Caitlin

Be there. Saturday, October 18th. www.nokings.org

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

You want to know what a couple of decades of standardized testing has done to literacy rates? Look around, friends.

Watching Pam Bondi attack Sen. Whitehouse in lieu of answering a question about photos of Trump with topless girls is how I know there are photos of Trump with topless girls.

Please make this guy's fall as hard and humiliating as possible.

Arsonist says there are too many fires as he starts another fire.

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

FUCK THEM KIDS. These people are literal monsters.

Amidst the shutdown and the continued attacks on institutions, individuals, and communities, it's important that we document human toll. To that end, here's a chance to share anonymously how you and your loved ones are faring in the wake of rapid social and policy change. tinyurl.com/thehumantoll

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

"The North Carolina AFL-CIO passed a resolution at its September convention backing the call from the United Auto Workers for mass action on May 1, 2028." - @dannydamage.bsky.social for @labornotes.bsky.social I hear there's interest in general strikes on here... labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries. He said this out loud.

The ‘what’ economy?

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

They're going for every bit of media and tech they can. We're going to have to get very DIY and old school with how we do things if we want to get away from their prying eyes and tentacles.

Can we do away with the idea that these guys are all libertarians now?

I've also noticed and I don't really understand why so many seemingly intelligent people don't get it. Yeah, it's hard in the moment, but it's a lot harder to live with a damaged reputation and a lack of integrity.

There are credible reports that federal agents may be replaying the 2020 playbook and surging into Portland with the goal of provoking conflict and violence in my hometown. I am in close contact with state and local officials to monitor this activity.

Kimmel back on air and now Sinclair caving in is an unambiguous good guys win. People stood up for the First Amendment and the right thing and the censorious fascists lost. It’s one skirmish in the wider war. But it is a win.

Her direction to the photog after peppering him with those Qs was such a boss move. Wendy Suares, I salute you 👏

The funniest part of Katie Miller calling Stephen Miller a "sexual matador" is that we can all see who she's talking about lmao

This is exactly what the Niemöller poem is about. You either stand on principle against authoritarianism or you enable it to creep and make it stronger.

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

One of the unanticipated side effects of these times is learning how many of our supposed tech geniuses think this dingbat is a brilliant philosopher. The Harris-Walz campaign should have never let up on the "weird" thing.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

One thing we've learned in the last 12 hours: The Sinclair-Nexstar ban on Kimmel, in terms of his reach, means nothing in an era when late-night shows have an afterlife or simultaneous life on streaming. Kimmel's average audience is 1.6M. On YouTube, last night's monologue is already at 8.4M views.

Folks who have never looked into running for office may not know about call time, but it's basically the expectation that you're going to spend hours a day asking people for money as part of your campaign. It sucks ass and is why a lot of people (myself included) don't run for office.

It's going to take me a long time to forgive this country for fucking up what was essentially an open-book test.

Making fun of the POTUS is a national pastime. Anyone who can't take it needs to find another job.

OLIVER: “In Russia, when Putin rose to power, TV satirists were among his first targets… Putin was driven to madness by how he was mocked on a puppet show… the lesson is it’s not safe to let one show slide because there are currently others.”

A key reminder right now, from @prisonculture.bsky.social: "We are actually in a consistent battle to unleash and free our imaginations in the face of unrelenting oppression... Imagination is an important terrain of struggle." prisonculture.substack.com/p/abolition-...

Was fully not prepared for how this is impacting me emotionally. Good for this gal.

Wow, this photo.

That was fast. This is also why you don’t surrender to autocrats - you fight them and beat them.

As a grown-up weird kid, I have a piece of advice for Dear Leader, and it's this: the more you cry about people making fun of you, the more they make fun of you. It's like a scientific law. You're welcome.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Music Festival At Disney HQ in Burbank, Ca Headline: Jimmy Kimmel,

Ruffalo: I'm reaching out to all of my brothers and sisters in the entertainment industry, to join us...They're coming after celebrities because they know we are the last ones to actually be able to have our freedom to speak. So use your platform wisely, use it generously for this movement. #NoKings

I keep hoping a side effect of all the fuckery with TV and social media is that more people go back to reading books.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

Make them regret they ever wanted that merger.