Staggering high electric bill this month. Climate change and rising energy costs making life even less affordable. And now medical costs are about to skyrocket.

"Critics who have been incessantly saying that late night no longer matters are going to need to catch up. The government doesn’t go after entertainers because they are irrelevant." Great piece by @jasonzinoman.bsky.social:

Boston Court's rare Tennessee Williams' revival rises to the moment, plus more notable small theater reviews

"The Night of the Iguana" was exactly what I needed. I wasn't sure I was in the mood for Williams. But it turns out I'm always in the mood for Williams. Also reviewed are "Fly Me to the Sun" at the Fountain and "Adolescent Salvation" at Rogue Machine. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Watch Jimmy Kimmel's pitch-perfect return here. Magisterially done. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Watch Jimmy Kimmel's pitch-perfect return here. Magisterially done. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

“The irony is that while Trump has taken pride in being neither polite nor orderly, the decline in America’s position has been swifter than nearly anyone imagined” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.

RELEASE THE HOMAN TAPES!!!

They rush when they want to rush and they slow walk when they want to slow walk and it’s an ideological decision always in either direction.

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT LETS TRUMP REMOVE DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION WHILE LITIGATION CONTINUES

Border czar Tom Homan was caught on tape accepting a bag filled with $50,000 in cash from an undercover FBI agent in September 2024. Trump officials have shut down the bribery investigation.

An Arizona man is facing felony charges for threatening to shoot up a gay bar to avenge Charlie Kirk. He was convinced the shooter had "transgender ideology." Fortunately, he was stopped, but this is on the media for running with the erroneous WSJ reporting. www.azfamily.com/2025/09/19/p...

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.

A majority of Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump's job performance, according to a new poll.

Step 1: Cut funding for food stamps Step 2: Stop measuring hunger Step 3: There's no evidence cuts to food stamps led to a rise in hunger www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact. www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...

NEW: The SEC quietly dismissed complaints against 3 people who were granted clemency by Trump for frauds that collectively bilked victims out of hundreds of millions of dollars. Now, Devon Archer, Trevor Milton & Carlos Watson won't have to pay any money that could be used to make victims whole.

Saying they disgraced themselves is such an understatement. They effectively trashed whatever reputation they have among serious scientific colleagues. Beyond the absurdity of what they were saying, they explicitly lied about what multiple studies found.

When authoritarianism is on the rise, you can count on the richest, least vulnerable men on the planet to be the biggest cowards.

The degree to which the entire creative community is massing against Disney right now should not be underestimated. There are people who are staying silent because they don't want to make it more difficult for Iger to walk this back. If he doesn't, I believe things will get much noisier.

This is the lead story in the New York Times. If you're in the business of communicating, whether through journalism, commentary, or art, this is the five-alarm fire. People are going to remember who spoke up and who stayed conveniently silent or postured about "neutrality."

We strongly condemn the actions taken by Nexstar and Disney-ABC to pull JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! off the air.

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

Breaking news: Thirty-one journalists were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a newspaper complex in Yemen last week, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists. They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

This graph shows a U.S. public health triumph: near-elimination of pediatric hepatitis B through universal birth vaccination. After 30 years of extraordinary progress, ACIP tomorrow considers dismantling it. Medical justification: none. Consequences: catastrophic. www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...

I hate the New York Times’ use of the word “success“ in this headline. It’s not a sports contest. His “success” is our country’s disaster.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Just got my flu and COVID vaccines and it felt like an act of resistance.

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.” That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.

From Feb 4th 1939

1. Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC. If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.

A comedy of woke manners and a satire of some of the anti-vaccine nuttiness. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

A comedy of woke manners and a satire of some of the anti-vaccine nuttiness. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Robert Redford's heyday was little before my time. When I was a kid, he was synonymous with the most beautiful man alive. But he was so much more than a pretty face. At a time when role models are scarce, Redford fills the void. A life generously lived is supremely worth celebrating.

Far as I can tell, Robert Redford was: * successful at everything he tried * genuinely intelligent & insightful * desired by women * envied by men * an absolute mensch to everyone he dealt with * a tireless, lifelong philanthropist ... and he died peacefully in his sleep. 10/10 life. No notes.

In his new piece--which is largely about the reaction to his last piece--Ezra Klein says that he is deeply shaken by Charlie Kirk's murder essentially because they were in the same business: They both did public politics. This is honest on his part. It's also the problem. >

What a life, what a legacy. We will not see his handsome like again.

The rule of law wins again as appeals court rejects Trump’s efforts to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook. Grateful for her courage to endure this battle. www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

The cowardice of media -- the pandering cowardice of media! -- is the sneaky extra of 2025.

Theaters that are still not supplying printed programs are doing a disservice to the artists working at their venues as well as to their audiences, who would benefit from the additional context. I won't mention the difficulty imposed on critics working on deadline.

"Fiddler" in Yiddish -- glorious! www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Open and scroll to see a photo of me with gigantic grunge hair, alongside my great friend @evelynmcdonnell.bsky.social

"Fiddler" in Yiddish -- glorious! www.latimes.com/entertainmen...