Hollywood has been really quiet, but there are some rumblings

Holy shit

Ezra Klein’s recent guest Ben Shapiro, doing politics the right way.

shit ain’t over til it’s over

In 2018 Trump called for drug dealers the summarily executed, like they do (he claimed) in China. These recent summary executions in the Caribbean seem to be delivering on that stated intention. youtu.be/G3lK_Znr4wM?...

Howard Stern says he feels for Disney, but he’s canceling Disney+. “I’m trying to say with my pocketbook that I do not support what they’re doing with Jimmy.” x.com/sternshow/st...

Wishing everyone a great Fall.

Not sure it's possible to find a more canonical example of this meme

This has been the situation since at least 2020, and it’s hard to imagine it changing anytime soon. It’s a cage match. It’s an existential fight. And there may have to be compromises to fight fascism.

This guy knows exactly what he is doing.

I admire everyone who canceled the NY Times but there are other kinds of activism too (doing ANTIFA as my first word on days when it’s in Spelling Bee)

Speaking of Harrison Butker, I am just thinking about @sallyjenx.bsky.social's column about him last year. Masterpiece stuff. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/...

*mournfully shooting off a tshirt cannon into the sadly cheering funeral crowd*

Did Trump win in November because he showed grace and empathy to people who voted for Joe Biden in 2020? Politics is not an Afterschool Special. You put out a strong message about what's wrong, propose a compelling policy agenda, hope the economy cooperates and that's it. None of this mush.

hmm

It's like they made a clone of Goebbels but somehow the volume got stuck on "screeching banshee"

Patrick Mahomes is still great, but the Chiefs make it harder and harder to tell

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

Get in losers, we’re grieving

it's cool that the UK and US are in a direct competition to commit economic suicide

I'm just gonna keep this one handy in the drawer for the day he dies.

Bonkers insane

The next few years are going to be littered with millions of untold stories like this. Mothers watching their babies die of starvation because Musk took a woodchopper to USAID www.cnn.com/2025/09/21/a...

ads for ICE might be the most evil thing I've seen on TV

FIVE HOURS of Charlie Kirk Memorial in the midst of an NFL FOOTBALL SUNDAY??? lmfao this seals it, conservatives gave up football in the national divorce. the gridiron is left-coded now

This is a good summary.

It’s a fundamentally broken technology that will make people stupider

David Rose, the police officer and Afghanistan veteran with a wife and 2 small children, was murdered by a white, right wing extremist man a month ago over antivaccine conspiracies pushed by RFK Jr. and this administration. He did not get recognition from political leaders or even much news coverage

Social media needs to be held liable for so many of its evils

Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

Oh my god

And also a gutter racist!

Sean Speer is a clown. MAID represents the very *core* of what the Charter should protect. If you dont believe that people should have autonomy over end of life decisions, you dont believe in individual liberty or freedom.

Step 1: Cut funding for food stamps Step 2: Stop measuring hunger Step 3: There's no evidence cuts to food stamps led to a rise in hunger www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

in retrospect it may have been a mistake to bet our national space exploration ambitions on a drugged-out maniac and his big dumb metal rocket www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

One thing that's absolutely f---ing unbearable on this site is that if you dare to point out that Trump is not actually successfully oppressing all of us on every conceivable front, that not *all* is irretrievably lost, a parade of doomers materializes to denounce you. It's counterproductive. Stop.

something something political violence

These folks have exactly one strategy: Tack right on basic rights. It hasn’t worked. It’s allowed the GOP to continue moving right and go full on cuckoo bananas. But they don’t want to try anything else. It is beyond their comprehension that anyone would vote for a lefty who stands firm.

ah hell yeah, Free Shoes Day

Beautiful, beautiful.

no you’re crying

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Not just a crisis for journalism but for civil-military relations: can't have civilian oversight if you don't have a free press (especially with this Pentagon).

Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.

The first amendment demands that at least 5% of us write stories about how Carson Wentz is actually good, for free speech purposes

me on Sunday morning after a Saturday of shuttling the kids to/from activities followed by drinking three (3) light beers

In fairness, this could have been written about 100 times this year alone, but it does seem to be worsening

Jimmy Kimmel is just one comedian, but they are trying to jam all of society into an airless MAGA box; they are trying to tell you what you can say, what you can think, what you can laugh at. Don’t let them. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Our own cultural revolution