"Weiss and Ellison’s interference into “60 Minutes” creates a de facto state media, but their burgeoning empire is about consolidating oligarchical control over legacy media that will endure long after Trump fades into irrelevance," writes @ahjohnson.bsky.social. theintercept.com/2025/12/22/b...

just me and the boys www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFwm...

Paper by the Ream. A slow-moving river. Press the Wes Button. Get over here.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

My man's name was HOAGY

Great bit would be posting status updates of the ballroom demo/construction process on Something Awful

The original "hueg liek xbox" photoshop, discovered this week on an old hdd.

He noticed you! @apaintedmouse.bsky.social over in The Bad Place.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

I was very sad to hear about the recent passing of Bob Caminiti. Bob worked at SNL for 37 years and was one of the purest and most thoughtful and passionate people I had the privilege to know. pizzifuneralhome.com?p=9806

The media inherently thinks secrets that are dug up are more damning than confessions shouted in public -- which is why a forgotten birthday greeting has gotten more attention than all the times Trump spoke into a microphone or voluntarily put in print the words "I LIKE TO FUCK CHILDREN"

My latest #cartoon makes note of how Republican arguments for the "work requirements" they want added to #Medicaid and #SNAP sound awfully familiar... #art #newart #poliart #policartoon #politicalCartoon #editorialCartoon #cartoons #comics #memes #politicalArt #politics #foodStamps #WorkSetsYouFree

A couple notes on last week's SNL repeat (S50E18, Quinta Brunson with Benson Boone). The "Next Week" tease was improperly supered over the "generic" bumper. You can see it before and after the tease. Then at the end, a card is inserted for AD Bobby Caminiti, who died last month.

One of the things about historical research is you encounter the fact that children used to die at heart-breaking rates. The cemeteries are full of tombs with zero to eleven year life spans. The correspondence mentions child death on a regular basis. Children died often.

Peak Bluesky Millennial content

Quoting the only post about this dark afternoon :[

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

Wake up babe, new generic SNL promo just dropped

Sounds like time for anyone who has an account which accepts Federal Deposits to open a second one to move all their cash to; every month. (that will make "reclamation" less automatic) www.crisesnotes.com/the-crisis-a...

think of all the things that get fucked if your SSN is suddenly defunct. this is a death sentence in more ways than one

Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

I have spoken with multiple field offices and emailed ICE counsel as well as the office of the Chief Immigration Judge. From what I am putting together an extremely new disturbing pattern has developed recently of ICE somehow *deleting* cases from the imm court's ECAS system & *no one knows how*

UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off. We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos

Calm down. I'm being told it does that sometimes

Mass radicalisation of boomers incoming

BREAKING: Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary says that seniors won't care if they don't get their Social Security checks — and that anyone who does complain is a fraudster.

Facts are important more than ever in these times. Also, fuck the fascists

SNL season premiere print ads from the 1980s.

Fascism is here. The list of words Trump is banning from government is the most stunning document of our time. Click the image below to see how many words Trump and Musk have canceled as part of their new Reich. 🔗: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Still wild to see Dems sit and watch Rep. Green get escorted out and none of them thought they should abandon their own little individual protests and get taken out with him. They just watched as the other side jeered him and cheered him getting escorted out. Just no understanding of solidarity.

No, Democrats, these little auction signs aren't it. You're acting like Wes Anderson characters who don't understand that they're in a Tarantino movie.

Context:

We just received word that the DOJ has begun removing data detailing criminal charges and convictions related to Trump loyalists. This started with records from the January 6th insurrection, but additional records are now being erased. We will keep you updated once we have more info.

“The thing about AI,” says every single medium talent with a major-outlet column or unbearable email newsletter, “is that it’s the best research assistant I’ve ever had”

Because this is #Idaho we're talking about, Teresa Borrenpohl (who you may have seen on the news) is a friend of a friend. I hear she's asked people to cite local coverage of her removal from the weekend's GOP town hall, when possible. It fills in some important context.

Of course not, but what's breathtaking is they still haven't bothered to appoint a guy for the sole purpose of their lawyers being able to say that there's a guy.

That’s why I hate it when powerful people reply to Musk by first throat clearing with respect, admiration etc before getting to the issue. If you ever did respect him, that’s sad. But at this point any deference at all is dangerous. Do not kiss the Nazi’s ass. Give him nothing but shit. Break him.

Musk is a sensitive little orchid and I wish more people would figure out that it’d be really easy to push him over the edge simply by being meaner to him.

Wait, hang on, am I hearing that… *checks notes*… the way to save the government is to BE MEAN TO AN IDIOT? Friends, shitposters, people of the internet - we are CALLED! We must ANSWER!

twitter employees were worried he would self-harm after he got booed at the chappell show, there's a chance that if enough people protest him and Tesla he will [REDACTED] www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/08/e...

It's a bit of a squeeze (sorry)

I had a gf decades ago who was truly despondent at my (unfortunately persuasive) beliefs about the darkness of humanity (I was a way dark youngster). I finally realized that her identity as a person was 100% intertwined with her deep belief that ppl are basically good. It was a learning experience.

This is why there's still, after all these yrs, Dems/lefties who are not able to predict what Trump/magas will do, & are always shocked at how awful they are. I'm always like 'How did you not see this coming?' Folks seem incapable of grasping the concept of removing conscience from decision making.

In 2016, I started reading books about dark pathologies because I couldn’t understand how a human could exist without conscience. It changed me. The paradox of empathy is that people with empathy cannot relate to people without conscience. It just doesn’t compute. Like a bird without wings.

The four mid-break teases from SNL50: The Anniversary Special, which are largely absent from rips of the live show floating around online. Of the rips I've found, one has tease 4. These are from breaks 7, 9, 14, and 16.

At one point Lorne Michaels was said to have negotiated a 50% ownership stake in SNL, but according to his biographer he sold it back to NBC for a figure in the hundreds of millions a decade ago.

I’m at the MAD TV 30 year anniversary show at The Baked Potato on Ventura. I’m the only one here — does it start later? Little help?