The Watergate tapes were secret and the media knows it’s only a crime if the president is smart enough to keep it a secret.

This is the way. Re-pledged to PBS, as well.

Raskin: "He wants to condition the public to the idea that it's completely legitimate for the president not only to be ordering prosecutions of particular people over the objections of prosecutors, but he wants to condition the public to accepting the idea he can do that in public, openly."

Yeah, I had to try three sites to cancel Disney+ but the runaround only made me more determined to do it.

Today would have been Dad's 78th birthday. I like to imagine he's celebrating by shrimping with his brother, while Freya and Chloe help navigate (and steal a few shrimp from the haul).

It’s heartening to hear many principled voices argue that those in office should wield political power in a way that they would be happy to have it wielded when they’re not in power. But it’s worth saying this clearly: the current administration is not acting as if it intends to be out of power.

It’s really all we should be talking about today.

MAGA should honor Charlie Kirk today by playing clips of his speeches, his show, and reading his tweets. Especially the ones about Black people, women, immigrants, MLK, Muslims, gun violence, George Floyd and LGBTQ+ people.

Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"

This is, of course, wildly unconstitutional.

This guy just walked around the Charlie Kirk vigil in Boston, yelling Kirk quotes through a bullhorn

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.

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?

This is what we need from elected officials -- a commitment to stand up for their constituents and, just as important, a willingness to tell right-wing trolls to get bent.

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

I assume Costco is still doing good numbers while Target is not. You would think more companies might notice that the president is wildly unpopular and many people want to spend what money they have on services and at businesses that don't support fascism. (Keep the pressure on, folks.)

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

Trump posts on Truth Social that he’s ordered another strike on what he claims is a drug trafficking boat. He’s presented no evidence that his victims in the three previous strikes were running drugs. Drug trafficking is also not a capital crime. Trump is murdering people in international waters.

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

It’s been sad this year watching how the White House press corps refuses to back each other up. Here a female journalist is insulted and denigrated and the next male reporter just moves on to a new question. You’re all in this together, folks. Time & again, they won’t stand up for their colleagues.

With the news cycle focused on ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, a journalist with a valid US work permit and pending green card application is about to be deported for the crime of reporting www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It's good that Siebert is doing the right thing, but "refusing to charge when there's not evidence" is a pretty low bar to clear. He's the frog that gave the scorpion a ride.

But…broadcast is where the FCC has jurisdiction. You’re just a hypocrite.

Don't apologise for your dog showing up during the Zoom, apologise for hiding him all this time

at least all that fawning and bowing and scraping of those silicon valley ceos is really paying off...wait wat

Huh, sounds familiar.

That was fast. This is also why you don’t surrender to autocrats - you fight them and beat them.

THIS. 👉

The one good thing about this “run America like a business” nightmare is that more people are beginning to realize how corrupt and craven many businesses truly are. Take notes. Never forget how they abandoned us. Don’t forgive their complicity.

Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.

I love seeing people supporting PBS with their newly loosened up Disney+ dollars.

"Outrageous incident" turns out, in fact, to be manufactured outrage by, checks notes, a right-wing individual. Twisted on so many levels, including the fact that people could have been hurt. The store had to close because of threats based on disinformation. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/19/v...

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt. Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

If there's anything funny about this -- debatable -- it's that Trump has an entire team of Project 2025/Federalist Society ghouls who have painstakingly built a foolproof backroom legal system to legitimize fascism and then Trump just goes THEY CAN'T MAKE FUN OF ME I'LL SUE and gives it all away

I experienced this last week & refused, saying I had never before been asked to provide the names of any analysts I was planning to quote to get a comment. Spox replied that maybe they were D donors. (In that case, it was 3 retired top military JAG officers.) I guess that was not a weird oneoff.

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

how could authoritarianism happen? turns out a lot of people, especially those in power, are cowardly dogs

1. He can fire all the prosecutors he wants but still a long way from getting a conviction without evidence. We'll see. 2. He's getting crazier by the hour now, isn't he? This is on top of talking about re-invading Afghanistan and no one is allowed to criticize him on TV...and that's just today.

Part of our constitutional crisis is that Republicans are stopping Congress from playing its fundamental oversight role.

If you wrote a "Trump distances himself from project 2025" story in 2024 you are either a dupe or one of our enemies. They are cackling with laughter that the media they're now destroying enthusiastically helped them dupe the voters

it's also really important to spread the "this is illegal" message as far as you can because the majority of people are not exposed to it! most people do not even know the government is doing the illegal thing it's doing, let alone that it's illegal. when they learn about it they get mad!

Many of us are numb to it, but almost every day he publicly confesses that he is at war with our laws and Constitution.

The person being quoted is shitty but he is not wrong; I did not work in tv for 45 years, but I’ve worked news/mag advertising and/or digital marketing for 25 or so - and if you want to grab a media company’s attention by the short hairs, yes: bitch to their advertisers, not their inboxes.

Even after abusing his power to get Kimmel fired, Trump is still seething with resentment. Hopefully to the point of ill health. KEEP RIDICULING THEM, THEY CAN’T HANDLE IT.

Kimmel was cancelled because he showed a clip of Felon47 being unfeeling about Kirk's death. People are being fired for quoting Kirk accurately and in context. The administration has declared war on reality.

It’s deeply unfair to call today’s fascists “fascist” or “Nazis” just for doing bad things German Nazis did in the 1930s to advance their fascist project. And you better not say “fascism” or the fascists will come for you too!

It's not just the authoritarianism — it's how shameless, how *gleeful* this administration is about it

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years. Pinochet was ousted with a referendum. And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists. Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

It's pretty easy to cancel your Disney+ subscription, and a coordinated, national day of cancellations would send a very clear message about our values as Americans.