It’s easy to take democracy for granted. It’s easy to assume that the Constitution is in stone. It’s not. This is a moment when your courage and your activism are most needed.

Australia’s Chief Medical Officer and the TGA join with other global medicines regulators, leading clinicians and scientists worldwide in rejecting claims regarding the use of paracetamol (acetaminophen) in pregnancy, and the subsequent risk of ADHD or autism in children. /1

Antifa: “…law scholar Evan Bernick noted that the point of the EO was “to assert that something exists which does not exist and to make people think it (1) exists & (2) is bad.” Immigration expert Aaron Reichlin-Melnick added: “It’s a directive to the Exec Branch about what to focus…resources on.” “

BREAKING: IN DEFIANCE OF TRUMP, DISNEY WILL RETURN JIMMY KIMMEL TO AIR STARTING TOMORROW. www.nbcnews.com/business/med...

Re-upping this article on how Hitler used divisive & inflammatory rhetoric to create bogus crises he used to advance his authoritarian agenda. Gift link.

The Nat’l Press Club also weighed in on Friday’s changes. “If the news about our military must first be approved by the gov, then the public is no longer getting independent reporting,” said club pres M Balsamo. “It is getting only what officials want them to see. That should alarm every American.”

Take 30 minutes and watch my analysis of how and why Donald Trump is escalating his authoritarian crackdown on thought, dissent, media and organizations. Then share it with others. youtu.be/4kKtGgh3l5I

The President can’t tell the difference between a DM and a public post. He thinks it’s ok to scold employees via Truth Social which is not a secure platform. He evidently can’t spell lawyers and he’s deluded himself into believing he’s the victim. Yet half the country normalizes this!

ICE denies using excessive force in Broadview, Illinois. Never mind the videos…

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Remember when Pam Bondi said this

If Tom Homan did nothing wrong, the Department of Justice should have no issue releasing the Homan files and the video of the alleged bribery to clear this up. And while they’re at it, go ahead and release the Epstein files and clear Trump’s name. Shouldn’t be hard!

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The president ordering the murder of 3 more human beings on a boat didn’t even make the list

“Thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

If this were discovered in a leaked email and published in the New York Times, it might get more attention. But Trump just tweets it out, and most people move on with their day. This is blatant corruption. Blatant weaponization. It is undeniably an impeachable offense.

Kash Patel essentially admits hiding Epstein files to protect Trump, Trump’s war on media backfires in court, SCOTUS trap for MAGA, DOJ collapse as leaders quit over fake charges, and more. Watch Legal AF at 8p ET/5p PT!

Ted Cruz explained: “I think it is unbelievably dangerous for government to put itself in the position of saying, ‘We’re going to decide what speech we like and what we don’t, and we’re going to threaten to take you off air if we don’t like what you’re saying.’”

Representative Jason Crow (D-CO) on this moment. Not just the transcript but the video of a floor speech yesterday. A rallying cry:

Stephen Colbert: “Tonight we’re all Jimmy Kimmel…. With an autocrat, you can’t give an inch. If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive, and clearly they've never read The Children's Book If You Give a Mouse A Kimmel.”

🧵 Gentleman in DC on the suspension of @jimmykimmel.com: “But you know who the real villains in this whole thing are? The 60-some percent of American voters who didn’t [vote].” LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK. 1/

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Part of our constitutional crisis is that Republicans are stopping Congress from playing its fundamental oversight role.

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

Congratulations, Stephen! 🎉

A great history and reminder of what four founders stood for and built this country to be. Today I couldn’t decide between all the great quotes to share.

Don’t let this make you quieter. Get louder.

It’s crucial to remember-Susan Monarez was appointed CDC Director by Trump She’s not a Democrat they can claim has some agenda She’s MAGA And she’s saying that RFK, Jr is ignoring science about vaccines Which will cause more epidemics like the measles outbreak in Texas So more children will die

This article makes so many good points.

You can never appease a tyrant.

Exactly this

The thing with designating a group that doesn't actually exist as a terrorist organization is that they can then say anyone they want is a part of that group.

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

Yeah this!!!

Jan 6th is just one example.

Bye bye, First Amendment. Hello, fascism.

I didn't like Jimmy, because he did blackface at one point but to find out that his show got canceled because he "questioned" the facts of the case???? This is LITERAL FASCISM. NOT TO MENTION A BLACK STUDENT IN TEXAS WAS EXPELLED FROM COLLEGE FOR SIMPLY MAKING FUN OF CHARLIE KIRK. No free speech

The death of free speech.

Trump admin doesn’t want anyone to hear what Jimmy Kimmel said: “The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

It can’t be true if we hide it from you.

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“A 2024 report from a part of the Dept of Justice noted that “since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or rad Islamist extremists.” The Daily Beast reported the Dept of Justice removed the report from its website after the shooting.”

I know I’m naive but it is pretty wild that the president of the United States just publicly declares he and the military killed some guys on a boat, multiple times, and the entirety of Congress doesn’t immediately hit a giant red IMPEACH button

Black Lives Matter, science matters, people aren’t illegal, words matter.

It's all wildly illegal & unconstitutional. The president doesn't get to do this stuff. Except now he does, because we're in the midst of the worst Article I constitutional crisis in American history. Presidency ending stuff for <anyone> in the last 80 years. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

🚨BREAKING: Utah Supreme Court REJECTS Republican legislatures’ motion to continue using existing congressional map. Lawmakers must present a new, fair map by Sept. 25. www.democracydocket.com/cases/utah-c...

The thing that I have wanted the most for the last 15 years would be that the USA would do something (anything) to stop all the senseless violence. No one deserves to live or die like this.

This is the same guy.

NEW: Trump says he is suing the New York Times for $15B for… well… I’m not entirely sure.