I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

I don't know when this push toward American anti-intellectualism started, but I know Arby's making their slogan "We have the meats" was a huge part of it.

My way of coping with all of the madness is focusing on what I can do to make my community a little bit stronger. So excuse me for all of the earnestness, but I wrote about ways we can all pitch in to support a thriving literary culture. lithub.com/how-to-be-a-...

This week on Comfort Read I wrote about...writing. Mostly how I get started and what I do to get in the groove. I asked some buddies their process, too. I think it's helpful! Subscribe, everything is free!!!!!! comfortread.substack.com/p/write-on

EXCLUSIVE: Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will halt abortions in October in response to the GOP budget "defunding" provision It's the first known PP affiliate to drop abortion services in the wake of the law:

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Pritzer gets the mechanics of authoritarianism – systemic intimidation, seizing control of elections, etc. – in a way others in national democratic leadership don't or won't say out loud.

I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.

Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.

RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

“The study found that about 7% of US adults have been present at the scene of a mass shooting in their lifetime, and more than 2% have been injured during one.”

“Thank you Bridget Everett. You changed my life.” Jeff Hiller wins for the #Emmy Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role in “Somebody Somewhere.” Follow along for live updates from the 2025 Emmy Awards: nymag.visitlink.me/vPi_E0.

Javier Bardem at the #Emmys: "Here I am today denouncing the genocide in Gaza... Free Palestine!" (via @Variety)

The vibe I bring to the party is assuring everyone that the possum on the back patio is safe, it can't carry rabies because possums' body temperature is too low for the disease.

These feelings (I did things right! They came out well! Nothing seems to matter!) are so relatable right now!!! Also, @alisonleiby.bsky.social's solo show was so funny and special and it STINKS that no one put up the money to record and distribute it!

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Tonight at 10pm at Union Hall, @alisonleiby.bsky.social and I are putting on another Sup, Bro? show with a great lineup!!!

NEW YORK! Sunday is Night of Selfless Care! Incredible line-up to raise money for I Support The Girls, and organization that helps people in need get access to menstrual products. Tampons for everyone! Come to the the Bell House! Bring tampons win prizes!!!!! www.livenation.com/event/17GZvx...

It's game time for the fight to stop a casino in Coney Island nygroove.nyc/coney-island...

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

NEW YORK! Sunday is Night of Selfless Care! Incredible line-up to raise money for I Support The Girls, and organization that helps people in need get access to menstrual products. Tampons for everyone! Come to the the Bell House! Bring tampons win prizes!!!!! www.livenation.com/event/17GZvx...

Brooklyn! Saturday night! Sup, Bro? is BACK! Me! @alisonleiby.bsky.social! Signature bits! KC Shornima, Matt Koff, Jonathan van Halem, Alex Kumin on the lineup! See you there?

I know it doesn't matter, but Baltimore is experiencing HISTORICALLY low rates of violent crime right now: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Brooklyn! This show is on Sunday night and it's going to be so good, and it's for such a good cause!!

listening to the new #RuinedPod in line at the DMV @alisonleiby.bsky.social and Halle were talking about how hate just doesn’t have the juice the guy in front of me didn’t have cash for his permit so I took out my wallet—but another woman in the line next to us beat me to it #KindnessWins

NYC! THIS THURSDAY 9/4! Shit Arcade is back at Union Hall in Brooklyn with an incredible lineup and some truly awful games - some of which I'll give away to you because I don't want them. See the worst games and the best comedians make fun of them!

NEW YORK! Sunday 9/7 I'm hosting my charity show Night of Selfless Care at the Bell House! Terrific line up, bonkers raffle prizes, all to help people in need get access to menstrual products. GET YOUR TICKETS!!! www.livenation.com/event/17GZvx...

I don't need to know that the pop star is marrying the quarterback or that the cookie mormon is gay. What I need to know is WHERE are my KEYS??????????

excited to say I am back on my dumb shit in a few weeks. if you want to see comedians make fun of really bad video games live, and the chance to take some home because I don't want them, this is the specific show for you

MY SPECIAL IS LIVE PLEASE WATCH I’M VERY PROUD OF IT youtu.be/g9NT46SGqFY?...

I'm really thrilled to be mentioned in Vulture's "Five New Comedy Specials You Should Definitely Watch (When You Have a Moment)!" Read it all: www.vulture.com/article/new-...

"Oh, by the way, I had surgery." - parents

Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.

TODAY‼️‼️ There are still tickets left! Snag yours here: www.stellartickets.com/o/brooklyn-a... @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social @joshgondelman.bsky.social @alisonleiby.bsky.social

I love the podcast about medieval horror movies! @alisonleiby.bsky.social

If you're a writer and you use ChatGPT or AI to do any of your writing you are not an artist you're a loser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

New: 11 more Planned Parenthood clinics have announced that they will close, or have closed, after Trump signed the budget bill which "defunds" large abortion providers. That brings the total for the year to 32 by my count as the health provider navigates other funding freezes and increased costs

America has never been without cruelty, but the fervor with which some people want to increase it instead of going the other way is truly horrifying. I have really had to cling to the people trying to make things better and support them where I can.

A bowl of Ruffles and a bowl of fresh cut cold watermelon is the perfect stoned summer food.

“And Just Like What?”: @alisonleiby.bsky.social nails it to the wall. (A service to the empire. Thank you, Alison.) comfortread.substack.com/p/and-just-l...

NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group. By Anas Baba

The friendships on And Just Like That don't feel as real as Sex and the City. I think to solve this, the ladies should get together and murder Aidan.

We are drowning in tech created by men who are either afraid of women, despise us, resent us, or some combination of all of it. Fuck their sauceless, wack ass "optimization"

A national abortion ban is closer than you think. The Senate bill could close one in four abortion providers nationwide. As we saw with Roe, a right only on paper is no right at all

It’s @maris.bsky.social’s publication day!!! She wrote a beautiful and funny and righteous book about the ways the world has not lived up to its promises, and some of the things about it that feel good and hopeful. Maggie and I (who already knew Maris to be a gorgeous genius) were blown away by it!!

Insane that Mamdani is being asked to condemn words he has never said while being accused of not saying words he has repeatedly said in multiple venues over the course of months