No one could’ve seen this coming

the difference between me and guys like klein is that he thinks we should study the right to learn their values and i think we should study the right to learn their tactics

President Johnson, in a November 9, 1968 letter to the Smothers Brothers: “It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

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“Curtis Evans stood directly in front of the gate with an American flag. The 65-year-old Evanston resident heard about the first protest on social media and came to represent “the ideals that our country stands for.” “None of us have ever done this before,” he said…

Stark contrast between LA elected officials who were nowhere to be found on the ground and the multiple elected officials in Chicago gulping teargas with the people they represent.

A Riverside sheriff's deputy became "obsessed" with a fitness influencer, using police databases to track her down, even making up a crime as an excuse to visit. But a judge ruled "nothing actually happened." My latest: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Recent emmy-winning Andor writer Dan Gilroy just penned a column about the current Trumpian assault on free speech: deadline.com/2025/09/ando...

this shit is a religious belief for certain centrist Dems. you can't argue with them about it. they think the answer is ALWAYS told to the right.

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let's not blame cocaine for this

It's very hard for me to tell right now how "real" the boycott of Disney+ is in terms of impact. I've seen people claiming Disney's site was down at the same time I could pretty easily access it. But I'm hopeful that it might pick up enough steam and a strong enough narrative to matter.

Other people may have other experiences but I followed the instructions here and it took about three minutes, two of which were clicking 'other' on cancellation reason and typing my reason, and that I would return after a Kimmel reinstatement and apology. Super easy.

Immigration Judge Jamee Comans has ordered Mahmoud Khalil to be deported to either Syria or Algeria, in a move seen widely as retaliation for Khalil's Palestine activism. mondoweiss.net/2025/09/immi...

very funny to read this the same week as @codyjohnston.bsky.social and I recorded an episode about Ben Shapiro's newest book in which he moans about London having "fallen" to the left

Irish writer Sally Rooney said she was advised not to enter the U.K. to receive a literary prize this week, for fear of arrest over her support for Palestine Action, which was banned under British terrorism laws.

Hey Sarah McBride, you’re not gonna stop the leopards from eating your face. Have a fucking backbone. Such a god damn disappointment - and I already didn’t expect much.

underneath all the doom and hideous stuff happening at the top of our country is a more inspiring story: regular Americans are not buying all this crap. and they're still willing to call the government out on it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US neo-Nazi fight club is using Charlie Kirk’s killing to recruit new members www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

like seriously, the actual text of the article bears little resemblance to how some people are interpreting it

awesome that conservatives get to lie about being victims and generate enough death threats to shut down an entire store

attachment is the root of all suffering, so burn your own house down and poison your loved ones immediately.

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

another case of people reading a headline and either not reading or misreading an article. the actual reporting does not say anything like "all trans people are being classified as terrorists" i understand why people are scared. i also feel like reading comprehension is at an all time low

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"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

For anyone who thinks the current assault on free speech is limited to people who criticize Charlie Kirk…

Our country loves taking advice from people who grew up wishing to escape small towns, then getting too scared to leave and finally angry at cities for existing at all.

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Y'all. @adambecker.bsky.social reviewed the new Eliezer Yudkowsky book for the Atlantic and he *does not miss.* www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

excited for this trend to continue when 30 years from now Nick Fuentes takes a principled stance against the policies of President Triple Hitler, a clone containing the souls of three Hitlers in a single body

i guess not I'm surprised that Ken Jennings is really good here, i just wouldn't have predicted the host of Jeopardy being a voice of moral courage on this specific issue.

ban social media, put heroin in the water supply

i guess fundamentally i don't have trouble imagining an American carrying out a public shooting for almost any conceivable reason. it's just something we do over here. availability of firearms is obviously a big part of why but not the only reason.

the Trump Economy

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The police will call you about photos you post to private chats. They will do this almost immediately, it seems www.kenklippenstein.com/p/charlie-ki...

one thing you can't take from James Gunn is the son of a bitch knows how to pick a theme song for a season of television

this would theoretically provide power long enough to play the monorail episode of The Simpsons, which is all we really need electricity to do these days anyway

let this be your reminder that you too can kill nearly everyone aboard the Titanic if you just believe in yourself

if you were going to tailor-make a shooter in a lab to confound and inspire conspiratorial thoughts in the most people you could hardly do better than Tyler Robinson. Conservative background, involved in meme culture, but also progressive angry at Kirk in vague terms for pushing "hate"

I'm seeing people post this as a smoking gun that the FBI re-created / falsified the chatlog between the shooter and his roommate. This is referring to the note the shooter claimed they left behind at home. Still questionable as to how that was re-created but it has nothing to do w the chatlog.

Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen to -17 in our tracker, the worst of his second term www.economist.com/interactive/...

Just read the indictment. Gonna guess this is the most detail we get about why this happened. Presuming these messages weren't some sort of misdirect, he hated Charlie Kirk because Kirk was hateful. Honestly doesn't sound like he had a super clear idea why he inscribed the memes on his bullets.

This is the most detailed look inside Tyler Robinson's Discord community I've seen and yet again, it gives us absolutely no clear motivation, political in or otherwise. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

finally watching Twins and so far it seems like Danny DeVito's character's career is "professional adulterer"

Somebody tried to blow up a news van in Salt Lake City