thoughts and prayers to all the ICE agents who can’t get paid now

There's a story making its way through the Hollywood trades about how a new "AI Star" is being "circled" by talent agencies. I can't describe how angry I am—the useless middlemen get to keep their jobs, while humans are replaced by robots. They refer to "her" as if "she" is a real person.

Most people who write about politics, right or left, have internalized the concept of the Trump supporter as the authentic american Volk and so many of their conclusions proceed from that bsky.app/profile/qjur...

tom lehrer famously declared political satire obsolete when kissinger won the nobel peace prize. what a sweet summer child..

Thinking about joining the National Guard. Sure, the pay ain't great and I'm not thrilled about losing one weekend a month, but the travel, man. I mean, those guys go to all the coolest cities in America.

Quinnipiac in recent poll asked: Do you think that the way people talk about politics these days is contributing to violence in the United States, or don't you think so? 82% of voters agreed with this including majority of Dems, Independents, and GOP. I said basically this and got fired.

The MAGA monocultural revolution is so thorough that Hegseth made it a priority to honor soldiers who carried out war crimes in 1890.

Is this supposed to be a threat? They did this exact thing while the government was open

@jamellebouie.net: "You see a lot of the big city mayor in Trump. You can even call Trump a kind of big city mayor who escaped containment, who got loose and terrorized the countryside."

Usually I get bad secondhand embarrassment for people in these situations. But with Zuckerberg, I’m rooting for the WiFi demons 💯 Friends, are these the kind of guys we want running the world? 😂

“We just have to make sure Trump doesn’t speak to anyone else for the next three years." www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Imagine being these world leaders and experienced diplomats and just having to sit there and listen to this maniac talking absolute dangerous bollocks for hours. It’s sometimes hard to believe this is real life.

We must drain the excess liquid from our nation's proud strategic reserves of baby before it is too late.

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

After I canceled Disney+ and Hulu, I turned right around and became a donor to my local PBS station. I then realized I dont watch most of the shows on PBS Passport, but that's okay because I rarely watched anything on Disney or Hulu either.

If your novel is set in the recent, pre-cellphone past and your plot depends on a dilemma that would now be resolved with a simple phone call, make sure the reader understands that by having a character say, "Too bad cellphones don't exist yet."

Churches are being given instructions to share this messaging from this administration. Unfortunately, I have family members caught up in this nonsense. They were told to attend two services (in one day) — one was stoking fear, the other was propaganda from Newsmax and this AI generated message.

The only way this could be more suspect would be if Tom Homan was wearing a little Hamburglar mask as the money was handed to him in a sack with $$$ signs on it.

The New York Time headline editors are generally terrible. But this one is a work of art. More of these, and I just might start to forgive them. "Trump Justice Dept. Closed Investigation Into Tom Homan for Accepting Bag of Cash."

Bob Iger's wife is the dean of the USC Annenberg School of Communication, one of the most prestigious journalism schools in the country. And yeah, there has been blowback.

at least all that fawning and bowing and scraping of those silicon valley ceos is really paying off...wait wat

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DISNEY: Wins 5 Emmys for ANDOR, a show about resisting fascism ALSO DISNEY: Bends the knee to the federal government and suspends Jimmy Jimmy Kimmel for resisting fascism

I am biased but I don’t think there is a better website on the internet today than TheOnion.com.

The front page of the New York Times today is something else. Everything, save for Robert Redford's death, is taken from the right-wing frame. I guess there are no opponents to the administration they can report on.

I just canceled Disney+/Hulu. I'm a big fan of Marvel, Star Wars, and Alien (I mean, I thought about paying $600 for a giant 1:1 replica Alien egg once, not something a normal person does). But I can't send $50 a month to a company that does not value free speech or my point of view.

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

More of this please variety.com/2025/tv/news...

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel. This is a must-watch. 🔥 #cdnpoli

Or…and hear me out now…they could just bring him back

President Donald Trump said licensed television networks are "not allowed to" criticize him, suggesting that the federal government could take their licenses away.

"The Trump administration has learned to effectively weaponize the regulatory powers of the federal government to punish speech it doesn’t like from people it doesn’t like. [It] shows how far down the authoritarian road the United States has traveled in just 8 months." www.vox.com/politics/461...

Having 10 fingers is woke. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards." www.wired.com/story/uncann...

Look, the regime isn't stupid enough to think "Antifa" is an actual thing. What this means is that they are going to claim that any organization they don't like, from Open Societies Foundation to the ACLU to SPLC to the feckless milktoast Democratic Party, is going to be labeled "Antifa."

Was working on stuff and basically missed the whole Jimmy Kimmel news cycle. It reminds us. With the exception of the Times (which doesn't own a bunch of other vulnerable properties), msnbc and a few others, all the news/media outlets are owned by the white house now.

A former Reid and Fetterman staffer has founded an organization dedicated to defeating progressive "groups." This is basically like if right-wing billionaires funded a "think tank" dedicated to tearing down Republican organizations like the Heritage Foundation and TPUSA, which is to say, insane.

everything trump does is a distraction from epstein, and epstein is a distraction from healthcare, the One True Issue that we're allowed to talk about* *because polls say it's super safe and uncontroversial

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

So the white dude from Fox News said we should kill mentally ill homeless folks, he apologizes and they’re good; @karenattiah.bsky.social posts an accurate quote and says she’s not in the mood to mourn and gets bounced.

A former colleague of mine is trying her damnedest to build an influencer business on LinkedIn. Her posts are something else.

Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week Reporter: [nods] Trump: so we must murder on the high seas Reporter: [nods] Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once Reporter: [nods] Trump: the cock on that bunny Reporter: [nods] Trump: bigger than you think Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives

He was like a son to him, Trump said. So this tracks.

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I've had a beard since 1999. It's nice to see the rest of the world finally catch up to me. And not the ironic facial hair so popular with Millennial hipsters in the 2010s.

My son just asked what bitcoin was and I told him it was fake money mostly used for crime which my wife thought was maybe too real but that’s how I roll.

Kirk was working in the same tradition as evangelical preachers like William Bell Riley in the 1930s. They were professional anti-evolution debaters who would use cheap tricks to humiliate unwary biology professors who showed up to debate them in front of stacked audiences.

In the US, the work of keeping kids safe falls to families, usually moms. That responsibility makes moms hypervigilant about potential threats. Which can lead them to trust fear over reason. And which is why RFK Jr. is pushing the lie that Covid vaccines killed kids. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...