Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

I cannot emphasize enough that this administration shouldn’t get 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 from the Dems until they start obeying the law. Not. One. Optics matter: if you want people to turn out next election despite troops in the streets, then show them it matters. Do your goddamn jobs and hold the line.

what the green flag means at a NASCAR race

This is state-sponsored domestic terror.

I still think it’s backwards that every mass shooter owning an AR-15 is considered a right while their victims’ healthcare is considered a privilege.

Why are you so bad at this

Autism is a natural divergence from neurotypicality. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be. Transness is a natural divergence from cisnormativity. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be. Just deal with people being different than you.

I was drinking a martini when the waitress screamed, “Does anyone know CPR?” I yelled, “I know the entire alphabet,” and we all laughed - except one person.

I have canceled Disney+ and Hulu. Took the survey afterward but surprisingly there was no "Because you're a bunch of cowards who are actively helping to destroy our democracy" option. Or a place to write it in. Weird. I'm keeping my subscription to @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social of course.

i thought more people would have spines

Dutch late night TV has its take

"I'm the real Slim Shady!" Tom said eminently. (Posted solely for @sethcotlar.bsky.social 's benefit)

must be something wrong with my internet, I just woke up and tried to find the massive Democratic party pushback to all these attacks on the first amendment and nothing's coming up in my browser

JD Vance is doing the Reichstag Fire the right way. by Ezra Klein

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

The people who loved Charlie Kirk loved him because he told them they were right to hate and fear a wide swath of their fellow citizens. The first amendment protects his right to do that, but it’s not what civil discourse in a modern democracy should look like.

The line of argument from governments and media right now is “Why are you upset? We’re not killing you, we’re just constantly telling massive groups of people that you’re dangerous, fuck children and should be killed.”

The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer. New York Times tomorrow

Evergreen, indeed... www.cpr.org/2025/09/10/e...

“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.” So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.

One final thing. It's odd to see Ezra Klein, a total policy nerd, say Kirk did politics the right way when Kirk had almost no interest in either policy, or the empirical rigor necessary to get policy right. Kirk's approach to politics was 99% culture war rage stoking w/ almost no policy content.

At some point, the white community is going to have to do something about the high rates of crime in white neighborhoods.

Guys. I’m starting to think Republicans don’t actually have a principled opposition to cancel culture. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

September is Bisexuality Visibility Month. Please be on the lookout for bisexual people when crossing the street, as they can go both ways 🤷🏾‍♂️😂

So, Chicago, thwart. Thwart like lives depend on it because they do. This was long and nobody'll read the whole thing, but man it felt good to write because, for the time being, LA fucking won. 11/end

Proud to march today with thousands of others who believe in a Free DC

there is a point at which your mind breaks when forced to consider something that is both the horrifying collapse of your country but also somehow in the dumbest way that is imaginable.

This is all gone now. It’s hard to imagine it ever coming back.

This guy is the Mozart of electoral politics, and every establishment Democrat is Salieri staring at him in awe-infused hatred. With a big dose of racism on the side, obviously.

John Fetterman inherited a cursed amulet from Kyrsten Sinema. His staff have repeatedly pled with him to just take the damn thing off, but it’s gaudy as hell and Fetterman, like Sinema before him, has awful taste.

So Hegseth’s missiles were fired at a boat: ✅ they had no idea where it was going ✅ they had no idea who was on it ✅ they had no established authority to act ✅ but definitely wanted to murder whoever was on it Everyone involved should rot in prison forever

In any functioning Constitutional system this would result in multiple impeachments within days

Siri can you make the jackoff motion so hard you go on workers comp for carpal tunnel syndrome

The Simpsons sickos were honored today to have a visit from the great @wardsutton.bsky.social — the man behind The Onion’s iconic @kartoonistkelly.bsky.social. “Stan” will be making a special appearance in this year’s Treehouse Of Horror.

Tomorrow, in Part 1 of a two part episode on the Did Nothing Wrong Pod, I sit down with Professor @sethcotlar.bsky.social to talk about the history of the Radical Right in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Subscribe Today! www.didnothingwrongpod.com/p/did-nothin...

Yet another person has died "surrounded by his family' and people still ask me why I don't visit mine.

“AAAAAUGH! OW OW OW! AAAAAAH JESUS CHRIST THIS FUCKING BURNS! OOOWWW WHY AM I NOT IN THE OTHER PLACE? OOOOWWWWW!” - James Dobson

Some incredibly good news: One year ago this week, The Onion returned to print. In that one year, we’ve grown to the 13th largest print newspaper in the United States, just ahead of the Boston Globe, and growing fast. In short, it’s working. So… thank you. Thank you for helping save this thing.

After seeing public officials nationwide quiet as church mice after those two lawmakers in MN were politically assassinated, shrugged shoulders at congresspeople held hostage by their colleagues & strongly worded letters in response actual Hitlerian rule I can’t help but wonder if help ain’t coming

There are good reasons why many ordinary Americans, living in an age of widening income disparities & institutions that are either collapsing or being actively destroyed, are not so inspired by the promise of liberal, democratic proceduralism. I'm not saying that's a good thing, but it's a thing.

Slightly diminish a band: They Might Be Pretty Big Guys

My wife shared this with me and I’m tellin you… it’s worth the read.

DC statehood must be a Day 1 priority for the next Dem trifecta

Some of you are mad at the Trump admin policies, but you know what they say: You can’t throw an egg carton at the pavement for no f*ing reason then stomp on it out of spite without breaking a few eggs, amirite?

Why did US Fish & Wildlife separate out the fish from the other wildlife? Was it something they did? Something bad? (Who am I kidding? Of course it was bad! 🤬 fish)

Okay, hear me out: the reason the second Trump Administration is slashing scientific research is to prevent the arrival of the time traveler who prevented the first Trump Administration.