Colbert accuses Trump administration of censorship after CBS pulls interview

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

Stephen Colbert said that the FCC and CBS - which is in no way a compromised or complicit organization - wouldn’t allow him to broadcast an interview with Democratic State Rep James Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

"It really has to sting for Bari. The person she wanted for the Evening News anchor chair is choosing to leave CBS altogether because of her," one CBS News staffer told me tonight. "This is 'fuck you' to Bari."

Remember: this guy admitted that started churning out right wing agitprop because he couldn’t get book contracts and work writing the serious stuff he wanted to write.

The fewer regular people that can vote, the farther billionaire money will go in manipulating our elections. This is how oligarchy settles into its throne.

Why would anyone want this??!? That our president has caused medical researchers to pull back on trying to fight disease is madness. Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...

“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.” -NYT ethical guidelines

i think you can judge how free - or not - our political media is by the fact that elon musk literally did a sieg heil (twice) at a rally and it’s still seen as uncouth and overly partisan (in legacy media) to describe his politics as straightforwardly white supremacist.

The RFK number seems like a massive failure of the media to explain what RFK is doing to our public health system and how catastrophic it will be

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Calling Dems' minimal demands "unreasonable," Homan: - says racial profiling is "just not occurring," contrary to many videos everyone has seen - lies about "assaults" against officers to justify masks - says "they all have placards" about what agency they're working for, suggesting that's enough

When Bereleh and Faygel Krugman emigrated from Belarus to New York, which was mostly Catholic and Jewish in 1920, I don't think they did for the Scots (with one t) Irish culture

The reason these people have been attacking scholars and universities is that they stand in the way of the ahistorical bullshit they need to spew in order to construct white Christian nationalism

Stephanie is a former colleague of mine at the Minnesota Orchestra, and I'm not surprised in the least that she would fearlessly take this stand against a feckless university administration.

As a Senate candidate, Fetterman guaranteed voters he’d be a reliable Dem, not another Manchin or Sinema. Constantly. It was his core promise to primary voters. Liar.

Massie: "Donald Trump told us that even though he had dinner with these people in NYC and West Palm Beach, that he would be transparent. But he's not. He's still in with the Epstein class. This is the Epstein administration."

The Trump Administration Is Waging a Global War on Children. An OpEd with my friend and co-author @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

Feds now personalist and extortionate all the way down: FDA suggests “Moderna might have more luck with a second, narrower request for approval if the company showed some ‘humility’ when it made the submission.”

i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions

rubio’s invocation of “western civilization” — defined here as racial and religious chauvinism, if not outright supremacy — is a rejection of the more egalitarian and universalistic notions that came out of america’s two revolutions.

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

Strange how he keeps begging everyone not to talk about the whole thing. Most vindictive man in the world constantly going "Ahh it's in the past let's move on"

Just going to point out again that our arbitrary political rules permit Republicans to attack urban areas with impunity but strictly forbid the faintest whiff of condescension toward rural areas by Democrats

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

Not even leaving the quiet part a little bit quiet.

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

About sheriffs who study at Claremont and read Jeremy Carl as a model for "how immigration works"

As someone in the comments noted, if they're now losing the suburban white guys in Callaway ball caps, they're losing badly.

💬 Ukraine's Vladyslav Heraskevych on the disqualification over the memorial helmet: "I have no regrets... There are things more important than medals."

Nuremberg Trials.

DOGE allegedly used ChatGPT to identify 1,400 NEH grants it said were DEI. Grants were terminated April 2025, according to a court filing. E.g. Film: 1873 Colfax massacre Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"

LA Lakers Co-Owner’s Firm Linked to Proposed $80 Million ICE Warehouse Deal in Texas The unwelcome facility would detain up to 9,500 people meidasnews.com/news/la-lake...

you know, it still seems like it should be an even bigger issue that the president has been sending armed forces to kidnap and assault people in an ethnic cleansing campaign, with a specific geographic focus on regions that didn't vote for him in the last election

MAGA physician leaders Alt-text: “Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots & fools whose lack of intelligence & creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

For those of you keeping score at home, the actual cut to the Post newsroom was 45%, not the widely reported one third. Remaining journalists are a bit over 400, down from around 1100 four years ago and 580 when Bezos bought the place.

This man has a decades-long record of lying for profit and personal gain. Any politician who said he'd keep his word was just doing the same thing themselves.

"Some were as young as 13, and at least half of those taken in so far became pregnant as a result of rape, sources said."

On the left is the ICE concentration camp near El Paso. On the right is an industrial chicken farm in Maryland. Do you know what happens when bird flu breaks out in the latter complex? Remember that Anne Frank died from typhus in a concentration camp, not poison gas.

Why keep thousands of people alive when you can instead make one man feel safe and special?

Maldita is doing some really great work exposing the polarization-for-profit mechanisms of TikTok.

ICYMI

GALLEGO: Why is the agent who shot Renee Good holding a camera phone & weapon? LYONS: The US attorney was requiring to have video leading up to arrests, so officials have used phones for that GALLEGO: Maybe you shouldn't be trying to be an influencer and wielding a weapon at the same time

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

I discovered Israeli government procurement documents showing a Canadian group that's sending right-wing media personalities on free trips to Israel was granted funds from Israel's foreign ministry The funding came through an arm of the ministry focused on managing “public perception of Israel”