Hey, I wrote a big big column on one of the greatest bands of all time: The Kinks. If you know them you love them. If you don't know them allow me to share some of the best songs ever written.

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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

The Borowitz Report strikes again! open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

On a lazy Saturday, I want to watch The Lonely Island perform an insane medley of their greatest hits with Lady Gaga, Bad Bunny, Eddie Vedder and many more (yeah, Chris Parnell too!) youtube.com/watch?v=UV-R...

To help celebrate the 50th anniversary of SNL, we picked the show's 50 best commercial parodies, from pork you can eat in the bathroom to the highest fiber cereal on the market:

I made this video about what is really going on with these “fentanyl exposure” stories because I got tired of explaining the same thing over and over: www.youtube.com/watch?v=215h...

The Murdochs’ courtroom battle for control of their media empire has unfolded almost entirely in secret. But 3,000 pages of the trial record obtained by The New York Times reveal bitterness and betrayal that not even writers of “Succession” could conjure. nyti.ms/41fN66Q

If Amy Klobuchar wanted to quote fellow Minnesotan Bob Dylan today, she could have used these lines (from the same album as Shelter from the Storm): « Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull / From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol ». Good luck, America.

Democrats need to get back into the persuasion business, @jonfavs.bsky.social writes:

Interactions with voters “are always a good reminder of how different it feels to talk politics with a person you’re genuinely trying to persuade.”

This story begins with a patient learning he'd endured a decade of dangerous treatments for stage 4 lung cancer that his oncologist never confirmed was actually present.

It only gets more outrageous (and enraging) from there.

New, from @davidmcswane.bsky.social + @propublica.org