David Simon
@audacityofdespair.bsky.social
Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
Reposted by David Simon
As a thought exercise, is there a money-trench-dwelling, market-rigging, child-fucking greedwhore somewhere in federal custody that stands no chance whatsoever of being pardoned by this president?
December 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
As a thought exercise, is there a money-trench-dwelling, market-rigging, child-fucking greedwhore somewhere in federal custody that stands no chance whatsoever of being pardoned by this president?
Billionaire death-cage matches.
Pay-per-view, but affordable.
Or a viable national health care plan and shut the fuck up about tariffs so maybe inflation ceases.
Yeah, no. They're pretty fucked.
Pay-per-view, but affordable.
Or a viable national health care plan and shut the fuck up about tariffs so maybe inflation ceases.
Yeah, no. They're pretty fucked.
a thing to ask yourself re: the GOP's electoral position is what could happen over the next year that could *improve* its position? and what could trump do, plausibly, that might *boost* his numbers with the public?
December 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Billionaire death-cage matches.
Pay-per-view, but affordable.
Or a viable national health care plan and shut the fuck up about tariffs so maybe inflation ceases.
Yeah, no. They're pretty fucked.
Pay-per-view, but affordable.
Or a viable national health care plan and shut the fuck up about tariffs so maybe inflation ceases.
Yeah, no. They're pretty fucked.
Astounding how little you have to l know about the daily business and happenings at the White House, on Capitol Hill, or in our government as a whole to be the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Decent suit and a gavel and you're good to go. Nice work if you can get it.
Decent suit and a gavel and you're good to go. Nice work if you can get it.
December 3, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Astounding how little you have to l know about the daily business and happenings at the White House, on Capitol Hill, or in our government as a whole to be the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Decent suit and a gavel and you're good to go. Nice work if you can get it.
Decent suit and a gavel and you're good to go. Nice work if you can get it.
Happy to write those apologies for slain Wire characters to the couple dozen folk who voted in Tennessee last night and asked for them on DMs, whether you voted for one candidate or the other. Not leaving the post up longer because hey, writer's cramp.
Thanks again for simply being citizens.
Thanks again for simply being citizens.
December 3, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Happy to write those apologies for slain Wire characters to the couple dozen folk who voted in Tennessee last night and asked for them on DMs, whether you voted for one candidate or the other. Not leaving the post up longer because hey, writer's cramp.
Thanks again for simply being citizens.
Thanks again for simply being citizens.
To be fair, he does get a bit slurry by late afternoon.
December 3, 2025 at 4:41 AM
To be fair, he does get a bit slurry by late afternoon.
Masterful. Not a word wasted.
If Pete Hegseth was drunk when he ordered the second strike on the Venezuelan sailors, then he cannot be held accountable for their deaths.
December 3, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Masterful. Not a word wasted.
Sad that there won't be a shocking upset in TN-7 tonight, but as a matter of solace, my daughter has insisted we rewatch one of the great cinematic classics. Alas, she has fallen asleep on the sofa and I am left enraptured by the unrelenting wit and brillance that is Paddington 2.
No sarcasm.
No sarcasm.
December 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Sad that there won't be a shocking upset in TN-7 tonight, but as a matter of solace, my daughter has insisted we rewatch one of the great cinematic classics. Alas, she has fallen asleep on the sofa and I am left enraptured by the unrelenting wit and brillance that is Paddington 2.
No sarcasm.
No sarcasm.
I'm sorry for trading that Jimmy Rogers album for a microphone.
I'm sorry I never asked out Randi G.
I'm sorry for betting so much money on whether Michael Caine was in Breaker Morant.
I'm sorry for defrosting that year-old chili and feeding it to my kid.
I'm sorry for that one Halloween costume.
I'm sorry I never asked out Randi G.
I'm sorry for betting so much money on whether Michael Caine was in Breaker Morant.
I'm sorry for defrosting that year-old chili and feeding it to my kid.
I'm sorry for that one Halloween costume.
Can you publicly share your apologies with all of us?
December 3, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I'm sorry for trading that Jimmy Rogers album for a microphone.
I'm sorry I never asked out Randi G.
I'm sorry for betting so much money on whether Michael Caine was in Breaker Morant.
I'm sorry for defrosting that year-old chili and feeding it to my kid.
I'm sorry for that one Halloween costume.
I'm sorry I never asked out Randi G.
I'm sorry for betting so much money on whether Michael Caine was in Breaker Morant.
I'm sorry for defrosting that year-old chili and feeding it to my kid.
I'm sorry for that one Halloween costume.
No, mook.
That is a skeet encouraging voter participation, no different than say the League of Women Voters. Am willing to pen the apology without regard to how anyone votes in TN-7.
Though yes, one might assume that any committed Trumpist shitheel has neither acquired nor understood The Wire.
That is a skeet encouraging voter participation, no different than say the League of Women Voters. Am willing to pen the apology without regard to how anyone votes in TN-7.
Though yes, one might assume that any committed Trumpist shitheel has neither acquired nor understood The Wire.
This is Election interference.
Which means he is actually, right on here on BSky, taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy.
Which means he is actually, right on here on BSky, taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy.
December 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
No, mook.
That is a skeet encouraging voter participation, no different than say the League of Women Voters. Am willing to pen the apology without regard to how anyone votes in TN-7.
Though yes, one might assume that any committed Trumpist shitheel has neither acquired nor understood The Wire.
That is a skeet encouraging voter participation, no different than say the League of Women Voters. Am willing to pen the apology without regard to how anyone votes in TN-7.
Though yes, one might assume that any committed Trumpist shitheel has neither acquired nor understood The Wire.
Hey, professor: 25 percent of the boats that are boarded and carefully searched by the US Coast Guard and Navy for drugs do not actually have any contraband. How do the moral matriculations you offer here square with firing a missile and killing people without any presented evidence?
GTFOH.
GTFOH.
December 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Hey, professor: 25 percent of the boats that are boarded and carefully searched by the US Coast Guard and Navy for drugs do not actually have any contraband. How do the moral matriculations you offer here square with firing a missile and killing people without any presented evidence?
GTFOH.
GTFOH.
Every ICE thug today gearing up to hunt brown people in the city of New Orleans can eat an entire sack of stale, unsalted dicks. They and the administration they serve are displaying our fallen nation as an ungrateful, soulless shitpile of gutless, frightened race-hate. We are forever shamed.
December 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Every ICE thug today gearing up to hunt brown people in the city of New Orleans can eat an entire sack of stale, unsalted dicks. They and the administration they serve are displaying our fallen nation as an ungrateful, soulless shitpile of gutless, frightened race-hate. We are forever shamed.
As New Orleans braces for the arrival of ICE, there is a particular stain that comes with hunting Mexicans and Central Americans in that city. These are the same folks who arrived en masse to help rebuild the city after Katrina and have since become a vibrant part of its renewal.
Fuck ICE to hell.
Fuck ICE to hell.
December 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
As New Orleans braces for the arrival of ICE, there is a particular stain that comes with hunting Mexicans and Central Americans in that city. These are the same folks who arrived en masse to help rebuild the city after Katrina and have since become a vibrant part of its renewal.
Fuck ICE to hell.
Fuck ICE to hell.
Admiral Holsey is to this serial murder in the Caribbean as Hugh Thompson was to the butchery at My Lai --
that is to say a great American and a lone, solitary credit to its armed forces in a moment when a great and unremovable stain was put upon the honor of the entire American military.
that is to say a great American and a lone, solitary credit to its armed forces in a moment when a great and unremovable stain was put upon the honor of the entire American military.
Remember 6 weeks ago when Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of the U.S. military’s southern command, abruptly decided to retire?
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
US admiral to retire amid military strikes in Caribbean and tensions with Venezuela
Alvin Holsey just took over the US southern command late last year for a position that normally lasts three years
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Admiral Holsey is to this serial murder in the Caribbean as Hugh Thompson was to the butchery at My Lai --
that is to say a great American and a lone, solitary credit to its armed forces in a moment when a great and unremovable stain was put upon the honor of the entire American military.
that is to say a great American and a lone, solitary credit to its armed forces in a moment when a great and unremovable stain was put upon the honor of the entire American military.
We are not at war with Venezuela, yet. The boats are civilian craft. The U.S. criminal code does not maintain a death penalty for drug smuggling. Due process is required before conviction or sentence.
All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.
All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.
December 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
We are not at war with Venezuela, yet. The boats are civilian craft. The U.S. criminal code does not maintain a death penalty for drug smuggling. Due process is required before conviction or sentence.
All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.
All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.
Those six Democratic lawmakers who were military veterans and made a video urging officers, soldiers and sailors to refuse an illegal order seem somewhat more purposed and insightful now that we learn our military returned to fucking strafe civilian survivors to death after blowing apart their boat
December 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Those six Democratic lawmakers who were military veterans and made a video urging officers, soldiers and sailors to refuse an illegal order seem somewhat more purposed and insightful now that we learn our military returned to fucking strafe civilian survivors to death after blowing apart their boat
Unclear who I am supposed to root for in the battle to buy Warner Brothers Discovery and the HBO where I have made am home for 25 years. But if PBS wants to check the sofas again for change and make the high bid, I might have a near-even chance of one day filming another television drama.
December 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Unclear who I am supposed to root for in the battle to buy Warner Brothers Discovery and the HBO where I have made am home for 25 years. But if PBS wants to check the sofas again for change and make the high bid, I might have a near-even chance of one day filming another television drama.
The hard fact is that hoisting Trump on his own petard by using his sobriquet of piggie is insufficient. The diminutive makes it too cute, too playful.
Donald Trump is, always has been, and always will be a pig.
Donald Trump is, always has been, and always will be a pig.
Donald Trump finally posts a Thanksgiving message — and uses it to call Governor Tim Walz “seriously retarded.”
November 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
The hard fact is that hoisting Trump on his own petard by using his sobriquet of piggie is insufficient. The diminutive makes it too cute, too playful.
Donald Trump is, always has been, and always will be a pig.
Donald Trump is, always has been, and always will be a pig.
So a single Afghan man that Americans trained in combat tactics has supposedly shown himself incompatible with "Western Civilization" and now all Afghanis are unwelcome. Cool. Someone tell Trump about all the angry white male Americans shooting folks in bunches. Toss them, we're really in business.
November 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
So a single Afghan man that Americans trained in combat tactics has supposedly shown himself incompatible with "Western Civilization" and now all Afghanis are unwelcome. Cool. Someone tell Trump about all the angry white male Americans shooting folks in bunches. Toss them, we're really in business.
There is a joke in here somewhere about a German astronaut crossing a new frontier that Mel Brooks would not hesitate to transform into a Busby Berkeley musical number. But as Germany has now become the stalwart of a united, cooperative Europe, I shall stand down and say nothing else.
The first European to travel beyond low Earth orbit aboard an Artemis mission will be German. After the German astronaut, the other two flights to Gateway that have already been secured will go to a French and an Italian astronaut.
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
There is a joke in here somewhere about a German astronaut crossing a new frontier that Mel Brooks would not hesitate to transform into a Busby Berkeley musical number. But as Germany has now become the stalwart of a united, cooperative Europe, I shall stand down and say nothing else.
Reposted by David Simon
The first European to travel beyond low Earth orbit aboard an Artemis mission will be German. After the German astronaut, the other two flights to Gateway that have already been secured will go to a French and an Italian astronaut.
November 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The first European to travel beyond low Earth orbit aboard an Artemis mission will be German. After the German astronaut, the other two flights to Gateway that have already been secured will go to a French and an Italian astronaut.
The National Guard is not a law enforcement agency. It is untrained in a policing agency's standards, techniques, tactics and mission in any nation of laws. Only in a police state do officials equate military units with policing.
Did anyone ask why Trump is blaming Biden when his folks vetted and approved his asylum this year?
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The National Guard is not a law enforcement agency. It is untrained in a policing agency's standards, techniques, tactics and mission in any nation of laws. Only in a police state do officials equate military units with policing.
There is but one true chef.
November 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
There is but one true chef.
Strangest goddam case. Made stranger by the furtive, we-owe-no-real-explanations behavior of the U.S. Attorney's office and DOJ.
More is certainly known or surmised. Less gas been forthcoming for decades now.
More is certainly known or surmised. Less gas been forthcoming for decades now.
More than 20 years after Jonathan Luna's mysterious death in Pennsylvania, his autopsy report has been released.
Read the report about the Maryland federal prosecutor's death.
www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
Read the report about the Maryland federal prosecutor's death.
www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
November 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Strangest goddam case. Made stranger by the furtive, we-owe-no-real-explanations behavior of the U.S. Attorney's office and DOJ.
More is certainly known or surmised. Less gas been forthcoming for decades now.
More is certainly known or surmised. Less gas been forthcoming for decades now.
True tale: A Baltimore police colonel called a rival at 3 a.m. from a crime scene: "Leon, I got you now. You fucked up. You wrote "POLICE" backwards on the front of the EVU truck."
"Eddie, that's so it reads correctly in a rear view mirror."
Long pause.
"Aw Leon, you got an answer for everything."
"Eddie, that's so it reads correctly in a rear view mirror."
Long pause.
"Aw Leon, you got an answer for everything."
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
True tale: A Baltimore police colonel called a rival at 3 a.m. from a crime scene: "Leon, I got you now. You fucked up. You wrote "POLICE" backwards on the front of the EVU truck."
"Eddie, that's so it reads correctly in a rear view mirror."
Long pause.
"Aw Leon, you got an answer for everything."
"Eddie, that's so it reads correctly in a rear view mirror."
Long pause.
"Aw Leon, you got an answer for everything."