What I want to know is if this is the first time Homan has accepted a bribe. In a normal Administration, he would be immediately fired and a full forensic investigation conducted. But in this corrupt Administration, they’ll lie and deflect.

Jimmy Kimmel returns tomorrow. This is an important victory for free speech. Remember that it was YOU all using your power TOGETHER that got a gigantic corporation to reverse itself. Bless everyone who participated in telling Mickey Mouse to fuck off.

OLIVER: “In Russia, when Putin rose to power, TV satirists were among his first targets… Putin was driven to madness by how he was mocked on a puppet show… the lesson is it’s not safe to let one show slide because there are currently others.”

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

So unifying

Hello Albania 🇦🇱

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

"AI Chatbot, how can that tacky simpleton from Queens make the United States look even more stupid and vulgar?"

California - Gov. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : “Unmarked cars. People in masks. People disappearing… immigrants have rights, and we have the right to push back, and that’s what we’re doing.”

I’m not advocating ignoring it all, but remember to take time out every now and then ❤️

Still thinks asylum seekers are people from asylums

I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research. And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?

Let me be the one to say it plain and clear. America is not intelligent or self-sufficient enough as a nation to be isolationist. American exceptionalism is a dangerous delusion. Like an Icarus level delusion. And it's so deep too many folks don't realize the wings already burned & we're plummeting.

It is insanity that this hugely consequential news — whether Trump’s EO vomit tirade about H1Bs applies to current visa holders — is sourced *anonymously*! No one will go on record to clarify the new rules!? www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

this exists it is called thinking

Karl: “You've said that you restored free speech in America. Is that free speech, including for people who are harshly critical of you, for your political opponents, for people who say things you don't like?” Trump: “You're not a wonderful person. Frankly, you're a terrible reporter.”

And yet this is treated as if it’s completely normal.

well you know the old saying one bad story, they're an asshole 97% bad stories, you're the asshole

Another way to put it is: they are obsessed with the idea that with enough repression and punishment, they can create their peaceable kingdom--on the corpses of their enemies and the corpse of the US Constitution. Behind that is the fantasy that a wholly homogenous USA can be created....

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

Öffentlicher Verkehr in Deutschland: Wenn die DB-Website Dir Verbindungen vorschlägt, die nur möglich werden, weil sie ihre systembedingten Verspätungen in die Berechnung schon einpreisen.

Imagine all cars were electric, and then one Volkswagen engineer comes up with another idea … #EMobility

Aspiring Dictator 101: Destroy the free press. Trump attacks the media as easily as breathing: "Did they have anything to do with your network, Antifa?" "No" - answers NPR reporter "OK, well we're going to find out."

Very wise and true

Was asked the other day what can we do in such dark times. Of course we should find ways of resisting and speaking out. But also gave my generic advice. When unsure what to do, do what you think has the most chance of bringing joy to yourself and others and/or being of lasting value.

"Trump, Vance, and their propaganda networks do not operate in good faith...The forces of liberalism should stop treating MAGA [as if it] is playing by the same rules...The people operating in good faith need to stop self-flagellating and surrendering preemptively." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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.

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

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

Again, the cowardice is stunning

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

Listen to @marcmaron.bsky.social He speaks the truth. We must speak up too. Kimmel was stitched up by an authoritarian regime.

So even someone like Jimmy Kimmel, who brings in millions, isn’t safe from far-right intimidation! And every high-profile surrender not just feeds the thirst for more among the far-right mob but also facilitates the next surrender.

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.

I spoke to a prof who visited the USA. Learned that the visa process (already cumbersome & intrusive) now requires sharing your social media. So if you're critical of the state, you're done. Burner phones, purging your messages... This is what we lived in Russia, and now replicated in the USA

Ezra Klein went beyond opposing political violence to extol Charlie Kirk for doing politics "exactly the right way," making up a fictional version of Kirk to praise. That distortion, with its indulgence of bad faith, is a perfect illustration of the larger media failure that helps Trump. My latest

A study finds that 75% of the time, people share links to news stories on Facebook without clicking on them first. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ironically I am retweeting this without opening the link either 🤷🏻‍♂️

lol remember in his first term being like "whoa that intern in a photo is doing the white power sign" and now every day is like "the attorney general is prosecuting a first grade teacher for not assigning 'mein kampf'"

I continue to be amazed at the absolute lack of courage

must be something wrong with my internet, I just woke up and tried to find the massive Democratic party pushback to all these attacks on the first amendment and nothing's coming up in my browser

I ventured onto X to see the other side of the mirror and found something freaky: Grok AI is scraping tweets and creating summary headlines and summary articles. Tiny disclaimer about verifying info is laughably insufficient. Garbage in, garbage out. Confirmation bias machine in action

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

Laugh at Trump’s ridiculous innumeracy, sure. But the commander of the world’s most powerful military is responding to relevant questions about the laws of armed conflict by claiming that the existence of drug deaths in general permits him to kill anyone he feels like, which is very serious.

Yeah man they ain’t coming back. This is going to be one of the biggest foreign policy blunders of my lifetime, and it’s entirely possible that some guy at ICE ordered it not having any clue what he was doing. This is why we used to leave foreign affairs to sensitive nerds.

In which I said to Americans: “I just can’t emphasize enough to be braver than you think you can. If you don’t pay the middle price now, you’re gonna pay a huge price. People go to jail, people disappear, people die for the right to speak, now you only need to lose your job.” pen.org/what-oversea...

“Thank you for agreeing to do several hours unpaid labour reviewing a paper for our journal. As a bonus please fill in these horrible web forms before we let you even see the paper.”

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

Though it’s traumatic for me to bring this up, I was targeted by a group allied with Turning Point USA in 2018, with the help of Tucker Carlson on Fox. My home address circulated online and I got death threats. 1/