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Freelance journalist. Bylines: The New York Times, Vulture, The Daily Beast, Mother Jones. Former: Capitol Forum, Daily Banter. Corgi parent.
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"When it rained on his parade...I want Donald to know it was me."

BREAKING NEWS: House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband are both dead after they were shot at their Brooklyn Park home.

The thing is, Andrew Cuomo is right—he’s just the worst possible person to make that case.

An MSNBC anchor just definitively claimed Padilla didn't identify himself when video clearly shows he did. So fucking irresponsible. This is how lies spread.

To quote Mark Harris, "when it all goes South for these guys and they plead for a return to civility, remember how they acted when they thought it didn't matter."

Everybody should call this what it is: Autocracy. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Is this a tribute album to Spinal Tap's Smell the Glove?

I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me how Mamdani would be an effective Mayor. (Use of the word "Cuomo" not allowed.)

This is how you normalize authoritarianism.

I’m not even joking when I say that X is radicalizing our entire generation of journalists.

This is good jeremyfassler.medium.com/terry-moran-...

“in firing Terry Moran, ABC and the rest are coming closer to being handmaidens to power — and once they do that, then the only truth left will be the one that pleases their Dear Leader the most.” Excellent piece by @jfassler.bsky.social jeremyfassler.medium.com/terry-moran-...

Terry Moran was correct to say Stephen Miller craves hatred for his spiritual nourishment - and ABC was wrong to fire him for it. I wrote more about it here: jeremyfassler.medium.com/terry-moran-...

Important to know that the very footage that is appalling all of us--rows of faceless men in riot gear, protestors running, clouds of gas--is what Trump and Miller and the MAGA-sycophant anti-city press have had a collective hard-on for since the campaign. This will be wall-to-wall on Fox all week.>

My Dad knew one of Jared Leto's music producers. The year of Dallas Buyers Club, Dad asked him if he was excited to see Leto win the Oscar, and he said "Ron, if Jared Leto died of a heart attack on the way to accepting the Oscar, I'd stand up and applaud." airmail.news/issues/2025-...

Brian Grazer's daughter graduated my high school the year The Da Vinci Code came out. My film teacher gave commencement where he dissed the film and Brian got PISSED - but my teacher did nothing wrong. (Also the deans of my school HATED dealing with Brian as a parent.)

Simone Biles is the GOAT and anyone who disagrees can make like one of Logan Roy's kids and fuck off!

While you're all distracted: Peter Thiel’s Palantir is building a vast federal data hub for the US government – linking millions of personal records. It may not track all your moves – yet, but the system is being built. Mass surveillance by stealth. economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/interna...

It's not sexist. Next question.

I have nothing to add to the Trump/Elon breakup except:

This is a deeply frightening piece.

Pride Month so far: Jonathan Joss is murdered in a disgusting hate crime and the Navy intentionally announces they are changing the name of the USNS HARVEY MILK. America... now more than ever... David Lynch's words ring loudly. "Fix your hearts or die." This cannot be our normal.

Anyway, about That Whole Thing, in conclusion:

I believe this is what many people who've worked with Patti LuPone would call "karma." playbill.com/article/over...

Being an elder Democrat is worse than being a republican white supremacist, according to fucking Bluesky

I understand why people are yelling about the Democrats being too old but I don't think it's as useful as pointing out the ways Republicans are trying to turn America into a fascist state. But nobody ever lost money blaming things on Democrats.

“Julius Caesar is dead. The Roman Republic is in collapse. Here now to promote his book about how Caesar was too old is Jacobus Tapperus.”

CNN in 1974: "As we continue our historic coverage of Richard Nixon's resignation, I'd like to remind viewers that they should read Original Sin by Jake Tapper, about how Joe Biden, who became the youngest ever U.S. Senator two years ago, is actually really old!"

Jeff Wells, who is so obsessed with gay sex that he recently called me "Jeremy Butt Plug Fassler," is now angry that The History Sound didn't have enough gay sex in it. I believe @guylodge.bsky.social and other Wells-ologists will find this of interest.

The formal acceptance of the Qatari plane by the Trump administration will be largely forgotten within a week's time, if not sooner. Legacy media sees zero incentive in reporting on it beyond that time. If anything, we're more likely to see political reporters post pics of themselves on the plane.

"I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill, and I'm sitting here on Capitol––OH MY GOD WHO CHANGED THESE LYRICS? I CAN'T SING THAT ON KIDS TV!"