What happens when the brat who used to blow out the candles on other kids' birthday cakes grows up to be president.

Viola Liuzzo - She was shot and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama in 1965 while transporting marchers from Selma to Montgomery. Her murder was a direct result of her involvement in the civil rights movement. This was our sister. She was a mother of five children. 😪🙏🏽🕊 (cont)

📽️ WATCH: Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past 20 years studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child. RFK Jr. cut her entire division — yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: https://propub.li/4nhXQua

Off-topic, but a very subtle bit of filmmaking that other directors should borrow from Sidney Lumet: There's no music in "Network." Lumet trusted his audience's reactions without juicing scenes with musical cues. Makes the film feel more like a documentary.

Superb @rygraham.bsky.social column on Robert Redford. "He oozed masculinity buffed with charm and kindness instead of insecurity disguised as brutishness." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/20/o...

Congress voted today to honor shooting victim Charlie Kirk while apparently forgetting that the ATF took down their memorial honoring shooting victims. www.npr.org/2025/05/04/n...

I truly don't understand how democratic leadership think they are going to move forward after voting to honor a white nationalist who essentially called Black women—the base of the party—stupid. It's insulting. I find it personally insulting.

Age limits for elected officials. If a candidate or incumbent would turn 75 before their term ends, they're disqualified from running. No one should still be serving in their 80s.

Dutch late night TV has its take

Disgusting

A tone-deaf @globeopinion.bsky.social editorial whose original headline read "We need more Charlie Kirks" leads @rygraham.bsky.social to quit the editorial board in protest. She'll continue to write her column and newsletter. New at Media Nation: dankennedy.net/2025/09/18/r...

Last week, Kilmeade said homeless people with mental health issues should be given an "involuntary lethal injection, or something," adding "just kill them." Took him five days to offer an undercooked apology.

This is a major loss for the @bostonglobe.com editorial board - and for the larger civic debate. But I so appreciate @rygraham.bsky.social sticking to her principles. dankennedy.net/2025/09/18/r...

Go to bed exhausted, wake up exhausted, feel exhausted all day every damn day. It's a lot.

"In Jackson’s joyful perseverance, we can see a light to help us through this unnerving moment’s lengthening shadows." Excellent and much-needed piece by @rygraham.bsky.social.

"Let’s be clear about what just happened: Jimmy Kimmel, a prominent late-night comedian, was just taken off the airwaves because the Trump administration didn’t like what he had to say — and threatened his employer until they shut him up."

Beyond cancelling Kimmel's show are about 200 writers and crew members in LA who just lost their full time gig.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Mood.

This is utter madness.

This was Egypt in 2018.

It's all unraveling faster than anticipated, and I say that as a hard-core catastrophizer.

“This nation is struggling to live with the Trump administration’s atrocities,” @rygraham.bsky.social writes. “But to foster joy is to hold on to hope, something that has become increasingly difficult.”

“The Scourged Back,” in which the man is seen in profile, revealing his wounds as if they belong not to his essential self but to everyone who has violated his dignity, inspires first silence, then a rising nausea and an urgent need to be sure that it is seen, understood, processed."

If the plan is "Who can we throw overboard," then this ain't it. Get lost.

Protect trans rights. Protect trans people.

according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

The sick actions of a sick nation.

"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself." Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.

Pam Bondi deleted a government study showing that right-wingers commit more terrorism. The right cannot think coherently so instead of making their own studies, they censor legitimate ones. But don't worry Pam, I saved it for you web.archive.org/web/20250911...

The New York Times: Hegseth Pushes Fresh Troop Readiness Agenda Military Dot Com: The Fuckin Army Wants to Kick Out Black Men

Serious "I'm gonna tell my daddy about you" energy here.

A friend once called "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" his favorite love story.

"A corrosive ideology" otherwise known as unvarnished American history.

Today has really been a long year.

None of this is survivable. None of it.

#OTD in 1963: Four Black girls — Denise McNair, 11, Addie Mae Collins, 14, Carole Robertson, 14, and Cynthia Wesley, 14 — were murdered when a bomb placed by white supremacists exploded at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Not a single reporter fact-checked this utter nonsense in real time to his face.

Why Is It So Hard to Watch This Oscar-Winning Documentary? www.yesmagazine.org/political-po... Source: YES! Magazine

Took him five days to "apologize."

Williams was a photographer for Jet magazine. He took the photo himself. The OG selfie. Iconic. Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

You do not in fact have to praise the guy who said homeless people should be murdered with lethal injections and then apologized four days later to save his job. Let's get a grip here.

Team Biden never gave Kamala Harris a chance. My latest @globeopinion.bsky.social column.

We're at a point now where a Fox News host can just casually suggests killing homeless people with a lethal injection on air and no one bats an eye but a MSNBC contributor gets fired for calling Charlie Kirk "divisive".

This is terrifying.

You're a historian, sir. You know they don't regret it, won't apologize for it, and will learn nothing from it.