Smitten apples are the best apples

In a new post, President Trump threatens to sue ABC again. He says the White House was told that Jimmy Kimmel’s show canceled but ABC/Disney never said that publicly or privately.

DOJ drops its antitrust case against Google in 3… 2…

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...

I'm offline for a day and I missed the rapture

I just want to remind everyone that Bob Iger is also the guy who cancelled Twin Peaks in 1991

like how can they gaslight us saying it’s because we unfairly called him a nazi that he’s dead and then bring a nazi onstage to eulogize him and call him his commander

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal. Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

Surveillance footage shows a Starbucks worker did not write “Loser” on a drink ordered in honor of Charlie Kirk, despite a right-wing activist generating outrage over the incident that led to the coffee shop's temporary closure

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

If you do the math, they think 92% of people live in Texas, California and New York

awesome that conservatives get to lie about being victims and generate enough death threats to shut down an entire store

the right does a very good job of seeming like they're a large popular movement but really its a few dozen people that just bought all the megaphones

If a Charlie Kirk memorial at the UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA was attended by 300 students, there are barely any "students across Alabama who considered Charlie Kirk to be a mentor and role model."

Dutch late night TV has its take

you'd think they would start to see the pattern

The best and the brightest.

If you wrote a "Trump distances himself from project 2025" story in 2024 you are either a dupe or one of our enemies. They are cackling with laughter that the media they're now destroying enthusiastically helped them dupe the voters

cancelling Disney+ and Hulu is well and good but it’s not a huge hit on an individual level but Disney adults? people who spend real money at the parks? you guys can make a dent, call ‘em up and tell them your vacation is postponed until they pull their heads out of their asses

I am biased but I don’t think there is a better website on the internet today than TheOnion.com.

Lots of people asked me for the clip of Charlie Kirk's hatred in his own words. I posted it to YouTube shorts but they blocked it, so here you go! I didn't collect the first 90 seconds, that was floating around social media already.

The president of the United States believes he has the right and the authority to use the firepower of the federal government to crush people who say things about him that he does not like. It's as simple as that.

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.

i assume both Vermont and New Hampshire refused to join because they each thought the other would be there

Such a secondary/tertiary aspect to this but how on earth are Disney shareholders not losing their shit over this. Like do they think replacing Kimmel with a Sinclair infomercial will make them... more money?

I think we’ve started to answer the question about what we have to lose

criticism of Israel being called antisemitism walked so that criticism of the Right being called terrorism could run

the strongest pushback is coming from the right because media figures and electeds on the left are currently cowed by fear

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

By the head of the Federal Communications Commission, in 2022:

There is no more unctous a toady in the Trump administration than fussy speech police officer Brendan Carr and it is a high bar. But this thirsty factotum manages to clear the bar easily.

Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC

Don't forget, Bill Maher had dinner with Trump and they got along great. We're going to be okay, folks.

to be fair he's very interested in how fit the kids are

what a fucking insane reaction to have to a thing that happened

come on this is too far

as usual, the pretext is a lie

The Free Speech President has now pulled two of the three major late night hosts off the air through threats and intimidation because of their jokes. Obviously I’m behind Jimmy Kimmel 100% in the face of this fascist garbage. Speech against this admin isn’t just being chilled, they’re freezing it.

I think the answer is that the government directly threatening ABC to force a firing would be a First Amendment violation but ABC being cowardly assholes complying in advance in their moronic quest to satisfy Trump is not.

V for Vendetta might be poised for a big comeback

Not that it matters, but it doesn’t appear that his comment was even really about Kirk.

corporations are not your friends and never have been if Trump can credibly threaten their bottom line unless they fire every black executive, they will do it

This is fucking insane

'brown people should be afraid for their lives' is a laugh line at the Vice President's speech on Tax Policy but sure let's add the DNC to the terrorism watch list

fuck it let's just do it

the stunning naivete of people demanding that Fox fire Brian Kilmeade

Just saw the Caesars Palace proposal in Times Square got voted down, thank god