A number of commentators in the past several days suggest that the tide is turning for Trump with the Jimmy Kimmel débacle and other major losses:

Paul Krugman

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/is-the-jimmy-kimmel-saga-a-sign-that

Jay Kuo

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/a-shift-in-the-political-winds

Robert Reich

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-sleeping-giant-is-awakening

#Trump #fascism #JimmyKimmel #ApprovalRating #polls

The German History Museum wants to preserve #queer and #LGBTQIA* history and is actively looking for pieces to archive for #QueerHistory.

• They are explicitly asking for memorabilia, stories, and (historical) artifacts.

So I guess folks should ping Jessica Price and the entire queer #community to save what they can from the #Trump regime...

• Espechally given #BookBans and #TransErasure this is important!

Contact details to the Museum and the curator for said collection are on their website:
https://www.hdg.de/haus-der-geschichte/sammlung#c27369

#taco #abc #jimmykimmel #lawsuit #trump

Trump is threatening to sue ABC for giving Jimmy Kimmel his job back , what a little whiny bitch .

@paul

I can tell you exactly why:
#Trump declared all #homeless people are #Illegal2BHomeless in #AmeriKKKa with this:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/

And people even on the #Fediverse are ignoring 771,000 people.
https://beamship.mpaq.org/@bob/114541200532670451
So I'm camped in plane site for hopefully 90 days
https://kolektiva.social/@justbob/115214609904161483
#Portland #PDX #StopTheSweeps

Minneapolis had 13 people shot but blame the homeless and sweep them (no investigation). Portland had 2 people stabbed (barely a story in #StreetRoots).

"'That young man. I forgive him,' she said, evoking the actions of Jesus, while he took his dying breaths, in the Bible.

Trump made it clear that he saw no value in that, and the crowd ate it up. Asking the president to embody Christlike qualities of forgiveness sounds like an insurmountable task, even for Erika Kirk."

~ Malcolm Ferguson

#Trump #CharlieKirk #MAGA #violence #ChristianNationalism
/1

https://newrepublic.com/post/200728/trump-message-charlie-kirk-widow-memorial

"The crowd’s applause for Trump’s statement [when he said he hates his opponents and wishes them ill], following their applause for Erica Kirk’s call for peace, shows that vengeance is the prevailing sentiment. This brand of Christianity, which uses Jesus as a mascot to justify a pursuit of power and white supremacy, is a disturbing trend."

~ Danielle Moodie

#Trump #CharlieKirk #MAGA #violence #ChristianNationalism
/2

https://daniellemoodie.substack.com/p/a-funeral-a-rally-and-the-politics

"The real horror isn’t Trump’s predictable descent into hatred or Carlson’s antisemitic conspiracy theories. The disease is in the crowd’s response—ordinary mourners who witnessed extraordinary grace and chose to laugh at its corruption instead. Movements don’t rot at the top alone—they rot when ordinary people cheer the rot as entertainment."

~ Mike Brock

#Trump #CharlieKirk #MAGA #violence #ChristianNationalism
/3

https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-grand-imposters

"That laughter was the confession. It revealed a movement so morally hollowed out that it instinctively rejects the very values it claims to defend when confronted with their genuine embodiment."

#Trump #CharlieKirk #MAGA #violence #ChristianNationalism
/4

"The memorial was billed as unity, but it was division draped in scripture."

~ Michael Cohen

#Trump #CharlieKirk #MAGA #violence #ChristianNationalism
/5

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/saint-charlie-of-maga

"It is clear that some of the 'Christianity' that has fallen for authoritarian reactionary politics is very thinly connected to Christian practice or affiliation."

~ David Gushee

#Trump #CharlieKirk #MAGA #violence #ChristianNationalism
/6

https://davidpgushee.substack.com/p/why-the-believers-churches-have-not

"The hard right are claiming the cross – and true Christians should not allow it."

~ Polly Toynbee

#Trump #CharlieKirk #MAGA #violence #ChristianNationalism
/7

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/23/far-right-christian-nationalism-racism-church-uk

"MAGA wants you to memorialize Charlie Kirk by never quoting Charlie Kirk."

~ Wajahat Ali

It's basically the same thing they do with Jesus. To hear them tell it, they're the best Christians on the block. The only real Christians….

But you won't ever catch them quoting what Jesus actually said. Because every word he uttered is an indictment of their "Christianity."

#Trump #CharlieKirk #MAGA #violence #ChristianNationalism
/8

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/maga-wants-you-to-memorialize-charlie

What’s the theory of mind behind this Tylenol thing?

#trump obviously doesn’t care at all about autism.

Is this just Bobby Brainworm convincing his boss to take credit for some great “medical discovery?”

Seems very random and pointless, even by the low standards of this crowd.

There’s usually either some grift or some focused cruelty, and neither are obvious here.

Jimmy Kimmel will be back on air after Disney finally put on their big boy pants and stood up for their employees and free speech.

#disney #trump #jimmykimmel #freedomofspeech #firstamendment #FCC #news #MAGA

Ah, Bluesky, my sweet summer child.

You're going to enforce your "rules against harassment and toxic content". And then you'll discover that it's the same set of people doing the toxic shit. And those toxic people are connected to really powerful people from a specific political party.

And suddenly you'll be getting calls from really wealthy fascists asking why you're enforcing this liberal bias by squashing conservative speech...

It's so predictable I can't even. There is no neutral position. If you clamp down on all the hate speech and toxic shit, you will clamp down disproportionately on a specific demographic who will throw a (potentially violent) temper tantrum.

The thing is, Bluesky is fundamentally capitalist. They need money and all the money is with the fascists these days. If they clamp down on toxic fascists, they will clamp down on wealthy fascists and their money will dry up. This won't last.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/22/bluesky-says-its-getting-more-aggressive-about-moderation-and-enforcement/

#uspol #trump #bluesky

Exclusive: #US could hit entire #InternationalCriminalCourt with #sanctions soon

The #UnitedStates is considering imposing sanctions as soon as this week against the entire #ICC, putting the court's day-to-day operations in jeopardy in retaliation for investigations of suspected #Israel #WarCrimes.

#law #Trump #criminal #felon47
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-could-hit-entire-international-criminal-court-with-sanctions-soon-2025-09-22/

@davidwbergen

This should include #homeless people because we have been targeted in many cities for decades and now #Trump has painted a national target on 771,000 people but ya, lets just keep ignoring how he has made it #Illegal2BHomeless in #AmeriKKKa

That is 771,000 people!!!
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/

We are resisting in #Portland #PDX
https://kolektiva.social/@justbob/115214609904161483

Hear how Liz Oyer, former Pardon Attorney for the Department of Justice, explains how Trump's pardons prevent billions of dollars from being paid out to victims.

Trump's pardons wipe out the obligation of convicted criminals to compensate the victims.

The structure:
1) Give Trump money (bribe Trump)
2) Trump pardons
3) Your debt to victims is wiped out

https://youtube.com/shorts/ktyjH0ff4hI?

#Trump #Pardon #WipeOut #Oyer #DOJ #Victim #Vote

So multinational companies will choose Europe or Asia for knowledge-intensive units with many nationalities, well played by Trump 😂
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/us/politics/trump-h-1b-visas-fee.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nU8.SOeG.VWjhpam5zm-D&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#trump #geopolitics #economy

👋 Cancelling Disney? Here's what you need to know Sept 19, 2025 🇺🇸 📺

Due to your excellent and effective efforts to make your point, the website is crashing, read this article for tips --work arounds- to cancel your subscription

👉 Keep up the good work everyone--you're making your voices heard!👈

Please boost this-thanks
#Disney #CancelDisney #USA #Trump
#CancelHulu

https://creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/story/disney-cancellation-page-crashes-as-customers-rush-to-quit-after-kimmel-suspension-033512277.html

@tuckfrump nah, #Trump will jist fire the #UC's and pardon anyone...

this can apply to both #tRump & "sir" starmer...

"A lie is halfway aroon Scotland afore the truth has even goat its boots oan"

#GiftArticle

America Is on the Cusp of a Two-Tier #Vaccine System

#Poor kids will be hardest hit by #RFKJr's #AntiVax crusade.

#PublicHealth #Health #vaccines #science #medicine #policy #law #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #eugenics #SocialCleansing #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/09/acip-vaccine-for-kids-rfk-jr/684284/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxe20JdbfQeb-MVvQASQIPyc

"The Hyundai raid hasn’t received much attention in the U.S. news media, which is arguably understandable given everything else going on. But the diplomatic and economic fallout will be immense. Trump has been saying that his policies have brought in $17 Musks trillion in foreign investment, which would be an absurd number even if America were behaving like a normal country with rule of law."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #MaskedThugs #Hyundai #Georgia
/1

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-lawless-nation

Trump expected to fire US attorney for refusing to file false charges against NY Attorney General Letitia James.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-poised-fire-us-attorney-025845991.html
#Trump #Law #Justice #NY #Trump&Epstein #Epstein&Trump

omfg wow:

> "one of the central arguments is that in a book written by New York Times employees, ==they say that Mark Burnett discovered Trump. And Trump's argument, which is then laid out with a lot of facts and footnotes, is that he was actually a celebrity before Mark Burnett discovered him. So because he was a celebrity, he could not be discovered.==

> ==Ergo, you owe me $15B.==

From Pod Save America: Trump Cancels Kimmel, Sep 19, 2025
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pod-save-america/id1192761536?i=1000727468042&r=1854

#trump #kimmel #lawsuit

so remember to remind people that #Trump was "discovered" by Mark Burnett because apparently it drives the man absolutely bonkers.

he cannot bear the thought of being the loser he is and he desperately needs us to adore and be in awe of him and his fame due to his, in his mind, success.

Draft #legislation is circulating at the White House & Capitol Hill that would hand #Trump sweeping #power to wage #war against drug #cartels he deems to be “#terrorists,” as well as against any nation he says has harbored or aided them…

A wide range of #legal specialists have said that #US #military attacks this month on 2 boats suspected of smuggling drugs in the #Caribbean Sea were #illegal. But Trump claims the Constitution gives him the power to authorize it.

#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/us/politics/trump-drug-cartels-war-authorization.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

It was not clear who wrote the draft congressional authorization or whether it could pass the #Republican-led #Congress, but the White House has been passing it around the executive branch.

The broadly worded proposal, which would grant sprawling #authority to #Trump for FIVE YEARS to use #US #military force in a drug trafficking *war*, has set off alarm bells in some quarters of the executive branch & on Capitol Hill….

#law

#Conservatives had accused #JimmyKimmel of mischaracterizing the #politics of the man accused of killing the #FarRight activist #CharlieKirk. #Trump’s chair of the #FCC had just warned #ABC of serious consequences, telling the network that “we can do this the easy or the hard way.” And a #Texas-based owner of many #ABCaffiliates was preparing to pull #Kimmel from its stations indefinitely.

#law #FirstAmendment #censorship #autocracy #authoritarianism #fascism #MafiaState #StochasticTerrorism

So they made the call: “#JimmyKimmel Live” would temporarily go dark.
That decision—the product of a spider’s web of interlocking #political & #financial pressures placed atop one of the country’s biggest #corporations —quickly morphed into a flashpoint for #FreeSpeech in the #US. Many #Democrats, actors & comedians cried foul as #FarRight activists celebrated.On a diplomatic trip in Britain, #Trump knocked #Kimmel for “bad ratings” & proclaimed that #ABC “should have fired him a long time ago.”

“You can call that free speech or not,” #Trump said. “He was fired for lack of talent.”

#JimmyKimmel, in fact, was not fired. #ABC pulled his show “indefinitely,” but network executives Thursday were hoping to find a path for their late-night star to return to the airwaves soon.

This account is based on interviews w/more than a half-dozen people closely involved in the deliberations that led to Kimmel’s sudden absence. All requested anonymity to share details…

#law #FirstAmendment #MafiaState

"The overall design of Trump’s policy is clear enough: weaken the United States abroad to create an environment friendly to dictators, while using the American armed forces as an intimidation force to make dictatorship possible at home."

~ Timothy Snyder

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/1

https://snyder.substack.com/p/show-of-force

"This is the way Putin runs Russia. Threaten newspapers and broadcasters that they will be shut down unless they take the Kremlin’s line. ...

Nobody is safe with this fascist regime in power. Free speech is dead so long as Putin’s best friend is in the White House."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/2

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-is-trying-to-cancel-the-first

"Kimmel’s suspension has produced an uproar. Comedian Paul Scheer noted that Kimmel is off the air but Brian Kilmeade of the Fox News Channel, who recently called for killing homeless Americans by 'involuntary lethal injection,' is still employed."

~ Heather Cox Riichardson

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/3

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-17-2025-wednesday

"Do people understand now what the authoritarian project is aiming for? ...

What happens in a society where one side is required to operate at all times and in all places in perfect good faith and the other side faces no such constraints?"

~ Jonathan V. Last

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/4

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-triad-first-they-came-for

"Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show program was indefinitely suspended so billionaires can continue abusing Charlie Kirk’s murder to gain control of our media and lay the red carpet for Trump’s fascist agenda.

That’s the truth. Everything else is just propaganda, obfuscation, and pretext."

~ Wajahat Ali

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/5

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/jimmy-kimmel-cancelled-as-trump-uses

"We are governed by liars and crooks whose agenda is to demolish the rule of law and the rights of the rest of us, including our First Amendment right to free speech (Happy Constitution Day, by the way!)."

~ Rebecca Solnit

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/6

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-war-on-truth-heats-up-just-in-time-for-constitution-day/

"What happened to Jimmy Kimmel Live! is not just about a late-night host or a single corporate decision. It is a flashing red warning sign of how fragile the foundations of free discourse have become in the United States."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/7

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-abc-pulls-jimmy-kimmels

"Fueled by the rhetoric of prominent politicians, social media platforms have turned into a staging ground for collecting names and orchestrating campaigns to call for firings. Conservative social media influencers have encouraged people to submit posts of coworkers or community members, and then have used their large platforms to amplify calls for punishment."

~ Daniel Moritz-Rabson

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/8

https://truthout.org/articles/conservatives-are-using-charlie-kirks-death-to-enact-sweeping-speech-crackdown/

"It is really important to understand the contrast between Trump’s behavior and those of previous presidents for two reasons [after a highly publicized murder of an outspoken ideologue]: First, to get a clear measure of the extent of our moral descent. And second, to fully understand the authoritarian dangers our republic is facing."

~ Berny Belvedere

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/9

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/other-presidents-tried-to-heal-america