I'm going to invent a way that rich people can help fund the government -- maybe some kind of annual payment as a fraction of income.

It's March 21, 2026, and people still pretending there is logic to Trump flailing.

Year 1: destroy domestic economy with completely voluntary dumbshit idea over the protests of experts Year 2: destroy global economy with completely voluntary dumbshit idea over the protests of experts Year 3: destroy space economy, there are no space economy experts so CHECKMATE libs

Read the statement from @wgaeast.bsky.social and @wgawest.bsky.social on the layoff of Guild members at CBS News. We stand in solidarity with our colleagues and friends and will fight to protect journalists.

There's an existential American battle to be fought - completely outside of government. It's a battle to rescue our cultural institutions from people dedicated to moral evil, whose fetid banal souls are repulsed by the human spark. They must be vomited from seats of power or we all choke to death.

I don't really feel like the press coverage of the metaverse implosion honestly captures the access tech press' role in propping up Mark Zuckerberg's fake innovation mythology if you go back and read "journalism" from this era, 97% was indistinguishable from advertorial

The lowest-paid WNBA player this season will be making more than the highest-paid WNBA player last season. That is the power of a union.

We're doing great over at omgreg.com

It's almost a year old and the cast has changed, so feels like a great time to share a packet sketch from last year about the baby Hitler quandary. [Starts here, the rest is in the next threaded post -- I don't make the Bluesky upload rules]

Eight Oscar wins for Warner Bros. so far with several virtually guaranteed to come, continuing the best critical and financial year for a studio in decades. The only reason it's getting sold is the mountain of debt after 3 failed mergers, a problem it's solving with another debt-fueled merger.

Basically, all of US political life & discourse is premised on the illusion of symmetry between the parties, which requires vastly overstating the flaws of liberals & studiously ingoring the true nature of MAGA. Establishment journos & pundits will maintain that illusion at any cost.

As a comedian who has obsessively followed Tucker Carlson - including working on the LWT episode about him - this impression is exquisite. Like 6 different hooks into Mono Delivery Tucker (people who say it’s off are thinking of Interview Tucker). Hope it comes back. Bravo. youtu.be/cssPptEqVWE

So NYT is in this dilemma of its own making. Maintaining the noble-savage myth about MAGA requires ... never actually hearing directly from MAGA. Hearing directly from MAGA requires ... abandoning your own stated moral & journalistic principles. There's no solution to that equation, as I wrote:

We need a Pop Up Video version of the Sunday shows where every talking head comes with a rundown of their partisan allegiance, their political history, and who’s currently paying them for their opinions.

y'all should familiarize yourself with what the Average American is consuming entertainment-wise!

I am looking at the Big 12 screen court right now in real life and it is so much brighter than it looks on tv.

I am very very aware of my weak points as a writer, and one glaring one is: promoting things I'm doing. So I'm taking a page from @kibblesmith.com's book and just giving you a big ol' list of Stuff I Am Up To:

Really delightful night at the WGAE Awards. Film & TV writers (from dramas to late night to soaps), broadcast news, journalists... all united by two things: 1) A love of writing. 2) The most powerful forces in our country (govt and business) are trying (and failing) to erase them from existence.

I really enjoy doing comedy workshops -- I'm happy to help more humans learn how to embrace their own unique sense of humor... in case the AI bots try to become joke-tellers. Doing another one next weekend, if you've got a free Saturday and want to dive into punchlines for a few hours.

New tonight for the omgreg.com email list: A mountain of things to talk about in a primary week, but can't get past that Trump clearly knows he's at risk when he retreats to calling The News while he's watching it.

I’ve seen enough: Staying Up Incredibly Late [Incumbent] defeats A Sensible Early Bedtime. Early vote leaned heavily toward Sensible, but the night-of vote was landslide Staying Up. When all the votes are counted, won’t be close.

@atrupar.com please tell me you got that throw to kornacki from nbc news now with Hallie Jackson mouthing “what the fu—“ before getting cut off by Kristen Welker

"Despite Polling Place Snags, America Votes For More MAGA." - The NYT, the day after Republicans openly gank 2026.

Well deserved by an incredible sound team. Emmy winning Star Wars, you love to see it. So proud of Young Jedi Adventures and the whole crew. Star Wars for kids, made by people who take the galaxy — and the audience — seriously. Kai Brightstar forever. To Adventure.

Roy Wood Jr. is preparing to host the Writers Guild Awards New York Ceremony, presented by the WGAE, this Sunday, March 8th! @roywoodjr.bsky.social discussed his pre-show preparation, the most stressful part, and more with @thr.com. Read: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

This obviously very stupid but is it also smart? We’ll talk to some liars after this break.

Guys he's not starting a war to distract from the Epstein files. He's starting a war because he wants to start a war. Killing people in other countries makes him horny. If it also distracts from the Epstein files, great, but he doesn't really give a shit either way.

Just still stunned that the President announced a war - at 2:30am - on a social media platform he owns - from a private golf club he owns - wearing a baseball cap - in a video **with several clear jump cuts**

No one is even remotely prepared for rupar’s clips tomorrow morning of every sunday show host asking lindsay graham and john bolton and a retired general with an ff9-steiner chin “how do you define success in the region”

the level of union busting shit pouring into this WNBPA negotiation news cycle is galling but unsurprising. they all use the same playbook

If I could go back in time, sure sure sure the baby Hitler thing but I’m focused on making the 2007 Phoenix Suns hire Sam Presti.

This is, simply, one of the best pieces of sports video I have ever seen.

Hilarious thing to do with $2.8 billion: start a theatrical distribution business. deadline.com/2026/02/netf...

Two states’ attorneys general have the chance to do the funniest thing…

One wonders how a company that is 80% of an industry and slavishly loyal to our current President -- to the point of making content decisions to please him -- will fare under a different administration.

If I send you this it means your grandpa is thirsty for me.

Truly cannot believe it. Letting funny weirdos make TV? We love to see it. When we worked together, it was my first tv job and @hellocullen.bsky.social was like Mike O’Donoghue and I was like a scared baby. Go watch his show and give it *specifically for algo reasons* two thumbs up in the app!

This is not an ad, but I'm using beehiiv for omgreg.com. Don't love substack's polymarket shit OR you know, the amplifying self-described nazi speech? But is anyone else on this? Is everyone over on Ghost? What are people using?

Absolutely. There is a group of people in the press with an extremely loud microphone who would rather whistle past Trump filling graveyards than admit our system could hand the reins to a dumb immoral guy with mental deterioration.

Ok, longer SOTU thoughts up here. TLDR? He don't got the juice no more

I think you're going to see a lot of pearl-clutching horror from The Press about this thing. Because it was rude and gross and bad. But my thought is: dude's cooked. This is the midterm preview? Happy 250th, here's a list of murders, also sorry you're poor but the stock market's at 50k? ROUGH A.F.

Normally I do politics writing on omgreg.com but it's hard to live-blog on there so I'll be doing that in a thread here. Do I have to? No, this year it is not my job. But I am a cheering-in-the-window sicko so here I go! SOTU THREAD 🧵 /

Predictions thread for SOTU: Trump will call for members of Congress who skipped SOTU to be removed from office. He will tell the steel factory “President, I want to kiss you” story again JD Vance will attempt at least one cool move/interaction that backfires Direct eye contact SCOTUS review

NEW WORKSHOP: finding your voice. In comedy it's often shorthand for "what kind of jokes do you make?" but in late-night / news comedy it also means "what stories do you pick, what's bugging you about them, and how do you make that into a joke?" We're gonna work on it! www.omgreg.com/p/workshops

This approach, existentially, ignores the idea that decorum-following-politeness could in fact be an unforced error.

hey did we ever find a shorter way to say "no worries if not" or did we all go to therapy

this is the thirstiest shit i will ever post but if you are in NYC and get an extra ticket to one of these early Project Hail Mary screenings TAKE ME WITH YOU

we are governed by idiots, ex #19452: pulling ATC controllers in the 2025 shutdown and complicating the flights of members of congress / lobbyists was powerful leverage for MAGA so they tried it again here by pulling PreCheck/Global Entry airlines had no heads up, got pissed, MAGA had to reverse