I honestly beseech you to watch Heated Rivalry. Words can't encapsulate the virtuosic acting, writing/directing, photography, pacing/editing, MUSIC DIRECTION oh my god, etc. Giving it a miss because it has some explicit sex is like noping out on The Godfather or Tombstone due to the violence.

Watching Planes Trains and Automobiles and John Candy is reading the alternate title to Heated Rivalry

Happy Chinese-and-a-movie eve

You have spare time in the next few days. Use six hours of it to watch the divine Heated Rivalry. You'll thank me later.

🎄Tidings of comfort and joy, y'all.🏒 youtu.be/KMHuxHdoFX0?...

You should be watching Heated Rivalry bc it's a beautiful moving thrilling gorgeously crafted and performed life-affirming masterpiece, and if you are skipping it bc you think it's smutty trash or "just" romance or too TikTok popular for your hipster academic sensibilities, then you are missing out.

Trench coats informally banned from every high school since 98 but the suicide robot is installed on your school laptop automatically

I'd love a browser/general software extension that adds a "No, fuck off!" button to any pop-up suggesting "AI" "help" with something --- and the option to send exactly those words to the company producing the software.

The Myth of a Rightward Realignment Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election that are obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment of the established order. New piece:

NEW: Federal judge rules Trump's D.C. troop invasion is likely illegal, must end by Dec. 11. National Guard troops have been in D.C. since August. A federal judge ruled Thursday that both deployments — D.C. National Guard and out-of-state troops — likely violate the law. Tonight, at Law Dork:

Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.

I love Claire Danes for many reasons, and #1 is that nobody, but nobody, can do "a person so anxious, stressed, and suffused with cortisol that they visibly and audibly vibrate" like she does. It's so relatable and uncomfortable to watch.

Add “American Psycho” to the list of books where they completely missed the point.

Although many people are saying it, I do not believe our current president sucked off former president Bill Clinton on camera. I have not seen sufficient evidence that our current president gave the former president a blowie in a way that was memorialized in a photo. That's not something I believe.

The GOP promised to release all the Epstein files. Instead, the GOP fled DC, and Pam Blondie moved Ghislaine Maxwell to a country club prison. Now Megyn Kelly out there saying 15-year-olds aren't children??? STOP COVERING FOR PEDOPHILES! #ReleaseTheFiles

NYT: But our emails

Look, Robert, not everything can be as newsworthy as John Podesta’s risotto.

We’re living in a Mad Libs

thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this: u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.

If these people want to avoid internal recriminations, heads need to roll.

Name a single fucking thing y'all have "fought" united in the last year. Just one.

Look at this shit man. They fold for nothing and then act like the people who wanted a Democratic policy win are the ones standing in the way of electoral successes. What’s the point of winning elections in November if no good policy comes out of it?

"Yes, we stabbed you all in the back in a way that will probably ruin thousands of lives, but the important thing is you all get back behind us so we can really make the next showdown count."

We were completely united until these motherfuckers decided to break ranks. We were united, we were winning, we had momentum, the courts were on our side, and we just shitkicked in elections from coast to coast. Fucking weimar republic asshatter....

We can't do anything because of the next election. We can't do anything because of the next election. We can't do anything because of the next election. We can't do anything because of the next election. We can't do anything because of the next election. We can't do anything because of the next elec

We haven't gone a full twelve hours since we were stabbed in the back.

every single one of you is to blame and you are all getting primaried, fuck you. you want to play rotating villain and try to obfuscate who the collaborators are? fine, then everybody can fuck off and you’re not getting any money either.

Dude, we're pretty fucking united. Against the pathetic display of cowardice we just saw. It's actually about the most united I've ever seen the Democratic party... outside of the Senate. Join the fight or sit down.

I dunno, it seems like everyone is pretty united in hating the democrats in the senate right now.

You're doing a lot of lecturing for someone who just got dogwalked by Donald Trump.

This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.

Your colleagues promised us — promised activists, promised social media influencers, promised organizations — that they were actually going to fight for the ACA, that it was non-negotiable. You lied to us. You betrayed us. And this is your plan? I know you're not this stupid Sheldon.

Idc if it was 8 Dem Senators. The rest are covering. All of them are quislings or complicit. None of them are telling Chuck to get fucked. Primary every single one. Fuck these losers. Suburban moms are going toe to toe with jackboots. A fucking inflatable frog has more courage. @indivisible.org

Dude, there's no "internal" recriminations here There's you guys in office, and then there's us, the constituents you claim to serve If we criticize you, that isn't failing a team loyalty test, because WE ARE NOT ON YOUR TEAM We're your *managers* not your players nor your fan base

This is so offensive I don’t even know where to start. “Vote blue no matter who and also shut the fuck up when those people betray you.” Nope. We will primary every senator who doesn’t call for Schumer to step down in the next 24 hours. You work for us.

We're going to keep primarying you until we have Senators that are more loyal to us than to their worst colleagues, @whitehouse.senate.gov. The American people have no more patience for being betrayed to a tyrannical regime, and you can't "fight united" alongside cowards who refuse to fight at all.

You need to understand, there is no "getting past internal recriminations and back to fighting united" under current leadership, because current leadership is plainly NOT FIGHTING. If you want the Dems to be a united party, it starts with ousting Schumer. Until then, there is no unity.

They think *we're* idiots. We're the rubes whose only function is to keep them in public office and subsidize their lifestyles. They ignore us when they can and try to pacify us with patronizing lies and happytalk when they can't.

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

Let’s be clear: Chuck Schumer is the one ending this shutdown, no matter how the votes read. Chuck Schumer is claiming that he’s voting no, while letting other Senators (Fetterman, Kaine, King, etc) do HIS dirty work. He must be removed from his leadership & primaried for the sake of this country

BREAKING: Democratic Representative Ro Khanna has said: "Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced"

okay, so, with Dems successfully keeping anyone up in 2026 for voting for this turd let's take a look at who's up in 2026 anyway: 1. Cory Booker - apparently involved behind the scenes, constantly looking for bipartisanship. I don't dislike him personally but he doesn't have what we need. Primary.

As Democrats get their votes lined up and talking points ready, it’s important to remember they’re working together to lessen the fallout from their angry base. In March (see below), Schumer voted to advance the bill but didn’t *technically* vote for final passage. It’s dishonest bullshit.

We tried to show them after the last surrender. There's no sense in trying to convince them anymore. Primaries are the only path to a fighting opposition party now.

We lose, they surrender. We win, they surrender. Why bother showing in 2026? Seriously. Why bother?