Youth pastor sits down backwards on a chair: "You know who else had a real hit on Jesus?"

"Maximum Overdrive" (1986)

If it's a woman, she's dumb. If it's a man, it's treason.

just asking for one day without a penis-related politics story www.cnn.com/2026/05/15/p...

I mean, it's a dumb idea, but if it were a state, Venezuela would have 39 votes in the Electoral College, roughly similar to Texas

NEW: Seattle might declare a civil emergency to help LGBTQ (mostly trans) people fleeing red states, so I looked for a Texas angle. An organizer told me that Texas is #1 among trans people looking to relocate: "The baseline hostility to their existence is unbearable." www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Jimmy Olsen does it in the Superman movie too

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

under-boozed

the name possibly comes from a French misinterpretation of the Arabic saqr-et-tair (hunter-bird)

"My first bylined story was about a wallaby which had escaped from a local wildlife park and been spotted on someone’s farm!" yourfirstbyline.substack.com/p/my-first-b...

The good news is that the national debt is now worth less

YOOP YOOPLY www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...

“I’m losing brain cells every time I do a lesson," an eighth grader says.

me, pointing to a very serious book by someone who once joked with me about a dumb meme on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

how long until a candidate calls for young people to do a "polling place speedrun" and vote

Political content on the Joe Rogan Experience rose over time; exposure was associated with 2024 voting behavior preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/...

What you write in an “editor’s note” at the end of a story when you are definitely a credible news outlet running reporting by a legitimate journalist

My friend who used to say the final stage of corporate greed was demanding to be loved is never, ever proved wrong.

Some fields die before women ever get a real shot, fields such as arts journalism and late night television.

I've long been a "talk later" kind of guy but these days everyone says "talk soon" and then I sound like I'm a jerk.

OPINION by MS NOW writer Zeeshan Aleem: "...[Trump] is perpetually ignoring the one thing that could save the GOP in November: delivering on affordability." READ MORE: www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

friends, I am over babied

WHITMAN: Quick question: Who do you think is the most famous poet from New Jersey? WILLIAMS: I don't know, Walt, who do you think? WHITMAN: I suppose we could ask the state. Let's see who they named a rest stop after on the Turnpike... WILLIAMS: They did what?!? KILMER high fives WHITMAN.

As venues are struggling to sell tickets, I bet they appreciate the "hope no one gets blown up in the parking lot" message.

Remember when Republicans hated red tape

A fun aspect of a top 2 system is that primary debates can feature both parties

Take note: John McCain was one of the Keating Five, and today is best remembered as a campaign finance reformer.

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

how long until Pritzker's team is selling HUSKY JEWISH BILLIONAIRE 2028 merch

People will die

Weather Forecast: A cold day in hell www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/w...

HAPPENING NOW: Tim Heidecker delivers an update on the future of InfoWars and takes calls from viewers including President Donald J. Trump.

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only Heat Vision and Jack Viva Laughlin The Beautiful Life: TBL Cop Rock Beyond Westworld Mulaney Doubt Made in Jersey Connecting Promised Land Do No Harm The Playboy Club Promised Land Hank Sunnyside

We are rapidly losing the outlets where new writers can learn to shape a voice, where they can cultivate skills beyond quick news hits and PR with the guidance and mentorship of strong editors and the benefit of a trusted name, and it’s such a loss for writers and readers alike.

It happened to me: I used duct tape on an actual duct

I could comprehend these things even when I wasn’t one but: I’m a father I cannot, simply cannot, imagine the hell this guy put those families thru, for years, maliciously, for his own massive profit, starting before their small children’s slaughtered corpses were barely cold yet

The two things Rs won in DHS shutdown fight: *ICE agents can continue to wear masks *There won't be a new statute requiring immigration agents to obtain warrants signed by a judges before entering your house. What they lost: *Time! Trifectas are rare; shutdowns chewed *months.*

“Good riddance to the world’s worst rubbish,” @bencollins.bsky.social says to Infowars going dark last night. “War is over, if you want it." www.ms.now/news/the-lig...

An apt analogy is citizens united. Liberals including Obama were against it. But once it happened, they were explicit: we are not going to unilaterally disarm, go raise as much gazillionaire cash as u possibly can or else Obama is a one term president

you know what has a cynical vibe? this promo

The first topic for my Thursday newsletter fell through. Finally settled on "what's up with the shutdown" because it hadn't been in the news much. Then, five minutes before I'm set to send, after 75 days, with no forewarning, by VOICE VOTE, they end the shutdown.

the king he came to me with tears in his eyes he said sir

612.61 or 612.62

I wrote about this a little when I talked to @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social about what people should know about polling:

At Sec. Hegseth's hearing, Rep. Salud Carbajal just made a joking reference to Hegseth's use of a prayer in a recent Pentagon worship service that many have argued appears to draw inspiration from an invented Bible quote in Pulp Fiction. Shoutout to @wordandway.bsky.social, which broke that story.

"In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law." — Sonia Sotomayor

wait are raccoons and pigeons mythical creatures

The one variable here is I don’t think there has ever been, in democratic times, an economic shock where you can point to a specific individual politician and go “it’s this guy’s fault”.

"Mentorship may look like a long-term, intentional relationship with someone who is invested in your professional growth. It could look more casual, like a passing relationship with an older colleague." yourfirstbyline.substack.com/p/my-first-b...