FDR won 42 states in 1932, it wasn't by pandering to Hoover voters. Then Republicans called him a socialist for 4 years. Then he ran for reelection and won 46 states

Prominent names on here who also have spoken out on Gaza, amid the government crackdown on pro-Palestine speech: Mark Ruffalo, Cynthia Nixon, Florence Pugh, Joaquin Phoenix, Jane Fonda, Ilana Glazer, Gianmarco Soresi, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Marcia Cross, Wallace Shawn, Rob Delaney, Ramy Youssef, more.

Caught today’s @arsenalfc.bsky.social match with Spike Lee in Fort Greene (not a sentence I ever thought I'd get to write).

Breaking News: Britain, Canada and Australia formally recognized Palestinian statehood.

Breaking news: Thirty-one journalists were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a newspaper complex in Yemen last week, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists. They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”

NEWS: The Congressional Progressive Caucus — which represents nearly 100 members in Congress — has just voted to endorse the Block the Bombs Act, to block weapon sales to Israel. First time any major congressional caucus has backed legislation to end US aid for Israel’s destruction of Gaza.

Who’s read OCTOBER by China Mieville? I’m reading it now & it’s a fucking barnburner. Peeled myself away to tell you to read it RIGHT NOW. It’s the story of the Russian revolution. Get: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

“The FCC decided all by itself that radio and television were the only two parts of American life not protected by the free speech provisions of the first amendment to the constitution.” George Carlin, 1988

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

I really can’t recommend strongly enough attending an in-person mtg of @demsocialists.bsky.social. Face to face, hands on work is how we defeat the barbarism we’re faced with. DSA is a great place to start: www.dsausa.org/chapters/%E2...

NEW: If Republicans won’t conduct oversight of Trump’s unconstitutional and cruel immigration policies that kidnap and disappear immigrants of all statuses, I will. Today’s Shadow Hearing will focus on how his actions are destroying U.S. families and communities.

but what if the billionaire owners of these “media companies” are part of the problem

I really can’t recommend strongly enough attending an in-person mtg of @demsocialists.bsky.social. Face to face, hands on work is how we defeat the barbarism we’re faced with. DSA is a great place to start: www.dsausa.org/chapters/%E2...

Just got an email from @vijayiyer.bsky.social’s mailing list & was momentarily like “Vijay Iyer is emailing ME personally??” Listen to this track v loud. How much FUN is he having? youtu.be/zFG6XYu2Dfw?...

By the way, you can in fact run a media business where people give you money for goods and services. 56k+ people give The Onion ~$100 and we give them a year of newspapers. This business didn’t exist last year in this way. People will pay for good shit. Now’s the time to break glass and go for it.

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

Some news: yesterday was my last at Rolling Stone. For now, I'm going solo, doing all my TV reviewing, recapping, etc., at my newsletter. I hope you'll consider subscribing. Many more details here:

one of the clearest signs you're dealing with a strong and principled political movement is when they want to make it illegal to make fun of them

Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases

JUST IN: An independent United Nations inquiry has concluded for the first time that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and that the country’s top leaders have incited genocide, in what it described as “the “most authoritative UN finding to date.” https://cnn.it/3VjaHzS

BREAKING: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a team of independent experts commissioned by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council concludes.

I know “every accusation is a confession” gets said a lot but holy shit this is a doozy. The whole conservative media sphere is funded by dark money and being the death drive for a third of the nation is its whole point. Keep buying guns. Don’t get vaxxed. No preventative care. Work until the grave.

Thrilling to be in the room & watch her say this ❤️🇵🇸

I want to once again reiterate what I said earlier. The reason the vast majority of Democratic and so-called centrist elites have acquiesced over and over again is that they are COMPLICIT. Because they actually know that direct confrontation is how you defeat fascists and choose not to do it.

Watched “Presumed Innocent.”David E. Kelley just blows so much contemporary TV out of the water. Happy to see him back in Chicago. Watching his “Chicago Hope” as a kid w/ my mom made me want to write TV. All main cast v deservedly nominated for Emmys. O-T Fagbenle *brilliant* as well.

Cool & good! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump falling asleep at 9/11 memorial obliquely reminds me of 2 “fun” facts: 1. Whitey Bulger liked to take a nap after he murdered ppl & 2. Guilty ppl often fall asleep if left alone in an interrogation room for a while. 3. He is v old & medically unwell.

Brain tumors are the # 1 cancer killer of kids. Used to be leukemia but because research/trials focused on it, pediatric deaths from leukemia went down. Makes sense I guess; reducing number of kids killed by brain tumors is famously not profitable.

I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.

Just renewed my @allmusic.com subscription. Easily the site I spend the most time on. Is there a better, more comprehensive site for music nerds? (That’s a real question; happy to learn)

Just read Robert Harris’s PRECIPICE. Fictionalized acct of Prime Minister Herbert Asquith’s affair with a (40 years) younger woman in lead up to & early yrs of WWI. What’s NOT fictionalized are the *100s* of letters he wrote her detailing top secret war strategy! What a nut! Great book.

"We emailed Infidels MC for comment. In response, Mr Mulford instructed fellow leaders of the biker gang not to reply but included the BBC when he clicked 'reply all'—inadvertently disclosing email addresses and names of fellow Infidels MC members...working in Gaza." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Want to make sure Americans are aware that Lord Peter Mandelson, the UK’s ambassador to the US, is um, in the news. A thread worth pulling if, for example, you were unhappy w/ the US’s current political leadership. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The depths of evil www.bbc.com/news/article...

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Next Tuesday, @tricialockwood.bsky.social will be at Conway Hall talking to Joe Dunthorne about her new novel, WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU, in her only UK event for the book. Tickets here:

I like all the racist stuff Trump is doing but my daughter is immunocompromised so the RFK/vaccine stuff frustrates me. I’m a real guy and I open carry

@adamfriedlandnyc.bsky.social Your interview w Torres was just phenomenal. Beautiful, honestly. It will help people. (Don’t tell anyone I said this.)

People need to calm down with the conspiracy theories, here’s Trump today at his Virginia golf club with MAGA radio host John Fredericks

Realized last night that the cute lil’ guy in McCabe & Mrs. Miller who adorably asks his buddy if he should shave his beard to just a mustache is the SAME ACTOR WHO 30 YRS LATER plays the weird director in Mulholland Drive who tells Naomi Watts “Don’t play it for real until it gets REAL.”

Just took these photos myself in Massachusetts. Hot stuff. Grateful for the benefits my union provides my family & me. Join a union today: aflcio.org/formaunion/c...

The world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president says. There was no immediate response from the Israeli foreign ministry.

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say

happy labor day! all value is created by labor and all profit is stolen.