Black Cat Appreciation Society

My fellow US satirists, now is the time to do your thing. Self-censoring is “obeying in advance.” Forget your career—draw blood Tear down these crooks & fools Whether you’re writing for Colbert or doing one night in some black box over a bowling alley, NOW is the time to LET IT RIP!!!!

How racist and desperate do you have to be to look at this and say, “Got ‘em!”?

Man, I shoulda been there!

Thirty Years’ War would go insane as a rivalry name

Thinking back to the halcyon days of the Seventies, I remember examples of all of these things. In many ways the world is worse -- but this kind of kindness counts for so much.

Halloween Week is a thing, and I LOVE IT

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.

Godspeed

Weird #Taiwan

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

I think he's right. I hope to God he is.

NEWS --> Dems are planning novel ways to wield power of the purse against Trump's corrupt prosecutions of critics like Ilhan Omar if they win House. Reps Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin tell me a range of aggressive tactics will be deployed. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2171...

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.

it is my deepest and most fervent wish that the tech oligarchs suffer consequences for openly allying with fascism the world over maybe we can extradite zuck in 2029

I feel like we don’t talk about the president calling one of his most important defense contractors a “drug addict” enough

If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

Writers Guild speaks out about tech platforms squashing the @alexgibneyfilm doc about Elon Musk: “A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration threatens democratic discourse.”

your yearly PSA: want to do something positive wrt the ecosystem while saving yourself a bunch of time and effort? skip the bagging and just rake leaves into a pile wherever convenient (bonus points if you do it under a tree). www.nps.gov/articles/000...

The Musk documentary has been pulled from theaters…which proves the central thesis of the Musk documentary

Clearly we need to tie voting to discounts on home appliances I’m only half kidding

Please don’t judge disabled people for staying in abusive relationships. You can’t imagine the terror of being financially and/or physically dependent on someone for survival. There’s no one to step in and rescue us. This is why disabled people have higher rates of abuse. We can’t escape.

detective who hates that he has to be the postmodern, deconstructive detective who has to repeatedly remind the audience that detective tropes are corrosive instead of the guy who gets to drink scotch and smoke big cigars and pursue dames without examining how he fits in the larger social context

It's Richard Kind's time to shine

It's not fair to judge Tulsi when she says stuff like this. It's probably just what her cult leader thinks.

As someone who was deathly ill with a mystery illness from 21-42 -- whose family still thinks he's crazy -- this is a good thread. "Your numbers are normal" is devastating. I remember praying for any diagnosis, so I could do something other than watch my young self drift towards death.

More like this will save our country. And is perhaps the only thing that can.

I just looked over at Trending "Zuckerberg weighed leaving California" and honestly thought, "Did they think he was smuggling a pound of hash in his ass?"

Translation: If the government turns on him, he's finished.

It's pretty sexist that everyone assumes "Jack" the Ripper was a man, girls can do anything 🦸‍♀️

There is no bottom for the Republican Party. It is a force for evil I’ve watched for my entire adult life (I’m almost 49). This is why I can’t stand calls for bipartisanship or demonstrations of the old boys and girls club. They’re fucking monsters who ruin the very fabric of society.

Gary Tyler, a quilt artist who spent decades on death row for a crime he didn’t commit, now has his first solo exhibit at the Grand Rapids Art Museum

While voting in Tennessee, this happened to Dolly Parton's sister. Listen up, y'all. Take as long as you need to and make damn fucking sure your vote is cast correctly.

I thought Craig was a splendid Bond (this coming from a Connery fan), but his films were marred by the modern screenwriting fetish for backstory & psychology. "What makes James Bond tick" is that...he's James Bond. If we wanted a character grounded in reality, Harry Palmer would be the franchise.

The truly recherché Penelope Tree, photographed by Bailey in 1967.

A bit like an LLM, right?

This...hits me right in the soul

Read in this article that Yale's office of development is using AI instead of live humans to respond *to donors* Nothing says "thank you, we value you" like a chatbot