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"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

You do not in fact have to praise the guy who said homeless people should be murdered with lethal injections and then apologized four days later to save his job. Let's get a grip here.

Something people aren't talking about enough is how often Charlie Kirk invoked the Fifth Amendment when testifying before Congress about the domestic terrorists he provided buses to get to Washington on January 6, 2021.

Starting November 1st, New Mexico will become the first state to offer free universal childcare to all its residents. It's expected to save families over $12,000 per child annually. This is a huge step forward — and a reminder that we have the power to fix the system.

“Severance" actor Tramell Tillman has won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series. He is the first Black man ever to win the award #Emmys

NEWS: Gov. Kathy Hochul has endorsed Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor "We’ve had our disagreements. But in our conversations, I heard a leader who shares my commitment to a New York where children can grow up safe in their neighborhoods and where opportunity is within reach for every family."

“If you can’t honor a man by quoting him directly because his own words seem disparaging to his legacy, then perhaps you shouldn’t try to honor him at all.” Watch my latest here: www.youtube.com/live/2Mv50KZ...

I hope I can live long enough to see Stephen Miller prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced for his numerous crimes against humanity. I hope we can all see him sniveling and crying as he's taken to prison.

This story feels like it’s going to have huge repercussions

So Kilmeade issues a weak apology about giving homeless people lethal injections and Fox just moves on with zero consequences. As usual.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care. The system is broken.

JUST IN: 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' wins the Emmy for Best Talk Series

Buttigieg: "We are not getting the leadership we need to bring this country together from the White House ... in order to deprive political violence of its power, we have to reject anyone who would try to exploit political violence. The response to this cannot be for the government to crack down."

An apology is insufficient. Everyone email [email protected] and tell them Kilmeade must be fired immediately. #GoodTrouble

Why didn’t anyone immediately follow up with “what’s the population of the United States?”

So not surprising that the people who fetishize assault rifles kill more Americans than those who don't.

Every time I read an editorial in the Washington Post in which the geniuses over there predict how someone will act in office, I remember this.

Both sides are NOT the same.

1. Trump threatened every hospital that provides gender affirming care to transgender youth. Many complied and shut down their programs. Boston Children's Hospital didn't. They fought back and kept providing care. And now, they just beat Trump in court. Subscribe to support our journalism.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

I hate when I’m forced to agree with him. bsky.app/profile/patr...

Huh! Imagine that! The world's least surprising news development in this case: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/b...

Robert Reich, who worked for Ford & Carter, served as labor Sec for Clinton, and was on Obama's economic transition advisory board — cites progressives like @zohrankmamdani @grahamformaine.bsky.social & @abdulelsayed.bsky.social as the “future” for Dems. Full post: www.facebook.com/share/p/15zD...

This exchange says it all.

I’m sorry, but Brian Kilmeade can still go fuck himself.

Is she talking to Groypers? Because dems just want her to have good health care.

'Hacks' star Hannah Einbinder delivers a message as she accepts her award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at the Emmys

This is as huge a scandal & blunder as this chaotic Administration has seen. The person who should be called to answer for it is Secy Kristi Noem. When a woman who loves the camera as much as Noem is nowhere to be seen for 10 days it’s b/c she’s hiding out. Media should be all over this.

Stephen Colbert's Emmys acceptance speech: "I have never loved my country more desperately. God bless America. Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor."

Fox News host, Brian Kilmeade, calls for the extermination of homeless people. But it’s the liberals that are stoking political violence?! They’re trying to silence the truth-tellers. Don’t let them. Loudly and relentlessly call out their hypocrisy. Be mad. Be outraged. Demand accountability.

Cartoon by @macltoons.bsky.social.

On Wednesday, Brian Kilmeade went on national television and called for homeless people to be killed by lethal injection. "Just kill 'em," he said. There hasn't been one word about it in The New York Times or The Washington Post or USA Today.

Individuals are being targeted on hit lists for their opinions. Private companies are being coerced into monitoring employee social media. They are weaponizing Charlie Kirk to curtail your free speech rights.

The Supreme Court's "shadow docket" allows justices to effectively make rulings in secret without explaining their decisions. Is it any wonder why so many do not trust the Roberts court? https://youtu.be/xtiISydG9l0?feature=shared

Republicans are talking about "social media" as the cause of political violence because it's a convenient distraction from the fact they refuse to acknowledge that Donald Trump does more than anyone in our country to heighten tensions and incite the crazies

COVID keeps mutating. Measles is roaring back. One scientist refuses to quit: Dr. Peter Hotez.🔥👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

This is certainly a different take I can get behind

MARYLAND Senator Chris Van Hollen (D): “It’s spineless of Democratic leadership not to endorse Zohran. They need to get behind him.” @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social spokesman: “Chris Van Who?”🤔 Jeffries really doesn’t get it. Digging the hole deeper and deeper.

MICHIGAN senate candidate DR. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “Medicare for All is not a government takeover of healthcare. Medicare for All is the government freeing the healthcare market to actually operate in fair ways.”

No one is covering the threats to our democracy like the 20-person team at Democracy Docket. No venture capital, no corporate overloads, no compromises. Just pro-democracy news, information and analysis. Help support their efforts to hold power to account and keep you informed. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

"You are being musically mean to me and it's hurting my feelings so I am going to call the police department that we are supposed to be supporting to report a feels violation."

COLD HARD FACTS: 74% of political violence is perpetrated by far-right extremists. ONLY 4% is from left-wing extremism.

Brian Kilmeade apologized for his comments about homeless people getting lethal injections this morning on Fox & Friends, saying "so many homeless people deserve our empathy and compassion." Here's the clip of his apology 👇

Your wish is my command, @stephenking.bsky.social: the King of Kings! Run, don't walk to see #TheLongWalk now in theaters... EVERYWHERE. You can thank me later.

Brian Kilmeade doesn't have decency; he has a desire to keep his job of lying to people. That is the opposite of decency.

i love love love that stephen colbert is winning all these emmys on cbs, the same network that cowardly canceled his show

So Trump and Republicans are going to stop calling Democrats radical left marxists who hate God, are anti-christian, hate America, steal elections, want to replace Americans with criminal migrants, and want to kill babies? When is that going to stop? bsky.app/profile/atru...

"Reality is super-inconvenient, y'all!!!"

Why won't any of the sports teams honoring Charlie Kirk play some clips of him? Please show us what you are celebrating. Don't be shy about it. Show us what made him so great. Play his greatest hits.

I plan to post this ABC News supercut video of Trump calling Harris and Democrats "fascists" (and "communists"!) everytime I see a Republican on TV whining about Trump being called a "fascist" by the left. Oh, the hypocrisy! Oh, the gaslighting!

The end of an era.

Elon, fresh off attempting to incite race riots in England is now trying to incite pogroms against trans people.

"Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let's see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face." — Donald Trump, October 31, 2024 ( ht: @luiszanger.bsky.social )

The common good is a set of shared commitments. To the rule of law. To democracy. To tolerance. To equal opportunity. To upholding the truth. We cannot have a functioning society without these shared commitments.

Oh you don’t say

Whoa.

They're going to keep going until they get trans people killed. They want trans people murdered en mass.

Yes, Charlie Kirk called for Joe Biden’s execution. But he called for it in the right way.

Gwen and I are so grateful to hear that Sophia is making progress in her recovery. Please keep her and her family in your thoughts as she continues to heal. www.fox9.com/news/annunci...

I think this point is far more important than we realize. The fact that we consume completely different media showing us completely different things is a huge driver of division.

“The president of Venezuela called the strike on the boat illegal…” TRUMP: “What’s illegal is the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs.”🤔 (Fact-check — There are only 340,000,000 people in our entire country)

I see a LOT more murders committed by politically motivated right-wing killers.

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one of the most interesting facts about russ vought’s life, to me, is that NIH research is the reason his daughter had access to life changing drug to treat her cystic fibrosis. vought, of course, is the architect of the administration’s war on science. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

If you have 30 minutes, I recommend watching this video. I explain what Trump has in store for 2026 and how we can fight back. If you find it helpful, please share it with others. youtu.be/7PXQfDHr9Aw

Now we are seeing the claim that "Unvaccinated kids are healthier." Every credible study shows the opposite of the claim: unvaccinated kids aren’t healthier...they’re at higher risk of dangerous, preventable disease. Again, every credible study shows the opposite of the claim.

This is a THREAD of people NOT FIRED. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Let’s be clear—your rights don’t disappear because of your skin color, your accent, or your citizenship status. The Constitution doesn’t work like that, no matter how bad Republicans want it to. This Supreme Court ruling is dangerous and it’s only taking us backwards.

Einbinder on saying 'free Palestine' during her Emmys speech: "It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture is such an important and long-standing institution that is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state."

And Portugal announces they are buying French jets rather than F-35s. Great idea to send Vance and Don Jr on a scouting mission as a precursor to a Greenland takeover.

Yup. I don’t see how he’ll ever be able to move on from Charlie Kirk’s killing.

I still can’t believe Laura Loomer got Charlie Kirk killed.

We’ve tried to step back and let things cool down, but the propaganda machine is running in overdrive. Over the past few days we’ve watched a flood of activity: endless posts, bot networks, new websites popping up, and more.

Opinion | I’ve dedicated my career to promoting free speech on college campuses. Here’s why the murder of a red state college dropout by another red state college dropout means it’s time to fire liberal professors in blue states.

Spencer Cox: "Charlie said some very inflammatory things, and in some corners of the web that's all that people have heard"

As the Right pushes hard to punish anyone who said anything they don’t like about Charlie Kirk, they will be offering you several narratives about it: (1) We’re only doing this because YOU did it first, YOU invented cancel culture, turnabout is fair play (2) YOU pushed us into this /1

NEW: I've never seen as many retractions as I have this week, and that speaks volumes about the degradation of corporate media. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-abject...

The two most prominent politicians in America who compared Trump to Hitler are not Democrats but members of his own administration: Vice President Vance and HHS Secretary Kennedy.

Unsure how this 95% mutt shelter rescue got SO FANCY, but he definitely wants you to know how fancy he is.

The plot has been completely lost. It feels parodic at this point. Like someone is trying to force a mass delusion. No thank you.

Brian Kilmeade carefully considered the criticism of his stance and changed his mind, conceding that not all homeless people should be liquidated by lethal injection. That’s doing politics the right way. —Ezra Klein

"Let's put [Liz Cheney] with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let's see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face." — Donald Trump, October 31, 2024

NEW VIDEO: Donald Trump wants to rig the 2026 election, by rigging the maps. I went on MSNBC with Nicolle Wallace to discuss how we're fighting the Republican-led gerrymandering efforts in Missouri and I explain to you how we are fighting around the country. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzNV...

One of the most dangerous issues we have to deal with as a nation is that Trump and his regime lie about every single thing

Ah. The old “The shootings and the beatings and the violence are your fault because you call us fascists” trick.

Trump threatens to withhold federal funding from NY if NYC elects Mamdani. An impeachable offense for any other president in any other era. In this one it’s just another Monday.

“Right to work” laws are a total scam. They silence American workers and keep them underpaid. The Nationwide Right to Unionize Act would solve this problem, and @repbradsherman.bsky.social and I want to get it done.

Trump: “Smart people don’t like me”

In the most generous reading, there are members of legacy media who are willfully downplaying or ignoring the extremely violent rhetoric of the rightwing because they believe drawing attention to it will escalate violence. Even in good faith, I find this hopelessly naive and irresponsible.

87-year-old Cecil Williams walked down the runway to "Neva Scared" during Actively Black and Spill's #NYFW show this weekend www.whatimreading.net/p/civil-righ...

I’m sorry, but I spent 15 years with DC police as a reserve. This national guardsman thinks he’s going to call DC Police and have the individual arrested for playing a soundtrack song from Star Wars while walking down the street? Get the fuck out of here. These guys need some more education.