the people who helped create Trump in the first place! www.semafor.com/article/09/21...

I will say this about abc.net.au. See the acknowledgment below. No American broadcaster would ever have the balls to say something like that about Native Americans on their websites. Not with our legions of gullible fascist MAGA dopes breathing our air

It's even dumber than that. "Cancel culture" simply rebrands a core feature of media discourse: Public moralizing about things one dislikes in a way that sometimes results in effective censorship. The American right simply disliked that there was a brief period in which this ever worked against them

The Australian ABC needs an intervention. This is an unspeakably awful paragraph for any “news” organization. “Donald Trump’s changed stance on Ukraine could be a challenge for Vladimir Putin” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-2...

This might have been the best Antifa message since 2016 when this country elected one of the worst human beings who ever lived as their ruler. #BravoJimmyKimmel Jimmy Kimmel returns with defiant monologue

A master class from the Washington Post in how to normalize the bonkers. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

No friends like best friends.

They did more than wish to do the same, as Natalie Maines and many others could testify.

The right always exaggerated cancel culture on the left, but it’s pretty clear they were always projecting their wish to do the same. Sadder is that many on the Left had warned that the Right would eventually be better at it. And now they are. bsky.app/profile/techmeme.com...

Republican Sunday: YOU HAVE AWAKENED A DRAGON OF WHITE RAGE WE WILL SWIM IN THE BLOOD OF OUR TERRORIST ENEMIES AS THEIR CHILDREN WORK OUR SLAVE CANPS Republican Monday: we’re sweet widdle puddy tats what never hurted a fly and the mean man’s post fwightened us so bad we cwosed up our widdle eyes

Notdifferent at all. The ONLY issue in 2016 was the Supreme Court. But with clever scheming by Karl Rove and Tim fucking Miller, the Berners just couldn’t accept a Clinton “coronation.” That was probably the end of America right there. A colossal mistake. mastodon.social/@janisf@mstdn...

LISTEN: TikTok and other digital venues becoming tools of the Right was all foreseen in 1996 when 3 Repulicans (Pressly, Blighly and Gingrich) maneuvered Clinton into signing the Telecomm. Reform Act, spawning most of our modern media ownership crises.

We just watched this the other day. So perfectly apt.

Remember when pre Infowars, Q, and MAGA, this felt like off the wall satire. We are now ruled by simpletons and lunatics. I’m not sure there’s any remedy for our crisis anymore. We might just be doomed.

I bet @ABC gamed this out. They knew Sinclair affiliates were in Kirk’s cult and they had to act in the face of MAGA hysteria. So they fire Kimmel, knowing the backlash would force a retreat, but they look good to MAGA for trying. “The woke mob threatened us viciously.”

I can’t wait. Sincerely (cough) bsky.app/profile/airbagmoment...

ABC has decided to cave. It wasn’t easy. Fascism has its rewards. Let’s hope they’ve sprouted some truck nutz and will resist Sinclair Broadcasting just a bit longer next time. But it won’t get easier. bsky.app/profile/murshedz.bsk...

The only thing I thing worse than China owning Tiktok, is Oracle owning Tiktok. Probably only Elon Musk & Peter Thiel are more evil than Larry Ellison. We’re so completely fucked, I suppose we might as well lay back and try to find some joy in revolting, non-consensual sex.

Democrats should've had their own project 2020 ready to go when Biden was elected.

Thanks to MAGA, America has been stripped of many constitutional rules and norms that once defined our social contract. If we’re ever to recraft it, we need to begin now—deciding what should belong in a new constitution, so the path to renewal is clear when the moment comes.

Call: “Tell me what fascism looks like!” Response: “THIS is what fascism looks like.” Jimmy Kimmel Asked by Sinclair Broadcasting to Apologize and Pay Charlie Kirk’s Family if He Wants Suspension Lifted

I watched Adolescence on Netflix after it swept the Emmys and was gobsmacked by the similarities to Kirk's murder. The Internet is killing us. We see a lot of displaced anger and civics illiteracy on here (not you). Chronic dissatisfaction is modern disease. The Internet is killing us.

I endorse this entire thread.

Oxford University Historian Predicts Exactly How Long U.S. Has To Save Its Democracy www.huffpost.com/entry/timoth...

Oxford University Historian Predicts Exactly How Long U.S. Has To Save Its Democracy (spoiler: not long) www.huffpost.com/entry/timoth...

Likewise. And I am the daughter of a woman who was the only member of her family to survive Auschwitz. I do not use the word lightly. What Israel is doing is genocide.

For the first months of the Gaza incursion, I argued the genocide claim was being used recklessly. I haven’t been able to argue that for most of this year. Punishing massive civilian populations for the sins of their leadership is unacceptable. What Likud is doing, and too many Israeli’s support …

Typically, I didn’t look for 2 days. Now I’m afraid to look.

I am having my first serious Android crisis, ever. No matter which launcher I try, I keep getting this “Quick Step has stopped” error w/ Android 15 whenever I try to switch active apps. I’ve tried switching launchers clearing data, everything but a system reset. The Microsoft launcher was a …

ABC hopes to bring Jimmy Kimmel back, but temperature needs to be taken down under FCC threats | CNN

Please read Josh Marshall's take on the Trump regime's escalating attacks on freedom of speech -- Kimmel's removal only the latest but probably most extreme example. talkingpointsmemo.co... The most important thing in this piece is its call to action in a way that we can actually achieve. 1/8

Seems like you guys might want to use an upcoming moment of leverage to fight back against this sort of thing.

This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.

We have almost no media left. It’s time for some form of strike or America can kiss journalism, the constitution and the country goodbye. ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel ‘indefinitely’

ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after remarks about Charlie Kirk | CNN Business edition.cnn.com/2/…

MUST LISTEN : Terri gross gets from Draper what his paper did/would not. How Charlie Kirk became a leader of the conservative youth movement : NPR share.google/o6v8H0mDCeXc... > NYTimes' Robert Draper explains Kirk's rise & legacy.

That’s an odd comment. There are many others, but here’s a short list of left-of center billionaires (who might have misplaced their Mao caps, I suppose). Unfortunately, most spend primarily on elections, not movements. bsky.app/p/…

Okay, you have the floor. I follow our politics pretty closely, as you seem to. Please explain how am I “misreading the moment” and “mind blowingly” not getting what the Democrats are presumably doing? Please be as specific as you can. bsky.app/p/…

Gabrielle is heading out to sea. Worst case, New England (unlikely). But there’s another formation right behind it (because Africa rightfully fucking hates us). 45% of ‘canes happen in September, and we’re already halfway through that worst month. (October is 15%).

I don’t understand why you’re so devoted to this solution when I just showed you that solar is out pacing everyone’s expectations by orders of magnitude. We just don’t need nuclear anymore. And your solution still doesn’t deal with the outrageous cost of reactors and that prickly waste problem …

He said it badly, and with a contemptible lack of nuance and acknowledgement that Kirk relied on manipulation and lies, but I think this was largely the point @ezraklein.bsky.social was trying to make with his excoriated essay. bsky.app/p/…

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed by Ezra Klein, Gavin Newsom, and the Political Class | by ta-nehsis coates / Vanity Fair Paywall free: archive.ph/GsYPL

Wouldn’t it be lovely if we had real leadership for Democrats? Democrats on the ground are on fire while Jeffries & Schumer just remind me of our party’s failure to launch.

The Tourism Slump Isn’t Just About Tourism - by @leftjabs.bsky.social www.leftjabs.com/2025/09/the-...

I respect what @indivisibleteam does, but it’s not enough. They are the only organization besides Move-on big enough to do big things, but big things every few months is not enough. We need many BIG actions before there’s no media left to announce them. mastodon.social/@/…

I find emarkable that the American left can’t find its ass with a flashlight after decades of smugly convincing itself it was the “right side of history,” and here it’s getting its ass kicked by hillbillies and klansman led by billionaires and morons. What a world.