The number of cancelations Disney saw in the week after suspending Kimmel was 436% above baseline subscriber churn.

SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

The same people who once posed as champions of “free speech” during the years when Donald Trump wasn't president are now demanding government sanction, criminal penalties, firings, and surveillance of those who criticize them. www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

Clear grounds for removing Trump from office. He’s sending America’s military against a domestic terror organization that does not exist fighting a war that is not happening. He’s gone completely and dangerously mad.

On a new Real Ones (we're back!), I quiz @bellraja19.bsky.social on media day quotes, and we dive into the Rockets' Fred VanVleet quandary. Tap in!

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As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway

The media have to start framing this accurately. The president is now functioning as a tyrant. The story is whether the other two branches of government will do anything to stop him.

The Trump admin illegally leaked my unredacted personnel file to Jack's allies to try to smear me. The full force of the federal government is being weaponized to defeat me — I’m asking you to help me fight back! Donate here: secure.ngpvan.com/NGY2cCnISU6c...

On a new Real Ones (we're back!), I quiz @bellraja19.bsky.social on media day quotes, and we dive into the Rockets' Fred VanVleet quandary. Tap in!

the beating heart of MAGA: an alcoholic sex creep reality TV guy who now runs the military whining and sniveling that people don't respect mass murderers enough

Seconds earlier, her husband had been abducted by masked ICE agents who did not identify themselves, did not present a warrant, did not give any lawful grounds for his detention.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

In honor of the Suns and Kings both earning votes on ESPN's "worst offseason" survey question, here's Game of Zones proposing a SunKings merger ... eight years ago.

Happy to have some company here on "Embiid Isn't Dead and the Sixers Might be Really Good" island. Welcome, @teamziller.bsky.social!

NEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

That damn left-wing inflammatory rhetoric. Look what you made them do.

Forty special elections across the country since November 2024 and average margin of Democratic over-performance is 15 points. In 2017 the Dem over-performance was 10 points. And in 2022 there was no Dem over-performance in specials. This is huge headed into next year's midterms.

Reposting from The Ringer: Jimmy Kimmel has returned to ABC, but only in some places. Why can’t dozens of markets across the country still watch him, and what does that say about the future of American broadcast television? @brianphillips.bsky.social explains:

This may well be the best episode ever of Rolling Stone Music Now. An immersive audio documentary about the making of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” starring Brian May and Roger Taylor – including the moment May let me play his Red Special guitar open.spotify.com/episode/602P...

This NYT archives search inspired by @jasonzinoman.bsky.social's excellent piece/corrective about how late-night TV got political: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/a...

I'm sure this has been mentioned but, back in 2003, ABC's first choice for the late-night job was Jon Stewart. But ABC felt Stewart was too "topical"/political, especially for the network of Roseanne and Home Improvement. So they went with Kimmel. And here we are. www.nytimes.com/2002/11/03/m...

Can the Rockets fill the Fred VanVoid? From my Ringer colleague @jkylemann.bsky.social:

Hillary Clinton: "Good lord -- the things that have been said about me, the lies that have been propagated. If I had only known I could call up the FCC chair and say, 'Take this person off the air! Off with his head!' You have to laugh about it so you don't cry."

Protests matter, your dollars matter, everything matters, resistance works.

Newsom: "I fear that we will not have an election in 2028 -- I really mean that in the core of my soul -- unless we wake up to the code red, what's happening in this country, and we wake up soberly to how serious this moment is."

The Hawks announced that assistant coach Brittni Donaldson has been moved to a front office role as the director of basketball development, methodology and integration. Hawks also hired Calvin Torres as head of sports science and Dan Warnke as head of performance.

if you can look at it without catching poster’s madness, the list of who actually gets engagement here is pretty interesting. somewhat dire at the top but quickly it’s real and high quality posters. bluefacts.app/top-reach

One thing we've learned in the last 12 hours: The Sinclair-Nexstar ban on Kimmel, in terms of his reach, means nothing in an era when late-night shows have an afterlife or simultaneous life on streaming. Kimmel's average audience is 1.6M. On YouTube, last night's monologue is already at 8.4M views.

“…the Trumpist right has baited the media into inflating Kirk's cultural and societal importance far beyond that, into deifying him as akin to a world historical martyr”… Nobody should get murdered, right. But the dude was a sales whiz, not Gandhi. An ace flack is still just a flack.

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For the old heads of #NBASky

Happy NBA Media Day to those who celebrate

We won. Decisively. Here's how we did it, and how we can apply what we've learned in the next fights. www.altrightdelete.news/p/jimmy-has-...

Nexstar, the largest TV broadcaster, needs Donald Trump's approval for a $6 billion deal. If approved, Nexstar would control TV stations reaching 80% of households — violating the cap set by Congress to protect against monopolies. This censorship of Kimmel reeks of corruption.

Some of us do.

A critical point that I learned in Dublin as to why people were so pissed about the NFL hijacking Croker but - unintentionally and I’m kicking myself - one I neglected to mention in article www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I think we've got a new (un)official drink of the Real Ones pod, @bellraja19.bsky.social @loganmmurdock.bsky.social

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

If you want to understand this Trump administration's rampant corruption ... you have to go back to Eric Adams, and how they made the case against him disappear. I got a bunch of new details on this deep dive for @nytimes.com ... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

They don’t seem very sad that he died

Ppl getting fired for “celebrating Kirk’s death” and these people are literally shooting fireworks

actually that checks out

Weirdest eulogy I’ve ever heard.

The Atlantic re-upped this story today, so I’m sharing it too. One thing I’d say: I wish I’d suggested “Don’t Feel Bad If You Have Insomnia” as the headline. That’s really what it’s about. Draining away the stigma — both of the condition and how we solve it. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

You had me at "weirdest coolest." OK, mostly "weirdest."

Imagine if Richard Nixon had just tweeted out the Watergate scandal rather than putting it on secret tapes. That’s what this is.

In response to California passing a law limiting law enforcement officers' ability to conceal their identities, the president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California contends that police are not subject to democratic control. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...