“How Hungary’s Orbán uses control of the media to escape scrutiny and keep the public in the dark” 7/31/24 www.ap.org/news-highlig...

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

Do YOU remember “the 21st night of September?” Earth Wind & Fire’s co-writer Allee Willis said she told the band: “We can’t leave ‘baa-dee-ya’ in the chorus. That has to mean something.’” Maurice White replied: “No, that feels great. That’s what people are going to remember. We’re leaving it.”

Remember when Pam Bondi said this

Kash Patel looks like he fun as hell until that coke run dry at 4am and y'all the last two still wired & he slam the Russian Roulette pistol on the poker table.

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

Edward R. Murrow during the “See it Now” episode that aired March 9, 1954 on CBS titled, "A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.”

"You have made a turd pye, Seasoned it with passive obedience, and now you must eat it your Selves." This might be the greatest quote I will ever cite.

This is “why” ABC says they axed Jimmy Kimmel. Not once did Kimmel disparage Kirk or say anything wrong or derogatory about his death. What REALLY happened is Trump’s FCC threatened ABC to fire Kimmel w/ Trump repeating “Fallon and Kimmel are next” after Colbert cancellation. #StraightUpFascism

Major media outlets are (surprise) missing the fact that the big networks are being more feckless than usual (Kimmel) in part because they're lobbying the FCC to eliminate some of the last remaining media consolidation limits preventing the big four networks from merging

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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

“The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it. And that is the real trick of the Imperial thought machine. It's easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident” Every day this line feels more and more relevant.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

And now: The biggest straight-up bribe in American history. Two billion dollars from a foreign ruler into the pockets of Trump, his family, and his cronies. In exchange, an AI chip sale that compromises national security. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

This is what love and courage looks like. A father helping his disabled child to walk. Not some coward preaching hate from the White House with Secret Service agents everywhere. WATCH: #Resist

Kind of weird how Roberts declared the VRA preclearance to rest on dated and unfair assumptions about the South and within 15 years the former Confederate states will have effectively eliminated almost every black district within those states.

Dude is flying his face at half staff for charlie

More than 20 years after 9/11, evidence suggests more strongly than ever that at least two Saudi officials deliberately assisted the first al-Qaida hijackers when they arrived in the United States. (Published Sept. 2024)

For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country… Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year. And America shrugged and moved on.

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imagine if this happened on the same day when Trump gave a public speech where he said domestic violence isn't a crime [puts finger to earpiece] ah, i'm just receiving word-

LOVE these new political cartoons from Ann Telnaes substack.com/redirect/0b0...

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Truth.

Can someone in the legacy media explain to me how this is not front page news? How is it that only Democracy Docket is covering this unfolding authoritarian takeover? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump threatening members of Congress not to sign the Epstein files discharge petition saying it would be a “hostile act” against him is definitely something an innocent person would do. And scheduling a military flyover in the middle of the survivor press conference is also totally normal behavior.

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.” —Declaration of Independence, 1776

Today's ISM survey commentary is fun: "Tariffs continue to wreak havoc" "There is absolutely no activity in the transportation equipment industry. This is 100 percent attributable to current tariff policy. "We are also in stagflation: Prices are up due to material tariffs, but volume is way off.”

Don't forget the cronyism. For all the Republican critiques about the federal govt, it spends hundreds of billions a year contracting for everything from office supplies to fighter jets and Trump's donors - especially the private prison industry - are going to siphon out as much money as they can.

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Trumpcare- sell your organs.

New acting director of CDC Jim O'Neill expressed being pro paid organ donation. "There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused."

Hard to convince younger generations, but for decades, Republicans went on and on about how two of the worst things imaginable were (1) state intervention in the market and (2) DC using federal troops against US states; both so bad the people should be ready for armed rebellion in case it happens.

This is why I can’t quit the internet🤣🤣🤣

Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.

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“All you need are these: certainty of judgment in the present moment; action for the common good in the present moment; and an attitude of gratitude in the present moment for anything that comes your way" Marcus Aurelius

DOGE nightmare

it is hilarious but also instructive the right’s entire schtick is grievance and manufactured outrage trying to placate or reason is useless-they want the issue also they are whiny bitch babies

Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.

If one photo captures the insanity of our times, this one’s is a strong contender.

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.