Since someone took care of that already, here's Curb Your Fascism

The Benny Hill version

You could give this man an existential crisis by showing him the bottom half of a muppet

At this point, any Democrat who votes to keep this government open without extracting very serious concessions — RFK’s resignation, ICE rollback, Epstein Files release, etc — will absolutely face a primary challenger who will set fundraising records.

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

MAGA is fawning over Erika Kirk right now, but there's no way she can keep Charlie's audience. His bread and butter was sexualized humiliation of college girls — more "Girls Gone Wild" than doing politics the "right way." His followers won't hear it from a woman. www.salon.com/2025/09/24/d...

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

lmao. see, people hate on "defund the police" because both political parties dragged it, but they still support what it actually means

1. Turns out caving to fascists is a terrible fucking business model, never cave to fascists, not even once 2. I am happy this is resolved because now I will be able to watch the final episode of Alien:Earth www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/j...

Suggestion: Instead of restoring your Disney+ subscription, how about if everyone signs up to donate $10/month (or whatever) to Democratic candidates the moment Kimmel’s show comes on tomorrow night? Blue26.org

No clerks. No building. No budget. No shadow docket. Ride the circuit. 25 justices, with 9 chosen by lottery. We will treat you like petulant children until you stop ignoring the law, Constitution, precedent, Article I, voters, & the plain meaning of words. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

They abandoned the whole free speech thing as soon as people started saying things that genuinely offended them. It wasn’t that they were so tolerant that they accepted nazi talk as a necessary evil to protect speech writ large, they just liked saying and hearing slurs bsky.app/profile/jame...

TikTok will be co-owned by China and Trump allies, Paramount was sold to a pro-Trump billionaire who's also set to buy Warner Bros, X is owned by an apartheid-bred fascist, WaPo and Meta are owned by Trump-cowering billionaires, and Murdoch owns the Fox empire. Here's why media has a liberal bias.

I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.

a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

we're going to win

"We spent six years thinking about a fascist takeover of a galaxy far, far away. Six years thinking about ordinary beings as an authoritarian regime comes in for the kill. Many people saw parallels between Andor and the real world. I see them as well, particularly in the events of the last week."

Holy shit scorched earth motherfucker

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/

Are we all ready to admit, once and for all, that the culture wars over "free speech" this last decade or so have been entirely about the *content* of the contested speech, not procedural commitments to speech as such?

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Sinclair needs broken up. If we ever get our democracy back these companies need busted down to Mom and Pop shops and taxed into oblivion

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

imagine joking “i wouldnt give speeches in utah right now”

Fuck these losers

The drama of forbidden love revealed in those texts in the Robison indictment, like something out of Chekhov or Shakespeare, so much more richly human, strange, politically uncatagorizable than the idiot babble we're forced to endure about which "side" did it. Sigh.

I’ve been thinking the same thing. So many great reporters and columnists out there, as well as a new demand for it given the implosion of the NYT & WaPo

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this. You're welcome

the reason they think that everyone on the left is only left-wing because some shadowy organization is paying them is because that is how the right actually operates, it's all, top to bottom, dirty patronage networks

The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness. Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.

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These firings, with zero due process, are violations of widely accepted principles of academic freedom & are completely unacceptable. College & university administrators MUST NOT exploit these shocking events to censor protected speech & concentrate their own power. www.wsmv.com/2025/09/12/t...

American media should be in an anti-American frenzy, and it’s to their eternal shame that they’re not.

This is a THREAD of people NOT FIRED. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

I hadn’t seen this. Kirk, the moderate free speech guy who did politics the right way per some liberals (!), called for Biden to be executed. Meanwhile Joe Biden put out a very strong statement condemning Kirk’s killing. Both sides!

America, online: www.todayintabs.com/p/groyper-wa...

The American political right is a cesspit of bigotry, white grievance, conspiracism, religious zealotry, violent ideation and action, and plutocrat money fueling it all. Among rightist political and thought leaders, there’s little to no good faith. There’s just power and gleeful destruction.

In fairness, "even dumber" is the D'Souza family motto.

this is fundamentally about america's liberal elites not having the courage of their convictions, if they have convictions to begin with. they fetishize endless discussion and discourse and refuse to simply act.

Today's a good day to re-up this classic Carl post: The game theory case for free speech reciprocity is actually quite bad! www.peoplesline.org/p/a-game-the...

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

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