I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

“Listening to Bruce Springsteen” — man, he really knows how to shiv Trump, doesn’t he?

This is great piece about the contradictions of unitary executive theory. I’ve always struggled to understand why powerful people take it seriously and the obvious answer is that it takes powerful people seriously.

We still need folks to call Sinclair and Nexstar affiliates

An hour after it was posted on YouTube, the opening of Jimmy Kimmel’s return show is approaching 1 million views. m.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

Here is Jimmy Kimmel’s full monologue from tonight. Jokes on FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, Trump, Tylenol, etc.

I'm going to keep at this: the Democrats would do themselves a huge favor by planning post-Trump retribution now, and communicating those plans to the nation. 1/

You'll notice Charlie Kirk is not mentioned

Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke."

Okay I'll tell a quick story. A million years ago, I used to write for Esquire's website. I wrote a nice thing about Jimmy Kimmel that was almost certainly illegible trash. He then followed me on Twitter and, ever the Weird Twitter purveyor, invited me to meet him after a show after a goofy tweet.

Figured it out. Worth staying up wayyyy past my bedtime. He said this all happened because “Trump can’t take a joke.” That’ll hurt the thin-skinned vulgarian.

Is anyone else having trouble logging on to Hulu? 👀

Find the Nexstar station nearest to you, note the ads during the local news and contact the advertisers List here: www.nexstar.tv/stations/

[new Isaac Chotiner interview]

“Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.”

lmao. see, people hate on "defund the police" because both political parties dragged it, but they still support what it actually means

"I think this current Supreme Court is committed not to leftist liberalism by any means but, basically, to liberalism. They all believe in freedom of speech. They’re all highly committed to freedom of religion. Pluralism is something they embrace." -- Sunstein to Chotiner

I've been vocally, publicly, on the side of shame since 2021, when people said not to shame people for breaking covid rules. The alternative to shame is criminilization which... has problems and often doesn't work for stuff like this

"Where Nixon had to contend with a Supreme Court that rejected his claim of absolute immunity and a Congress that stood ready to impeach him, the other branches of govt these days have no interest in reining in Trump. He can do a Watergate every week safe in the knowledge that no one will stop him."

Uh, I don't think it's those countries who are going to hell.

RFK Jr: The Amish don't have autism The Amish:

Goebbles or Miller?

J. Kagan dissent: "Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars.Still more, it should not be used,as it also has been,to transfer government authority from Congress to the President, and thus to reshape the Nation’s separation of powers."

That is not a denial.

Our job is now to shift the emphasis to the second syllable: anti-FA.

Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022) West Virginia v. EPA (2022) Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (2023) Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (2024) ...and now they're coming for Humphrey's Executor (1935) (!). Unprecedented lack of respect for precedent. And the people.

SCOTUS does not care about the country. They only care about accruing power around a Republican president so he can never lose it.

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

VT just closed its religious studies department.

who is the secretary of DHS? who is the secretary of DHS? who is the secretary of DHS? who is the secretary of DHS? who is the secretary of DHS? who is the secretary of DHS? who is the secretary of DHS? who is the secretary of DHS? WITSODHS???????? nymag.com/intelligence...

This is...incredible?????

The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

DO NOT WATCH.

DO NOT WATCH.

Fun story this morning. I spoke with Curtis Evans, the retired Marine in the viral photo below who took part in the anti-ICE protest at Broadview. He's a thoughtful guy, well read and with a dry sense of humor. Story @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-...

Includes Tom Hanks, Jennifer Aniston, and Lin Manuel-Miranda but letting gay people know it also includes Meryl Streep, Pedro Pascal, Lena Dunham, Jane Krakowski, Kirsten Dunst, and Parker Posey

In one of his testimonials for the documentary "Finding the Money," Randall Wray explicitly says that we should have higher taxes on the super rich simply because they shouldn't have so much money and it's bad for society. Not because we need the money, but because they shouldn't have so much.

shit ain’t over til it’s over

Gotta say I’m not a big fan of 2 Jim Crow 2 Furious

Get in losers, we’re grieving

I just want to reiterate this ⬇️, particularly for myself, as I scroll my Bluesky feed.

"What she represents is very serious, which is the continued attempt to eliminate the white population in this country."--Charlie Kirk

Murphy is a much better communicator than Chuck Schumer. "Don’t raise people’s premiums, don’t break the law, and you might get our votes" is a terrific message.

literally 🫶

dark woke is coming