That (NPR!) journalists think AI is a creative engine that can finesse iconic productions is not just context for the crap quality of writing in media but alarmingly the inability among a class of supposedly professional scrutinizers to distinguish between art and slop, good and bad, truth and lie

Insanity from the European Parliament. See the article for a petition you can sign to oppose this meat industry-lobbied bullshit before it becomes law. www.euroveg.eu/european-par...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Great piece from @theguardian.com on the upcoming book on the turbulent making of THE WICKER MAN. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

If a federal judge, appointed by Trump, can call him “simply untethered to facts,” our White House press corps can as well. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

Sound Up 🔊 ( ht: @stanrezaee.bsky.social )

Voted today for Mikie Sherrill and Blue down the ballot!

America First. Really? Trump says we have to throw 15 million Americans off healthcare and significantly raise ACA premiums because we don’t have enough money. But somehow we have $20 billion to bailout the right-wing regime of Argentina? We can’t let that happen.

Unreal. The casual reader of this @nytimes.com hed and subhed will have no inkling whatsoever that Trump's "characterization" is wildly false and that it's a bad faith *pretext.* Time to get better at conveying the fundamentally pretextual nature of these authoritarian decrees already.

This is fascinating and well done. | New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States projects.propublica.org/climate-migr...

"The network’s stars are shameless propagandists who employ a variety of tactics to hide the president’s misdeeds from their viewers. Their Monday night programs, which followed days of administration chaos and corruption, perfectly encapsulate how..." www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/how...

"Their overbearing threats and bluster are meant to snooker us into believing that the culture is lost, that Trump’s grip on it is unshakable, that mobilization is futile. This episode has demonstrated precisely the opposite, and we shouldn’t let ourselves forget it." newrepublic.com/article/2008...

"[Trump] might have to release the Epstein files to distract us from this.” time.com/7319907/jimm...

This is fascist, anti-LGBTQ insanity brought to you by the Trump voter. | FBI to Categorize Trans People As "Nihilistic Violent Extremist" Threat Group, Report Says www.them.us/story/trump-... www.them.us/story/trump-...

The great Dan Gilroy: "Regardless of how the jack-booted attack on Jimmy Kimmel is resolved, this isn’t a skirmish. It’s a siege... Artists are censored first because they fear us most... Speak truth to authority. Because the story’s not written—the pen is in your hand." deadline.com/2025/09/ando...

Chris Christie observed recently that Trump has torn down the traditional barrier between the president’s personal ambitions and the DOJ's power to investigate & prosecute criminal wrongdoing. As if to prove Christie’s point, Trump publicly threatened to prosecute Christie just a few hours later.

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

No law authorizes the president to designate something as a domestic terrorist org (only a foreign terrorist org), so it will be interesting to see what law he invokes here (if any). “Domestic terrorism” is more of a concept than anything with a legal underpinning.

Canceling Stephen Colbert and now Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert - and Matthew Dowd is horrendous- and pure fascism. Shame on those networks for caving We have a right to freedom of speech and we want it back. This is textbook fascism.

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

Watch Brian Kilmeade casually suggest we should murder all the homeless people in the United States. Over half a million human beings. He has no business being on TV talking to millions. We cannot gloss over insanity like this. Otherwise they will take it as permission to go ahead and do it.

Watch this video. This is the America the Trump voter has made. abc7.com/post/federal...

Rand Paul is right. For the first time in our history, we have a VP who is openly advocating for the United States to murder citizens of other countries. When the Trump regime's reign of terror finally ends and the constitution is reinstated, the law is coming after JD Vance.

Today's #WeAreAllDC protest in downtown Washington, D.C. demanding an immediate withdrawal of federal troops from the District and an end to the federalization of the local police department.

As the Trump voters’ embrace of quackery is endangering public health, blue states are taking steps to ensure vaccine access: www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Republicans know they will lose control of Congress if they don't rig the maps and make it harder for people to vote. Donald Trump fears a Democratic Congress and will do anything he can to prevent it. That is why those of us in the pro-democracy movement need to be ready to stand up and fight back.

Ossoff on RFK Jr: "Absolutely he should resign. And he never should've been confirmed to begin with... in any normal Senate, he never would've gotten so much as a hearing. This is someone who throughout his public life has embraced just about every piece of quackery & pseudoscience he's come across"

Tell me again how they’re just detaining the ‘criminals’ 🤔 If you’re risking your life to stop forest fires, you probably deserve not to be treated inhumanely by Border Patrol.

What. The ever-loving. Frak.

Pritzker: Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next

Hello everyone! I am working on a story for The Guardian about how Chicagoans are preparing for the possible arrival of federal troops, following President Trump's statements on the matter. Right now, I'm looking for residents, community organizers, business owners, and other folks to talk to!

Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.

Across America, Republicans sycophants are getting called out for lying and mindlessly repeating the talking points of the fascist authoritarian Trump regime. 🙌💪👏✊️👇

If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you

How many Katrinas will it take, how many kids swept away, before we stand up to a bully who is more concerned with hunting down critics and saving face than saving lives?

Joni Ernst, who cast key vote on Hegseth, vandalizes U.S. military and walks away.

Destroyed by the Trump voter. “The CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

ICE kidnapping a mother as her child begs the officers not to take her. Heartbreaking 💔 😢

Donald Trump is making our nation less safe. He is endangering our safety and our shared values. op: @msnbc.com

Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."

I hope we have it in us.

"History is strewn with the wreckage of dictatorships that have attracted and promoted incompetent people lacking talent or integrity." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bolton’s home raided, Gen. Kruse fired, Epstein coverup proceeds, seizure of 10% of Intel another step towards state capitalism. Just one day in the somewhat chaotic but directionally purposeful march towards…despotism. Does anyone think they’re doing all this so they can hand over power in 2028?

This week, Donald Trump demanded that our museums focus on the good parts of slavery and threatened to have the military occupy New York and Chicago. Yet, I haven’t read a single Jake Tapper book excerpt questioning this lunatic’s cognitive ability to serve.

The US Administration is now deleting its internal communications, in brazen violation of the Federal Records Act, in order to conceal its other illegal acts. Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.

You know what's crazy? There have been no op-eds or editorial statements in major newspapers this year calling on Trump to resign. None calling for his impeachment. None asking if he's medically fit to be in office. Not one in any major newspaper all year.