geez good thing we’re only using it for health insurance claims, legal arguments, mortgage rates, teaching students, predicting crime, mental health care, automating government services, fact checking, and pointing out other AI

"You're irrelevant on Bluesky!" m8 I was irrelevant on Twitter where I had 110k followers and frequently got over a million views on my videos. It was still just shitposting on a social media site. Deciding that posting is activism has rotted a lot of brains on all sides.

we're in a national crisis because everyone hates conservatives so much nobody will date them and their families refuse to talk to them; but also we're in a national crisis because our institutions are liberals who don't realize how out of touch they are with the overwhelmingly conservative public

twitter is wild because the dumbest people are like "masculine and feminine find their weight again, steel and grace heading towards harmony" while the most poetic posters are like "my dog is a chonky boi"

The one surefire way to get people to stop saying mean things about you is to send out a press release, insisting that they stop saying mean things about you. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...

Tom Homan is doing corruption the right way By Ezra Klein

you have to admit "can you make a documentary about a contemporary subject that never directly quotes anything he ever said or did" is kind of an interesting challenge from an artistic perspective

MARY JANE: sorry about your uncle dan PETER PARKER: it’s ben MARY JANE: 🎵one week since you looked at me

This entire thing is wonderfully brutal, but my favorite part is where the judge corrects the spelling of a word.

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

I saw a right wing comedian celebrating Kimmel getting pulled because he never got a late night spot there. And it’s like, buddy, not with that attitude

the silicon valley technofascists are the definition of good times breed weak men

“As an independent journalist, I’m trying to see a glimmer of opportunity on this scorched Earth. Maybe this move has blown the hinges off the doors at long last. Maybe, after years of layoffs, restructures and mergers, a greater swath of people will understand that we must try something different.”

Honestly a giant highlight of my week every time it hits my mailbox. Every page has been consistently incredible.

I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action

Many of us are numb to it, but almost every day he publicly confesses that he is at war with our laws and Constitution.

The idea that the combined MMR is dangerous but separately the vaccines are fine was created out of whole cloth by Andrew Wakefield, a disgraced former doctor who had a patent on a non-combined version of the MMR. We've known his research was bunk for almost 30 years.

Kids would read more American comics if they were encouraged to crumple, tear, throw them in backpacks and generally beat the hell out of them. Big advantage of manga and scholastic ogns is that they’re sturdy and no adult is telling you to delicately put them in a plastic sleeve in a cool dark box.

By rights, all of them should be subjected to exactly the same treatment they would inflict on others. I mean, how well do you think Stephen Miller would fare at a torture prison in El Salvador? My guess? Not well. michaelianblack.substack.com/p/lock-em-up

the most interesting part of this reporting is that they didn't pull him off the air for what he had *already* said, they pulled him off the air for what he was *going* to say, which, i expect, has them in quite the pickle now, because he's unlikely to be *more* conciliatory after this

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

if the democratic party were led by van hollen instead of chuck schumer or hakeem jeffries right now democratic party approval rating would fly through the roof

I signed the Harper's letter to show I was brave enough to stand up to the left on free speech. But I've decided that I'm not brave enough to stand up to the right about it.

a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason

This is fascinating, 94% of college students had heard of Charlie Kirk - and 70% of those who heard of him disagreed with him puck.news/what-college...

Everyone, stop panicking. If we all quiet down a bit, I think Ezra Klein can negotiate us getting up to almost two days of Kimmel a week.

I think an underappreciated motivation on the right is how much they just don't like people not liking them. Like an absolutely massive grudge right wingers have about social media is that they very quickly realise they're unpopular on every site except the ones specifically for them.

Exciting to enter a period where being a comedian might actually become slightly dangerous! Let's see how edgy the edgelords are then.

There is a roughly 100% chance he thinks that both this and Kimmel are the same ABC

inside the room where ceos say what they really think about the wallet inspector

This is so messed up.

Look who came with

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

Don’t care about the guy who isn’t aging. Give me an article about a guy who unlocked the ability to double jump

As I've said, it was possible to tell oneself from ~1975-2000 that politics was just a debate about policies, but this was an unusual period of our history. Leaders in politics and media didn't grow up in a world where deep factionalism was normal and don't know how to handle our return to it.

This Friday! Writers With Drinks! Queer spoken word 'n comedy. It's going to be AMAZING. Here's why I'm so excited about each of these performers/readers...

Just hit with a gut punch of a passage from ARISTOTLE AND DANTE DIVE INTO THE WATERS OF THE WORLD as I was making breakfast “The world is not a safe place for us.”

“This is why it’s dangerous to say someone’s a Nazi!” - social media account that exclusively calls people pedophiles

Is it smart to flex that you're personally responsible for flight delays

the ones who made friends along the way 🥹🙏🥹

VOTERS: “we want a democratic party with more fight” DEMOCRATIC ADVISORS: “more flight? you got it!”

“If we’re going to live together as a family in this house, we have to let dad beat the shit out of us now and again”

Yeesh. #FLsen

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

NEW: Some on the right worry that targeting hate speech could backfire against them next time Democrats are in power by opening “a Pandora’s box that we could all come to regret.”

I know this isn’t a good time to confess this, but for a while I thought the title meant it was a show about a midwife named “Call”

Good night, Bluesky. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely quit you in the morning.

lol come on