Disney: over the last 72 hours we were shocked to discover that censorship isn’t cool.

Seriously folks we have become the Whig party! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Democrats should become the anti-corruption party. 72% of voters think a member of Congress would likely accept a bribe if offered one. 80% say donors run DC. The solution isn’t left vs right, it’s clean vs corrupt. But first, Democrats must reform themselves and reject big money.

I’m in Boston. This ad just came on TV

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

There's a reason they chose this spot: it's in rural North Louisiana, one of the poorest places in the country, a place national media barely knows exists, a place with essentially no local journalism, where people and resources can be exploited (and lied to) with no consequence

If a man shoots a Democratic congresswoman, he’s a mentally disturbed individual. If a man shoots a Republican congressman, it’s because Bernie Sanders brainwashed him and turned him into a sleeper agent who is activated by the phrase “tax cut.”

lol

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Imagine if Schumer and Jeffries said this: President Trump is "using the Justice Department and other agencies to pry into the lives of Americans. They’re rifling through people’s mortgage documents. And then knowingly spreading lies about what they found far and wide." trib.al/BHGAIy8

It’s a new kind of Saturday Night Massacre as Trump removes an experienced prosecutor he himself put in place in hopes he can find one who will prosecute a case based on politics, not the evidence. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

Seriously folks we have become the Whig party! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

BREAKING: Trump's border czar Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Just a reminder that Richard Hanania is not a centrist and has not changed his white supremacist views. The data most definitely doesn't show crime rates are about race unless you ignore every other causative variable (urban/rural, poverty, population density, etc.).

To all the comedians who stood for free speech in the face of wokeness

Breaking on MSNBC: U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert, who oversees the Eastern District of Virginia, told colleagues he plans to resign. Siebert had been pressured by Trump officials to bring bogus charges against NY AG Letitia James. Siebert did not find evidence to bring those charges.

I feel like anyone who is less concerned than Ty Cobb should just drape themselves in swastikas right now

Here is my fun new article about him suing the New York Times for a lot of money and the judge saying pls get the fuck outta my face with this shit and come back when you can act like you got some sense ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action

Historian hereQuoted in an article for E&E News by Politico on erasing history. Statues celebrating proslavery Confederate traitors and Lost Cause mythology is not history and censoring and deleting our past is not saving history. A sad day when civil liberties and the Constitution is violated daily

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.

Extraordinarily corrupt. I watched FCC chair Brendan Carr's full interview on Hannity. Carr basically said straight out that coverage of Trump he deems overly hostile can be decreed contrary to the "public interest," and thus grounds for yanking licenses: newrepublic.com/article/2006...

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

NEW: I tracked three dozen teachers, professors and other school staff who've been forced from their job or stepped away due to their comments on Charlie Kirk and his killing Republican lawmakers are increasingly getting involved, pushing for firings www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Jay Jacobs actually cost National Democrats the House and he's STILL in power, LOLOLOLOL

Trump coerced ABC into silencing Jimmy Kimmel — a brazen violation of the First Amendment. We’re introducing legislation to hold Trump accountable, help Americans protect themselves from this abuse of power, and stand with those who refuse to bow to political blackmail.

"President Donald Trump is expected to fire the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after his office was unable to find incriminating evidence of mortgage fraud against New York Attorney General Letitia James, according to sources."

"You have made a turd pye, Seasoned it with passive obedience, and now you must eat it your Selves." This might be the greatest quote I will ever cite.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Happy Constitution Day! “The 1st Amendment is dying while the 2nd Amendment is killing us.” Actually, the 2nd Amendment, incorrectly interpreted by an extremist majority in SCOTUS, is killing us. Three cheers for the Bill of Rights, a term coined by John Bingham, framer of the 14th amendment.

This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.

Let me just say a simple thing. Democrats have no obligation to provide the votes to fund the destruction of our democracy. If you want my vote for a bipartisan budget, there need to be protections to stop Trump's brazen lawlessness.

When I posted this I did not think we would end the day with a complete violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Shout out to @mcsweeneys.net for letting me treat a certain kind of article with the level of respect it deserves. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

Where is the Democratic Party leadership? They should be holding press conferences and shouting out loud against this five alarm fire for the life of the American republic! Besides a handful of brave souls, Trump holds forth unchecked! Democrats are nowhere to be seen! A gross dereliction of duty.

They are literally canceling culture

Let ABC know how you feel about their bowing to the thugs in power and cancelling Jimmy Kimmel's show: support.abc.com/hc/en-us/req...

What the right wing resents most about us is that we have so much more cultural power. We should use it.

If you’re scared of what comedians have to say about you… You’re weak.

“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.” That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.

“But a Democrat was president in 2023!” ~ Brendan Czar

I have to assume SNL is next, right?

ROVE: “.. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/they...

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms. Collective boycott. Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

ah, well

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.