Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

“Cancellation limbo”: when you’re definitely not cancelled but not as celebrated as you used to be. This is one reason why “cancel culture” discourse is so tiresome: a lot of people are using it to mean “my life was affected in some negative way by my actions” www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...

"isn't too cancelled to perform several sold-out shows at the Beacon" ya that's where the editor needs to pay the kill fee and concede this isn't going to work

I shoulda stayed only on @michaelhobbes.bsky.social’s feed today.

What the fuck is a canceled performer? Someone who took shit online for being a sexual predator but faced no material consequences?

Did sexual assault write this???

This is exactly why I don’t let go of the “cancel culture memo” This man trapped folks in rooms to make them watch him masturbate and they are trying to ask if the show is good enough to make that’s measurable trade

On @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social, we coined the term "Cancel Culture Grift Economy" to describe how this works.

Saying “Congress” and not “Republicans” or “the majority party” at this point is political messaging malpractice. It feeds the “they all stink” attitude that in part got us here. Stop.

Mis blancos y blancas: Don’t be like this.

75% of Black men voted for her. Good grief ...

📌"I have typed before, and will until my last breath, that Black voters are America’s TRUE patriots, and the only voting bloc that overwhelmingly and consistently gets it right. How incredibly sad it must be to see white people elect bile who see white supremacy as a virtue, instead of a plague."

I basically only log in here for @michaelhobbes.bsky.social, whose feed gives me the encouragement to deal with how horrible his feed makes me feel.

This kind of “journalism” is where the NY Times is ACTUALLY “ugly, both inside and out.”

Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.

If you're shopping on Small Business Saturday, you can find Lost Treasures of Indiana and my other local history books at Miles Books, Green Door Books, the Press, Tom Lounges Record Bin, the South Shore Arts Gift Shop, the Chesterton Art Center Gift Shop and other small businesses.

Imagine going through life like this

The idea that Biden's health wasn't being covered prior to the debate is one of the most shameless pieces of revisionist history I can remember. It had been one of the dominant topics of conversation for months. I was there, I remember it.

I was right

Eric Adams has a mid-20s approval rating and it’s pretty consistent across demographics. Where’s he going exactly?

If you put me courtside at a Knicks game with Cuomo and Adams I would wonder which circle of Hell I was in and whether I’d be spending eternity with those assclowns

"we" remember just fine. It's just the NYT opinion page editors who are apparently completely ignorant of history

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

This is the most beautiful and heartbreaking action by these bystanders.

Exactly, the Dems' "condescension problem" is almost entirely a creation of right-wing media.

This piece gets at something that I've been struggling to articulate: We've seen this exact push-pull before. When Republicans were out of power in the 1990s they invented "political correctness" to pretend they were being censored. Then they went right back to censoring once they had power again.

Sam’s Law of Media: The media treats Democrats as the only political actors with agency, responsible for everything happening Republicans, by contrast, are treated like zoo animals: odd, fascinating, but never to be judged and, perhaps more importantly, never responsible for their own decisions

question: why does the media treat democrats as the only ones with any agency? republicans have a trifecta, they can prevent a shutdown whenever they want more important question: what is wrong with Alex Thompson?

Tell your grandkids this was Antifa:

kudos to ALL the comedians who have spoken out forcefully against this, including Marc Maron (who remains one of our greatest national treasures), Leslie Liao, and yes, even that conservative dipshit Shane Gillis. Pete Davidson's agreement to this "festival" especially is just disgusting, C'MON MAN.

Tell me again how the problem is Democrats’ “messaging.” 🙄

Remember: however much contempt you have for journalists, it’s not nearly enough

Republicans are getting the kind of government they want. Remember this in future elections.

@miriam.codes Big thanks for introducing me to the Court Theatre 21 years ago! It’s been an amazing artistic companion most years since! www.courttheatre.org/about/blog/c...

To all the people who type “Who??” in response to the Bad Bunny Super Bowl announcement: It’s actually “¿¿Quien??”

EXACTLY

Exactly.

Fun fact: There’s a whole second clause to the quote Ken klipped out for some reason. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Reading this, I'm seeing something I call the swerve there are people, usually with a high level of in-born privilege, who *will not see certain things.* They just *won't.* And if you put it in front of their faces they will do ANYTHING to insist it's not there. Klein keeps swerving.

Coates says Black Americans have stories about relatives who were lynched or had to flee and that a life free of political violence is not in reach in his time Klein: "Sometimes I think that having a historical scope that wide can make the present too deterministic." They lynched a kid last week.

When you’re going to an LGBTQ+ wedding but let’s face it you’re still straight white cisdude af. 🤣

Your regular reminder that Republicans in Congress could stop this at literally any moment they choose.

DHS is barely 20 years old. It was thrown together by a bunch of unsupervised interns in the chaotic wake of 9/11 (that's barely an exaggeration if you read about how inexperienced so many of its creators were). It can easily be disassembled as well. We don't have to live like this.

Putting aside the researchers' inability to identify acts of state terrorism, the number they're using to justify this subhed is five.

It's the South Park effect. That show taught a generation that caring about anything in either direction is dumb and something to be attacked.

I've written about this a half-dozen times since 2015, because it continues to be relevant that the alt-right originally weaponized irony and memes in order to 1) spread extremism without consequence and 2) cultivate all these semi-ironic violent extremist edgelords foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/15/c...

"We need to turn down the temperature and try to find common ground"