drewsef.bsky.social

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

You may be familiar with this tone from the way the same people talk about our founding fathers impregnating slaves.

I genuinely think the biggest threats to democracy are
1) A media landscape dominated by oligarchs making it impossible to get the truth in front of voters
2) Right wing state legislatures and judges changing rules pre-election
Whenever someone says they're going to cancel elections I roll my eyes

The thing about what’s happening at the Washington Post (and also, like, America) is: no one likes and it didn’t have to happen.

PANEL 1: A shirtless tattooed wizard in sweatpants walking to a mobile home. WIZARD: "What's this now?" PANEL 2: Wizard in closeup. WIZARD: "Problem is most people have tangled up their idea of wizardry with a pastoral never-was England." PANEL 3: Wizard in medium shot, smoking. WIZARD: "But, well, Indiana needs wizards, too. An' maybe it ain't the worst thing in the world if we had more wizards who c'n change the oil in a car." PANEL 4: Close up side view of the wizard's face, still smoking. WIZARD: "Like ev'rybody *loves* Gandalf. But Gandalf'll never teach a local kid how to shoplift baby formula to help his momma." PANEL 5: Wizard in medium shot, looking down. WIZARD: "Nah, people don't like magic around. Reminds 'em they *could* have a different way of doing things than the one that hurts em so bad, an' lotsa folks can't handle that."

wizard interview

I'm not saying CBS News is now a pedophile protection racket, just that it wouldn't be doing much differently if it weren't

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

It's crazy that if you have the first principle "human ethnic groups, physical differences aside, are not different in terms of mental capacity or 'inherent' personality traits" you are woker than 90% of the people who work for supposedly liberal media organizations.

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

Elon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible

Respectfully,

Um, that's Leap Day William

Lawyer here. There’s a lot of misinformation about what this means. It means he’s innocent even though he did it and the judge said that it’s good what he did

Kraft looking like one of the mummies in the pyramids with his old girlfriend who was buried alive with him

Wonder why Robert Kraft was there for the Melania premiere. Photo unrelated

Important to note that while I'm sure Mike Mac (and clearly Puka) have, at best, questionable politics, the owner of the Patriots literally sent his plane with the Patriots logo to fucking Gitmo and I think that wins hands down for The Worst Person involved in the Superbowl so go Hawks

Not to continuously relitigate the failed generation of Congress, but sitting idly by as tech companies destroyed any semblance of American privacy turned out to be a really nice gift to the worst people on earth. At least they got a few years of PAC donations out of it (what truly matters).

YouTube video by unvmebad86 George Washington

I don't know why they need to make short AI films about the American Revolution when the perfect one was created 18 years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRo...

Also remember this and have a laugh. I think it was Dan’s favorite thing that ever happened.

This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom:

"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."

YouTube video by OMNISEC LTD Police Squad - I'm a Locksmith and I'm a Locksmith

just remembered the best written and delivered joke in tv history

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFhp...

MAGA fuckface in cozy red sweater, holding dog also wearing sweater, against a background of vivid red foliage.

Endlessly useful Zack Fox tweet from 2018: this how photos be lookin in headlines when a white man kills his entire family. (it's a guy on a jetski with wife and daughter.)

Incredibly, this is an actual photo New York Post used for the guy who attacked Ilhan Omar.

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

a lot of Democratic officials have asked the protesters to be careful to not "give Trump what he wants" and I think it's fair to ask them to do likewise

This is unconscionable. Evil.

But it happened in May 2023, when Biden was president.

So no, we don’t “reform immigration detention,” we destroy ICE, CBP, and DHS. We can’t reform this soul sickness.

recently learned about “dek bass”, a sound system culture in rural West Bengal, using cassette decks and homemade systems, and it’s remarkable because 1) the music and equipment are sick and 2) the DJ always looks like he’s being briefed on a national security issue

good time for all of us to revisit this thread