been thinking about what it meant that BotH came to us with this story I think it points to how alt-weeklies and small music venues used to be part of the same independent culture ecosystem. Arts infrastructure as a public utility — but totally separate from city govt. We so desperately need it

So far the Mamdani administration’s strategy is “we have all these ideas about how to help people so let’s try to do them” which seems like such a rare thing and which then makes you say “wait why is that a rare thing?”

If I can call my reps despite having just smoked so much weed that I can taste the sky, so can you.

When you see headlines that read [city/state] cancels [$XXXM] of medical debt for [XX,XXX] residents, ask yourself why we have a system in which tens of thousands of people can collectively accrue hundreds of millions of dollars in medical debt to begin with.

This is the future that liberals want.

me this winter break as I reorganize all my movies and records into chronological order like a psychopath

Robert is one of my favorite film critics especially in this volatile industry. Please support if you can.

the week between Christmas and NYE, known as VOID TIME, is delicious. I'm wearing my snuggiest bathrobe and reorganizing my film shelves into chronological order. This is what life was meant for.

tired: everything's computer wired: fewer things will be computer

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

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.

I’ve given this advice so many times. You are here to make friends!!!

This site is digitizing found cassette tapes of old dj sets, mixes & radio shows from around the world intertapes.net

lol

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

me at the beginning of 2026

skeletor rigby

Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.

Does he think people won’t notice the first part describes himself? bsky.app/profile/bill...

The new “turning off motion smoothing on your parents’ TV” is “making sure the YouTube Christmas music playlist they’ve got on isn’t AI-generated”

Shoutout to all of my raised-mostly-culturally-Jewish-but-with-a-Catholic-mother-so-grew-up-loving-Christmas friends! (We are many.)

Your heart breaks all over again reading this, an eloquent stitching of Marty's lived experience of Reiner with his indelible artistic output.

Nothing I've learned about Rob Reiner since his passing makes me love him more than learning that he pulled one of my favorite jokes (working a song lyric into conversation while that song is playing) on Martin Scorsese and Marty took him seriously. A lovely remembrance.

The government doesn’t let this version of White Christmas get a lot of commercial play in retail because it’s simply too good and people would get down too hard in public

As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.

Merry Christmas to all, but especially to you, you beautiful old building and loan.

playing pictionary and shouting "BABY FISH MOUTH" as much as possible for Rob Reiner

mother-in-law's Christmas clock was designed to scare the shit out of me

if bari weiss had tried to do 9/11 there'd be three towers now

I'm The Guy Who Always Recommends The Criterion Channel, in part because: 1. The series are amazing 2. The interface is simple, no-nonsense, not cluttered with algorithm BS, and it always works 3. They send emails with recommendations & notifications for which films are leaving 4. They're the best!

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

News stories about the concentration camps we run in foreign countries have to be smuggled to a third country in order to be seen.

I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.

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

We pulled this one out of the paywall for today, because, well

It's that time again.

Two problems with this frantic "The story wasn't ready" statement are 1) When a story isn't ready, you know it days, sometimes weeks in advance, not hours and 2) Bari Weiss' idea of how "to do more" has already been made public, and it was to call Stephen Miller. In short, she's lying.

ending solitary confinement is the necessary first step in imagining a justice system that truly serves justice, that serves the people. Solitary Watch helps people whose humanity the current system tries to destroy. at the end of the year, consider helping them in their work.

Folks can submit comments opposing these transphobic proposed rules here:

86% of these tracks will receive the same payment from Anna’s Archive as from Spotify

this is how you know bari is incapable of operating at this level. pulling rank on some desperate lackey at the free press does not equip one with the requisite skills to try and fuck over a veteran correspondent who’s been on her network’s flagship program for more than a decade.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

It basically impossible for me to accept that they honestly decided it “needed more reporting” literally 2 hours before it was set to air. The only thing that makes any sense is interference from ownership/management.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Just a week ago, 60 Minutes reporter Scott Pelley said the new owners had not meddled in content decisions. That clearly changed today. The only question is why and given the folks involved (ellison, Weiss), we’ll probably learn the road leads straight to trump.

There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.

bought my 12 year old nephew 4 Pokemon packs & watched him flip 1 card for 16 more packs. this all happened in 10 minutes so my head is still spinning.

You should drink more water so AI can’t use it

Stop using AI. Shame your loved ones. Ruin one Christmas to save the rest. Bye

Again, this is all right in front of your faces. You can read any survivor’s story to find out names. This testimony is horrifying and I read it almost a decade ago so the least you could all do is know this.