Stephen Colbert’s Late Show aired its final episode Thursday night, ending a decade-long run that cost CBS roughly $40 million a year and alienated half the country.
Bridget Phetasy breaks down how Trump derangement syndrome turned late night television from a unifying institution into a smug resistance rally — and why no one is actually sad to see it go. Also: The case for Dumpster Fire to fill the slot.
Commencement speakers got booed this weekend for mentioning AI — by the same graduating class that used ChatGPT to write their papers.
Bridget Phetasy breaks down why the anti-AI panic is just climate anxiety with a new face, why Bernie Sanders and AOC’s plan to ban data centers is the worst idea in recent memory, and why China is absolutely loving every minute of our meltdown. Here’s more in a new episode of The Dumpster Fire from Phetasy.
A deadly virus is spreading around the globe. Health officials are scrambling to keep it contained. We’ve seen this movie before and we did not enjoy it.
But this time it’s a virus with a 40% mortality rate. Bridget Phetasy walks us through the hantavirus outbreak, how people are reacting to a potential Pandemic: The Sequel when our trust in our institutions is already shattered, and why the World Cup could be the accelerator event to a catastrophe.
Are any of us actually ready to do this again? Definitely not. Here’s more in a new episode of The Dumpster Fire.
Hasan Piker sat down with the New York Times Opinion podcast — alongside Jia Tolentino and Nadja Spiegelman — and made the case that murdering a healthcare CEO is “social protest” and stealing is activism. Nobody pushed back.
Bridget Phetasy and Mike Solana of Pirate Wires break down how assassination culture went from fringe rhetoric to the paper of record, what it means that the left has no “too far,” and why the New York Times mainstreaming a violent Marxist is the actual story. Here’s more from Phetasy in a new edition of The Dumpster Fire.
Bridget Phetasy reacts to her recent “leave me behind” essay going viral and dives into why legacy media stars are desperately chasing a youth demographic that doesn’t care about them.
She breaks down the difference between building a “territory” for your work versus fighting for “hierarchy” in an algorithm-driven world.
It’s a call to stop performing for 20-somethings and start focusing on the “invisible audience” of late Boomers and Gen Xers. Here’s more in a new Dumpster Fire from Bridget Phetasy.
I spent the weekend freebasing the Epstein Files.
If the goal was to turn everyone in schizophrenics, congratulations, they succeeded.
Here’s more in a new Dumpster Fire from Bridget Phetasy.
Minnesota is apparently ground zero for the start of civil war 2.
How many times must I ask you all to stop murdering so we can get back to jokes? Here’s a new edition of The Dumpster Fire from Bridget Phetasy.
A little over a year ago, Trump was working at McDonald’s and now he’s speaking at Davos.
The European mind can’t comprehend that kind of hustle and upward mobility. Here’s more from Bridget Phetasy on a new edition of The Dumpster Fire.
The U.S. Supreme Court has been hearing arguments about whether boys and girls are different from each other.
A very important question that no one thought to ask for 300,000 years of human history. BECAUSE IT’S STUPID!
Here’s more from Bridget Phetasy on a new edition of Dumpster Fire.
