The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

(Trump is gonna seat one, maybe two more on SCOTUS next year.)

For the record, he is a traitor, thus ineligible for the presidency, and his entire reign is illegitimate on a legal level. This seems worth stating from time to time.

—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter —Infanta? —No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly

# Christmas carol lyrics that go hard when you paste them over a picture of Stacker Pentecost

My dad was a state judge and made me take the KERRY EDWARDS bumper sticker off my car in 2004 because the title was in his name.

Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.

NEW: A new congressional investigation prompted by ProPublica reporting has found that, contrary to the Trump administration’s claims, immigration agents have frequently detained and mistreated U.S. citizens. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

The bones of Santa have been leaking liquid for 1,700 years.

When we talk about physical media, we are often only taking about personal collections but a big part of shunning the current digital ecosystem is supporting your local library. Not just for print books and periodicals but for movies, games and other medias too. Get. A. Library. Card.

impeccable and harrowing, by @kerryhowley.bsky.social: nymag.com/intelligence...

Given that Trump is swiftly hurtling towards completing the project of ensuring all his crimes will meet no accountability, I frankly don’t see what he has to lose by resigning at some point well before the end of his term.

I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.

the baby (17 months) raised both her hands and said “WEADY?” so I said “ready!” and then she slapped me in the face

Psssssst: Here’s the theater finder page for Wake Up Dead Man! Showtimes begin 11/26, and more theaters will be popping up throughout the week. www.wakeupdeadmanfilm.com

What’s so corrosive is, these sham cases are win-win for Trump. If he gets a conviction, great, if he doesn’t, he still muddies the water on if **any** prosecution has ever been apolitical. Sewing distrust is the animating impulse behind virtually every choice he makes. It’s what authoritarians do.

You simply are all not talking enough about how funny it is that Kelly Reichardt named her fictional art museum “Framingham” in The Mastermind.

feel like a hack constantly beating the drum of like: this stuff is poisonous! our discourse has been poisoned. many of the most powerful brokers in silicon valley have been radicalized by their own algorithms & are funding moral decay. it's sad and...boring! but this is a lot of whats being built!

Hey how’s Ivanka Trump doing these days?

I think it's really bad for our souls to just have these monstrous crimes as the white noise of our era, like a clip from Woodstock to establish something takes place in the 60s

Jeffrey Epstein, dating counselor to a former university president Also … “dint”? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

Trump’s first nominee for Attorney General of the United States

Jesus Christ, I would have been fired into the sun by the US Attorney if I pulled this shit

What a deeply unserious country we live in!

I’m sorry, is Thomas Massie attempting a glow up??

They made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm.

They know what they’re doing is wrong.

The AP tracked down details of some of the people killed in President Trump's military strikes on drug smugglers he describes as narco-terrorists. They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver. apnews.com/article/trum...

Not to mention they all voted for the guy who genuinely tried, in a moment of crisis he had engineered, to get his own vice president lynched

🤔

Coming to a blue* city near you

Why are people saying Trump is going to “run” for a third term? He’s going to violate the constitution and then go out gladhanding?

Sure seems like a lot of people are being laid off right now!

It kinda feels like Obama would have a genuinely strong libel lawsuit here?

There is no journalistic task more imperative than getting eyes inside this process. The kind of thing historians wait for archives of dictatorships to open, when figuring out how the REAL nightmare begin. newrepublic.com/post/202199/...

No correct aspect ratio upload to be found on YouTube, and I could be more rigorous about my editing, but I genuinely think this is some of the funniest 106 seconds in comedy history, and definitely in my top five Simpsons jokes.

ripping up the white house on a whim to build a grand ballroom during a shutdown in which you are illegally firing thousands of workers, with stagflation setting in thanks in large part to your tariffs and willful destruction of the dollar. versailles shit. fiddling while rome burns shit. classic

I like how the NYT tried to do a “some experts say” framing, and the expert was like, you do not need an expert opinion to see this is bad.

In addition to all the other obvious reactions, here's another one: they BOTH said 'your mom'? Why did they BOTH say it?

idk man do we need to go “inside” everything

It is so painfully obvious that Facebook is reading our text messages and listening to our verbal conversations and we’re all just kinda like shrug.

One Battle After Another

This is probably the most detailed and substantive end of year presser I’ve ever seen a baseball GM do. www.youtube.com/live/v4bYtrs...

A previous employer of mine announced last week they were firing over 200 employees and replacing them with AI. News that diabolical can only make you scrutinize all AI output you see with a fine toothed comb. And I just see way too many missed layups to inspire any kind of confidence.

The average pitch the Cubs batters have seen this postseason is 92.7 MPH. Not the average "fastball." The average PITCH. All of them. That's faster than the average -fastball- the 2008 Cubs saw in the playoffs: 92.4.

I love how the basis for Sean Penn’s performance in One Battle After Another seems to be the “I’m gonna shake your hand!” airplane guy.

THE DAILY: President Trump and his inner circle are making millions of $$ from agreements that intersect with America’s national security interests, a NYT investigation found. Eric Lipton explains why these conflicts of interest are unlike anything we’ve seen before www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/p...