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
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Remember when Republicans were shrieking about "death panels"? Literal death panel.
Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Remember when Republicans were shrieking about "death panels"? Literal death panel.
Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
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My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
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But I can sit here and remember the tiramisu I had in the cafe above the food hall at Harrods. And the squash ravioli I ate at Tra Vigne. And the New Years cheese feasts. And this fucking strawberry cake I could eat two years ago but maybe never again. You might need those memories someday.
December 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
But I can sit here and remember the tiramisu I had in the cafe above the food hall at Harrods. And the squash ravioli I ate at Tra Vigne. And the New Years cheese feasts. And this fucking strawberry cake I could eat two years ago but maybe never again. You might need those memories someday.
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If there is a Warner Bros. movie you love and you don't have on physical media then do not hold off getting it while you still can.
December 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
If there is a Warner Bros. movie you love and you don't have on physical media then do not hold off getting it while you still can.
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@WGAWest, @WGAEast, & @sagaftra members… Studios are committing billions in wage theft. Please consider joining a growing coalition of SAG-AFTRA and WGA members demanding Union action by adding your signature at:
www.endingcorporatepiracy.com
#endingcorporatepiracy #wagetheft
www.endingcorporatepiracy.com
#endingcorporatepiracy #wagetheft
December 5, 2025 at 5:31 AM
@WGAWest, @WGAEast, & @sagaftra members… Studios are committing billions in wage theft. Please consider joining a growing coalition of SAG-AFTRA and WGA members demanding Union action by adding your signature at:
www.endingcorporatepiracy.com
#endingcorporatepiracy #wagetheft
www.endingcorporatepiracy.com
#endingcorporatepiracy #wagetheft
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Trump's MRI raises new questions about Biden's health.
December 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Trump's MRI raises new questions about Biden's health.
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Tomorrow's Premium Newsletter: A much-demanded, 14k word guide as to how the AI bubble might burst, starting with the collapse of data center funding, venture capital for AI, OpenAI, and end NVIDIA's AI GPU era.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Tomorrow's Premium Newsletter: A much-demanded, 14k word guide as to how the AI bubble might burst, starting with the collapse of data center funding, venture capital for AI, OpenAI, and end NVIDIA's AI GPU era.
Here's $10 off annual.
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Democrats should bring a giant poster of this kid's face to the floor of the Senate and every other wrongfully abducted child, and demand to know why Republicans think this is okay. (*They're ALL wrongfully abducted, but kids makes a sharper point in arguing against monsters.)
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Democrats should bring a giant poster of this kid's face to the floor of the Senate and every other wrongfully abducted child, and demand to know why Republicans think this is okay. (*They're ALL wrongfully abducted, but kids makes a sharper point in arguing against monsters.)
Is it really a strategy? I just think he's a truly reprehensible person in the extreme and these are his completely natural and unfiltered reactions to any circumstance or conversation. And it's easy to maintain a high level of concern for his overall vileness. If only the press thought so.
Trump’s whole strategy is to be so outrageous on multiple fronts—racism, corruption, misogyny, nativism, plutocracy, greed, authoritarianism, etc.—that it’s nearly impossible to keep a focus on any individual outrage or maintain a high level of indignation and concern. It’s deliberate bludgeoning.
I know it's too easy to grow numb to the constant flood of bigotry that comes out of his mouth but it does seem morally important you don't allow yourself or anyone else to become desensitized to this vile racism as a normal part of our politics
December 5, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Is it really a strategy? I just think he's a truly reprehensible person in the extreme and these are his completely natural and unfiltered reactions to any circumstance or conversation. And it's easy to maintain a high level of concern for his overall vileness. If only the press thought so.
You'd think so, but these guys would be first on line for the extended director's cut.
41 minutes is a long time to sit in your air conditioned office watching men struggle to survive as you decide to kill them.
December 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
You'd think so, but these guys would be first on line for the extended director's cut.
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If you’re curious about how our campaign livestream-fundraising strategy is going, @nathangrayson.bsky.social did a FANTASTIC deep dive.
Especially appreciate him giving my producer, @ashadotb.bsky.social, the credit she deserves.
Especially appreciate him giving my producer, @ashadotb.bsky.social, the credit she deserves.
Instead of relying on wealthy donors, congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social is using a Twitch stream to raise money – and fight a federal indictment
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December 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
If you’re curious about how our campaign livestream-fundraising strategy is going, @nathangrayson.bsky.social did a FANTASTIC deep dive.
Especially appreciate him giving my producer, @ashadotb.bsky.social, the credit she deserves.
Especially appreciate him giving my producer, @ashadotb.bsky.social, the credit she deserves.
Watch them find a reason why California CANNOT do this, the right-wing majority cares about appearances even less than they care about law and justice.
🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, has granted Texas’ request to stay a lower court ruling blocking it from using a heavily gerrymandered congressional map the state legislature passed at the behest of President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
SCOTUS Allows Texas to Use Racially Gerrymandered Map in 2026 Midterm Elections
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Watch them find a reason why California CANNOT do this, the right-wing majority cares about appearances even less than they care about law and justice.
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In lieu of affordable universal health insurance, Texans will now be given better access to de-worming medication.
December 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
In lieu of affordable universal health insurance, Texans will now be given better access to de-worming medication.
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The Pony Express would have had it to you in a couple of hours.
On Monday a registered letter was mailed to me from 13 miles away. It still has not arrived, although the US Postal Service tells me it has been out for delivery since this morning.
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The Pony Express would have had it to you in a couple of hours.
At the end of "Hamnet" I turned to my wife and joked, "So, the whole time, HE WAS SHAKESPEARE?" She laughed and called me an idiot. To see it in real life is... astounding.
December 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
At the end of "Hamnet" I turned to my wife and joked, "So, the whole time, HE WAS SHAKESPEARE?" She laughed and called me an idiot. To see it in real life is... astounding.
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Newsom is also anti-labor, transphobic, and did not hesitate to program a white supremacist on his podcast FIRST UP.
But y'all really love those memes.
But y'all really love those memes.
"...Newsom has vetoed our menopause bill, not one but two years in a row. But that's OK, because he's not going to be governor forever. And with the way he's overlooked women, half the population, by devaluing us in midlife, he probably should not be our next president either."
youtu.be/603NmGNkfqY
youtu.be/603NmGNkfqY
December 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Newsom is also anti-labor, transphobic, and did not hesitate to program a white supremacist on his podcast FIRST UP.
But y'all really love those memes.
But y'all really love those memes.
"Even if..." GOD, the Dems do their job for them.
But also, STOP STIPULATING THAT IT’S WAR BECAUSE IT FUCKING ISN’T.
The Constitution is very clear that only Congress has the power to declare war.
For far too long, we have allowed that to erode, handing more and more power to the president.
That must end. THIS is why.
The Constitution is very clear that only Congress has the power to declare war.
For far too long, we have allowed that to erode, handing more and more power to the president.
That must end. THIS is why.
Himes: It was exceedingly hard to watch. Even if you stipulate that it is a war, there is a very specific prohibition against killing individuals who have been removed from the fight. And there is no question that these individuals were removed from the fight.
December 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"Even if..." GOD, the Dems do their job for them.
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No comment from Hunter Biden's laptop
In a STUNNING display of CORRUPTION, Donald Trump Jr.’s company received $600,000,000 dollars from Donald Trump Sr.
December 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
No comment from Hunter Biden's laptop
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they should have a separate color of the year for people who haven’t lost the will to live
December 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
they should have a separate color of the year for people who haven’t lost the will to live
Premeditated murder was never so clear.
What a lede on this story: Man who complained about narrowing a road in order to protect pedestrians, so much that the city eventually reversed the change, then kills a woman on that very road with his car www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
America’s plan to protect pedestrians failed. A young woman’s death reveals why.
U.S. officials adopted Europe's Vision Zero initiative, but many cities have seen an increase in pedestrian fatalities despite efforts to improve road safety.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Premeditated murder was never so clear.
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Way to stand up to... *checks notes* 61-year-old recreational players. Good work, USTA. 🙃
December 4, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Way to stand up to... *checks notes* 61-year-old recreational players. Good work, USTA. 🙃
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December 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This rules people.com/halle-berry-...
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Smokers tip big. People in the sun room or solarium tip big. Guy caught drinking A1 tips big. Table of elementary school teachers chugging Long Island Ice Teas on Friday at 5 tips big. Old guy trying to impress his younger date tips big. Fans watching their team win a playoff game tip big
December 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Smokers tip big. People in the sun room or solarium tip big. Guy caught drinking A1 tips big. Table of elementary school teachers chugging Long Island Ice Teas on Friday at 5 tips big. Old guy trying to impress his younger date tips big. Fans watching their team win a playoff game tip big