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Dear @stephencolbert.bsky.social, Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism. Looking forward to following you wherever you land, Your fan, Mar🐫

When a network lays off one of America’s greatest satirists, it’s not because he failed. It’s because he succeeded too loudly.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Jamie Lee Curtis on The Late Show cancellation. “They’re trying to silence us. That won’t work…we’ll just get louder”

I bet they were...👇

ICE detained a veteran and U.S. citizen for three days. They didn’t let him contact his family or a lawyer. They didn’t let him change or shower. They didn’t give him a reason for his detention. Under this regime, no one is safe. apnews.com/article/us-a...

NEW: While everyone is focused on Epstein, the RNC continues to try to intimidate state election officials. I predict that this is the predicate to an RNC lawsuit.

UNEARTHED: Donald Trump judges the 1991 Look of the Year modeling competition organized by Elite Model Management, featuring participants as young at 14-years-old. 1/

Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large

this is getting next to no media attention and it’s horrifying. transphobes weren’t going to stop at bathrooms, no hormones for minors, they are going to keep pushing until it’s entirely illegal and no one is standing up for us other than trans people

The members of @1199seiu.org are heroes—saving lives, delivering babies, caring for all us in our time of need. I will stand with them as Mayor. So grateful to earn this endorsement from the largest healthcare union in the country.

hi, i also bring midriffs to your TL

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

JUST IN: The Justice Department's bid to relesae Epstein grand jury info comes with a huge caveat that it will seek to redact not just victim info but other "personal identifying information." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

On Feb. 15, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas called his wife from inside a Texas immigration detention facility. He asked her to record a message, “just in case something happens to me.” Thread 👇

The Paramount - Skydance merger will be worthless if no one is watching. Independent media is doing to corporate media what independent music did to major labels back in the day. Fuck with the people at your own risk, oligarchs.

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Guys, he wrote about their “beautiful secrets” to Epstein. Sick ass predator. He can’t defend the words he has to pretend the letter is fake because it’s that SICK. What man would defend this behavior? BETAs

Phang: Alina Habba could be unemployed as of this Tuesday— The good news is, if this parking lot lawyer doesn’t get to keep her role as a U.S. attorney, then the harm radius—the blast radius—gets minimized…

Tennessee Rep. Justin Jones ejected from Homeland Security Secretary's event in Nashville.

If CBS & ABC have bent the knee And the Washington Post, NYTimes, & the LATimes have bent the knee And the Congress & SCOTUS have bent the knee All to a demented child rapist Then it is all the more imperative that we the people never bend We are who we have #RemoveTrump #EpsteinFiles

HBO should fire Bill Maher and give his time slot to Stephen Colbert.

What CBS' disgraceful termination of Stephen Colbert illustrates is how quickly a Republic can fall when the media chooses cowardice instead of courage.

27 different named women accused him of sex assault, he’s on video with Epstein where they are grossly leering at young women, Miss Teen USA contestants said he came in dressing room when they were naked, he bragged on the Access Hollywood tape about grabbing women. It’s obvious.

I give CBS the weekend before they announce that they'll be replacing Colbert with just an hour of Don Jr. getting increasingly fucked up on every drug imaginable and firing a gun every time someone says the word "woke"

@jamestalarico.bsky.social: "The only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they're on a mission from God."

“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One.” abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

He may be old but he still gets excited when seeing his owner... 🥺❤️ #dog #dogday

One of the things about JD Vance is that he is completely 100% aware that what he is doing is evil and has made a deliberate, conscious choice to do evil to get power. He’s not self-deluded or dumb. He hasn’t drunk Kool-Aid. He’s decided to do evil for power.

@tomtomorrow.bsky.social @rubenbolling.bsky.social First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow

Meiselas: We are now learning that the FBI was ordered to flag every time Donald Trump's name was mentioned as part of the Epstein files, per Sen. Durbin...And then Donald Trump said it was all a hoax

I see we’re at the “OK, Nixon will release his own transcripts of some of the Watergate tapes” stage of this story.

They’re trying to set a record for the most white guys in suits in one shot ever

Donald Trump bragged of grabbing women by the pussy, walked in on undressed Miss Teen USA contestants, was found liable for sexual assaulting E. Jean Carroll, and was convicted of hiding payoffs to a porn star. Here's why the Epstein allegations are fake. by Hugh Hewitt

I’ll watch Stephen Colbert wherever he lands.

NEW: Here are all the states that DOJ has contacted, and what we know about each demand. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This is just magnificent. Absolutely perfect. @thedailyshow.com

ICE is about to get access to Medicaid records—a HIPAA violation. Quick facts: Undocumented immigrants don’t get full Medicaid. They only qualify for emergency care like childbirth or life-threatening treatment. States like CA & NY offer limited coverage, but its’s state-funded, not federal.

One thing that makes me laugh is that if we get out of all of this we’ll go “well thank goodness THAT won’t happen again” and go back to doing the same dumb shit

Let’s get it filed and get it going! 🍿

What an important point by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social back in February and ever more relevant. "Pam Bondi was Florida's attorney general 2011-2109 ... So questions should be asked about why she didn't take up the [Epstein] case -- or launch a probe -- when she was attorney general in Florida."

Reuters: DONALD TRUMP'S LAWSUIT AGAINST JOURNALIST BOB WOODWARD OVER AUDIOBOOK IS DISMISSED

WGBH building in Boston today

you're gonna wanna see this

FBI AGENTS TOLD TO FLAG MENTIONS OF TRUMP IN EPSTEIN RECORDS, SAYS SEN. DURBIN "...you pressured the FBI to put approximately 1,000 personnel...to review ~100,000 Epstein-related records... My office was told [they] were instructed to "flag" any records in which President Trump was mentioned."

In Sacramento yesterday morning a US citizen is tackled by ICE agents as his horrified wife screams.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL: ICE has detained hundreds of U.S. citizens by “mistake.” And now they want 100,000 beds and more planes to scale up? They’re not deporting “illegals”—they’re running a kidnapping ring with government contracts.

Thank you for speaking up, this is a win! After growing bipartisan pressure, the Trump administration has agreed to release $1.3 billion in previously frozen federal funding for after-school programs across the country.

TMNT was right… 🐢 🐈‍⬛

The real cabal is at Mar-a-Lago.

Most transparent administration in history!

Please make him go through discovery.

Kudos to Stephen Colbert for speaking out. Surrendering to the Trump regime's tyranny only invites more of it. Paramount clearly seems to care more about getting a merger approved than its own integrity.

The Internet wins again 💀😂😅🤣

You didn't need a video of a cute little baby #elephant chasing a bird. But, here you go #bluesky ... 😊

Not an overstatement at all

I’d say that @stephencolbert.bsky.social is (with the lone exception of @maddow.msnbc.com) the most brilliant, humane person I’ve encountered in broadcasting. His mind works faster than anyone else’s at a level of sophistication that is unmatchable. Genuinely a generational talent.

Bondi reportedly put 1,000 people in 24-hour shifts for two weeks in March to review the Epstein files. She made them flag mentions of Trump. And then ... She decided she couldn't release anything. 😯

We’re one more revelation away from MAGA telling us that sexually abusing teenage girls is good, actually.

if i had a nickel for every time a Florida official who helped sweep the Epstein case under the rug ended up in Trump's cabinet, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice

Part of the reason so many of these fools hate Stephen Colbert is that he lives his life as the faithful and humble Christian they constantly claim themselves to be but are too selfish and fearful to actually be.

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NEW: Trump has filed his lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal… in Judge Aileen Cannon’s district. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/t...

NEWS: Trump has filed a lawsuit alleging libel against Rupert Murdoch, the Wall Street Journal’s publisher, Dow Jones, and the reporters who wrote the article in federal court for the Southern District of Florida, following the publication of a letter Trump allegedly wrote Epstein for his birthday.

fern!!

Q: “How can we ensure due process if we’re not allowed to know the names and charges?” NOEM: *word salad* 🥗 200+ people were snatched by ICE in NASHVILLE — Kristi Noem sheds no further light on who or why, just unconvincingly says “we’re following the law” over + over again.

i’m not seeing here in the constitution where it says every single day must be insane

The Bove confirmation vote is larger than people are paying attention to. He wants to put this 44 year old goblin looking asshole on the Supreme Court bench, especially since Bove couldnt answer if trump should be able to serve a 3rd term. Call your senators!!!

Dune

Anyone who ever worked behind the scenes on a show with Stephen Colbert knows he is an absolutely fantastic person. One of those folks who has a knack for making everyone feel special and his presence is a gift. I was assigned to him as a wrangler on ‘Night of Too Many Stars’ back in ‘17.

Today we forced Trump to release $1.3 billion for more than 10,000 summer & afterschool programs helping 1.4 million students. It's not enough. He's still illegally withholding $5.5 billion more from schools. Congress passed it. The president signed it. Trump must release it.

Congrats to Stephen Colbert for never bending the knee.

Men who fetishize having a "traditional woman" and obsess over women being modest, obedient, quiet, submissive and homemakers are walking red flags. What they mean is they want a slave, a free SW, and someone to baby them. They want free labor.

Honest question: has the sitting president ever sued anyone before? I feel like the answer is no, but can't say for certain.

The most important thing about the cheating fucks on the jumbotron kiss cam is that Trump’s administration is still gaslighting the public on the Epstein files - this time by requesting grand jury transcripts that nobody asked for

it isn’t hyperbole, donald trump has pardoned more child sex offenders than any president in american history

Stephen Colbert is a profoundly good and deeply talented man with a great staff and an excellent show. They all deserve better.

A reminder that after years of speaking out against Epstein and giving other survivors the courage to come forward, Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre died by suicide in April at the age of 41. Let's not forget that there are real human tragedies behind everything we're discussing.

Trump's budget gives ICE more funds than most countries' militaries. ICE is now ramping up by offering signing bonuses. Meanwhile, Trump is slashing education funding and closing the Dept. of Ed. 94% of teachers have spent their own money on school supplies. Priorities.

"SCPs that got hoovered up and regurgitated by chatbots end up giving tech executives schizophrenia" is perhaps fittingly a very SCP thing to happen

Velvet-purple Coronet, sticking its tongue out at me. At @montezumalodge.bsky.social #Colombia #birds #hummingbirds

Once they kill the voices of all the pundits, we're all dead. So today I'm grateful for my @wgawest.bsky.social

WSJ has a serious investigative news desk bc their non-opinion stuff has to reliably inform people in the business/finance worlds of the social conditions that will shape the economy. the NYT politics desk and senior leadership, otoh, seem to have decided their core mission is to discipline the left

7 years later and I still whisper, “We’re disabled, Daniel, not werewolves” to myself like a sacred mantra whenever I see a non-disabled person discover ableism like it’s the latest hipster indie band.

These Central Valley farm workers are hard at work harvesting tomatos. This involves a lot of bending, reaching, and carrying heavy loads. This is very hard on the body - especially on days like this day where highs reached 100°. #WeFeedYou

The move to cancel one of television’s last remaining crown jewels of broadcast programming came just days after Colbert publicly criticized CBS’s corporate owner, Paramount, for agreeing to pay President Donald Trump $16 million to settle an outrageous $20 billion lawsuit against the company.

The Senate Intel Committee unanimously concluded that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. If there had been some Obama conspiracy, we would have found it. This latest lie is another sad, dangerous example of Tulsi Gabbard trying to rewrite history and erode trust in the IC.

At a time when many Democrats are avoiding even mentioning trans people, Mamdani went on Anania's Gaydar that is hosted by a Black trans woman. This is absolutely amazing and hilarious. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Frc...

Because you needed a video of a baby bear catching snowflakes... 😊

Rodney: Unions are about freedom, fairness, and security. I’m an ironworker apprentice instructor. You’ve got the freedom to travel if you want. You’ve got the freedom to take time off if you need to. They’re fair with wages across the board…

just super stuff

Neguse: Only in Washington, D.C. could politicians come to the floor and brag about cutting $9 billion from rural radio stations while two weeks ago they voted to increase the deficit by $4 trillion. Spare us these lectures.

“I grew up soft on episodes of “Murphy Brown” and “The West Wing.” I believed that the arc of history bent toward Barack Obama, and technology solving the world’s problems, not causing them.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

NEW: The Justice Department has recently been contacting states demanding access to sensitive election and voting data. A former department attorney and voting rights advocate told Democracy Docket that these efforts “should concern all Americans.”