it's Saturday, and it's time for "this week in stupid: November 15 edition" — Jon Voight panics, Donny gets manic, and so much more... thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

NEWS FLASH FOR DIPSHITS LIKE ALAN DERSH: UNDERAGE GIRLS ARE UNDERAGE GIRLS. STOP TRYING TO CONVINCE US THAT SOME KINDS OF ASSAULTS ARE "OK." IT JUST MAKES YOU SOUND LIKE THE VILE DEGENERATES YOU ARE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO ANOTHER ANGRY POST, LINK IS HERE: bit.ly/4nUwPfH

Amazon To Pay $2.5 Billion Settlement For Tricking Prime Customers

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Joy Reid. Karen Attiah. Gene Robinson. Jonathan Capehart. There are lots of others. Circumstances differ. But really sad to see new organizations not keeping super-talented Black staffers. The news industry spent decades talking about diversity, improved some from 2014-2020 and is now going back.

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

Matthew Dowd was saying facts when he got fired from MSNBC but Brian Kilmeade wants to murder homeless people and that's just an oopsie

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it won’t be vichy canada, it would be more like anschluss canada

I am going to say BRAVO to E.Jean.Carroll Take a moment to listen $83 MILLION WILL BE GIVEN AWAY TO WHAT PISSES Trump off @ejeancarroll.bsky.social

There were a lot of folks here insisting yesterday that weather service cuts had no impact on Texas flood deaths. There’s zero way you can draw conclusions like hours later. Important follow up here. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

Two years ago Poilievre implied in the House of Commons that Trudeau is a pedophile who sexually preyed on students in his capacity as a teacher. Last year in the House of Commons in a debate about wildfires, Poilievre said the government had started them. Why on earth let him back in?

Hospitals are closing and concentration camps are opening. trump's America.

On FAMILIAR TOUCH 👵 "surprisingly effective" - Gilbert Seah On LAST TAKE 🎥 "heartbreaking and infuriating" - @lizbraun.bsky.social torontofilmcritics.com/features/tfc...

Bravo!! NAACP The way I see it. He is no President "Waste of Time" "Won't give a platform to fascism"

The leaders of North America: Canada's PM Carney and Mexico's Sheinbaum at the #G7 Summit

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

Ask your doctor what treatment the supreme court decided is right for you.

Illinois has enshrined protections to meet this very moment. In a time of increasing overreach and hateful rhetoric, it's more important than ever to reaffirm our commitment to the rights and dignity of the LGBTQ+ community. You have a home here always.

This week in movies! On #TheFinalReckoning "doesn’t quite match the summer-popcorn insanity of the last one" - @chrisknightfilm.bsky.social "an interminable slog" - @lizbraun.bsky.social "clunky and confusing" - @jacksonweaver.bsky.social torontofilmcritics.com/features/tfc...

Shameful, @paramountnewsbr.bsky.social

It’s clear: Trump and Musk want to make it harder and harder for the elderly and disabled to utilize Social Security. They don’t care how much pain they cause. Their ultimate goal is to make Social Security dysfunctional, to privatize it and to let Wall Street take it over.

I took this photo last summer outside Dachau, the first concentration camp, located outside Munich in Germany. Did you know that it started as a prison for people who disagreed with the government?

This all alone is an open-and-shut cause for impeachment, yes there are dozens of others but sometimes it's clarifying to just look at one

You’re all going to feel like idiots for mocking this when SCOTUS lets him fire the governor of California in 12-18 months

A federal judge ordered the White House on Tuesday to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events, affirming on First Amendment grounds that the government cannot punish the news organization for the content of its speech.

apnews.com/article/trum... AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists

If the agent of an embittered KGB officer somehow won the US presidency and entered into the office bent on destroying the USA in its national influence, network of alliances, and the American people’s quality of life, what would he be doing differently?

“I’m almost certain that the goal is privatization,” one 15-year veteran of the Social Security Administration tells the Daily Beast.

He signed our economic death spiral. 104% tariffs on China.

Illegal attempts to access IRS data was an article of impeachment against Nixon.

We left this interview with Sen. Booker more inspired than ever. Listen now on the MeidasTouch Podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1yBH...

A judge is giving the Trump regime 24 hours to produce even a shred of evidence justifying the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

104% tariffs on Chinese goods go into effect tomorrow. Let's see how Fox News is covering the story.

LISTEN to Barack Obama: "It's up to all of us to fix this. The most important office in this democracy is the ordinary person." Freedom is not a given — we have to fight for it!

Thanks to @lizbraun.bsky.social for an insightful review of the new TRINITY documentary, about the first nuclear test in 1945. awfj.org/blog/2025/02...

On CAN I GET A WITNESS? ☀️ "rewarding and full of heart" - @annebrodie.bsky.social "one very thought-provoking story" - @chrisknightfilm.bsky.social On OPUS 🎭 "Malkovich’s performance is one reason to see Opus" - @lizbraun.bsky.social torontofilmcritics.com/features/tfc...

On DARKEST MIRIAM 📖 "magical, mysterious and ultimately heartbreaking" - @lizbraun.bsky.social On VILLAGE KEEPER 🍁 "I enjoyed the performances, esp. Olunike Adeliyi" - Chris Knight On A WORKING MAN 💪 "stumbles by overloading on antagonists" - Thom Ernst torontofilmcritics.com/features/tfc...

This week in movies! On THE FRIEND 🐕 "an adult, philosophical feel-good film" - @annebrodie.bsky.social "Watts is absolutely wonderful" - @lizbraun.bsky.social "the dog steals the show" - Gilbert Seah torontofilmcritics.com/features/tfc...

Gang Initiate Forced To Peacefully Deescalate Conflict To Prove He Not A Cop theonion.com/gang-in...

We now know it was the latter.

Charlie has found his calling. Thank goodness for that.

Foreign tourism, by itself, accounts for like 1% of our yearly GDP. Places like Florida will get hit the hardest.

Good neighbours. Always. 🇨🇦🇺🇲

Trump pushes myths about "open borders” leading to spikes in fentanyl use. In reality, 80% of fentanyl traffickers at the border are U.S. citizens. Fighting the crisis means tackling demand—treatment, mental health, education. Facts matter. Read the latest fact-check from @joshlevs.bsky.social