Uncomfortably Dumb

www.nytimes.com/athletic/646...

Idiocracy was unrealistic only because we got dumber quicker than the movie anticipated

The ICE agents deploying these are people without necessary training, those who couldn’t cut it in police training or didn’t want to join the military.

They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.

Will TrumpRx save me money on drugs or not? The president’s new plan to slash drug prices is “a splashy announcement without a lot of substance.”

www.vox.com/health/46360...

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Why Dawn Staley has to rely on South Carolina freshmen Agot Makeer, Ayla McDowell in 2025-26

www.goupstate.com/story/sports...

Gallego: "The president is an idiot. He doesn't actually understand how the military works."

If Congress shuts down and stops working, how will we be able to tell?

So…let me see if I have this right. The federal government is gonna shut down in 30hrs, and the party that controls the ENTIRE federal government is trying to blame the party that controls NONE of the federal government for the looming shutdown?

Kimmel won. Winning matters, wins are how we’re going to prevent this autocratic slide.

The Jimmy Kimmel blackout is completely over: Nexstar and Sinclair back down | CNN Business Sinclair and Nexstar, the two major station groups that preempted the talk show earlier this month, are allowing the show to return to their ABC-affiliated stations on Friday evening.

This is a victory for Jimmy Kimmel and ABC and a reflection of the power that national networks have over local affiliates. www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/m...

Live sports could be collateral in programming battles with local affiliates Live sports could prove to be collateral in an ongoing battle between local affiliates and national programmers like ABC.

awfulannouncing.com/abc/live-spo...

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

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I haven't had time to read up on the latest shooting, but I'm going to post my incredibly radical position that a shooting is bad no matter who did it and no matter who was shot.

Stop trying to crack the code of a shooter's motives and focus on the one thing they all have in common -- the guns.

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.

List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

One thing to always remember is that engagement feeds the algorithm, not facts.

Here’s How Late-Night Became Political Before Trump The hosts’ monologues may feel especially pointed right now, but the trend really took off during the George W. Bush administration before the Iraq war.

"To understand how network late-night hosts became such critics of Trump, you have to take the long view, because their increasingly political commentary preceded the current president and happened gradually," our comedy critic writes.

The OG revisionists were defeated white southerners who continued to glorify the Confederacy and claimed slavery was a benign institution.

Kimmel: "This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this."

SO MUCH SPORTS RIGHT NOW

Disney has lost nearly $4 Billion in three days from combined stock price collapse and cancelled subscriptions.

‘Andor’ Writer Dan Gilroy On Disney Suspending Jimmy Kimmel & Hollywood Facing “Venomous Evil”: “This Isn’t A Skirmish. It’s A Siege” – Guest Column 'Andor' Writer Dan Gilroy On Trump's Jimmy Kimmel Pressure Campaign: "Artists Are Censored First Because They Fear Us Most" -- Guest Column

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‘Andor’ Writer Dan Gilroy On Disney Suspending Jimmy Kimmel & Hollywood Facing “Venomous Evil”: “This Isn’t A Skirmish. It’s A Siege” – Guest Column 'Andor' Writer Dan Gilroy On Trump's Jimmy Kimmel Pressure Campaign: "Artists Are Censored First Because They Fear Us Most" -- Guest Column

"We spent six years thinking about a fascist takeover of a galaxy far, far away. Six years thinking about ordinary beings as an authoritarian regime comes in for the kill. Many people saw parallels between Andor and the real world. I see them as well, particularly in the events of the last week."

Exactly this

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

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.

YouTube video by James Talarico I’m running for the U.S. Senate

It’s Time To Start Flipping Tables!!

Well said Talarico

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A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.