smart play would’ve been
let Nexstar affiliates drop JKL
alienate their customers
then play hero
offer free streaming ABC access
to affected viewers
as a 1st Amendment gesture
while they negotiated
& let things cool off.

Instead
Disney looks like enemy of free speech
& nobody’s talking abt Nexstar.

I'm surprised how many people are quick to make a defense of violence in my replies. For them it's necessary, foreclosing on its use is a privilege. For me, non-violence is a powerful tool. It is the lesson of one of my heroes, Bayard Rustin. 1/ wagingnonviolence.org/2022/08/reme...

So glad ICE is in Chicago. The city is a lawless hell-scape. Blues musicians wrecking hundreds of police cars. High schoolers doing weird scientific sex experiments. Kids home alone during the holidays. Women killing their husbands and lovers and then SINGING about it sassily. This has to stop.

I am still haunted by this poem, "The Myth Was Never The Unicorn," written by one of the teens who participated in the creative writing program at the museum this summer. A reminder that girls are always aware.

Read the full piece and listen to the author recite it: journey75.org/2025/the-myt...

"Catholic priests have been barred from providing religious services inside Florida's controversial new migrant detention facility — dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" — nearly three weeks after it opened deep in the Everglades, the archbishop of Miami said."

www.ncronline.org/news/miami-a...

82 y/o grandfather Luis Leon from Allentown was disappeared by ICE in June. His family got a call that he died but now he’s been found in a hospital in Guatemala. He’s from Chile and was granted asylum in ‘87 after surviving torture by Pinochet’s dictatorship.

I mean fine but if Mamdani was Spider-Man the editor of the big local paper would have a completely over-the-top and underexplained vendetta against him

people come up with all kinds of fanciful math to justify billionaires' wealth but imo present political moment demonstrates conclusively that we need to tax billionaires at whatever rate will keep them focused on their own fucking business rather than our Medicaid and pediatric cancer research

I'm so grateful to Janice Stein and my new colleagues at the The Munk School for mobilizing in support of this next generation of students across borders. It's such an important moment for solidarity. I'm proud to be a part of this.

Five things to remember about war:

Trump just shared this alarming text from Israeli Ambassador Mike Huckabee, effusively praising him while telling him that no president has been in his position "since Truman in 1945" (when the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Japan) & that he "will hear a voice from heaven" telling him what to do.

Yeah I guess LeBron putting up a 22.6 PER is pretty special, but it's not that impressive when you compare him to people rolling out of bed and firing off something like this at age 86.

The cost of the 4 F-18 planes lost in the Red Sea ($240 million) is now greater than the 2025 NEH Budget ($200 million)

I explained it to several young teens today: imagine we wanted you to become more self-sufficient in the kitchen, so we decided to charge you $20 every time you got takeout. But also we have no food in the house, we won't let you go to the store, and also you don't know how to cook.

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

We are Americans.

We’re the most powerful nation on the planet.
What defines us is not our power to dominate the weak.
What demonstrates our character is not our capacity to traumatize the afflicted.
What speaks our truth is not how we taunt, deride or belittle the embattled, broken or battered.

You know who really worries me when I see appalling spectacles like we saw with Trump and Vance today? Their younger children. Think about it: kids like, say, Trump’s youngest are growing up watching cruelty as expected, normal…rewarded. What a horrific and dangerous lesson.

"Often giving in to the budding autocrat’s demands appears to be the rational, reasonable thing to do: to protect your business, to save your employees’ or your colleagues’ jobs. . . That kind of obedience is exactly what gives the autocrat his power."-- @mashagessen.bsky.social