aka @dloehr on the bird site Writer & performer, The Incomparable Radio Theater Co-creator, Where or When? Panelist, The Incomparable Host, Afoot Co-host, Magnum, podcast Playwright, podcaster, father, cat bed, he/him davidjloehr.com/links/
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Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today. Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943. Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s. Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.
Oh good grief, playing Spenser badly wasn't enough?
Trump is the guy whose proof was always binders full of blank paper. This is not a man capable of backing up anything he says. Proof isn't as "scary" or "intimidating" as this.
Yeah, I had to try three sites to cancel Disney+ but the runaround only made me more determined to do it.
A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.
Man alive. I have studied Right Wing authoritarianism for years and have watched some truly fucked up shit and today’s memorial service is maybe the most concentrated example of how messed up and disturbing that sector truly is.
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Damn.
Free speech is genuinely precious, the “free speech” debate (“it should be illegal for libs to be mean to me”) was just about destigmatizing bigotry and confusing the issue so as to provide a pretext for actual state censorship
They abandoned the whole free speech thing as soon as people started saying things that genuinely offended them. It wasn’t that they were so tolerant that they accepted nazi talk as a necessary evil to protect speech writ large, they just liked saying and hearing slurs bsky.app/profile/jame...
there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.
The writer of Andor, Dan Gilroy, wrote an op-ed in Deadline and it is as good as you might imagine. deadline.com/2025/09/ando...
Every time I hear the "taking him out of context" excuse, I want to ask "what context would make this all right?" (And of course, he's not being taken out of context at all.)
Be sure you take a moment today to remember Charlie Kirk for exactly who he was.
I’m still a novid bc masking + multiple vax + good luck and I gotta say I am happy where I am without FIVE TO TEN INFECTIONS WTAF
Oh, I don't even question that anymore, they will always be hyperbolic imaginary numbers.
In the last 72 hours, 95 democrats voted to honor a bigot, no senate democrats objected to the same measure, Trump ordered an illegal prosecution and Chuck Schumer responded by calling for bipartisan budget negotiations with that same Trump. “Vote blue no matter who.”
As "Inherit the Wind" borrowed from Finley Peter Dunne, "It is the duty of a newspaper to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." Nothing about being friendly to an administration whether benign or tyrannical.
Markwayne is not the sharpest tool in the shed. But definitely a tool.
f you see something, say something. If someone says fascist things and takes fascist actions--like trying to control what people say or instituting masked secret police--you can call them fascists. If all they do are negative things, that's not "cheating," it's simply reporting the truth.
CNN's media critic, Brian Stelter, says Disney's CEO is in a "no-win" situation because he has to choose between Trump and his company's reputation. Think about that -- the notion that choosing integrity means losing. Think about what it says about American media in these grotesque times. 1/2
Indeed.
Been saying that every few years, and it's still true.
Truth. And the score is an earworm.
I am pleased to report that Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins has dropped another total evisceration of the Supreme Court. He says originalism is a fraud—and the Republican justices are shamelessly making up facts and history to impose radical Christian nationalism: slate.com/news-and-pol...
i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.
Never know when you might need to go on the lamb.
"Elect us and we will put these criminals in jail" has been available to Democrats for quite some time now and yet
Indeed. I'd be curious to hear Leo's opinion.
It’s darkly funny that the search for the shooter’s politics never provided much clarity about *his* politics but brought the politics of a lot of powerful people into sharp relief.
See also.
That might be unseamly.
it would be a pretty good week for Rolling Stone to have a TV critic
Just mind-boggling, even for him.
Oh, Cardinal Dolan, no. He was none of those things, not even remotely. He dealt in hate, division, he called for prominent Catholic Joe Biden's execution.
This part.
"That’s the thing about negotiating with fascists: the negotiation is never over...Giving your lunch money to the school bully has never once stopped him from coming back" @marisakabas.bsky.social on the failure of old school media to stand up for what matters. www.thehandbasket.co/p/jimmy-kimm...
Solid choice.
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie.
He's always imagined himself wealthier than he ever really was, now he's got imaginary money.
Thing about the “Z needs Trump to approve their doohicky w whosawhat” crap is that it’s almost all bullshit. No, Disney doesn’t need to buy a bunch of stations. No, Ellison doesn’t need to buy CNN. They want Trump to approve not what they need, but what they _want_. Because they’re greedy fucks.
Narcissists gonna narcissist.
Love Ella and her composer songbook albums.
All you need to know in Chicago is that Nexstar is WGN-TV Ch. 9, WGN-AM 720 and News Nation, while Sinclair is Marquee Sports Network. Do with that what you wish. Personally, I want to avoid supporting businesses that act this way.
MAGA lives in a cultish ecosystem, so they think everyone knows Charlie Kirk and agrees with their talking points. They're not the majority. And they overreached the past week. They're about to find out. Just wait a few days. The majority is disgusted and upset.
This. Be more like @governorwalz.mn.gov and @govpritzker.illinois.gov.
Gentle reminder that in the late '50s, the U.S. government did not censor comics. Comics companies censored themselves. Not sure why that crossed my mind today but there it is...
My latest: "Don't Obey Snowflakes In Advance" Trump and MAGA's authoritarian march reveals a weak, insecure party that knows it has lost the masses and can't win without abusing its power. Fortunately, we are the majority and have the numbers. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
"America may not be an actual autocracy. But it increasingly seems to be playing one on TV." [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/a...
This is the lead story in the New York Times. If you're in the business of communicating, whether through journalism, commentary, or art, this is the five-alarm fire. People are going to remember who spoke up and who stayed conveniently silent or postured about "neutrality."
This isn't even a slight exaggeration. He is actively working on destroying the US's entire vaccine infrastructure. The HepB vote will be tomorrow, where they will get rid of the birth dose and recommend it at 30 days, dooming a bunch of infants to chronic infection ft. cirrhosis, cancer, and death.
Government officials do not get to decide that your rights have become inconvenient or problematic. They are your rights. They are not privileges provided by the government and revocable at will.
That does make a lot of sense.
Sitting on the porch and laughed loud enough to startle several birds and a bunny.
Younger son has been curious, so we might.
We're lucky--being in southeastern Indiana, our local stations are all Louisville, so no Sinclair stations for us.
Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/
As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
That's the Night That the Lights Went Out in My Freezer also works.
And again, I am amazed at how prescient and still current Paddy Chayefsky's "Network" was and is.
youtu.be/igILhbNWvlk?...
That has popped into my head more than once.
David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.
If he is so far out of touch with what the electorate wants, yes, he should resign immediately.
the most interesting part of this reporting is that they didn't pull him off the air for what he had *already* said, they pulled him off the air for what he was *going* to say, which, i expect, has them in quite the pickle now, because he's unlikely to be *more* conciliatory after this
Pope Leo XIV said a proposal to create an AI-version of him so people could have a virtual audience with the pope pretty much horrified him.
I was watching The Wire.
Watch @jenpsaki.msnbc.com 's full interview with Governor Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov here: youtu.be/82uil4QPfZ4?...
An early look at next week’s cover: "Remote Control,” by Barry Blitt. nyer.cm/6ApBXER
No, he'd have argued with everything Jesus taught and practiced.
I had thought we were done with @governor.ca.gov's inane fake Trumpspeak. Guess not.
More here: variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Fuck yeah Letterman
Usually bullies are the ones whining that it was just a joke, where's your sense of humor? Of course they're also the first ones whining when you make jokes about them. Case in point.
Honestly, WGA should ban writers from working with Disney until this is resolved. SAG and the DGA as well. We have nothing else to lose.
Yes.
Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then, well, 👇🤷♂️
Thread, as ever on point.
We know it’s wrong, the accusation doesn’t have merit, the law and principle are on our side, we have a lot of money to cover legal fees and weather any fallout, but he might get mad at us, so we had to. We anonymously leaked to the press that we felt bad about it, that counts for something, right?
I was thinking of adding, "then again, having watched over the years, maybe it was always hard for him."
Most of us are "doing comedy" just fine, Steve.
Hit them where it hurts.
You know the problem with “going indie” or the “creator economy”, and even Patreon? No unions.
the truth the gop and msm dont want you to see "Charlie Kirk used the platform of his radio show and his activist group Turning Point USA to promote bigotry against Black people, women, LGBTQ+ people, liberals, and more." www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
I keep thinking of a different @prisonculture.bsky.social quote (I may have the wording slightly wrong, sorry if so): “The people who got us here are not the ones who are going to get us out of this.” The people who continue to cave, hide & do nothing have shown who they are. Act accordingly.
In a good faith conversation, opponents are not enemies. But not all conversations or disagreements are held in good faith. Willful ignorance of bad faith is not a virtue, it's a liability. It's a blind spot. The Trump administration has proven their bad faith repeatedly.
This is who was responsible for Melissa Hortman's murder, sir. And when we can point to direct parallels--Goebbels censoring and expelling entertainers, building concentration camps such as the one in Florida--then it's hard to argue against the Nazi comparison. apnews.com/article/minn...
They’re mad at anti fascism because they’re fascists They’re mad at anti racism because they’re racists
I’ve watched them poison people’s brains since the ‘90s. It’s time to stop acting shocked about the highly monetized propaganda making people fucking insane. We tried to tell y’all.
yes! congressional control of the purse applies to the white house as well. you can defund stephen miller.
these people are genuinely idiots
Let ABC know how you feel about their bowing to the thugs in power and cancelling Jimmy Kimmel's show: support.abc.com/hc/en-us/req...
I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".
The mints on the pillows were spearmint, but everyone knows they're supposed to be peppermint. Don't even get him started on wintergreen.
For all the criticism of Democratic leadership, this is a strong statement. Specifically 1) It frames this as a matter of corruption (which should be the central theme of Democratic campaigning, imho) 2) It emphasizes what Congress (not the courts) should (and if Dems retake a chamber, can) do
That's called extortion.
I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.
Here’s one from when Biden was president. It seems he was a normal FCC dude at one point, but is now totally corrupted by Trump.
The public interest is in free speech and protecting the First Amendment, not in protecting the feelings of a thin-skinned wannabe despot.