Watch The Lowdown. It’s awesome. I’ll have a lot to say about the two-part premiere tonight.

I saw a guy get raptured. When Jesus pulled the dude up into the sky, he said, “I’m just taking this guy. I only need one guy.”

This man truly was made to be a C-Tier Silver Age Batman villain.

Canceling Kimmel, then Tweeting Out Watergate, then Tylenol, then the UN. What a garbage week. We should go back to talking about Epstein, but its no wonder everyone is distracted, it's always neck-and-neck for the Trumpiest horror story

Do not consider this post to be a testament to the quality of the show (I believe reviews were still embargoed in any case) but this is bananas

Hard to express to those not in the weeds just how much the current state of the immigration detention system is just utter chaos.

It’s always a good sign when the people around your president can reasonably be described as “cronies.”

It's possible I've been missing mention of this in all the voluminous Jimmy Kimmel coverage but... people are conscious of Sinclair's media-political history, yes? Just seems maybe a teensy bit relevant www.nytimes.com/2004/10/11/p...

Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.

What a fucking G.

The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

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He never misses an opportunity to do harm.

Somebody at Disney googled "How to unring a bell"

There should be a word for that cognitive situation where you need to search backward to figure out what news story is leading everyone online to talk about (for example) the rapture

Not falling for this again

In which Jason Zinoman tells Fallon he is becoming a Kremlin star... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/a...

If you buttdial me, I’m going to listen to whatever you’re talking about. This seems ethical to me!! I would never read somebody’s diary, but this is more like somebody handing you their diary

A great creator's essay from the great Michael Chabon on one of the best books I've ever read (and one of the most fun books to work on I've yet worked on).

I may be in an irrationally upbeat mood because I biked around Brooklyn on a gorgeous day, but I think this Jimmy Kimmel thing was a serious fuckup & will have positive effects in the long run

I can’t guarantee you that there aren’t individual unscrupulous people who may offer blurbs for money, but I have never heard of this, never done it, and never had it done for me. Don’t believe every cynical, confident know-it-all who tries to out-misanthrope you.

Just hilariously sloppy. He'll lie and pretend it was meant to be public, but he would NEVER post "it's killing our reputation and credibility."

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s

I didn’t know any of this and I enjoyed the hell out of this piece

This was a great joke.

This was the absolute norm for any US politician until, well, Trump. Even Mike Pence said it when he was booed at a staging of Hamilton just after they won in 2016.

her name couldn’t really be WILL OBEY

**having a meltdown in the criterion closet because they don’t have the first mortal kombat movie**

Yup - when a Trump capo says we can do this the easy way or the hard way, the only response as we’ve seen over and over is to make ‘em try and do it the hard way.

Supernormally became teary-eyed during a raucous singalong of “All You Fascists Bound To Lose” at the Brooklyn Americana Music Festival, under the Manhattan Bridge

Very good reporting/analysis from @tvmojoe.bsky.social on KImmel/Disney/ABC that provides real answers to many of the "Why don't they just..." questions. www.vulture.com/article/bob-...

If there's anything funny about this -- debatable -- it's that Trump has an entire team of Project 2025/Federalist Society ghouls who have painstakingly built a foolproof backroom legal system to legitimize fascism and then Trump just goes THEY CAN'T MAKE FUN OF ME I'LL SUE and gives it all away

@wgaeast.bsky.social Kimmel protest

kimmel has overtaken kirk in google search interest

The degree to which the entire creative community is massing against Disney right now should not be underestimated. There are people who are staying silent because they don't want to make it more difficult for Iger to walk this back. If he doesn't, I believe things will get much noisier.

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

Fallon has always been a lox. But just bc a host is bland doesn’t mean they’re apolitical: he did political material all along, often cringeworthy, sexist crap, skits about how hot and manly Putin was and what a wuss Obama was… Fat jokes, borscht belt schtick remade for Gen Z. His brand is “nice”

David Remnick on The Late Show. Trump is mimicking his polit-daddy - he’s going after comedians first, as Remnick cites how Putin did. He’s executing his unoriginal attacks straight from Putin’s authoritarian playbook. Explanation at 4:00 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfGe...

“I don’t know what’s going on and nobody does” is such a telling thing to throw in there. I think everyone knows exactly what’s going on? Also why would your dad send you a hundred texts saying the same thing

Does cancer itself have a DC lobbying group? Like, Big Cancer? Because if so, it’s doing a bang-up job

The really interesting part of this obit of the Olive-Garden Reviewer (I'm using my library sub to read it) is she had a BA in Journalism - but faced gender discrimination when she graduated. So she was a professional journalist in a college town who raised kids & tried to freelance.

In a conversation with @ichotiner.bsky.social, Michael Idov, who formerly ran GQ Russia, discusses Donald Trump’s role in Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension and what it says about authoritarian leaders and their relationship to comedy.

What are the best books/essays you’ve read about the nature of power? The wielding of it, the pull of it, the abdication of it in the hopes of retaining it in the future—I need to understand better than I do right now.

I’m out having drinks with journalists, temporarily surviving this baaaaaaad era I should probably see that documentary about the Russian journalists that was playing at Film Forum but it just closed

I'm watching the very entertaining season premiere of The Morning Show, and there are several scenes in it that feel like they could have been written this morning. (Which speaks well for the show and quite poorly for this morning.)

LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.

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An early look at next week’s cover: "Remote Control,” by Barry Blitt. nyer.cm/6ApBXER

"America may not be an actual autocracy. But it increasingly seems to be playing one on TV." [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/a...