The US has gone from "walk softly and carry a big stick" to "react to every perceived slight like the most insecure guy in the room"

Kimmel won. Winning matters, wins are how we’re going to prevent this autocratic slide.

Vought’s threat all but calls forth Lincoln’s searing argument at Cooper Union: “Plainly stated … you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events.”

Michael Wolff: Is it dementia or something else? What one of Donald Trump's closest political advisors revealed to me.

He launched a more powerful defense of journalism than the vast majority of mainstream journalists have and that's an indictment of them.

Trump pushed Kimmel into going full resistance lib for the biggest audience he will ever have. Another masterclass from the president.

Those station groups not allowing their viewers to see tonight’s Jimmy Kimmel are denying them access to an important moment in TV history.

"More than a million people had canceled Disney streaming subscriptions as of Monday, the Disney source told me, and the company likely knew that trend would only continue the longer they kept Kimmel silenced." @marisakabas.bsky.social w/ a doozy. 👀

Trump "He had no ratings" Kimmel "Well I do tonight"

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Fine: 1) What’s happening to the U.S. is part of a transnational far-right, autocratic wave and it cannot be treated as a purely domestic issue 2) A major subset of these dynamics is globalized kleptocracy/oligarchy; tackling that requires rebuilding & enhancing int’l anti-corruption mechanisms

Again, the escalator and teleprompter errors were the result of Trump's people screwing up, so this is a great example of how the right works

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Seems bad for our society when you can’t make racist terrorists the villains

if you live in ukraine or georgia "will my country continue existing" depends on the stupidest 1% of the population of pennsylvania, the types who googled "why isn't joe biden on the ballot" on november 4th

Republican Sunday: YOU HAVE AWAKENED A DRAGON OF WHITE RAGE WE WILL SWIM IN THE BLOOD OF OUR TERRORIST ENEMIES AS THEIR CHILDREN WORK OUR SLAVE CANPS Republican Monday: we’re sweet widdle puddy tats what never hurted a fly and the mean man’s post fwightened us so bad we cwosed up our widdle eyes

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

Speak confidently and carry a big-ass stick.

The Trump administration has not sent any Coast Guard admirals up for Senate confirmation because Kristi Noem lives in a home usually reserved for the top admiral of the Coast Guard and she "she doesn’t want to get kicked out of the commandant’s house." nymag.com/intelligence...

Not if they tie!! -me 09/23/2025 0341 pst

Best part? Jack told SCOTUS “only you can make this call, so skip the circuit court.” SCOTUS said “No. Do it the regular way.” Then when the circuit court said “Trump isn’t immune here,” and Smith told SCOTUS “You don’t need to weigh in,” SCOTUS said “ONLY WE CAN MAKE THIS CALL!.”

I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.

We have a handy chart...

Christian persecution in America is best defined by this image: No actual struggle, wearing clothes that cost more than my entire wardrobe, polished cross instead of rugged, and surrounded by crowds of fellow hypocrites cheering on bigotry who believe they're the victims.

i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.

Democrats must impeach FCC chair Brendan Carr over Jimmy Kimmel. Yes, we know Dems don't have the votes to actually impeach Carr. But they can use the threat of impeachment to fuel the narrative of how the GOP is coming for our freedoms. My article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/heres-why-...

Bearing your cross is a lot easier with wheels.

Rumors aren't facts. But last fall the Finance/DC corridor was awash in chatter that bribes and cash payments were flying fast and furious. Given the nature of this crew, essentially zero chance Homan was alone in this.

Schumer and Jeffries aren't guilty of bring knives to a gun fight. They're bringing spoons.

The Biden DOJ had proof that Tom Homan accepted $50,000 in cash while he was a top Trump surrogate, but the dirt didn't leak. Because Biden's DOJ upheld the law. It puts a lie to the GOP claim that if there were anything damaging about Trump in the Epstein files it would have leaked.

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

Merrick Garland focusing on rebuilding the DOJ’s culture instead of vigorously prosecuting the leaders of the coup against our democracy and our constitution is really paying off big time

they hate your freedom to challenge them and want to end it www.semafor.com/article/09/1...

The shape of politics in the US right now is increasingly that the media, political and economic elites are allied with the Trump regime against the actual people of the country who hate it

The most dangerous person at a protest for a regime is a priest in a collar.

The real story here — that this happened after a threat from the federal government — is completely absent from this headline. Again, the press is so in the tank for Trump — and/or scared — that they don’t even have solidarity for their own.

This is why the media is mostly assiduously reporting the cancellation as being about comments about Kirk (even tho Kimmel said nothing remotely offensive about Kirk) instead of reporting the truth

Politics this, politics that. Worrying about what the president does is a mental illness. If you just support the president unconditionally, you can be happy.

"Trump, Vance, and their propaganda networks do not operate in good faith...The forces of liberalism should stop treating MAGA [as if it] is playing by the same rules...The people operating in good faith need to stop self-flagellating and surrendering preemptively." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

seems like the whole point of having a union would be to strike *in this exact situation*

"President got a late night TV show canceled" seems like one of those stories that penetrates the public consciousnesses better than stuff like "president threatens the independence of the Federal Reserve"

I'm a single issue voter, and my issue is "the government shouldn't be fascist."

a big reason companies are caving this hard is that they're banking on hunkering down for the next 3.5 years and then coasting by when the dust settles Democrats need to make it very clear that there will be future consequences for defecting in this prisoner's dilemma

when Karl Rove and Tucker Carlson are making salient points about Trump’s attacks on the first amendment

I feel crazy when people refuse to link the increase in political violence over the past ten years to Trump starting his political career ten years ago. Even before he was president he was telling his supporters to rough up protesters at his rallies.

The president is intentionally killing non-combatants who pose no direct threat in violation of domestic, international and military law and his VP and chief policy adviser are promising an authoritarian crackdown on his political opponents. Just today. Democracy and the rule of law are on the line

Until the press learns that the existential conflict that they are OBLIGATED to cover is NOT Republicans versus Democrats, but Democracy versus Authoritarianism, they will continue to be complicit in the erosion of American democracy from within.

Bragging about committing war crimes *and* shutting down shipping in the Atlantic as well. Impressive stuff, President Mumblefuck.