Dear lord.

First belly laugh of the day.

Two years. Bess Kalb's meditation on the atrocities of Oct. 7th is soulful, solid, and true.

Do we say a man is sane when he calls in the military to fight a war when there is no war? If such a man is not sane, do we have a solution to stop the madness if he’s in the White House?

The cyborg from hell.

DEEPLY APPRECIATE the work that @marcelias.bsky.social and Democracy Docket are doing on behalf of We the People!

There are credible reports that federal agents may be replaying the 2020 playbook and surging into Portland with the goal of provoking conflict and violence in my hometown. I am in close contact with state and local officials to monitor this activity.

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Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

Remember when happy, scientifically sound announcements like this happened in the United States? Before ignorant, irresponsible kooks like RFK, Jr. and Donald Trump were running/funding things. www.bbc.com/news/article...

So now we know the company that owns Tylenol didn’t buy any Trump crypto.

The most important thing to know about Trump’s acetaminophen announcement is that the GOP is still hiding the Epstein files

Save birds, animals, and insects, too! Please DO NOT USE this stuff. It entraps living creatures!

There goes the First Amendment.

THIS. 👉

I will as well.

PHILLIPS: “Capitulation doesn’t work. Institutions that give in only set themselves up for more punishment… it’s not a regime too powerful to be resisted; it’s only playing one on TV. Fight back and you might lose; don’t and you’ve already lost.” www.theringer.com/2025/09/19/p...

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I like this idea.

PSA: A "Major Terrorist Organization" (MTO) is not a thing. The Immigration and Nationality Act *delegates* power to the State Department to designate *FOREIGN* terrorist organizations (FTOs) based on certain criteria. It doesn't apply to domestic orgs. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

When even Tucker Carlson thinks this is a violation of the First Amendment. Sheesh!

Trump just designated “Antifa” as a terrorist organization, on par with ISIS and Al Qaeda. As a reminder, “antifa” is short for “antifascist”. They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left. This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up. www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...

What’s at stake here is free speech. Across the board, we’ve seen the Trump administration use the power of government to go after anybody who’s criticized them — and in this case, Jimmy Kimmel. We need to all stand up and speak out.

Jimmy Kimmel deserves better than this. He’s a class act. Case in point - after my first appearance on his show back in 2018, he very thoughtfully asked whether I was receiving adequate security at that time, as Trump was repeatedly smearing journalists as “the enemy of the people,”

Exactly.

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

1/Evidently, the FCC thinks that the First Amendment protects Fox TV host Brian Kilmeade advocating euthanizing the mentally ill homeless, but it doesn't protect this comment from Jimmy Kimmel:

Well, do we post our outrage on social media or boycott legacy media and all who bend over to this authoritarian regime, boycott advertisers, or hit the streets? Or all of the above?

It’s happening. The takedown of Jimmy Kimmel is likely the start of a campaign to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to use the power of the White House to wipe out Trump’s critics and his political opponents. But we aren’t powerless. We can mobilize and organize. Now.

America has become a full-blown fascist state in under a year. Trump and his thugs now have 3 more years to build out state media. Not by chance that Vance jumped into Kirk's podcast seat the other day. Nexstar is also part of the state media plan and Jimmy Kimmel both revenge and a warning.

If Kimmel had said on tv that we should kill the homeless he’d be doing his show tonight, that’s how it works yes?

It is not about Kimmel or what he said. It is about the US government forcing a network to fire someone - no government should have that power. If the network decided this on their own, that’s one thing. But in this case they absolutely did not.

ABC just ripped Jimmy Kimmel off the air indefinitely. This comes just hours after the FCC Chair threatened ABC and Disney. And weeks after Colbert was cancelled. This isn’t freedom of speech. This is MAGA overreach.

Checking in on this

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

Wow. Live your life in such a way that your shitty policies don't make the health insurance companies look like the good guys.

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