Because It's Friday

A live-steam show:

The Craven Broadcasting Company Bends Its Knee, Again

CBS is canceling “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” next May, shuttering a decades-old TV institution in a changing media landscape and removing from air one of President Donald Trump’s most prominent and persistent late-night critics.

Thursday’s announcement followed Colbert’s criticism on Monday of a settlement between Trump and Paramount Global, parent company of CBS, over a “60 Minutes” story.
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In his Monday monologue, Colbert said he was “offended” by the $16 million settlement reached by Paramount, whose pending sale to Skydance Media needs the Trump administration’s approval. He said the technical name in legal circles for the deal was “big fat bribe.”

So, CBS cancels the number-one show in its timeslot and says that it's a "business decision".... yeah, right. Tell me another one. Things haven't changed at that cowardly network since they canceled the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.

The Administration of the Syphilitic Felon has been politicizing the supposedly independent FCC; CBS is so afraid that the World's Oldest Toddler will have a fit of pique and mess with the Paramount-Skydance deal because he doesn't like what Colbert says each night.

Look for Comedy Central to engage in similar acts of political purity to try and stave off the childish wrath of the Demented Führer.

Also, this:

The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”

— Ken Tremendous (@kentremendous.bsky.social) July 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM

They might as well run the local news at 11 (or 10), play the National Anthem, show the T-38 flying to a recitation of "High Flight" and then go dark until it's time for the farm report at 4am.

The Far Right Hits the Bottom of the Well of Dumbness and Begins Digging

An “anti-government militia” called ‘Veterans on Patrol’ told News 9 on Tuesday that it is “targeting” Oklahoma weather radars, days after an individual vandalized News 9’s weather radar.
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"They can embed their technology and civilian infrastructure in every home and every household utilizing the phones and their network towers to not only control the weather, modify the weather, but they can [target] individuals,” [Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer, the founder of Veterans On Patrol] stated.

It takes a real special level of stupid to believe that bilge.

Extruding These Down, Here

Desperate for Distraction, Trump Ed.

Trump bleats about sugar in Coke, Newsom the Tool nailed it:

Krasnov the Demented is also muttering about firing Jerome Powell (Fed Chair) and blaming the guy who appointed him.

It would appear that the Old Orange Pedo is so eager to move the conversation away from his long friendship with Epstein that he's about to crash the markets. Whether or not he has Ka$h Patel's goons covering up his cavorting with underage girls is a question.

DoJ-- No Ethics Zone

When one remembers that Pam Bondi took a $25,000 bribe campaign contribution from Trump and then dropped an investigation into Trump U., it should be no surprise that the last thing she wants is people in her office who believe in ethics.

Trump's Goons

As Rodney Balko lays it out, we're past the point of discussing the militarization of the police. Now, we're at the point of discussing whether or not the cops are going to be loyal to their oath, to the Constitution, or if they are going to throw that all aside and swear fealty to Donald Trump.

I believe that, in much of the country, that debate is also over. They are backstopped by a supine Supreme Court that uses the shadow docket to approve of whatever Trump does without once having to sign their names to it. The Republicans in Congress have lined up to suck the Orange Mushroom Dick.

The guardrails are down. Maybe we can re-erect them in 2026 and 2028.

But no matter how we repair things, we will always have those repaired cracks in our national psyche. No matter how we fix things, the rest of the world will always know that our dedication to freedom and liberty and civil rights is thin.

And, in the meantime, as Trump wrecks our trade relationships with his TACO tariffs, the rest of the world is adjusting to trading with each other and cutting out out the United States.

Meanwhile, stand by for a market crash.

The Epstein Missing Minute

It's closer to three minutes.

I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.

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— Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) July 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM

BadTux has an explanation for a missing minute, but I don't know if it works for three minutes.

The journalistic question is why is a small news organization like Wired beating the big guys on this.

Tenting These Down, Here

The Onion Nails It, Again

Facing mounting backlash from his MAGA base over his perceived ties to the Jeffrey Epstein case, President Donald Trump reportedly encouraged his supporters Monday to simply move on from society’s widespread disdain for pedophilia.

The world is in a place where sarcasm is almost indistinguishable from reality.

Exhibit 1: The Trumpers in the House are blocking release of the Epstein files.