It cannot be said enough: the freaks who wanted Kimmel cancelled are SEVERELY outnumbered in this country. We need to stop being afraid of these people and fight back everywhere we can. Stop pretending like we *already* live in Nazi Germany because we don't!

it's important to make these companies more afraid of people with empathy and good sense than they are of weird fucking brigading authoritarian babies we outnumber these assholes by a wide margin

Very strongly advise not giving any of your money back to Disney and instead invest it in independent media.

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For our October issue I wrote about the Roberts Court for its 20th anniversary, how it helped lead us to the current crisis, and what should be done about it:

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The Friends of Wyman Park Dell get some goats to come through and chew up the overgrowth each year, so I donated to support the cause because that’s fun. If I’d known the “thank you” gift would be such a Black Phillip-inspired shirt, I’d have donated twice to live even more deliciously.

…But enough about the 2025 Orioles!!!

shit ain’t over til it’s over

26,000 YouTube views for Sinclair’s Charlie Kirk tribute special. Just for comparison, Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue on any average Wednesday will get between two and four MILLION YouTube views. Right wing culture is fringe stuff. It is not American culture by any stretch.

this is correct and we should all say it over and over until it becomes reality. we don't "need the money;" we need for nobody to have so much money that they can dominate public life.

side note: bluesky is a better website in every way than the old one but i particularly like being able to search my images by text within the app.

Really wish Democrats could make a case for democracy and free speech without insulting other countries or implying that this fascist regime isn't purely American.

It's particularly the case among the Americans who are paid to decide which news is important, and who despite everything still can't bring themselves to accurately describe the fact that the president is serially murdering people and our systems are unable to stop him

1) Some of my speech got negative social reactions, which felt bad 2) That’s equivalent to state repression 3) Big name elite didn’t validate my feelings (ok, they did, but not enough) 4) This entitles—nay, requires—us to overthrow democracy and do state repression for real That really is the logic

There's no more fitting tribute to Charlie Kirk than the one they're giving him right now: nominally Christian survivors on the same grift clambering over one another for more publicity, capped by the shambling, lurching embodiment of everything they long to be. You couldn't write anything meaner

It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits

No it doesn’t. Trump got fewer votes in 24 than in 20, and didn’t get a majority. Most eligible voters didn’t vote.

righteous gemstones was a documentary

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

watching even a few seconds of the kirk funeral makes it clear a large quantity of this country is ready for full on nazi authoritarianism and we have to really grapple with how much we need to put a stop to this as quickly as possible

the fact they're out here running "abigail spanberger will trans your kids" against one of the most conservative candidates out of the Democratic Party is a great example of why actually standing up for trans people, especially kids, is the only way to go

meanwhile costco was all “DEI is good and we’re keeping it, fuck you” and they’re now basically printing money

i'm stuck on the analysis that conservative media functions as a hyperreal simulacrum so that whenever anything real real (one of the fonts of hyperreal getting made dead) punches through it all just goes especially crazy

Definitely this. And the university served as a type of publicly-funded game reserve for Kirk, a stocked pond of sorts where he could extract bounty while safely simulating sport or battle.

here is your brief break from the horrors: a man digging for earthworms as fishing bait found a medieval silver hoard in a copper cauldron in the Stockholm region. It is estimated to weigh about 6 kilos, and dates to the reign of Knut Eriksson (1167-1195-ish). www.lansstyrelsen.se/stockholm/om...

Today, Maryland took additional actions to protect COVID access: - Issued a standing order so vaccines can be administered based on guidance developed by medical professional societies instead of the federal government - Confirmed they have joined the Northeast Public Health Collaborative

you have to admit "can you make a documentary about a contemporary subject that never directly quotes anything he ever said or did" is kind of an interesting challenge from an artistic perspective

sinclair pulled its kirk tribute six minutes before it was set to air on its abc affiliates

1. Telling trans people that even if Democrats won't protect us we should be selfless and vote for them to protect other people is a shitty thing to say. Asking for our rights and calling out Dems when they won't support us doesn't help fascists. Tell Democrats to support and defend us instead.

Dutch late night TV has its take

i dont care how purple your district is. hell i dont care if youre a democrat in a blood red district. there's no reason to "honor" someone who said THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO SERVE ON THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT WAS AN UNQUALIFIED AFFIRMATIVE ACTION HIRE. period.

This is spot-on, and I wonder how long it's going to take for people to fully grasp it, much less fight back. These people cannot be compromised with, they need to be removed from power and shunned from society.

The media landscape in future America must feature credible, relatable, interesting local news for normal people, and it must be robust enough to meet them where they are: reading, listening, or watching (or whatever fourth thing youths are doing these days). We need an oasis for every news desert.

Christ, this country is just marinating in horseshit.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

I wrote about what the desperate attempt to find a trans connection to the Charlie Kirk assassination tells us about the deep psychological impulses at work in Trumpism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...

If you’re a democratic lawmaker who won’t do the right thing in Congress because of an outside threat, this is going to sound callous but you’re in the wrong job. This kind of stuff is your job. It’s the whole ballgame. “I’m afraid” is not a viable excuse.

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

My respect for anyone who says they're afraid of voting against this resolution is zero. You are a member of Congress. The country is being dragged to hell. 'People will threaten us.' What did you think this job entailed? Quit blubbering, vote no, and move on.

This fact-check says he was accusing Ms. Rachel of selectively quoting the Bible, which is true. But he's not saying "Look, the Bible says all kinds of wacky stuff, you can ignore some passages." He's saying "It's all true and if you believe some of it, you should believe all of it."

People keep "debunking" the claim that Charlie Kirk wanted to stone gay people to death but I'm pretty sure he meant it.

I think the fundamental problem is that most people are not comfortable with silence / their own thoughts.

Some smart publication should reach out to every single person who signed the Harper’s letter and get their comment / explicit no-comment

Legit wild that nobody has done this yet (or if someone has, I haven’t seen it)

Rich people, especially rich people in the media & entertainment industries right this moment: The point of having fuck you money is saying “fuck you” when it counts.