Joe, are you ever going to explain your Trump-loving vote for the Laken Riley Act?

It's the worst, isn't it? We're barely a month past losing Sadie and still thinking we see her everywhere. Deepest condolences. He looks like he must have been the best boy.

From everything I have ever read about her, she's been a pick-me her entire life. It was a given that she was going to go full MAGA whether or not it matched her true values, because there is no evidence she has ever *had* any actual deeply-held values.

We know that as of next week, @bencollins.bsky.social can boast the Onion has bigger print circulation than Politico.

Somewhere, T. Herman Zweibel is smiling.

I'm in a play this weekend for the first time since summer camp, and the stress dreams are VIVID.

(also, y'all should come!)

www.muccc.org/events/charl...

How does a collector of final print editions grab a copy?

Tickets cost whatever you want them to cost, and you're supporting local arts and local playwright Matthew Dwight Moore. And you get two one-acts for the price of one!

www.muccc.org/events/charl...

So what's next?

Are there candidates and a movement we can rally behind for 2026 and 2027 to harness this energy and try to change this course?

Or are we just doing substacks?

Sorry to sound cynical, but it's already almost 2026 and time is short.

Also @akachela.bsky.social I really want to see your dad's 1000 book list...

Banging the drums for all my friends in town to come out starting Thursday for "Charles Darwin's Christmas Carol" at MuCCC - I'm playing a very Arthur Dent-ish Darwin in a funny, smart, science-positive solstice one-act.

There's no muppet Gonzo but there's a gonzo Stephen Hawking...

If you could use a laugh and a (short!) night out amidst all of this, our play opens Thursday at MuCCC!

Sending all best wishes!!

I do not regret cancelling my subscription a few months ago.

"Being alive is just plain GONZO," as Stephen Hawking tells me in the play I'm in next week. Better late than never!!

I know we're both having insane months but we have GOT to catch up on this and everything else!