Hey Apple: Apple TV+ is a paid streaming service, not network television. You don't have to obey in advance. Let the audience decide.

Trump’s speech was a low point in the history of American diplomacy. But worse. www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-un-ad...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Sounds like the segregationists in Connecticut are having a grand ole time “While waiting for the police to arrive, the old Karen’s friend said, ‘You’re not the minority anymore.'” www.blackenterprise.com/alex-okeefe-...

Any journalist or commentator who writes a wrap-up of this speech that suggests that any of it was normal, worthy of respect, not absolutely deranged, not an insult to the audience, not an embarrassment for the US, should be relieved of their jobs.

This attack on climate science is the most extreme deranged such attack by any world leader in memory.

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

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

Kristi Noem is the face of the DHS. Corey Lewandowski is the muscle. Read Ben Terris’s cover story on the duo at the heart of Donald Trump’s emerging police state. buff.ly/AcXvFFD

"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happen—whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...

Speaker after speaker at this memorial is explicitly likening him to Jesus Christ. (Slain in early 30s, etc.) Don't know how this goes over with people raised in other faiths. Having been raised as a church-going Protestant Christian, I say: What the hell! This is not how Christians talk.

It’s really all we should be talking about today.

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

This is what actual freedom of speech looks like — join in www.nokings.org

From @joycewhitevance.bsky.social Wear a #paperclip to protest the regime. The Norwegians did it in WWII to protest the Nazis. Paper Clip Protest open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

@msnbc.com Bring back Matthew Dowd.

Has the White House released this weekend's approved TV schedule yet?

From @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social #DACA ‘Dreamers’ Face Their Most Uncertain Moment Yet open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.

The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more. This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

Let me just say a simple thing. Democrats have no obligation to provide the votes to fund the destruction of our democracy. If you want my vote for a bipartisan budget, there need to be protections to stop Trump's brazen lawlessness.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

Literally you cannot make up this level of hypocrisy. What an endless chode.

From @adamserwer.bsky.social "What happened to Jimmy Kimmel is not about one comedian who said something he should not have said. The Trump administration and its enforcers want to control your speech, your behavior, even your public expressions of mourning... www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Jimmy Kimmel should have stuck to acceptable comments, like suggesting that homeless people be executed

Corporate media continues to cower & comply with the regime — Disney/ABC: @jimmykimmel.com, Bezos/Washington Post: @karenattiah.bsky.social, NBC Universal/MSNBC: @matthewjdowd.bsky.social, Paramount/CBS: @colbertlateshow.bsky.social

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

ABC immediately caves to tiniest bit of gov’t pressure. If you don’t defend basic free speech rights, you’ll lose them. Simple as that. Gov’t hasn’t just threatened us at media matters, they’ve actually used power against us. We don’t fold, we fight in court. If we can, ABC has no excuse

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.

We need your help to make October 18 the biggest peaceful protest of the year. Please spread the word, register your local event as soon as you can, and start RSVPing for the local protests to help build momentum: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men." Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...

From @esglaude.bsky.social "Charlie Kirk’s assassination and its aftermath have revealed that Americans have not simply forgotten how to disagree, but that many want to use his death for their own insidious ends. We cannot fall for it, even as they try... open.substack.com/pub/esglaude...

Statement from @postguild.bsky.social on the firing of Karen Attiah:

This is extrajudicial execution, without any clear threat to the US, no authorization from Congress, and far beyond even Article II. The military is not the president's personal hit squad. Or wasn't, until now.

Last November I wrote that Republicans wanted to “socialize the means of cancellation” through the creation of a “Snitch State.” Feels relevant now. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired

Can now confirm: We have canceled our long-time subscription. There's no longer any reason for any of us to support this fascist-enabling news organization. Please join me in un-subscribing to the Post and using any savings to support independent journalists #CancelThePost

Trump threatens to withhold federal funding from NY if NYC elects Mamdani. An impeachable offense for any other president in any other era. In this one it’s just another Monday.

From @karenattiah.bsky.social "...the Post accused my measured Bluesky posts of being'unacceptable', 'gross misconduct' and of endangering the physical safety of colleagues — charges without evidence, which I reject completely as false. They rushed to fire me... open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

From @sulliview.bsky.social #MSNBC #MatthewDowd What gets you fired — or celebrated — on cable news? open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

From @djrothkopf.bsky.social Everyone Got the Story of the Murder of Charlie Kirk Wrong open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

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From @matthewjdowd.bsky.social re: what happened before @MSNBC fired him. "The Right Wing media mob ginned up, went after me on a plethora of platforms, and MSNBC reacted to that mob."

Pro tip to Laura Loomer who deleted this: The Internet is written in indelible ink.

Urge MSNBC to reinstate @matthewjdowd.bsky.social. Write them at [email protected]. Sign the petition: www.change.org/p/urge-msnbc...

Thousands of undocumented immigrant workers helped rebuild New York City in the wake of 9/11. 24 years later, they're at risk of deportation as they still struggle with chronic health issues. A pathway to citizenship is the least these workers deserve. documentedny.com/2025/09/11/u...