I'm a 4 star general and I love to fly halfway across the world to watch a stand up performance from the weekend Fox and Friends host who happens to be opening for the host of Celebrity Apprentice. Also they are my bosses.

there’s a gas in my car

Steely Dan

Negativity bias has a bunch of people immediately gravitating to believing the worst about folks. YET in reality, most people are pretty decent and are trying to live their lives. Folks buy into the "people are terrible" hype and that only serves other terrible people.

shit ain’t over til it’s over

Titaniumy Dan

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

I don’t want anyone to die by gun violence, but that’s why I actually advocate for gun control, unlike the guy who got shot

It’s really funny that you can amass hundreds of billions of dollars, and still Be desperately uncool and dull. I know that’s gotta hurt.

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

Congressional Dem leadership: uhhh bipartisanship is still good Former guys who used to work for the Bush admin: comrades, counterrevolutionary and fascistic forces surround us. We must use worker power to SMASH this reactionary state into smithereens!

Inadvertently paused Miss Rachel looking like she’s staring down the opposing bench after draining a 3

I guess I’m a moderate voter in that I don’t have any problem with Gavin Newsom doing the Trump impression on social media and making fun of how embarrassing it is but I also believe fuck Gavin Newsom

putting aside the trans rights issues specifically (lol), I think part of what has me so frustrated with the Newsom thing is that Pritzker, Walz, and Zohran are putting on clinics for a popular, progressive politics and we’re wasting time talking about this used car salesman ass goblin.

A reckoning is coming between the wing of the Democratic Party that is willing and able to confront the rise of American authoritarianism with the strategy and tactics that it demands and those who are not. And it is obvious to me which side of that fight the party's base is going to be on.

A snake like Newsom standing up for basic American freedoms and against Trump's assault on our country is how the system is supposed to work, channeling soulless ambition into a productive path

Introduce yourself with the last five concerts you attended + Alabama Shakes + Dead & Company + Young Gun Silver Fox + L'Imperatrice + Lettuce + GZA

(low-key think this is also what the 2022 layoffs and the gigantic fight over WFH mandates were about to: it's putting employees back in their place, even at loss of value, because a lot of people were alarmed at the sense of losing control over staff that their money "entitled" them to)

I say this a lot, but it bears repeating: when Trump tears down mediocre institutions, we will replace them with radical institutions. Our vision of government was constrained by norms. If those norms are gone? Fine, those norms are gone, and with them the constraints are gone. LFG.

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

It was just six episodes, but pound for pound POLICE SQUAD! was the funniest thing ever to air on TV.

Glad to be partnering with the ACLU in my attempt to hold whoever was in charge of firing me responsible. It’s important, especially during these particular times, that we fight for our rights (and not just to party)

To tell you how close AI is to taking over people's jobs, the tech company I work for is having to force workers to use internal AI tools by making it a performance metric, and everyone's like, "I guess I'll just ask it what to make for lunch 100 times a day," because it's not actually useful.

I’m digging this thread both because it’s fascinating and IMO completely on-point, but also because I remember when the Mariah fans CAME AT ME on Twitter for saying while Mariah is a technically superior vocalist Beyoncé is a much more interesting and important artist and I’m right dammit.

be mad at and try to fix bad things but embrace good things. don’t be a miserable shithead

God I want a fire-breathing, payback tour Democrat. I want someone to swear the Nazis and oligarchs are going to fucking Leavenworth. I want someone to understand there’s so much power in a government that helps those in need and punishes the thieves who try to stop them.

The better you are at a thing, the more "AI" will be a drag on your time, because it's operating at a lower level of skill than you are, and you have to fix what it does, rather than just do what you already know how to do.

I am a cynical dickhead but i actually have a much higher view of the american public than our centrist consultants and pundits do and "people won't love masked armed agents of the state violently kidnapping harmless people once they see it" wasn’t a hard call.

I can hold my own on pretty much any pop culture topic -- movies, sports, music, etc -- but as soon as it turns to reality TV, I have absolutely nothing. I might as well be Amish.

Your reminder that anyone who places Kobe Bryant in the top five basketball players of all time is a fundamentally unserious person who does not understand basketball

David Byrne once approached me when I was working at the front desk at the Driskill Hotel in Austin to let me know that the television set in the bedroom of the Governor’s Suite was not working, and that the lightbulb by the bed was out. I called maintenance.

It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling. Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.

elon and trump are meeting outside uniqlo on sunday 5pm. 3251 20th Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94132

oh is this just a distraction? is that it? a distraction? for rubes? are you the smartest little birthday boy in the whole applebees? is that it? are you three steps ahead? with your mind chess? in your little birthday boy suit? do you have it all figured out? are you mommy’s special buddy?

Explaining private equity to a non-American: so you’ve heard of pancreatic cancer, yes?

I feel like we're trapped in this cycle of collective punishment and I do not like it

vocal opposition to democratic gerontocracy is nifty because it serves a constructive purpose — passing the torch — and a political one: signaling independence from The Democrats.

Most political commentators are too polite to say this, but Trump won because of his appeal to the most important voting bloc: morons. If the Democrats want to win again the answer isn’t becoming more left or more right, it’s coming up with dumb policies that morons like

if your grand approach to politics is bloodless poll-testing so that you're always aligned with wherever public opinion happens to be, you've already lost

We need a leftist Joe Rogan and a tiny LeBron James and a Jennifer Lopez who can sing in tune. PRONTO. These are the top priorities of the DNC and we’ll stop at nothing. You have your orders. Spare no expense.

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

I do appreciate that we’ve got some new and super high-resolution photos of a Southern slave plantation burning in 2025 really helps me better visually imagine what it’d have been like to watch Sherman burn em’ down at the time, and I appreciate that

Sharing so you can block it

Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins

Did someone say conclave? m.youtube.com/watch?v=AR0X...

Good morning! It’s a perfect day to realize that the politics you’re used to are gone and never coming back so you can either think about what you want the future to look like and try to build toward that or keep trying to wishcast the country back to 1998 and be part of the problem.

It is a little weird to me countries aren’t more aggressively, formally trying to take advantage of the U.S. science brain drain. Once in a lifetime opportunity to buy low on Non-Dumbass Americans with PhDs who just wanna look into microscopes and quietly cure ass cancer as our country eats shit.

Repost with your favorite James Bond (Wrong answers only)