Blondie is getting some extra residuals this week.

Oh my god lol This Dutch late night host absolutely eviscerates Trump and Disney- you gotta watch how

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

Calls to mind something Hamilton Nolan said: www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/getting-ye...

We're coming up on the 10th anniversary of this Tweet. I feel like I should buy it a birthday cake.

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

Attention @blankcheck.bsky.social

I just like explainers of complex things.

I’m going to assume that anything at half mast tomorrow is a 9/11 tribute

If you think that due process only applies to citizens then ask yourself what you would do if someone accused you of being a non citizen. Either we all have due process or no one does. The Constitution affords the former. SCOTUS has unleashed the latter.

This is so beautiful.

I have one. Voters make decisions based on the ideas in their heads and their beliefs about the world, and those ideas and beliefs are heavily shaped by their social interactions, especially media consumption, and in the last 20 years most media consumption is from social media's sea of lies.

The behavior of the American electorate can be closely modeled with reference to fluctuations in the price level of two key commodities. 1) car sauce 2) cow pieces Nobel Prize pls

This TikTok tidily sums it up:

an age test and a perfect joke in one place (via onelegblackheart on threads)

Sixty years ago today, the first federal examiners went to work in the first nine counties covered by the Voting Rights Act. Here's my account of the first day in Selma from the first draft of The Division manuscript.

💯.

"First we feast, the IKEA!"

60 years setup and payoff. Hat tip to the master

Oh no. Tom Lehrer gone. At his great age, it’s not a tragedy, I know, but it just does feel bad not having his genius in the world.

Great thread that lays out clearly why tech is no more neutral than any other tool.

This is a good thread about modern capitalism and markets, but for me this is the key, right here. when corporations moved from mechanisms to mitigate risk to buffers to avoid responsibility. 1/x

Finally got a chance to watch the @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social routine about Trump and Epstein that came out a few days ago. I am blown away that he managed to put together a full hour of stand-up about breaking news and it's somehow polished and funny as hell. Give it a watch and share it.

@noelrappin.com if you aren’t following this person you’re missing some prime Muppet content.

Every farm job that CAN be automated, already is. Let's start there. She thinks... nobody's ever tried to automate picking fruit? Really? And then we'll talk about the "tehe we'll just make the Medicaid people work the farms" part.

Holy cow, is this… Hope? Sarah has always been a no-BS observer and she doesn’t go all the way to hopeful, but it’s good context.

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There was a press release for the Dachau Nazi concentration camp. Read it. It’s exactly like the announcement of the Florida concentration camp.

OK, so here’s my JJ Abrams story… Before I started working in digital restoration one of my primary jobs in post-production support was running the in-house theater and screening rooms at work. Every now and again it would get booked for casting sessions, because it was perfectly suited for that…

Well played Chicago #NoKings

They wanted max cruelty. Shock and awe for the cameras. But all they did was traumatize a bunch of poor kids who’ll never forget it. An L.A. mom, US citizen, watched as unmarked vehicles rolled up. Masked, heavily armed ICE agents, guns drawn. And Cosplay Kristi Noem right there playing warlord!

ICE crossed a line in LA

I... oh my god. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

I haven’t done a #Scriptsky #Screenwriting 🧵 in a while, so here’s one on my favorite terms that I’ve only ever heard in a writers’ room. They’re a shorthand for a variety of things that can either really help or hurt a script, so even if you’re not in a room, many are invaluable ideas… 1/x

1 person who thinks democracy’s failed and there should be a god-king: your local nutjob. 1 million people who believe democracy’s failed and there should be a god-king: a fringe political party. 1 billionaire who believes democracy’s failed and HE should be god-king: everybody’s fucking problem.

Is it me, or did NBC go too far with its latest Chicago Fire spinoff?

Canadian Voter: I think who I voted for would be the best to take care of Trump, because Trump is, I’m sorry to say, an asshole.

In the battle of which broad satirical comedy is most prescient: Canadian Bacon (1995) is rapidly gaining on Idiocracy (2006) with Wag the Dog (1997) long overtaken by real events.

This is terrific

If you combine equal parts Forrest Whitaker and Luis Guzman, you get Jamie Foxx This post is brought to you by my decision to watch Havoc on Netflix and my wife asking me if it was the one w Jamie Foxx

Al gore is pissed off and I’m here for it

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

Science!

File impeachment articles that are just direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence

The Pampered Idiot, by Leonardo Alenza y Nieto, 1807–45, 📸 by @b_smialowski

You could say they're about national security, but then why would you tariff everything? It could be about manufacturing, but why then tariff vanilla from Madagascar? It could be about reciprocity, but why aren't they tailored to the specific tariffs that other countries have?

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

“It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness…”