Leigh

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)

Hahaha just start yelling towns

“Oshkosh - 17; multiplayer”

It’s October and the end of the season so if you want to know how coaching is going - no you don’t!

“.. the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections.”

@nytimes.com #OKgov
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Omg. 💯

joined right in on pushing people back in the closet and whoops! Who knew consequences existed

Gen z genderqueers you need to remember that there’s no amount of respectability that will make them accept you.

Yall spent years attacking older generations that fucked with kink and transgressive stuff and they still wanna eliminate you from existence. thanks for aiding the fascists tho

Avs at Kings was a wildly physical game for October. What a season opener.

An opinion that includes a postcard 🍿

“I was looking forward to the lowered [cost of] real estate”

- My babe lamenting the lack of Rapture

seeing another rash of voter blaming and i wonder how people reconcile this with all the times dem senators - in deep blue states, even - that people voted for and put into office decided to give unanimous consent to GOP shit so they could go on vacation. they voted 'correctly', and yet, get nothing

What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.

Dems are so inspirational. /s

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

For the people that feel it’s safe to register for a protest, let us know what kind of arrest training you have? What kind of protest training do you have?
Do you feel comfortable leading a training for your peers?
Do you feel comfortable without a list of what to do next in case of an arrest?

Update: Phryne’s newest nickname is Princess Ate Too Many Donuts.

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

This a million times.

Just so everyone is clear, this right here is what an actual violation of the First Amendment looks like. When the head of the FCC says a company needs to do something about someone who displeased the administration or lose its license, that’s no joke unconstitutional

A Russian immigrant taught my 9th grade US government class. He told us the most important lesson to take away was understanding the three branches of the US government are co-equal according to the Constitution.

I think a lot about that class these days.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

“Cancel culture”, but with the US attorney general endorsing it

To see @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social, @ezraklein.bsky.social and other columnists just ignore this central piece of Turning Point’s work is inexcusable. TPUSA and its allies terrorized hundreds of academics. I was one of them.

White supremacy in a nutshell.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/a-white-ma...

It is pretty amazing to see people go from “the left is the enemy of democracy and must be purged” to “who can really know why good kids do bad things?”

Bluesky took down our CK post. Still up on the other socials.

A death sentence

Sometimes, the Internet is worth it.

The Boden ads are calling to me but I have no justification to purchase anything

Just a note that they wouldn’t be doing this if they didn’t believe they will make this much money by using these copyrighted works and cannot make it without using them.