The funniest way to screw over the Astros, I approve.

to be clear, it's not a lawsuit — they are criminal charges, and only half of them have been dismissed (so far!)

You will be shocked, SHOCKED, to learn that comedians performing in Riyadh are banned from performing material that mocks or criticizes the Saudi government and royals. Who could’ve predicted that a country that executes journalists and jails and tortures its critics would have such policies???

I have derezzed the programs that were in the MCP and which Flynn was probably saving from Sark Forgive me they were on lightcycles so fast and so Tron

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

Politicians: We want to go back to the 1950s The 1950s:

The way the media spins stories like this is “look how the dogged cops cleared this terrible quadruple-murder 34 years later” and not “oh by the way they totally accused and convicted the wrong guys before, oops lol” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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Agree. That would be the end of whatever shred of legitimacy they may have had left.

Breakfast of champions at Woodshed on the Trinity River

I kind of wish Texas public universities weren’t in a race to see which could be the most hateful, backward-ass bigots

Hell yeah #txhsfb

Well don't I feel stupid

Gift link! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

“On Friday, a Hays County judge ruled that a fired Texas State University (TXST) professor will be reinstated to his job while his lawsuit against the school proceeds, according to the professor’s attorney.” 👏✊🙌

Feel like if this is how the law works, there’s no reason to make a budget deal because there’s no reason to believe anything that you win via Congress will actually happen anyway.

Your kitchen cabinets? A national security threat. Your favorite movie? Also a national security threat. Your favorite cocktail? Possibly a national security threat. Here’s our current top five list of the dumbest things officials have done, or hidden, ostensibly to protect national security.

Yet again, the GOP supermajority steps in to allow Trump to break the law. The case will be decided on the merits later, it says, when the damage cannot be undone. But in the meantime it is giving the Trump administration a green light to engage in impoundment.

As someone not familiar with Florence lore, can someone tell me who her second favorite frontman who makes boring music because he can is?

I just want to say... thank you. We thought this thing was dead in the water. Instead, over 100 independent theatres, bars, improv spaces, and random people with projectors emailed asking to show this dumb movie because making fun of the president and his dead pedophile friend is important.

After he loses the gun and gets it back in a panic, who does he scramble to aim it at? Bystanders. That tells you they know who the real threat to their pathetic jackboot keystone routine is: witnesses.

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

The interest in parental rights is as pretextual as the interest in state rights

As far as many people are concerned this is the text of the First Amendment

Donald Trump is trying to silence his critics. He will fail econ.st/3Kl4pNZ

Probably still my favorite game, at least from this century

The First Amendment protects your right to call Trump a fascist. You can say it on a street corner, wear it on a shirt in the courthouse, or even shout it in a crowded theater.

Extremely human here

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

If the grand jury doesn’t buy part of your case you go back to the drawing board - unless you have a statute of limitations problem (they do) or unless you don’t care about the merits (they don’t).

ABC News says James Comey has been indicted in a transparently political case, shortly after other prosecutors who couldn’t justify a charge against him were fired by President Trump. abcnews.go.com/US/former-fb...

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

A federal court has vindicated the rights of a @USD professor who was set to be fired for social media posts about Charlie Kirk’s murder. This decision confirms what FIRE has long said—the First Amendment protects faculty’s personal speech on matters of public concern.

Happy First Amendment Day. I’m teaching Abrams, a case from the distant U.S. past when socialists distributing unpopular leaflets to immigrants & poor people got 20 years in prison, and SCOTUS said that was fine. It took about 50 years and a KKK defendant before they changed course.

Anyone with a copy of that memo should definitely send it to Chris but while you’re at it would a copy to me hurt? NO

“If you are protecting the students and faculty of the A&M System from outside influence, you’re doing a poor job because they seem to have gotten exactly what they wanted. “All we can hope for is that our next president can protect us from you.” A&M student newspaper to Board of Regents

This is not a romance. Nobody is "in love" with apps. There are no A.I. boyfriends. You cannot "date" a chatbot. Accepting this framing and treating it as real is tech-industry propaganda. slate.com/technology/2...

This case was brought by Lina Khan’s FTC under Joe Biden, with the support of Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, whom Donald Trump illegally fired, and the latter of whom the Supreme Court (also illegally) allowed to remain fired. Cases like this may not ever be possible without an independent FTC.

Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile is maybe the funniest thing we've ever done. We're now almost certainly going to lose money on it, but that's not the point. We just want it out there. We've also learned something: Make good art right now, and people will bust their ass to help you on short notice.

Food for thought on First Amendment Day... "The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech." —Justice Anthony Kennedy

If there is one brief that will spook John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett from doing something that will disrupt the economy and their stock portfolios, it is this one. (The Supreme Court doesn't deal in law much these days, so arguments about real-world consequences can help.)

Oldest kid has a birthday coming up, but I remember simpler days. I worked night shift at the newspaper and took grad classes during the day, so this was what quality time looked like sometimes.

Really interesting tidbits in this latest NYT focus group

There are going to be a lot of state college professors and public school teachers reinstated in the coming weeks. Being distasteful about someone's assassination is supported by the First Amendment regardless of how you feel about it.

"There is no way to bend the knee and ever stand up straight again." -- NC AAUP President Belle Boggs. #highered @aaup.org www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

one thing that remains unchanged between now and 100 years ago: if you have a big baby, they’re gonna put you in the news

“If you see Jeffrey Epstein’s name and your immediate thought process is, ‘Oh, this might offend the president,’ that's not the problem of people making a joke. It's the problem of a broken and insanely failing society.” @bencollins.bsky.social on a theater pulling out of screening this

Really hope Vought sees some punishment for his term of illegal activities. Right up there with Miller and Homan as people that need to be made an example of. They've ushered in a new era of bad faith government and need to be dealt with seriously.

This is what chilling free speech looks like. Everyone starts self-censoring so as not to be the next outlet to earn Trump's ire. It doesn't matter that Kimmel is back. The damage is done.

A good ad on the DC Metro