Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.

Groups willing to perform at the Trump 250 celebration: Red Hat Chili Peppers The Magas and the Papas Dolly Pardon Earth, Wind, and You’re Fired Headlining: Dire Straits of Hormuz (From r/dadjokes)

if you just went by media coverage you would think that trangender kids playing sports are a much more immediate threat to the public well-being than a billionaire becoming a trillionaire by pumping $2 trillion worth of fraud into every single 401k

Wishing happy birthday to Walt and Marilyn. Americans.

it is very simple folks. "unqualified DEI hire" is when you're not a white male, "merit-based promotion" is when you are a white male and also pete hegseth's personal assistant. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

This Thursday 7:30pm I'll be at The Loved One, a cool new bookstore/event space on Temple in Historic Filipinotown/Echo Park, talking about my novels DESTINY EXPRESS and THE GREAT EASTERN. My conversation partner will be the superfine novelist/cultural critic Joanne McNeil. Join us! Info/RSVPs:

Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

A lot of “you can’t fire me, I quit” energy here…

And do you remember the time someone gave a book of French philosophy to Gerald Ford’s press secretary? It was a case of putting Descartes before terHorst.

En route to Bellingham there was a street-corner beggar with a cardboard sign that said MY NOVEL DROPS IN TWO WEEKS. I gave him money. How did he know how to hit my soft spot so precisely?

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

One summer afternoon Mrs Oedipa Maas came home from aTupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul… Pynchon, Lot 49

Bellingham, Washington. Village Books & Paper Dreams. Tonight!

BREAKING: we just won our Kennedy Center case! Both the renaming & the closure of the Kennedy Center are enjoined Kudos to our wonderful client @repbeatty.bsky.social & my colleagues @democracydefendersaction.org & Washington Litigation Group This is a 1-2 punch against Trump's corruption

“You needn’t be an English major or book nerd with PTSD from requisite (re)readings of Moby Dick to make this your New York novel of the summer…The Great Eastern is a sheer welcome surprise of contemporary American fiction.” www.beautynewsnycofficial.com/lifestyle/25... @rodman.bsky.social

happy birthday america, i got you the corpse of a 30 year old one hit wonder shuffling around in front of a fight pit next to a giant hole in the ground that used to be the east wing all at the pleasure of an octogenarian rapist with dementia

This positively begs for a Downfall video…

very traditional for nazis to seek sanctuary in Argentina: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratline...

imagine being president of the united states and getting snubbed by a group popular 40 years ago and best known for lip syncing and also one of them is dead

Wherever you may wander/ Wherever you may roam/ Always keep a diamond in your mind —Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan And there are no letters in the mailbox/ And there are no grapes upon the vine/ And there are no chocolates in the boxes anymore/ And there are no diamonds in the mine —Leonard Cohen

An impeccable cause. Please join me in this.

The DNC being excessively rude online to Trump’s White House policy architect would hit harder if it were coupled with the party’s full stop blockade of voting for his appointees

Funny story: 13 is the same number of service members who died in the pullout from Afghanistan, for which Biden received brutal bipartisan media coverage for months

Vanilla Ice x Milli Vanilli is the collab we’ve all been waiting for.

Is there a better definition of bread and circuses?

Join me tonight at Mother Foucault’s in Portland. Reading/signing/merriment. Conversation partner: Shawn Levy. #DestinyExpress #TheGreatEastern #BookSky

University administrators two years ago: we can’t allow social justice movements to change the university as we know it University administrators today: in order to accommodate the new probabilistic bullshit generator no one likes we must change everything about the university

remember that time Zelensky didn’t wear a tie

The last thing you see before opening ChatGPT

Ladies and gentlemen: once again, the New York Times:

Alimber Santa is the second player in MLB history to pitch in a no-hitter in his MLB debut, joining: Bumpus Jones of the Cincinnati Reds on 10/15/1892, who threw one all himself h/t @EliasSports

hey @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social -- bridge renaming favor to ask

RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century

“My wishes for the planet in 2024: No killing. No killing. Don't kill anyone, anywhere, for any reason. -S.R.” Tweeted by Sonny Rollins on Dec 31, 2023

I've seen the David in Florence and stood before Guernica in Madrid. I caught Zero Mostel's Tevye and James Earl Jones in Fences. I've had the tasting menu at El Cellar, twice. But all of that was mere prelude to seeing Sonny Rollins close out jazzfest in New Orleans. God bless his immortal soul.

You didn’t “inherit” 43 of my scripts, Anthropic, you stole them.

Sonny Rollins, one of the most influential Jazz musicians of our time, died this afternoon. He was 95

$2.5 trillion well spent.

Bow down to him on Sunday. Salute him when his birthday comes. Mr Dylan is 85 years old today...

Former Biden administration official and aide to Blinken with an interesting way to avoid naming the actual thing

The NYT sees itself not as a defender of journalistic principles or a champion of democratic values, but rather a theater critic for political actors. There are no real-world consequences here, no pain or suffering for the common people who aren't in their social circles. It's just a parlor game

There are roughly five billion people roaming the earth at this instant for whom the lines "Let's all get up and dance to a song/ That was a hit before your mother was born" could apply to Your Mother Should Know.

“.. the latest attempt by the Trump administration to reframe the Jan. 6 siege and to paint the rioters who participated in it as victims.” @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Ken Martin claimed that “there was no smoking gun” in the DNC autopsy report. No, Ken, the autopsy report WAS the smoking gun. If the best a political party could muster is a document so incompetently produced that it lacked a conclusion, it proves the party’s leadership was the problem!

I didn’t know Greenland had entered a teen beauty pageant.

Everybody thinks when he's rich he'll be a different kind of rich person from the rich people he sees around him; later on he finds out there's only one kind of rich person, and he's it. —Thornton Wilder, The Matchmaker

I think Democrats should come out and say Blanche's "settlement" and the Slush Fund generally is one act in a continuing January 6 conspiracy, extending statutes of limitation for another 3 years.

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem