regardless of the details I think it’s important to spin the Kimmel thing as a win Trump is weak, he’s unpopular, he massively overreached and inspired enough of a revolt that Disney had to backtrack immediately he wants to paint himself as an all-powerful dictator, paint him as a loser who sucks

A leader who quotes Nemik’s manifesto is the leader America needs 😃👍🏼

the strangeness of the current moment lies in how the administration is consolidating authoritarian power while also being extremely weak

We’ve had a number of thoughtful conversations about how to get you to stop selling the stock please ok thx

related: someone asked tony gilroy why he made the massacred ghormans rich white & french & his reply was basically “societies ignore the marginalized but freak when shit hits the privileged.” folks slept on the moon girl ⬆️ sitch; karen attiah’s firing didn’t hit wapo like kimmel’s hit disney.

Now that we've seen the way that have five white folks own most of media is bad, are we willing to revisit the discussions about the lack of diversity in the content of the media is bad to ... or no?

Those desperate to discover (or worse, declare) why some people are autistic are the exact same people who’ve needed to know all this time why I’m gay. I don’t trust their motives or their “kindness” and just want the rest of us to create a world that accommodates people’s differences with respect ❤️

neurodiversity is Good Actually. just want to say that

“It is a tradition we could all do well to emulate” ❤️

If Ford booted him within minutes of finding out about the charge and refuses to disclose what the charge is, you know it's sketchy as hell.

Song for the Rapture “When the man with the big book up there said 'Looks like it′s downstairs for you little lady,' I thought oh great, an eternity with a bunch of politicians and corporate executives. You know, Dullsville! But when I saw all the celebrities and fun people, I said 'Hey, not bad!'"

The sheer volume of online freak outs over a few western nations barely recognizing the state of Palestine really shows you how many people who claimed to believe in a two state solution were lying

We Autistic people are stable parts of the human genome. We’ve been here the whole time. We long pre-date Tylenol. Trump and RFK Jr. are ableist and eugenicist bigots spouting debunked nonsense. Our differences are the genius – and the conscience – of our species. stimpunks.org/philosophy/b...

This is an important point about keeping the focus on fascism instead of on Kimmel himself. There's a decent chance this ends with Kimmel getting his show back by making a statement about how we should all try to get along and how he supports ABC blah, blah. You don't want to tie yourself to that.

It’s sort of funny how in the conservative “intellectual” mind the 2019-21 “peak woke” period was just the lower orders getting uppity and not itself a reaction to elite resistance to punishing sex crimes and a corpus of footage of police killings generated by smartphone adoption

Autism is genetic. Hate to break it you. The reason Trnmp and RFK Jr want a link to something external is eugenics. Then the reason there's autism in their family can't possibly be their perfect Aryan genes, but instead poor choices made by "clearly inferior" people.

Adding your name to an ACLU letter is the liberal version of “thoughts and prayers!” 👇🏼

Terrific article from @stevenlevy.bsky.social on the Silicon Valley tech lords painfully getting what they wanted, though it’s so frustrating to hear rich guys in California say, "There’s a general sense in tech, even in the center left, that identity politics have gone too far.” Too far for who??

the bargain of, let’s say, fairly stable, small-d democratic capitalism is that the average person gets better living standards and wages and doesn’t have to think very much about politics, and i think everyone involved in politics will come to regret the choice to change the terms of the agreement

Another big reason to get the Kanopy and Hoopla apps this week, if you haven’t already 👍🏼

It’s the first day of fall and Sigourney Weaver wishes us all a very happy Autumn 🧡🤎

cartoonists handing the same 5 dollar bill around the Small Press Expo but it's the entire economy somehow

Zero patience for the pro-Disney “debate meeeee” guys today, sorry 😐

Here it is: The @wired.com Politics Issue is now live, with more stories rolling out all week. We're so proud of this one. Behold this cover; truly a work of art. And we're treating it that way: Starting today, you can find it on murals, billboards, and posters across in five U.S. cities.

PRIDE was a great movie in 2014 but an *essential* movie in 2025. Please find it and watch!

I will die salty that the excellent swing version of Can You Forgive Her? was only available on the B-Side of the Australian CD single of “Yesterday When I Was Mad” and a few hard drives of diehard fans: youtu.be/5_hc1aKe6rA?...

From Graham Linehan to Riley Gaines, the thing to understand about anti-trans activists is that they are deeply, alarmingly unwell. Screaming about other people’s gender like this is just not a good use of anyone’s time.

Sorry, I'm now told that Baby Yoda is being forced to donate to Turning Point USA and that in the place of this movie they will now air two-hour pyrotechnics-laden memorial for Hero of the Empire, Orson Krennic

From earlier this year, another warning ignored 😡

Today's newsletter is an interview I recently did with the great and insightful @edzitron.com about the AI bubble. Check it out here: www.readtpa.com/p/the-man-ca...

I am excited to announce the answer to autism! The answer is YES!

I loathe that we are at the point where we have to say, "Here’s the data as to why this life-saving treatment/preventative doesn’t cause autism" on two different levels. One: it’s freaking life-saving! Two: WHO THE FUCK CARES IF IT DID, it’s still FREAKING LIFE-SAVING! But here we are.

Of all the pop heroes, DAREDEVIL has been my favourite this past decade for exactly this 👇🏼

Thank God for the Rian Johnsons, James Gunns, and Noah Hawleys chipping away at the edges of franchise IP. If we're gonna tell the same stories, let's interrogate them and reinvigorate them. Find new possibilities in familiar places. Comment on our own time instead of chasing nostalgia.

As Trump / RFK Jr. do their fucking bullshit today, this is your reminder not to cite Autism Speaks because the autistic community largely agrees they’re a eugenics ass hate group searching for the “cure to autism”. Regardless of how you frame it, curing autism is nazi eugenics.

How does Tylenol cause autism when Tylenol was only invented in 1955

I can’t wrap my head around “You’re not the minority anymore,” as if this white-supremacist American woman has so internalized Trump’s “very unfair media” schtick that she believes *she’s* oppressed 😮 As Alex O’Keefe says, “This country is growing more psycho by the day. What will you do about it?”

Imagine what it must be like to be this gullible

26,000 YouTube views for Sinclair’s Charlie Kirk tribute special. Just for comparison, Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue on any average Wednesday will get between two and four MILLION YouTube views. Right wing culture is fringe stuff. It is not American culture by any stretch.

I’ve had white gay men and lesbians say to my face this past decade that "trans issues are not our fight” and that we must cut them loose “for our own safety” so I’m afraid Evan here is exactly right and those cowardly “LGB without the T” gays are exactly wrong 👇🏼

dunno if 10 hours of livestreamed garment rending and teeth gnashing by the weirdest people on earth is gonna change the fact that they woke all their dragons day one. you're already literally invading america! oh is a second set of gloves coming off? have we seen the end of your famous restraint

I’m seeing a weird thing happen where people are now calling Stephen Miller, vicious bigot and Trump vampire, “Steve Miller” and no, everyone needs to stop doing that right this very minute 😡

The problem with Democrat leaders is they seem complicit with Trump and any attempt to defend them from that charge is “no no, you see, they’re just really unaware!” 😬👇🏼

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Disney actually thought that old love for Baby Yoda could dilute our anger at their Jimmy Kimmel cowardice but instead they’ve made everyone angry at Baby Yoda. Good job 😂

I CAN DO THINGS OUT OF SPITE 💜

This week we're centering stories of resistance, were laughing at the pathetic cowardly fash, were not letting liberal bootlicking convince us all is lost. This week we're loudly, proudly the anti-state family abolishing gay nightmare they piss themselves about.

“This concession shows that student campaigns do have an influence,” one student said. "These ties cannot survive transparency."

"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happen—whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...