Nation’s weird stepfather announces at dinner that no one appreciates his hard work, then sulks off to the guest room he claimed as his “den” to watch cable news all night while angrily mashing buttons on his phone.

Sometimes I write you a letter, and today it is about Moby Dick, the abyss, and a teen age mariachi band. Plus a mouse riding a lobster. open.substack.com/pub/hodgman/...

It was over years ago. Bit.ly/nosando.

If you are a SanFran-Oaklandish person, or know someone who is, please know that JUDGE JOHN HODGMAN returns to @sfsketchfest.bsky.social in January, and you can by tickets here please: bit.ly/JJHOSF26

If you are a SanFran-Oaklandish person, or know someone who is, please know that JUDGE JOHN HODGMAN returns to @sfsketchfest.bsky.social in January, and you can by tickets here please: bit.ly/JJHOSF26

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

My thoughts on Graham Platner and his old Reddit posts. blackgirlinmaine.com/current-even...

to this i would add a good amount of self-loathing stemming from a belief that liberal political views are somehow “inauthentic” or an affectation of “elites”

There’s been a lot of well-deserved appreciation for Drew Struzan’s iconic theatrical art, but I’d like to also celebrate the art he did for @carolekingofficial.bsky.social’s 1973 album FANTASY. It has such a sublime warmth and personality to it, and it’s the perfect gateway to a great album.

Whoa. I co-host this podcast about state (and commonwealth) mottos and even I am stumped on a bunch of these

this man's marriage would not exist if not for a previous generation of people marching for their rights.

Remember how under Biden the press said this was the biggest issue ever but how now under Trump it’s barely mentioned? Yeah.

Because this week's eps of their respective podcasts popped back to back in my feed, I couldn't help but think how much @stabert.bsky.social would appreciate @hodgman.bsky.social's musings on Philadelphia on this week's episode of E Pluribus Motto. maximumfun.org/episodes/e-p...

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

I think Mills has a been a good governor, and she’s obviously free to run. but this is a clear indication that Dem leadership in DC is going to cost Platner and the other candidates money and do them reputational damage just because.

Dan Pfeiffer For the life of me, I cannot figure out what the hell the Senate Democrats are doing in Maine — the most important Senate race in the country. Their decision to back Janet Mills suggests they have learned no lessons from our loss in 2024. messagebox.substack.com/p/are-democr...

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin. When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

Where are the commanding officers of those sailors in the background. How are they letting this happen?

I've pulled another of my vintage interviews from the vault - This time with Sir Ian McKellen... Check it out! And if you want to see more archival pieces like this, & plenty of new ones, please consider becoming a patron! (It'd be swell...) patreon.com/posts/from-vault-with-140470347

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

Hello if there's anyone who would like a little pep talk in an upcoming That's Marvelous newsletter, please let me know here, and I'll see what I can do! :)

This week, the panel will be joined by guests: Comedian and Author, @hodgman.bsky.social and Comedian and Podcaster, @akilahhughes.com! A brand new episode airs Saturday, 9/27 at 9p ET/PT on @cnn.com.

New York City, I can see a future with you. And it’s one we can afford. Our new ad just aired during The Golden Bachelor.

new convo between me and @lioneltrolling.bsky.social on hegseth and that weird display in quantico www.patreon.com/posts/unclea...

The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable." All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.

my latest is expanding on the observation that your view of the politics of opposition to the administration depend largely on your view of the election (gift link)

Platner is very much not the kind of “Democrat but also *a veteran*” moderate that the Dems were recruiting 10 years ago. Punk rock is the through line for his service in both the military and mutual aid.

'Muppets Take Manhattan' live show w/ John Hodgman, Paul F Tompkins, Bobby Moynihan & more streaming live from Brooklyn www.brooklynvegan.com/muppets-take...

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”

E Pluribus Motto's Janet Varney and @hodgman.bsky.social wax vexillological in a southwestern mode.

Hey we’re doing Wits at the Fitzgerald Theater on TUESDAY. @pftompkins.bsky.social will be there, also me, John Munson, @winnerbowzer.bsky.social, @billcorbett.bsky.social, @kevinwmurphy.bsky.social, and OTHERS. LAUGH and ENJOY MUSIC! first-avenue.com/event/2025-0...

you literally called Trump the second coming of Hitler

Honestly, he got it. This is an impossibly hard thing to get right. I can quibble about some parts, and it’s impossible to do normie content that’s also sufficient for the moment, but he did as good a job as is possible. Especially glad he rightfully called out the threat to journalists.

google has been trying for months to build a new data center not far from my house. tonight was the final city council meeting and they officially withdrew their proposal! the data center isn’t moving forward! public outrage works!!!

We have always been at war with Tylenol

in point of fact, FDR’s open line of communication with black leaders like A. Philip Randolph absolutely strained his relationships with southern lawmakers and he did it anyway under the view that he was president for the whole country

One thing re today’s acetaminophen disinfo fiasco: it reminded me a lot of the bleach injection presser from Trump I, which both at the time and in hindsight was one of the real shark-jump moments of that term. People don’t like medical craziness

genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so.

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

i am encouraged by the dem response to jimmy kimmel but i swear to god if they dont start bringing that same energy to this shit i will go scorched earth

i think that if the FCC threatened to revoke ABC’s license unless it replaced Jimmy Kimmel with Kevin Hart to diversify the network, Ilya Shapiro would be able to identify the issue here

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.