Adam

Wasn’t able to go today, but the images were incredible. A big, beautiful ray of hope today.

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

he was actually having a flashback to the time he saw The Birdcage on the netflix menu

YouTube video by The Country Side of Harmonica Sam The Country Side of Harmonica Sam - A Drink After Midnight

I feel betrayed that nobody told me about Haromonica Sam before today.

youtu.be/BGEZIiZWuyk?...

Hey remember when Torii Hunter said it'd be "difficult and uncomfortable" to have a gay teammate and then, a couple of years later, appeared in political ads lauding a candidate's opposition to gay marriage? I do! Personally, I wouldn't interview a bigot, but I'm not a GM. bsky.app/profile/twin...

Of all the dudes in this administration, I hope this dude eats the most shit.

Knol.

Prize Horse. Same ballpark.

This geographical location is where I’d rather be right now than work.

Look I try not to doomsay or spread panic but this shit is truly and deeply Very Bad for every single trans person in America and unless everyone makes it their mission in life over the next few days to make sure that their reps know that shutting down the government is the correct option here.

Disbanding ICE and prosecuting everyone who led and worked for it is, in fact, the moderate position.

This was such a fun episode.

I probably shouldn’t be saying this but I’ve convinced more than 60 German Shepherds to quit the police force

entire government of petulant children

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments.

that fox news host still has his job.

The United States Of Snitches | Defector On Saturday, the chairman of the Republican Party in Michigan’s Oakland County spent his afternoon directing his online followers’ attention to local businesses that had not lowered their flags to hal...

I wrote about the leveling and deranging effects of the Trumpist snitchscape, and the awful content creation imperatives governing this awful moment. defector.com/the-united-s...

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

Remember literally three years ago, when centrist pundits claimed that the trans backlash was really just a wonky debate over the correct medical standards for children? Fast-forward to today and you have members of Congress calling for ALL trans people to be seized and held incommunicado • Alejandra Caraballo • @esq... • 30m Rep. Ronny Jackson calls to forcefully mass institutionalize trans people and calls them a cancer. www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/r... "They have an underlying level of aggressiveness," he said of transgender women, adding that left-wing media "come in every single day telling them that they are victims." He went on to argue that transgender Americans face "legitimate psychiatric issues related to the stuff that they've been exposed to" and that society needs to respond with stronger mental health interventions: "We have to treat these people. We have to get them off the streets, and we have to get them off the internet, and we can't let them communicate with each other. I'm all about free speech, but this is a virus, this is a cancer that's spreading across this country," Jackson said. ALT

All this stuff should be categorical proof beyond any doubt that there is no accommodating reactionaries who have the bit between their teeth; that the only acceptable option is to resist them with everything we have and that anyone who wants to compromise with them is a disastrous idiot, at best.

The president and vice president vow to prosecute groups connected with the opposition party for imaginary connections to violent crime. The president announces a massive lawsuit against the nation's top newspaper and largest book publisher. What would you think if you saw this in another country?

“And we watched time go by
Well I told her ask me anything
She asked me how to cry
And when I think of you I know forever I will be
Happy as the fool because together we are free.

“Mary’s Pub” by Amble

Good night Palmers 1906-2025.

@palmersman.bsky.social #minneapolis #divebar

Anyone proposing that an official be allowed to revoke the passport of a citizen for criticizing *this* country would be rightly regarded as batshit insane and deeply hostile to this country's laws and traditions.

Proposing that they can do that if we criticize some *other* country?

Fuck. That.

SUNDAY NIGHT UPDATE:
The Vikings did NOT do a Charlie Kirk memorial.

Overall stats:

• 8 teams did a Charlie Kirk tribute (GB, NYJ, DAL, MIA, TEN, NO, ARI, KC), those teams went a combined 3-5

• 6 teams did no tribute (PIT, DET, BAL, CIN, IND, MIN), those teams went 4-1 so far

Photo credit: Alli Rusco/Minnesota Vikings

Vikings by a million.

It will never not be amazing to me that journalists and other people in positions of public influence willingly stay on a site that is being openly manipulated on every level by one of the worst human beings on Earth.

"Loomer falsely suggested that Paul Pelosi and his assailant were lovers, calling the brutal assault on the octogenarian a “booty call gone wrong.” Speaking to a television audience a few days after the attack, a grinning Kirk called for the intruder to be sprung from jail."

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

Charlie Kirk warns that Haitian migrants "will become your masters" if Trump loses the election

Last September Charlie Kirk claimed that Haitian immigrants in Huntsville were "raping your women and hunting you down at night." He said that rural Alabamians faced a future in which Haitian immigrants "will become your masters." www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

From the bottom of my heart: fuck the wall street journal. Fuck Sadie Gurman, and fuck James Faneli the two irresponsible pricks who published that stupid story.

the person behind this unhinged, anti-factual editorial is set to decide coverage at one of the nation’s major news networks