Ken Pisani

@kpsmartypants.bsky.social

Screenwriter and Emmy nominee. Author of LA Times bestseller & Thurber Prize for American Humor finalist “AMP'D." Smartest of pants. Repped @ WME kenpisani.com

Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.

tomwellborn3rd@wellborn.net · last mo.

Congress funded the CDC's Alzheimer's work, the sickle cell and epilepsy data programs and a rape prevention unit, and Vought simply will not release the money. Grassley told him to his face he lacks the authority. The pocket rescission alone took 4.9 billion.

I feel what’s lost in the “Ellison asked Musk for money to buy WBD” story is this implicitly suggests Ellison *cannot afford to buy WBD* which you would think in a normal world would be the very first thing that kills a deal to buy WBD

Earlier this year, Tucker Carlson said that “the defining fact of our lives is that whites around the world are being eliminated.” Journos who don’t watch his show are helping his effort to rebrand so he isn’t a liability for his protege JD Vance’s 2028 run. www.mediamatters.org/jd-vance/tuc...

Tucker Carlson helped make JD Vance. The VP refuses to condemn his antisemitism.

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Steve Inskeep@steveinskeep.bsky.social · 3d ago

On NPR’s Newsmakers, Tucker Carlson says Trump should be removed from office, and also speaks with regret about his own long career as a TV partisan. youtu.be/pHhJM3Fg9jw?...

NEW: Civil-rights and religious leaders are asking the judge in the Paramount-WBD antitrust case for permission to file an amicus brief opposing the proposed consent decree — and to delay approval and keep the no-close order in place while she considers it.

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One of the basic points in Mills' The Racial Contract (originally published in 1997!) was that, if nothing else, White Supremacy deserves to be taken seriously as one of the great motivating ideologies of modernity and it's bizarre that political philosophers are so disinclined to treat it as such.

I Travel Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5d ago

The outright refusal to treat white supremacy as an ideology which motivates action and treat it as generally objectionable is what allows this strategy to be viable for Elon Musk.

This is DAISY, a pretty young pointer I walked last week. She’s pretty mellow and loves snuggles; after the walk she just wants to lean against you and get skritches. She’s also a great medium size. Come meet her and our other great family dogs at Hudson Valley SPCA in NY!

A pretty liver and white spotted dog (I think she is a purebred German Shorthaired Pointer) looks at us adoringly. She wants a treat! In the background is grass in dapped shade

on one hand this is good pushback and is needed. On the other hand, the political press being willing to play good lapdog and nod along while he abused literally everyone till such time as he started beating them too tells us a lot about the character of the people in that pool

Scott Nover@scottnover.bsky.social · 6d ago

BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...