Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension is a chilling precedent that could have deep consequences if it isn’t swiftly undone, @davidlsims.bsky.social argues:

Alan is the blueprint, and a stand-up guy at that. Simple as!

I pulled a bunch of islanders for a chat about their marathon reunion filming day, post-villa goss, and watching your friends (and enemies) become experts in the PR evasion arts for @vulture.com: www.vulture.com/article/love...

I don’t know where to put my fury about this. Intentional starvation is a cruelty beyond measure. It happened to my Armenian family, it’s happening to Palestinians now, it could happen to you if the powers that be decide you’ve stepped out of line. Enough!

Consistently the highest-rated late night show on network TV — and yet it’ll be the last of its kind on CBS, indefinitely. Just absolutely bizarre

Happy 69th birthday (nice) to Tony Bourdain, a man of principle, righteous scorn, and perfect taste 🤍

shot / chaser / conclusion ☝🏼

"Some residents have decided to stay put because of elderly parents, young children, pets, medical needs, or simply lack of options."

Tehran has 10 million residents. Just IMAGINE if a foreign leader told New York City to evacuate, and you’ll start to understand why this is absolutely beyond doing www.bbc.com/news/article...

Deeply humbled to realize that Peacock’s (hour late) Love Island USA premiere is ONE HOUR AND FORTY-THREE minutes……..7 minutes longer than the entirety of When Harry Met Sally……………..

For the third time in as many days, Palestinians in Gaza have been shot while trying to get food. Israel has acknowledged that its soldiers opened fire on people who were approaching them.

Tottenham Hotspur won a trophy and I bUrst into tears, sports are so silly and sublime!!!!!

Rebecca Lowe does such a hard job so well and I'm so thrilled for her/every Crystal Palace fan today 💙🦅❤️!! lfg www.nytimes.com/athletic/633...

Falling behind on "Andor" this season apparently means falling behind by at LEAST several episodes, and I'm overwhelmed! Is the batched weekly drop working for other people, or do you also wish it were a more traditional single ep/week drop.....?

Been watching Champions League on Paramount+ all season, but today I turn it on and it's David Beckham ft. Guy Ritchie and Stanley Tucci having charcuterie in a library......? Can I blame the merger for this or else what the hell's going on

cool, glad we're paying a billion dollars for this kind of protection, cheers nypd hellgatenyc.com/crown-height...

I should probably be promoting my work more, so here's my quick list for The Boston Globe of ways to get your Jane Austen fix via TV for the 20th anniversary of Joe Wright's "Pride & Prejudice" (an adaptation I....do not like, but that's for another day!) www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/22/a...

I am begging anyone with the ability to commission articles in my industry: let trans people write about what is happening to us right now.

I'm currently attempting to pull together a bunch of old clips, and while I truly (truly!) don't begrudge sites for running ads to stay profitable, it would also be fantastic if I could read a single story without ads making my computer seize up one (1) graf in

Soderbergh rules and so does "Black Bag," which makes this so incredibly depressing to read. I promise the people want more "Black Bag"s, Steven! Come back!! www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

Q: as someone who loves vampires but doesn’t generally do well with Very Scary Movies, can I go see Sinners or

unfathomable cruelty www.npr.org/sections/goa...

there is this constant lurid fantasy that cis men will pretend to be trans women to gain covert access to girls and women because in this scenario we're imagining predators are not the fathers or grandfathers or teachers or priests or cops who are already granted that access. come the fuck on.

thinking of my siblings in the UK today. it cannot and crucially will not be this way forever

Yellowjackets is flawed and messy and so incredibly gross. It absolutely deserves another season. Reward big swing TV storytelling! Give it more time!!

Today’s TCM theme appears to be “rain” (i.e. “April Showers”), in case you needed another reason why TCM is such a pleasure to have in class

“Mommy, no. Mommy.” Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody. The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

"Gotta make sure I stock up on the important things before tariffs get too gnarly," she mutters to herself, clicking Confirm Purchase on a windbreaker with a "kangaroo pouch" for her dog

Here's a very silly (but sincere!) piece about why "Celebrity Jeopardy!" soothes me, a notoriously awful competitive jerk, like regular "Jeopardy!" never could www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/02/a...

I loved S2 of White Lotus, liked S2, and faded off S3. But I was *always* wary of the in media res "someone's gonna die, can u guess who??" gambit, a device that networks increasingly love (it gets attention!), but one that The White Lotus especially would be better off leaving behind. imo!

Twitter was never perfect, etc etc, BUT: knowing you'd at least get some funny shithousery in between all the stress was why it worked (for me)! As much as I'm glad Bluesky exists, I know that logging on = getting flooded with 5-alarm fires and almost nothing else. bsky.app/profile/wire...

Pretty blown away by “Dying for Sex,” and also, want to hear more praise for Esco Jouley and Robby Hoffman, who both REALLY (sorry:) killed it.

One of the great benefits of protest is to give people hope: to remind us that there are more of us than them, that a small disobedience for some today will allow them a greater disobedience tomorrow.

Wrote about how the WHCD knew who Amber Ruffin was when they hired her and called her a "perfect fit" just two (2) months ago, so she has every right to be mad about them saying otherwise now www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/01/a...

This is something Dems never fully understood, even after the Republican movie star & reality TV star won the presidency. Clinton was a showman. Obama was a showman. Biden went down because the press got bored with him. Politics is performance. It's naive & counterproductive to pretend otherwise.

I'm wayyy late on realizing that Eater laid off Robert Sietsema, but am truly devastated they let go of such a knowledgable/unfussy NYC restaurant critic. Subscribing to his newsletter ASAP: robertsietsema.substack.com

highly rec, especially for anyone nyc-based who's desperately trying to maintain some sense of humor!

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

This is a fantastic piece of rigorous, in-depth reporting. It will make you want to pass out with rage. But definitely read it. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Özturk’s detention is esp. sadly ironic because Fulbright is intended to be ambassadorial; participants promote the (supposed) cultural and political values of the US. By expressing her convictions in an opinion essay, Özturk was doing what a model Fulbrighter should

Have been thinking a lot about this while watching this season of Severance alongside watching Twin Peaks. Obviously at some point you need to reveal who killed Laura Palmer but why would I want a detailed explanation for everything happening in the Black Lodge

I wrote this before the Severance finale but stand by it: sometimes the best thing a "mystery box" show can do is know when to provide answers and when to just let the mystery be! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/19/a...

Watching Palestinians joyfully return to their shattered homes, sweep up the dust of rubble, attempt to plant new life, only for this to happen all over again……it’s just unspeakably sad.

We’re killing millions of people to end a program most people never heard of for a (at best) marginal financial benefit we will never see to appease a billionaire that doesn’t care about anyone

The way people feel about the Law and Order "dun duns" is how I feel about the Top Chef knife sounds ("reEEEeeERREEE"), this show has soothed me for almost 20 years(?!)) and it's gonna be fun to recap it this season for @vulture.com, lfg: www.vulture.com/article/top-...

The way people feel about the Law and Order "dun duns" is how I feel about the Top Chef knife sounds ("reEEEeeERREEE"), this show has soothed me for almost 20 years(?!)) and it's gonna be fun to recap it this season for @vulture.com, lfg: www.vulture.com/article/top-...

bazheads let's get it together we're down bad here.......after todd haynes' early exit yesterday homophobia truly is on the rise.....makes u think

"can you imagine stooping so low as to use ELECTRICITY, that so affects the life of innocent people, as a bargaining chip and threat?" as Israel is literally withholding electricity from Gaza as a bargaining chip and a threat.........................ok, man!

As a writer who believes in free speech, as a Jew who refuses this censorship in my name, as a member of Columbia faculty, as a constituent living in Jeffries' district, as a person with green card holding family, as the daughter of an immigrant, as a human: FUCK THIS. FREE KHALIL.