this is bad for all the data privacy and freedom of information reasons many have already noted but it's going to be fun to watch it fail!

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

The Disinformation Governance Board was a policy coordination body that would have had nothing to do with the any American’s speech, so I would have done nothing. As an American citizen, I am v disturbed that a comedian has been suspended because the FCC pressured his network. You should be too.

“Eye for an eye” is a terrible approach to rights violations. Even worse when the first eye was never damaged, but is instead an absurd conspiracy theory pushed by people who want to feel like victims to give themselves an excuse to do awful things they already wanted to do.

"They’re quite literally engaging in the coercion they accused the Biden administration of being engaged in,” @maryannefranks.bsky.social said. 👏 👏 👏 LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE ON THE RIGHT rollcall.com/2025/09/19/s...

If you need a laugh and some hope amid the grim headlines: youtu.be/Tsb1I7hqaJ4?... @mariaressa.bsky.social tells @thedailyshow.com we’re at “Armageddon” not “apocalypse.”

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...

"You can say whatever you would like. You can say, “Kill ’em,” about mentally ill homeless people, and keep your job with a simple apology. Just make certain, first, that you are one of those whose speech is never considered a threat." (this piece is perfect.)

more of this

Opinion | Firing talkshow hosts is not a free speech issue. Company should be free to hire and fire at will. Universities on the other hand need to hire many more conservative professors.

Top story on @washingtonpost.com this morning: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Having people accusing me of being a censor while the Trump administration is performing acts of blatant censorship is truly crazy making

KEY to the story about ABC suspending Kimmel's show: Nexstar and Sinclair, two big owners of ABC-affiliated stations, both need FCC approval for pending deals. With a lot of $$ on the line, both have reason to curry favor with the Trump admin. Both decided to yank Kimmel's show.

19 minutes after Brian shared this I got hate mail! That person definitely believes Fox’s coverage was “hyperbolic” “opinion”, right?

Let me put it this way: Mahmoud Khalil is a Palestinian immigrant with a green card who worked with deeply unpopular groups. My median follower is a white guy with a 401(k) who was born in this country. We all need to be a little braver than we have been; we can afford it.

I couldn’t put it any better than my friend and client @ninajankowicz.com. We are more than disappointed in this opinion, but our heads are held high. It was a privilege to represent Nina in this case. She is one of the most tenacious people I’ve ever met and she’s not going anywhere.

A sad update from me. But the fight continues. wiczipedia.substack.com/p/the-justic...

Last year: Austin Peay State University learns prof is Nazi who went to Charlottesville rally. Admin drags heels, pays him $56k severance to leave This week: APSU prof posts screenshot of headline - Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment- & is immediately fired

My son, after I left the house, evidently pondering motor vehicles: People don’t know how to drive. Husband: What do you mean? Son: Mommy says that every time. 😂😂😂😂😂

Shellenberger, who for years has breathlessly spread baseless conspiracy theories about a nonexistant censorship cabal between civil society/academia, and government is now OPENLY ENDORSING CENSORSHIP demanded by an elected official. The hypocrisy would be astounding if it weren't so predictable.

“Words…are not value neutral. They can be kinetic, and they can inspire others to act. That act might look like a hateful tweet, a threatening phone call, doxxing a target, harassing their family, or worse. That is not debate. That is the active silencing of it.” open.substack.com/pub/wicziped...

I tried to grapple with Kirk’s assassination and why, as one of his targets, I mourn his murder but not his politics. open.substack.com/pub/wicziped...

Holy shit, no it is not. We *can* stop this, in fact, Rep Harris is among those who can make a real contribution to such an effort. Instead he shrugs and says it’s part of the job.

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

Congress passed a bipartisan law long ago mandating that a plaque honoring the officers who defended Capitol on J6 be displayed in the building. Mike Johnson has ignored that law and refuses to do it.

Grateful @davidgilbert.bsky.social covered this. I NEVER celebrated anyone’s murder. I said I was terrified the far-right would use this as an excuse to retaliate, and they’re proving me right with every post. These guys are out for blood. They don’t care whose. This is really bad.

All this suggests is that the shooter wants people to believe they're a far-left ideologue. Maybe they are; without more evidence, we don't know. But a far-right "accelerationist" wanting civil war, more hatred, more violence would do the exact same thing.

The end of this interview shocked me. @michelmartinnpr.bsky.social asked a perfectly reasonable question about political rhetoric and Schlapp lashed out in a very immature way. I dread what this portends for our country www.npr.org/2025/09/11/n...

So MSNBC reportedly fired Matthew Dowd tonight just hours after Jesse Watters called for his "immediate" termination over his Charlie Kirk shooting comments. Meanwhile, Watters said he's going to "avenge" Kirk's death because "they are at war with us" -- and he'll face no repercussions from Fox.

It really is so striking how much The Discourse operates untethered from…what we actually know. The killer is still at large! We have no idea who did it! Seems pretty important to get that sorted.

We documented some of the calls for retribution that followed Charlie Kirk’s murder. With @kieraevebutler.bsky.social and @juliannemcshane.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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1. We do not know the motive of the shooter. The man who shot at Trump was after attention. 2. The man who murdered MN legislators WAS motivated by politics, and I didn’t hear any Dems calling for reprisals against all Repubs. 3. It’s easy to start a cycle of violence. Not easy to end one.

Putin wasn’t available but Medvedev chipped in:

If only we could count on our current president being circumspect and lowering the temperature in moments like this.

all signs point to this being just an incredibly destabilizing moment. very very bad stuff. we're in a very dark place.

According to Donald Trump, white Christian nationalist Charlie Kirk, head of the right-wing dark money group TPUSA, has died from a gunshot wound to the neck. There is reportedly no suspect in custody and we do not know the motives for the shooting. These are the facts available at this time.

The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...

We say the cliches because they are true: Political violence consumes everything it touches. We cannot have a liberal democracy when people try to end political disagreements with bullets. I hope Charlie Kirk survives, for all our sakes.

I wrote this in June. Sharing again. open.substack.com/pub/wicziped...

I condemn this shooting as I condemned others before it. Political violence is never acceptable, and it’s un American. We have a way out of this horror we’re experiencing, and it starts with a de-escalation in rhetoric from political leaders and passing common sense gun control.

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

Here we go - as if Trump hasn’t had months to bring Putin to the bargaining table and avoid escalations like this. But every time there’s a decision point, he caves to the whims of his KGB BFF. Now, our allies pay the consequences of Trump’s weakness on Russia.

This is like a D- random twitter user observation and it's coming from our commander in chief

Important piece. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...

Proud to share this joint investigation between @benmshultz.com @americansunlight.org and @indicator.media's @mantzarlis.com. We uncovered over 4000 ads for nudifying apps that violated Meta's terms and attempted to evade DSA enforcement. Read more: www.americansunlight.org/updates/repo... 1/

Both of my books and several of my articles—a significant portion of my life's work—was stolen by companies that used LibGen to train their models. I might get $6k from this class action suit *if I'm lucky.* Authors aren't getting rich off these settlements! www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anth...

Others will be testifying about draconian foreign agent laws in places like Russia and the Republic of Georgia—laws that have crippled dissident movements, landed people in jail, and worse. But Mikey? He's gonna lie about censorship so he can keep pulling in six figures in Substack revenue.

What a way to frame a military occupation

This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.