happy “ask your in-laws if they’ve changed their minds yet” day to every Black person in an interracial marriage

marvel i dare you to make this superhero movie

A point from @marisakabas.bsky.social that should go in your most core user's manual of this era. "The Press" thinks people in power are good-intentioned and telling the truth not because of who the people are, but because *they are in power.*

I’m 90% sure this is a copy/paste from months ago? Too tired for new material - NOT A GOOD SIGN!

You have to admit, an incredible week for whatever chunk of the electorate wants *checks notes* uhhh “No on public broadcasting, Yes on regime change, No on Epstein files.”

kicking in football is an eternal drag on the sport. where else do you have 98% of the team work and then we toss a win or loss onto one guy who otherwise never plays?

Add Venezuela Regime Change to the list!

I still remember when Tony Dokoupil did a CBS This Morning segment on redlining where he: a) laid out how his white family benefited from redlining b) uncritically gobbled up his elder relatives' explanations that they had *no idea* there was racial discrimination going on

omg the prez is buying my two favorite rock-type pokemon

One of the best lines of the speech, hitting one of the central points of the next 2 years.

See, you all weren’t using the FULL quote, which was “Survive ‘til 25 [is over and it’s 2026].”

The London NYE fireworks were… insane. Olympics level.

"When it happens, Republicans will object (and you can only imagine the meltdown Trump himself will have on Truth Social). The response Dems give should be simple: *Too bad. We have the power now.* A strong message must be sent to the country and future generations that Trump will not be honored."

The revelation of who is desperate to solve America’s divide by simply forgiving all the bad guys is noteworthy. This as a bar is the most brain dead post-Trump-conservative-brain take: “Hey, they voted to reinstate segregation *legally* AKA the right way, give them credit!”

manifesting taking Bill Maher’s timeslot for 2026 the fans are clamoring for it

There’s still time for you to press play on It’s A Wonderful Life, watch the whole thing, and cry deeply. Perfect Christmas night. A heat check on how our humanity is running.

First Pope who’s going to spend tomorrow morning politely smiling and going, “Oh, another Bears jersey! Thank you!”

LOL

Not often you actually get to reference a piece of television “the government doesn’t want you to see,” but here we go:

Journalism was gutted into a shell of itself after selling out to big tech and private equity. Film/TV was gutted into a shell of itself after selling out to big tech and private equity. If you love something, the worst choice you can make is to sell it to someone who doesn’t love it at all.

The administration pretty openly put out a selectively redacted set of files as “Clinton Bait to stop you from asking where Trump is and why so many adult men are redacted” and it’s interesting to note which large news orgs are chomping down on that hook.

I've seen this flying around -- it's not an accident. Letterman used to do this too sometimes: just for fun, or out of boredom, or sometimes just as like an inside joke, late night staffs hosts will do the same joke over and over. Watch how Steve Higgins reacts the third time.

There's a series of things (like the ballroom, Gulf of America) that we're going to have to *undo* the moment this guy is out of office. And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.

We need an end-of-year game show where late night writers have to try to remember details from this year's stories. "Okay, for $200, give me the context of 'Do Not Repeat This Insight!'"

This guy comes up to me, this huge executive, super powerful guy, tears in his eyes, he says “Mr Iwinski, I need you to take this showrunner job. I know there are so many qualified white guys out there but I don’t care, I have to give this to you, sir. If it’s not black, I send it back.” True story!

Such an embarrassing indictment of our government top to bottom. The WH says they’re going to do a thing they legally can’t do… and you just go do it for them. If Trump demanded a book burning they’d have the gas cans filled within the hour. Why have laws when no one follows them?

I have discovered my marriage’s Spousal Sports Interest Limit and it is The Ashes.

FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times F: Not a 600% cut L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now

Again, this “we just need to talk” claptrap that’s permeated everyone from West Wing fanboys to faux-intellectual righties fundamentally ignores a moral reality, where someone has considered both positions, judged them by an immutable moral code, and come to their only acceptable conclusion.

That speech was a window into every single “Donald Trump talks to investors in his failing business” speech.

What are the ad rates?

FML we’re the Neimoidians.

The President of the United States believes stealth bombers are invisible to the naked eye. This is a belief he has repeated for almost a decade, on the record. No one asks him directly about it, no one prints it, he just keeps saying something that would get your grandpa’s keys taken away.

If there is a swing back to a sane democracy over the next half decade, the worst (and most likely, considering American history and milquetoast liberal attitudes) mistake that can be made is not stepping on bad guys’ necks hard enough.

“A French supermarket’s humble Christmas advert is doing something most global brands can only dream of: connecting deeply with millions of people around the world, without a single frame of generative AI.” What are you TALKING about?! Every global brand AI ad ends in outrage and pulling it offline

like his complaint is literally that there are people who believe in things, believe those things are right, and believe in those things regardless of whether they are popular.

They like Trump and want to help him. They have pre-written "THE COMEBACK KID" narratives ready to break out of he crosses back over 40% approval for a couple polls, not to report a narrative but to try and change it

Hawley 2028 is already brewing, folks!!! I've BEEN saying it!

Ten years ago.

Every so often I like what I read in the trades. See you next year, ATX Festival!

Starting the countdown until an AI video blows up on Facebook where Elsa says the real danger to Arendelle is men in women’s locker rooms.

If you enjoy Connecticut Public Radio, I’m doing The Wheelhouse’s annual live show tonight! (Aired later this month, I think!)

I love jokes. Every so often I do joke-writing workshops. There's one spot left for the workshop this Saturday - still time to get some joke practice in before forcing your poor family to listen to your wry observations about Christmas.

People keep talking about how the next Dem President can repair democracy but a depressingly likely result is that the next Dem President will spend years dealing defiant Trump appointees and burrowed Trumpists that the Supreme Court says they can't get rid of.

There is, of course, ~zero chance of this happening. Democratic insiders are going to listen to Ezra Douthglesias & run on some amazing, ambitious Do An Abundance Of Popularism policy agenda which will die in the Senate & at SCOTUS. And the far right authoritarian threat will still be here. Again.

F1 race was thrilling until the FIA stewards once again decided their WDC winner with absurd rulings (Yuki / Lando) and killed the drama. Now a snoozer to the end.

This is so cool!

watch in real time as a man tries to watch smart important things but then his kids need the tv or a marvel movie is on cable

Rome, you were much better to me than you were to this guy’s car.