I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

it’s a time of year where people often feel isolated, alone & the shadows of the world seem closer. I’ve lost friends during this time of year, people who I know would have found the light again. just a reminder to reach out to friends, family or support organizations. just take that first step.

“He raped me.” “Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.” “She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.” Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.

“Your protagonist must be an active force.“ I like to write (and read) about characters who can’t or won’t be active, for any number of compelling reasons. There are so many kinds of stories to tell; why limit ourselves to the self-proclaimed “heroes”?

Although fascist activist Bari Weiss is leading the charge as chief MAGA censor at CBS News, the Ellisons also installed a SECOND Trump mouthpiece there. It's a fully fascist propaganda outlet now, CBS News is gone. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Last time with this one

This is a wonderful summation of the beauty and value of human made art ❤️

This is where holiday cinema peaked

Steven Spielberg’s MUNICH, screenplay by Eric Roth and the great Tony Kushner, was released 20 years ago today. I rewatched it last night. boxd.it/cbysjX

i got to rant about LLM chatbots in games + my fears about the dead future that tech oligarchs want for all of us, alongside some very clever + thoughtful folks. thanks so much @samuelhorti.bsky.social for giving me the space & time to articulate all of this

30 years later, the action is STILL the juice.

on comma splices and run-on sentences and that sort of stuff

Trans instructor: “you didn’t do this assignment” Supervising professor: “she didn’t do the assignment” Student: “I didn’t do the assignment” University: “isn’t there someone you forgot to ask” some days I just want to scream and scream

Boss tries to suppress a news story, then the angry internal emails leak, then the all-hands meeting leaks, then the story itself leaks. Next will be the leak of the boss’s stern “no leaking” warning. Then whatever gets cut from the story will get twice as much attention. Don’t make idiots the boss.

I can't stress to you all enough that Baris Weiss, who just killed a report critical of the Trump regime, once opened a college to teach "verboten ideas" that are unacceptable to mention in the mainstream. (transphobia/racism/conservativism)

This is the conservative/Bari Weiss vision of free speech: wherein conservatives are free to control all speech

This is what it is to be a trans professional. Any pretext will be used to eliminate us. Our institutions abandon us, refuse to fight for us - even when all we're guilty of is doing our jobs correctly. How are we meant to live in society? How are we supposed to win?

Not a journalist. Never has been. Is in charge of CBS News to run defense for Israel and the president.

i watched the 60 minutes report on CECOT. it's solid, clear-eyed journalism about issues of tremendous moral and political importance. there is no legitimate basis whatsoever for weiss' claims. (shocking, i know.)

that's right. immediately distinguishes itself as one of the genre's greats. right now i'm trying to get a finished run on hard difficulty on the books, and it handles difficulty so well. tougher enemy placement, trickier boss patterns, not just "the same as 'normal' but enemies have more health."

Seeing this all over Chicago … ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

man’s like “fuck that, i’m taking y’all down with me” & tbh, let’s fuckin go

Charles Wentworth Dilke, 1821. As Marx paraphrases: "Truly wealthy a nation, when the working day is 6 rather than 12 hours. Wealth is not command over surplus labour time ... but rather, disposable time outside that needed in direct production, for every individual and the whole society."

me seeing an article about the 25 Hottest and Most Popular Celebrities: haha who are any of these people? me seeing a screenshot of a horrible post by CeleriusAvignon8888, Based Viscount of the New Bayesian Duchy of Pure Reason: oh it's this fuckin guy again

WATCH: Here's the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" last night

Kotaku understands EA is investigating AI cosmetics in Battlefield 6 after fans called out a double-barreled rifle sticker over the weekend. It's the latest front in an ongoing player backlash against gen AI in gaming https://kotaku.com/battlefield-6-ai-stickers-cosmetics-bundle-2000655167

Oop!

terrible terrible terrible terrible terrible

tired: spiked the story inspired: Bari'ed the story

In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing." The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care. One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:

i've never worked on anything nearly as important as 60 minutes' CECOT story of course, but in recent years i sure have heard language a lot like that weiss is employing, from people in positions of power over me, who have used it to shut down good and valuable reporting.

oh hey, paradise killer is free right now on the epic games store. that game is neat.

The entire american "free speech" panic was about elites being criticized, which is why anyone who ever took it seriously should be ignored forever

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

I know I’m not the first person to say it but the hyper commercialization of the Grinch story is pretty sad and a perfect illustration of the ability of capital to absorb critiques painlessly

Sometimes the no comment is the entire story!

Banner day for establishment journalism all around.

Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power

For the morning crowd

There's a sequence in BLACK PHONE 2 set in a drive up the mountains in a blizzard, scored to Pink Floyd, that could only have been made by someone who grew up in Colorado in the 1970s/80s. The feeling of it is so specific. Tactile. Extraordinary. It felt like a time tunnel. Instantly transported.

This to me is the biggest issue. These men spoke at grave risks to their own safety about being beaten, raped, and tortured at the order of the President of the United States. All of Weiss's odes to free speech and "dangerous ideas" is and has always been horseshit

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

“There’s never been a moment when someone’s like ‘oh, I didn’t want to let you know I really want universal child care.’ … When you say ‘I’m a moderate,’ or ‘I’m a centrist’ I immediately know you’re right-wing, and I also think you’re a coward.”

Funny, after hearing this I really feel like I do

James Talarico: The Bible doesn't mention abortion or gay marriage, but it goes on and on about forgiving debt, liberating the poor, and healing the sick. The closest thing we have to the kingdom of heaven is a multiracial, multicultural democracy where power is truly shared among all people

Bari gets a heavily promoted 60 Minutes story that would be bad for the Trump administration killed:

There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.