Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.

Gaslighting motherfuckers

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Hope springs eternal in subzero temps . You fascists are bound to lose.

Fuck these Vichy Democrats.

BlueSky Algo doing its thing

You can’t make this shit up.

I’m in love with this book design.

Well, there was that one time I accidentally bought 10lbs of cheese on one Costco run.

We should all be terrified to live in an America where legal residents can be detained, held at gunpoint, or deported because of the color of their skin or because the President disagrees with their views.

Loving this ratio

Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

Can someone convince Grandpa Munster to retire already?

JFK on why he founded USAID. “The economic collapse of those free but less-developed nations which now stand poised between sustained growth and economic chaos would be disastrous to our national security, harmful to our comparative prosperity and offensive to our conscience”.

More of this, please.

Right wing authoritarians want to deport a bishop for quoting Jesus. And if you think that's bad, you should see what the right wing authoritarians did to Jesus.

The Wolf Hall trilogy is transcendent. Magic in a bottle. If you’re a reader and somehow missed it, rectify that.

Only in America can you be pro-death penalty, pro-Putin's war, pro-drone bombs, pro-nuclear weapons, pro-AR-15s for civilians, pro-torture, pro-land mines, and still call yourself ‘pro-life.’

I’m a gun owner, and I respect the rights of responsible gun owners. That said, the second amendment will continue to be watered with the blood of children until the laws change.

This is how people get radicalized.

Truth

This is what I see when I drive at night.

I have a ton of new followers and nothing of importance to say, so here is a picture of my cat when she was a baby.

A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014. "One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem" I hope they will return to their poem

Joe Biden was right to pardon his son. Trump pardoned his criminal co-conspirators. He's gonna pardon terrorists. ENTIRELY MISS ME with your dumb arguments about how Democrats must follow rules Republicans ignore. My latest in @thenation.com

Who knew the REAL East Coast vs West Coast Rap Beef would be between Flavor Flav & Snoop Dogg for the role "America's Sweetheart"

Forget Black Friday. It’s Flat Fuck Friday.

Shiny Happy Fascists

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"Kamala didn't get to do Hot Ones. She should've done Rogan" is what we're talking about in 2024 when a plurality of American voters decided to elect a criminal sexual assaulter to the White House. This country is terminally self-destructive and ignorant.

Elon is a little bitch.

"My feeling is we should enjoy Thanksgiving 2024 as much as we can because Thanksgiving 2025 might look quite different." Me, for the Daily Beast. www.thedailybeast.com/michael-ian-...

The guy spend a chunk of his childhood in an internment camp because our government thought he might be dangerous because he was of Japanese descent. He was also gay when you were forced to hide it. It’s been much worse for a lot of people in our history. George knows what he’s talking about.

Is caffeinated beer a thing? I want it to be a thing.

Listen to Sturgill.

I love this place

If you want Bluesky to have a lot of energy (and have more news folks) you have to start following a lot of them, so that you can create a lot of discussions and cross-pollination, so to speak. Threads hates engagement, and X has drowned it in trolls.

Flashback post.

1. I reiterate that I don't think bots/trolls get how comprehensive the "block" function here is. 2. I also think they don't quite get how prevalent "don't engage, just block" is as an ethos here. 3. Bluesky is a neighborhood party: everyone is welcome until they're a jerk. Then out they go.

Andrew Tate got banned from Bluesky in less than one day. Another reason things are so much better here than Twitter.

I need a bookish starter pack. Someone help me out.