Over two decades later, the beast that is the government is circling the drain. A small, limited government that people dislike, don’t trust and only benefits the wealthy. Game over. The conservatives keep playing long game, and we keep reacting. Poorly.

Trump will announce a billion dollar lawsuit against ABC and Jimmy. In 5,4,3,2…

Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous. It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy." Because that's not how America works. play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

stand with @jimmykimmel.com and Guillermo Rodriguez! I enjoyed my appearance on the show. It really is an incredibly close team and they WILL be back!

PBS Passport only requires you to donate $60 a year to your local PBS station! One amazing thing they have on there is shows from their Great Performances series, which currently includes pro-filmed versions of major recent plays, operas, ballets, etc.

Time to combat the new McCarthy with this definition: Carr-ism Anti-American, anti-democratic, and unconstitutional. Term first used in the mid-2020s when Cabinet members, Congress, and business capitulated to the would be King.

You can never appease a tyrant.

To the legal scholars out there (as I am certainly not one of them), it seems like there might be a case to declare Trump a vexatious litigant — and therefore deny him the ability to pursue these meritless cases in court.

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Almost feels like an idea from some utopian science fiction work, these days-

It’s time to ask the ardent supporters of Democratic causes and democracy for their time and effort versus their money. We’ve poured in countless donations over the years to negligible effect. We all have talents that can be utilized to further the cause. Stop asking for money; ask for our help.

@barackobama.bsky.social Trump fiddles (or diddles) while Rome and the world burns. If you read the EU report (link in the article itself) on how commonplace and pervasive Russian attacks are, I don’t understand why this is not the number one headline around the globe.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

The Toxic Avenger is clearing medical debt as marketing for the movie.

Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.

Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

Anyone who believes that sending in the National Guard or the army into American cities to make it safer, let me tell you a little secret. We can reduce crime 100% if the government declares martial law, issues curfews, and has soldiers enforcing it. Statistics don’t lie 1/2

Things to come… (although not via the USPS)

Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January. I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am. I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics. Here’s two favorite set photos. Repost? I am in the wilderness.

A list of the materials and exhibits in the Smithsonian that the White House deems objectionable. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202... Compare with this, the official ledger of what the Nazis termed "degenerate art."

This is what I tell my friends who don’t understand why I spend time on Bluesky or Substack.

Sadly, he’ll issue an executive order guaranteeing that military members and their families will have the right to vote. Everyone else will be… Royally and undemocratically screwed.

A DOGE kid gets beat up in DC and it’s DefCon1; hundreds of bullets into federal buildings with officer killed in Atlanta and it’s crickets; violent mob attacks Capitol wounding dozens of officers and it’s pardons for all.

I *cannot* fucking stress this enough: The threat of AI is *NOT* making movies for us, but the hundreds of jobs it will be able to easily eliminate from crew positions. VFX. Drone pilots. Color timing. Sound mixing. Clerical staff. If we don't move to protect jobs NOW, they WILL go away forever.

The student newspaper. This fell. To the student. Newspaper.

🧵This is the official transcript of the videotaped deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell. This is the deposition that Maxwell fought to hide. Held at the law offices of Boies, Schiller & Flexer, on April 22, 2016 in NYC The transcript is more than 400 pages long, 7 hours of depositions held over 2 days

And just like that, the world can no longer rely on American economic reports.

To them every part of government - even Social Security - is just a source of enrichment for their billionaire friends. "Privatizing" Social Security is just about getting Wall Street a bunch of fees to manage money.

Update: I offered this simple amendment in the Appropriations Committee to say no President can withhold funds from a college to try to control their speech. Failed 14-15. Every Republican voted to endorse Trump’s censorship.

Wasp-Man, Wasp-Women, Wasp-People & The Concubines of Terror. Coming soon to Marvel/Disney+!

Just so’s we’re all clear, almost 3/4 of everything we buy from Europe is now 15% more expensive.

Grover Norquist, who founded Americans for Tax Reform in 1985 at the urging of Reagan, declared in 2001: “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.” 24 years later, his wishes have come to pass.

Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought." h/t @msnbc.com

Due process The Bill of Rights (Remember the quaint notion forbidding cruel and an unusual punishment?) The Declaration of Independence. There’s a rich history of the U.S. stepping up in times of crisis There’s still time for “We The People” to save the Republic (but not the Republicans).

50 Days? Does the Orange Menace think that Ukraine will fall within the next 49 days? Otherwise, I can’t imagine his game plan, beyond bending the knee as well as bending over for his pal, Vlad, on any in all occasions. #ukraine #traitor #trump

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social Please stand by the citizens of California and put yourself on the front line. Innocents are being kidnapped off the streets; citizens are being rounded up and “disappeared”. Time to forget about your political future and worry about the democracy crumbling before our eyes.

In a letter drawn from a posthumous collection of correspondence, published in 2019, the neurologist Oliver Sacks argued that society had no immunity to the seductions of digital life. “What we are seeing—and bringing on ourselves—resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale,” he wrote.

Reminder that not only should you not buy books on Amazon (regardless of how cheap they are) but you should be buying books from Bookshop, where you can support local bookstores, and even get free shipping for the next couple days.

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Inspectors General hold agencies accountable by rooting out criminality, fraud and abuse, but the White House doesn't have one…yet. I'm working to change that. My new bill would create an IG overseeing the Executive Office of the President and crack down on corruption in the Oval Office and beyond.

If only I had the space… Or the means to open my own bookstore. Devastating…

A perfect encapsulation of my current thought process.

Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans. This is Washington at its worst. We need to ban Congressional stock trading.

Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie. One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears. They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.