Trump's Executive Order on Antifa is written such that someone recording masked agents snatching people off the streets, or asking these agents what they're doing, can be deemed a "terrorist."

Watch the full episode here: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

"It's the banality of evil. It happens around essentially a watercooler." From the new 'We're Not Kidding', 'Andor' star Denise Gough and @mehdirhasan.bsky.social talk about the depiction of fascism in 'Star Wars' and its similarities to real world politics.

"Hundreds of Jewish Health Professionals Say 'End the Genocide' in Gaza"

Alaa Abdel Fattah: Egypt's president pardons prominent activist Amazing news!!

If you want to understand the failure of our media, since Kirk’s murder Republicans have fanned out across the media for interviews, all claiming Dems calling Trump ‘fascist’ causes violence. And not a single interviewer has pushed back with: ‘But Trump called Harris a fascist!’

We're at the point where the Trump does something worse than Watergate daily, often multiple times a day. And none of it makes news; it's just normal now.

As I have said repeatedly: Donald Trump is dead set on turning the United States into a Russia style mafia state. Surrounding himself with deeply corrupt officials furthers that goal.

‘[Trump] is the whiniest, thin-skinned little snowflake we’ve ever had in our public life.’ On the new Two Outspoken, @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @owenjones.bsky.social discuss Trump’s clampdown on free speech in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Full episode: zeteo.com/p/are-britis...

Last week, Trump: - suggested that Rep. Ilhan Omar should be impeached. - signed a presidential memo to deploy National Guard troops to Memphis. - filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times. Read the full list of harmful actions Trump has taken: zeteo.com/p/this-week-...

“This is the first time the [Congressional Progressive Caucus] has endorsed legislation directly related to the Israel-Palestine conflict.” @premthakker.bsky.social reports on one of the largest caucuses endorsing the Block the Bomb Act to hold Israel accountable. Read: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

This must be a parody account, right? They’re demanding a meeting! Schumer and Jeffries. A meeting with Trump. That’s what they’re publicly ‘demanding.’ Another reminder of why they have got to go: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Silencing protesters. Getting Jimmy Kimmel taken off air. Ordering Mahmoud Khalil's deportation. Another week of Zeteo's project to document the growth of authoritarianism in Trump's second term.”

Sure, the US federal government is potentially more oppressive than a voluntary HR directive or the complaints of an Ivy League freshman, but again ... you really need to squint just right. You're not squinting hard enough.

Nothing is more embarrassing going on right now than all the pundits who made their careers whining about cancel culture trying to explain how the fascism they helped usher in is really just the same thing on the other side ... if you squint just right.

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

One person familiar with the federal investigation told NBC News “thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups…Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive.”

The anti-vaxxer CDC shooter’s father - ridiculous. www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/08/17/i...

Sheesh

Much of the violent, racist rhetoric from the man arrested for allegedly threatening the life of Zohran Mamdani is almost indistinguishable from what top GOP politicians were saying in the days after Mamdani won the primary. (Also similar to what Girdusky said to me on CNN!)

So Kimmel gets fired for supposedly misidentifying the shooter as MAGA (though that’s not quite what he said.) When do all the Fox hosts who misidentified the shooter as transgender get fired then?

If, say, Louis Farrakhan was brutally murdered, I hope we would all condemn the murder. But I am pretty sure Republicans wouldn’t be celebrating his life and legacy and insisting no one criticize anything he ever said or did.

Carr’s most pronounced quality is his total fealty to Donald Trump — and he’s been busy weaponizing the FCC for the cause.

Since we're playing this racist game, does Melania 'know these people'? Are they from her 'Home Country of Slovenia'?

The most rabidly bigoted and Islamophobic Republican member of Congress retweeting/quote-tweeting approvingly a rabidly bigoted, in-context Charlie Kirk tweet. Glad to see Republicans are actually sharing Kirk's actual words now.

If he had a TV show on ABC, they would have to cancel it, right?

Grateful for this show of solidarity by our academic colleagues at GHSCN.

It’s super bad to suggest someone is in hell, right, Republicans?

NEW: I tracked three dozen teachers, professors and other school staff who've been forced from their job or stepped away due to their comments on Charlie Kirk and his killing Republican lawmakers are increasingly getting involved, pushing for firings www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

Walz: This is North Korea style stuff. And it's being done because this is a weak, thin skinned man who's failing as a president. All of the things he promised are not happening. It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly, this is a terrible president

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

The story is not what Kimmel said but what others won’t say now for fear of state retribution. Authoritarian countries thrive on self censorship.

Lol. This is "I support the 1st Amendment for speech I agree with" which means "I do not support the 1st Amendment or free speech."

We live in a country where the president can order a comedian to be yanked off TV. What I describe is not a democracy.

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.

“You can’t bomb the truth away” My full speech at Wembley Arena tonight, in London, to 12,000 people at the Together for Palestine concert, paying tribute to murdered Palestinian journalists and their bravery, and calling out the silence and complicity of Western media.

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Don't buy the canard that this is about Charlie Kirk. Abusing state power to lean on corporate leaders and get Jimmy Kimmel off the air because he told jokes about the president and made him feel bad was always the plan.

You can watch the big ‘Together for Palestine’ concert here in Wembley Arena, London, at 7pm UK time/2pm ET. Some big names speaking and performing from Benedict Cumberbatch to Florence Pugh to Damon Albarn to Mos Def to Riz Ahmed to Guy Pearce. (And me.) www.youtube.com/live/RWBVHFv...

Privileged and honored to be speaking tonight at Wembley Arena at the Together for Palestine (@T4Plive) concert, alongside some big names from across the world, at 7pm UK time. You can watch live on YouTube. www.youtube.com/live/RWBVHFv...

The right getting mad about Trump’s AG saying she’ll arrest people for hate speech but not getting mad about Trump’s Deputy AG saying he’ll arrest people for heckling Trump at a restaurant tells you everything you need to know about the right.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk’s record. archive.ph/2025.09.16-2...

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk’s record. archive.ph/2025.09.16-2...

“what of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk’s death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize?” - Ta-Nehisi Coates archive.ph/2025.09.16-2...

"Christian nationalists want the US to be a Christian nation, but they don't want to follow the words of Christ. It's like irony & hypocrisy having violent hate-sex." www.simonandschuster.com/books/Separa...

I will be on Andrew Marr’s LBC show at 6.15pm in the UK and 1.15pm Eastern here in the US today talking about the Trump visit to the UK and political violence here in the US.