Bex

Crying over the new Yellowcard album because I'm just so happy. I haven't liked an album this much since Southern Air.

i am not saying the world has gone completely bonkers but
the world has gone absolutely completely bonkers

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Screenshot of text on butter-colored Semafor background: This predates the social media wars of the late 2010s: One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience was being booted out of the [italics] Gawker comments section [roman], way back in the day. But as progressive

Of fucking COURSE

This is the first time I've purposefully watched Kimmel in like ten years, I think.

Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke."

the fact that a sitting US president is talking about antifascism being terrorism should tell you a lot about what he thinks his own government represents

It's not just the authoritarianism — it's how shameless, how *gleeful* this administration is about it

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

even the smart bigots know that the right to free speech existing at the pleasure of the mad king is not a country even they want to live in

People want everything to be a binary between dooming and “we’re so back” but I’ll just say this is both a really troubling attack on press freedom and an open admission that your regime is fragile enough to feel threatened by Jimmy fucking Kimmel

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Far more dangerous than Trump, I think, is how quickly the last eight months have pulled back the curtain on America's elites and shown everyone how venal, how cowardly and how utterly mediocre the foundation of our society has been.

aside from making the poster feel arch and superior, this kind of simplistic, affectedly cynical bullshit ONLY serves to discourage people from giving a shit and taking action. and that, in turn, strengthens fascism.

so great job protecting historical precedent, i guess.

I've never had particularly strong feelings about Kimmel either way but this is so fucked up. He didn't say a single incorrect thing in that monologue. We are so fucking cooked.

the trajectory from circa 1999 Man Show-era women jumping on trampolines Jimmy Kimmel to 2025 free speech canary in the coal mine Jimmy Kimmel is really something

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

millennials are band directors now and I think that’s terrific

It’s kind of surreal that people on the left are losing their accounts and some even their jobs for being rude or snarky right now while people on the right are openly calling for blood.

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

There's no other way to see all this obsequious pageantry from Democrats and institutions - firing reporters, flying flags at half-mast, loud and tearful eulogies for an influencer - as anything other than widescale capitulation to the Trump regime in anticipation of mass escalations in repression.

This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.

Well if everyone else is doing it ...

STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING

Here's my cats

grok, how do i conduct a manhunt

Gavin Newsom really posted that the best way to honor Charlie Kirk's memory is by continuing his work.

Fuck you, Gavin.

Even even though the former childhood star is usually able to get away from his famous past in France, Culkin did share a funny story about a Parisian cafe that was using his name as its Wi-Fi password. The actor explained that when he walked into the cafe, a woman handed him a "Home Alone"-era photo of himself on a card. “A waitress just gave it to me and walked away -- their Wi-Fi code was 'Macaulay Culkin,"' the actor said. "When she came back, I said, 'I like your Wi-Fi code.' She goes, 'Thank you,' and I say, 'C'est moi.' She turned white and brought over the owner of the place, who said, 'I knew you'd come here someday.'"

Once again thinking about Macaulay Culkin walking into the Parisian café where the wifi password was “Macaulay Culkin” and the owner saying “I knew you’d come here someday”