Dennis Pierce

Because I'm woke, I know this isn't how you should hold a wake.

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RIP Robert Redford. I have fond memories of watching The Sting with my dad as a kid.

Donald Trump called Tom Hanks "woke," but he has more in common with Hanks than he thinks. For instance, he, too, knows what it's like to be a 12-year-old boy trapped in the body of a grown man. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Donald Trump thought he could Sully the good name of Tom Hanks, but that was a Big mistake. I think he's unleashed an Inferno-sized backlash with The Post he made.

You know you've lost the plot when you go after Tom freakin' Hanks.

The Entire Developed World Has These 10 Workers' Rights. America Has Zero. Picture a German worker learning they have only 10 sick days per year.

The US is the only developed nation without federally mandated paid family leave. In Sweden, each parent gets 240 days per child—paid at 80% of salary and usable until the child turns 12. Tell me again how we're the best nation in the world?

Inspired by my joke-a-day calendar this morning:

The partner of a crime fiction writer says to their spouse: "I'm tired of you always acting like the detective in your novels. I want to split up!"

"Great idea!" the author replies. "We can cover more ground that way!"

After TCU spoiled Bill Belichick's college coaching debut in a 34-point rout, I wonder how UNC boosters feel about the hire. There probably hasn't been that much shame and regret by a Tar Heel since Saxon remembered what he did on that yacht in season 3 of The White Lotus.

TCU cut through the UNC defense last night more easily than Bill Belichick's scissors cut through the sleeves of his sweatshirts.

TCU scored 48 points against UNC last night. That's one point for every year that Bill Belichick is older than his girlfriend.

The coverage of this pivotal speech is a microcosm of how broken our corporate media are—and it's a key reason we're in the mess we're in now.

This story by The Hill treats his speech as political "games." Clearly The Hill still thinks our politics are just a back-and-forth volley of insults and nothing more serious: thehill.com/homenews/sta...

Full text of Illinois Gov. JB Pritkzer's speech at news conference on reported Trump military plan for Chicago Illinois Governor JB Pritzker spoke at a news conference Monday afternoon, addressing reports President Trump is planning to send the military to Chicago. Here is the full text of his remarks.

This CBS News page spelled Pritzker's name incorrectly in the headline—and it still hadn't been fixed 16 hours after being posted: www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

JB Pritzker's speech yesterday should be required listening or reading for every American. And yet, I haven't seen a single headline from an American newspaper that framed the story correctly, as a pushback against dangerous authoritarianism.

If only more people had paid attention in social studies classes—and if only schools hadn’t devalued social studies because it wasn’t part of the focus for No Child Left Behind—maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess.

You can tell the new Superman movie is fantasy fiction because at the end a mainstream media outlet publishes a damning expose on a billionaire—and it actually influences public opinion.

An independent radio station in the Boston area just played the Lucy Dacus song “Ankles” and I’d like to think there was a special meaning behind it this morning.

We need less of Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer and more of JB Pritzker.

At the 250th anniversary celebration of the Battle of Concord, which I was honored to attend, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey said: "We live in a moment when our freedoms are once again under attack, including from the highest office in the land."

Hey Denny, DM me when you have a chance—I'd love to catch up.

Bro content is poisoning young mens' minds, making women less safe, and creating a toxic environment in our schools. My wife deals with the fallout every day as a teacher, and it's just getting worse.

This should be dominating the news right now. It's a million times worse than Hillary's emails, which the media obsessed with for months. The corporate media is failing our democracy.

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So ... the right to air arms?

I feel the same way. The only good thing to take away from it is that they're finally waking up to what's going on as well. Hopefully it's not too late for their influence to make a difference.

That's how Republicans roll. They hide their true intentions behind platitudes like "small government," "states' rights," "free markets," "local control"—which sound good to voters but aren't really core beliefs. Their core belief is actually just accumulating wealth and power by any means.

We want leaders who do the right thing because it's the right thing to do, not because of how it tracks in polling.

You'd think people would wake up to this by now.

Donald Trump has done the impossible. He’s made thousands of Yalies not just sympathize with, but actually admire, Harvard.

If you claim to love America and you also support the kidnapping and trafficking of ANYONE to an El Salvadoran concentration camp without due process, whether they're a citizen or not, then you don't really understand the principles America was founded on.