It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly." The duality of man is incredible.

I know everything is getting worse and Trump is trying to dismantle America, but all of this is a sign of a very weak, desperate Presidency that realizes it's unpopular and has lost the majority. The economy sucks, the Epstein Files aren't released, and people didn't vote for a MAGA dictatorship.

I love how one of his big ideas is letting drill sergeants haze people again. I know these guys' understanding of everything comes from film and tv but like, Full Metal Jacket pretty famously has some thoughts on why this approach will go badly

There's been too much doomerism lately, so I wrote about a study on "U-Turns" since 1900 showing how democracy actually gets strengthened after a lot of these fascist episodes. www.splinter.com/study-dont-g...

They truly are the Softest Boys and Girls. Everybody is 10 feet tall and bulletproof until the escalator stops working and then there needs to be an investigation and arrests

On this date: September 21, 1975, 50 years ago today, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. As noted in the ad below, it was his first Twin Cities appearance. The $6 tickets were sold out when this ad ran in the Tribune a week before the show.

Cancelling Disney+ is fine and well, but here's another strategy that will really get the local affiliates' attention, and thus ABC's attention. CALL. THE. LOCAL. ADVERTISERS.

Reminder: before you go full-on defeatist about the rule of law, keep in mind it remains often effective on a micro-level. It’s on the macro- that the FedSoc types have killed it. Hard work and good lawyering can make a difference for regular people — though not always, and not all of them.

Re Kimmel, it's important that Disney has left itself an out--it is a "suspension," not a cancellation or firing. What happens in the next two days--reaction within the company but also in the press, in the industry, in Washington, among consumers, and on social media--may affect how this plays out.

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms. Collective boycott. Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

tell me which side is anti-comedy and anti-free speech again

I think the best place to be right now is deeply worried but stopping short of going full Doomer to remember that Donald Trump has like a 34% approval rating and if you’ve already granted him God-King powers in your mind you’re falling for what he wants everyone falling for.

i respect how every tribute to robert redford is at least a little bit horny

The reason affluent media people are such suckers for “civility” is that the actual content of most politics has no real stakes for them personally. If you want to find these people’s true political feelings, mess with their money.

Wait, you're telling me that the guy they arrested is NOT a trans woman or a leftist activist? Who could've predicted this except everybody?

The reason it was so important to talk about how invading cities with the US military over nothing was a sign of weakness, not strength, was because they have basically no more steps on the escalation ladder. Everything they are calling for and threatening to do they've already basically done

As someone who spent many hours listening to Kirk’s show on AM radio, I would say that he made Rush Limbaugh seem like Walter Cronkite by comparison, in terms of rhetorical tone and empirical rigor. The subtext of every show was “You don’t hate the left enough.”

Utah was the first state to allow open carry on campus. A would-be assailant could walk right onto campus armed as they please and nobody could’ve done a thing about it.

This is the line that Dems need to push. It can't be simply. "Political violence is bad" it MUST be "Political violence is bad and Trump and his ilk are responsible for creating conditions ripe for political violence"

All the MAGA Warriors who all of a sudden care about political violence? You celebrate insurrectionists, killers, criminals, you said nothing about Vance Boelter, and support ICE agents terrorizing innocent Americans. Hypocrites. Don't let these people bully you or shame you. Call them out.

please do not post things you don’t want to see on The Free Press and Fox News later this evening

Count no chickens. But because Chicago stood up, they were left with two options: escalate violence or fuck off. If we do this everywhere, their options narrow and narrow.

GO OFF LORD GRANTHAM

The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: •admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states •abolish ICE •grant citizenship to any immigrant •disband the 5th Circuit •expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?

do not give into thoughts like “nothing matters”, it’s not true. everything matters as long as we are all alive

It makes me emotional to see how we have, on one side, these esteemed and powerful institutions, and they’re seamlessly acquiescing themselves to the new authoritarian order, and on the other, the anonymous men and women who make liberal civil society work, and they refuse to comply

A National Guard Member Running for Office Is Asking His Colleagues to Disobey Illegal Orders Captain Dylan Blaha is asking his colleagues to disobey Trump's illegal order, & he's running for office as a progressive Democrat to reform the Democratic Party. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

I think it’s important to go to the Fair and meet the birds you eat so you can learn they’re all mean and dumb and that yes, you deserve to eat them

Want a trillion hits on YouTube? Get a bunch of kindergarteners who live in DC, Chicago, NYC, and LA to read grown republicans’ tweets about how scared they are of those cities

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

Much like Dubai, the Sphere is a bug light for dumb people

The only way. Criminal sanctions for impoundment, close the rescission loophole, short budget windows in case Trump breaks the law anyhow.

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

wazzzaaaa dude happy birthday lol 😝 hope you’re having a good one wish i was there Also we all know the secret we share. Into the depths of darkness men like us tread. The hunger that drives us away from the light.

Musk wanted Grok to rely more on Republican-friendly sources and now it’s an unhinged artificial Nazi so mission accomplished

Once this human rights nightmare is up and running, the rest of the world should do a full boycott of the US along with official sanctions. I say this as an American.

The Supreme Court is illegitimate. Not just because it is stolen, and it is, and not because it is corrupt, and it is, but because it is wrong and it does not represent the interests of the people. We have to get comfortable with unchaining ourselves from tradition, norms, and decorum.

how do i download this so i can make a (10 hours) youtube version of one particularly haunted clip

The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible

Love living through one of those garbage centuries that they’re always crapping on in Star Trek

Brian Wilson (1942-2025) 🖤 📸: Trinity Mirror

Cops-- pathetic. Fuck off. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/youre-a-bu...

The entire plot of Andor S2 is about the Empire creating a bloody civil disturbance and then blaming the resulting violence on the previously peaceful protestors.

RIP Alf Clausen. A cornerstone to the Simpsons at its finest era with tunes that'll be trapped in my brain until I expire.

The politics of STAR WARS feel more relevant than ever. Which is why I doubly haaaaaate Darth Vader's I'm-your-daddy twist. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Glenda Farrell speaks for all of us.

It's kinda crazy that the actual Flintstones show is like the third most culturally relevant Flintstones thing behind the vitamins and the cereal.

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.