NO ONE VOTED FOR THIS www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It's time to start calling Simclair advertisers! Let the advertisers know that we won't be supporting those companies! www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

apnews.com/article/mack... Scott gives $70 million to UNCF to financially strengthen HBCUs

Hey, Massachusetts, it may be a Providence station, but WJAR says it is "Providence-New Bedford" and covers Massachusetts. Xfinity in many Massachusetts towns includes the channel as one of the HD NBC stations. Time to start complaining to the Massachusetts advertisers.

Please support Kat and the people who are trying to save America

You know, the Washington Post should have interviewed Karen Attiah for this story

A Few Thoughts on KimmelGeddon talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-few...

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

reminder: Jimmy Kimmel is enough of a mensch that he devised a segment on which actors who are just short of having enough work to qualify for union healthcare come on his show and deliver a single line of dialogue deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...

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

Americans like the 6 judges you serve with, you mean

Truly insane post from The Federalist, which includes the recommendation that the government pressure tech companies to limit access to BlueSky because of the reaction to Kirk's death thefederalist.com/2025/09/15/w...

Joy Reid. Karen Attiah. Gene Robinson. Jonathan Capehart. There are lots of others. Circumstances differ. But really sad to see new organizations not keeping super-talented Black staffers. The news industry spent decades talking about diversity, improved some from 2014-2020 and is now going back.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, endorsed Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City on Saturday and called on his party’s leadership to do the same, criticizing them for a delay that he said allowed President Trump to exploit Democratic divisions.

Outrage has its purpose. Sharing information is definitely important. So, now what? What specific action can you take today to help make your community, state, country, world a more humane place?

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

As one of the 2025-2026 Cornell Society for the Humanities fellows, I urge anyone with an interest in next year's theme to consider applying. My participation in the program has just started, and I already feel enormously privileged to have learned so much from colleagues here.

Out and about in Harlem at the Uptown Night Market

To all those indulging in willfully obtuse, “you’ve got to admit Trump’s onto something, crime in DC is a problem” commentary on Trump’s power grab. Trump could care less about crime in DC. What Trump cares about is establishing a precedent that will help his further consolidation of power.

"At a moment when the language of politics is so dour and so dark, it’s important to understand that the tonic to the darkness is not imitating it, but rather to marshal the same lightness and joy that also characterizes our lives." --Mamdani, in this interview:

Disaster after disaster. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Must read.

Emil Bove's confirmation was only possible because Democrats caved to a vile right-wing smear campaign of Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim appeals court judge, when Biden nominated him for the same seat last year. Absolutely disgraceful. Bove's confirmation is on them, too.

I missed posting this last week! @lindsayburoker.bsky.social's penultimate novel in her fantastic, funny & fierce MAGNETIC MAGIC series is now audio. I'm going to seriously miss these characters once the final is recorded. I've loved keeping company with them: www.audible.com/pd/Curse-of-...

Incredibly excited that @charliekm.bsky.social's newest thriller GUESS AGAIN is out on audio. Charlie Donlea is the master of stunning twists that are nonetheless believable and grounded in the characters' truths. And GUESS AGAIN is, quite simply, a killer of a read. www.audible.com/pd/Guess-Aga...

Glad to be partnering with the ACLU in my attempt to hold whoever was in charge of firing me responsible. It’s important, especially during these particular times, that we fight for our rights (and not just to party)

the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?

He drove from Las Vegas to New York with an AR-15, which cannot be purchased in New York. This isn’t about New York. This is about Republicans persistently blocking common sense gun safety reform, including an assault weapons ban, that a super majority of Americans support.

I keep trying to tell y'all that ProPublica is out here lapping most other outlets. Them, Wired, and the Texas Observer.

The destruction of public infrastructure like transit and radio feels like it’s targeting something beyond immediate suffering of users and workers, a message that none of us should expect to live in a place that functions or sustains us, none of us should even imagine it

The WNBA All-Stars came out wearing warmup shirts that said, "Pay Us What You Owe Us." The players' union met with the WNBA Thursday and came away frustrated with the economic model proposed by the league. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...

pretty incredible indictment of NYT’s news judgement that Wyden just comes out and says the real news, while the NYT story is framed all about the posturing and buries the lede

Please give a little love to the second story on the WSJ app now…. www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

New bombshell from my investigators on Epstein's sex trafficking operation: the Trump administration has an Epstein file detailing 4,725 wire transfers and almost $1.1 billion flowing through just one of his banks. Hundreds of millions more through others.

huh. that must be why Bret Stephens, a Republican, is using his New York Times column to try to prevent that mayoralty from happening: because it would be so good for Republicans

I feel as though meaning-making is breaking down, but meaning-seeking isn’t. The result is this sort of intractable, pervasive loneliness (far from confined to men), the slow flattening of artistic horizons, and the degradation of a lot of the skills associated with being human. But also, QAnon.

Raskin: At the very least, the judiciary committee should be demanding the release of the Epstein files Van Drew: I fundamentally disagree with you on everything Raskin: Please elaborate, I would love to hear it Van Drew: I don’t want to hold up the hearing

This is concisely set out, with a clear sense of what likely lies down the road for us all, and the read is beyond sobering.

Republicans just unanimously voted to BLOCK the release of the Epstein files.

Legit funniest thing I’ve ever seen

As we contend with the most willfully ignorant and dangerous majority in Supreme Court history, remembering the important and hard-fought career of Thurgood Marshall feels like a necessary and useful thing.

Calling for the criminal prosecutions of his political enemies

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

A cooking competition show where professional TV chefs have to cook dinner for my kids and get all of them to eat it There is literally no way anyone wins

In 2023, the City Council passed a package of laws expanding access to housing vouchers. Eric Adams vetoed it. Then the Council overrode his veto. The Mayor refused to implement it. Now a court says he has to. What a ridiculous waste of time during a housing crisis.

While Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams trip over each other to win the approval of billionaires in backrooms, our campaign remains focused on working New Yorkers and their clear desire for a different kind of politics.

Just nauseating.