Credit to ABC News for this headline on the Comey indictment. abcnews.go.com/US/former-fb...

Makes me sick to my stomach

America’s federal workers are not pawns for the President’s dangerous political games. The Trump administration must focus on fixing the mounting health care crisis and avoiding a costly government shutdown. Time is running out. aflcio.org/press/releas...

This is terrifying. Hegseth is summoning all flag officers from around the globe to Quantico the night before republicans shut down the government. Is this a final purge of dissidents? Are they going to use a government shutdown as pretext for massive domestic military mobilization?

More authoritarianism. The DOJ is now Trump’s personal hit squad.

Breaking news: White House budget office instructs agencies to prepare for mass layoffs if the government shuts down Oct. 1, after federal funding runs out.

#LCVAF is thrilled to congratulate @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social on her victory in the #AZ07 election! She is a climate champion who will continue to fight for Arizona communities in Congress. We look forward to working with her to fight back against attacks on our environment and democracy.

#ResistanceUnited The National Park Service is removing interpretive signs that reference climate change, slavery, the massacre of Native of Americans and other “improper partisan ideology.” The Save Our Signs project is scrambling to create a photo archive. www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...

Jimmy Kimmel: “You almost have to feel sorry for him. He did his best to cancel me. Instead he forced millions of people to watch the show. That backfired bigly. He might have to release the Epstein files to distract us from this now.”

Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach. To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat. And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

The first time Trump made the national news was 1973 when Richard Nixon's, (Richard Nixon's), justice department said he and his dad violated fair housing by having managers write C for colored on rental apps, so they would know not to rent to blacks or Latinos.

Yes it’s a scary time, but the momentum is shifting. If people like Karl Rove, Tucker Carlson, and John Yoo are defending free speech or criticizing his extreme powers, then we do have momentum and the power to fight back. Americans keep going and use your voice!

🧵 Gentleman in DC on the suspension of @jimmykimmel.com: “But you know who the real villains in this whole thing are? The 60-some percent of American voters who didn’t [vote].” LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK. 1/

Stephen Colbert: “Tonight we’re all Jimmy Kimmel…. With an autocrat, you can’t give an inch. If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive, and clearly they've never read The Children's Book If You Give a Mouse A Kimmel.”

This is a great cover.

Top Scientists Find Growing Evidence That Greenhouse Gases Are, in Fact, a Danger - New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/c...

Trump said that federal regulators should revoke the broadcast licenses of late-night hosts who speak negatively about him.

If you have a Democratic House representative, I suggest calling them and reading them some choice Charlie Kirk quotes.

What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power. This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.

NEWS --> Anna Gomez, the lone Dem on the FCC, tells me the Trump admin's pressure to oust Jimmy Kimmel may be unlawful as well as unconstitutional. FCC chair Brendan Carr may be committing censorship in violation of federal law. That and much more in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2006...

Going to feed 30 some high school XC runners tonight and that is giving me joy in this broken time.

None of us can stop all the bad things. But we can each do something. And that adds up. Don't let what you can do get subtracted because it all feels too overwhelming and you stop. That's what they count on. Push on in your specialty. Keep that determined light within you lit.

This is so messed up.

This is the real reason Jimmy Kimmel is being taken off the air. Brian Stelter: "Nexstar already owns lots of TV stations. It wants to merge with Tegna, which owns lots of other stations. In order to do that, it needs Brandon Carr, the FCC Chair's, permission."

Good hed , NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

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

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

Nexstar is currently awaiting approval from the FCC and FTC on a $6.2 Billion acquisition of TEGNA.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

They will defend bigotry, racism, hitler salutes, attacks on Black women, misogyny, and Trump in the Epstein files. But if you talk about how Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a radicalized gun loving white kid… expect to be state-sanction canceled.

This was after Colbert was canceled. Which was two months ago.

EPA decides not to defend federal drinking water standards for PFAS chemicals in court - CBS Albany cbs6albany.com/news/local/e...

“While other presidents have typically tried to lower the temperature in moments of national crisis, Mr. Trump turns up the flames. He does not subscribe to the traditional notion of being president for all the people.” @peterbakernyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...

Words do matter. I’m sad my city council president didn’t choose his words more carefully and is now resigning. But I’m also furious that it seems accountability for words only happens on one side most of the time.

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

We can be morally outraged by an assassination and at the same time acknowledge that Charlie Kirk’s racism and misogyny were immoral. Whitewashing his behavior and beliefs betrays the collective by masking how we got to this place in America.

This is shameful. Any #Ohio politician who signs onto this is actively choosing to honor one of the most harmful white supremacists in modern America. Find your state rep by typing your address below this map: ohiohouse.gov/members/dist... Tell them not to cosponsor this resolution.

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There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man. Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent. We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate. My latest piece.

I agree this is a moment when we all need to work together in getting the temperature down, but that doesn't mean excusing hate speech. Charlie Kirk did not support free and open debate. He supported engaging in bad faith as a monetization strategy and otherwise suppressing free speech.

No, he wasn’t. Kirk was inciting violence and pushing racism. I don’t know what reality Ezra Klein lives in, but it’s not this one. Ezra is that faux-expert YT people eat up, mostly because he’s a YT guy who knows how to sound smart.

Obviously, all gun violence is a horror and a tragedy, and the death of any human being is a harm on us all. Part of being opposed to the cult of gun-worship is that is makes all of us less safe, less free, less whole. Advocating for gun restrictions means EVERYONE is saved. Even the gun nuts.

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

Did Republicans “Declare War” when 20 children were executed at Sandy Hook? I don’t remember if they did. Were they less important than Charlie Kirk? Seriously curious how they decide which shootings are the most important.

Are we winning yet?

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