October 5, 2025

I CAN’T PROMISE TO DO THIS EVERY NIGHT, BUT THIS HAPPENED BETWEEN ERRANDS AND SATURDAY CLEANING:  Your Nightly Clanker Songs.

Oh, and I realize I’d already done a video for one of these songs. But not only did I hate the video, but I had a super-strange comment that sounded like they though I’d be starting an interplanetary service on my own, and this was somehow threatening… so now there’s an explanation with the video. Yes, I realize people won’t read it, but it makes me feel better.

Posted at 12:32 am by Sarah Hoyt 1

I OBVIOUSLY SHOULD HAVE GOT THIS TO YOU EARLIER, BUT, HERE ARE THE MEMES!   It’s All In The Memes.

Posted at 12:06 am by Sarah Hoyt 1

October 4, 2025

OPEN THREAD: Party like it’s Saturday night.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds 1470

WRETCHARD ON THE CORRELATION OF FORCES — A THREAD:

Posted at 8:10 pm by Glenn Reynolds 160

WHERE WE ARE TODAY:

UPDATE:

Posted at 7:59 pm by Glenn Reynolds 109

INSURRECTION:

Statute: The Insurrection Act. “Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.”

Posted at 4:24 pm by Glenn Reynolds 610

YOU ONLY LIVE WEISS:

As I’ve noted, Bari is actually more consistently centrist than her critics care to acknowledge. Indeed, for all the fears of rightward drift, it’s quite likely that her first brush with controversy will come when her free speech absolutism puts CBS and Paramount in direct opposition to Trump, who has been testing the limits of his ability to influence newsrooms and late-night studios. After all, when Disney pulled Kimmel amid F.C.C. pressure, Bari was the one who reminded us all about the definition of jawboning.

Politics aside, the more pressing question for Paramount and CBS centers on what happens to Bari upon going corporate. To date, she has built her brand by positioning herself as an outsider—a voice the Times couldn’t tolerate, a truth-teller too honest for the mainstream—and much of The Free Press’s commentary contains subtle or overt criticisms of the mainstream media. As one media entrepreneur of Bari’s generation put it to me, she’s ridden that hobbyhorse quite far. But what happens when she becomes mainstream media, and is responsible for what gets said on a national news network between broadcasts of NFL games and reruns of NCIS? It’s harder to punch up when you’re at the top.

Earlier: ‘It’s not a good place right now:’ CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom.

To be fair, the CBS newsroom has been going very wrong for half a century now, both ideologically, and in terms of ratings. So why not take a chance on doing something different? Curiously though, Esquire’s Charles Pierce is yet another leftist with a case of the vapors over Weiss’s reportedly imminent arrival: Bari Weiss Is Simply Unqualified to Run CBS News.

Based on her résumé, Weiss isn’t any more qualified to run a major news organization than she is to fly Artemis III to the moon. Now, within the universe of wing-nut welfare, to which Weiss fled after departing The New York Times in a huff, one can rise simply on the strength of your superior bullshit. Weiss’s main riff was the “cancel culture” con. Which proved to be positively catnip for the money power, so she landed softly at her own joint, the Free Press.

Now, though, it appears that the elite legacy media has adopted that same philosophy—or it is being dragged into it by a bunch of tech-bro gazillionaires who don’t know any more about actual journalism than she does. In this case, it’s David Ellison, son of Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison, the second-richest man in the world and an old pal of the current president, whom Ellison could buy and sell three times over. And if you’re willing to hire a conservative affirmative-action monitor for your newsroom, handing the wheel to an unconvincing ideological chameleon isn’t exactly a leap.

I’m not sure if Pierce should be making steering wheel references: “If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age.”

—Charles Pierce, the Boston Globe, January 5, 2003.

Posted at 2:45 pm by Ed Driscoll 206

DEVELOPING:

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll 340

SUCKING IN THE SEVENTIES:

Well, they actually did, at least couple of times, including 1988’s Running on Empty, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Judd Hirsch and River Phoenix. Lumet’s film sympathized with the Nixon-era anti-Vietnam War terrorists, now on the run from the FBI:

And then there was 2012’s The Company You Keep, directed by and starring the recently deceased Robert Redford:

Promoting the film the following year, Redford had this exchange on Good Morning America with fellow Democrat George Stephanopoulos:

Stephanopoulos was so enthusiastic towards Robert Redford and his sympathetic new film about an ex-1960s radical that the actor enthused, “You ought to get on the marketing team!” The aging actor/director appeared on Tuesday’s Good Morning America and endorsed the violent actions of protest groups. Reminiscing on his own past, the liberal Hollywood star recounted, “When I was younger, I was very much aware of the movement. I was more than sympathetic, I was probably empathetic because I believed it was time for a change.”

After Stephanopoulos wondered, “Even when you read about bombings,” Redford responded, “All of it. I knew that it was extreme and I guess movements have to be extreme to some degree.”

Among their other terrorist attacks during the Nixon era, the Weathermen bombed the Pentagon; right around the same time Redford’s film was bombing at the box office, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev quite literally bombed the Boston Marathon, leading to his totally cool and dreamy cover photo in Rolling Stone magazine. When Redford’s movie was previewed at Sundance in January of 2012, the late Kathy Shaidle wrote:

Over twenty years after Running on Empty came out and more than ten years after Bill Ayers told The New York Times (in its 9/11/01 morning edition, no less) that he regretted not setting more bombs, Robert Redford’s next movie sees him playing “a fugitive Weather Underground radical who has been in hiding for 30 years.”

I suppose it makes for a nice change from Weather Underground radicals who teach at major universities and hang out with the president.

Just to bring it all full circle, as Marathon Pundit noted back then, “Boston Marathon bombs similar to Bill Ayers’ Weather Underground nail bomb.” Ayers’ “device was intended to be detonated at a soldiers’ dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey.”

Posted at 2:14 pm by Ed Driscoll 71

ACE OF SPADES: JK Rowling Finally Blasts Ungrateful Little Rich Bitch Emma Watson For Her Constant Attacks.

It’s a lengthy and absolutely nuclear-powered tweet:

And as a result, Watson makes the Critical Drinker’s “Crash and Burn” list:

And the savagery continues:

Posted at 1:44 pm by Ed Driscoll 413