Autocrats regularly overestimate their power and how much people agree with them

This is hilarious.

Incredible. Italy brought to a standstill as Italians descend to the streets to protest for Gaza. No business as usual. Schools closed. Businesses closed. Shameful on the rest of us. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Lmaoooo bc imagine pissing people off and then asking for more money.

Also the folks at MSNBC who had big mouth for Kimmel but were quiet about Joy Reid and Symone Sanders …. Yeah

Very glad to once again be personally choosing not to watch Jimmy Kimmel Live instead of the government forcing that decision on me

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/e...

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

Money equals power and that means we must have solidarity with one another and use that power for larger projects that benefit us all and those with the least power being impacted.

We’re gonna need a bigger reconstruction.

Dems are the political equivalent of the terrible friend who starts making MORE demands when you get into hard times Because they want to assert dominance

www.vulture.com/article/jimm... Jimmy Kimmel Live! Will Return to TV Tomorrow

A large part of why Disney is rushing to try and “fix it” is because they don’t want to run into the same thing Target did; People removing a thing from their life that had become a habit and realizing they don’t miss it AND it’s saving them money.

Disney has backed down, but there's no evidence that Sinclair or Nexstar have learned their lesson. If you haven't already done so, check the links in the thread below for stations in your area. Find the advertisers and let them know you're boycotting them until they remove ads from these stations.

The number of people I know personally that stopped going to Target and it changed their life for the better is higher than I expected it to be. I also used to pop in occasionally after the gym to just grab random stuff and I don’t miss it at all 🤷🏻‍♂️ Same goes for Starbucks.

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Funny, that…

"Martin Luther King Jr was an American hero and I wake up daily to continue his legacy of racial justice." Charlie Kirk

Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"

Joe Manchin owns a coal company and took coal barron bribes. He drove a 100k maseratti. Joe Manchin's daughter, Heather Bresch, CEO of Mylan. “Between 2007, when Mylan acquired the rights to the EpiPen, and 2016, the price for a two-pack rose by over 500%, from around $100 to over $600.”

okay AI controversy aside, just talking as a nerd for a second: this is such a cool paper

Bring back movie soundtrack singles where the rap verse tells the film synopsis and possibly even spoilers:

FORGOT ABOUT VIGO THE MASTER OF EVIL TRY TO BATTLE MY BOYS? THATS NOT LEGAL

blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/19/v... MAGA propagandizing stories is not a surprise

Importantly, I don’t want to “cancel“ Ezra Klein I want him to voluntarily shut the fuck up while he works on being less incompetent

He’s wrong… hbo ain’t what it used to be

While people are suddenly and uncharacteristically paying attention to media regulation, please take a moment to notice all the massive harm Brendan Carr has done to consumer protection and public safety as well me, back in April:

ICE recruiting commercials on my tv man.

Here’s the video within the video from YouTube. youtu.be/rWpapaQl-uM?...

Luckily, you only have to give in to authoritarians once and then they let you alone. That's what history tells us, right?

Jimmy Kimmel’s show has been cancelled - The New Disney #Trump #JimmyKimmel #Disney #LUBACH

This is amazing.

YIIIIKES.

Nigga I saw an ICE commercial. Like recruiting for ICE???

New from me: There's a lot of misinformation around the reasons I was fired from WaPo. Here's the official termination letter I got sent by Washington Post. Read and judge for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

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.

We just drove by an accident where every air bag went off including on the sides and the back and side of the car were basically obliterated and it looks like everyone walked away Seatbelts and airbags, incredible technology. Regulation works.

Breaking: Egyptian former journalist Ayman Soliman was released today from ICE custody in Ohio and will no longer face deportation, say his attorneys.

Exactly. Plus, if Dem leaders are serious about “expanding the tent,” there shouldn’t be any hesitation about endorsing Mamdani. None. For some strange reason, the urging to expand the tent always seems to be to do so in a rightward direction.

"let's suggest stuff Dems have been doing and already proven to not work"

Seriously, just look at Missouri, where an abortion rights ballot measure outperformed Democrats in 2024, because abortion rights are popular, and now their Republican legislature wants to override voters to put a repeal on the ballot next election, an attack on democracy.

25% of Drs in US are foreign grads. Many are on an H1B visa. This will hit health systems hard especially rural hospitals and hospitals in underserved areas that sponsor these visas through waiver programs. The old cost was about 5000$ a year. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

You guys have to read the termination letter that @washingtonpost.com sent @karenattiah.bsky.social because they essentially accused her of anti-white racism because she mentioned that Charlie Kirk was a white man 😵‍💫 Then they called her a “risk.” 🤡 karenattiah.substack.com/p/why-washin...

Let me be the one to say it plain and clear. America is not intelligent or self-sufficient enough as a nation to be isolationist. American exceptionalism is a dangerous delusion. Like an Icarus level delusion. And it's so deep too many folks don't realize the wings already burned & we're plummeting.

Adding this as a news PSA for my H1B work visa holders, especially for African citizens and who now apparently need to return to the US before September 21, 2025 at 12:01 a.m. EDT or pay a $100,000 to the Trump administration: www.bbc.com/news/article...

If you are one of the almost 100 Dems who voted to honor the guy who said the Civil Rights Act was a huge mistake, don’t bother asking Black people to vote for you, donate to you or canvass for you next year. Don’t bother. Please. And don’t be shocked if you get a primary opponent.

President Donald Trump's contentious relationship with U.S. news organizations over his time in office has led to a host of legal battles and disputes, , the latest of which is ABC’s indefinite suspension of the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” show.

“This isn’t America.” It’s not YOUR America but it’s been happening in mines for quite some time now. Unfortunately the weeds done grew in your yard now in spite of the fences.

This is how countries lose their competitive edge

Excellent 🧵. A Must-Read! Also adding: Seneca Village in NYC became Central Park. Brooklyn Village in Charlotte, North Carolina became Uptown and home to Bank of America stadium. Both taken by eminent domain to purposely destroy and displace Black people and Black communities. #UrbanRemoval