This administration is made up of the pettiest people you can imagine. Setting aside tickets for a Kennedy Center performance to a MAGA group to heckle an artist who criticized the admin is such weak, pathetic shit. [www.washingtonian.com/2025/09/23/l...](
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Log Cabin Republicans Disrupted Yasmin Williams’s Kennedy Center Performance - Washingtonian
Staffers say center president Ric Grenell's office set aside passes for the group, which booed and heckled the musician.
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Log Cabin Republicans Disrupted Yasmin Williams’s Kennedy Center Performance - Washingtonian
Staffers say center president Ric Grenell's office set aside passes for the group, which booed and heckled the musician.
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Had to spend a lot of time working on my first Techdirt post of the morning. RE:
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Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
Hey Brendan Carr, Try Censoring This Since we know that FCC Chair Brendan Carr sometimes reads what we write here at Techdirt, I figured I'd post...
Great great great [@joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social](
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Josh Johnson (@joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social)
Correspondent on the Daily Show. Standup Comic & Emmy-nominated writer. Listen to the Josh Johnson Show podcast on Spotify + Apple https://linktr....
 ) on the whole Kimmel thing and the importance of fighting for free speech. I will note that even though the first 30 minutes don't seem to be about Kimmel, they're (1) hilarious and (2) set up the Kimmel stuff... [www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tYd...]( ) [This Kind of Freedom Will Leav...]( )
Looks like it's about to break a million views in just one hour... So much for low ratings. RE:
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Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel.com)
As I was saying… https://youtu.be/c1tjh_ZO_tY
I somehow had missed this news, but this is huge and wonderful news in the midst of so much bad stuff. Alaa being freed is great... RE:
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Eliot Higgins (@eliothiggins.bsky.social)
British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah freed from prison https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/22/british-egyptian-activist-alaa-abd-el-...
"Don't tread on *me* but I'm going to tread all over *you*!" RE:
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Stephen Gutowski (@stephengutowski.bsky.social)
I'm really interested in the psychology of the masked up ICE agent with the Facebook camera glasses who also appears to be wearing a "Don't Tread o...
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Pretty sure that callous, crude, and controversial speech is almost all entirely First Amendment protected. RE:
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Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social)
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, a Republican, urges public schools to fire teachers who engage in "callous, crude, and controversial" speech ...
Was there a specific time for the rapture? I haven't been paying close attention.
(1) This is likely to be very good, though purists will get upset. (2) Having new rules/systems "sponsored" just feels icky. RE:
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Razzball (@razzball.bsky.social)
LFG!
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Laura Bassett (@lebassett.bsky.social)
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished f...