kills me when white men aren't very popular and they're like "wow?? discrimination??" buddy i'm so sorry but you just have a bad personality :( we all thought you knew :(

Back in June, I tagged along with the legendary Mira Nair for an afternoon canvass in Richmond Hill. Production delays (by yours truly) kept this from coming out during the election, but we wanted to share this one with you for the holidays. I hope you enjoy it - this is one of my favorites.

ralph fiennes if you’re free tomorrow night i am also free tomorrow night if you want to do something tomorrow night if you’re free

My dad died last May. More than anything else, history was what we shared in common. As we have the first Christmas without him, I reflected on what that meant. open.substack.com/pub/patrickw...

Early 90s card from the Carlins…

i’m posting the video again

NBA folks -- a personal URL and site hosting fee is worth it. You will make more money. I was able to cover my first Finals in 15 years off the difference, driving to all seven games.

AHHHHHHHH. I can’t stop thinking about this. My god it’s good

This is amazingly insightful. Love.

Like, yeah. You should read what you wanna read! Reading is a pleasure! But one of the pleasures of reading is that it makes our inner worlds bigger. Challenges us to think about things we haven’t thought about. Expands our horizons, as the phrase goes

People are harshing on some “diverse reading challenge” thing that’s going around, and I get it, but looking at what you read and asking yourself “what isn’t represented here?” is imo a good and healthy practice

key here is Weiss putting on record that she thought the original report was not fair to the Trump administration

From standing up to top politicians and ICE raids, to reporting truthfully on Gaza and outsider voices, @premthakker.bsky.social is helping us do the journalism no one else will.

The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse? You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.

It is about this: because so many people do not give a shit about romance, shit gets tried in romance first. You should pay attention to romance publishing news and care about it, because they will try that shit here first.

So I am going to say something about romance as a genre. A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>. This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.

Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.

Left: French chore coat (just one of many regional variations) Right: LL Bean barn coat If the lore is to be believed, the American barn coat was originally called a hunting coat (or LL Bean Maine Warden jacket) bc it was used for hunting. It was renamed "barn coat" to appeal to urban customers.

Wood and Astin play a VERY divorced couple who are both fingered for the mysterious murder of their mutual employer the Duchess (Blanchett) by the heir apparent (Miranda Otto) and her personal detective (Vigo Mortensen). A grumpy groundskeeper (Sean Bean) and crew (Hobbits) are the narrators

A genuinely dispiriting thing about covering sexual violence is how often the suffering of women and children is metabolized as political point-scoring or titillating entertainment.

Ode to James Ransone’s memorable portrayal of a junior enlisted Marine in "Generation Kill" www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/mil...

I find it moving that David Lynch loved IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE so much he couldn't talk about it without crying. His sincere belief in the redemptive possibilities contained in that film and what it said about people seems to me like a key element of understanding his own work.

With the 60 minutes leak, the many recent Epstein releases, etc., I think we are seeing the future of government accountability under authoritarianism: Leaks, hacks, data dumps, releases of big document caches. Journalists and the public will have to learn how to digest this stuff. 🧵

i feel like this from roosevelt's 1942 state of the union address still works as a mantra today for our fight

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

the skeet about rich fancy dinner parties likewise is not a defense of that circle's ability to gatekeep basic principles of liberalism. they loved kissinger, epstien and all sorts of crooks and despots. but a brain dead oaf like weiss? ew how gauche

what you have to understand about bari weiss is that she exclusively cares about getting invited to interesting and exclusive dinner parties. so take some consolation in knowing the fact that sometime in the near future she will never get invited to a fancy dinner party again

Perform empathy. Please. Perform the fuck out of it. It's so good to act with kindness. I hope it penetrates to a place where you feel it, too, but if you must act some way, act the right way. I'm not here to judge your authenticity, I just want you to be kind, thoughtful, and mortified by meanness.

Literally having trouble thinking of an institutional sector — journalism, education, government, health care — that ISNT being run by people who actively hate the work it does

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

CBS 60 Minutes is gone, but PBS Frontline remains. "The story of three Venezuelan men branded as gang members by the Trump administration and deported to CECOT, a maximum-security prison in El Salvador notorious for its harsh conditions" youtube.com/watch?v=Lku5...

Yes. And translators, badly paid, have been trying to make people aware of this, but they have only a small platform. Need writers and readers to be aware and speak out. All my foreign language contracts going forward will stipulate that a real person translates.

Found out Cher isn’t actually promoting anything doing SNL. They just booked Cher because Bowen’s dream guest was Cher. Woooo, damn those people love him

One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.

I don’t know how anyone can still talk about “the AI revolution” with a straight face. Reuters story about a railroad company that has sunk $300,000 into “developing AI products” and appears to have made…a chatbot that doesn’t work? archive.is/2025.12.17-0...

I asked for her standouts, this woman picked 350 photos — from my current studio. She didn’t even get back further than 2024 🤣🤣🤣 (Which is very kind, just not necessarily the assignment hahahaha)

Rick Steves is an American treasure. Just all-around, one of the absolute best of us.

Congratulations to the ADL for deciding to go all-in on working with this administration because of some college student protestors who used intemperate rhetoric.

it’s way more satisfying with pictures. look at his face in the first one, he’s a hunter going in for the killing blow.

Incredible words from real boxer Anthony Joshua after he knocked Jake Paul the fuck out lol

Bannon’s like, “What can I say to make people forget that I knowingly coached a sexual predator to help him repair his image?”

This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.

Watching Star Wars for the first time in ages. The Empire's entire downfall is precipitated by one bridge officer not firing on that escape pod from the Tantive IV because it didn't contain life signs. The end of the Empire stems from that one decision.

Vought is one of the top three or four enemies of the Constitution & American democracy. His removal from power is one of the highest priorities for any project of checking the dictatorship's lawless wielding of the vast powers of the state

Trans people deserve better.

So much great stuff coming on Past Lives: 12/24: Terence, Slavery, and Ancient Rome's First Literature 12/25: My Dad and History (I got emotional around the holiday) 12/31: Crixus, the Spartacus Rebellion, and Resistance to Slavery 1/7: Eurysaches' Baker and Industrial Work in Ancient Rome

So many northeastern libs in elite circles are sooooo squishy and embarrassed by themselves, which was a strange thing to encounter after spending the first 25 years of my life in the South, where being left of center requires you to at least have the courage of your convictions