My book comes out tomorrow and I gotta say I've been slaying it on the memes over on Instagram (if you're interested in following me there) but I just have to share my two faves from today

show's saturday! tickets are movin! WHAT IS THIS: a comedy show featuring Josh Gondelman, Demi Adejuyigbe, Natalie Walker, Ike Ufomadu, Dina Hashem, Tim Platt, and Eli Yudin WHEN IS IT: saturday @ 9:30 PM WHERE IS IT: Caveat AND on livestream / vod WHO ARE YOU: phil caveat.nyc/events/chron...

Is it a good thing for an industry when people are constantly inventing new words to describe the terrible side effects of your product?

BREAKING: Starbucks workers in Seattle are participating in a practice picket outside of the Starbucks Roastery, the company's flagship store. Starbucks is still failing to finalize fair union contracts. Baristas don't want to strike... but if they have to, they're ready. ✊🔥

I love visiting the Magic Tavern, and I'm so happy to be back!!!

This week's That's Marvelous is about having two New Years Per Year and blowing on the cartridge and just doing the task! If you like it, tell somebody about it!

Wish “you can just do the thing” didn’t hit so hard. Josh remains undefeated!

this is like "what if yoga with adriene, but no stretching" (highest compliment)

Fluff the Squirrel (@joshgondelman.bsky.social) is back and he has an insatiable thirst for blood. Listen to the latest here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

They would get better overall results by scattering this money in various parks.

This week's That's Marvelous is about having two New Years Per Year and blowing on the cartridge and just doing the task! If you like it, tell somebody about it!

SLUTS, YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE ⬇️⬇️⬇️

I wrote about Arby's in my newsletter two days ago, now @joshgondelman.bsky.social drops the roast beef nod in the first paragraph in his always excellent newsletter and I'm thinking Roast Beef has never been more back www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com/150-rosh-has...

I also love when this happens!

I love visiting the Magic Tavern, and I'm so happy to be back!!!

22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, says her experience in federal detainment could only be identified as “human trafficking.” And she’s not staying quiet about the women she was forced to leave behind. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...

Have you ordered your copy of #TheDoubleTax yet? If not, buying a copy BEFORE Tuesday helps towards making the book a bestseller (based on first week sales). Order now: annagifty.com

That kind of feels like it WAS the investigation, right? Once you accept $50,000 from undercover FBI agents...case more or less closed? Unless he was selling them rare Labubus or something unrelated to this obvious corruption.

happy 9/21 😎 youtu.be/uzuUe62PayI?...

Everything is horrible however you can now own All Comstocks Are Bastards merch from the brand new @autonomynews.co store

@sarahenni.bsky.social your squad is really getting the job done!!!

Now as in pretty much every era, there's lots of good art being made!!! But there's also just so much ~stuff~ lately! Is there any wave or movement currently happening that people are especially psyched about? I want to know what is inspiring people in any medium!!!!

Some really good stuff from @brianphillips.bsky.social as is his custom!

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

I know we've got a lot of crazy here in the US, but don't forget about our fellow humans in Gaza. Please donate and share if you're able. 💗

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

In case you missed it, Monday was my last day at Rolling Stone, and for the time being, I'll be doing all of my reviewing, recapping, and other TV analysis at my newsletter. I hope you'll consider subscribing:

Conservatives now calling up Sinclair, demanding that the execs fire themselves for this act of disrespect.

I’m holed up sick in our little spare room but @maris.bsky.social has taken such good care of me (and Maggie the Pug), and I ate this enormous pastry that @lindseyadler.bsky.social brought over for sustenance. (I’m feeling not terrible!)

Finishing a really good book always makes me feel melancholy!!!!! What the heck!!!

Some really good stuff from @brianphillips.bsky.social as is his custom!

This movie is fun as hell, and you should go see it in theaters next month!

This is, to put it as gently as I can, extraordinarily fucking scary and bad news!!!!

Tough week for me, a guy who always confuses "jawboning" with "scrimshaw."

nice review here. did you know you can get my new book? on sale now? www.newhavenindependent.org/article/take...

socialist vampires. that's it, that's the pitch. that's what my book is about merrittk.itch.io/vampirocene

yeah pup and jeff are two of the greatest live acts ever seen hands down easy peasy lemon squeezie

Calling all Guild members, labor allies and anyone who believes in a free country — Join us outside the entrance to ABC's offices at 7 Hudson Square (310 Hudson Street, Manhattan) TOMORROW at 12 PM ET to demand that ABC bring back Jimmy Kimmel Live! RSVP: wgaea.st/kimmel-rally

This movie is fun as hell, and you should go see it in theaters next month!

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Relaunched Kissing Books this week with a small welcome back post, and we've already cracked 1,000 subscribers! Thank you so much to everyone who has already shown support for this little side venture; it means a heck of a lot, especially right now.

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WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Building a media ecosystem that's structurally resilient to authoritarian pressure is kind of important right now! Here at @hellgatenyc.com, we believe that worker-ownership is a critical part of building a future for journalism that doesn't knuckle under to power. www.hellgatenyc.com/membership

Normally Ella Yurman is the perfect host of Going Down with Ella Yurman, but this month, Reid Pope was the perfect host of Going Down with Ella Yurman!

The most utopian thing I can imagine at this point is a strictly segregated media environment of propaganda slop and the people who don't mind it (nobody likes it) and then an entirely separate economy of people who actually like reading, listening to music, watching films etc.

It’s kind of staggering the number of different kinds of bad news are possible in such rapid succession.

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

"I didn't agree with much of this tribute. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟" - Ezra Klein's review

I wrote about the experience of government of, by, and for people who have been driven insane by screens. (This is a gift link, please Consider Defector if you are interested in subscribing to a website) defector.com/the-united-s...