We must stand resolutely against political assassination and political violence of all kinds, and just as resolutely against everyone who exploits acts of violence as the pretext or excuse for political repression of political opponents.

This. If people publically posting snarky/joyful stuff are under the impression that the movement that adored Kirk doesn't contain enough psychos to use this as a trigger for a bloodbath against our own left-leaning public figures... y'all are insanely shortsighted. This is a solemn, scary moment.

What happened today is awful. People who fight against gun violence, people who loathe what Charlie Kirk stood for, must also condemn political violence. It’s a vicious cycle. This is a very dangerous moment.

Oh no! Tragic for his family, friends, colleagues & fans. #TristanRogers was an idol of my teen years & beyond. His skill & charm made his Robert Scorpio sharp, brave, quirky, cool & often the highlight of every scene. Easily in my pantheon of top 3 male soap characters. Awful year for soap vets.

Sadly, the real corpse--non-sensationalistic soap storytelling itself--was never dug back up again. Ave atque vale, #DaysofourLives.

Hi Tarrell! Mostly, I just wish to God saying goodbye hadn't been necessary. Drake Hogestyn had charm, class, humor & not-too-shabby looks. He pulled off John's gothic hero phase w/Isabella (fav pairing) beautifully & passionately. Saying farewell onscreen must've been torture for the cast. #DAYS

Beautiful tribute to Drake and John Black. Since most are focusing on one family, I'm gonna focus on the little family John had for too brief a time; the one I knew and loved best: John and Isabella--and, of course, Brady. #DAYS www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFMG...

I’m devastated to hear my friend of 50 years has passed. Just spoke to her 2 days ago & she was her usual feisty, hysterically funny self. This is a hard one. I was her 1st house guest in her new home in 1975 & helped her paint her NYC apartment. Just heartbroken. So hard to lose old friends.💔💔💔

Ooh followed by my belle idéale, which I'm not sure is correct French... but screw it, Isabella was Italian anyway, and the "Belle" pun makes it worth it. Thanks for passing these along, @70judyjack.bsky.social -- gave me a happy little memory boost on this kinda gloomy Sunday. #DAYS #Daysofourlives

Just because Matthew's face makes me smile and drags me back to the delightful heydays of my crushiest of all actor crushes. My beau idéal for sure. No one could hold a candle to him. #DAYS #JnJ #Daysofourlives

JALEN BRUNSON

Tariffs will be lifted on penguins who agree to be completely white. by Stephen Miller

Who benefits from SNAP in NY State? Millions do!

NEW: Another Skadden attorney has resigned in protest, citing the law firm’s decision to strike a deal with Trump. “Skadden is on the wrong side of history. I could no longer stay knowing that someday I would have to explain why I stayed,” the lawyer, Thomas Sipp, wrote in his resignation letter.

HIya! Thrilled to see new/reboots in a genre that's seemed relatively static. But *was* it static? I'm too ignorant to know. I hesitate to call it a renaissance when I personally know little of the canvas at large. There could be burgeoning projects but I just haven't found them yet. 1/2

#BTG deserves its flowers for sure. Still, after a year of intense hype & PR, it'd take a serious nationwide grid outage for its premiere month NOT to beat #GH. The hope is that it keeps the momentum. Networks have long needed to treat their soaps like real TV shows, not afterthoughts.

Can't believe they left Democracy out of the In Memoriam montage.

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

The campaign for a Nobel Peace Prize for Volodymyr Zelenskyy starts here.

"Spoilers."

Hi Tarrell! ASF was a goofy parody of post-'94 soap plots my cowriters & I hated, an improv email story among ourselves for 2 yrs. CUE PLOT TWIST: we'd accidentally turned it into a genuinely solid saga! In '96 we started over, yanked the dumb stuff (e.g. zombie babies) & launched on the web in 97.

My AVG Antivirus is warning me when I go to my usual x.com/home link. (I only check there 'cause of some stubborn friends in my field whom I follow.) Claims they're trying to scam money. Which, y'know, they're not wrong. Refreshing my timeline throws the error: "Something's wrong, try again."

Hi Tarrell, happy weekend! Rock/pop: The Beatles, Billy Joel, Donna Summer, Streisand, Michael Jackson, James Ingraham. Tied w/Beatles: Sting (both w/Police & solo) for his haunting melodies, harmonies that lean into dissonance, exquisitely crafted lyrics & sinuous/soulful/unique voice. 1/2

People brava-ing Lisa Murkowski for voting "no" on Hesgeth are making me SERIOUSLY ILL. Are y'all kidding me with that shit? You think she'd've voted "no" if they didn't already know he had the votes?

That feeling when you insert the USB-a into the slot, the right way, on the first try…

Hey...those Americans who thought we were catastrophizing about Project 2025...how're you feeling now?

Props to Doug Emhoff's tiny, contemptuous shake of his head, too.

#PresidentBiden leaves DC. Music: "An Irish Blessing." May the road rise to meet you May the wind be always at your back May the sun shine warm upon your face May the rain fall soft upon your fields And until we meet again May God hold you in the palm of his hand. #ThankYouJoe

No one cares who I am, but FYI, on #Bluesky my policy is to defend Joe Biden w/all my weapons of words, & blocking anyone posting shit about him. So far mostly it's MFers from the left who are IMO partially to blame for this perfidious day. Biden's the best president of my life so DON'T EVEN.

Headline on MSN news: "New poll shows trouble for Democrats." Jesus, the media's still at it. BITCH WE ARE ABOUT TO LOSE DEMOCRACY WHAT THE FUCK MORE TROUBLE CAN WE BE IN?

Dona nobis pacem. And may the #ceasefire last past the inauguration. Thank you, President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Secretary Blinken. (This clip is courtesy of the terrific ClassicMASH on the bird place; he's classicmash.bsky.social here.)

Anyway. Bad crazy day. Here's a cat.

Belated happy new year! I loved @jackedington.bsky.social's Glendale, the return plans for older webserials, knowing that 1000s more exist on reading apps--& your own advocacy 🥰! As for 2025, recently I saw that websoaps.com was for sale & grabbed it. Open to suggestions for what to use it for!

For my fellow soap fans. #YR's Eric Braeden spitting facts about Trump.

Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the One Ring. All iterations of The Doctor could resist it, but the Capaldi version would resist it the most

Holy motherfucking shit, what does team ElonTrump have on Uygur's family to turn him into this disgraceful simp?! The horseshoe theory proves itself again. Yeah Cenk, MAGA's welcoming as fuck--until your family gets deported. Or was preventing that part of the deal you made to bend over?

My guide to blocking people here and elsewhere whose values I can't comprehend: Are they MAGA? Block. On the other hand, do they call an assassin by his first name? Hell yeah that's a block. Because either a) they think he's a martyr, or b) they can't remember how to spell a vaguely ethnic surname.

I've never felt so politically abandoned before. First Nov 5, by the majority of the country. Then the Democrats who want Biden to pardon Trump but not his own son. Now from the other side, gleeful would-be Mme. DeFarges. It's made me angry & unmoored & TBH I've just been tuning out because I can't.

You and me both, sis. I cannot even FUCKING believe Fetterman. Those recommending a pardon for the POSUS-elect are quislings, cowards and whores.

Hi Tarrell! I'm loving the spate of returnees and reboots. Why should the websoap world be diffferent from every other entertainment genre? Definitely looking forward to see more of Rob's storytelling and how it's developed over the years since we last saw Euphoria!

Didn't think the 1st ppl I blocked here'd be lefties. But anyone cheering a cowardly assassination because the victim led a big company, & then mock his wife's shocked reaction, you're as morally bankrupt as any MAGA psycho in Muskland. Rethink your goddamned values, you ice-cold loonies.

This #booksky #20BookChallenge trend's spread to records/TV: "No explanations no reviews; just images." But why stifle interaction, esp. w/ #bookchallenges ? #bluesky is still newish. Me, I wanna hear WHY something changed you. So if you want to elaborate, please do! youtu.be/25xv1plsq74

This #booksky trend has spread to records/TV:P "Name 20 lifechanging ____. No explanations, descriptions; just images." But WHY just images? Is this Pinterest? Where's the convo? I know maybe 5% of my feed 'cause we all starting #bluesky following whomever. Don't we wanna encourage chat?

Joe Biden just handed Donald Trump a precedent for actions he already took 4 years ago

Joe Biden lives by, "I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not Honour more." In this case, duties of love & honor coincide, and pardoning Hunter from those ghouls is absolutely the right thing to do. Once the incoming crew get in, justice will be forfeit. Bravo, Mr. President.