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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They’ll turn this peaceful protest into bloodshed if they can.
ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
November 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
They’ll turn this peaceful protest into bloodshed if they can.
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Lalo Alcaraz, Tribune Content Agency
November 29, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Lalo Alcaraz, Tribune Content Agency
My surprised face.
Christian nationalists are teaming with Trump in a bid to torch a rule preventing churches from donating to campaigns. Commentary ↓
The Court Case That Could Blow the Roof Off Political Spending
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November 29, 2025 at 5:03 AM
My surprised face.
The funniest book you’ll read all year about a guy whose arm is hilariously amputated.
www.amazon.com/AMPD-Disarmi...
www.amazon.com/AMPD-Disarmi...
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The funniest book you’ll read all year about a guy whose arm is hilariously amputated.
www.amazon.com/AMPD-Disarmi...
www.amazon.com/AMPD-Disarmi...
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universities aren’t capitulating to Trump, they’re collaborating. the modern university is a hedge fund with an academy incidentally attached to it, the ghouls in charge want to scrap programs, reject “wokeness,” think racial equality has gone too far, etc. it’s just an excuse to do what they want!
November 29, 2025 at 2:36 AM
universities aren’t capitulating to Trump, they’re collaborating. the modern university is a hedge fund with an academy incidentally attached to it, the ghouls in charge want to scrap programs, reject “wokeness,” think racial equality has gone too far, etc. it’s just an excuse to do what they want!
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Northwestern bent the knee, choosing to give in to extortion at the expense of academic freedom.
Among the provisions:
-Pay a big bribe
-Give the govt data on students
-Validate BS about "fighting antisemitism"
-Be cruel to trans students
What to do about Vichy universities (now, later, or both)?
Among the provisions:
-Pay a big bribe
-Give the govt data on students
-Validate BS about "fighting antisemitism"
-Be cruel to trans students
What to do about Vichy universities (now, later, or both)?
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Northwestern bent the knee, choosing to give in to extortion at the expense of academic freedom.
Among the provisions:
-Pay a big bribe
-Give the govt data on students
-Validate BS about "fighting antisemitism"
-Be cruel to trans students
What to do about Vichy universities (now, later, or both)?
Among the provisions:
-Pay a big bribe
-Give the govt data on students
-Validate BS about "fighting antisemitism"
-Be cruel to trans students
What to do about Vichy universities (now, later, or both)?
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trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!”
also trump:
also trump:
November 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!”
also trump:
also trump:
“Magnolia” is a Christmas movie.
November 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
“Magnolia” is a Christmas movie.
The history of this time should hold our corporate news media even more accountable than the power-grabby politicians of the Republican Party.
there's no way to explain our politics without the media being overwhelmingly complicit
Now only did White House pool reporters not stick up for their colleague who Trump repeatedly called “stupid” but you can hear them thanking Trump a few minutes later after he ended the Q&A. Sad stuff.
November 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The history of this time should hold our corporate news media even more accountable than the power-grabby politicians of the Republican Party.
I wrote this take on rapacious venture capitalism when Frank McCourt finally divested of the Dodgers organization after doing all he could to trash it.
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eatthepoor.com?p=72
November 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I wrote this take on rapacious venture capitalism when Frank McCourt finally divested of the Dodgers organization after doing all he could to trash it.
eatthepoor.com?p=72
eatthepoor.com?p=72
No shortage of truly awful people willing to share the cringe moment with our slug of a president.
Trump entered the Mar-a-Lago ballroom for his Thanksgiving feast to the song “We Are the World,” a song used to raise money to help starving children.
Trump himself has cut aid to address global famine and has fought for the right to cut food stamps from American families.
Trump himself has cut aid to address global famine and has fought for the right to cut food stamps from American families.
November 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
No shortage of truly awful people willing to share the cringe moment with our slug of a president.
No one, their actions reveal them as cowards.
joyannreid
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Will no one stand up to Trump while he berates women journalists? Where is the White House Correspondents Association? Any thoughts from them??? WTAF. Would it be so hard for one of those journalists to say "with all due respect Mr. President, that is uncalled for and inappropriate."
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Will no one stand up to Trump while he berates women journalists? Where is the White House Correspondents Association? Any thoughts from them??? WTAF. Would it be so hard for one of those journalists to say "with all due respect Mr. President, that is uncalled for and inappropriate."
November 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
No one, their actions reveal them as cowards.
Never any consequence to ignoring a court order, so of course this will continue.
Beyond depraved: "Hours after her detainment, court documents obtained by ABC News show that a federal judge ordered the government not to remove the 19-year-old from the U.S. and not to transfer her outside of Massachusetts. But Lopez Belloza was deported to Honduras the next day."
November 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Never any consequence to ignoring a court order, so of course this will continue.
Evolutionary biologists, skipping foreplay for 17 million years.
Animals have been kissing for over 17 million years, a new study suggests.
Kissing has long perplexed evolutionary biologists, given it has no obvious benefit to reproducing or finding food, while carrying the risk of disease transmission.
Kissing has long perplexed evolutionary biologists, given it has no obvious benefit to reproducing or finding food, while carrying the risk of disease transmission.
When was the first kiss? Over 17 million years ago, a study suggests.
Evolutionary biologists don’t know why we kiss — but new research suggests kissing evolved long before humans existed.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Evolutionary biologists, skipping foreplay for 17 million years.
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really went dark for the sequel
November 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
really went dark for the sequel
“Integrating NFC chips into biometric wearables” seems more like an Orwellian threat than exciting new must-have tech product.
November 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
“Integrating NFC chips into biometric wearables” seems more like an Orwellian threat than exciting new must-have tech product.
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Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
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“The rules had to keep shifting to accommodate our level of imagination.”
For @reverseshot.bsky.social I spoke with BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions director Kahlil Joseph about making an album in film form, Ryan Coogler, and thinking about the small screen.
For @reverseshot.bsky.social I spoke with BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions director Kahlil Joseph about making an album in film form, Ryan Coogler, and thinking about the small screen.
Kahlil Joseph
I realized that we Black people really have never had our CNN or our New York Times, but we are remarkably well-informed. Even a lot of the uneducated class of folks are remarkably well-informed. I ha...
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November 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
“The rules had to keep shifting to accommodate our level of imagination.”
For @reverseshot.bsky.social I spoke with BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions director Kahlil Joseph about making an album in film form, Ryan Coogler, and thinking about the small screen.
For @reverseshot.bsky.social I spoke with BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions director Kahlil Joseph about making an album in film form, Ryan Coogler, and thinking about the small screen.
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If you've been shopping at your local Starbucks because the strike hadn't reached it yet, SWU is asking everyone to stop shopping there now.
BREAKING: A new wave of union baristas are joining the longest ULP strike in Starbucks history! 2,500 union baristas across 120+ stores in 85 cities are now on an open-ended ULP strike. We're SIXTEEN DAYS in and only getting stronger ✊
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
If you've been shopping at your local Starbucks because the strike hadn't reached it yet, SWU is asking everyone to stop shopping there now.
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Today in @ocregister.bsky.social, I talk books and criminal inspirations: www.ocregister.com/2025/11/28/a...
Author Tod Goldberg is fascinated by characters who make poor decisions
Goldberg, whose latest book is the crime novel ‘Only Way Out,’ directs the Low Residency MFA program in Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts at the University of Calif…
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November 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Today in @ocregister.bsky.social, I talk books and criminal inspirations: www.ocregister.com/2025/11/28/a...
Post something random or you’ll have an awful December.
November 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Post something random or you’ll have an awful December.
"The worst of the worst."
Nuremberg these monsters as soon as possible.
Nuremberg these monsters as soon as possible.
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"The worst of the worst."
Nuremberg these monsters as soon as possible.
Nuremberg these monsters as soon as possible.