"this was meaningless and not worth doing and also offensive to many of our allies. therefore we did it, due to our seriousness"

or, hear me out, he could start his monologue with “I lived, bitch” and go from there

when the interview goes well: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Had a great time talking to @parkermolloy.com about my work on the AI bubble www.readtpa.com/p/the-man-ca...

Jimmy Kimmel returns to ABC tonight. But not everyone in Pa. will be able to tune. Sinclair, which owns and operates 31 ABC stations across the country, said in a statement it will preempt Kimmel’s show and replace it with news programming.

I don't think this a very good argument for voting to honor a man who thought Jim Crow should have stayed legal. democraticleader.house.gov/media/press-...

We will never see Trump donors and backers and media elites do the full court press on Trump’s age and lack of brain function the way they did with Biden because they all agree with Trump and want all this.

What? Jimmy Kimmel got suspended because Disney is afraid of Trump which had zero to do with Charlie Kirk. This is a wild thing to say. Trump was literally dancing around fireworks immediately after she left the stage.

Cognitive Dissonance: it is impossible to square the hyped-up hysteria about rampant antisemitism that has been weaponized by Zionists in the US with what I saw in my city this morning--peaceful and happy-looking Jews of various stripes walking, as they ought, to worship together

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.

Jeffries made this a national issue. His answer should have been, "Sure, I endorse him, yet we..." at the very least. Total rookie move. Portends defeat or a need for rebirth.

One more thing to add to all this, implicit in the thread: The Mamdani race is becoming a litmus test precisely because Schumer, Jeffries, and Gillibrand spent chunks of the summer undermining the candidacy of the guy who won a high-profile home-state primary election.

I am aware, I skipped that part because some motherfuckers are allergic to “theory” or anything close to it so we have to take baby steps to get them to the right take.

Should we be quitting Amazon over Karen Attiah? As good as reason as any.

I’m gonna skip over the part where “white people” typically refers to people who benefit from white supremacy to point out that whiteness is one such lever and power, even institutional power, rests with demographics.

Introducing Mocha-Dick.

Y'all know this already but this is neither how trans people nor medieval currency nor alchemy work and also I'd hoped (foolishly, it would seem!) we'd moved beyond the traffic in women as an organizing social principle.

This totally anodyne statement is all any Dem leader has to say, and the fact that they haven't is an indictment of the New York Democratic party.

Boosting the names of WOC running for mayor in Mississippi and Louisiana is a good thing! Esp b/c they are in states the party ignores/neglects. Stares FULL of disenfranchised Black people. Zohran's doing great! Those states been needed infrastructure and resources. I'm not bothered by this.

Joe Manchin singlehandedly blew up Biden's welfare agenda and caused child poverty to ~double. Andrew Cuomo literally conspired with Republicans to give them control of the state Senate

The same bs they're spewing about autism and tylenol is the same bs they're spewing about trans people's healthcare. It's the exact same playbook and the fact that the media can see through one and not the other is a damning indictment of how complicit they are in the attack on trans lives.

Donald Trump and Republicans control the House, the Senate and the White House. Trump promised to lower costs on Day 1, but instead Republicans made health care more expensive. Now Republicans are causing more economic chaos by shutting down the government.

First full day after the equinox means I get to read this to myself in the morning

Amazing how a legion of shitty incel computer nerds watched Blade Runner 2049 like we all did and failed to interpret it as a warning about the direction we are heading but instead obsessed over the AI sex slave character and in a mastubatory fury created Grok and ChatGPT so now we are in hell.

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Trump just canceled his meeting with Democratic leaders -- a day after scheduling it -- and said he's only willing to meet if they agree with him on his policies. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Charlie Kirk never cared about debates.

okay since it’s nearly impossible to see here i must also note that on my shirt Nancy is reading SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) manifesto

Twin Peaks really was just the most Autistic show ever, no wonder i couldn’t put it down. I was like, this is all i’m asking for; i want to live in a town like this. Is that too much to ask?

If I sounded a bit salty this past week, I have to say. I spent years monitoring Proud Boys who thought Charlie Kirk was just the bees' knees. Watching the liberal media establishment treat him like some free speech hero has fully driven me over some internal cliff that I did not even know existed

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Everyone should listen to BJ, not just cuz she's cool and smart and funny and we both got out of Ohio, but because she's right Their content, scratch that, epically produced SHOWS are the literal best

Coughs hard in Milton; wheezes in Tennyson; yells in CHARLOTTE motherfucking SMITH.

You can safely ignore this video of me ranting at 1.8x about the big business propaganda campaign against the very concept of litigation and why the makers of Tylenol cannot sue Trump for defamation/slander etc

A pop up box on Tylenol dot com

A LOT of these guys joined ICE, etc., specifically to beat the shit out of immigrants and protesters. And statistics tell us anyone willing to behave this way in front of witnesses and news cameras has probably beaten domestic partners too.

Thinking about SOME LIKE IT HOT and a whole film syllabus about trains.

Chuck, Mary, Bill *Lamb-Shelley-Wordsworth

My latest premium newsletter is about why authoritarians reinforce their message through discipline and obedience, and how the liberal hagiographies of Charlie Kirk reify MAGAs narratives.

Gonna just say, if it's this easy to protest against the monolith that is Disney. Then there is no excuse for people to be clinging to Harry Potter. Like, if the needle can be moved against Disney, people can make it move against JK Rowling. Stop the flow of money into her accounts,

Realizing that the endpoint here is probably massively scaling back screening for autism spectrum disorders, limiting resources for people who need them, but leading to a decline in cases & declaration of victory. "If we stopped testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any."

anyway,

But honestly, every history teacher knows how difficult it is to master chronology. I still have a Doctor Who thermos given to me by a class because of my frequent refrain "you guys, things in the future cannot cause things in the past"

Look, I just appreciate that Young Wordsworth vs Old Wordsworth* are the best possible explanation for why authorial intent only goes so far. *same guy. One wrote good poems & the other tried to make them terrible

The word “autism” was first used to describe behavioral differences in children in 1911 but autism has been documented using available records going back to the 1700s (definitively) and further. Acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) was discovered in 1878 and first sold in the United States in 1950.

Even Biology faculty? They want professors to lie to their students in their own area of expertise? This is insane.

doomers: there’s not going to be elections in America ever again me: if they can’t even cancel an entertainer due to popular pushback what the fuck makes you think they can cancel elections

Part 1 of the new episode of @cerebrocast.bsky.social dropped today, ft. yours truly, dropped today. Check it out! (“Agree with me.”)

Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...