miss me?

Wouldn't have thought these were their biggest hits but what do I know

Wow, it must be terrible being told that you can’t use the bathroom.

I don’t like anything that’s happened in the last two days

The Louvre of Bluesky is Libs of TikTok for leftists and it's embarrassing that anything they say has a large footprint here

FREE LINK NOW This is a Black person who has been on Bluesky forever and apparently just got banned for calling Jay transphobic. We are at the "hurting the mods' feelings is a bannable offense" stage of Jay's meltdown, now

“WE DID NOT LOSE IN VIETNAM! IT WAS A TIE!”

this entire thing was so unnecessary once again: hire a comms person and save your bitching about the userbase for the group chat

And I will die on the hill that she said nothing wrong. It was a comment specifically urging people to not write off all Trump supporters, but the press pushed its own insane version of it.

I’ve never* watched Babylon 5, Deep Space Nine, or BSG. [*I think I did see the pilot episode of BSG at some point, and I did eventually get to watch the B5 pilot, but that’s it]

So @spacelawshitpost.me aka Link got banned. I just got text message. So yeah. We stop saying things are accidents now? Link of all people? Apparently Jay said something to him before taking him down. He didn’t even get a chance to reply. He sent this image. This is sad.

This is why i like to substitute alchemy for AI. All the stupid slogans get exposed for how ridiculous they are once you do that: “Alchemy is here to stay” “Alchemy is only getting better and better over time” etc

I am (unfortunately) an accidental expert on eugenics, and let me just say with my full throat: if we eliminated every "AI" chatbot and plagiarism LLM and search engine "assistant", it would not be eugenics or genocide. These things are not PEOPLE. There's no "intelligence" involved.

This wraps my and @andrewperez.bsky.social’s first work week on staff at @zeteo.com. It’s a blast and love this place and the people here. (Follow along, subscribe, etc. please 🙏.) A lot more work and reporting to do on this godawful era. See you there, 🫡

I only have a second rn but: For the uninitiated, Zeteo is a new media company, a startup from former msnbc host Mehdi Hasan. One of my rolling stone editors and I came over to help scale up the political reporting / scoops operations. It is, in my humble opinion, one of the most exciting news…

Even if you weren’t pro-abolishing ICE, there clearly should, in a moderately sane environment, be a deep cleansing — not ethnic or violent, the way the agency likes to do to others esp recently — of the organization; what more evidence and data do u need that it is lawless, out of control & violent

the gang that couldn’t blackmail straight

This is an incredibly difficult time for journalists to be resigning their jobs, especially from small community papers.

“You guys in the army are so fucking rad, all you have to do all day is kill people and break things” is peak Everybody Here is Twelve Theory.

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

This administration is like the Ravenous Bugblatter Lawyer of Traal.

Folks, there are worse ways to spend your Friday evening than to read Ursula Vernon’s ongoing travelogue

I’ve said this before: even as recently as five years ago, if I saw the word “Zionist” used by a non-Jew it was almost uniformly a white supremacist spreading ZOG conspiracy bullshit. The migration of the word into routine political discourse is just not good.

I have just learned about “dirty soda” and please correct me if I am wrong but it sounds like Mormons reinvented the egg cream but made it shitty and now they want to patent it?

QP a double feature that sounds like one movie: Three Identical Strangers In The Bedroom

What I'm referring to. It's a privilege to be invited onto networks to talk about my reporting but I have limits. Similarly stopped doing NewsNation after Nextar took its Kimmel stance.

When life hands you pluots, make pluot-blueberry cobbler

Customer: YOU SO DUMB DMV: YOU SO DUMB Verdict: DENIED

Stasi. The American Stasi. I wish that weren't hyperbole.

Today in “dc street signs”

we could power an army of AI-generated virgin actors with the energy that Tyler Cowen puts into thinking about barely-adult female human virgins.

I just saw someone refer to Stephen Miller as "Pee-Wee German" and I will be taking the rest of the day off, thank you

really seems like @govpritzker.illinois.gov is talking out of both sides of his mouth. either step in or stop pretending.

we could power an army of AI-generated virgin actors with the energy that Tyler Cowen puts into thinking about barely-adult female human virgins.

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

My fellow Jews: protect your heart and don’t read the replies to this post. My fellow allies: read all of these replies, internalize the antisemitism problem on the left, and start gathering your thoughts about how you will fight this vile rhetoric.

Here's the assignment folks. Write op-eds for your local papers and campus newspapers too. Just. Say. No. This is a classic authoritarian move and risks the future of higher education and science and innovation in the US. Speak out today. No time to lose. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

This is deeply fucked up.

now that I have seen the movie I *cackled*

To be fair, this statement does make a strong case that the U.S. needs to prioritize literacy much more highly than it has.

You may have heard my arguments against the Electoral College before. Here’s a new one the Founders never anticipated: If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.

I’m no Newsom fanboy, but figuring out how to change the incentives of institutions considering capitulation is one of the big tasks of our moment.

Arresting ICE agents is a worthwhile move, but actually passing legislation to dismantle ICE infrastructure would be far more impactful IMO.

What I'd really like to see is Healey and the legislature pass a bill that would bar Sheriffs from working with ICE, because that would help shut down the Plymouth detention facility

@massgovernor.bsky.social are you listening?

Faculty, alums, students and staff at universities across the country. Time to stand up. Your presidents and trustees need to hear from you. Stiffen their spines. Just say no to extortion.

If you're going to Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile tonight, please post about it! Take pictures of the marquee. Try to explain the ending and not sound insane. We gave this movie away to indie theatres for free and told them to keep the proceeds or donate to charity. So do your civic duty and post.

has anyone set up a WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE, MR. POPE bsky feed yet, or do I need to figure out how to ingest the firehose myself

Burlington MA ICE Facility: Earlier today, hundreds of citizens came to protest against ICE and Trump’s policies.

As some of you know, for 4 years I've been working on a book about the last 80 years of popular culture as a flashpoint for the gay rights struggle. Sometimes I've wondered who it's for. Then yesterday a young gay man, maybe 23, asked me if Stonewall happened because everyone was in NYC for Pride. >