this is why we need to bring back shame there need to be consequences for being a huge asshole, there need to be standards for how you behave in a decent society the rules cannot be set by the worst of us

Maddening, infuriating, heartbreaking... but I did laugh out loud at someone throwing away one of these little tech brats' salads.

The reason the bullet doesn't say "Fuck Ice" is that the FBI is run by a content creator freak who still thinks in terms of "I can't curse or I'll get demonetized."

One might refer Vance to a mirror. trib.al/DV9pD5X

Detroit & surrounding areas: heavy ICE is expected

They didn’t pull the network promos. My god. Nexstar and Sinclair making complete fools of themselves.

the lesson of the kimmel thing is that a corporation that previously caved to trump was forced by its audience to defy him. they're afraid of him but they're more afraid of you.

Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared

ICE agents held a 5-year-old autistic girl outside her Massachusetts home to pressure her father to surrender to authorities last week, according to the girl's family

What if it did happen and literally no one made the cut?

Got smashed letterboxd.com/aadowd/film/...

RFK Jr. has killed 2 infants:

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Holy shit

“And therefore I will ______”

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

They’re working to make life better for people and a bunch of goons decide to make everyone’s lives worse

This post has now been deleted. Suggesting it really was a DM to Bondi, violating presidential Records Act, and basically all national security protocols. But who cares. All the laws are for trampling now.

One person familiar with the federal investigation told NBC News “thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups…Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive.”

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

Replace them all. Primary every single one. They are useless to us as we fight this autocracy.

Abundantly stupid

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

In general, organizing enemies lists, especially on a large and media-connected public platform has predictable effects, which is private harassment, and threat, plus professional punishment. In is the antithesis of a commitment to speech and dialogue.

Hundreds of people detained at the Alligator Alcatraz immigration processing center west of Miami, Florida, appear to have vanished. They have disappeared from the ICE online database, and their lawyers and families have been unable to locate them. english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-...

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

Zip-tying officials doing oversight, like a completely normal country.

We strongly condemn the actions taken by Nexstar and Disney-ABC to pull JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! off the air.

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

Important context that I'm not seeing widely reported in Nexstar's leap to cancel Jimmy Kimmel and appease the FCC and the US authoritarian Administration -- Nexstar is seeking FCC approval for a $6.2 billion merger. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/17/c...

Wow, what a shame Durbin is retiring. What will we do without very useful statements like this? Who will endorse the next Paul Vallas? Who will shake his head solemnly and vote for GOP funding bills?

reminder: Jimmy Kimmel is enough of a mensch that he devised a segment on which actors who are just short of having enough work to qualify for union healthcare come on his show and deliver a single line of dialogue deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...

he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest

Americans' access to life-saving pharmaceuticals must be governed by the best, widely accepted scientific research. Our lives are not a plaything for disinformation-soaked ideologues and their cronies.

Starting to suspect that Dem leadership and the pundit class have all come down with a bad case of Sorkinese. Main symptom is hallucinating reasonable, principled Republicans who do politics right.

Leo becoming an absolute authority on playing kind of dumb guys.

It was not, in fact, his final role, but it did end up functioning quite poignantly as a punctuation on his legendary career. www.avclub.com/the-old-man-...

If you are 65+ and thinking about getting a coronavirus shot, this week might be your best opportunity. Right now, the FDA has approved updated vaccines for that age group. But it’s possible it could get much tougher to get those shots next week. 1/3

Chipped in on this @rollingstone.com feature on Robert Redford's essential performances, with thoughts on his wonderfully unfussy work in ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN and the perfect quasi- swan song that THE OLD MAN AND THE GUN turned out to be: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"

ICE killed a Chicago area man last week. His name was Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez. He wasn't "the worst of the worst." He was a cook. ICE hopes we'll forget about him. We won't.

More tomorrow, but now might be a very good time to consider subscribing to What’s Alan Watching? alansepinwall.ghost.io

I spoke with the NYT Magazine a while ago but have now heard that an editor said they can't quote me because I'm "too liberal" to be a trusted source. You know what's always the first example conservatives use to claim I'm "too liberal"? My work in the 1619 Project, organized by the NYT Magazine.

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

We're at a point now where a Fox News host can just casually suggests killing homeless people with a lethal injection on air and no one bats an eye but a MSNBC contributor gets fired for calling Charlie Kirk "divisive".

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

ICE Agents Can’t Wear Masks Under Bill Passed in California www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...