So Hegseth. One, I told y’all it was a meeting that could have been an email and I really want my credits. Two, when all you have is a tv face, you have to turn your job into a tv show. It’s a theme of this administration.

And another one caves. Absolutely craven nonsense.

This is the one thing that frequently has me doubting my own intelligence, because I'm still not sure I truly get it.

Trump not recognizing a certain printed word, realizing he mispronounced it after hearing it out loud, and then going into his little "I meant to do that" routine remains one of the few sources of comedy associated with this idiot.

Ryan Day and Brian Hartline sure are acting like coaches who do not trust their quarterback.

“You cannot trust the [United States] federal government. Everything they say should be assumed to be a lie.” This has been clear for quite a while, and should be understood by everyone, especially given that too many in the media are still pretending they don’t understand it.

Court reform has become the new “how are you going to pay for that?” It’s the precondition for any liberal policy

Scheffler is getting hammered for failing in the clutch, but the bottom line is that the best US players care about money and winning majors as individuals. They shut it down competitively after the Tour Championship, and they can't reactivate it.

I generally enjoy watching the Ryder Cup even (as is usually the case these days) things aren't going so well for the home team. But NBC wants to rub MAGA in our face. I'll find something else to do.

Turned on the Ryder Cup in time to see Justin Thomas miss a 4-foot par putt. USA already doing USA things.

Reid Hoffman, the billionaire founder of LinkedIn, funded E. Jean Carroll's litigation against Trump.

No, that's not why. But close!

The Guardians have all the usual "team of destiny" markers except for the "Cleveland" in front of their nickname.

A 12-foot statue of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein frolicking and holding hands appeared on the National Mall in Washington, DC on Tuesday, September 23. A plaque under the statue states that it has been erected “In Honor of Friendship Month."

A press release to beg people to stop criticizing Trump and DHS & ICE agents who are attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping people off the streets, operating concentration camps where members of Congress are not allowed in, and rendering people to foreign lands they've never been to 🤔

Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Thrilled for her. She had been drawing closer and closer.

Trump's term is now 1/6 over. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Lol. This is "I support the 1st Amendment for speech I agree with" which means "I do not support the 1st Amendment or free speech."

"This isn't government coercion, it only looks like government coercion" is so stupid only a lawyer would say it.

The key problem with what Ezra Klein says here is that he fails – or is unwilling – to grapple with the fundamental reality of the political conflict: The movement that dominates today’s Right fully rejects the very idea of “living here with each other” as equals. That’s their defining position.

So Popstar was only 9 years ahead of real life. Cool.

Ilya Shapiro declared a free speech crisis because he called Black women "lesser," students questioned if that bias meant he'd teach his law classes unfairly, Georgetown determined it was a speech issue and imposed no consequences, then Shapiro quit in a huff calling himself a victim of censorship.

A producer told me once she has to warn young crewmembers to avoid being alone with Aykroyd. "Not because he's a creep, he's a gentleman. But if you let him strike up a conversation the next thing we know all the PAs will be huddled in his dressing room learning how humans evolved from dolphins."

Hard to think of a more on-the-nose encapsulation of how far the online speech wars have swung in the year of our lord 2025 than major U.S. corporations racing to fire people whose tweets offended Milo Yiannopoulos

I'm sure you'll be shocked to learn that none of the people cited in the article said anything that could be fairly characterized as "celebrat[ing] his death." It's the refusal to say he was some sort of hero that is being punished.

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Well, I can't use it any less than I already do.

You can't achieve common ground based on false premises! Good grief.

When I was a kid, Robert Redford was the biggest movie star in the world -- both in the old fashioned sense of the term and the more '70s sense that he helped bring into being. He used his platform for good. RIP.

Just the most shameless liar American politics has ever produced. Trump at least has the excuse of 1) lying about everything, not just political stuff and 2) being astoundingly stupid.

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

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

Helluva Emmy night for Stephen Graham, who has always delivered on screen even when the projects weren't the greatest.

Cristin Milioti made a meal of that role, absolutely deserved her Emmy.

Simbu wins a photo finish in a marathon. Incredible.

All because cancer is considered "a Biden thing."

Top *eight* articles on NYT devoted to Charlie Kirk, top one asks if he will be remembered like MLK. This is a man who only a tiny percent of Americans had even heard of before his death, whose views are too nasty for NYT to detail. But they are trying so hard to turn into martyr.

Starting to think calling plays may not be Brian Hartline's strong suit.

Breaking: The @wsj.com is reporting that the comment was not made by Brian Kilmeade but by an unidentified transgender person

Another thing: the people lining up to say “but he was nice to *me*” are to a person white guys in powerful positions. I got news for you: he did not respect your ideas, he respected your power and enjoyed proximity to it. Of course he was nice to you.

man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger

Two straight days where someone else was the focus of the news must have driven him crazy.

pretty wild that it so quickly became normalized that immigrants don’t have even basic free speech rights www.axios.com/2025/09/11/c...

⚖️ BREAKING: BOLSONARO CONVICTED brazil’s Supreme Court convicts former President Jair Bolsonaro of coup d’état, conspiracy, and attacks on democratic order. Historic ruling marks first ex-president convicted of leading a coup.

Honoring democracy means eschewing terror as a political tool, but it also means taking people’s words and ideas seriously as a reflection of their goals and personal character.

Spending 8 hours in a cancer treatment facility is mentally and emotionally exhausting, and I say this as someone who is just a bystander to the process. For the one being treated, it's infinitely more stressful. If you're somewhere on the cancer journey right now, God bless.

Oh come on