No idea huh? I wonder what the dragon's like. Is it a Grand Dragon, Stephen?

Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

We spoke with @chicagoreader.com @thetriibe.com and @unraveledpress.com about the lessons and strategies they learned from media in L.A. and D.C. for their coverage. By @afroxander.bsky.social Find the story (sans paywall) here: lataco.com/chicago-ice-...

Last month, I wrote about Angel Minguela Palacios, who was arrested by Border Patrol while delivering strawberries. On Thursday, I was with his partner and their three kids when they welcomed him home after he spent more than a month in ICE detention www.latimes.com/california/s...

Watching the Raiders for the first time this year (because #httc) and my conservative estimate is that Ashton Jeanty would have 15,000 yards by now if this team had any o-line. Like, at all.

In 1983, 90% of U.S. media was owned by 50 companies. By 2012, that number was 6. Today, it's just 5. Decades of media consolidation made it "a lot easier for authoritarian government to exercise control," consumer advocate Gigi Sohn says. Much more in my new piece: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

I joked the other day that all the Post's editorials are just "what if this bad thing were actually good," and will you look at that

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"Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down." @carolleonnig.bsky.social and @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social report for MSNBC: www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Again Bouie from the top rope

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

"The Colbert Report" is still the best program of its kind ever, and this "Late Show" segment was like the character had never left. youtu.be/ATxL1dLkPnY?...

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

I strongly suspect many big companies have paid less attention to the Target boycott because it's been Black-led, and, well...

The concept of “cringe” is bad, like what’s the point of stigmatizing sincerity

dang, they lost the hulk, aunt may, and mr fantastic

Oops www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

Somehow I don't think Netflix is gonna settle for $3,000 per movie...

After months of smearing this guy as a possible terrorist or terrorist supporter who they needed to eject as soon as possible back to Egypt, the trump administration today filed a motion in court basically going, eh nvm Glorious taxpayer funded use of time www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

(www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...)

are we in the upside down

Interesting

“.. Musk has Tesla shareholders in a Stockholm Syndrome .. Suppose they vote against him, and he leaves .. with his delusions .. “.. Tesla would have to revert to trading closer to its fundamentals, which means slashing the stock price roughly in half ..” @electrek.co electrek.co/2025/09/19/e...

I wrote about Jimmy Kimmel, the FCC, and the First Amendment for @msnbc.com.

They're calling it, "the least surprising development in news history": blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/19/v...

Once a senior comms person at a major news network was very mad at me for a columnist's coverage. "You know," she snapped at me, "your colleagues tell me you're nothing like your father, [longtime WaPo editor with same last name as me]." "That's odd," I said, "because he's not related to me."

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

Only 58 Democrats dared to vote against praising Charlie Kirk. Most fall into 3 categories: 1. Progressives 2. Vulnerable in a primary (Menendez, Moulton, Thanedar + Krishnamoorthi, who's running for Senate) 3. Black Dems (more than 75% voted no) Only 2 of the 58 Nos (Moulton & Quigley) are white.

"Who's 'they' exactly?" "Oh, you know the ones."

fun fact the government only very recently gave up on claiming I committed a felony in the creation of this Sinclair Broadcast Group video in 2018

Charlie Kirk’s death is a tragedy, and I condemn all political violence from wherever it comes. House Republicans designed today’s resolution as a political “gotcha” — one that attempts to put words in my mouth to endorse Kirk’s views. I cannot do that, so I voted “no.”

“It was becoming increasingly clear in recent weeks that Sir Iger and the ABC executives would cut us loose in a second if they thought something we did might hurt attendance at Disney World or cost anyone their annual bonus,”

Also interesting that the NO votes run the ideological spectrum of the caucus: Lots of Squad members, but also Clyburn, Wesley Bell (who replaced Cori Bush) and Seth Moulton.

Only seven Senate Democrats are signed onto a resolution put forward by Jeff Merkley for the United States recognize the State of Palestine. They are: Sen. Jeff Merkley Chris Van Hollen Tim Kaine Bernie Sanders Peter Welch Tina Smith Tammy Baldwin Mazie Huron

Buckle up, folks, Clarence Thomas is gonna be doing his own research again.

They're worried a Dem would try to shut down their show. (Ha). Most interesting part of this is at the end, amid conspiracy theories about BLM and Antifa, panel is critical of Trump's military attacks on Venezuelan boats

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"The drop in Republicans who see the country headed in the right direction is bigger than the decline between October 2020 and December 2020, after President Donald Trump, a Republican, lost his reelection bid." apnews.com/article/poll...

One thing that's interesting here is that for quite awhile, RFK polled better than Trump (likely due to a combination of his last name and him having a distinct brand from Trump). That's given Trump incentive to keep him around. If RFK's numbers keep dropping, that incentive disappears.

The latest from YouGov (n ~ 3k). People overall believe Jimmy Kimmel's comments were acceptable. Further, people found FCC Chair Brendan Carr's comments about planning to retaliate *unacceptable.* And overall, people strongly disapprove of canceling Kimmel's show today.yougov.com/topics/overv...

I noticed some Republican politicians on Twitter flagging data from something called the Network Contagion Research Institute as a source of data saying more than half of people on the left thing assassinating Donald Trump is justified. They didn't list it as NCRI. They listed the source as ...

MAHA vs the U.S. corn lobby is going to be a real Let Them Fight situation

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Kamala Harris on Mark Kelly and Josh Shapiro: (www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...)

"Mr. Jacobs, a moderate from Long Island, was so opposed to the governor’s endorsement that he told associates in recent days that he would sooner resign as chairman than back Mr. Mamdani." I think maybe do that, then? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

Pope Leo XIV said a proposal to create an AI-version of him so people could have a virtual audience with the pope pretty much horrified him.

is…is this a prank?

The media allowing Trump plausible deniability on Project 2025 during the campaign is right up there with Iraq War stenography in craven, lazy disgracefulness