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Ken Pisani
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Screenwriter and Emmy nominee. Author of LA Times bestseller & Thurber Prize for American Humor finalist “AMP'D." Smartest of pants. Repped @ WME kenpisani.com
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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · Dec 4
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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 1h
We appear to be well past page one. I can tell by the rising action.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 4h
It's wild that we've reached a point where the President openly admits to firing people for political reasons, and his OMB director tweets about it like it's a victory. This is page one of the authoritarian playbook, happening in plain sight.
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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 1h
Maybe Chicago police should pull them the fuck over? Ask for IDs, search for weapons? Local mayors should insist their police enforce law and order. Utter failure at the municipal level of policing. (One that makes lawlessness possible for anyone to drive armed and masked without plates.)
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 2h
Just today, here's a story from the @chicago.suntimes.com -- not only are ICE/feds masking themselves constantly (and some local cops too, I've seen it), now they're driving around without license plates. More "laws for thee, whatever I wanna do for me" in action chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...
Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates
The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.
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Mr. Tyler Crook @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 4h
I feel like God was pretty clear about what he thought of Caviezel's previous performance.
A headline from entertainment weekly dated October 24, 2003. The headline reads. "mel Gibson's Jesus is struck by lightning." it goes on to say that star Jim Cavio was hit once during production of the controversial film and an assistant director was struck twice..
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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 3h
The second part of this is true; the first part is not a sure thing.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6h
They know they won't be in power forever. So, they're breaking as much as they can right now, in the hope that whoever follows them won't be able to put it all back together.
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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 7h
NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4
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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 3h
Local police need to step up. They’re breaking laws left and right. At the very least demand they show identification and warrants. Every mayor should insist their police preserve law and order.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h
“This is not sustainable”
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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 3h
My surprised face 😶
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6h
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javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 3h
a kleptocracy of shellacked, fake-tan teenagers with receding hairlines, hrt muscles, viagra boners, and entitlement inversely proportional to merit. as bertrand russell put it: “the trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.”
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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 4h
Savage.
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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 3h
IT’S GOING GREAT
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4h
The nation’s largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims.

If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.
The Human Trafficking Case That Could Hand Government Contractors Blanket Immunity
In a little-noticed Supreme Court case, the country’s largest private prison operator argues companies should be shielded from lawsuits when doing the government’s dirty work.
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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 5h
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h
Imagine that
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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 4h
Hi, I’d like to order a custom hoodie in a camo pattern of Christmas colors and then I’d like a big Punisher skull with Trump hair sticking out from under a Santa hat. And this is VERY IMPORTANT, on the arm I want a patch that says K$H and “FIGHT WITH KASH” underneath. My name is Kash. Yes I’ll hold
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the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 4d
LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH
Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao he’s so fucking ugly
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 6h
The Nobel *Peace* Prize winner is cool with murdering civilians on boats
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22h
This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!
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Nate Federman @natefederman.bsky.social · 5h
Here’s how my 1st ever GENERAL meeting went…

Exec: I read Joint Custody; I’m a big fan!
Me: Thank you.

Exec: How long have you been in LA?
Me: 3 years.

Exec: You work on The Office - what’s that like?
Me: Fun.

Exec: My assistant will be in to validate your parking.
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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 14h
Ten bucks says he’s the guy on the right.
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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 16h
The billionaires definitely have our best interests at heart.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 16h
Marc Benihoff, who has barely been in San Francisco since the pandemic, is just a red-pilled asshole like the rest of them. What a fucking disgrace. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco
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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 18h
"Joy violator" is some Orwellian euphemistic shit, Bravo.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 21h
Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”
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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 20h
The people who are forcing us to live like Ann Frank’s neighbor really wish you’d stop comparing them to Nazis.
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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 20h
Because they saw, and still see, America as something far superior to the tinpot shithole regimes we opposed. And there's nothing more insulting to them than seeing someone go and try to turn America into *exactly* that kind of country.
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Binzie @binns.bsky.social · 20h
My boss is a Reagan Republican and has been enraged since this all started. I seem to remember being plenty angry at that group of Republicans back then but again, nothing like this.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d
“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”
Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.
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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 23h
When so many news media “mistakes” lean racist, maybe they’re not really mistakes.
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kate conger @kateconger.com · 3d
Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.
Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 1d
Donald trump can still win the Nobel Peace prize if Mike Pence has the courage
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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 1d
To blunt his this threat the 8 remaining universities need to show solidarity immediately by also rejecting. But while they’re thinking about it Trump will take some retaliatory action and that will instead scare some into compliance. MIT is offering 2 lessons here and I fear the more likely one.
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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 1d
COOL, the symbol of democratic resistance against authoritarian regimes loves Trump and blowing up boats without due process.
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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 1d
Here’s the “Venezuelan Democracy Fighter” in question on Fox and Friends explaining her support for Trump bombing the fishing boats just last month
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