sometimes I like reminding people that most Americans think "Young Sheldon" is a great TV show.

Again, “I will place conditions on our NATO treaty obligations” would have ended any presidency from Truman to Obama & should also do so now

If he was just a private citizen there would be muttering about how he should probably be under guardianship to manage his affairs.

They gave up on pseudo-science, now it's anti-science. They no longer try to make it look like authentic science, instead the hook is, "this is not what the scientists and doctors tell you, and that's how you know you can trust it." Depressingly, this view controls the whole federal government.

Quite the picture of the United States suddenly isolated and alone in the global community it used to lead

A beautiful tribute well worth reading in full. I always appreciated Bret’s unique and hilarious takes on current theme park events; and his unwavering commitment to a bit. The theme park community won’t be the same without him. I’ll miss you, @schmoofy.bsky.social.

It’s funny how if Carr had said/done nothing, few people would have cared about an ABC affiliate pulling Jimmy Kimmel. Instead, Carr turned Kimmel into a free speech cause célèbre. These people want to be mob bosses. Thankfully they are very dumb. Still dangerous, but not as much as they could be.

A VPN is not a tool for anonymity, and while it can protect your location from some companies, there are many other ways companies may track you. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...

At this point it is genuinely impressive that these people are able to continuously find new ways to make their worship of this guy even weirder

I keep seeing people compare Trump to Tony Soprano. This is unfair. Tony had little tolerance for acquaintances who took advantage of underage girls. sopranos.fandom.com/wiki/Coach_D...

The creation of interactive effigies of the deceased like this has always struck me as deeply weird, morbid, and disrespectful. It’s only one step removed from doing a ventriloquist act with their corpse. Just extremely bizarre and gross and what even is the point??

This clear declaration that Trump views the DOJ to be an entity designed to impose his political retribution - alongside the clear evidence that it is already being used in this way - is impeachable.

Who could have imagined that a guy who uses the moniker “Ka$h” would take over the FBI and shut down the bribery investigations of his buddies?

It strikes me that quite a lot of people knew for the last year that the guy running our horrific deportation squads took a bag with $50k in cash from undercover FBI agents investigating corruption, and it didn’t get out until now.

A story in three acts.

Doing fascism but doing it so shockingly, pitifully ineptly that you don't even get the "Well, at least the trains run on time" benefits.

this exists it is called thinking

Photo of the year. So far.

As well all know, losing a lot of cheap labor makes things less expensive.

Dutch late night TV has its take

Eisner seems to have some thoughts on Iger's recent decision-making. x.com/Michael_Eisn...

Anyway not that there were really any doubt, but "I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next" just weeks ago

"We are the party of free speech and limited government and oh by the way if you say anything the least bit critical about this guy we decided 5 minutes ago is a perfect untouchable martyr we will use the full force of government to try to make you unemployable"

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

Blaming a murder on “the radical left” before a suspect has even been identified is as dumb and counterproductive as blaming a plane crash on “DEI” while bodies are still being recovered. Who would do such a- oh. Oh right.

in retrospect, there’s probably never been a name as threatening as “America Online”

if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

VFTW definitely tends towards sensationalism so I don't know how true all of this is, but I would imagine it's at least mostly true. This is all the more tragic because it was so unnecessary, foreseeable, and foreseen! viewfromthewing.com/flailing-sou...

The ability to find ways to live together in disagreement without resorting to violence is why we have a Constitutional Republican system of government in the first place; and it's also *what we're fighting for* when we argue that this administration's actions are unjust and unconstitutional.

again i think colonialism and imperialism are important to understand, they were awful, they did shape our world... but the current obsession with them as "this explains EVERYTHING" has more to do with its utility at holding together the left coalition than its accuracy bsky.app/profile/sjsh...

People are being sent to concentration camps The president is firing senior government officials w/o cause The military is occupying our capital city The president is illegally impounding billions of federal $ The president is committing unprecedented constitutional crimes on a daily basis 🤷‍♂️🦗🤦‍♂️

Is he asking the question because he's not receiving competent intel or because he can't be bothered to read it? In the current environment that's probably a 50/50 question.

The White House Press Secretary, the official spokesperson for the Trump administration, told reporters in an official briefing that the president wants to invade "every Democrat-run city" with troops. Any media still pretending that this is about "crime" is making a conscious choice to lie to you.

Certainly looks like we scared the President away from Chicago. Fighting like hell works.

Look, at some level you cannot have a functioning democracy where both parties presuppose an electorate of selfish, ignorant louts and compete to offer them the best array of goodies, which is more or less what “focus on kitchen table issues” means. You have to activate some kind of civic impulse.

so his argument is that someone used an autopen to forge a private birthday card in 2003 to frame then real estate guy donald trump?

"The economics of immigration remain the same as they always have. Immigration benefits the American economy, Americans benefit, the immigrants themselves benefit, their friends and families left behind in other countries benefit, and humanity benefits" 🔥 www.cato.org/blog/economi...

Kind of impossible to avoid the "What else is he lying about?" questions at this point. It's an almost undeniable conclusion that he raped kids trafficked by Epstein and/or is covering up for people who did.

Trump was relentlessly booed at the U.S. Open men’s final in New York City.

Chicagoans: as we prepare for the next few weeks, please watch out for yourself and for people around you. If you choose to video interactions with the masked federal agents, here are some guidelines and contact information for journalists.

USTA to Broadcasters: DO NOT show Trump getting booed. Streisand effect:

The gentleman from Kentucky is right.

Pritzker is one of the few rising to what this moment regrettably requires. May he continue to do so.

Another example of civil society censoring itself, creating a simulacrum of normality when things are not normal

I swear they are doing everything possible to alienate people who grew up with TRON and/or TRON Legacy

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

It really needs to be stressed how desperate and insane this is. This is the secretary of commerce insinuating that the terrible jobs numbers—produced by the Trump administration!—are the result of some kind of anti-Trump conspiracy. Totally deranged.

One more time: one of Trump's key lessons from the first administration is that he needed lawyers who would never say no. The whole administration never says no.