Van Hollen: I will just say that anybody who thinks we're on the way to authoritarianism is wrong. We are there

Papa, I walk with your stories, your silence, your strength! Man mano che invecchio, vedo sempre piu te in me, papa, e mi manchi di piu ad ogni passo. 09/27/1986 #RIP 😢💔

11.5M+ California households will automatically see refunds on their October electric bill thanks to California's Climate Credit. And it doesn't stop there. Up to $60B will return to Californians' pockets going forward, cutting electric bills while moving to cleaner energy.

A 79-year-old U.S. citizen has filed a $50 million civil rights claim after being arrested and injured during an immigration raid at his business in Southern California. abc7news.com/post/souther... via ABC7 News App

Outrageous.

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Kimmel’s estimated Tuesday viewership (on TV alone) was 6.26 million, but since ABC’s Sinclair & NextStar affiliates censored that number only represents 77% of the possible number. Factoring back in the blacklisting stations, it’s possible that his projected rating would have been 8.13 million.

Starbucks unions are practicing picketing as the company abuses its workers and denies them a fair contract. This is your reminder to not cross a picket line and support workers! NO CONTRACT, NO COFFEE.

MAGA going to an HBCU to protest DEI. WTF.

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

We are sensing a theme

Someone just posted a link to a list "The Top 1000 Engaging Users of BlueSky." I don't know how reliable it is, but the result for me was highly unexpected. bluefacts.app/top-reach

Kristi Noem still can't confirm who was killed during the shooting at the ICE facility today and can't even confirm that the victim's family has been contacted

If you think that adults taking Tylenol hurt kids, just wait until you read what the adults in the Epstein Files were doing to them.

Is this supposed to be a threat? They did this exact thing while the government was open

Odd, how we can’t afford to give Americans healthcare, but we can afford to drop $200,000,000,000 on Argentina with a moment’s notice.

I went to Catholic school, and we even knew the Bible isn’t a history book. Oklahoma just turned indoctrination into state policy: mandating classroom Bibles while pretending amendments 11 - 27 don’t exist. Public schools should teach real history, not change it in order to fit a political agenda.

“According to Strength in Numbers, the Disney boycott quickly became four times as large as any boycott over the last five years. Disney's stock dipped about 3.5 percent and continued to trade lower in subsequent days — a loss in market value amounting to some $4 billion.” @rbreich.bsky.social

Gavin Newsom: “What more evidence of authoritarianism do you need? These guys aren’t screwing around. We can no longer screw around. It’s all at stake. People need to wake up. We can’t continue to play by the old set of rules.“

CNN: The ratings are in for the first day. 6.26 million viewers on ABC. That was four times Jimmy Kimmel's average. And that's despite the show not even being available in a quarter of all American homes.

Walters: I'm excited to announce I will be stepping down as Oklahoma state superintendent and taking on the roll as the CEO of the Teacher Freedom Alliance.

OMG, this afternoon's ANTIFA Board of Directors meeting went on and on. I thought Jesus would *never* stop talking!

You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.

I missed @marisakabas.bsky.social's scoop and specifically this detail at the link: that *more than a million* people cancelled their Disney subscriptions in the days following Disney's decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel. Consumer boycotts / subscription cancellations are important in several ways:

Stock price action this year, relative to historical seasonality, has been wild. @yardeniresearch.bsky.social

“.. a sign that the narrative is shifting again — that companies realize they need to find their red lines .. “.. it’s a realization that submitting may come with a higher price than pushing back.” @opinion.bloomberg.com $DIS www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

If you’re an incompetent foreign leader who sucks up to Trump, you can get $20 billion from U.S. taxpayers while Trump is cutting Americans’ health care.

Ken CHESEBRO, an architect of Trump's bid to remain in power despite losing the 2020 election, has been suspended from practicing law in D.C. (he'd already been disbarred/suspended in several states) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

(AP) — The man who oversees the nation’s military reposted a video about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to vote. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/wome...

🚨BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey is expected to be criminally indicted in the coming days by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), MSNBC reports. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

California is charging ahead towards a clean energy future, surpassing 200,000 publicly available EV charging ports across the state. EVs are here to stay — even as Trump sells out American innovation and jobs to China.

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Donald Trump’s climate denial is an abomination and a disgrace. History is watching, and future generations are counting on us to act.

Congratulations to @jimmykimmel.com on his triumphant return! Last night he was pitch-perfect. Inspirational, self-reflective, gracious to his haters, championing the 1st Amendment & most importantly: FUNNY. (Shout-out to Robert DeNiro as the mob-boss head of the FCC)😆

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I can't believe MSNBC is falling for this "anti-ice" on the bullet thing. The shooter's brother says he wasn't political and didn't have strong feelings about ICE. Where's the scrutiny?

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Big Win in Push to Release the Epstein Files with Jess Michaels and Michael Fanone on Political Rhetoric in America. open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

According to the numbers, these are the 26 most vulnerable MAGA House representatives. They've spent more time defending “Dear Leader” than the Constitution, and they can be beat. We're pledging to target them all in the 2026 midterms. See anybody missing? Let us know here: https://t.co/geQUe7ptY6

New from me (and timely!): The Very Definition of Selective and Vindictive Prosecution: No one should be wrongfully prosecuted because a president wants revenge staytuned.substack.com/p/the-very-d...

Big picture: Across ABC, YouTube and many social media platforms, Jimmy Kimmel's monologue about free speech in America has reached TENS of millions of people, and the view counts are still rising.

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