Amazing what happens when you have people who know something about health and science talking about health and science. If only Trump and his administration understood this…

Post editorial: 'Raising a child with autism is hard enough... Heaping blame on moms for taking Tylenol during pregnancy is cruel, as is urging them to simply suffer through genuine pain when there is insufficient evidence for the federal government to do so.' www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

'If Kimmel tempers his comedy now, pulls his punches on making fun of power, he sends the message that we should all be afraid, that we should all bend.' Via @anitachabria.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...

Well, isn't that the truth

Sad that the animal handler died. But maybe tigers shouldn't be forced to stick their paws in fingerpaint to make paw prints for an audience abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

My thoughts exactly.

Jimmy Kimmel is coming back! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

In other words, ‘yes.’

‘There’s no precedent in the American tradition for such explicit corruption of the rule of law… It is a brazen display of a desperate man who believes he’s both above the law and freed from the burdens of accountability.’ Via @stevebenen.com www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

‘Historians and citizens concerned about the Trump administration's approach to, and involvement in, the Smithsonian have come together to document how the museums look today. Their goal is to produce a record before any changes that might be made.’ www.npr.org/2025/09/22/n...

More great news!

This is fantastic news!

‘This is the moment to defend free speech across our nation.’

Words are easy. Action is harder. Let’s see if Ted Cruz rises to the occasion

Good advice not only for Bob Iger…

An especially timely art exhibition at USC’s Fisher Museum on the way social erasure operates in American life. Read @knightlat.bsky.social’s review www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

This is cool (even if you’re not an Angels fan) www.latimes.com/sports/story...

Here we go again. Tonight’s entertainment: ‘Mamma Mia!’

Now the Pentagon will require reporters to pledge that they won’t gather any information—even unclassified—that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. What is Pete Hegseth worried about? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

All true. But would Michael Eisner have stood up if he was still in the job?

Another patron of the arts is gone. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/a...

‘As every lawyer knows (or is presumed to know), a complaint is not a public forum for vituperation and invective’ www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

‘Decidedly improper and impermissible’ www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

This👇

NYT editorial: ‘If Mr. Trump refuses to stand up for the basic American right to disagree without fear of oppression, others still can… The ability to disagree with other people on raw, difficult issues, without fear of repression, is the essence of American freedom.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...

‘Californians should keep climate front of mind when they elect a new governor next year. We need a leader who puts climate first all the time, not just when the politics are convenient.’ Via @sammyroth.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

A federal judge said she is “inclined” to order the Trump administration to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants Via @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social @danielnmiller.bsky.social www.latimes.com/world-nation...

‘Wake up, Los Angeles. This isn’t a Jimmy Kimmel problem. This is a Los Angeles problem… You don’t need to agree with Kimmel’s politics to see where this is going.’ Via @anitachabria.bsky.social www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Listen to Pete: ‘They didn’t stop at the law firms. They didn’t stop at the universities. They didn’t even stop at the comedians. They are not going to stop until they have total power.’

‘One way you can measure a democracy’s health is by people’s freedom to mock their leaders… And practically speaking, free speech will only thrive on TV to the extent that companies are willing to locate their guts and stand up to political and financial pressure.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/a...

They are INDEED “allowed” to do that. In fact, comedy/satire has a special place in first amendment history. 🤬🤬🤬

‘Everyone deeply values him and wants him to come back. But he has to take down the temperature’ @ewagmeister.bsky.social @cnn.com has new details on Jimmy Kimmel suspension www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/e...

Wow. Clayton Kershaw is retiring www.latimes.com/sports/dodge...

Hope more Hollywood creatives join Damon Lindelof

‘“The ‘public interest’ standard was never meant to be used as a cudgel for the government to pressure broadcasters into only saying what the president wants them to say.” Via @gregsargent.bsky.social @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2006...

David Letterman is right: ‘In the world of someone who is an authoritarian, maybe a dictatorship, sooner or later, everybody is going to be touched’

> @apnews.com

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.

A good, informative thread👇

More leaders — and everyday people — need to speak out

‘The systematic effort to censor American media isn’t exactly subtle. The president has not disguised his intentions or his reasons. He has gone to some trouble to emphasize that he wants to control who’s on television and what they say.’ www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

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

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

This👇

‘For years, Republicans cast themselves as the party of free speech, railing against what they derided as “cancel culture” from the left. Yet what we are witnessing now is a full-scale cancel campaign led from the right’ Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social www.status.news/p/jimmy-kimm...

'Remember when the notion of government censorship in the U.S. seemed like the plot of an Orwellian novel, or something that happened in other places, countries where masked militia kidnap people off the street and disappear them?' Via @lorraineali.bsky.social www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Definitely

Trump celebrates

Yup

They are literally canceling culture