The Kimmel monologue was 18 minutes of extraordinary, raw television that will be hated by the people who wanted him off the air for good. Trump and Brendan Carr lost this one as badly as it's possible to lose.

Kimmel is up on YouTube

I'd say "why talk to Chotiner when you bragged about your friendship with Kissinger" but I feel like the same impulse that makes you brag about your friendship with Kissinger, also makes you think you'll do great with Chotiner.

Among other things, I’m realizing we’re very much on track now for another big Bill Carter late-night book.

Makary even says in his statement that "The precautionary principle may lead many to avoid using acetaminophen during pregnancy, especially since most low-grade fevers don’t require treatment. It remains reasonable, however, for pregnant women to use acetaminophen in certain scenarios."

Rapture Eve is a perfect time, if you’ve never heard it before, to introduce yourself to “I Wish We’d All Been Ready”, the gentlest song ever written about mass death and suffering, from the Christian Rapture exploitation film “A Thief in the Night”.

My man David Byrne released a new album this month

When Chicken Tenders are half off.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Trump will claim that Tylenol is linked to autism. But every expert Julia Musto and I interviewed say this is a gross misreading of the data. via @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

This would be gross from anyone but it’s fucking wild from a guy who faced accusations of sexual assault, like, a year ago.

This article is paywalled but I hope it mentions that in the past 5 years: her talk show ran for two additional seasons, until she ended it of her own accord in 2022; she had two NBC game shows; she had a 2024 Netflix special, which is the source of the “kicked out of show business” line.

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

Seems like a very elaborate way to tell Jeffrey Goldberg to stop checking Signal.

@briancgrubb.bsky.social TARANTULA HEIST (literally just two tarantulas but still: TARANTULA HEIST) mynbc15.com/news/local/s...

New impersonator account just dropped -- go on ahead and report it.

Hey, I’m no expert or anything but maybe don’t acquiesce to the whole “this machine will do your job if you push this button” thing unless you’re ready for what happens when they realize they, too, are capable of pushing a button.

A thought I keep returning to — and that’s underscored by today’s news — is that a legacy publication or a deep-pocketed investor could hire an astonishing array of talent right now and make the best newspaper in America overnight.

Well, this is fucked up and depressing.

@kenwhite.bsky.social Hey quick question.

Yeah, the linked thread is just bullshit, from a guy who’s not a lawyer. Curate your feed accordingly!

It is crazy that I just had to put this PSA on LinkedIn. LINKEDIN!

“The Washington Post, formerly of Karen Attiah”

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If you’re wondering how many paragraphs it takes for them to mention any of the more unsavory aspects of Sliwa’s history — like the time literally last year his men beat up a guy in Times Square on live TV and then he lied about it — the answer is, “It literally never comes up.”

This story about abuse - torture, really - at a facility for the intellectually disabled is exactly what you'd fear, but with an extraordinary turn. Amid the non and semi-verbal victims, there was a witness: a prisoner who faked his way in, thinking the facility would be better than jail. It wasn't.

I dunno, man, the world is an unending series of horrors right now, maybe you need this. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6ESxV8R/

I spent years watching this show for work and the one constant thing that could be said about Kilmeade is, he’s so stupid he tends to “yes and” and blurt out the subtext that everyone else has carefully kept under wraps.

The funniest thing on Twitter now is that beneath any post, even simple ones one sentence long, the top reply is inevitably someone demanding Grok explain it to them, and I'd love to know how these people make it through a single day of human conversation.

This is the equivalent of "Hi, this is Isaac Chotiner. Would you mind answering a few questions?"

Seeing that fully a third of Americans are too young to remember 9/11 and its aftermath, and thinking now might be a good time to recommend this podcast.

It's truly hard to believe that it's been 24 years. As always on this day, from @colsonwhitehead.com: www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...

Evergreen.

Guys, you’re all misreading it. She’s saying half the people on the planet will be:

It's a hell of a journey for a party to get from hyperventilating about Jade Helm to this.

I’m assuming the Quran part is about the fact it’s taught in Contemporary Civilization, a required core class that also teaches the Bible, Martin Luther and St. Augustine.

It’s very funny that one of the pro-Adams PACs funded by investors and billionaires thought long and hard about what argument to make on Adams’s behalf and went with mass-texting an AI slop cartoon and the message “he can’t be bought”.

Seeing the letter really drives home the weaseliness of this statement, which opens with the ass-covering line he’s going to point to now — “I said I had no idea!” — followed by an avalanche of words associated with a categorical denial (“absurd”, “fake news”).

When the lawyers OK this wording IN THE MIDDLE OF LITIGATION, you know it’s solid.

Seems relevant in this context:

did you know gmail now has a subscriptions page where it lists all your subscriptions and you can unsubscribe from them????

I’m sorry, this just looks like an ad for a farm-to-table restaurant for cats.

Shit, this guy figured me out. Don’t tell HBO.

Always nice to hear from my fans.

Print it out and send it to the “Who’s Allowed to Be Angry” Hall of Fame.

Definitely the most fun thing about Apple making sure its autocorrect capitalizes its trademarks is the heavy sigh, deletion and retyping anytime you make reference to a Time Machine.

Seems notable that all the “sensible centrists” who scream about “80/20” issues where Democrats should concede the fight don’t talk more about genuine 80/20 issues like this one.

If you are reposting the video of the salt trucks in Chicago, the one with no date on it, which gives no source or credit, which is not being reported by any news organization in town, big or small, then Garfield has a message for you

Just going to point out the lousy timing of a panicky story of “what if moviegoers are done with seeing movies in theaters????” based on a 1% drop in summer ticket sales, three days before a movie opens to $75 million and second place is something that’s been on Disney+ for 5 years.

"It's like Mickey Rourke always liked to tell me--"