Yesterday, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia formally recognized the State of Palestine. Today six European countries, France, Andorra, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta, and Monaco joined in endorsing Palestinian statehood at the UN.Loser: Pierre Poilievre
Prime Minister Mark Carney addressed the United Nations today, delivering a speech identical to his news release the day prior. But inside the UN chamber, the reaction was far from routine: thunderous applause erupted when Carney declared that “Canada officially recognizes the State of Palestine.”
150 out of 193 UN members support Palestine and Pierre Poilievre, without a security clearance, thinks he knows better than them.
— Carolyn A 🇨🇦🍁❤️ (@allthingsontario.bsky.social) September 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Winner: Mark Carney againView on Threads
While he was in New York, Carney also spoke to the Council for Foreign Relations:
CARNEY: "I'll sum up. I would ask you to, when you think about Canada – think about Canada, actually, that's my request, think about Canada... as a strong sovereign independent nation, think about Canada as that." #cdnpoli
— Scott Robertson (@sarobertson.bsky.social) September 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Amen to that: "The country does not want to wake up and look on, with due respect, on Truth Social or X to see what the latest change is in U.S. policy, but wants to get on with what we can control, and that’s a big part of the government strategy.” www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
— Caroline (@northernck.bsky.social) September 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Losers: Ben Mulroney and Global NewsCanada continues to forge new trade relationships with other countries to replace the trade we once had with the United States. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
— Bon Hanson (@bonhanson.bsky.social) September 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Winner: Jimmy KimmelI did a deep-dive into Ben Mulroney's extracurricular activities: At the same time as Mulroney is filling-in as host of The West Block, he is also working for two registered lobby groups and as an adviser to several companies – some of whose CEOs he's interviewed on Global News 640 Toronto radio
— Luke LeBrun (@lukelebrun.ca) September 22, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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— George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) September 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Jimmy Kimmel is a great example of how pushback works and also how completely craven Shari Redstone was canceling Colbert
— Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) September 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Losers: ABC and the FCCAlso does Kimmel coming back mean the Rapture is cancelled, please someone tell me, I've having a terrible time keeping track of these things
— John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) September 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
From writer Wendy A. Lawrence:
...here's the counterintuitive truth: these cancellations [Kimmel and Colbert] may have just accelerated the most important media transformation since cable television emerged in the 1980s.Losers: the speakers at the Kirk funeral
What we're witnessing represents the creative destruction of an obsolete distribution model. Broadcast television's stranglehold on national conversation was always an historical anomaly, a product of spectrum scarcity that technology has rendered meaningless. The FCC's ham-fisted intimidation tactics are simply hastening television's inevitable evolution toward platforms that can't be regulated, threatened, or controlled by political appointees.
Consider the math: Jimmy Kimmel Live! averaged 1.1 million viewers per episode during late 2025, though earlier in the year it was pulling 1.77 million viewers. Compare this to Joe Rogan's podcast, which reaches roughly 11 million listeners per episode. YouTube creators regularly command audiences that dwarf traditional late-night shows. The idea that broadcast television remains the primary venue for cultural commentary is a nostalgic fiction maintained by media executives afraid to acknowledge their industry's decline. The smart money has already moved. Bill Maher's 2003 migration from ABC's Politically Incorrect to HBO's Real Time created the template for escaping regulatory capture. Freed from FCC content restrictions and advertiser pressure, Maher built a more durable, profitable, and influential platform than he'd ever possessed on broadcast television. His HBO deal reportedly generates $10 million annually, more than most broadcast hosts earn while operating under constant regulatory scrutiny.
Howard Stern's 2006 exodus from terrestrial radio to SiriusXM provides an even more instructive example. After years of FCC harassment and escalating fines for "indecency," Stern signed a five-year, $500 million contract with satellite radio. The move eliminated regulatory interference while multiplying his earnings and creative freedom. Stern's subscriber-driven model proved that controversial content could generate far more value when detached from advertising-dependent, politically vulnerable distribution systems.
The most sophisticated creators have already decoded this playbook. They're building subscription-driven, globally distributed media empires that operate beyond the reach of domestic regulatory capture. Substack has minted dozens of millionaire writers who'd never achieve comparable influence or compensation within traditional media structures. Patreon enables creators to monetize niche audiences that broadcast television would ignore. YouTube's Partner Program has generated more sustainable creative careers than Hollywood's studio system.
Creative autonomy drives this transformation....
I didn't watch it, but according to what I read about it, everyone except his widow demonstrated their essential dickishness:
The technical term for the disfiguring, swelling dickishness in the administration? "Sycophantiasis."
— Mike Godwin (@mnemonic.bsky.social) September 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Particularly Trump himself:Disney saw the Kirk funeral and realized which side of history they were on lmfao
— PPP Grifter (@pppgrifter.bsky.social) September 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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