John Mulaney will be the first comedian to perform at Wrigley next season. In the midst of everything it is kind of fascinating to see the real explosion of (and others have said this before me) a truly American art form - stand up comedy. Not just playing arenas. But stadiums. Crazy.

I don’t know how true this is, but I heard an ad person say once that car insurance has to advertise a lot because people will only call 3 companies, max, to compare rates. So being first three top of mind for the average consumer is the entire customer acquisition ball game

just did a big ol speculative thread on a topic way out of my depth guys I’m telling you I’m ready tag me in I will be the Joe Rogan of the left I will brainwash hundreds of thousands of young men but I’ll do it so they are super passionate about NSC processes and extrajudicial killing it’ll work

"Hegseth’s actions appear driven more by self-interest than national security. The secretary has been embarrassed during his eight-month tenure with stories about dysfunction and infighting in his orbit." WaPo's editorial page, on the Pentagon's new media crackdown wapo.st/3KaHlS2

Like there’s real smart staffers on the hill, people who went to serious schools, there’s people who want to all the fancy Harvard Kennedy, SAIS, fancy natsec people right? That’s a type of person who exists. Tell you guy yo make this his thing, this can totally be your lane. You’d own it.

I never worked at that level and won’t pretend I did, I got out as an e-4. But these guys who are giving the orders for these Carribean strikes… they’ve got to have some kind of cite to authority when they get a lethal order right? These things have paperwork associated with them, right?

wait I'm sorry it's rapture day AND bi visibility day?? talk about now you see me, now you don't

McSweeny’s says game on. Time to bust out the spooky names. I want to see ghosts and ghouls and gourds in your display names, motherfuckers Make it so

Well, I know this may come as a disappointment to many, but tonight is my last night as antifa. I’m hanging up my black shirt I cannot in good conscience continue to fight fascism alongside designated terrorists. my antifa membership and subscription are CANCELED effective 11:59pm this evening

IT IS TIME.

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

Man I forgot, but in the books everyone is just dunking on pippin constantly. “Knock on the door with your head” lolololol

This seems awesome and I love William Carlos Williams. The group sounds a lot like F3, who are real big on cinder blocks. I tried it, wasn’t for me, can be a little Christiany, but mostly benign from what I could tell. F3 / F3 nation if you want to give it a run

Its only bribery if it comes from the Bribery Coast. Otherwise its just sparkling

are we just a nation of pansies, asks WaPo editorial board? worth considering

Shooting up a mystery cocktail of 80 ingredients thrown into a horse sized vat? I call that a Tuesday, you bunch of squares. If you oppose this it just means no one invites you to cool parties

A post-dated eschaton is also how Paul eventually tried to get early Christians to chill out about the rapture. “Hey it kind of already happened, on the cross, so let’s just focus on not being the worst”

It can all start with just one win. You spoke out, called, cancelled, raised hell. And it worked. That doesn't mean the work is over, or the fight won. But take time to celebrate a win. Keeping the fire of hope kindled is vital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b... bsky.app/profile/pete...

Removal protections are gone. Humphrey's Executor is overruled in all but name by the Shadow Docket. Rest in peace to the Presidency, and long live the Monarchy.

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

There’s something to be said for A-10 vs F-35 discourse as a metaphor for the kind of failures of the modern liberal international order and how it’s opened itself up to attack by provably worse systems

An F-35 watching you compare it to a plane with less brains than a modern toaster.

Fun story this morning. I spoke with Curtis Evans, the retired Marine in the viral photo below who took part in the anti-ICE protest at Broadview. He's a thoughtful guy, well read and with a dry sense of humor. Story @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-...

Some of the language and the hagiography and beatification narratives swimming around, and questions of death and sacrifice and messianic expectations in the mix, I was reminded of something I wrote once upon a time about how veterans fit into that mix therevealer.org/not-your-mes...

Timeline cleanse. From the incredible doctor waffles on insta. …All the dragon wagon riders think the dragon driver’s cool. Before the dragon wagon driver drags the dragon wagon tires he says ok wagon riders…. What are the dragon wagon rules?

The Texting Heads

technologically advance a band Prussian Blue Girls

30 Seconds To Tau Ceti Jefferson Timeship Scramjet From The Crypt Teleporters To Brazil VR Arcade Fire TV On The Wifi

technologically advance a band Crosby, motion pictures, Nash, and Young

I’ve only got one white flag And it’s got a rainbow on it so it isn’t really “white per se” but you’ve got to understand the structure of the joke calls for… and not to mention like technically the full rainbow like IS what white light is, so it’s plausible in a way, but the point is, ALLY

My goal in life is to loathe someone enough that I get to drop a “forgive me if I don’t shake hands” on them and have them be worthy of it

Rings of Power is feeling like the right rewatch follow up to Andor There’s common vibes. Can’t articulate fully why yet but gotta trust these things. Just means my rational word brain hasn’t caught up to the overactive deep think anxiety brain

I donate regularly to Wikipedia Zealous nerds who are 1. passionate about minutiae and facts, and; 2. protective and pedantic about process; are and always have been, in every age, humanity’s bulwark against the darkness

I see you. Weary. Bruised. Scared. The norms and rules and safeties all around broken and in pieces. Systems fail. Yet the people, ordinary every day people, still standing fast, holding the line, fighting on. You can do this. One step forward. You are so much stronger than you know.

One win. One blink. One pull back. On any front. Illegal killings. Domestic deployment. Homan. One flip. One defection. All they know how to do is double down, retrench, push, scream, overwhelm. Stop the momentum once, hold fast once, keep them from taking an inch once, and they’ll crumble

This situation is simultaneously completely ridiculous and deadly serious.

Brought home this little guy last weekend from the adoption booth at our little suburb’s fall festival. He gets along with Olive so I guess he can stay. Violent left-wing trans prog homosexual antifa eco-terrorists of Bluesky, meet Henry

Saw Gerrera used to say, one fighter with a sharp stick and nothing left to lose can take the day. They have no idea we’re coming. They have no reason to expect us. If we can make it to the ground, we’ll take the next chance. And the next. On and on until we win… or the chances are spent.

Continued exercise of lethal authority, by the president, outside the bounds of the law, without any significant check, without any significant political cost, is, bar none, the single most immediate and terrifying threat to our political community, and the rule of law. Period.

Whatever leverage is in veteran voices, whatever that coin is worth , spend it here If we ignore the people who tell our stories getting bullied then “veteran” as an idea is bullshit whatever “veteran” is, it has to mean fighting for your friends They wouldnt stand silent if it happened to us

The Hemingway code hero chooses an arena, embuing it with meaning. enters with only wits, faces death, and leaves with no trophies, only himself and his own life, and one day will lose that too The grave is inevitable. Go to it with pride, or ashamed. It’s the only choice you get in the matter

I really love a social media tool kit. There’s two kinds of people in the world. People who get 15+ a week emails with links to Google docs social media toolkits; and bad people

Here’s all the ways you can take action against Disney, ABC, Sinclair, and Nexstar for silencing Jimmy Kimmel and attacking free speech. Share WIDELY. #BOYCOTTDISNEYABC

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

reporters like Jeff Schogol who cover the defense beat are invaluable, kind, and often thankless advocates for the average service member A paragraph like this doesn’t have to be in there. But can’t tell you how much it means that Jeff makes it a part of the story, part of the conversation

Before they shut down Bluesky cause it’s antifa, I want you all to know, from the bottom of my heart: Don’t find me on other platforms, this was just a “while we were here” thing, like a summer fling. Be cool, just let it be a thing we had once and is now over

if I'm Bob Iger, I go to every Nexstar exec and member of Congress who has young children, and say: there is a movie on disney+ your kid watches endlessly. that you rely on be a real shame if that movie guarding your sanity from the abyss went back into the disney vault, wouldn't it Kimmel stays.

It’s wild how people I started following when I got on Twitter in like 2014 for like the super nerdy serious not at all excitable type crowds are now saying stuff like “they don’t need statutory predicate conditions met with an army of brown shirt groypers coming down the street” and they mean it