The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

maybe this is one of those things that wouldn't have been so bad a year ago but they will use and abuse people with historical training gladly to create the narratives they want

who was it that was arguing on here a few weeks back about how the right wing never writes history or whatever

idk if they are DC unit, but there’s something so infuriating about people who don’t even live in the neighborhood showing up and patrolling everyone else’s behavior where they live. Especially when all they can really do is the same thing I could, which would be call other police

Made it to H Street and there are more here just randomly patrolling—not near the metro or federal buildings or monuments. Just being in the middle of our neighborhoods with guns

going from “eh MAHA seems fine” to “fuck Disney” seems noteworthy lol

wait didn’t Jewel sing at the inauguration festivities

how does this help even one single thing

why in gods name are they wandering absolutely quiet residential streets at 9:30pm

Gahhh it just happened again on my way home

There has been a pronounced increase in GOP pessimism about the direction of the country over the last month. This is like Democrats under Biden in 2023 levels of dissatisfaction under a co-partisan president. Independents are more sour on direction than any pt in 2024 apnorc.org/projects/pes...

to put an even finer point on it: the percentage of U.S. adults who say they “strongly disapprove” of Trump‘s job as president (about 46-50% of adults) is significantly higher than the percent of adults who voted for him (about 32% of adults)

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

International Women’s Media Foundation is reconsidering letting Bob Iger’s wife host their fundraiser 😭

In a reversal that just underscored the administrative chaos created by all these priority shifts, many counterterrorism agents—pulled away to focus on immigration, which is not the FBI's forte—had to be abruptly recalled in June after the US strike in Tehran inflamed concerns about domestic terror.

FBI has been steadily diverting resources away from domestic terrorism investigations, decimating specialized units & discontinuing tools used to track extremism. the admin also gutted millions in federal terrorism-prevention grants. it's effectively abandoned the fight against homegrown violence.

We haven’t seen the text of this yet, but to be clear, the president has literally zero legal authority to impose a $100,000 fee on visas. None. Zip. Zilch. The only authority Congress has ever given the executive branch here is to charge fees to recover the cost of processing the application.

Recent emmy-winning Andor writer Dan Gilroy just penned a column about the current Trumpian assault on free speech: deadline.com/2025/09/ando...

lol. Emil Bove intervened. The guy that Senate Republicans just confirmed for a lifetime position on the federal bench. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

not sure to what degree people are aware cops have all kinds of interstate orgs that are functionally intel agencies, but which operate outside ordinary fusion networks, from basic shit like listservs and google groups to nonprofits created more than a half century ago during peak cop beef w/ FBI

i saw one of the most ridiculous secret police dossiers of my life this summer, generated in what looked like MS paint, about a uni grad who had basically only said something like “ICE agents are criminals.” This is interagency communication on an interstate level.

crucial to recognize this isn’t just a rhetorical thing. cued by feds, there’s police all over the country now really lowering the bar for what’s considered “threatening” and using interagency back channels to compile/share the names and accounts of people expressing frustration w/ the government.

Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein

A Black teen named Kalief Browder was falsely accused of stealing a backpack. He spent 3 years tortured at Rikers & died by suicide A wealthy white man named Tom Homan was caught by FBI accepting bribes. He was promoted to a powerful law enforcement position This is what white supremacy looks like

“Trey’s death evoked the collective memory of a community that has suffered a historic wound over many, many years and many, many deaths." Colin Kaerpernick is paying for an independent autopsy for Demartravion “Trey” Reed, a Mississippi college student who was found hanging from a tree.

Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. After his release, he says he wants the world to know what happened to him. By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social

As Trump tries to cover up the crimes of the Epstein sex trafficking network he is now also overseeing an enormous global human trafficking network.

Our story about treatment delays and life-threatening incidents in ICE facilities is cited by ~30 US senators in a letter to Noem, urging her to "cease detaining pregnant, postpartum, and nursing women absent exceptional circumstances." www.cantwell.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

I always regret it when I look people up. "Just who is this Jordan Peterson person and why is he famous?" and "who is Laura Loomer" and and oh no. (Actually "why are they famous?" never makes sense to me. I looked up Kirk and uh, what?)

I love how every right wing asshole talks like Jordan Peterson these days. Moralistic sounding asinine drivel in defense of some of the most morally heinous propositions of our times.

those beautiful naked women have made a compelling argument i am going to steer this ship into the rocks

best Sisyphus rewrite ever www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMhn...

Hamid also can't get his facts straight, as they don't call it the editorial board. It's the "Leadership of the Washington Post Opinions section" unless this is actually a separate thing and they don't actually report their editorial board helpcenter.washingtonpost.com/hc/en-us/art...

“Jokes on you, I actually got off her shoulders last year.”

📝Some thoughts of @rajpatel.org on the fight for food as a public good. "MAHA v. Mamdani: Our broken food system and the real roots of American unwellness" @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/mah...

Zohran Mamdani at the Arsenal bar, FancyFree, in Brooklyn.

It was a privilege to join Councilmember Yusef Salaam at last night's gala for the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood. Harlem’s Muslim community, carrying the proud lineage of Malcolm X, remains a powerful force for unity in our city. My gratitude to Imam Al-Hajj Talib ‘Abdur-Rashid.

The Big Fall Canvass continues on this gorgeous Sunday across the five boroughs. Every door you knock, every conversation you start, every palm card you hand to a neighbor gets us one step closer to winning a city we can afford. Sign up: zohranfornyc.com/bfcv

My humble thanks to Reverend Adolphus C. Lacey and First Lady Cheryl Matthews Lacey for welcoming me at Bethany Baptist Church in Bed-Stuy this morning.

Caught today’s @arsenalfc.bsky.social match with Spike Lee in Fort Greene (not a sentence I ever thought I'd get to write).

Every mayoral administration leaves behind successes we can learn from—even if we disagreed with the mayor themselves. Good to talk a little NYC history on @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social with @jonathancapehart.bsky.social this morning.

the New Yorker on Jimmy Kimmel

What’s happening with Jimmy Kimmel is about politics and power.

Ro Khanna: "They're making comedy illegal. Brendan Carr pressured ABC to cancel Jimmy Kimmel, and Disney cancels Jimmy Kimmel. This canceling from an administration that lectured us about cancel culture. That's why today I'm introducing a motion to subpoena Brendan Carr."

House Democratic Leadership Statement on the Suspension of Jimmy Kimmel.