Add one more to the list. Canceled this afternoon after subscribing for close to a decade.

companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box

Dutch late night TV has its take

WASH POST: “Trump has ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks… including a historic photograph of a formerly enslaved man showing scars on his back.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

So what are the lessons we're going to be sagely told we need to learn about respectful political discourse now that we are reasonably sure that Charlie Kirk's assassination stemmed from a battle between two factions of the extremist right?

One of the last reasons I watched @msnbc.com was because of @matthewjdowd.bsky.social. Alas, the network is who I thought they were: weak and cowardly. Dowd did nothing wrong and spoke eloquently and truthfully. It’s more important than ever to have stand-up individuals. Shame on the network.

@msnbc.com @nicollewallace.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com When will journalists stand up and tell the truth that Pres Donald J Trump is the chief fomenter of violent disgusting language that leads to violence? Why is truth-telling punished? Shame on MSNBC. @matthewjdowd.bsky.social

Hello, canyon. I've missed you!

happy bday writer Hilda Doolittle, wrote under H.D., b.1886, Bethlehem, PA. “We are voyagers, discoverers of the not-known, the unrecorded; we have no map; possibly we will reach haven, heaven.”

We did it. We had a book launch! Lots of people came, incl. some lovely kids who have the 1st book & came for the 2nd ❤️📚 And we got mobbed by a gang of 4 schnauzers! I think it went well. #kidlit

When your hotel not only welcomes dogs—at no extra fee—but also is a Lord of the Rings fan!

To study the decline of reading, @TheEconomist analyzed nearly 250 years of presidential inaugural addresses using the Flesch-Kincaid test. Washington’s scored 28.7, a postgraduate level, while Trump's scored 9.4, the reading level of a high-schooler. www.economist.com/culture/2025...

“You have to look with new eyes…” What a theme on the way out of this broken America darkness, @matthewjdowd.bsky.social. Brilliant and hopeful thesis on @nicollewallace.bsky.social this afternoon on where we have to go and what we have to do to clean up our democracy.

again i will say this today, the greatest threat to democracy, individual freedoms, and most citizens personal safety is not islam, socialism or wokeism, or someone's sex or sexuality. The greatest threat today is "christian" nationalism.

Agreed, firing Laura was a travesty. I'm disgusted by where they put their "support"... @lauraclassical.bsky.social supported their cause SO MUCH, she championed @crbclassical.bsky.social but they wouldn't do the same. It's not like O'Leary is free, either. Glad I'm no longer a sustaining member 🤬

100000% missed. So upsetting when they made no announcement about the change up. Emails we sent unanswered by the station too.

Father @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social is the real deal. Bright, caring, fair, and optimistic.

Amen, @matthewjdowd.bsky.social, regarding keeping the Epstein victims at the center and not the politicians and the liars. It was a great spot on MSNBC, and the panel was strong.

I don’t know anything about Mr. O’Leary, so I won’t comment on him. However, Laura Carlo will be missed. Through the decades, she provided the soundtracks of the stages of many lives. She has been a New England institution, and her departure leaves a massive hole in the fabric of our mornings.

Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender, total of 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender, total of more than 4,000. Transgender folks are 1.0% of the population and they make up less than 0.1% of the mass shooters.

Who's cutting onions in here?

happy bday Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck, b.1862. “Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.” “When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.”

Charlie Kirk: "This is something I hope will make Taylor Swift more conservative… Submit to your husband, Taylor. You're not in charge." 🤡

Everything about this photo is grotesque. Is it any wonder why 18% of United States citizens are contemplating moving to another country?

Matthew Dowd is a beacon of political hope and sanity through his observation and strategy during these threatening times.

August deepening.

There has been a steady decline in reading for fun. From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40%, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend, according to a study published on Wednesday.

Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night on the House floor after refusing to agree ‘to round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers’ www.keranews.org/texas-news/2...

Suspect is charged with abolition, emancipation

[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down

Jeffries is an establishment Democrat. He will always work for the establishment. He is not a disrupter or innovator or individual thinker. Within that framework, his gutless behavior toward Mamdani or any progressive candidate makes a lot of sense.

Dear friends: Today is the publication date for my new book, "In All Seasons, For All Reasons," Vol. 2 from @litpress.bsky.social I hope this little book (very reasonably priced) helps draw you closer to God in prayer. litpress.org/Products/018...

Happy Navajo Code Talker’s Day!

Here’s @mehdirhasan.bsky.social asking another Q we’ve been asking The account has been doing this for a while now. Not even thinly veiled

Chapters in this charming book include "The Necessity of Eugenics" and "The Everlasting Truth About Race" (which is exactly what you think). Again, this is an official account of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. This is who they're hiring. These are their "intellectual" influences.

Listening to this press conference it seems clear that Trump is mentally gone and that his team is consolidating power for President J.D. Vance.

‼️ Book Release Party ‼️ If your in or near Vancouver on Aug 24, come check us out. * Meet Monty in person! * ... and me too, I guess. I'll be there to sign books 📚👍 #kidlit #mglit #booksky

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

As I said on @msnbc.com yesterday, more than 60% of the population of Texas is non-white and 25% of TX population is white Republican. And the new GOP undemocratic Texas redistricting plan would create nearly 75% of the congressional seats as white Republican. So so awful.

🍓Chill out with these 11 refreshing and delicious, plant-based summer recipes from our Food for Life instructors! www.pcrm.org/news/11-refr... #PlantBasedRecipes

So many sites for us to document. #SaveOurSigns Trump admin will review panels on Edgar Allan Poe’s opposition to abolitionist movement at Philly site share.inquirer.com/jtTSwP

Climate change reports, deleted. DEI initiatives, banned. Local TV and radio stations, defunded. The list goes on and on. President Trump and his government appointees keep asserting more control over ideas and information. My latest analysis for CNN:

The news is bleak, but this forest encounter today was brilliant.

The White House social media account is currently one of the most hateful things I've seen in my lifetime and I can't believe we have to pretend it's normal

@sallyjenx.bsky.social I have been shifting my subscriptions and shopping for better fits. I had been contemplating @theatlantic.com. Now that the news is out that you are heading there, so am I. Looking forward to your next chapters.

the new GOP plan for Texas congressional redistricting is not only undemocratic, it is exceedingly racist. Texas population is more than 60% non-White, and less than 40% white. And the GOP wants to draw at least 2/3rds of the seats to hold white Republicans. Racist, undemocratic, wrong.

happy bday English writer Emily Brontë, b.1818. “I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind."

New at Media Nation: What we can all do to ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The International Rescue Committee is still providing assistance to starving Palestinians. I've included a link to donate. dankennedy.net/2025/07/28/w...