The Rapture already happened. They haven't put out a record in 14 years. It's time to move on.

one day, everyone will have always been against this

FCC boss Brendan Carr now says his 'easy way or the hard way' comments about Jimmy Kimmel weren’t meant as a threat to pull licenses if Disney didn’t suspend him 🧢

I think the pundits who are like you gotta run anti-choice, transphobe democrats to widen the tent are insane like my tent already includes Bill fucking Kristol at this point, it can't get any bigger.

Did Trump win in November because he showed grace and empathy to people who voted for Joe Biden in 2020? Politics is not an Afterschool Special. You put out a strong message about what's wrong, propose a compelling policy agenda, hope the economy cooperates and that's it. None of this mush.

Does it, though?

EXACTLY THIS. When Elon fucked the algorithms to keep links off-site, my posts about new books went from thousands of likes to <100, overnight. Not wasting time on X was an economic necessity.

They abandoned the whole free speech thing as soon as people started saying things that genuinely offended them. It wasn’t that they were so tolerant that they accepted nazi talk as a necessary evil to protect speech writ large, they just liked saying and hearing slurs bsky.app/profile/jame...

The origin story of the Blues Brothers is Ackroyd making sure Belushi knew about one of his special interests.

the Will Smith track “Wild Wild West” just came on the radio and: 1) it was weird that for several years whenever Will made a tentpole movie he also rapped about it in partial character 2) we should make more actors do this

About to lose your country’s supply of doctors because of a change to rules governing visas? American literature has the answer!

Despite being texted by democrats for donations nearly on the hour every hour, I refuse to give that party another single dime of my money. On the other hand, if there are viable candidates willing to run against Schumer and Jeffries, I will reconsider. I may even volunteer to canvass.

you have to admit "can you make a documentary about a contemporary subject that never directly quotes anything he ever said or did" is kind of an interesting challenge from an artistic perspective

Earlier this week, Sinclair said it would replace "Jimmy Kimmel Live" with a documentary about Charlie Kirk during the Friday time slot that Kimmel occupies on its ABC affiliates. Friday evening, Sinclair pulled the documentary and aired "Celebrity Family Feud" instead.

Did you deploy the tear gas? Sure did boss, real fuckin awesome just like you asked.

The ACIP vote was tied 6-6 for requiring everyone to get a prescription for the COVID19 vaccine. The chair broke the tie by voting NO. Prescriptions will NOT be required.

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

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The thing about Mark Welsh is that the minute he buckled under pressure and threw his people under the bus, everybody who follows this stuff knew he was on his way out too.

This Week's Onion Magazine:

my dude you can't even vote against a national day of remembrance for Charlie Kirk be serious for five seconds

The irony, it is dead.

yes! congressional control of the purse applies to the white house as well. you can defund stephen miller.

Alien:Earth is a grim dystopia and all, but the element of pure and utter fantasy is that it depicts the heads of the 5 big corporations governing Earth as brilliant masterminds.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

I’m sure Allen finds Cuomo very relatable.

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

I’m sure all the standup comedians who have been ranting about censorship the last few years are going to take to the streets any minute now.

One thing that bothers me tonight in particular is how so much of this is happening because of grand and sweeping capitulation by the media, by companies, by Congress, by people in power. Even when they don’t have to — they simply comply, acquiesce, and appease.

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.

Those folks telling people to come back to X in the last few weeks.

Sorry I was late to your wedding, my flight was canceled because my pilot posted a Charlie Kirk quote verbatim in the comments of an Instagram Reel.

The single most important thing a public intellectual can do now is to say the things that are not permitted to be said so that others have cover to say it after them. He did it on Palestine and he has done it on Charlie Kirk. This is a real, material service.

The amazing genius of @mitchtherieau.bsky.social’s essay is that it appeared before this photo, which it perfectly explains.

Our Media & Political Elite understand "free speech" to mean the right of far-right (and far-right only) to speak anywhere they want free of government regulation AND everyone needs to listen to them.

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

If I were editing a college president’s guest essay about the importance of colleges hosting “difficult speakers,” I would ask her to clarify how her argument squares with her history of expelling students for protesting, and why speakers should be treated better than her own students.

now is the time for colleges to host speakers in a diversity of fields with deep subject matter expertise, a spirit of curiosity and a commitment to shared learning

8 Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to enable 14-year-olds in DC to be tried as adults: Cuellar Davis (NC) Gillen Golden Lee (NV) Min Perez Vindman Harmful, heinous, counterproductive, and deeply racist clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

So many of the half-baked AI implementations are happening in professional arenas that have been hollowed out by extraction and divestment. No journalist needs a writing aid unless they’re being paid too little to write too much, no teacher needs a commenting tool unless they’re overextended.

@leximcmenamin.com nails it — deftly explaining how we got to this rampant misinformation pipeline and where it's leading us

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

Oh snap, we’ve got ‘em now! I just hope Booker texts me with a request for $25 sometime soon!

What if I told you these are three different names for one thing?

been very hard to watch a bunch of 50-year-old podcasters come to terms with having a job.

if you see this, quote with the energy you bring to bluesky

One teacher told us “apartheid was good for S Africa;” another lectured that FDR “ruined the country” by making Americans “lazy;” yet another wld force us to watch Alan Greenspan lectures and preface them by saying “now that’s a smart Jew” (the teacher ofc was not Jewish)

Look, we’re going to replace the soybeans, which nobody I know eats anyway, with lots of great American crops. Corn, and celery, and cows. I promise you, you’re going to see farming like you’ve never seen.