Never misses an opportunity to push his own agenda or call attention to himself, even if it’s at a funeral.

Interesting juxtaposition

Giving a bully your lunch money is only a temporary downpayment for future bullying. We ALL need to step up for the first amendment. By-the-way, for the record, this ex-Disney employee finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny. mh

Grifters all the way down — great scoop @carolleonnig.bsky.social www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Brendan Carr is limiting free speech the right way. by Ezra Klein

Oklahoma is 50th in education because Walters uses kids’ education as his play toy to score his next hit on Fox. He couldn’t care less about kids.

I am proud to be born a Muslim. I am proud to be born in Somalia. I am proud to have become an American. None of you can change that no matter how much you rage tweet. Drink some water and touch grass.

“I think the only thing that moves the needle here… is some sort of national economic strike.” @profgalloway.com proposes using consumer power to push back against autocracy.

One short Substack dinner getting stuck across from this woman made it dead clear to my wife and I that she was both a bamboozler and was being willfully bamboozled. “It is hurtful to get miscast as a hack,” she says. Pro tip: Then don’t be such an elaborate one. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Well this is an unexpected plot development at Disney and a welcome one. www.thedailybeast.com//ex-disney-c...

A nice way of saying he is a thirsty popinjay www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

He’s baaack

This pathetic factotum is bathing himself in the fetid attention he gets from the media, especially from water-carrying “podcasters.” His flaccid posturing would be sad if it were not quite so obviously venal www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

So it’s the dumpster fire we expected: Since Leaving Washington, Elon Musk Has Been All In on His A.I. Company www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/t...

These tech and media billionaires are both profoundly avaricious AND hopelessly pathetic. And absolutely laughable. Someday the images of all their preening for and bowing and scraping to Trump will be held up as an example of how not to lead. www.instagram.com/reel/DOuEA94...

Besides being a stooge and unctuous toady, more to the point: Brendan Carr is painfully bad and awkwardly thirsty when it comes to social media. It gives off deservedly unlikable 7th grader vibe.

The Dems deliver FOR you must be a strong message, with a side of the GOP takes for itself and FROM you

Pathetic thirsty man child whose parents did not hug him enough

Kara Swisher on Jimmy Kimmel: "Nexstar is trying to do a very large merger with Tegna, and so they will do whatever it takes." Anderson Cooper: "That's an important point, because that merger would require the approval of the FCC."

Literally you cannot make up this level of hypocrisy. What an endless chode.

On brand for the whole lot of them. What a rogues gallery of quislings, mashers and all around awful people.

This 👇

No matter what he cancels he can’t cancel himself off the Epstein list.

From performative Mr. Free Speech to tiresome unctuous toady

I am actually sad to have to say this since I have admired much about Disney CEO Bob Iger over the years, but what a profoundly quisling move this is by someone who knows better. It’s shameful and he has tarnished his once proud reputation.

Mr. Free Speech who lost his shit in the regular when it was his side is only concerned with the optics here of the government threatening corporations and demanding censorship? Yes, Matt T is the spineless putz we all thought he was.

Exactly this

There is no more unctous a toady in the Trump administration than fussy speech police officer Brendan Carr and it is a high bar. But this thirsty factotum manages to clear the bar easily.

A new world where Karl Rove makes sense and Bob Iger is without scruples.

Watch a weak man pretzel himself in unnatural ways to justify something that he would lose his mind over otherwise.

Accurate

All new parents who do not name their babies after Charlie Kirk will be prosecuted. by Pam Bondi

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We had talked with @susannecraignyt.bsky.social and @russbuettner.bsky.social about the stories on @pivotpod.bsky.social related to this nonsensical lawsuit by the thinskinned Trump.

Trump has filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times. Two of the journalists named in the suit—Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner— discussed their reporting with @karaswisher.bsky.social & @profgalloway.com in 2024. Watch that conversation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CKk...

Suddenly "hate speech" is bad. Suddenly "dehumanizing" people is bad. Suddenly "cancel culture" is good. Suddenly words have consequences. The modern American right in 2025, folks.

Olympic grifters: Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

The First Amendment would like a word, Snowflake

So the white dude from Fox News said we should kill mentally ill homeless folks, he apologizes and they’re good; @karenattiah.bsky.social posts an accurate quote and says she’s not in the mood to mourn and gets bounced.

This is a photo of a slave from the American south in the 19th century in a story about Trump removing mentions of slavery at national parks.

Truly Orwellian www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

I wrote a column responding to Ezra Klein’s eulogy for Charlie Kirk, and argued that democracy depends not just on civil disagreement, but on the civic equality that Kirk passionately opposed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So much for the free speech commitments of thin skinned tech billionaires. They waited for a lame excuse to fire @karenattiah.bsky.social after she declined to take their buyout, which I knew they would do since they are nothing if not unsurprising, and here we are open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Grave dancer

Um.

What a load of exhausting codswallop from a longtime exhausting codswalloper who has benefited enormously from this kind of embarrassing fluffery. www.wsj.com/business/aut...

Correct

Colleges and universities are going way too soft on policing AI, Tyler Austin Harper argues. “Institutions of higher learning can abandon their centuries-long educational project,” he writes. “Or they can fight.”

Tyler Robinson attended one semester at Utah State before dropping out. So why does it feel like he's a sophomore Trans Marxist Indoctrination major at Brown?

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