This is a very good thread 🧵

While it made it as far as dress rehearsal, Tommy Brennan's Weekend Update desk bit on Trump's ICE deployments in his home state of Minnesota did not make it to SNL broadcast. But they've made it available anyway. And you should watch it.

This is an important point

Important doings, everyone: youtu.be/gJxzhUAGBDw?...

As more and more states roll out some form of mobile driver’s license, you might be asking yourself: should I use this thing? www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Introduce yourself with four spaceships.

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

“Yeah, well, I'm going to go award my own Nobel Prize. With blackjack … and hookers.”

“there’s artificial intelligence — and there’s actual intelligence” is such a great line

This has been ringing in my ears since Garrett shared it on the show.

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

Happy Don't Be A Dick Day, to all who celebrate. dontbeadickday.com

This is heavy!

Great Scott!

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

…I’m a Sabrina Carpenter fan now?

Post your favorite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.

This is definitely going to get people killed.

From the Nitpicker's Guide for Deep Space Nine Trekkers, published in 1996. The reviewer didn't think the state of the United States in 2024 as shown in the episode Past Tense, Part 1 was believable. Sounds like @roberthewittwolfe.bsky.social and Ira Steven Behr were pretty close....

I told you we’d be back

Bob Costas Condemns Mainstream Press for Doing ‘MAGA Media’: ‘There Really Isn’t Two Sides’

Kind of incredible to watch much of the press buy into the idea that Elon Musk was trying his best to reform government, got frustrated, and is now going to return to being Tony Stark. We'll be living with the pointless, reckless, and idiotic destruction this man caused for decades.

I wrote about the shooting at the Jewish museum in DC, the stories people tell to justify anti-Semitism, and the choice that America faces in this moment. Gift link:

Raising a pint to Norm Peterson. He taught me the value of snappy one-liners and being a pub regular. Thank you for making that character George 🍻

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

IMHO, some of it is bad writing and direction, but a lot is just *structure*---the movies spend way too much time on meaningless set-up, and so we never have time to actually focus on what matters.

re: this thread, i've always thought that the original error of the prequels as a narrative is that they are ostensibly anakin's story when they ought to be obi wan's, especially since obi wan is, as a character, perfectly positioned to star in the story nathan describes

We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History of American Politics, 1865-2025

Larvik by Moonlight, by Johan Christian Dahl, 1839, 📸 by @d_kloepfer

I sense a lot of people in the U.S. waiting for the movie moment when Trump dissolves Congress and marches his shock troops into major cities to decide this is fascism. That’s pretty unlikely to happen; things will carry on similarly, just with ever-more constraints on what you can do or say

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

Fantastic conversation

I was curious about the history of April Fools' Day, so I did a deep dive for my stackable sub. It all goes back to the Holy Roman Empire, Emperor Constantine, and a court jester. open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...

Thinking about the only power rankings that matter… THE POWER OF THE ATOM.

Don’t forget, there is a lunar eclipse tonight for the majority of North America. If you’ve never seen one I highly recommend setting an alarm and making an effort to watch. You don’t need anything fancy, you just get to see a big red moon in the sky! science.nasa.gov/solar-system...

Strava has banned a user from the platform...because they went for a run in North Korea. They also did the same for a user who did a virtual treadmill run that showed up as North Korea. Welcome to day's rabbit hole: www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/03/stra...

FYI, it’s stories like this that explain why so many Jews don’t and can’t trust the “safety through solidarity” mantra. We know that for us, it’s not an offer of outreach to unite, it’s a threat to exclude. For those who promote that slogan, this is on you to fix. They’re not going to listen to us.

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

If you are at an event where someone on stage gives a Hitler salute and that person is not dragged off by security and kicked out, you are at a Nazi rally.

Perfect.

If you haven’t seen this, watch for a good laugh. If you have seen this, watch it again for a good laugh. And if you haven’t seen the documentary “Too Funny to Fail” it’s one of my favorite showbiz docs of all time. Watch it for a good laugh.

It’s crazy how he went from the Henry Ford of our generation to the Henry Ford of our generation.