David Lebo

We were correct to abandon him after Marvin Gaye

"Martin Luther King was a Trekkie" is just a statement of fact

How often do you think about the fact that Nichelle Nichols was about to quit the show before Martin Luther King personally convinced her to stay

She was running TV ads well before Foushee, but there was a big Foushee push at the end

She ran a TON of TV ads, as well as digital.

Foushee did not have AIPAC backing this cycle, but she did have AI money

Also the Foushee family is royalty in the Orange and Chatham County areas

If it breaks for Foushee, I think she has to credit Orange and Chatham (where her family is royalty) more than Durham based on margin alone

my favorite story of 2025 was the NCGOP sending someone to Page's house to hand deliver a letter saying "if you run, we will spend all our money here instead of the general" and he didn't care

If you're not clued in to NC politics, Berger has been in that seat for literal decades, is the most powerful Republican in the state, outspent page 43ish:1, and was personally endorsed by Trump. And yet!

Meanwhile, Phil Berger will likely be collecting social security sooner than he thought

I'll never forget Crenshaw doing an ad in 2020 where he parachutes in to physically fight antifa, only to tweet "cut that shit out" from a broom closet on January 6th

It's gonna be so nice when I won't have to make continual angry calls to Senator Roy Cooper

The first time I watched it, it didn't fully click for me until he picked up the skeleton warrior and snapped it over his knee

Hillary being brought before them feels more insane to me, because nobody on earth does better before Congress than her. She's not the most engaging public speaker but you put her before a subcommittee and she won't have a hair out of place. I still remember Chaffetz sweating

In 2016, I covered a Bill Clinton campaign event. He says things I knew *for a fact* that Hillary didn't publicly believe until Bernie surprised her and got a bunch of delegates. But damn he's still Slick Willy, because for the duration of his speech, he convinced me

Further proof that so many of society's elite institutions bent the knee to him *entirely* because they wanted to

I've never heard of this and yet *immediately* understood it

I genuinely think Eric Idle is the most chill Python member because he lives in LA while Cleese has been cooking his brain by living on TERF Island

I have an overwhelming urge to watch The Wizard of Oz

Season 1 of Kimmy Schmidt scratched the itch really well for me, and every subsequent season as Kimmy started doing more Liz Lemon eyerolls it left the itch increasingly unscratched

hey bossmen of the world heads up that it’s actually very obvious when you sneak AI into your apps thinking no one will notice. dead giveaway when the app stops working for example

Neil Sedaka was a distant cousin of mine, he never knew I existed but it also felt nice hearing his song in a movie and going "I'M RELATED TO HIM"

May his memory be a blessing

Today in particular I'm thinking about when @jonhexbrooks.bsky.social called John Landis "the ultimate helicopter parent"

For a brief time my Twitter handle was "synth bagpipe player"

You gotta think that Colton is thanking his lucky stars that Michael Rapaport made an ass out of himself in like three new ways at this reunion and absorbed all the heat

So I just got a statement from California AG Bonta's office:
"Paramount/Warner Bros is not a done deal. These two Hollywood titans have not cleared regulatory scrutiny — the California Department of Justice has an open investigation, and we intend to be vigorous in our review"

Final Cut X's launch was such a mess that the industry switched to Adobe Premiere and Adobe spent so much time hating their users that people started slinking back to Final Cut

Al Franken was forced to resign over a tasteless photo, while Tony Gonzales is being defended by the Speaker of the House after he was caught sexually harassing his staffer until she killed herself. Both parties are not the same.

Al Franken was forced to resign because he was accused of sexual harassment by nine different women and it continues to be disgusting how libs do the "oh so you can't make plans with friends" meme over it because he had slightly better politics than the average Democrat