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This just in from Sinclair: "Beginning Tuesday night Sinclair will be preempting 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' across our ABC affiliate stations and replacing it with news programming. Discussions with ABC are ongoing as we evaluate the show's potential return."

Every press conference is like a Who's Line is it Anyway challenge for him. "Ok, Mr. President, the theme is the harms of vaccines. And you'll be doing it in the style of Barry White..."

OMFG lol

This is incredible news. BSG is one of the greatest shows ever made, and there's nobody better to write the definitive work on it.

This makes so much more sense than the health care strategy they have been talking about, which is a) a demand that actually helps Republicans politically if implemented and b) is totally untethered from the ongoing demolition of democracy

@gelliottmorris.com: "many people fundamentally underestimate how unpopular Trump is." Trump is currently underwater on all key issues, something our corporate elites should consider before capitulating to him.

Just because the rapture is rapturing again, I thought I'd share a piece of writing from my former life, which is about Clarence Larkin, whose bonkers, kind of beautiful, illustrations helped convince people that the rapture was a thing that might happen. modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

I've been reading a lot of late 80s/early 90s popular writing about men and feminism for the book [DAD A POP HISTORY] and it's frankly shocking how frequently writers posit Alan Alda specifically as the ideal archetype of contemporary masculinity.

cartoonists handing the same 5 dollar bill around the Small Press Expo but it's the entire economy somehow

Tylenol does not cause autism but *not* taking Tylenol can cause women to be truly miserable during pregnancy so you can see why the GOP is so gung-ho about this line of argument.

i think its stupid we have minigolf and golf but not megagolf

Incredible detail to have the scummiest guy on TASK have a Flyers lock screen.

Jennifer Lawrence, in Silver Linings Playbook: And what show aired on HBO every single week that the Eagles have won this season? That's right, it's TASK, starring Mark Ruffalo and Tom Pelphrey.

This last bit especially — Wesley Morris made a similar point on Pablo Torre last year. Review aggregators presume that, in an ideal world, every viewer would read every review. They've convinced us there's an inefficiency. But choosing a critic you trust is as impt as choosing a film to watch.

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

This article is paywalled but I hope it mentions that in the past 5 years: her talk show ran for two additional seasons, until she ended it of her own accord in 2022; she had two NBC game shows; she had a 2024 Netflix special, which is the source of the “kicked out of show business” line.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Very good reporting/analysis from @tvmojoe.bsky.social on KImmel/Disney/ABC that provides real answers to many of the "Why don't they just..." questions. www.vulture.com/article/bob-...

"The risk is likely relatively small but currently not well understood," feels like a mission statement for the RFK HHS.

Paige Bueckers, the People's Rookie of the Year.

I made this image, apparently, eight years ago. Holds up.

In November I wrote about Trump’s obsession with the golden age of late night TV for @flaminghydra.com through the lens of his friendship with Joan Rivers. He hasn’t been invited back since 2016, but was once a regular; he appeared on Letterman more than 30 times. flaminghydra.com/the-trump-er...

This makes Rand Paul folding even more hilariously embarrassing for him. I'm sorry, you lost the "have a spine" contest to Ted Cruz?

The official lyric video for an early song that did not really have real lyrics, but this works pretty well. Speaking of Radio Free Europe, visit REMHQ (store.remhq.com) to order your copy of the 10” translucent orange vinyl with proceeds benefiting RFE/RL. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_rs...

More raves for Lil' Eyeball Monster. That octopus creature is getting an invite to the Met Gala, a pilot at HBO, seen canoodling with Jenna Ortega.

"Their job is to like and subscribe and amplify and support, and to await the call to hop into the crypt with their president and everything he has hoarded away for himself." @davidjroth.bsky.social with the good stuff defector.com/the-united-s...

This 'skill' will be obsolete by 2027. This is like going to school to learn cheat codes for Elder Scrolls IV. Might as well teach how to fax. The demand is going to be for people with critical thinking skills, ethics, who can research.

i’ve watched beto o’rourke do this quite a few times in different parts of texas over the years, and while it’s always ultimately turned out safe, it involves walking past a good number of people with ar-15s and never accomplishes what ezra klein seems to think it is supposed to

Streaming blew regularity to pieces. It's time streamers re-embrace it My newsletter this week. Read! Subscribe! It’s free!

SCIENCE spent two years studying whether ChatGPT could write news briefs, and they just concluded that the AI briefs did not meet their editorial standards. Imagine if every institution that has blanket-implemented this tech took the time to figure out if it worked. www.science.org/content/blog...

just reorient culture, bro. that’s all we have to do: reorient the culture. just take “the culture of the united states” and reorient it, basically

Headlines on the Bloomberg Terminal from Air Force One: *TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME *TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES *TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

KD being legendary as usual.

I mean, Ezra Klein is not covering himself in glory this week, but, credit where credit is due. You gotta call out Ross Douthat for being freaky when he starts acting freaky.

NEW: Republicans have advanced a constitutional amendment to basically kill direct democracy in Missouri. Since 2020, citizens have used initiatives to increase minimum wage, expand Medicaid, protect abortion. All those measures would have failed under the GOP rules:

It's gonna feel so good when President Pritzker formally installs Adam Friedland as the new host of the (now state-run) Late Show on CBS in 2029.

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.

Once more on Van Hollen watch...

For no reason at all, just thinking about when Norm MacDonald went on Letterman after he was fired from SNL, and Norm has to look up what "quisling" means in the dictionary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gRB...

Of fucking COURSE

Just for the record I was saying this before they canceled Jimmy Kimmel lol 🤪

Disney paid more than a quarter of a billion dollars to make season 2 of ANDOR and apparently did not watch it.

I usually believe in "slow news" and tend to write about things the next day, but this Kimmel shit is such a mess, I put this together quickly. Key points: 1. Most people are pretending Kimmel said stuff he didn't. 2. SCOTUS just last year said that you can't do shit like this.

This 2024 intvw is illuminating about the performance Bargatze put in on Sunday. I was tempted to say that he seemed like a guy who doesn't care about or doesn't like TV, but I think it's more that he thinks TV doesn't care about him. Weird choice still. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

It physically nauseates me to see trade reporters cover the potential Paramount-Warner merger as mere asset shuffling and not a fucking death knell for this industry. It's absolutely maddening to see short sighted, hateful ghouls sell off the thing you built your life around for parts.

It’s striking to hear Ben Shapiro, when asked about the Obama moments that radicalized the right, offer up his commentary on Henry Louis Gates’ arrest, Trayvon’s killing, and on the Ferguson protests when put side-by-side with his actually thoughtful and relatively tame words.