It's time to end the arguments, they've gone on much too long. Here is the definitive ranking of Star Wars: 1. Star Wars (film, 1977) 2. Star Wars (comic book series, 1977-present) 3. Star Wars (video game, 1983) 4. Star Wars (novelisation, 1976) 5. Star Wars (proposed missile defence system, 1983)

I can't remember who it was reviewing whom & internet seqrch is broken but the phrase has stuck, calling a supposedly major USian writer "fundamentally dishonest at the level of the sentence." It's been my guiding star since: to be honest at the level of the sentence. And so many writers aren't.

There are more people organizing and pushing back against the regime today than there were in the first term. There are more people in more places (rural towns and big cities across the country). I think it's really strange how resistant some people are to these facts. I wonder what's going on.

“Always put the people first”: Progressives get a new candidate in New York City Darializa Avila Chevalier, a community organizer in Manhattan, is challenging Rep. Adriano Espaillat in Harlem (New York's 13th congressional district) www.salon.com/2025/11/20/a...

Looks like we're doing a bonus explainer this week: why on earth does this happen 1/4 ⚛️🧪

look if ever there was an author who could capture my unique charisma in prose, well...

Sorry, MAGA doesn't even support democracy here anymore, I'm supposed to believe they support it in Venezuela? bsky.app/profile/katz...

In fact, as I discuss in ON REPENTANCE AND REPAIR, it's a *feature*, not a bug of white supremacy. White Northern pastors started preaching Jesus' "unconditional" forgiveness* re: the South just as their supremacy was at risk. For them, white unity > accountability, Black equality. *see next skeet

'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain' #Iran 🇮🇷

yeah, this sounds right to me. the man's gone mad with power, thinks he can do anything, and isn't listening to the actual experts anymore bsky.app/profile/neqo...

no place for antisemitism OR Jews, it would seem

Looking the financial indices out of the UK and apologies if this has ever come up before, but have they considered reviving the economy by joining a large economic and political consortium of countries nearby, say in Europe?

Seen in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854.

This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

one thing about this is that in the wake of all of this kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.

one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)

recurring dream where I'm on an airplane and one of the flight crew bursts out of the cockpit and says breathlessly, "This is an emergency! Does anyone here know anything about the arguments presented at the Second Lateran Council (1139 A.D.)?"

today's least surprising data: "62% of [Black Jewish] respondents reported “increased marginalization” in a Jewish community or space after Oct. 7"

✨Announcing our December 2025 Criterion Channel lineup! ✨ Next month, make yourself at home in some of cinema’s most memorable hotels, celebrate Julianne Moore’s bracingly human performances, or explore the trailblazing debuts of Black women filmmakers. www.criterion.com/current/post...

ridiculous that Summers thinks maintaining his access and influence over 18 year old women is somehow an adequate response to the revelations in those Epstein emails. dude isn't really sorry and still playing in our faces.

i get it girl... we all feel this way for a couple months right at the beginning,

"I code so others can dream." Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer. Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...

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Elias is another Gazan who needs support from us, including for young kids who are suffering from malnutrition. Please share and help if you can!

to be clear, i also do not think it is necessarily true that adopting a laundry list of progressive positions is an instant win either. i think you have to do the work of discovering what it is that voters want in a direct and engaged way. and i think that voters want moral leadership.

We're primarying John Fetterman. Last week, Fetterman again sold out working Pennsylvanians. He was the deciding vote for a Republican budget bill that will strip healthcare from over 400,000 Pennsylvanians. We deserve real working class leadership in the Senate, not a Trump-enabling Democrat.

brb showing this clip to Oliver Cromwell to see what happens

check in on your gay friends at this difficult time

Another day - another pogrom. Dozens of settlers attacked two villagers, torching houses and vehicles. This happens daily now.

Pluribus (2025-)

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"

when you go back to visit your pre-transition friends

Highlights from the Bundled Up on Broad auction opening tmow 11/13!! (Buys warm clothes for the families at my synagogue Rodeph Shalom Philly's food pantry, or give directly to our wishlist: bit.ly/bundled25) I HAVE to start with Olivia Waite's beaded octopus www.32auctions.com/organization...

and that can be true! but then you open the actual newspaper and it's soft-focus profiles of Chris Rufo, a frenzied transphobic crusade, an all-out effort to get the first Black woman president of Harvard canned over bullshit, Get Zohran, etc etc

Already one presidential candidate says he wouldn't sign a new MOU— left wing fire brand Pete Buttigieg

What doesn't get highlighted enough: bans on trans care almost never end just at healthcare specific to us. They're often a cover for just refusing to treat trans people period, for anything. Broken bone? Surgery complications? Infection? Bigoted medical institutions are happy to let us die.

not to be a Debbie downer but I regret to inform you people have zero problem being cruel to survivors' faces

I've been sick all week sometimes I regret that as a woman my body is dominated by cold and wet humors

I've written a short story every month for about 10 years, and it made me very good at the repetitive form of beginning/middle/end. Endings are easy for me because the key to the ending is always in the beginning. Here's easy hack from a workshop talk I gave awhile back:

in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies

PREDATOR: SONG TO SONG is a toe-tapping good time

Erica Deuso is the first openly transgender person to be elected mayor in Pennsylvania. The longtime Democratic advocate defeated Republican Rich Bryant Tuesday to serve as the next mayor of Downingtown. 🔴 Live election updates: www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...

Even more relevant now that Dems are going to control Virginia.

CHOTINER: So this movie, you already had it on bluray? ME: That's correct. CHOTINER: And you've bought it again. ME: Not exactly. I bought a 4K bluray of it. CHOTINER: Superior? ME: Yes. CHOTINER: Perceptibly superior? ME: The resolution is...look, on an OLED- CHOTINER: Do you have an OLED?

A reminder that Ben Gvir was set to be sanctioned by the United States government in February 2024 but was personally taken off the list by President Biden.

Hello bluesky. I'm glad to report that, after a lengthy dispute with management, I am back to work. Unfortunately, I don't get paid for another week, and my checking account is currently at -$11. If you can spare a few bucks or can share this, I'd be super grateful. CashApp & venmo: Npruiz