This may have been the most insane and incoherent four days of his presidency. Tylenol, the U.N., I hate my opponents, other countries are going to hell, this escalator's broken, I'm mad at a TV comedian, I like Ukraine now. It really feels as if some minimal tether to reality has snapped.

"Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars." A reminder that the proper response to a bully is "Fuck you, no." Otherwise you're just offering a down payment on future bullying.

Gonna be weird for conservatives when it's the sweet, kind liberal winemoms who get raptured instead of them.

Can’t offend the large and valuable audience segment labeled “white supremacist” in the marketing graph

Jimmy Kimmel Coming Out of His Well to Shame Mankind Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1896)

I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where’er I sail.

The treatment applied to Russian oligarchs for Russia invading Ukraine now applied to a Brazilian judge for Brazil upholding rule of law democracy.

Deeply curious about the extent to which Trump's scheming viziers are just straight up lying to him.

philosophers only want one thing and it’s discussing

Ralph McQuarrie’s concept art for BATTLESTAR GALACTICA is often overshadowed by his legendary work for STAR WARS, but is absolutely deserving of a revisit! 1/2

god we were like two inches away from avoiding this

Checking in on Bluesky after a few hours out.

This court does not expect any Democrats to have the presidency again, and Democrats need to be prepared for every kind of legalistic ratfucking the court will use to prevent that from happening. Bush v. Gore is the floor for how far this court's anti-democracy majority will go, not the ceiling.

the fact that in multiple cases the Supreme Court has worked to legalize bribery in the United States is a major corrosion of our civil order

periodically I see the president doing things like “post crimes for his attorney general to do that were maybe supposed to be an unencrypted DM on his own personal social network” and I remember that he got elected in large part because of information security practices and I black out in rage

A bit surreal to know over 500,000 people died in a failed attempt to stop me from trying on skirts from time to time.

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

New-economy boom job: extorting people into paying you a fee or else you'll be tedious in their replies.

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

Turning off your transponders, just something everyone always does when they're confident everything's on the up-and-up.

EXACTLY THIS. When Elon fucked the algorithms to keep links off-site, my posts about new books went from thousands of likes to <100, overnight. Not wasting time on X was an economic necessity.

If i were a small town police chief confronted by crimes beyond comprehension I would simply adapt to the dismal tide.

someday I hope we prosecute at least the crimes we know about

I support progressive economic policies but struggle to see much evidence that recent election results match economic conditions. (Inflation killed Dems in 2024 but not 22, when price increases were much sharper. Really?) A strong economy didn't help Obama/Clinton in 2016 or Trump in 2018.

They're racists & they're fascists but above all they are the pettiest two-bit criminals you've ever seen

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

Obiwan: why am I old as a ghost? Yoda: I still use a cane, I’m in constant joint pain 24 year old Anakin: word? I feel great. I was just banging this chick I met at Chili’s. We’re going to go see Keith Ur- Yoda: I should have never have believed in this. I should have never stopped being Lutheran

What a tiny, despicable, unamerican cretin.

It’s been sad this year watching how the White House press corps refuses to back each other up. Here a female journalist is insulted and denigrated and the next male reporter just moves on to a new question. You’re all in this together, folks. Time & again, they won’t stand up for their colleagues.

revealed preference is that many US elites prefer crony capitalism and promises of a mechanical god to science and innovation

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

This is remarkable. It's hardly the first time POTUS or, more exactly, the shoal of oleaginous lickspittles he surrounds himself with has been accused of wandering deep into "Glorious Leader" territory, but to see such cringing sycophancy squirted over a legal document is something else.

When you die in the skeet-fight, you die in real life

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

Guy who has seen everything including Andor, watching the news: Getting a lot of 'Andor' vibes from this...

Also, notice Trump's complaint here - about the news, about Kimmel - IS NOT anything to do with Charlie Kirk. It's that he was personally criticized. He's not even hiding it! That's what this is all about. "Are you allowed to criticize the president?"

The best thing America ever did was defeat people like Donald Trump.

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.

This is extortion live on TV

South Korean protest culture is one of the country's huge strengths and it relies in part upon having large networks of people who can be mobilized at short notice. The U.S. is at nowhere near this stage of organization but it badly needs to be.

james cameron walks up to whiteboard with TOEJAM and EARL written on it. he erases the "and" and writes Vs.

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

look, Karl Rove and Tucker Carlson can join the resistance, but are you familiar with a penal battalion is?

What’s at stake here is free speech. Across the board, we’ve seen the Trump administration use the power of government to go after anybody who’s criticized them — and in this case, Jimmy Kimmel. We need to all stand up and speak out.

karl rove is writing op-eds about the right’s overreach karl rove! what the fuck! send us back through the looking glass immediately!

It’s happening. The takedown of Jimmy Kimmel is likely the start of a campaign to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to use the power of the White House to wipe out Trump’s critics and his political opponents. But we aren’t powerless. We can mobilize and organize. Now.

sorry but at some point you have to stop being concerned about appearing cool and detached and actually start believing in things, even if it means defending the rights of stupid people like jimmy kimmel

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

Yesterday, Trump was threatening a reporter. Today, he coerced ABC to kick Kimmel off the air. He's also suing NYT & WSJ for reporting the truth. And it's not just media: he's threatening private companies, colleges, Congress—everyone. Enough. NONE OF US should cave. We ALL need to push back.