Mac Rogers
@macrogers.bsky.social
Playwright, audio dramatist, screenwriter, good time charlie. Listen to my audio dramas at gideon-media.com. He/him
I've never had someone reply to me with a disagreement and then disable my ability to respond. I'd understand if I was being insulting or abusive, but I wasn't.
February 10, 2026 at 7:02 PM
I've never had someone reply to me with a disagreement and then disable my ability to respond. I'd understand if I was being insulting or abusive, but I wasn't.
Ron Johnson is subhuman garbage, but that’s a given. What drives me nuts here is the incredible weakness of Sorkin’s questioning, all the throat-clearing and to-be-sures. Just ask the question: “Do you want all law enforcement officers in America to wear masks?”
RON JOHNSON: In Central America, if you become a police chief, the drug cartels send you a DVD w/ a video of your family going to church or school...that's what ICE agents are facing
SORKIN: But these people are allowed to protest
J: They want their activists to dox them & put families at risk
SORKIN: But these people are allowed to protest
J: They want their activists to dox them & put families at risk
February 10, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Ron Johnson is subhuman garbage, but that’s a given. What drives me nuts here is the incredible weakness of Sorkin’s questioning, all the throat-clearing and to-be-sures. Just ask the question: “Do you want all law enforcement officers in America to wear masks?”
I don’t actually care about this or think it in some way retroactively “ruins” Iron Man 3, but it is pretty funny that none of Trevor’s old acting buddies recognized him in the Mandarin videos.
February 10, 2026 at 3:03 PM
I don’t actually care about this or think it in some way retroactively “ruins” Iron Man 3, but it is pretty funny that none of Trevor’s old acting buddies recognized him in the Mandarin videos.
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Breaking News: Susan Collins, one of the Republican Party’s most electorally vulnerable senators, will run for re-election in Maine. Her seat is crucial to Democratic hopes of retaking control of the chamber.
Susan Collins Runs for Re-election, in One of 2026’s Top Senate Fights
The Maine Republican is one of her party’s most vulnerable senators, and her seat is crucial to Democratic hopes of retaking control of the chamber.
nyti.ms
February 10, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Breaking News: Susan Collins, one of the Republican Party’s most electorally vulnerable senators, will run for re-election in Maine. Her seat is crucial to Democratic hopes of retaking control of the chamber.
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Turns out one of the benefits of mass deportation is low growth and anemic job creation.
Peter Navarro: "The jobs report comes out tomorrow. We have to revise our expectations down significantly for what a monthly job number should look like ... Wall Street has to adjust for the fact that we're deporting millions of illegals out of the job market."
February 10, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Turns out one of the benefits of mass deportation is low growth and anemic job creation.
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I never noticed this either.
February 8, 2026 at 7:09 PM
I never noticed this either.
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Okay, after I stop yelling for five minutes, I think its worth looking at "Nobody thought something like this could happen here"
Anti-immigration sentiment is not. about. people. reacting. to. their. own. neighbors.
It is a displaced phantasm, a feeling that "out there" something bad is happening.
Anti-immigration sentiment is not. about. people. reacting. to. their. own. neighbors.
It is a displaced phantasm, a feeling that "out there" something bad is happening.
ICE sacked some tiny Idaho town and deported ~4 percent of the population at a stroke, it's liable to collapse the local economy www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
A Raid in a Small Town Brings Trump’s Deportations to Deep-Red Idaho
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Okay, after I stop yelling for five minutes, I think its worth looking at "Nobody thought something like this could happen here"
Anti-immigration sentiment is not. about. people. reacting. to. their. own. neighbors.
It is a displaced phantasm, a feeling that "out there" something bad is happening.
Anti-immigration sentiment is not. about. people. reacting. to. their. own. neighbors.
It is a displaced phantasm, a feeling that "out there" something bad is happening.
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“Why is AI helping me write a song or tell a story? Send some shit through a black hole; do something that we can’t do. Or dig a ditch; do the shit we don’t want to do. Why is it coming after the stuff that we essentially need to do to be human beings?”
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Gore Verbinski Sounds Off on AI as He Launches ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’
The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ filmmaker is back after nearly a decade, and is ready to skewer how technology has taken over our lives (even more) in that time: “Why is AI helping me write a song or t...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:53 PM
“Why is AI helping me write a song or tell a story? Send some shit through a black hole; do something that we can’t do. Or dig a ditch; do the shit we don’t want to do. Why is it coming after the stuff that we essentially need to do to be human beings?”
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
The way she says “the Latinos” is just incredible.
Megyn Kelly just shouting “FOOTBALL IS OURS” at Piers Morgan about Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show is the perfect example of this moment in time. Put it in a time capsule and send it out into space.
February 10, 2026 at 2:53 AM
The way she says “the Latinos” is just incredible.
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the purpose of shit like this is to kill people who didn't vote for him. blue states are conquered territory, not fellow citizens.
The Trump administration plans to rescind $600 million in public health funds from four states led by Democrats because it finds the grants “inconsistent with agency priorities,” according to documents reviewed by the NYT
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...
Trump Administration to Cut $600 Million in Health Funding From Four States
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:07 AM
the purpose of shit like this is to kill people who didn't vote for him. blue states are conquered territory, not fellow citizens.
You really do get the sense that Trump hates most of the people who like him and is livid that he doesn’t have better quality allies in the arts. At some level he knows that TPUSA is the crappy off-brand show, that the FIFA award doesn’t count.
Footage taken from inside Trump’s Super Bowl party at his Mar-a-Lago golf club showed the president and his guests watching Bad Bunny’s halftime show rather than TPUSA’s night of Jesus Christ, Kid Rock, and country music. trib.al/ivGSXQ3
February 9, 2026 at 6:24 PM
You really do get the sense that Trump hates most of the people who like him and is livid that he doesn’t have better quality allies in the arts. At some level he knows that TPUSA is the crappy off-brand show, that the FIFA award doesn’t count.
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something about his little elfin smile tickles the VIOLENTLY ANGRY section of my brain
Hassett: "There's a chance that job creation lags, productivity skyrockets, profits skyrocket, GDP skyrockets, but then all of the sudden you're making 20 widgets and you can make 20 widgets with fewer persons, and then that person has to find a new job. I think that kind of transition could happen"
February 9, 2026 at 2:46 PM
something about his little elfin smile tickles the VIOLENTLY ANGRY section of my brain
Still maybe my all-time favorite title of anything:
February 9, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Still maybe my all-time favorite title of anything:
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If the current moment has taught us anything, it is about the uselessness of libertarianism.
The image sums it up perfectly. The Gadsden flag was all out during the Obama era. How often do you see it now? Most of the principled libertarians were happy to trad their principles for Trumpism.
The image sums it up perfectly. The Gadsden flag was all out during the Obama era. How often do you see it now? Most of the principled libertarians were happy to trad their principles for Trumpism.
I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind.
This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.
Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.
This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.
Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.
Opinion | Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:25 PM
If the current moment has taught us anything, it is about the uselessness of libertarianism.
The image sums it up perfectly. The Gadsden flag was all out during the Obama era. How often do you see it now? Most of the principled libertarians were happy to trad their principles for Trumpism.
The image sums it up perfectly. The Gadsden flag was all out during the Obama era. How often do you see it now? Most of the principled libertarians were happy to trad their principles for Trumpism.
Sure is nice to start a Monday with a huge new NYT feature on Wallace Shawn, I’ll tell you that for free!
February 9, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Sure is nice to start a Monday with a huge new NYT feature on Wallace Shawn, I’ll tell you that for free!
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The real answer is that the monoculture has splintered so massively that even actually massive hits within the existing ruins of the former monoculture lack staying power because there are no supplemental works to back them up. Twenty years ago, hit sitcoms would still be making Barbie references.
February 9, 2026 at 6:43 AM
The real answer is that the monoculture has splintered so massively that even actually massive hits within the existing ruins of the former monoculture lack staying power because there are no supplemental works to back them up. Twenty years ago, hit sitcoms would still be making Barbie references.
At a certain point wouldn’t you just pass out from the strain of maintaining constant 24-7 culture war?
This woman is in charge of the US Agency for Global Media, which is supposed to serve and represent the best American values
February 9, 2026 at 3:42 AM
At a certain point wouldn’t you just pass out from the strain of maintaining constant 24-7 culture war?
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II has somehow landed the most niche typecasting ever: New Embodiment Of Legendary Character That Was Previously Well Known In A Different Form.
February 9, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II has somehow landed the most niche typecasting ever: New Embodiment Of Legendary Character That Was Previously Well Known In A Different Form.
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The media desperately wanted to give the right a cultural moment and the problem is that they have no culture.
This was a little over a year ago
February 9, 2026 at 1:43 AM
The media desperately wanted to give the right a cultural moment and the problem is that they have no culture.
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The NFL going "you know man I'm not sure everyone is a deep, profound cultural conservative again, maybe we should just take a beat for a minute and let it play out" is unfortunately why they are the best at this stuff
February 9, 2026 at 1:34 AM
The NFL going "you know man I'm not sure everyone is a deep, profound cultural conservative again, maybe we should just take a beat for a minute and let it play out" is unfortunately why they are the best at this stuff
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The turning point channel is just square dancing and Mike Pence singing “There’s a Hole in My Bucket, Dear Liza”
February 9, 2026 at 1:49 AM
The turning point channel is just square dancing and Mike Pence singing “There’s a Hole in My Bucket, Dear Liza”
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I am blown away by the sheer technical precision evinced by everyone involved in that halftime show, both in front of and behind the camera, and even more impressed they didn’t let the effort in the way of making it so goddamn fun to watch.
February 9, 2026 at 1:41 AM
I am blown away by the sheer technical precision evinced by everyone involved in that halftime show, both in front of and behind the camera, and even more impressed they didn’t let the effort in the way of making it so goddamn fun to watch.
One thing about Republicans is they just fuckin *announce* a vibe shift and the media plays along. We should try that the next time we’re on top, see what happens.
Again it is world defining ironic that people took a slim majority win a low turn out election as a culture-changing moritoruma that America Is Like This Now only for everyone up to and including the Super Bowl to go no
February 9, 2026 at 1:47 AM
One thing about Republicans is they just fuckin *announce* a vibe shift and the media plays along. We should try that the next time we’re on top, see what happens.
How is any of this physically possible??
February 9, 2026 at 1:32 AM
How is any of this physically possible??
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.