Curtis Sliwa's life is that of Daigoro from Lone Wolf and Cub. He and his family are besieged by enemies left and right.

On the whole Platner thing: clearly many people have not watched the Paul Schrader film Master Gardner.

Films: We need to hack a keycard, obtained by seducing one of the guards. We then need to drop in from the skylight after jumping from a plane, and dodge all of the lasers and traps, carefully switching the jewels for fakes that weigh the same to avoid tripping the alarm. Real life:

we’re going to lose them anyway, this just makes it infinitely stupider and funnier

They're calling it the Martin Mull phenotype. Yes we're doing old man race science now.

It is frankly strange to be this obsessed with college if you no longer attend one and do not work in education. More people in legacy media need to be told that.

jerry seinfeld on the phone: you're at lake MUNGO?!

This is the absolute dream challenger to Jeffries. Please, please, please let this happen.

Within the next four years there will be a trend best described as "prospector core" in fashion and a brief, failure of attempting to create a new gold rush based on likely fake online videos of people finding gold. I'm just calling this now folks.

FOLKS -- THE LIGHTENING HAS STRUCK THE TREE. We're getting a Mann/Bruckheimer Thief reunion.

Excellent local piece here from @ashleyhiruko.bsky.social + @kuow.org + @propublica.org.

It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

Wedding fit

🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

This is an article about Portland and coffee, but every time I sat down to write it I felt like it needed to tie into right-wing threats to the city too. Then the morning it came out, Trump sent the military authorized to use "full force," so I think my intuition was right. slate.com/life/2025/09...

We are a government ruled by viral video fiat now. You aren't even allowed to research which viral video has whipped the regime into a mania and how they came to believe it, because the research of the systems themselves is viewed as "censorship." This how you end up randomly invading Portland.

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.

This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like

Accidentally set off a flashbang in the house while tactically ascertaining if the mail man was threat level red or terror code 8181.

anyway here’s @vivmccall.bsky.social with some extremely good and extremely fucking sobering reporting on the recent surge in random hate crimes directed at trans women in Seattle. Please be careful, everyone. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

Every day there is a new piece (or many) of the saddest news I've ever heard, and it's especially brutal to consider that this is being done on purpose by our government.

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

trump talking about antifascism being a terrorist designation right in front of the iwo jima statue that depicts the american military engaging in antifascist action against fascist imperialist japan in ww2 is a perfect demonstration of how stupid this entire thing is

The person being quoted is shitty but he is not wrong; I did not work in tv for 45 years, but I’ve worked news/mag advertising and/or digital marketing for 25 or so - and if you want to grab a media company’s attention by the short hairs, yes: bitch to their advertisers, not their inboxes.

I'm not blaming anyone for being young but I am begging media reporters to Google Sinclair and Swift Boats.

This is why everything sucks. It's not trans people. It's not immigrants. You are being robbed blind before your eyes and those same people also own all the tech and media networks to tell you that the cause is not them

Civil War (Garland, 2024)

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

I'm hearing TV-O is back.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

Two students shot at a Denver-area high school, per CNN.

Excellent response from Hasan Piker, who was scheduled to debate Charlie Kirk in two weeks. On his stream he said: “The reverberation of people seeking out vengeance in the aftermath of this violent, abhorrent incident is going to be genuinely worrisome.” Also talked about his own vulnerability

My main observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence and calling for calm while MAGA are escalating language and openly lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.

need another set from this guy

Protestors chant FREE DC FREE PALESTINE TRUMP IS THE HITLER OF OUR TIME To Trump, Vance, and Hegseth

i think every democrat who does a cable news hit should start calling trump the pedophile president

Andrew Cuomo standing next to a sign that says in big letters "America deserved 9/11" with no additional context other than a photo of a Twitch streamer that most regular New Yorkers have never heard of what a fantastically run campaign

They really are totally out of ideas lol

Throwing this into the blue sky: @taylorlorenz.bsky.social my coworker and I keep seeing various articles about influencers dying. We genuinely were wondering WHY? Like it does seem like its happening a lot or at least we're hearing about it a lot. Do you have any insights? Big fan of your work!

Venezuela says the US and Erik Prince have plans to stage an attack on an ExxonMobil off-shore platform as a pretext to invade it…and normally that would be an insane claim but… www.latintimes.com/venezuela-sa...

Rivian's new tagline: "a truck that WON'T burn you alive and melt your skeleton"

This is why "Joe Rogan of the Left" doesn't work for Dems. They are terrified of being populist/controversial, so they require 100% control of messaging. The result is dark money and exploitative contracts given to moderate creators only. TY @taylorlorenz.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/dark-m...

Kelsey wrote about what I think is the single most evil blog I've ever read. Her post is good, The Free Press one is not. defector.com/the-free-pre...

i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.

This is one of many reasons why I get beyond frustrated with people who act surprised that Donnie's such a menace. Everyone's had the same public access to info about this guy being a lying grifter. We now know how much WORSE he really is, but ffs. How were so many baffled by his bullshit?