We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

This is one of the smartest things anyone's ever said about a Stephen King story, and might be a truly key insight into what makes his stuff work (or not!).

Oof: the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics is seeking sanctions against attorney Kelly Lynn for filing a TRO/injunction motion against the agency using AI-hallucinated cases: www.oscn.net/dockets/GetC...

The Butlerian Jihad will begin with Steve Earle destroying the Nashville bosses’ “HayI” app in a mashup of Devil Went Down to Georgia and the legend of John Henry (with a little of that classic Star Trek Kirk-talking-the-evil-supercomputer-into-killing-itself bit).

Blazed through Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres over the last week. Fantastic. Dark and earthy and terrifying. Reminded me of The Secret History. Top shelf.

Gabriela Michalczuk "Final Exams," 2025 Oil on canvas 150 x 90 cm

straight line from Alyosha Karamazov to Valentine Michael Smith to Kenneth Parcell

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

What are the Thanksgiving movies (besides Planes, Trains and Last Waltz)?

Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner, Charlie Brown.

You should have to hold a special license to attempt certain left turns in Oklahoma City.

Unstoppable force meets extremely movable object.

Tell me you have never read Hunter S. Thompson without telling me you have never read Hunter S. Thompson.

I love the Dropkick Murphys because "Irish-American" + "gen X" + "punk rocker who's been at it for 30 years" should be the formula for the most racist guy alive but instead Ken Casey is constantly giving interviews where he's like "fascists are demons from hell and that's where they belong"

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK)

Pope Leo's speech about movies has got me thinking again about something I think about a lot, and that's the sharp decline in the number of active movie theaters in rural Oklahoma over the course of my life.

Death by Lightning an outrageously good time. What if we put a bunch of our best dudes in deep-track American history?

Edgar Wright’s The Running Man

Totally defensible to argue The Isley Brothers are the greatest rock and roll band of all time. Check out the dual cover “Ohio/Machine Gun” off 1971’s Givin’ It Back.

imagine yelling at a thermometer "No it isn't!"

I try to make this point whenever I can, but not a single Beatle was 30 years old yet when the band broke up.

"The single determining criterion for involuntary commitment is danger. Is the defendant a danger to himself or to others. You think you got the horses for that? Well good luck and God bless, but I'll tell you this: The last place you want to see me is in court."

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

If they gave me Bond, and they should, I’d do it like True Detective. Young Bond story in the 60s linking up with Aging Bond story in the 80s linking up with Old Bond frame in the 00s.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

If I'm reading the news right, after 10 years of waiting we've finally learned that the Trump health care plan is to liquidate Obamacare subsidies to pay each citizen-shareholder a dividend of $2,000.

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

finance guys on twitter are like "can't believe zohran hired lina khan. she wants to make it illegal to bundle memecoin futures into junk stocks and sell them to public worker pension plans. the public won't stand for it."

It’s often overlooked (for all the other amazing stuff going on) but Todd’s comic timing in this clip is top notch.

no AI bailout

The GA Public Service Commission results last night + the recent reporting on the OK Corporation Commission's disastrous abdication of their regulatory mandate = a real opening for a Dem or Indy reformer next year when Commissioner Hiett's seat is up.

I haven't seen any reporting on this, but the proponents of the Oklahoma recreational marijuana amendment withdrew the petition yesterday. Today was the deadline to deliver signatures, and the withdrawal request said they didn't collect enough.

The makeup and prosthetics in the new Springsteen movie are incredible, especially on the horrifying Chickenman. The beak! The fleshy feathers! You can’t even tell it’s Richard Kind.

Quick notes on Electric NE: 1. You only think you’ve heard Bruce howl like a lonesome coyote in the desert (Johnny 99) 2. You’ve never in your life heard a song like this Downbound Train 3. Something vaguely Michael Mann-y about this NE itself 4. This Atlantic C. is incredibly, fascinatingly bad

Electric Nebraska in 50 minutes

@dustinillingworth.bsky.social in the last pages of rereading The Long Walk and thought of you. Hope you’re well, man.

Lib/progressive kids aren’t given anything nearly as concrete as originalism in law school, but I think constitutional history supports a theory I call “liberation jurisprudence” which simply notices 2 things: 1) the highest authority under the Constitution are Article V bodies and…

Our two futures: the Judicial Reform Act of 2029, the Executive Branch Reform Act of 2029, the Election Reform Act of 2029, etc., or, the Constitutional Restoration Act of 2030-or-40-something.

SNL sketch where notorious time travelers (Doc/Marty, Bill/Ted, etc.) infiltrate the Constitutional Convention to propose increasingly specific clauses about executive power.

What do I know and I'm not saying it's a magic bullet or anything like that but it sure seems to me that Dems should run hard on the Argentina bailout. Not anywhere near the worst thing Trump has done, but i suspect it's unusually clarifying.

Alyosha killed the old man.

watching the game at the Texas Chili Parlor in Austin

The wise man: “That’s illegal.” The fool: “That’s wrong!”

The great British novelist Jilly Cooper died this week. www.bbc.com/news/article...

It’s going to be very useful for historians trying to make sense of 2025 that One Battle After Another and The Long Walk were in theaters at the exact same time.

Jesus Christ The Long Walk

The Outlaw Country satellite radio station is doing an all-Waylon Jennings weekend and sweet Jesus, what a dude.

Jim Downey’s feature acting credits are hysterical: Wayne’s World 2, Happy Gilmore 2, Billy Madison, Dirty Work, There Will Be Blood, and One Battle After Another.