Jimmy Kimmel's suspension is the "New Coke" of late night television. Well played, Disney.

This week in Best of Substack! - Lincoln Michel on lit style - Kathleen Willcox on comfort wine - culturetherapy on game play - Richard Flyer on connection - Matthew Iasiello on happiness PLUS! - A 2022 essay on genius - Substack + perspective - A badass dad Please share and subscribe!!!

I spend a lot of time bashing spineless headlines, but props to the @nytimes.com -- this is how you lede a story.

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

I interviewed Clay Risen, author of Charlie Kirk's obituary in the @nytimes.com, about what it's like to sum up the life of a divisive figure. substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Montreal Star, February 4, 1939

"Kirk earned his name / fortune / place in hell by stalking the gullible and the unprepared, sinking his teeth into the most co-optable corners of society (the young, the angry, and the very religious). He’d be pleased to see his legacy abused in the very manner he championed." Read my substack. 👇

Kimmel wasn’t fired for his remarks on Kirk—he was fired for using his platform to expose and critique our government. Enough! We especially need large corporations, with the money and influence they have, to fight back. sign.moveon.org/petitions/ki...

Average amount each Facebook user will get from the legal settlement: $30 Amount the lawyers are getting: $180 million.

Dearest Media, Stop repeating the narrative that Jimmy Kimmel was pulled for comments about Charlie Kirk. He was pulled for comments about MAGA. Quit taking press releases at face value and get back to reporting FACTS.

@brittlestar.com Let's do a news together. www.thecanadaparty.com

This is it. This is all @jimmykimmel.com said to get his show pulled off the air. It isn't even a joke about Kirk, it's an entirely correct observation about how the right wing is trying to blame the left for MAGA-on-MAGA violence. The surest path to fascism is to silence the comedians.

I'm not impressed by how the media has fawningly covered the Charlie Kirk killing, but serious props to my grad school chum Clay Risen, who wrote his obit for the NYTimes, capturing both the monster and the martyr. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

With the news that we will soon have such a thing as "trillionaires," I am reposting the first article I wrote for the Beaverton, now apparently outdated. www.thebeaverton.com/2016/12/loca...

This is straight up murder.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

South Korea reached a deal with the U.S. to free hundreds of South Korean workers arrested when U.S. immigration authorities raided a Hyundai-LG electric vehicle battery plant in Georgia. nyti.ms/4887Cdr

"in the eyes of its critics" is the "good people on both sides" of the @nytimes.com. The only critic to this ruling that matters is the literal text of the Constitution.

"This is political theatre at its most Shakespearean, a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Part 2 in my series on how the U.S. administration is using manipulative rhetoric to turn Americans against each other and fuel a civil war. open.substack.com/pub/cannonwr...

@columbiauniversity.bsky.social don't even think about asking me for more alumni donations until you grow a backbone and stand up for academic freedom.

This week in Best of Substack! - Robots and personhood - A Sandy Hook poem - Joy and Taylor Swift - Transitioning to fall - Spies in Denmark - Disinformation in Europe - Margaret Atwood slays - Tolstoy in the White House Please share and subscribe! bestofsub.substack.com/p/best-of-su...

Summer's Not Over

Fixed it for you @cnn.com. Do your fucking job.

Down time on the film set. Catching up on my daily anti-fascism reading list. @brittlestar.com #fightfascism #everyday #allday

"Then they came for the firefighters, and I said nothing, because I was not a firefighter, and also who the fuck stops firefighters in the middle of a fire to check their IDs?"

If you've ever wanted to be a war correspondent but don't like traveling outside the U.S., I have good news for you.

So coolio to interview @elliotkirschner.bsky.social for The Tyee on his new Robert Reich documentary "The Last Class." Full video in Best of Substack: bestofsub.substack.com/p/best-of-su... Edited Q&A in the Tyee: thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

Harken! My new article explaining the rhetorical tricks the government is using to justify a war against its own people. Please read. Please share. Please subscribe. Please resist. cannonwriter.substack.com/p/america-ha...

How Empty Cans Became a $7 Million Crime—and more in the latest Power Metal newsletter! #powermetal #criticalmetals #criticalminerals #batterymetals #transitionmetals #sustainability #recycling powermetal.substack.com/p/the-7-mill...

If the answer to his claim is "no," THAT should be the headline! @nytimes.com we are looking to you, and you are failing us.

Good catch here. This is ludicrous, @nytimes.com

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I'm going to publish the entirety of an exchange I just had with the press office of the DOJ. I want you to see how they are talking about truth.

This week in the Best of Substack: Ecosystem AI prompts. Music for Montana. The politics of mRNA vaccines. Democratic change-makers. Immigrant memoir comics. Tariffs and fascism. The Dawn of Everything. The clean energy transition. Channeling Anaïs Nin. bestofsub.substack.com/p/best-of-su...

Are you still talking about the BIGGEST political scandal of all-time EPSTEIN & how the president of the United States is connected to the most notorious child-sex-trafficker ever AND is covering up his own involvement???!!! Good. #RememberTheUnderageVICTIMS 💔

@fsgbooks.bsky.social really did something beautiful for Nicholas Boggs’ new Baldwin biography.

There's so much interesting content on Substack, so I started a "Substack Digest" of sorts. So you'll be seeing this message every week now. You're welcome. bestofsub.substack.com

When I say don’t mess with Texas women, I’m talking about State Rep. Jolanda Jones.

Breaking it down as simply as possible. The lies flow downward, the money upward.

Summer office.

Thrilled to have the lead story in The Tyee, adapted from my substack. Read the original at cannonwriter.substack.com/p/foreigners...

Substack Notes is basically writers asking other writers what they're writing about.

WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

It wouldn’t look good for a country with such xenophobic ambitions to admit they need help from their neighbors. My new post. open.substack.com/pub/cannonwr...

Happy Caturday! Support independent artists! @brittlestar.com

Where is DOGE when you need it?

Why is birthright citizenship being targeted in the US? Because they want to turn America into a gated community — from jus soli (right of the soil) to jus sanguinis (right of blood). If you are not of the right blood, you're not welcome where you were born. magazine.alumni.ubc.ca/2025/spring-...

My new post! Scenes that offer wisdom and encouragement for those of us fighting the slow creep of disinformation, media manipulation, and fascism. open.substack.com/pub/cannonwr...

This clip gets more relevant with every passing moment. Is America the greatest country in the world? youtu.be/16K6m3Ua2nw?...