A lot of people don’t want to admit Charlie Kirk was racist because they would have to admit they are racist too, and that truth cuts deeper than they can handle. I will not mourn a bigot.

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New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

In what world, is it not illegal and/or impeachable for the President to conspire with his Attorney General to use the levers of government to punish his political enemies? This is like the entirety of All the Presidents Men shrunk down into one Truth Social post.

BLACK PEOPLE ARE AMERICA.

Vivian Wilson talks about how accessing gender affirming care as a teen was lifesaving at the Teen Vogue Summit.

This is a very weird post. It feels as if it was supposed to be a direct communication via text to Bondi.

Good point.

Mike Johnson said this kind of rhetoric is highly inflammatory and incites people.

It is very hard for me not to cut and paste passages from my book into posts at this point. I have been told by my editor not to give away the goods. That said. The difference in scale of outrage between Attiah’s firing and Kimmel’s suspension proves a whole point about canaries and coal mines.

cancelled #D23 and #hbomax today. these companies can kick rocks and pound sand.

#Alt4Me please Maryland missing person

“Trump require Pentagon journalists to pledge they won’t gather any info — even unclassified — not expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey.” So no more journalism-ing at the Pentagon. Got it. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.

Over 100 progressive nonprofit groups are joining together to push back against the Trump administration’s recent threats to investigate and dismantle left-leaning organizations in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Don’t you dare call us fascists, they say, as they force people off the airwaves for criticizing them while vowing to crush and criminalize their opposition.

currently reading Occupation: Organizer by @clementpetitj.bsky.social and published by @haymarketbooks.org

The ad-libbing is so embarrassing.

MY GOD, I HAVE A NEW HERO. SHE HAD THEM SO HOOKED AND THEN BAM, SHE ATE THEM, BONES AND ALL.

It's important to realize what precipitated this was Nexstar announcing they pulled showing Kimmel on their affiliates. They're currently waiting for the FCC to loosen restrictions to enable their massive merger. This was as much pay to play by a corporation as it was censorship.

We're 7 months in and Trump and the oligarchs have completely seized control of the media. If you criticize them, your show will be pulled from the air. This is what dictators do. Fascism isn't coming, it's here.

Don’t let this make you quieter. Get louder.

The Jimmy Kimmel firing, Colbert's show, what's happening at WaPo, CBS... legacy journalism is slowly but surely coming under state control. It is more important now than ever before that we support the independent journalists out there doing the work not beholden to a fascist's bidding.

sneezing in a public setting with a mouth full of food. that’s near the zenith of my social anxiety triggers.

This is what the “comedy is dead” talk was about, too.

Dr. Susan Monarez: The question before us is whether we will keep faith with our children and grandchildren, ensuring they remain safe from the diseases we fought so hard to defeat. Undoing that progress would not only be reckless, it would betray every family that trusts us to protect their health.

Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

Get your COVID vax this week if you can, friends.

Sen. Bill Cassidy: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expected you to change the childhood vaccine schedule, despite a lack of science or data to support that move? Former CDC Director Susan Monarez: "Correct."

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

Why is the right so angry? They control the entire government and they’re still miserable f*cks. Joy Reid nailed it.

I appreciate that Gov Hochul has implemented orders to protect vaccine access, but she has supported mask bans and is not wearing a mask while getting vaccinated. “Believing in science” does not mean picking and choosing only what it is convenient for you.

Fun fact: Nancy Mace is trying to censure me over comments I never said.   Her res does not contain a single quote from me because she couldn’t find any.   Unlike her, I have routinely condemned political violence, no matter the political ideology.

do works of fiction written by autistic authors have more, less, or average amounts of dialogue? #autism #booksky

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

think the best advice ive received in the last year is simply to listen to Black women across all media: social, literature, poetry, art, whatever. my recommendation to other white men is to pick up a book by a Black woman, and then another, and then another. you can’t help but be changed.

I have felt sick to my stomach all day about this horrific news, and it has yet to be covered by MSM, or even acknowledged by the WH. 🔊 JUSTICE FOR TREY REED. ⏰ NOW. ‼️‼️‼️

The story about Trump ordering the removal of references to slavery from national Parks is being censored on here by the moderation service because it wrongly labeled the photo of an enslaved person with scars from being whipped on their back as "self harm."

““I saw no broken limbs,” he said. Roark declined to elaborate further, stating that the case was still under investigation. “I don’t think I should probably discuss this any further than that, my opinion is that it was self-done, and I have reasons for that.””

currently reading Automatic Noodle by @annaleen.bsky.social. this is another book that made it to my reading list initially because of the book cover.

NEW: Reuters asked the Michigan Tax Authority whether Lisa Cook violated any mortgage tax rules for her home in Ann Arbor. They said no. That's in addition to Reuters earlier reporting that nothing was wrong with the documents for her home in Atlanta. www.reuters.com/world/us/no-...

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this. You're welcome

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

BREAKING: DC Cir. court of appeals rejects Trump’s effort to remove Lisa Cook from Board of Governors of Federal Reserve, allows her to participate in tomorrow’s meeting

Not on the news because we don't want to upset the Orange toddler and have him shit himself all day.

Remembering four little girls killed on this day. September 15, 1963 – Denise McNair, Carol Robertson, Addie Mae Collins, and Cynthia Wesley