A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Souvenirs.

When you are not in any real danger and cannot manufacture suspense, tell your dumb little anecdote anyway. sluggish.ghost.io/i-love-los-a...

With Guillermo del Toro's 'Frankenstein' streaming on Netflix tomorrow, I spotlighted another thoughtful, sophisticated (and underseen) 'Frankenstein' adaptation for @crooked-marquee.bsky.social: The 1973 TV movie 'Frankenstein: The True Story.' #filmsky #moviesky

holy shit

Beth Barrett, SIFF Artistic Director, and I appeared on Studio 13 Live this week to talk about @seattlecritics.bsky.social's 2025 PNW award nominee screenings at SIFF Film Center Nov 21-23 with filmmakers in attendance. We were joined by SFCS member and Fox 13 traffic anchor Adam Gehrke.

If you can, see TRAIN DREAMS in a theater before it hits Netflix. Just a wonderful little movie, beautiful to look at and to feel. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/a...

I think mayor-elect Mamdani is the greatest promoter of NYC food culture since Anthony Bourdain.

The biggest uncalled election is the SEATTLE mayoral race. Mayor Bruce Harrell leads Katie Wilson by 11,183 votes (or 8.2%), with 137K ballots counted. Why is this not over? Here's what we know. ⬇️

i’m old enough to remember when the threat of this ENDED the long trump shutdown (2018-2019)

These people will never understand that most voters aren’t voting with some grand political strategy in mind. They just want to afford housing and groceries and have a nice mayor who seems like he actually likes other humans www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...

it’s best understood as part of an inside/outside campaign where talking about things the media wants causes them to get more favorable coverage and therefore more of a boost than if they campaigned to outsiders alone

THIS is y'all MAYOR?????????????

For @msnbc.com I wrote about how Tuesday's election gives Democrats the blueprint for overcoming Republican anti-trans attacks and how thus should settle all the talk about throwing trans people under the bus. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Amarillo is one of the reddest towns in Texas. But I showed up because our campaign is not writing off any community. It was standing room only.

Get ready for the spy thriller of the year.

For my first feature for @latimes.com, I talked to director Clint Bentley, his writing partner Greg Kwedar, and Joel Edgerton about TRAIN DREAMS, an intimate epic I'd encourage you to see in theaters before it hits Netflix later this month: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Goat is quite tasty. I mean, they literally named it GOAT.

The survey question should be "What do you do when the Lubavitchers come up to you on Sukkot and ask 'Are you Jewish?'" - say no - say no and later feel guilty - say yes and shake the lulav - say yes and keep walking briskly

I wrote an essay on @defector.com about my archival misadventures putting together the book that is Gendertrash From Hell. Many thanks to @laurentheisen.bsky.social it was really nice to *get* edited for once. Lauren u rule!

OK cool but we also need a John C Reilly Fozzie Bear movie

Wow.

One of the largest school districts in Texas, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD, has come to be dominated by the Christian right. But conservative board members lost 3 seats last night to a slate of candidate running on separating church and education: www.houstonpress.com/news/progres...

I wrote about House filmmaker Nobuhiko Ôbayashi's nouvelle vague-inspired biker movie His Motorbike, Her Island, in which young people tend to be more jealous of (and possibly even attracted to) motorbikes than people. New Blu-ray on Cult Epics loaded with extras. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

I think it's more than this. To rebuke Jones, Democrats desperate for an AG who will stand up to Trump would have had to sacrifice their own wellbeing in order to uphold norms of decent human behavior that MAGA spits on every day. Democrats are sick of being suckers.

“Remember always, that most of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt

Vive la France today, with Jacques Tati's Trafic at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social at 7 (members only), a farewell to M. Hulot, and the philosopher of cinema Jean-Pierre Gorin's second solo feature, Routine Pleasures, at 8:30 at Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research: (links below:

I've never seen numbers like this. Poor voters are carrying this election

“Only in blue cities” Right. www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...

Question for @colonelmortimer.bsky.social. I'm planning on renting Blackhat from Scarecrow. Never seen it before. Which version would you recommend?

The Democrats won several VA House seats where winning looked like a pipe dream going into the election. The Dems won these seats because they recruited candidates and actually campaigned. Important lesson for 26--the electorate is pissed--but you can only win when you run. Run everywhere!

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

It was predictable that many liberal Zionists would oppose anti-Zionism’s “political normalization” in the NYC mayoral race. The more surprising story of the campaign is not liberal Zionist opposition to Mamdani, but their support, @peterbeinart.bsky.social writes. jewishcurrents.org/mamdani-crea...

Lmao when you frame it like this it’s so fucking funny

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

Mamdani: So hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.

AOC: I have to tell you, in my traveling across the country, I am hearing and have been seeing consistent things from everyday people. And it is that they are terrified, they are frustrated, they are angry, and they are shocked by a president violating the values that we hold dear

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit

Relieved that voters resoundingly rejected this fascist bullshit. Angry that we still have at least another year of it, probably another three, and that we're by no means in the clear. Livid that it all could have been avoided if we had simply not reelected the asshole who tried a coup.

Summarizes what I’ve been trying to pull together in my head. Democrats basically won everywhere, high profile and low profile, usually by more than optimistic predictions

DC Conventional Wisdom Goes Down to Defeat in State after State talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dc-co...

The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.

Went to the voting booth, the crack of dawn, Za-Zohran-ran-ran, Za-Zohran-ran! One of the canvassers was Wallace Shawn, Za-Zohran-ran-ran, Za-Zohran-ran! Yeahhhhh, the crack of dawn! Yeahhhhh, Wallace Shawn! Cuoooooomo, get off my lawn! Za-Zohran-ran-ran, Za-Zohran-ran! (ht: Rick Burkhardt)

REJECT EZRA DOUTHGLESIAS THOUGHT

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

Mira Nair, in addition to being a brilliant filmmaker, is now officially the mom of the MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY!