I'm sorry to learn that Bluestockings is abruptly closing after nearly 30 years. I was a volunteer at Bluestockings when it was a women's bookstore at 172 Allen St under the ownership of founder Kat Welsh, who sold the bookstore in 2003. Here is today's post from Bluestockings on IG. #activism #NYC

It sounded like Kimmel was driving a pretty hard bargain on coming back on the air—Disney was begging him, not the other way around—so let's hope this is interesting variety.com/2025/tv/news...

in addition to being scientific garbage, RFK identifying Tylenol as a cause of autism insidiously shifts the blame to pregnant moms, extending his overarching idea that if you get sick, it's because you did something wrong (Blame and sickness are also not concepts that should even be in play here)

I wasn’t going to write about Charlie Kirk at all. Until Cardinal Dolan went on Fox News and offered a glowing quasi-canonization.

I must regretfully be that guy and say that One Battle After Another does look better in VistaVision

“I’m sorry I caused all that autism.”

cartoonists handing the same 5 dollar bill around the Small Press Expo but it's the entire economy somehow

Been waiting for this one.

Blows my mind that when you hit "return" in Google Docs, you have literally no idea how much space it's going to leave before the next paragraph, and no matter how many times you hit "return" and "delete" it's impossible to get two paragraphs with the same sized breaks after them

I wish Bluesky critics would acknowledge this simple, somewhat horrifying fact

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

seems like a bit of a deal-breaker, no

Go Birds

I keep seeing "none of these make news" posts like these... ... Even though the Trump/Bondi story is leading the NYT and Washpost home pages right now

Canceling Disney+ because they canceled Kimmel is well and good, but if you really want to make them pay attention, there is no better way than fucking Goofy's wife

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

the Cava’s in the bag and the bag’s in the river

Siri is not being a shitty boss woke

at the risk of repeating myself: we will have the world we work for, and no other

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

as far as I’m concerned, if you use “woke” at this point, you’re off the list. Nothing that follows has value.

Disney's strategy with Kimmel has been to try to cool things down and figure out how to get its affiliates on board with his show's return to air. There's logic in that. But soon, Bob Iger may have to decide what's more important: Money or liberty. My latest: www.vulture.com/article/bob-...

*sad Borat voice* My rights

JESUS: Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani CHATGPT: you’re completely right. And I want to thank you for holding me accountable. It looks like you’ve somehow got nailed to a cross

The degree to which the entire creative community is massing against Disney right now should not be underestimated. There are people who are staying silent because they don't want to make it more difficult for Iger to walk this back. If he doesn't, I believe things will get much noisier.

"(Indeed, what might happen under Zohran Mamdani to the Big Apple’s famously homogenous Anglo neighborhoods, ethnic food, and street culture?)" @benmathislilley.bsky.social going out with a banger

wake up babe, new demo just dropped

seeing a 2 hour and 50 minute movie by the greatest living filmmaker (no; the other one)

a happy Buckingham Nicks Day to all who celebrate

the best movie at Sundance is now playing at Film Forum

fascinating that Fallon and Stewart, and to a much lesser extent Meyers, all landed on the same bit: obsequious flattery because trump could cancel them I’m not sure if I find irony poisoning to be enough of a comedic release right now, you know?

"America may not be an actual autocracy. But it increasingly seems to be playing one on TV." [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/a...

I wrote about what the desperate attempt to find a trans connection to the Charlie Kirk assassination tells us about the deep psychological impulses at work in Trumpism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...

it would be a pretty good week for Rolling Stone to have a TV critic

there is rising to meet the moment, and there is whatever this is

If you had told 24-year-old me that I would someday go to the mat to defend one-half of The Man Show, a TV show that literally had girls called “juggies” who did nothing but jump on trampolines, I would have been like “huh okay maybe it’s not the best time to go into the feminism business”

Solid material tonight from Colbert, Seth & Jon Stewart. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdGL... www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGpY... www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GXN... Watch the Seth clip if you like farting effects and the Stewart clip if you like Jon Stewart shouting. Jimmy Fallon also has a late-night show.

"The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission had just warned ABC of serious consequences, telling the network that 'we can do this the easy or the hard way.'"

as a member of two of these groups, I quite literally co-sign

attn: New York-and-NY-adjacent-ers: screenings of One Battle After Another in ultra-rare VistaVision projection are up for sale, and yet not entirely sold out. Not yet clear how different it will be, but worth it for bragging rights alone. www.regmovies.com/movies/one-b...

welp, this should be good

fun that the person who got fired for lying to her editors has been hired as ... an editor

I wrote about Black Rabbit, which really wants to be a Gritty New York Drama about status-chasing brothers in over their heads (check that surname), but also kind of wants to be The Bear?

yeah, you don't have to preface the fact that this is as clear-cut a case of government censorship as it is possible to conceive with your judgement of how funny Kimmel's show is

Brendan Carr Is Doing Politics the Right Way

the “do your own research” crowd has really stopped doing its own research, huh

note that there is not a single word in here about Charlie Kirk

the last song performed on Jimmy Kimmel's show was "Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down"

caveats about the inanity of a country-based system aside, thrilled that France has picked Jafar Panahi's It Was Only an Accident as their Oscar submission (I suspect it will get a nomination or two beyond that).

the takeaway is that philanthropy is fucking hot