it really has been amazing how much one person in a frog suit destroyed their fantasy visuals over the past week. this wouldn't work everywhere but Portland, you are doing amazing sweetie

Yes, it'll still be Rush without Peart. Sure, there was no Zeppelin after Bonham. But it was still The Who after Moon, still Foo Fighters after Hawkins, and of course still Spinal Tap after Stumpy, Stumpy Joe, Peter, Mike, Joe, and Richard.

I shared that Politico piece on Bondi because the reporter had watched all her public appearances available and made a detailed, convincing assessment of her dangerous tenure. Sorry that for some of you the "framing" was wrong, or for others you "already knew." You can't complain media doesn't cover

They’re getting exactly what they voted for in 2024.

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them. They should feel bad.

The modern GOP is just bad at running things. Modern conservatism as a whole - you can’t put a party that doesn’t believe in the very concept of a public good in charge of public goods.

I have been screaming this for years at every "third party" stan

america is just very weird is that we have two blocs who form their governing coalition *before* the general election instead of after it

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

oh my god the active voice somebody got their meds right this morning and is feeling frisky

somebody in my old home town has done a poetry

stepping into the biggest frickin shoes in the world of music

Once again, with feeling:

wizard frog is insane

The Democrats could not have codified Roe v. Wade. Any law they passed could have and likely would have been overturned by SCOTUS. It will take a constitutional amendment, and our chance to protect it passed when Trump won in 2016, earning 3 SCOTUS seats. Thanks, Jill Stein voters and nonvoters!

Two different times my name was misheard. If I ever bring a Starbucks into a Jack's Urban Eats, my secret identity may be in danger.

Trump’s approval in the swing states is abysmal open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

it's really awful gallows humor to say "it couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of people" so I'm definitely not saying something like that.

Kimmel won. Winning matters, wins are how we’re going to prevent this autocratic slide.

Me: forever mad about the FBI’s surveillance, propaganda, violent work to destroy everyone from Du Bois to BLM Also me: people need to understand what is happening to Comey is bad, big bad. It’s the both/and. Sometimes I think the hardest work for educators and media is to explain nuance/context

Looks like a shutdown’s back on the menu, boys.

I am going to plead for nuance - not to read these pages and agree with them necessarily, but to read these pages and acknowledge ther is a point to be made in this direction. Courses need to be corrected somehow.

If you protested Jimmy Kimmel being pulled off the air by canceling Disney+ or some similarly simple action that had clear, direct, effective results, it feels good that you helped get him back, right? The neat part of you can choose another simple action, and keep that awesome feeling going.

Nothing says presidential like a hate speech from a man who looks like Something that’s been rolling under a heat lamp since 1983. Talk about inciting political violence, we need to Decuntify this whole country starting w El Presidente ~ fucktotus shitopotamus

nine inch torx screws

Def was my experience as a millennial in the Biden Boom years. I entered the pandemic with basically zero net worth and exited Biden's Presidency as a homeowner with several hundred thousand in net worth. 2021 and 2022 were the highest earning years in my career

I think this is right but the other thing is that you should try not to hate whichever candidates aren’t the one you pick

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

As a matter of disclosure, please remember that I and many if not most creative folks have business dealings with one or more corporate entities who are navigating, delicately or, uh, otherwise, the fact the US government has been taken over by fascists, no, it's not great and also we have bills

a thing I like in fictional cultures is when they have an expressed horror or disdain for something, and on a surface reading you might think that this means it's rare and uncommon. But the actual reason for the strength of the taboo is *because it's a common byproduct of the culture*

Liberals are scared to push back against the epistemological rot of social media - you’ll lose followers! all your faves will get mad at you for making things complicated! - and it’s going to kill us

"To be clear, _Wicked_ the movie is a movie adaptation of the first half of a musical adaptation of a book adaptation of a movie adaptation of a musical adaptation of a book." "Clearly, someone now has to write a novel adaptation of the movie Wicked." "Got it! 'Pfannee and Shenshen Are Dead'!"

What is alleged to be the actual evidence that the shooter's "roommate" was (a) trans or (b) romantically involved with the shooter? What's been given to us besides the insinuation? I'm fielding questions by friends who want to refute it and I'm trying to figure out exactly what we have to refute.

"I don't care that he's dead. He's not a hero, he's a scumbag. He shouldn't be celebrated."

And if I were being paid, you’d probably be one of the people arguing that whatever I’m saying is merely something I was told to say for a paycheck

US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.

I think it's a sign of how cowed the American media is that we're getting pieces like "you have to understand, in Korean culture, it's considered very rude for someone to lock you in a brutal prison camp for a week for no reason." Like yeah, any free people would be offended by that?

We could be 5 to 10 years from toothpaste that can regrow tooth enamel. The scales are beginning to tip in favor of Mars once sustaining life. We’ll potentially know for sure by 2040. The blue macaw is up to 160 individuals from an all-time low of 7, and confirmed to be breeding in the wild.

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

Are there human beings still working at TNR? Because none were involved in this post.

If you're going to moralize about budget demands, then your demands must include (1) restore USAID (2) fire RFK Jr (3) close the concentration camps. If not, then we're all in the realm of pragmatic politics, and "prioritizing Republican voters" is the path to everything getting worse for everyone.

It took me a couple days to think of the song.

We live in impermeable information silos.

I think we should start calling September 10th the Day of the Long Knife, for its fash-on-fash violence.

Look, I promise I can tell South Asian men apart as easily as I can tell white men apart, but are we all absolutely sure Kash Patel isn't really Aziz Ansari doing a really elaborate bit?

FBI Director Kash Patel and his Deputy conspiracy podcaster Dan Bongino are traveling to Utah to directly oversee the manhunt for Charlie Kirk’s killer. This is the sitcom I’ve been waiting for.

Inside you, there are two multitudes

Timeline cleanse