Hey real quick, why did we gain 4000 new listeners in Brazil yesterday?

We may spend a little too much time talking about San Francisco Seals' manager Lefty O'Doul's relationship to baseball in Japan, but eventually this episode is about Kenji Mizoguchi's fantastic and melancholic film The Life of Oharu (1952).

If they had the capacity to do this, it would be really bad. And they probably will try to do a couple of high profile examples to make you think they *do* have the capacity. But like a lot of stuff, this is a memo designed to get you to voluntarily stop doing stuff they don’t like.

Hegseth is a character who got edited out of an Armando Ianucci screenplay for being "a little too cynical a caricature even for me"

Cousin made a Facebook post trying to be less aggressive about Antifa being designated a terrorist org than I would and one of the responses is "well IF the KKK is committing violence I think they should be designated terrorists too".

the fun thing about cycling is that if you Follow The Law™ when you are forced to ride with cars, it will probably get you killed by some inattentive driver, but if you ride in a way that is safe for you, you get branded as reckless by news org hit pieces and threatened by aggressive drivers instead

Had my bike lights on in my ride to work and was wearing my @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social reflective jacket, so inspired by @npr.org here's some bike safety tips based on my ride: 1. Don't run red lights in your car. 2. Don't turn right from the thru lane when there's a bike by your passenger door.

Sucks to be the controls group

Why are you tailgating me on a residential street? If you're not comfortable driving in bike traffic maybe you should only drive on more car friendly roads, or stay in dedicated car infrastructure. The Interstate 71 Car Path is just a few miles away, stick to that.

Well, guess it's back to child safe ether.

Stephen miller probably wasn’t on program… he just appears wherever systemic racism occurs like an evil genie

4 corner simultaneous watergates in a single rotation of earth. A time cube of impeachable offenses.

On Tuesday I watched Babette's Feast then went to see @catbiteband.bsky.social and it was exactly what I needed. Today I read some of @melissaf-b.bsky.social's How to Have an Enemy and went to see @nathanevansfox.bsky.social and it was exactly what I needed. So I guess I still contain multitudes.

sinclair pulled its kirk tribute six minutes before it was set to air on its abc affiliates

We finish up our time with Claude Lanzmann's Shoah (1985) by discussing three additional feature length documentaries Lanzmann made from material he shot for his landmark work.

He’s at a mosque today and not still in jail, in large part because ordinary people didn’t let up. Just remember that bsky.app/profile/swin...

SCOOP: he’s been released jail He’s currently at a mosque

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

A producer told me once she has to warn young crewmembers to avoid being alone with Aykroyd. "Not because he's a creep, he's a gentleman. But if you let him strike up a conversation the next thing we know all the PAs will be huddled in his dressing room learning how humans evolved from dolphins."

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

business idea: complimentary bread basket but instead of bread it’s full of hot dogs

I’m sure they’ll try stuff against civil-society groups and people if they find an opening, but the VP telling folks to call people’s bosses is sort of a tell that the fed govt. can’t lawfully or semi-lawfully do much here.

This has been coming from the beginning. All major democracy-supporting NGOs and foundations have their legal complaints already drafted. And in time, perhaps not even much time, they will win their cases. What is needed most in the meantime is courage. Keep saying what you think, doing what you do.

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

the weirdest aspect of seeing Godspeed You! Black Emperor live is the visual confirmation that the music is being played by humans with instruments, rather than just seeping out of the cracks of the 20th century

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

100% certain no one in my family could accurately describe my politics right now, and not even I could when I was 22, so the idea of asking his grandma what he believes is funny.

"Matt Walsh says..." Listen, man, what Matt Walsh says and the truth are a venn diagram that looks like the wheels of a bike.

EVERYONE: oh weird there is now a violent nihilistic political philosophy downstream of conservatism that expresses itself through the public murder of people including conservatives SOME GUY: *impatiently* yes and THAT is why it's so awful that people on bluesky call me Yoplait

I'm also obsessed with this tidbit from Washington Auxiliary Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala, who used to be undocumented: “This issue for me is very, very personal. Because I was a stranger, and you welcomed me,” he said. “Do you know who else said that? My boss,” he said, referencing Jesus.

Genuinely great news! Really hope this is the start of a new era for SAG. I was on a zoom with Sean at the start of the strikes, he’s About It

Really striking to see this from a leading local legislator like @bethliston.bsky.social - you would never have seen a politician publicly turn down a trip to Israel like this a few years ago

Vicky and I have both been saying this for a long time: they have exhausted their capabilities. They are already doing everything they can and bluffing that if we fight back they'll do more, but it's been the same bluff since the George Floyd Uprising. Stop falling for it.

We spend our second week with Claude Lanzmann's Shoah (1985). In Era 2 Lanzmann presses his interviewees - survivors, perpetrators, and witnesses - on the "how" of the Holocaust to horrifying detail. But we also hear tales of hope in inhumane horrors, of resistance and revolt.

This clerk is a good and kind neighbor, and the people running these machines - and these scams - are true villains

the dumpster song

Just jingle jangle the 9/11 keys and none of them will remember yesterday anyway.

MULDER: I’m telling you boss, it’s real, and we have the proof. SCULLY: I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Mulder is telling the truth: we have captured Bigfoot. He’s in the lab right now. KASH PATEL: Is it woke? SCULLY: Director, I don’t — PATEL: Can we say it’s woke? That we caught Woke Bigfoot?

"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it."

Well, either a lot of real people will have to die, or there will be 8 billion ai podcast hosts. It's a threat, really.

Perhaps Nationwide Children's should take note.

Excited to note that the Paddington 3 writers involved with this garbage are NOT Paul King and Simon Farnsby.

what do you mean 'normal tools'?

People like to invoke baudrillard and talk about how this is impotent spectacle but they forget the part where baudrillard repeats, over and over again, how spectacle—unlike prior periods of material want and suffering—is what will destroy and kill us all. We become disinterested in our own death.

I spent years researching and trying to explain the imperial boomerang to people and he just … tweeted this out

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.