This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

"the president's own party will never convict him" (true) has been turned into "impeachment is deeply unpopular" (false) by DC conventional wisdom there's absolutely no evidence that either Trump impeachment was good for him or his party, politically, even if he wasn't convicted

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

You are getting a live preview of this as streamers “reinvent” weekly drops of series that return in less than a year with seasons of 15+ episodes. Just straight up looking in the camera and marveling at this “hole in the market” that’s actually the shallow grave they shoveled TV into for 8 years.

My college didn't have a ton of Jewish people. I was the first Jew many of them had met. Their minds were blown when I explained that to Jews there's no "Old Testament" because there is no "New Testament." They had never considered that basic idea.

I never again want to hear about how the Republican Party is the party of national security. You don’t incinerate our diplomatic capacity & violate all of our treaty commitments if you care about national security.

The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure

The organized astroturfing and financing of these extreme ideologies is one of the key stories of our time

"the researchers found that withdrawing support for rapidly advancing mRNA vaccine technology could result in over 49,000 preventable deaths annually among patients diagnosed with four major cancers"

It's 2025 and people are still finding out that trying to ban something from airing only brings more attention to it. It's like they don't know the internet exists.

We need to decouple intelligence from effectiveness.

Everyone grieves differently and you can't judge...so I'll just say I've never seen anyone grieve the way that Erika Kirk is doing it.

A worthy entry in the "People who have too much money and too little taste" home category. But not sure it bumps off my favorite for the top slot--a house high up in the Burbank hills that is so ugly it's fascinating. www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

They're doing a fantastic job of putting all the questions to bed.

The irony of purging the government of anyone who isn't loyal is you're left with a bunch of incompetents who can't clear the lowest bar possible for covering up crimes.

This is crazy: the third film in a franchise is expecting the people who see it to already be on board. Crazier still, the first two movies were such niche affairs that they're only two of the highest grossing movies of all time. How does James Cameron keep making these colossal mistakes?

Dems should be putting out ads with these victims now. It's a perfect encapsulation of how corruption hurts regular people and how he is the most corrupt president in our history. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Things are going great over at X, The Everything App

Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose

the failure to prosecute Trump for seeking to overturn the election is one of the greatest and most consequential bag fumbles in the history of American politics

Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.

The brilliant show Silicon Valley basically did this story.

It’s fascinating to watch Right wing media people continually discover that their views are not particularly popular with most Americans, which they don’t realize because they only consume Right Wing media.

Scooping out the leftover candle from the menorah gives the same satisfying feeling as cleaning out your ear wax without the attendant guilt that you’re not supposed to be doing it. Five stars.

They must not be looking that hard. There’s an entire city that’s famous for storytelling and has a ton of available storytellers.

OH WAIT YOU MEAN THE ONE THEY BLAMED ON DEI??!!?

Not to go down this week's particular rabbit hole very deeply, but as a guy who was *in fact hiring Hollywood writers* between 2011 and 2018, four staffs in total, it seems a lot of smart commenters are missing I did not diversify my rooms to be woke, I diversified my rooms to have better rooms.

"Oh, they would never try that." --A ton of political pundits who refuse to understand what they've been observing since 2016.

I know it's not the first time a suspect has remained at large, but having the FBI be headed by a buffoon and a DOJ that's largely focused on taking down political enemies is probably not helping.

“Please stop stinging!” cried the chorus of frogs to the scorpion that they voted for.

"Hurt people hurt people" is sometimes accurate, but "people who have been raised to see themselves as superior to others, have been given immense power over other people's lives, and have never had to face consequences for their actions, hurt people" is a lot more broadly true.

Maybe the reason we see so many good people die tragic deaths in the news, and so few bad people, is a matter of numbers. Maybe there are just that many more good people.

This has to be one of the greatest runs any director has ever experienced.

This entire weekend

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

If only everyone could have seen this coming.

The beginning

“I have a very particular set of skills…” “Do they involve epidemiology?” “No.” “Virology?” “No.” “…Biology?” “No, listen, I pretend to punch people into in the throat.”

How is this not fraud?

Somewhere in Hollywood an exec is talking themselves into why 6-7 could make a great movie.

Trump is a great president the way the Great Depression was a great depression

Thank God that the library system was created at a time when we believed in some version of a communal good because you’d never be able to build it today.

The hilarious proposition that if this administration actually had the proof they would have the impulse control to hold onto it for that long and wouldn’t be posting it as they read it.

we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.

"Now that I've hit everyone with ruinous taxes, I'll dole some of it back out to my political supporters as welfare payments."

Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.

Jews are always in an Alien vs. Predator situation.

This is how my local paper in the swing state of Nevada covered it: Huge picture, AP story with nary a hint that this was weird or corrupt. As low as Trump’s approval ratings are, they’d be much lower if he didn’t have the help of large swaths of the media

The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991. From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...