KimiSp
@kimisp.bsky.social
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This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.
Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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Our democracy is not self-executing. It depends on us all as citizens, regardless of our political affiliations, to stand up and fight for the core values that have made this country the envy of the world.
September 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Our democracy is not self-executing. It depends on us all as citizens, regardless of our political affiliations, to stand up and fight for the core values that have made this country the envy of the world.
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Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.
Stephen Miler is open about what's coming: a federal law enforcement crackdown on its political opponents
September 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.
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Democratic elected officials, here's some unsolicited advice.
People are looking for leadership. Right now. This moment.
Someone, anyone, take the konch and forcefully respond to JD Vance and Stephen Miller's promise to declare war against America.
Speak up now. Press conference today.
People are looking for leadership. Right now. This moment.
Someone, anyone, take the konch and forcefully respond to JD Vance and Stephen Miller's promise to declare war against America.
Speak up now. Press conference today.
September 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Democratic elected officials, here's some unsolicited advice.
People are looking for leadership. Right now. This moment.
Someone, anyone, take the konch and forcefully respond to JD Vance and Stephen Miller's promise to declare war against America.
Speak up now. Press conference today.
People are looking for leadership. Right now. This moment.
Someone, anyone, take the konch and forcefully respond to JD Vance and Stephen Miller's promise to declare war against America.
Speak up now. Press conference today.
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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..."
September 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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..."
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In all seriousness, Vance’s unhinged diatribe really reminds me that this country is in dire straits. I can’t even wrap my mind around how bad things are and how impossible everything feels. How are we supposed to stay here and write and stay like… alive?
September 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
In all seriousness, Vance’s unhinged diatribe really reminds me that this country is in dire straits. I can’t even wrap my mind around how bad things are and how impossible everything feels. How are we supposed to stay here and write and stay like… alive?
They want to erase history they don’t like 🤬🤬🤬
The Trump administration has reportedly ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks, including the historic photograph “The Scourged Back”
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
September 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
They want to erase history they don’t like 🤬🤬🤬
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MAGA is lost, folks.
Don't waste your time convincing them.
It's a cult beholden to Trump, hate and lies (Yes, he lost the 2020 election.)
Win over the majority instead.
Just share all the facts about Charlie Kirk using his own words and rhetoric, and Trump embracing violence.
It's all there.
Don't waste your time convincing them.
It's a cult beholden to Trump, hate and lies (Yes, he lost the 2020 election.)
Win over the majority instead.
Just share all the facts about Charlie Kirk using his own words and rhetoric, and Trump embracing violence.
It's all there.
September 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
MAGA is lost, folks.
Don't waste your time convincing them.
It's a cult beholden to Trump, hate and lies (Yes, he lost the 2020 election.)
Win over the majority instead.
Just share all the facts about Charlie Kirk using his own words and rhetoric, and Trump embracing violence.
It's all there.
Don't waste your time convincing them.
It's a cult beholden to Trump, hate and lies (Yes, he lost the 2020 election.)
Win over the majority instead.
Just share all the facts about Charlie Kirk using his own words and rhetoric, and Trump embracing violence.
It's all there.
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MAGA's Cancel Culture Comes For All of Us
Republicans who have long been against cancel culture and safe spaces are abusing their power to silence and crush anyone using their free speech to criticize Charlie Kirk's legacy of hate.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
Republicans who have long been against cancel culture and safe spaces are abusing their power to silence and crush anyone using their free speech to criticize Charlie Kirk's legacy of hate.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
September 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
MAGA's Cancel Culture Comes For All of Us
Republicans who have long been against cancel culture and safe spaces are abusing their power to silence and crush anyone using their free speech to criticize Charlie Kirk's legacy of hate.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
Republicans who have long been against cancel culture and safe spaces are abusing their power to silence and crush anyone using their free speech to criticize Charlie Kirk's legacy of hate.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
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Legacy media is literally caping for white supremacy now. Quoting the man they’re venerating, whose proud life’s work was disparaging marginalized groups, is officially a firing offense, but calling for the homeless to be euthanized is not. Wild.
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Legacy media is literally caping for white supremacy now. Quoting the man they’re venerating, whose proud life’s work was disparaging marginalized groups, is officially a firing offense, but calling for the homeless to be euthanized is not. Wild.
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The right ignored the murder of the Minnesota House Speaker by a guy who had a hit list of Democrats he was targeting to flip control of the chamber to Republicans.
Asked about that assassination today, the president said he didn't know who she was and a Fox host said he didn't care she was killed.
Asked about that assassination today, the president said he didn't know who she was and a Fox host said he didn't care she was killed.
September 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The right ignored the murder of the Minnesota House Speaker by a guy who had a hit list of Democrats he was targeting to flip control of the chamber to Republicans.
Asked about that assassination today, the president said he didn't know who she was and a Fox host said he didn't care she was killed.
Asked about that assassination today, the president said he didn't know who she was and a Fox host said he didn't care she was killed.
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When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.
Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?
My own colleagues are silent.
Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?
My own colleagues are silent.
September 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.
Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?
My own colleagues are silent.
Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?
My own colleagues are silent.
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There are more severe consequences for making unsavory social media posts than there are for being a pedophile
September 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
There are more severe consequences for making unsavory social media posts than there are for being a pedophile
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Good point
Memphis is 63% Black, but not one Black person was with Trump today when he signed his presidential memorandum to send the National Guard to the largest Black city in America.
The Black mayor of Memphis, the Black mayor of Shelby County, and the Black police chief, were not involved.
The Black mayor of Memphis, the Black mayor of Shelby County, and the Black police chief, were not involved.
September 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Good point
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MEMPHIS — Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social : “We need poverty eradication, not military occupation!”
September 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
MEMPHIS — Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social : “We need poverty eradication, not military occupation!”
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Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show
Oh, so not mortgage fraud?
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
Oh, so not mortgage fraud?
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show
A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters.
www.reuters.com
September 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show
Oh, so not mortgage fraud?
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
Oh, so not mortgage fraud?
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
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Minorities make up 60% of Texas’s population and even drove 95% of the state’s growth in the most recent Census. Yet their new map cuts their share of districts from 34% to 21%.
Advocates say that’s no accident.
Advocates say that’s no accident.
The GOP Gerrymander in Texas: How They Rigged the Map
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.
www.democracydocket.com
September 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Minorities make up 60% of Texas’s population and even drove 95% of the state’s growth in the most recent Census. Yet their new map cuts their share of districts from 34% to 21%.
Advocates say that’s no accident.
Advocates say that’s no accident.
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Black people: you’re under no obligation to mourn anyone who hated you when they were alive.
September 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Black people: you’re under no obligation to mourn anyone who hated you when they were alive.
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From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!)
Receipts:
zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...
Receipts:
zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...
September 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!)
Receipts:
zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...
Receipts:
zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...
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24 years later, we remember the nearly 3,000 lives lost on 9/11 and honor the first responders who gave everything that day. We will never forget.
September 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
24 years later, we remember the nearly 3,000 lives lost on 9/11 and honor the first responders who gave everything that day. We will never forget.
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All of this!!
September 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
All of this!!
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I didn’t give a wit about new pope coverage, but the first American pope being a man with Black ancestry born in Chicago by way of New Orleans by way of Haiti. Names his self after the pope who condemned slavery? In the Trump era? Oh, baebae, I am HERE for it.
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
Pope Leo XIV's grandparents were 7th Ward Creoles
The newly elected pontiff, born in Chicago, has ancestral ties to the city’s historic Seventh Ward, according to genealogists at The Historic New Orleans Collection.
www.wwltv.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I didn’t give a wit about new pope coverage, but the first American pope being a man with Black ancestry born in Chicago by way of New Orleans by way of Haiti. Names his self after the pope who condemned slavery? In the Trump era? Oh, baebae, I am HERE for it.
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
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RIP to one of the bona fide greats
NEW YORK (AP) — Roberta Flack, Grammy-winning singer known for 'Killing Me Softly With His Song' and other intimate hits, dies at 88.
February 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
RIP to one of the bona fide greats