Sean L. McCarthy

JD Vance is everything Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio wish they had accomplished by now

Edinburgh Fringe uses 24-hour time, so fittingly, the shows in the 1900s hour all buggered up my schedule, but you can trace even more problems back to the 1800s. Shows in the Renaissance hours enjoy great space, while everything after 20:15 is utter chaos.

I'll start posting loads of reviews overnight, but for now, here's my landing page for Edinburgh Fringe 2025 for you to see what you should see this August!
fromthecomicscomic.com/edinburgh-fr...

Last Things First: Tamara Yajia Tamara Yajia’s family immigrated to America from Argentina twice before she became a teenager, and the second time prevented her from becoming potentially Argentina’s version of Britney Spears, for…

Hear here! My new podcast chat with @tamis.bsky.social about her memoir, "Cry For Me, Argentina!" fromthecomicscomic.com/2025/08/01/l...

All of Joe Rogan's friends really hate Texas From the heat to the power grid, Texas isn't what they were promised.

as someone who is really sick of annoying people moving to Texas because it's the based state, i had a lot of fun writing about how Joe Rogan's friends all seem to hate living in Austin:

www.chron.com/culture/cele...

I’ve got a 12-pack in my fridge!

Fun fact he uses his middle name because of me

The Smashing Machine trailer looks fun, so thanks in advance to Benny, but please remind me again why sure box-office comedy hits like Happy Gilmore 2 don’t get a theatrical release

Is this actually being spent, though? I think in NYC the big thing was the tunnel with Jersey, but when will we see new trains, more service? I know Bsky is great for periodically sharing the dream map of new routes, but what’s really still happening? NYC also is promising Queens-Brooklyn light rail

Of all of the missed opportunities of the Biden administration, the one that genuinely surprised me is his failure to reinvest in our national/regional rail network. He was the Amtrak guy! (I’m on an Amtrak now, obviously making this observation)

Long also has long been a Gutfeld! regular, so a lot of bad-faith arguing there

Jon Stewart hurling f bombs at CBS and Paramount on Comedy Central tonight

Remember when we never used to use the word cancelled in regards to people before someone on Twitter suggested #CancelColbert talk about a long game

I dare say Trump has not been good for comedy

“Don’t let facts get in the way of a good story!” my first city editor loved to joke

looks like a Halloween costume

It'd make sense for reporters to ask these evangelical christian politicians if they would indeed welcome and support the anti-christ as doing so would help usher in their ultimate salvation, and not even mention the guy by name to see how they answer

Congrats, Neighbor Guy!

What happened to @redsoxstats.bsky.social

Can verify

Did Paxton have sex with JD’s sofa

I moved to Buttondown and Wordpress (separate newsletters) and they’ll make it easy for you, and if they won’t help you crunch the numbers, then I will. cc: @christianfinnegan.bsky.social

If Americans in small towns just got jobs, then they’d have insurance they could use if they needed to go to their local hospital that’s now closing so maybe just pray on it and hope you get better on your own

Really Telegraphing their agenda

The new ICE budget is huge because they’re thinkin about all the people that are gonna definitely sue them into oblivion for unlawful this that and the other.

I am humbled by the support of more than 545,000 New Yorkers in last week's primary.

This is just the beginning of our expanding coalition to make New York City affordable. And we will do it together.

Narrated by Bob Costas!

Don’t tell me we cannot offer reparations for slavery and the colonizing genocide of indigenous peoples here when we’ve been subsidizing Zionism over there for my entire lifetime

This whole time The Bear was just advertising Olive Garden?

Remembering that time in the checkout line at the supermarket years ago overhearing the young woman behind me saying she ran Takei's social media