Spam has canceled $1.2 billion in arms buys from Israel in just the past week. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Trump is exploiting Charlie Kirk's murder to delegitimize political opposition www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Israel’s atrocities in Gaza “have forced many Democrats, including party leaders, to wrestle with voters’ growing desire for the United States to cut off offensive weapons to Israel and rethink the U.S.-Israel relationship.” It’s about time. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This summer, I did interviews explaining why the Trump administration’s claim that it would put nuclear reactores on the Moon by 2030 was utter nonsense. One big reason was the lack of a launcher. Today, the NYT explains the failure of SpaceX www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

“Jews say sanction Israel now.” www.haaretz.com/news/world/2...

'Netanyahu Only Understands Force': Thousands of Protesters Across Israel Call to Reach Hostage Deal, End War - Israel News www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

First they came for the media.

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

Using Charlie Kirk’s assassination as a pretext, the Trump administration is planning on “an organized strategy to go after left-leaning organizations” that had nothing to do with his murder. trib.al/gOITqi1

The sick, sadistic violence-lust and derangement aren’t limited to Trump. #ClusterFox

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As the world frets over Palestine’s status, Israel flattens Gaza www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

On the front lines of the Resistance. Thank you, @vanhollen.senate.gov.

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...

As we’ve seen in the eight interminable months since Trump took office, the media tycoons and tech oligarchs who now control the vast majority of the American entertainment industry will do virtually anything to appease the president open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Brendan Carr’s weaponization of government power against Disney and ABC is censorship—plain and simple. No American, no matter their politics, should fear government retaliation for speaking their mind. We must stand for the Constitution, not intimidation.

Trump’s comments this afternoon about revoking the broadcast licenses of networks that displease him were, alas, familiar. But his comments about what “evening shows” are “allowed” to say was actually new — and ridiculous. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

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From @ilangoldenberg.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/jstreetd...

It can be easy to label Donald Trump a fascist, and he may deserve it, but we must do the hard work to understand the *behavior* of fascists. To recognize it and resist it. @AFT.org President @RWeingarten.bsky.social on just who might save us. bit.ly/Click-2-Listen youtu.be/vfdiLrdfcAA

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This is the best article to read on the ominous motives behind Jimmy Kimmel’s cancelation. This is not about Kirk. It about the government controlling our media. wapo.st/4nwhz92

Become!? I'd say that ship has sailed, returned for reload, and sailed again.

It should be clear to everyone by now that the billionaires who own our media do not want anything to get in the way of lucrative deals and lenient regulations. Including free speech. Disney is a disgrace. Walt must be rolling in his grave. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

"Netanyahu argues that Israel must stand alone, politically, diplomatically and economically. This did not go over well with Israel’s financial leaders. The Israeli stock markets plummeted on Monday after his speech. They continued their decline on Tuesday and Wednesday."

It is one thing to pursue policies that isolate your nation and degrade its economy; it is entirely another to purposefully establish that as your goal. But that is exactly what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did in a major speech on September 15. open.substack.com/pub/joecirin...

"Trump seems to treat the murder of Charlie Kirk as an excuse to ramp up his use of presidential powers to go after his political enemies. It is the responsibility of the president to calm the waters. Instead, Trump continues to fan the flames." thehill.com/opinion/whit...

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Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Just sitting at home, wondering if @jonatomic.bsky.social is watching the Sox-Yankees game. You know, the one that the Red Sox are leading 6-0 after one inning played.

this is an object lesson in why praising Dems when they do the right thing - and not just castigating them for doing the wrong thing - is good politics for those of us who want them to fight Van Hollen raised his profile by doing the right thing and the lesson he learned was keep fighting

Thank you, @vanhollen.senate.gov ! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...

“The moral outrage about what the Israelis are doing is leading more and more academics to take personal decisions, not to have joint projects with Israelis,” said the rector of the University of Glasgow. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

A must read from @djrothkopf.bsky.social. Kirk was no hero. Morn his death, condemn his murder, but don’t pretend he is like MLK. “His primary accomplishment in life was to foment hatred and division across the United States.” www.thedailybeast.com/why-magas-ca...

If you’re a journalist writing about the Kirk murder and you don’t know what the Groyper Wars are, I beg you to find someone who knows what the Groyper Wars are before you write your article

Tough issues handled with sensitivity and trenchant analysis by Emily Goodin, White House Correspondent for McClatchy Media, Jason Dick, Editor-in-chief at CQ-Roll Call and @igorbobic.bsky.social, Sr. Politics Reporter @HuffPost.com bit.ly/Click-2-Listen And now on YouTube: youtu.be/Tk0Fuuht6I0

In May and June 1940, a special task unit of the SS conducted a “euthanasia” program in East Prussia that killed 1,558 mental patients using special vans where the vehicles’ exhausts were pumped back into the vans. It was just the beginning.

Today’s @washingtonpost.com editorial repeats Trump’s slander that “the shooter might have been motivated at least in part by left-wing ideology.” But we now know he was influenced by far-right ideology. The racist “Groyper Army” called Kirk a fascist. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

So now that we know that the shooter wasn’t from “the left” but from a racist group whose leader had dinner with Trump Sr., is Junior going to go back on Fox, retract his statement and condemn Nick Fuentes?

Some backround on the intra-MAGA war that killed Kirk “The Groypers’ focus on Turning Point USA stems primarily from their dislike of founder Charlie Kirk, who they consider insufficiently pro-white. Among their grievances: Kirk has spoken out against white supremacy.” www.adl.org/resources/ba...

Israel has been bombing a densely populated refugee camp in Gaza City, destroying a school and homes that were sheltering Palestinian families. "People are once again being displaced, with no safe place to turn."

Nick Fuentes is apparently already pre-disavowing the potential for the Charlie Kirk shooter to turn out to be a groyper. Information shows so far that the alleged shooter was from a family of registered republicans. Another white male cis shooter

Nick Fuentes is the founder of the Groyper movement and the shooter posed as a prominent Groyper meme.

If I understand this correctly, the man who shot Kirk seems to be another far-right extremist who believed he was part of an intra-MAGA “war” against the faction led by Kirk. He seems to be aligned with the so-call Groyper Army and white supremicist Nick Fuentes.

For those keeping track: Remember the last time Trump said Putin only had “a couple of weeks” to resolve Russia’s war in Ukraine before the White House takes action? That was three weeks ago today. We’re still waiting for action (which will likely never come). www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...