Junior Wences

I feel like this story is slightly too complicated to immediately intelligible to a low-info voter but it's the steady drip of these pieces that really matters. And there's an near-endless supply.

Full moon tonight. 🌕

Motherfucker, you eat roadkill and snort heroin off of shit covered toilets

The thing about RFK Jr is that he’s not just a eugenicist who peddles extreme and dangerous anti-science, anti-vaccine conspiracy theories that cause suffering, pain, and death, but he’s also a vile racist piece of s**t

The powerful executives who cozied up to Trump didn't oops accidentally forget about pendulum swings. They either: 1) Like the fascism 2) Calculated it was here to stay, so going along was savvy 3) Saw no real downside, no consequences when the pendulum swung Crucial to show them 3 was a mistake

We call it praxis

We published this story late Friday afternoon amid an avalanche of news so I’m reposting it now because Kohen Wiley’s life mattered more than a box of diapers.

I think it’s a good thing to point out to people that attacks on trans rights are part-and-parcel of the far right program to make everyone’s rights negotiable and subject to revision at a moment’s notice.

“Ooooooh! You never told me you were gonna KILL it!”

That’s also why Vivek isn’t exactly lying when he says he didn’t mean to say Acton lied about being raped as a child. He doesn’t think she lied; he thinks that being raped disqualifies her from office, because she belongs to the class of people power is wielded against, not the class that wields it.

It's really damning. The accusations are numerous and well-supported. But I was really struck by the descriptions of Trump's behavior -- the name dropping, strong-arming, and attempts to buy off silence. His gross rivalry with Epstein. It's all so familiar. It's shit he's been doing his entire life.

October 26: Squad Goals

This is one of my favorite comic pages I ever wrote, and Matt Groening loved it. Also, I asked Grant Morrison to check the language and they did!

Walter Koenig's Pavel Chekov was one of Gene Roddenberry's biggest swings with the original series. For season 2, he put a Russian on the bridge of the Enterprise, on prime time network television, just 5 short years after the Cuban Missile Crisis and during the height of the Cold War. 🥺

the biggest presidential scandal in history but the political media largely acts as if it's not happening. hasan piker has received more mainstream political media coverage over the last 6 months than trump's connections with epstein has

This is eminently reasonable, extremely well-argued, and essential reading. Erin is correct about all of this, and it is doubly urgent given what we've seen in the UK. 2026 is the time to correct the Dems about this. 2028 may be too late.

Good time to reread this.

hunter s thompson sure did ruin a lot of male writers huh

One crucial effect of the moral void in which we live is that many people who might not have done something disgusting for selfish reasons because their creed made it unthinkable now scheme and swindle like little gangsters.

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Hannah Barnes once published a paper in the British Medical Journal with some fake scandal about trans kids and then the next day published an "exclusive" in the BBC saying that the "BMJ found a big scandal". Her source was her own report but she never disclosed that she also wrote the BMJ paper.

The US is not about to have a free and fair election. The state has put its thumb on the scale to favor the ruling party in multiple ways. It's a mostly free, somewhat unfair election. But still one where the ruling party can be overwhelmed by numbers. Hence the term "competitive authoritarianism."

Once seen as a crucial issue after the fall of ‘Roe,’ candidates here are now largely ignoring it altogether.

None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

The orientation I want congress to have: productive conflict is GOOD. Dems have a real credibility gap. They need to communicate clearly to the public what they are for. Hold the regime accountable and force Trumpists to oppose popular stuff. Don't muddy the message with watered down bipartisan BS.

Roger Zelazny’s A Night in the Lonesome October is the perfect read for this time of year. But in the SFF Bestiary, we're not here to discuss Games or Elder Gods. We're here to talk about the familiars:

I think I remember tons of background scares in "The Exorcist III. The old woman crawling on the ceiling, the various bizarre statues in the church. Even the big jump scare could be considered partly a background scene since no one in the film sees it happen...

Horror is famous for its jump scares, but what about the quieter, subtle moments that exist just for the viewers: a glimpse of a ghost just behind a protagonist, a demon that only we get to see? Let's talk about some terrifying moments of background horror in film and TV 🎈

I love being reminded that the audience really doesn’t give a shit about the developers. Like, forget that one of the most influential studios in our industry was just executed by its publisher, just make sure the product continues on the assembly lines!

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Thank you 💛

I just was made aware of the sudden and tragic passing of voice actor legend Eric Bauza. What an immensely talented and generous person. This is very sad and I wish him peace as well as his family. ❤️

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What dials the insanity up to 11 is that it's about BILL MAHER

Fascists let off the same stink wherever they are.

“Democrats have to join Republicans in saying awful things about trans people to win in red and purple states” Citation?

You could not waterboard this confession out of me, much less get me to put it in an interview. Can you imagine her kid's middle school enemies getting wind of this? "You suck so much your mom needed Chat GPT to say anything nice about you."

Increasingly clear that these tech elites have become entirely detached from their own humanity.