Anne Stott

The East Village is hootin and hollerin

Really shows you how far we haven’t come when so many on the left are like yeah… well… whatever.

Fox News has “corrected” a piece about videos of Black women complaining about losing SNAP benefits, finally pointing out that they were AI-generated. Since these videos don’t involve real people, I imagine there’s little liability for so-called “news outlets” reporting racist AI propaganda as fact.

For realz.

CBS News Cuts ‘Evening News,’ ‘Mornings’ Streaming Shows in Newsroom-Wide Layoffs The newsroom downsizing comes as Paramount Skydance lays off 1,000 employees throughout the newly merged company

CBS News has reportedly disbanded its race and culture unit, which was formed in the wake of George Floyd's murder in 2020

NBC News eliminated its editorial teams for NBC Asian America, NBC BLK, NBC Latino and NBC OUT earlier this month

I think the ending was supposed to make us stay with the human experience of the process rather than having the story tied up for us.

Governor JB Pritzker today signed Executive Order 2025-06 to establish the Illinois Accountability Commission (IAC), an independent board tasked with capturing and creating a public record of the conduct of federal law enforcement agents and recommending actions to hold the federal government accountable as they continue conducting military-style operations in Chicago, collar counties, and other areas throughout the state.

Donald Trump's masked agents believe that their actions are immune from investigation or accountability — they're not.

I've signed an Executive Order today establishing the Illinois Accountability Commission to create a public record and capture the impact on our communities.

I was already really sad about Diane Keaton passing but I looked at her upcoming projects on IMDb and there were some great projects in the works for her. What a loss.

Like it’s not even ranking as a crisis that we’re murdering Venezuelans at sea these days.

We showed up big! Loving all the pics from the city.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest. There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day. What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid. It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

I love that we live in a world where we're all supposed to now praise Trump for his peace-making and ignore the fact that at least 20,000 Palestinians have been killed on his watch, with bombs & bullets - & rhetorical support! - that he supplied to Israel.
That's all erased now.

The number of believe it is established fact that the democrats are trying to save healthcare for undocumented immigrants (not their phrase) is truly frightening.

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

whoever runs for president in 2028 on the campaign slogan of "transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place" has my vote tbh

at this point you have to acknowledge that there is no way that these guys don't try to mess with the 2026 midterms. there is absolutely no respect for the legitimacy of the opposition

Even before this latest gutting by Trump, the US has never supported the arts like our traditional allies. And it shows.
And now look! It turns out when artists are supported in creating art, the economy thrives. Thank you Ireland.

Trump withholding federal funding for the Hudson Tunnels to punish his political opponents is a blatantly illegal action that threatens nearly one hundred thousand working class jobs, wastes taxpayers money, and damages the safety and economic wellbeing of our nation.

Every time I see media for him I see someone who was raised by a filmmaker.

“Fuck you make me” is the energy I’m here for

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This is absolutely true. If the NYT covered this the way they covered trans care, you all would finally understand what dangerous shit their trans care coverage has been.

If Roy Cohn and Joseph Goebbels had a secret love child, Stephen Miller

Once again.

Wow. How great was she? And every reporter after that should have asked “what are your plans for Memphis?”

So Kimmel gets fired for supposedly misidentifying the shooter as MAGA (though that’s not quite what he said.)

When do all the Fox hosts who misidentified the shooter as transgender get fired then?

Private Prison Guards Contracted by ICE Retaliate Against Immigrants for Protesting Abuse and Neglect Inside New California City Immigrant Detention Center Detained immigrants report guards entered their cell blocks wearing riot gear and arresting several protesters

Resistance ramps up inside CA's newest ICE prison

"Yesterday, over 100 immigrants detained at the California City ICE Detention Center launched a peaceful collective action, including sit-ins and meal refusals, to protest severe abuse and neglect."

www.ccijustice.org/post/retalia...

Disney and ABC need to feel serious consequences for their collaboration with Trump and MAGA in censoring Kimmel. Economic consequences. Same with the owners of CBS and other organizations that capitulate. The only thing they understand or care about are their own bottom lines.