I'm just gonna keep this one handy in the drawer for the day he dies.

Clothing store, Upper West Side.

A memorial-service reminder that there are no feelings about Kirk you are required to "respect." He was an unregenerate bigot and misogynist who seized on a shrewd grift and used it to make our world worse. I fear that we can't yet measure his legacy, but that's all he deserves to be remembered for.

Have they brought the golden calf into the stadium yet?

Be sure you take a moment today to remember Charlie Kirk for exactly who he was.

If you're not totally aware of how bots try to sway minds, here's a good example.

I'm watching a Robert Redford film I've never seen--The Hot Rock (1972). A shambling, funny heist movie that, for no particular reason, is super-Jewish! George Segal, Ron Liebman, Paul Sand, Zero Mostel...and the very-not-Jewish Redford. My weekend Redford-tribute viewing rec is not this, but...

These are suspenseful times but the good news is, we can just ask Google AI how the next two weeks went.

Democrats now have a huge opening to go on the offensive. Between the RFK vaccine disaster, the Homan bribe, Trump's nakedly corrupt DM to Bondi, and Brendan Carr breaking the law, they should turn on the firehose. As should the press. Doomers will be blocked. TY for your attention to this matter.

Just hilariously sloppy. He'll lie and pretend it was meant to be public, but he would NEVER post "it's killing our reputation and credibility."

He wrote "I Fought the Law" AND "Love is All Around"?! Range. RIP. deadline.com/2025/09/sonn...

I'm all for canceling subscriptions, but we have no info about how many people have done it, and this stock "collapse" is a completely meaningless dip of less than 3% (for perspective, in June the stock price was under $85). It is not time for anyone to be high-fiving themselves about Disney.

Just thinking about the fact that if Trump dies, the President is going to be a man who, by rights, should currently be hosting the 873rd-most-listened-to podcast in the country and having to read out five-minute personalized ads for his only sponsor, a canine anal-creme manufacturer.

They do indeed.

Today in "Who is Ezra Klein willing to sell out?"

Honestly, better them than Paramount.

"Don't speak to me that way" is a perfectly acceptable response, as is "Don't speak to her that way." Reporters, you don't have to simply bear witness, day after day, year after year.

Very good reporting/analysis from @tvmojoe.bsky.social on KImmel/Disney/ABC that provides real answers to many of the "Why don't they just..." questions. www.vulture.com/article/bob-...

The degree to which the entire creative community is massing against Disney right now should not be underestimated. There are people who are staying silent because they don't want to make it more difficult for Iger to walk this back. If he doesn't, I believe things will get much noisier.

Man, when you lose Ted Cruz, you lose the son of the guy who killed Kennedy.

"As every lawyer knows (or is presumed to know), a complaint is not a public forum for vituperation and invective--not a protected platform to rage against an adversary. A complaint is not a megaphone for public relations." I believe the legal term for this is: Burn.

I don't recall St. Paul saying that black women lacked the brain capacity for jobs that should go to white men, but perhaps the Cardinal is working from a different Bible.

I'm watching the very entertaining season premiere of The Morning Show, and there are several scenes in it that feel like they could have been written this morning. (Which speaks well for the show and quite poorly for this morning.)

Thank you to the several followers who have suggested today that I use my extensive platform as the leading man of Star Wars (1977) to speak out against Disney. (I don't get this. I don't. It happens all the time and I don't know how. Do people read "Mark Ha" and think "I'VE SEEN ENOUGH!"?

This is the lead story in the New York Times. If you're in the business of communicating, whether through journalism, commentary, or art, this is the five-alarm fire. People are going to remember who spoke up and who stayed conveniently silent or postured about "neutrality."

A beginning.

Just sitting here thinking that if Jimmy Kimmel Live! was on Hulu, the FCC couldn't touch it.

Some wise words from a great writer. Solidarity with people who are endangered, or who are making an effort, is important. Not undermining them on social media is the bare minimum. If you can't live up to that, I'm blocking you. Nobody is here to absorb your futility or exhaustion.

"what does it matter, the damage is done"....Jesus, I genuinely hope you're working on behalf of MAGA, because if you're not, and this is the entirety of your contribution, better to just shut up.

Important (short) thread. Iger screwed up. My suspicion is that he realizes, or will soon realize, that he screwed up, and I believe his calculus will now be "Do I dig in, or do I figure out a way to cool this down?" Either is possible.

All noise counts. And I don't want to hear "It won't work," "It's too late," "Why are you surprised," "It's not enough" today. Take that useless bleating somewhere else if that's all you've got. Call Disney. Call ABC. Call your Congressman. MAKE NOISE.

Re Kimmel, it's important that Disney has left itself an out--it is a "suspension," not a cancellation or firing. What happens in the next two days--reaction within the company but also in the press, in the industry, in Washington, among consumers, and on social media--may affect how this plays out.

The only way forward is to inflict as much financial AND publicity damage on Disney as possible as swiftly as possible. Cancel streaming subscriptions, boycott products, picket, encourage politicians and entertainment figures to shout about this from the housetops. Demonstrate the cost of cowardice.

Disney has Tron: Ares, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Rental Family, Zootopia 2, Ella McCay, Avatar: Fire and Ash, and Is This Thing On? opening this year. I hope the talent involved in these movies curtails all planned publicity until the company reverses its decision about Kimmel.

This is the legacy moment for Disney CEO Robert Iger, a man who once toyed with a Presidential run as a Democrat. You stand up for unpopular free speech or you stand against all free speech. There's no middle.

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

This isn't capitulation to right-wing pressure. This is Disney rebranding itself as a corporation in the service of Trump.

"Shut up, you stupid f*gs, we're the adults in the room and we're trying to win elections here. Also, your contribution of just $150 by midnight will help us meet our quarterly goal."

Bertrand Russell, at 89 years old, to Sir Oswald Mosley, a man most famous for founding, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists. I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to. Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.

In his new piece--which is largely about the reaction to his last piece--Ezra Klein says that he is deeply shaken by Charlie Kirk's murder essentially because they were in the same business: They both did public politics. This is honest on his part. It's also the problem. >

It's simultaneously getting more menacing and more infantile. Everything he does now--everything--is "Be nice to me or I'll hurt you."

For decades, Redford had a tortured relationship with acting--one critic described him as behaving like the handsome high school senior who'd grudgingly agreed to star in the class play. Here's some raw transcript from when I asked him about Mike Nichols directing him in Barefoot in the Park. (1/2)

What Robert Redford contributed to American films via Sundance is genuinely immeasurable. He was also an extraordinarily talented director--Ordinary People and Quiz Show are two of the best American studio movies of their eras--and an actor who somehow wore his incredible charisma almost shyly. RIP.

New PEN America statement: “The firing and suspension of multiple journalists after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk should alarm anyone who cares about free speech and a free press. Taken together, these measures risk creating a chilling effect that extends beyond those directly targeted..."

He's lying. And Democrats in office have a responsibility to say so.

Just wanted to share this very sweet shot from last night's Emmys of the moment Jeff Hiller won Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, and the unfeigned delight from his fellow gay nominees Colman Domingo, Michael Urie, and Bowen Yang. Solidarity!

“How you die does not redeem how you lived.”

Can someone sit the producers of the Emmys down and explain that we watch for the speeches? And why are they producing the Emmys if they don't know it?

Hannah Einbinder is a boss. And the money-ticker gag is curdling.

The governor may not lead from the front but at least she gets there eventually. Ball’s in your court, Jeffries, Schumer and Gillibrand!