This is great, but a strong indictment of our national media as well

We live in a country where some of the best journalists are late night comedians & editorial cartoonists. THANK YOU Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, Jimmy Fallon, Tom Tomorrow, Mike Luckovich & Michael de Adder ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! #LAUGH_DO_NOT_DESPAIR ✊

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— Mark Hamill (@markhamillofficial.bsky.social) June 1, 2026 at 2:54 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

This is what heroism looks like

The Boss speaks. #Springsteen @ #Colbert

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— Uschi.K 🇪🇺 🇩🇪 🍀 (@koe-teacher.bsky.social) May 21, 2026 at 8:40 AM

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emaycee

 

An American hero

Stephen Colbert signed off for the last time from “The Late Show” on Thursday. His final guest was Paul McCartney and together they performed the Beatles’ “Hello, Goodbye.”

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— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) May 22, 2026 at 6:40 AM

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emaycee

 

Sir Charles for the win

CBS turned their news operation into propaganda, kicked Colbert off the air for making too much trouble, and all that just to have Charles Barkley go on the air on one of their most-watched telecasts of the year and say this lmao

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— Rodger Sherman (@rodger.bsky.social) March 29, 2026 at 5:07 PM

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Peace,

emaycee

 

Psychological derangement

Nothing to see here. This is definitely a normal post that perfectly demonstrates appropriate behavior for a man with grave responsibilities to the nation and absolutely, positively does not show psychological derangement and incapacity to serve as president under section 4 of the 25th Amendment.

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— George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 (@gtconway.bsky.social) December 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

 

We have seen the enemy and it is Donald Trump

As an aside, I wonder if it’s starting to dawn on white people who think Trump/MAGA won’t come after *them* that both Colbert and Kimmel are wealthy Christian straight white guys.

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— Charles Gaba (@charlesgaba.com) September 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

Only President in history who's too wimpy to take a fucking joke

Late night hosts criticizing the president isn’t new. Having a thin-skinned dictator wannabe who can’t take it is.

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— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) September 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM

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Peace,

emaycee

 

The cowardice in far too many of America's institutions is staggering

COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to? HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.

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— News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social) August 1, 2025 at 8:06 AM

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Peace,

emaycee

 

Man, would this ever be sweet

It would be a wonderful irony if Stephen Colbert followed the Zelensky path & was elected President in 2028. It seems that comedians make remarkably good leaders www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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— Martin McKee (@martinmckee.bsky.social) July 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee 

Whatever shred of integrity CBS had left, is now gone

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.

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— Elizabeth Warren (@warren.senate.gov) July 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

A poor man's Putin

"Right now there is a dictator who thinks he can violently conquer a sovereign democracy... but Joe Biden beat him in the last election"

-Stephen Colbert

— Scott the Process 🌊 (@scotttheprocess) March 9, 2022

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

 

Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. CCXVIII--Father John Misty: Holy Shit

I noted last week that I caught Taj Mahal performing "Queen Bee" on The Tavis Smiley Show and about a minute into his performance went looking for a pen and a piece of paper...which I was glad to have because after Mahal finished performing, I flipped to the next channel just as Father John Misty was beginning his performance of this week's tune on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.  Two great tunes new to me in the space of ten minutes--again, surprise and wonder, wonder and surprise...

Father John Misty (and what a great moniker that one is) was born Joshua Tillman in Rockville, Maryland and grew up in a very religious family.  After attending college for a year, he headed to the music mecca of Seattle in 2002 and began his career in earnest.  He originally performed under his given name, was in the bands Fleet Foxes and Saxon Shore, before finally settling in as Father John Misty in 2012.  He has released eight albums as Josh Tillman, four as Father John Misty, one with Fleet Foxes, and two with Saxon Shore.  He's had three top twenty albums as Father John Misty, with one of them reaching the top ten.  Tillman has also been nominated for four Grammys and won once.

"Holy Shit" (and what a great single title that one is) was not released as a single so yet again we have no shout outs for the Billboard Hot 100 this week.  It was on the 2015 LP I Love You, Honeybear which reached number 17 (with a bullet!) on the Billboard 200 chart.  Interestingly (or not) for this day and age, 30% of its sales have come in the form of the good old-fashioned LP.

"Holy Shit" was written on the day Tillman married his wife (they're still together so I'm assuming the somber tone of the song wasn't a warning shot that the marriage was doomed from the start), and it lists a litany of life's ills and emotions, as well as cultural phenomena, on its way to its chorus which basically questions what's going on in the protagonists soul as he ponders his mortality...in all honesty, I really don't know what the song is about.  But I like its anthemic nature, the way the piano and the acoustic guitar play off each other, and I like Tillman's pained yet hopeful vocals (wedding day doubts/joy?)--especially the elongated "Oh" that ends the chorus and I always imagine is probably the moment in concert when everybody in the arena is "Ohhhing" along.  I also like the way Tillman plays on the words holy shit in terms of the songs religious overtones and imagery, juxtaposing it with the surprise one usually has when those two words are uttered.  In the end, what I like most about it is that numerous listens after the first time I heard it on Colbert, I still think, "Holy shit, this is a great song..."

Lyric Sheet:  "Oh, and no one ever really knows you, and life is brief/So I've heard, but what's that gotta do with this black hole in me..."

Enjoy:

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

Do they have an app for war criminals?

So far this week, George W. Bush administration Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has appeared on Charlie Rose, Stephen Colbert, and The View, ostensibly to hawk his video game app for "Churchill Solitaire," all the while appearing before crowds (except Charlie Rose) who are prompted to cheer at the introduction for a man who played an integral role in lying us into the Iraq War, which, by the way, resulted in the deaths of 4500 Americans and (by the most conservative of estimates) 150,000 Iraqis, the vast majority of whom were civilians.

Not to mention the three trillion dollar sinkhole it became for our budget, which President Obama has gamely been trying to help dig our way out of for almost eight years.

Am I the only one who wonders where our moral compass is when we celebrate a man largely responsible for such carnage?  Or wonders how the wheels could have fallen so far off the track?

Is a dollar really worth that much?

Peace,
emaycee