It's official

File under things I’m doing instead of sleeping.

Oh shit do not click on the link or you’ll be up all night. On the other hand, way better than doomscrolling.

Worth visiting if you have 247 hours to kill and have existential doubts about your own back story.

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

“Behind closed doors” being the most important words. fortune.com/2025/09/21/b...

Note: Stealth NYT edit. (Thanks to the eagle-eyed reader who saw that!)

Was wondering if @lastweektonight.com would address the Kimmel stuff briefly or make it the "main story" (even though its "main stories" often involve months of prep and research). Looks like they went for it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohPT...

Got bored after avenging Garry Kasparov

You will regret starting this game.

Man alive. I have studied Right Wing authoritarianism for years and have watched some truly fucked up shit and today’s memorial service is maybe the most concentrated example of how messed up and disturbing that sector truly is.

"And of course, we'll need your most solemn sparkler display. Ideally something that would pair well with the Village People?"

incredible

Pain. (But also, finally got me to stop).

Just got sucked into @neal.fun's "Not a Robot" neal.fun/not-a-robot/

Holy shit. The administration might be evacuating the ICE facility we've been protesting for weeks. If this ends up happening, it's a huge deal. Protests matter. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ev...

I know everything is stupid, but a day later and I'm still impressed at the gleeful public willingness to scream out "WE DON'T CARE IF OUR SIDE IS CRIMINALLY CORRUPT!"

actually that checks out

An "exclusive" from the Washington Post more than 2 weeks after WSJ had the same story, which came out a few days after Laura Loomer herself announced it on Twitter. This is not exactly the best kept secret. www.wsj.com/health/healt... It is bonkers, but it's not new.

Just over on @cnn.com leaning into #newspeak But enlighten us. What exactly is a “chief loyalty enforcer?”

Such comparisons also sit uneasily alongside the many angry calls at this event for retribution against and the vanquishing of their perceived enemies (roughly half of their fellow citizens). Not exactly what Jesus would do, but whatevs

One thing about the "It's legal for the president to commit crimes" Supreme Court ruling is it's also functionally legal for everyone the president employs to commit crimes. In my opinion that's Not Good

You guys, I’m not an economist I didn’t even graduate from college, though I do have an advanced degree (but not a fancy one) and even I know this is not a good sign

Nice post you got there, it'd be a shame if I deliberately missed your point so I could be tedious about it

A bit underplayed that the Homan sting didn't reportedly come out of a public corruption investigation, it was a counter-intelligence one. Which means they somehow made the not-very-far leap to him from initially targeting a foreign and almost certainly state actor.

Caught today’s @arsenalfc.bsky.social match with Spike Lee in Fort Greene (not a sentence I ever thought I'd get to write).

“They should accept it because they looked a little Mexican. It’s the price of a free society.” Kavanaugh, J., concurring.

Siri: how do jokes work?

Somehow had missed that @timbl.bsky.social has a book out that looks pretty interesting.

Showed up a bit early for our local library monthly book sale. There were a lot of people all lined up. What I didn't realize was how many of them were "book scanners." As soon as the doors opened they ran to their designated sections with little handheld scanners, scanning every single book...

Career milestone: Our performance tonight at the Shaky Knees Festival in Atlanta will be my 2,000th live show!

For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law

It gives me no pleasure to inform everyone that these are the same memes that everybody's parents were passing around on Facebook 10 years ago, but spiffed up a bit for the TikTok audience

the fact they're out here running "abigail spanberger will trans your kids" against one of the most conservative candidates out of the Democratic Party is a great example of why actually standing up for trans people, especially kids, is the only way to go

Rumors aren't facts. But last fall the Finance/DC corridor was awash in chatter that bribes and cash payments were flying fast and furious. Given the nature of this crew, essentially zero chance Homan was alone in this.

This is the vibe I wish to bring to the function.

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

I beg of you, please, do not make me have to defend Bill Maher from government censorship

“Was Joe Biden president when the thing happened that Republicans are blaming on Joe Biden?” Difficulty level for political reporters … impossible.

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

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Why bother negotiating with some who is telegraphing on national television that he will cave?

Ah so it's not just Larry Ellison and Marc Andreessen, but the Murdochs too? Remember how the Democrats went all in supporting this idea based on a moral panic? Any of them want to admit they fucked up?

“Of course, you realize this is all blatantly illegal” “Sure, sure, but they weren’t nice to our cult leader!” “Uh … touché.”

This is the Trump thug who wants to deny due process rights to everyone else. Turns out he was being investigated for taking $50k cash in an illegal scheme, but Trump’s DOJ dropped it. This double standard and corruption is infecting our justice system.

Seems wrong to characterize the Kimmel affair, as I’ve seen some people do, as “corporate censorship.” The but-for condition was a direct threat by the FCC chair; that’s state censorship.

This is why Republicans are going home instead of even bothering to schedule a vote, because Schumer's history and his signals both make it abundantly clear that he's going to cave as soon as possible. Stop doing this! Have you never negotiated anything in your life?

If he were serious about this, he would be going "Hell fucking yeah I am shutting down this government. Have you seen them kidnapping people and throwing them in concentration camps? They don't deserve a single cent for their crimes against our republic and should be in prison."

Josh Shapiro: "I was on a Spanish language radio program in the Allentown area and the host said something really chilling to me -- that he now has to think about what topics he's going to discuss because he's fearful he might offend federal regulators of the president."