This looks like some effective non-cooperation that will hit the normies—a great thing, especially given the almost uniform surrender of the elites.

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

beneath the bravado of evil there’s *always* a shrill, panicked undertone. the louder evil boasts about its dominance, the more weak and frightened it sounds. because evil knows it has already lost and is doomed to vanish. all that shrieking at the podium today? the cry of the Eternally Defeated.

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

Live your life so when you die, people mourn you because they choose to, not because they’re compelled to.

Correa miked up on ESPN talking up “the culture of the Astros”. LOL. 🗑️

Cal Raleigh is the AL MVP. Period.

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Can I get a bababadeeya? Happy 21st night of September to all who observe. youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...

i also want to note that "i don't want children to have to undergo genital inspections" is an extremely easy argument to make and the fact that elected liberals cannot manage it is because they are either incompetent or complicit and i do not give a shit which

I assume Tylenol is prepared for this as they had to know it was coming. In public relations, their handling of the Tylenol poisoning murders is still studied as a textbook case in crisis communications, so from a professional standpoint, I’m very interested to see how they respond.

This is a great explainer.

“we see it in the existence of early 21st century billionaires themselves. They act now like latter-day dukes or earls…” Or robber barons. The problem is indeed power concentration into the hands of billionaires. And the rogue SCOTUS did this. Exceptional analysis from @joshtpm.bsky.social:

You cannot create a bread and circus society and then yank the bread AND the circus Yall gon learn

This one goes to 11. youtube.com/watch?v=eOAL...

2/2. A few years later, I remembered it for some reason & asked my dad. The store owner was a Holocaust survivor. The Welch candy company (Junior Mints, Sugar Babies) was run by James Welch, founder of the John Birch Society. The store owner was boycotting his own stock. Cancel your Disney/Hulu.

When I was a kid, 10 years old or so, my friends and I would stop at a candy store after school. One day, my friend wanted to buy Junior Mints. The old guy behind the counter told us no, pick something else, the Junior Mints company is run by a Nazi. 1/2

People acting like Disney being fascist is new should go back and read the company’s history. Disney himself was a Nazi-sympathizer and only got into the US propaganda film game because he was also a staunch Nationalist. Before that he literally hosted dinner parties for Nazis.

This will cause nary a ripple.

Seattle protesting censorship by ABC, Disney et al. #boycottABC #boycottDisney #freespeech #censorship #rachelmaddow

Does anyone have a running thread of pundits / politicians / personalities who have joined team "The groups are bad. Abundance™ means we abandon queer people, women, Black people, immigrants, climate change and we move towards MAGA, fascism lite"?

As per usual, @jamellebouie.net is correct, and I'd go farther to say that while there are, increasingly people expressing regret for having voted for Trump, literally NOBODY who voted against him regrets that vote.

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

Ok, so: I was raised in Boston and my first beat was in Rhode Island so I KNEW: the rule you learned growing up as a kid, and then as a reporter, was this: NEVER FUCK A KENNEDY. NEVER GET INTO A MOVING CONVEYANCE WITH A KENNEDY. NOT A BOAT. NOT A PLANE. NOT A CAR.

I’m not kidding when I say there’s no affirmative reason for that company to exist. And I’m sorry, but ‘It pays a lot of people’ isn’t good enough when what it’s paying them to do is bad for the entire world.

i remain resolute in my confidence we will win and it will be because we stuck together. dooming and fatalism is not how any of us will get out of this mess. i’m saying this as a veteran climate journalist who is a trans woman. if i have more hope than you, think of what that says about your view

Why do pundits like Ezra Klein always propose bullshit like "Democrats should run anti-abortion candidates" instead of "Republicans should run pro-abortion rights candidates"? Because actual votes - not just polling, actual fucking votes - tell you abortion rights are overwhelmingly popular.

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

US Constitution Article III, section 3: “Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them”

I cannot emphasize enough how unhelpful it is to make the joke or comment — I’ve been guilty of making it at times myself — that this is conservative “cancel culture,” it’s not. It’s an authoritarian, cultish, censorship project run by the most powerful people in the federal government…

This picture is a good example of why I think it’s important to fly the flag at protests. Make the regime tear gas the US flag. Make it clear they are fighting their own country. This picture is far more powerful b/c it makes clear the current regime is fighting against its own patriotic citizens.

There is no reason to cooperate with a increasingly unpopular and authoritarian president.

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ALL HANDS ON DECK, SEATTLE! Not only are we protesting Trump's blatant violation of Kimmel's free speech rights and Disney's total cowardice, we're targeting Sinclair, which played a key role. JOIN US at KOMO's studios downtown. Costumes encouraged! Info at: DefundMusk.com

“One thing is for certain: The old school, traditional media outlets cannot and will not stick their necks out to protect the people of this country when their bottom line is what matters most.” (The whole article is worth reading, and then contemplating where you will get your news going forward.)

Huh. Seems bad.

Moments from today’s protest against ABC in support of #JimmyKimmelLive ✊ #WGAStrong

New week's cover of The New Yorker, "Remote Control," by Barry Blitt.

I also think about the 10 years that Trump/MAGA has already occupied in our lives and the lives of our children. It may be one of the most unforgivable sins - the sheer time this degenerate has taken from all of us.

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Rich people, especially rich people in the media & entertainment industries right this moment: The point of having fuck you money is saying “fuck you” when it counts.

I think this comparison is largely right. Yes, it’s a replay of McCarthyism’s ugliest aspects but that was fueled by a widespread sense that the country faced dire external dangers while this is about a deeply unpopular president’s grudges.

Every headline talking about Kimmel being suspended for his “Kirk comments” is journalistic malpractice. He was suspended for comments about MAGA opportunists exploiting Kirk’s death, after the FCC chair issued a Mafioso threat.

Why have I not seen one Seattle news outlet localize what the Jimmy Kimmel thing means on the local level? Because it means a lot. Sinclair - the company that did this to him - owns KOMO. And they're bowing to the FCC so they can merge with Nextstar/TEGNA, which just bought KING 5.

Trump now controls the networks with a reign of terror and intimidation.

See, this isn’t hard. The national Dems don’t need another think tank. They need to grow a spine and be a party that brings out the best of us, not endlessly court the worst of us.

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

My suspicion is that the original texts, if they exist, would be some minimal communication that is not exactly convictable. (or maybe it was, but only covered 1 thing but they wanted more) So time to "run the checklist", build it by committee, use the police hack tools and jam it onto the device.

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