Even if you take the most lenient possible interpretation -- that SCOTUS has made it increasingly hard to prosecute bribery and corruption -- you still have to ask what kind of crooked-ass administration hires a guy who just took $50k cash. RE:

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Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social)

lol. Emil Bove intervened. The guy that Senate Republicans just confirmed for a lifetime position on the federal bench. https://www.nytimes.com/20...

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When you meet someone who wants you to be institutionalized, prosecuted, or killed, you should be asking yourself: what do I have in common with this person? Tomorrow from Ezra Klein

Can Jimmy Kimmel sue Brendan Carr, or other federal actors, for violating his First Amendment rights by coercing ABC to suspend his show, and maybe eventually to fire him? To teal deer it, yes, but without an effective remedy. /1

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

This is an important time to remember that responsibility is not a zero-sum game — recognizing one person’s fault does not necessarily diminish another person’s. The Trump administration is fascist. And ABC cynically caved and abandoned American values for money. Both are worthy of your contempt.

Anyway, now we know what the FCC thinks is in the public interest: Fox host advocating for executing homeless people? Yes ABC comic suggesting Trumpers are using a death cynically? No

For years people have been yelling at me about how the FCC has to get those crooks at Fox off the air and that there’s no risks of such power being abused or used by people they don‘t like because that’s slippery slope nonsense.

“Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t doing politics right.” —Ezra Klein RE:

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Karl Bode (@karlbode.com)

this is quite genuinely insane, and I want to believe the backlash to this will be severe https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/business/media/abc-jim...

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A famous psychopath is loose in your neighborhood. Should you be concerned that he may break into your house, force to you wear a dachshund costume, and call you Claudine? Probably not. You should be concerned he’ll kill you or your family. You protest: but he’s a psycho! He could do anything! /1

Oh gosh I sure am glad you sent me that RICO story because you know absolutely nobody else did