Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

Also just now: Erika Kirk, speaking at Charlie Kirk's memorial, publicly forgave her husband’s assassin killer onstage. “I forgive him because it was what Christ did." She adds: “The answer, we know from the Gospel, is love and always love—love for our enemies and love for those who persecute us.”

I felt pretty confident that in a DM Trump would just get to the point and not include all that performative bullshit but uh

I thought they just played scales. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Anna Paulina Luna just made yet another comparison between Charlie Kirk and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Again: Kirk very publicly and enthusiastically criticized King within the past year and a half, calling the Civil Rights icon "a bad guy" and decrying the 1964 Civil Rights Act as a "mistake."

I like this -- they fed AITA posts where the humans voted "asshole" to LLMs and found that the bots would almost always tell you that you're not an asshole. ^^; No wonder they're so popular! www.businessinsider.com/reddit-aita-...

Could someone let me know if this happens? I will be at Rosh Hashanah services, where I’m pretty sure no one will suddenly take flight.

And this is wrong! Trump lost his Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube accounts WHILE HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...

You know a doctor is a quack when he asks for medical advice from RFK, Jr., who admits that nobody should ask him for medical advice.

Sen. Rand Paul on MTP with harsher comments on FCC/Kimmel than a couple days ago "Absolutely inappropriate. Brendan Carr has got no business weighing in on this" "If you're losing money, you can be fired. But the government's got no business in it. And the FCC was wrong to weigh in"

The wind was southerly so I knew this wasn’t a handsaw

Like Scaramucci has become a unit of time (11 days), can Homan become an internet unit of money ($50,000)?

What if we reclaim some other lost symbol of American power? Free speech, free press, rule of law, NATO, USAID, science, research, academic freedom, antitrust, civil rights, labor rights, apolitical military/intel/law enforcement/civil service, and yes, immigration

I have bad news about math for those who think it’s been nine months.

Lindsey Halligan competed in Trump's beauty pageant: she made the semifinals for Miss Colorado USA in 2009 and was third runner-up in 2010. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Amazing even by his standards

Respectfully disagree with @imbernomics.bsky.social here. The president obviously should not urge DOJ to bring a specific prosecution, but it’s not grounds to dismiss such a case.

Lindsey Halligan is a 2013 law grad, an insurance lawyer, who acted as Trump's personal lawyer for several years and is now tasked with bringing the Smithsonian into ideological compliance. In the context of the Trump Administration this makes her well qualified to be US Attorney.

@kyledcheney.bsky.social might be right — but as he reported Bondi just installed someone else to serve as acting U.S. Attorney.¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Remember they’re spelled differently: KASH Patel CASH Homan

“With a single post or video, we can influence thousands of guests to try a food, drink, or experience in the parks,” she says. “I couldn’t, in good conscience, keep giving them free publicity knowing they don’t support free speech and are willing to bow to fascism."

Some good news: Yesterday, FDA granted accelerated approval for elamipretide, the drug my niece relies on for treatment of her rare disease. This was the result of tireless advocacy by patients, caregivers, and allies. THANK YOU to everyone who shared Hope’s story. I truly believe it helped.

To recap, Trump signed a proclamation saying that after midnight tonight, no one with an H-1B visa may enter the US unless they have paid $100,000. However, anonymous White House officials are saying it doesn't apply to people with current H-1B visas — yet there is NO official guidance! None!

The U.S. has implemented additional scrutiny for Palestinian asylum seekers, requiring their applications to undergo a secondary review. This policy, unprecedented for an entire identity group, affects Palestinians with various travel documents.

L'autre face de ces photos est fascinant. Tous ces gens "de bonne famille" en train d'insulter une enfant de 6 ans, qui a l'outrecuidance d'aller dans la même école que leurs enfants à eux. La haine et la violence qui ont poussé à la faire escorter par des policiers et marshalls tous les jours.

"My thoughts turned to David Rose, who volunteered to try to prevent another such attack on our country, and then, when back home, ran toward danger once again to help his fellow Americans." www.thebulwark.com/p/a-hero-dav...

Interesting

SCOOP: The Trump administration has installed a new acting director of the Census Bureau, @npr.org has learned. George Cook takes over the federal government’s largest statistical agency after it's been thrust into the middle of a renewed attempt by President Trump to alter the national head count

Incredible @staceywescott.bsky.social photo

Ted Cruz on Brendan Carr threatening ABC over Jimmy Kimmel: “That’s right out of Goodfellas… We shouldn't be threatening government power to force him off air. That's a real mistake.”

new edition of "shouting fire in a crowded theater" just dropped rollcall.com/2025/09/19/s...

The court allowed Trump to file an amended complaint, without the tedious invective and self-promotion, within 28 days.

Further update: SCOTUS has instructed Lisa Cook's lawyers to respond to Trump's application by Tuesday, September 25th at 4pm. Notably, no administrative stay in the meantime—effectively/implicitly granting Cook's request not to impose one.

How media & law firms could defend democracy: "[H]e fired the legal giant Skadden Arps after learning it had struck a settlement w/Trump, telling staff that Anthropic wouldn’t work w/law firms he felt were caving to an assault on the rule of law. He is also cutting ties w/Latham," which settled.

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I used to report for a show that was produced out of this Scripps-owned ABC affiliate in Denver. I’m really proud to see them publicly make clear they weren’t the cowards who caved to fascist threats.

From an open letter that free speech groups published in May. Maybe we should have used italics, or a larger font. knightcolumbia.org/documents/dm...

"Charlie Kirk has no amendments right now" is the type of sentence you'd expect to hear from a fourth-grader.

I can tell this site needs more sports knowers because everyone's been yelling about canceling Disney+ and Hulu all day and I literally haven't seen anyone yelling about canceling the new ESPN app, which was just rolled out and the success of which is existential for ESPN.

This sounds worse than it is. It’s the combination of MMR and chicken pox vaccines, not the vaxes themselves, that they’re advising against

look she is awful but this is a sure sign no one but the most overt maga people like what is going on

“From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish. All citizens will be required to change their underwear every half hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check. Furthermore, all children under 16 years old are now 16 years old.”

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It would be a decent legacy project if Obama and Romney teamed up to recruit capital to finance an independent DC-based media org.

Few companies rely on—and benefit from—our constitutional freedoms as much as media empires like Disney and Paramount. It’s astonishing to see them trading away their freedoms and ours for short-term profits.

Even if Brendan Carr wanted to pursue Fox News, the FCC lacks jurisdiction over cable TV content. That said, a government that disdains free speech can try to coerce big companies that own cable networks with unrelated carrots and sticks. www.npr.org/2023/03/16/1...

@oliverdarcy.bsky.social's reporting on ABC's suspension of Kimmel suggests that the company has no idea what to do and took him off the air temporarily to try to make the problem go away while they figured it out. That means they can be pressured. www.status.news/p/jimmy-kimm...

Folks, I don’t know what end is up right now.

Everything old is new again