I’d never seen this before. It’s really something.

I remember telling him over and over again how fucking brave and cool this interview was, going onto Jay Leno's show just to eviscerate him for stealing Conan's show back. I told him I learned a lot from it and wanted to do stuff like this. He was just very kind about it.

Yeah, Kimmel is back. And Trump made him much stronger. This was excellent. 410K views on YouTube in the first 30 minutes. youtu.be/c1tjh_ZO_tY

The Kimmel monologue was 18 minutes of extraordinary, raw television that will be hated by the people who wanted him off the air for good. Trump and Brendan Carr lost this one as badly as it's possible to lose.

I have to be real with you guys, on some level I’m genuinely going to miss this crazy sonuvabitch

You guys do yourself a favor and look at what Eric Adams wore to Rosh Hashanah services at the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation

This is delusional but you don’t have to read the whole thing. Boils down to: he’s shutting down the government because he thinks he’s a king.

Isaac Chotiner has invited me to sample some delicious Amontillado wine and I don’t know guys but I think I’m going to come out of this interview seeming like *quite* the wine expert

Exciting news: this Thursday, September 25, I make my @nyphilharmonic.bsky.social debut as an arranger — at their opening night gala! My friend and collaborator Cecile McLorin Salvant will be singing my arrangements of “With Every Breath I Take,” “Barbara Song,” and “Being Alive.”

This entire rampage from Trump yesterday is horrifying. But there's good news in here: He's flailling. He thought Kirk's death was going to be this huge boost. Instead, he keeps declining in the polls and he's grasping at straws. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

Get in losers, we’re grieving

Republican willing to acknowledge that Trump was president in 2020 challenge [metaphysically impossible]

Trump got up at Charlie Kirk's funeral and said Charlie didn't hate his opponents, but I do. I hate my opponent.

Brett Kavanaugh's imagination v. reality, a potentially infinite series:

but for some reason we stopped calling them weird

The thing about the first time the FBI catches you on camera receiving a $50,000 bribe is it's definitely not the first time you've received a $50,000 bribe.

So: Fascism is bad The First Amendment is good Genocide is an actual fucking crime And also: It's appalling to be in 2025 where each of these is not, in fact, taken as part of the baseline shared reality anymore

Nice post you got there, it'd be a shame if I deliberately missed your point so I could be tedious about it

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

My contribution here is that a lot of people can't/won't believe that anything out of the ordinary is happening and this group is more important to far right power than the far right minority. Idk how to break through to these people, but kumbaya with fascists is the exact opposite.

What's astonishing isn't that he doesn't know what Cambodia and Armenia are, it's that he consistently thinks he has ended wars without ever doing anything or speaking to anyone about them. He thinks his mere presence in the world causes entire populations to lay down arms in reverence to Him.

Be fair. He also told us he stopped the war between Armenia and Cambodia. No-one has ever done that before. Everyone is saying so.

they get mad when you quote Charlie Kirk. they get mad when you don't quote Charlie Kirk. they are mad at the sum total of human knowledge.

Is this the personal liberties or the free markets

Fascism has been very rough on me in all the expected ways. But the most unexpected way is that more and more I find myself thinking explicitly and unironically in terms of Platonic ideals like Truth and Justice and Goodness. Not where I thought I'd be in the year 2025

I’m worried it can still get stupider

disney adults showing up like the end of avengers endgame

LMAO WUT

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

i will concede that if you want to influence other people addicted to X, X is worth using. but if you want to influence the actual public, text-based social media is a fool's errand.

Trump administration cuts SNAP to pay for upper-class tax cut, proposes remedy of stopping studies of food insecurity www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/trum...

I’ve enjoyed this group project 🙂

Disney has lost nearly $4 Billion in three days from combined stock price collapse and cancelled subscriptions.

100% bad about him would still be free speech.

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.

"We spent six years thinking about a fascist takeover of a galaxy far, far away. Six years thinking about ordinary beings as an authoritarian regime comes in for the kill. Many people saw parallels between Andor and the real world. I see them as well, particularly in the events of the last week."

As someone who has followed this discourse closely, this has been a thing for time out of mind. Centirst pundits are always urging Dems to sell out on abortion when it's their *most* popular culture war issue, and it makes even less sense given the public opinion shift post-Dobbs

Truly, the voice of a generation.

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!

95 House Democrats just voted in favor of a GOP resolution titled, "Honoring the life and legacy of Charles 'Charlie' James Kirk." www.govtrack.us/congress/vot...

So if you ask yourself, “will the tech companies put up with this? Why won’t they fight against it?”, the answer is that they will focus their energies on staying on the regime’s good side, so they can get an exception.

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

this is something you just have to live with if you are even barely well-known online; people make up elaborate stories about you in their heads. it will always happen and you cannot give a shit about it, only stomp on it if they try to spread these weird tales to anybody you actually know.

The MAGA lie is that Kimmel's firing wasn't a threat to free speech because it was ABC that decided to fire him. But ABC only made that decision after threats of frivolous regulatory persecution by the FCC.

IDK fam, are we ready for this?