Noah Lugeons

Noah Lugeons

@noahlugeons.bsky.social

Podcast producer and cohost of The Scathing Atheist, God Awful Movies, The Skepticrat, D&D Minus, and Citation Needed.

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What? Trump chickened out on Greenland with no real concessions, nothing gained, and a huge cost to American prestige? Crazy. Who could have possibly already had an acronym for this?

In 2026, we've added a tag to all our shows that inform people they're made without the use of generative AI. I'm calling on other creators to do the same. People should know if they're reading the thoughts of the person they're attributed to or artificial thoughts generated by a plagiarism-bot.

I reject the whole "forward slash, back slash" distinction. Half of both of them are forward and half of both of them are back. By its very nature, a slash is half forward and half back. Who the fuck decided that was gonna be the nomenclature?

The Progressive ads with "backups in real life" seem to misunderstand what a backup QB does. It's pretty rare for a backup QB to come into a game because the other QB isn't doing a good job. I demand ads where the best friend gets a concussion or the husband backing up the trailer gets turf toe.

In response to not getting the Nobel Peace Prize, the WH released a statement that said of Trump that "there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will." How long it will be before he shoots an 18 in golf, invents the helicopter, and no longer has an anus?

Consider this: Trump is the only person who has ever managed to look like a failure for not winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Most people have never won the Nobel Peace Prize (and almost all of them are more deserving of it than Trump), and yet he's the only one who FAILED to win it. What a loser.

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Refugees in Kenya have died at food distribution centers, officials noted, including a pregnant woman crushed to death during a stampede. Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.” (Published May 2025)

propublica.orgDeath, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile LocationsExclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining...

Republicans are awfully proud of the way they moved Cracker Barrel's stock price from $62 to $55 by throwing a hissy fit. But, like, the younger, more progressive generation that they're so scared of managed to move it from $175 to $62 just by not wanting to eat there.

1. Indiscriminately deport non-white people as publicly as possible. 2. Take over cities with large Democratic majorities. 3. Place military/ICE presence at or near polling stations. 4. End mail-in voting. 5. Profit.

Social media teaches us a lot about ourselves. Like, for example, without social media, I'd never even have suspected that my favorite thing in the world to watch is people mowing lawns in fast motion.

Trump is doing everything he can to spark a huge protest to galvanize (read: terrify) his base. That's not to say people shouldn't protest -- or even riot at this point -- but we also need to recognize his motives.

I just heard my "it's not our fault, it's the tariffs" ad; a Toyota ad that basically said "Look, we're building the fucking things in your country, but we buy materials from all over the world because that's where the goddamn materials are. Toyota: It's not our fault you elected a dipshit."

He's using the threat of nuclear war to distract from his scandal, y'all. This is way stupider than the end of the world was supposed to be. Who knew that the most accurate cinematic prediction of the apocalypse would be Dr. Strangelove?

I'm really sick of headlines like "Trump announces trade deal with (Country X)." If a headline starts with "Trump announces," it might as well start with "Magic 8 Ball predicts" ... except that sometimes the Magic 8 ball gets it right.

I'm happy to see the tide turning and all, but the fact that 44% of us don't draw the line at masked agents of the state abducting people off the street and putting them in concentration camps with no legal recourse is the real story. americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/the-more-a...

americasvoicecnn.substack.comThe More Americans Witness Trump’s Ugly Mass Deportation Agenda, The More They Hate ItWhile masked abductions and festering detention camps may thrill Stephen Miller, the rest of us are recoiling.

How enshrined into American law is Christian privilege? We call its exclusion "separation of church and state." Not "religion and state," not "mosque and state" or "synagogue and state." CHURCH and state. They're unfairly included even in their exclusion.

Okay, so after I posted this, American Airlines delayed my flight by 3 hours and counting. I feel like they read this and now they're pissed.

Noah Lugeons@noahlugeons.bsky.social

American Airlines is excited to announce that, for the first time in their 99 year history, they had a flight take off on time. Not one of mine, but still. Very exciting.

Don't worry, fellow rural Americans. We'll still have the concept of a hospital.

Brian Beutler@brianbeutler.bsky.social

If Dems want health care to be a main fighting ground of the midterms and 2028 election, they need to learn from the past. Start by pointing at shuttered hospitals and blaming Trumpcare. www.offmessage.net/p/try-callin...