"Jimmy Kimmel is no Johnny Carson," says the chair of the FCC, who apparently thinks he is now TV-Critic-In-Chief. Unfortunately, it is not unprecedented: see what the FCC did to @HowardStern. Broadcast should never have been sliced out of the First Amendment.

German media have long used the quaint Americanism, "shitstorm." Now, turning the linguistic heat up a notch, @npub1hww9...k50h's headline says Starmer is "in the middle of a clusterfuck."

It's as if Britain is throwing a birthday party for little Donny Trump with toy soldiers and horses and drums, oh my.

I'm amused by this preprint AI paper entitled, "Building self-evolving agents via experience-driven lifelong learning." AKA child-rearing and schooling. I say the aim of AI shouldn't be to replicate humanity (AGI=BS) but do things we can't do well. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19005

Free speech 2025: Workers are getting fired, placed on leave over Charlie Kirk posts https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/09/12/workers-fired-charlie-kirk-reaction-online/

Times front pages after Charlie Kirk and two Minnesota legislators are shot.

This is terrible! It would put CNN in the hands of the miniMurdochs, the Ellisons, and likely awful Bari Weiss. If anyone could still spell antitrust, it should be blocked, but it won't be. Mass media are dead! They're picking at the carcasses https://www.wsj.com/business/media/paramount-skydance-prepares-ellison-backed-bid-for-warner-bros-discovery-0b921c20?st=Zbz3mq

Commemoration of 9/11 is all but pushed out of the news today. For many years on this day, I went to the site, to retrace my survival, in gratitude. Here, I often summoned my memories. Today, the daily attacks on Ukraine and Gaza are on my mind.

"But I envied what he built. A taste for disagreement is a virtue in a democracy. Liberalism could use more of his moxie and fearlessness." That is Ezra Klein. Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in politics without fear of violence. To lose that is to risk losing everything.

Compare #BrokenTimes and #BrokenPost coverage to Die Zeit, which consistently tells more truth than they. Translation: "One lie too many. Trump has turned the Republican Party into a den of lies."