Gonna start talking about men and money the way people talk about women and attention: "Ugh, he doesn't even like software, you know he's just begging for money." "Look at that suit he's wearing. It's so phony. You can tell he's just desperate for money." Etc. (Feel free to play along.)

History has many painful lessons.

July 24, 2024

From her lifetime of pioneering work with chimpanzees to her tireless advocacy for the environment... Jane Goodall was a one-of-a-kind treasure to the world! I was lucky enough to be able to thank her personally when our paths crossed not long ago. Thanks again, Ms. Goodall. You will be missed. ♥️

Trump during the campaign: I never even heard of Project 2025, don’t know anything about it, don’t know who is involved. Trump today:

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

A thing I thinked

I don't understand how comedians who suck don't know they suck. I mean, I know I suck, and I don't even suck.

🚨 This scene comes to us from Iowa. The man recording this atrocious attack on an innocent man makes it clear that he is a combat veteran, and explains that he is going to video their crimes and he is not to be touched: “I will knock you the fuck out.” 1/2

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Do we vote our conscience in the way we think will most benefit the vulnerable or at least minimize harm, or do we vote our conscience in the way that most makes us feel good about sticking to our principles?

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

This is the Trump thug who wants to deny due process rights to everyone else. Turns out he was being investigated for taking $50k cash in an illegal scheme, but Trump’s DOJ dropped it. This double standard and corruption is infecting our justice system.

Tell me a story, Tell me how the McCarthy era came to an end.

And I won't be visiting Disneyland this summer either.

Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting owns all these local media stations and many others all across America. This is not journalism, it is scripted propaganda.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

"Give those nymphs some hooters." The great Gary Trudeau has been giving it to Trump since the eighties in the panels of Doonesbury and he's still going strong. www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2...

I'm off to find another way to watch Bluey. #CancelDisney #CancelHulu #Unsubscribe I stand with Kimmel.

We're cancelling Disney+ and Hulu.

Toast, fries, kissing, ticklers. Things that are better when they're French.

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

My wife threw away a favorite old blanket and when I asked why she said it was lumpy and had stuff stuck to it. This worries me because I can be described the same way.

Karen Attiah, a black woman, got fired for A: accurately quoting what Charlie Kirk said about Black women B: Accurately observing that most white Americans seem permissive of white violence. It's bullshit, but almost expected in this white supremacist country.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

I just walk onto stage and talk for an hour. I don't do any magic tricks, I can't afford pyrotechnics, I have to hold the audience's attention with just words arranged to form stories. I love this art form.

I know why they were so quick to make assumptions about who shot Charlie Kirk. Because they knew who Charlie Kirk was bullying, harassing, and threatening. Naturally they'd assume that's who came after him.

I'm pretty pissed. According to the media lefties have been celebrating Charlie Kirk's assassination, and here I am, a life long lefty and I've yet to receive a single invitation to a single assassination party!! What gives jerks!? Did the invite get lost in the mail like my Soros check? Boo!

Maybe if we can show Republicans that some of the kids who've died in school shootings were racist and homophobic they'll start to care.

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate

I will celebrate when Trump is dead, big time. I'll throw a giant ass party, the kind that gets the cops called. I've already started making out my invitation list. Just figured I should get out ahead of that now.

It almost seems like ramping up hate and division by targeting and demonizing members of minority groups is kind of destabilizing. You might even say it sows violence and chaos.

Dear @thepogues.bsky.social please come to America. I don't know why you would, I wish to hell I could get out of here myself but I need to sing along with you and bawl my eyes out, please. Thank you.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

My final though on this topic...

Ezra Klein: Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way Charlie Kirk: Jail every doctor who has treated transgender children. (Source: www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...)

I hope they ban my book!

Trump proves again he is the reigning king of irony as he blames speech for the death of a free speech absolutist, and threatens to punish speech in the name of this slain free speech absolutist.

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

Charlie Kirk was killed for saying things "that used to be simple common sense," says Boris Johnson. Here's a few of those things

It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses