"Who would have predicted this?" - Black women did. - Trans people did. - The *entire* disability community did. - The anarchists did. - Post-Evangelicals did. "Well why didn't I hear them." You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.

Scholars of the 50s and 60s, now’s your time to remind people of how the FBI infiltrates left-wing groups and foments violent action.

My best advice for parents re: harmful content: show genuine interest in the stuff your kid is watching and doing online. Let them talk your ear off about Minecraft and Roblox and the funny video they just watched. Make them feel excited to share with you, vs making them feel ashamed or judged

Nexstar just folded re preemption too. Classic Friday evening news dump. Would like to take a moment to remind everyone that WaPo opinion writer Karen Attiah remains fired which is and never will be Ok. None of this will be forgotten, big-media loser crybabies!!

👀 www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...

Maybe B5 has been posted already, but if it hasn't...

3-part 🧵 worth EVERY word. Read it carefully.

If they had the capacity to do this, it would be really bad. And they probably will try to do a couple of high profile examples to make you think they *do* have the capacity. But like a lot of stuff, this is a memo designed to get you to voluntarily stop doing stuff they don’t like.

Slow civil war is just that, slow; and then fascism burps, and it jolts ahead. Read the whole terror memo. Read about Comey. Consider the generals. Read this passage. Note what’s now called “terror.” And what “funding” it means. I want to say this is in-the-street news, but I think it may be worse.

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The South wanted to grow the number of slaves states until they could expand slavery across the U.S. through westward expansion and the conquest of Latin America. We almost had a succession crisis from New England in the 1840s over the Southern-led Mexican American war.

This is really great reporting from Mother Jones - the "godfather" of evidence-based medicine disavows the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine for misusing his work. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The EO on antifa is an effort to criminalize Democrats by blaming them for claimed -- and now real -- violence targeting ICE.

TFW you're a week away from the 30th anniversary of something, but you can't find any archives directly citing it because it was from an inside-the-US-Govt team on the pro-encryption side of the 1990s crypto wars. Got something from close to then. #ipsec #ipv6 mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ips...

Finally started this book. Moved it to the top of my reading queue preemptively given <waves-hands> all of this </waves-hands>.

If I owned an independent station in any of these Sinclair-owns-ABC-affiliate markets, I'd very much want to air Kimmel on MY station. This happened in the early 80s in Milwaukee when the NBC affiliate wouldn't air Johnny Carson at 1030pmCT, so NBC let a local independent station air it instead.

Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger

Fun story this morning. I spoke with Curtis Evans, the retired Marine in the viral photo below who took part in the anti-ICE protest at Broadview. He's a thoughtful guy, well read and with a dry sense of humor. Story @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-...

Hey @widgettwalls.com -- still got that registry of Chik-fil-A locations that'll need non-raptured management? I damn well better still have my name next to the Pheasant Lane Mall one!

Normally I try not to let the little pricks generation-gap me but... Are you kidding me? We never had a cassette player in the car when I was growing up! Lucky to have FM RADIO in time for (checks notes) 1983!!!

I just found out from a select someone that confirmation bias is definitely the best cognitive bias! (Did that select someone already post it?)

I’ve been getting the kinds of emails you get when someone like Dan McLaughlin or Erick Erickson decides to talk about you on Twitter: stuff about my mental health, the standard racial stuff about my kids, the panoply of demi-literate abuse one expects from their mediocre followers. /1

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

Like slave power, MAGA will never be satisfied with a live and let live world. They want dominance and submission. This is what Ezra Klein and his ilk cannot seem to understand.

Here is an extremely relevant passage from Abraham Lincoln's 1860 Cooper Union speech. (Jamelle Bouie posted this on YouTube, but not here as far as I can tell.)

it's also really important to spread the "this is illegal" message as far as you can because the majority of people are not exposed to it! most people do not even know the government is doing the illegal thing it's doing, let alone that it's illegal. when they learn about it they get mad!

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

Disney: Greed shot first

Note that over 20 ABC national affiliates are owned by far right Sinclair Broadcasting including Ch 7 in DC. Obviously this has a major influence in ABC editorial and personnel decisions. Sinclair sends out right wing talking points to affiliates daily that they're REQUIRED to read on air EVERYDAY!

I substantially underestimated corporate and institutional cowardice in the US.

Real life and @nytpitchbot.bsky.social have now officially become the reference standard for Poe's Law. Should we get ISO to encase them both in a secure facility in France or something next to the iridium reference Kilogram?

Was easy and straightforward.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

"Debate Me" is the campus spinoff of anti-abortion sidewalk "counseling." It's using free speech as a shield to demand interaction without consent

if these companies would just put out a statement saying “we told him to go fuck himself” they would instantly have the type of loyal and dedicated customer base corporations dream of and spend decades trying to cultivate

Fallon being the last man standing is such an indictment of Fallon

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.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

He's right, and if he's new to this, he hasn't been reading enough @mtsw.bsky.social .

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Lots of blame to go around re: Kimmel, but don't forget which merger/acquisition is benefitting.

Firing liberals over stuff right-wingers get away with every day is truly honoring Charlie Kirk's legacy.

It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

It physically nauseates me to see trade reporters cover the potential Paramount-Warner merger as mere asset shuffling and not a fucking death knell for this industry. It's absolutely maddening to see short sighted, hateful ghouls sell off the thing you built your life around for parts.

This is amazing. I found this via Fedi/Mastodon. This 4hr (haven't watched it all yet, just seen comments, recommendations, and a bit at the end citing the 30-year gap in trans research thanks to the fucking Nazis) video looks like a labor of love and honest inquiry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiOc...

My unpopular opinion: Sneakers > Hackers . Redford is at least 1/3 of the reason why. RIP Robert Redford.

So the enforcers of laws will take away your money and power even if you haven’t broken any laws?

It is WEIRD that the sitting Vice President of the United States would guest host a radio show for 2 hours. It is WEIRD that he would tell people that calling employers is donning “God’s Armor.” It is WEIRD that he would suggest you might get killed if you call employers. These folks are WEIRD.

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