Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.

"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.

I know what it's like to live in the South because I watched Smokey and the Bandit many times. I know what it's like to live on a huge, partially completed spaceship because I watched Star Wars.

Eric's Assignment Desk: Your new video podcast is a gameshow in which you find ordinary people and ask them to guess the percentage of Americans who, based on legitimate polls, think certain things. Family Feud of American Idiocracy

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you @shoutingboy.bsky.social

Trump's vengeful tone shows he genuinely doesn't support First Amendment rights. He's an instinctive tyrant waging war against America's Constitution & founding principles. As Benjamin Franklin warned, "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."

Government officials do not get to decide that your rights have become inconvenient or problematic. They are your rights. They are not privileges provided by the government and revocable at will.

There was a HUGE contingent of very hacky comics who went anti-Biden/pro-Trump claiming that "woke scolds" were "canceling comedy." Feels like maybe they should be speaking up?

I'm gonna be brutally honest with you: I had to read this post twice to detect the obvious sarcasm, and I am usually a very good reader. That's where we are.

Biden's campaign's slogan should have embraced 'Sleepy Joe' whole-heartedly as his campaign promise. "So boring you'll sleep easy at night and never worry about what I tweet"

The government is now using legitimate threats to get comedians fired for telling tasteless jokes on talk shows. The U.S. government. Not the Iranian government or the Russian government. It's terrifying and infuriating.

I really thought I had identified the worst Twitter on many previous occasions. But now I have achieved utter certainty: Charlie-Kirk-assassin-political-blame-game Twitter is, in fact, the absolute worst Twitter.

i do not like political violence

Scanning Drudge Report is just a terrifying shit show. Drudge always traffics in it's-all-a-disaster, but today has a weirdly ominous feel. Do not recommend.

Israel has attacked Qatar? Do I have this right?

1. I have no idea who this person is. 2. Third best doesn't seem like much of a triumph to me.

Renaming is generally stupid. They have renamed the Missouri-Kansas rivalry from the Border War to the "Border Showdown." This is stupid and obviously to placate social justice warriors. "Gulf of America" and "Department of War" are equally stupid placations of the MAGA goobers.

What's the difference between President Trump and President Camacho? Camacho appointed the smartest man on earth to his Cabinet.

Hear me out: Let's us reasonable people compromise with Trump and keep Department of Defense but rename the Department of Energy as the Department of Power.

I am castigated by weirdos on Twitter for being progressive and by different weirdos on Bluesky for being conservative. It's perfect.

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I wasn't planning on having to come out as a supporter of transgender gun rights today. I have to imagine most of you feel the same way. But this is where we are. Sigh.

Wuthering Heights is dog shit and that idiot main character should have just moved on after chapter 1 or 2. There's plenty of fish in the sea, lady. You know I'm right.

WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL

This is the one festival I will attend before I die.

1. Harris in no way ran the campaign that Never Trumpers wanted. 2. We never even wanted Harris. 3. The fact that you believe that "flags waving everywhere" is some superficial thing is comedy gold, and says more than I could ever say about your lack of undertanding.

My country sucks right now.

"'People don’t want to reach this conclusion: This is authoritarianism."

What if we all joined your party? Would it be our party then too? Or does only Bernie Sanders get to sit outside your party and tell you to change? 😎

The next Sharknado movie is gonna be more believable.

Attempting to rig elections on his behalf. Turning the military on citizens. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out against his regime. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."

Fun fact: Both the far right (on Twitter) and the far left (on Bluesky) have now decided it would be a good idea to hunt down my address and publish it on these microblogging sites for stating utterly milquetoast positions. To what end, I do not pretend to know. Presumably, it is to scare me.

Trump is keeping his right hand below the table so the camera can't see it

I like this guy.

So, stupid me, I learned for the first time today that Lisa Cook is black. (I am the last pure reader of news, I guess.) And a drama that seemed off becomes clear. Of course the Trump administration would train its ire on the black lady. The racism makes it all make sense.

FINALLY! People in Georgetown and Dupont Circle can wear watches again.

Trump: "A lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator."

I'd also like to report that someone (not the person who posted my home address) went to the bowels of the internet to find a clip of me on Newsmax. They angrily charged that I was "on Newsmax!!!" What they didn't say is that my argument on Newsmax was that voters should oppose Trump vigorously.

This speech was amazing. I was able to hear it live in its entirety. Please, Democrats: I beg you! Talk exactly like Gov. Pritzker all the time. The thing at issue in America is not privilege, Overton Windows, body shaming or, for God's sake, "food insecurity." It's democracy and our way of life.

Today I have come back to this dumb website after a weekend trip to find myself called a liberal Zionist. I guess my work at being a museum-quality exemplar of centrism and decency is now complete. At last. I can move on to other equally laudable goals.

"intentionally causing death" is called "war" (and sometimes, "war crimes") but the genocide convention is about intentionally trying to eradicate a group, not just intentially hurting or killing them. (By that larger definition, Allied policy vs Germany in 1918 was genocide.)

I want to point out that so many of these goofballs mention killed journalists. Killing journalists in a war zone definitely is not genocide or ethnic cleansing. "They're bombing cities and THEY'RE EVEN KILLING JOURNALSISTS!" It's remarkable. Journalism is not some clergy.

"I have now stalked you and I agree with some of your positions but not others, so I am really confused. You need to do better!"

Me: Israel and the United States are not participating in genocide. This entire website, apparently: YOU'RE A GENOCIDE DENIER! Me: Yes. See above This entire website: [Posts my photo for some reason]

I guess there's a general belief on this microblogging website that, under some international body's law, war itself is definitionally genocide and ethnic cleansing. That's amazing. It's hard to fathom how lazy and uneducated you have to be to reach this level of obvious ignorance.