Really good thread about getting in ICE’s way and being a nuisance🧵

hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress

Also, its illegal to discuss gender in some American universities now.

well well well

rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks

a fantastic thread

Wrote up my thoughts on all the nonsense replies I've been getting falsely claiming that @schumer.senate.gov can't do anything and I should stop telling him to do more. There's a TON that he can do, as I outline in the piece. And he's doing basically none of it.

Sad news, of course, but also smart. Shutting it down instead of simply pausing/freezing it prevents Republicans from seizing control in the meantime and creating another "zombie" right wing media outlet. Now if they want to do that, they have to start all over again. They're too lazy for that.

This is objectively untrue. Shutdown starts Jan 30. That doesn't change w/o Dem votes. Nor any non-reconciliation legislation. Also other kinds of obstruction and forcing votes. The minority party is not completely powerless, esp. in the Senate. If they pretend to be, that is a choice, not reality.

“Those of us with an ounce of privilege have absolutely no right to believe that there is nothing we can do. We have a moral responsibility to FIND something to do. And when we complete those things we have to collectively find the next action we can take.” - Amelia Emberwing 👇🏽ways to take action👇🏽

🤞 THE DEVILS

On the NYT print front page today, Matt Purdy gives a master class on how Trump has revived and exceeded the corruption of Nixon’s imperial presidency, blowing past ethical checkpoints of the Watergate era. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/u...

The movie is borderline unwatchable. But the Aerosmith cover of “Come Together” kinda rocks. And I have a soft spot for the weirdness of Alice Cooper’s spoken word version of “Because.”

Statement on Trump’s military actions in Venezuela.

How are voters meant to understand how serious things are if in lieu of shouting fire AND going into building with hoses, you're simply posting fire safety suggestions on social media? Not introducing articles of impeachment is a message that Trump hasn't committed impeachable offenses.

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

This is a wildly entertaining doc, and the less you know going in about its central figure, the better.

I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...

My latest is up! open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

"When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York," writes @mollycrabapple.bsky.social.

2026 is looking up already.

BREAKING Zohran Mamdani has been sworn-in as the 112th Mayor of New York City.

Sora is one of the worst experiences I have ever had online. So much so that I felt obligated to dissect its various failings. Unsurprisingly, they all come back to the fact that it's an AI product pretending to be a social media platform.

If you're in the US or Canada, this is untrue. But clickbait-y headline writers and attention-seeking posters want you to think otherwise. If you're in the UK, carry on...

Took some time to think about what I needed from the movies aiming to engage with the current political landscape this year. Shout out to both my fantastic editor Clare Lombardo and the truly dreadful ELLA MCCAY, for helping me crystalize my perspective. www.npr.org/2025/12/29/n...

Wildly under-seen film. For my money, the best take on Nosferatu since Murnau w/ a top 5 Willem Dafoe performance.

I hate this stuff. It even makes me miss Dr. Zizmor! www.curbed.com/article/tech...

In honor of Christmas here are the five best toys (that you probably never heard of) from my nerdy childhood. 1. 2XL Interactive quiz robot powered by the magic of 8-track tapes. Also told jokes. His name is a play on “to excel.”

In honor of Christmas here are the five best toys (that you probably never heard of) from my nerdy childhood. 1. 2XL Interactive quiz robot powered by the magic of 8-track tapes. Also told jokes. His name is a play on “to excel.”

It’s a Christmas edition of #UterusHorror! Be sure to go to @certifiedforgot.bsky.social to read all about THE SACRIFICE GAME and how it finally gives us the UH movie ending we want.

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

I happen to be mid-season 2 of a rewatch of The Wire and had just been thinking how great Ransone was and how I ought to catch up with what he’s been acting in of late. Such tragic news.

Yes, I did enjoy a 🎄 🥐 today. How’s your Saturday going?

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

Years ago the Supreme Court ruled that anyone under age 18 could have a legally mandated bedtime as anyone under the age of 18 is a child. So this weekend, as the press talks about these "young women" in the files, ask yourselves "Could they have a bedtime?" Because THEY WERE FUCKING CHILDREN!

Heartbroken to hear Lawrence Raffel passed away. Some of you old school horror fans will remember him from Fearnet. Great dude, missed him terribly already when he moved back to PA about ten years ago.

Also white Jews' alliance with white supremacy was one of our worst moves historically and every time we choose to reinscribe it (which we do, again and again) it's the wrong move. again and again and again.

John Carpenter's Grinches of Mars

If you exclude horror movies.

In case you can’t quite place the name, this is the writer of classic Trek’s Trouble with Tribbles. Let’s help him out.

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Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

FFS, just hire editors to cut these. They work pretty cheap and are far less likely to embarrass your 2-trillion dollar company. www.bbc.com/news/article...

DUST BUNNY is the must-see horror release of the weekend. And after you see it, listen to @sharai.bsky.social and I rave about it…

New: WaPo staff are fuming about the new AI personalized pods, noting they have errors like misattributing/inventing quotes, inserting commentary. WaPo's standards editor privately called the mistakes "frustrating," another editor said "if we were serious we would pull this tool immediately."

DVD box set of The Wire.

"We have to break this poverty mindset, that all we can get, all we deserve to get, is the best possible consolidation under the circumstances. Illegal deals are illegal deals." prospect.org/2025/12/10/w...

Tomorrow night! 🎄 🔪 😈 @jennwexler.bsky.social and I will be there!

I’m back to gush some more about Dust Bunny and this time I have @theredlitz.bsky.social with me. Listen to our conversation and make sure you see this delightful, dark, and decadent film when it hits theaters Friday. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Know your rights. Protect your neighbors. New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.