Expertise is a form of power and authority that very stupid or very lazy people cannot acquire for themselves and therefore must be marginalized. Y'all need to read Charlie Pierce's IDIOT AMERICA.

Woke up this morning and checked. He's still not dead. I blame Tylenol.

gonna repost this a few times throughout the day i debuted 4 new songs a couple of days ago, and i am looking to get some feedback/opinions (though it's just solo acoustic versions) give it a listen. and, if you want, subscribe to the youtube cause i'm gonna be playing a live "concert" tonight

Thinking about how Disney caved to a broadcast corp like Sinclair that makes up only 20% of its viewership. Streaming makes up about half of all viewers, and that's why cancelling the streaming apps put the fear of dog into Disney execs.

I didn’t get a good seat on the train today. Must be the Tylenol.

The rapture was *today*, the cons got it wrong again. Liberals as far as the eye could see. Lots of blue hair. Don't think any conservatives made it. But sitting at His right hand and singing His praises for all eternity is even more boring than it sounds, so most of us decided to come back.

Anyone else have an uncle with a nearly superhuman fixation on an obscure hobby who is *definitely* over 50?

Hey. Hey! Tylenol doesn't cause autism and all of this focus on finding a way to blame mothers for their autistic babies is really just eugenics.

Subtly downgrade a band: Peach Floyd

So, the Jimmy Kimmel show was killed and is rising again tomorrow, the day of the Rapture. Jimble Kimble is jeebus.

Lactose intolerance, I'd imagine.

Yeah, I don't feel like I have standing to lampoon on the predictable rise in Grindr activity in the location where a Republican gathering is happening.

The Rapture is tomorrow and my book comes out tomorrow but the earthquake disrupted my sleep this morning so I lack the brain power to come up with a clever skeet to remind you to masturbate so you can stay on Earth and thus buy my book, sorry. (My book's name is Kalivas! Or Another Tempest btw.)

Today’s chalking: Save the Date SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18 NO KINGS (redux) A great big beautiful nationwide protest day Find yours or start your own. Pass it on. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

This entire American debacle is brought to you by profoundly mediocre white people who can't compete in an open marketplace of ideas. They rely on systemic oppression to stay on top and drag the rest of us down. It is kakistocracy, and we all should point it out for what it is.

What's great about Jonathan Karl getting dogpiled by nazis on Xitter is he's one of those "but, he was nice to me" nazi apologists.

This political era is proof that Veronica Sawyer was right.

The thing about that East Bay earthquake is, we still haven't seen those Epstein files. jkjk I hate earthquakes. I hope everyone is okay and it wasn't too scary.

The thing about the first time the FBI catches you on camera receiving a $50,000 bribe is it's definitely not the first time you've received a $50,000 bribe.

Delighted to discover that more than 5 years after publication my book on how Trump's dehumanizing and demonizing language creates a permission structure for followers to commit violence is again an Amazon Best Seller, #8 in Pub Administration. You can find it here: www.amazon.com/Words-Fire-I...

Bluesky is awesome. I especially love when person X, who is well known for putting their ass on the line on issue Y, posts on here and gets dogpiled by people scream-crying that person X should get off social media and DO SOMETHING. Top-tier social media experience. We are so very much back.

TIL there are nonprofits who help struggling towns to professionalize their governments. Might be a fifth career for me. "We work to elevate local government to be the highest level of collaboration for people working together in a place, not merely the lowest level in a hierarchy of governments."

Y'all, they're not "anti-science." To be anti- anything, you have to know what it is. They're anti-expertise. They attack *anyone* who understands things they don't. Hell, *I* get attacked for my expertise in homelessness services, and I can guarantee you that my knowledge of science is very mid.

Over 5,000 posts and as far as I can see, the only time anyone likes them is when he likes them himself. Ezra Klein already has a review draft of an article entitled, "This troll is doing social media right."

Do you remember?

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: but not really we all knew Tom Homan was a slimy piece of shit and it turns out there's video of him accepting a paper bag full of $50,000 in bribe money. So, you know, duh.

Well well well, will you look at this… Criminal illegal alien this, criminal illegal alien that, and just like all the others in that regime he’s yet another hypocritical criminal. Tom Homan is being exposed.

Fascinating time to air MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON @tcmtv.bsky.social here’s one of my favorite reaction shots by a true master as he silently compares who he was to what he has become Perfect take from a consummate craftsman Then his introspection is broken by his puppet master Great filmmaking

I was pleased to speak with the LA Times today about the ACIP meeting.

My wife and I have a thing. If we want to do something nice for a stranger like donate to a GoFundMe or something, we give each other a heads up that the charge on the bank is real by saying, "Mitzvah." I love that we do this.

Turning 45 soon. For my birthday, I want to help raise money for some kids whose parents were kidnapped by ICE here in the Chicagoland area. If the video isn’t of interest, I hope the GoFundMe is: www.gofundme.com/f/show-solid...

This is Norbert. He’s supposed to be an annual. We bought him about 18 months ago and he’s on his 4th repotting. He is the Highlander of annual vincas.

This app is free. Engagement with me is not.

Look. Sometimes police interactions can get rough. That's not what this was. This was a man twice this woman's size who easily could have pushed her a safe distance away but chose to slam her on the pavement. This was clear excessive force, and she's going to be feeling that assault when she's 50.

I mean, they do sell sandwiches in there....

I hadn't seen this before, but PBS put up a cool 10-year spaghetti track of hurricanes in the Atlantic Basin. See that circled X on the Florida Space Coast? That's basically dead-center over our house. That was our first Hurricane Season after moving here from Washington. It was super great....

I want to say, Jimmy Fallon's bit last night about how his show would parrot whatever the regime approves wasn't funny because that's exactly what he will do.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

Measuring my remaining time in the MPA program by the 11 Saturdays I have to spend doing homework and not sitting on the couch with a mixing bowl of Cocoa Pebbles and a committed rewatch of Thundercats.

Relative to their share of the population, trans people are significantly less likely to be violent than- Jesus. Of *course* we're going after trans people to distract from the fact that rightwing white males are the most likely people in America to shoot up a daycare or a church or a mall or....

Hamish, my horseshoe crab robot vacuum got his glow up metallic paint job and reconnect to the new router today! Clap for him as he cleans the primordial sea that is the upper floor of my house!

I don't even like Jimmy Kimmel, guys. I don't think his show is very good. But I still voted with my wallet when Disney caved to fascism. We either stand together or kneel alone.

When I worked at the Indian Health Service, one of my coworkers was a Navajo man who told me that his people had always lived in North America since the beginning of time. I mentioned the land bridge migration theory, and he said, "Yes, we migrated from *here* to *there*, not the other way around."

Going to post this because…I’m proud. Now—coffee. news.yale.edu/2025/09/17/f...

I've pay extra so that I don't see advertising anywhere. I sure as shit won't accept "screens everywhere" being taken as tacit permission to put ads all over my appliances. I want a refrigerator that keeps my food cold and never breaks down like the one we had in our garage when I was a kid.

Good news, guys. Cassie has agreed to make blanket forts with me in the camps. Who wants in on this? I already called dibs on a bottom bunk because my broken old ass ain't climbing a ladder in whatever rags will serve as my PJs.

People waking up to the realization that megacorporations aren't devoted to democratic principles are why we had a first and second Trump administration.

I am Spartacus.

All the outrage I'm feeling is going to make my morning walk so goddamned powerful, tomorrow. Fuckin' 'gators better not fuck with me.

My wife asked me what we can do about the end of the First Amendment. I didn't have anything else I could think of.