Lol

Really good. It's interesting to place First Reformed with other "climate apocalypse" works from the same period (e.g. The Uninhabitable Earth). With the benefit of hindsight, the problem of despair in those works stands out much more than the ostensible problem of climate change.

Elias, dude, holy moly, this was great. Thank you for writing it.

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I genuinely burst out laughing when I clicked through to see the post/photo they were complaining about

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This was a great post.

My husband was clapping like a seal when we first watched this movie. Took me YEARS to get it!!

Back on the wagon with a new piece on FIRST REFORMED, despair, and grace. Total clickbait, as per usual, I know.

YODA: Work for the Empire you do. VADER: I run the Empire, Master Yoda. YODA: Run the empire you do? VADER: Well... Let's move on.

If paul schrader didn’t post this, an AI paul schrader would’ve needed to

are we sure this wsan't generated by an LLM trained on a corpus of his works

the AI when it realizes it’s talking to paul schrader

this is gold. this is the most paul schrader post possible. i thank god that he allowed this to exist in our world.

On top of the fact that I'd argue this *is* his journal entry, I love the idea of Schrader asking his chatbot girlfriend about the nature of truth and the bot shorting out immediately. AI wasn't made to withstand a Calvin College grad with infinite hangups.

when you’re running to the be governor of the 5th largest economy in the world i think it’s fair to expect either you or your advance team will ensure you have a firm understanding of who you’re talking to - especially when it’s one of the most respected and influential outlets in your state.

i honestly think everything you need to understand about how this court views multiracial democracy can be gleaned from this single moment/revelation/“gaffe”

Years ago Scalia provoked gasps in the gallery when he called the Voting Rights Act a “racial entitlement.” But turning American democracy back into a white racial entitlement, as it was for most of American history, is exactly what the Roberts Court is doing. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The building should be renamed for Bernstein imo.

you've read this, right? www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...

Yeah and drawing out 30% of the CBC is very close to an attack on him personally. It’s not complicated! This is the actual base! His actual base!

NIXON: I believe it’s an appropriate time for us to discuss a dress code. MR BEAST: I feel like people should feel free to dress how they want. a contest for who can twerk best in front of the ballroom would do numbers. NIXON: [confers with aide to learn what twerking means] My god. Sweet jesus.

Nixon: *unintelligble* Mr. Beast: We can put them in a house and light it on fire. Whoever stays inside the longest gets a million dollars Nixon: they control the media too you know

because the modern democratic party IS the part of the civil rights movements. for good and ill, there is no single thing that the party is more about.

Meme account called “I Am Retired AF” that posts stuff like “Diner toast hits different! 💯”

NEW: Sen Michael Bennet (D) says he will not appoint Gov Jared Polis to the Senate if Bennet is elected Governor. Bennet calls Polis' clemency for Tina Peters "disqualifying"

“Look, Quibi is here, and it’s inevitable, so you better get on board.” - some investor in February 2020, probably.

Anton Levey

tbh it might be lenin

i cannot exaggerate how much of a red flag i consider it to be when i find out someone makes a point of reading this guy’s takes for any reason beyond schadenfreude

yes. vibes.

Nobody knows because you're the first person to ever try to paste a link to a Puck article

It’s not automatic, sites that do this are dynamically generating the link preview content based on what you have highlighted on the page.

interesting to contrast this with mamdani who has done a lot of great comms work but who enjoys outsize approval here compared to his accomplishments and public approval among NYers. social media is about vibes. it’s a meta-medium. policy is almost immaterial.

I will just add to this that, during the Biden presidency, I made a point of regularly calling out the good things the administration was doing -- which were continuous &, in aggregate, enormously consequential -- and ... none of that went viral. Very, very little engagement or amplification.

You 🫵 are not immune to a scheming grand vizier

wait so when you copy a part of an article and then share the article as a text the thing you copied is quoted?

yeah, for all the debate we have about the necessity of the bombs on Japan now, its insane that Japan's leadership's reaction to it at the time was "would it not be wondrous for this whole nation to be destroyed like a beautiful flower?" like, thats a fuckin death cult.

this is the banality of evil thesis as a news report

yes. he also relentlessly frames the new deal as an embodiment of christian ethics as opposed to the nihilism of big business.

FDR: Reaffirm the faith of our founders by taking on the economic royalists.