Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

ICE is pepper spraying CPD (Chicago police)

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

YES! THIS on GenAI! Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins: "An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

Before everyone gets all freaked out about this: yes, Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist who believed in contraception to eliminate less desirable babies. Yes, super icky and unfortunate. But yes, she was also a pioneer for women's bodily autonomy. Complexity is one of the lessons of history.

OUR BATHROOM MIRRORS ARE VITAL TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY

The Right telling anyone to “tone down the rhetoric” is like Donald Trump telling anyone not to rape a whole bunch of kids

It’s not lost on me that the only profession mentioned in the Constitution (the press) is a constant target by those who profess their love for the founding document, who loudly say that we can only have a society based on rules set 250 yrs ago.

9-0 SCOTUS ruling from last year: “Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.”

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

You jumped on me & came to Big Balls' defense, pleading not to destroy a kid's life for stupid social media posts. But you now are asking people to call kids' employers to fire them for what they post. Perhaps you owe me an apology JD Vance.

In light of today’s news I’d like to remind you that this is a real newspaper clipping. History repeats itself when we don’t stop it.

Obama: So we have to extend to people during their period of mourning We can also at the same time say I disagree with the idea that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a mistake I can disagree with the suggestion that my wife or Justice Jackson does not have adequate brain processing power.

Something something, Karl Rove, Tucker Carlson, something something broken clocks... *Shuffles off and takes my meds*

Nice pull, Carl. Seriously, read this statement they launched on day one of the administration and see how long you can make it before you feel like you're going insane.

Anyway in other news today is Constitution Day

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms. Collective boycott. Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

I sort of guessed the answer when I asked which Kirk legacy would be honored — debating your opponent, or using state power to shut down the left. But it happened very quickly. www.semafor.com/article/09/1...

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

Anyway, now we know what the FCC thinks is in the public interest: Fox host advocating for executing homeless people? Yes ABC comic suggesting Trumpers are using a death cynically? No

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.

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

There will be a point at the trials when the prosecutors are going to want to prove a depraved indifference to human life, and man are they going to be spoiled for material.

Interesting. I was told that both boats that had been struck down were verified to be carrying narcotics and had connections to criminal groups, but we couldn’t see any of the totally real evidence. Surely fishing would be perfectly safe under such conditions?

They don’t have the power to do what they’re threatening on a grand scale. But they want us to think they do.

Hold on, these are the "we don't have to bake your gay wedding cake" people?

It seems to me that if one wants to be eulogized in a positive way, one should live their life in a positive way. If quoting one's words verbatim is hateful, it seems the words themselves are the issue, not "the context". Anyway, unrelated news: I'm buying mirrors for most of my family for Xmas. 💅

In Pam Bondi's America bakers may refuse to make cakes for gay or trans people, medical pros may refuse to provide women with complete healthcare, military personnel may refuse vaccination orders—all for "religous" or "conscience" reasons—but an Office Depot employee may not refuse to print a flyer.

Getting fired as an opinion writer for having an opinion

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

The problem with firing teachers over Charlie Kirk is that governors and this administration wanted to get rid of them anyways and just found a convenient and awful excuse. As agents of the state, teachers will be under scrutiny. It doesn't excuse the harmful effects of fascism on our profession.

Reporter: Do you think it would have been fitting to lower the flags for Melissa Hortman who was killed as well? Trump: Uh, I’m not familiar, who?

US House proposes 40 percent cut to NOAA Fisheries’ budget | Once again thinking of the senior scientists in my field who told me not to speak out during the election and to stick to science…

White House Officials Vow Vast Crackdown on Liberal Groups www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09... Open authoritarianism. Happening right in front of us.

the thing i love about society is how we make massive scientific advances then some absolute hobgoblin says it isn't real and people just believe him. they believe the hobgoblin. doesn't even need proof.

US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.

Opinion | I’ve dedicated my career to promoting free speech on college campuses. Here’s why the murder of a red state college dropout by another red state college dropout means it’s time to fire liberal professors in blue states.

@joyannreid.bsky.social is asking the right question.This may be the most dangerous period.When the dog catches the car & realizes he can’t open the doors or satisfy its hunger. Now there’s rage, snarling and vicious humiliation at having exhausted itself pursuing something that has no real meaning.

"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were. But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk." www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

Because it's not about the murder, it's about who gets killed.

What the fuck??? How is lightly criticizing CKs hate speech an instant pink slip, but openly suggesting we JUST MURDER THE HOMELESS completely ignored?

I legitimately don't understand how you can frame what he did -- putting individuals' names and faces on an anti-free speech "watchlist," sending busloads of MAGA folks to the Capitol on 1/6, joking about bailing out Paul Pelosi's attacker, sneering at immigrants and black women -- as "civility"

So abhorrent views are less abhorrent because the person who says them does so in a calm manner? Seriously?