Read @daveweigel.bsky.social on the widespread societal consequences of Elon's link suppression: talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/how-e...

I know everyone's tired of "Google completely shit its own bed with the AI overview" posts but JFC Google completely shit its own bed with the AI overview

Sorry but I cannot let a mention of this show pass without noting that when HBO Max picked it up for its third and final season, they added the clumsiest subtitle in television history

Michael Shannon cooking with gas here:

New disc and streaming guide, gang! Catching up with a bunch of new releases, and a handful of first-time watches (OUTLAND! FREAKED! THE MAN WHO COULD CHEAT DEATH!): crookedmarquee.com/the-best-mov...

Cocaine

I had somehow missed this piece of Rex Reed Is Insane lore observer.com/2008/07/bat-...

This book is out today. It was a pleasure and an honor to help a little bit in the process of creating it. REFLECTIONS tells the story of Roger Deakins' life and storied career in his words—with a lot of behind-the-scenes details and, of course, many pictures.

Sally Kirkland 1) was actually Sally Kirkland *Junior* 2) was escorted to her prom by Ted Koppel 3) introduced Robert De Niro to Bob Dylan 4) punched me in the arm -- hard -- and told me amazing stories at a film festival in southern Oregon RIP to a one-and-only www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...

agree, and the fact they can’t even do this demonstrates how little they think of their constituents that they won’t shoot straight with them about anything. i thought a lot this morning about how mamdani says we deserve to be treated with dignity

Capped together because I wanted to be sure people saw them as I did and I can't stop laughing.

Gonna start putting "Just the News" at the end of all my posts, as a bit

Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue." Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...

LOS OLVIDADOS, which premiered in Mexico City on November 9, 1950, and was pulled from theaters after just three days, marked a turning point in Luis Buñuel’s career. I wrote about how it came to be for @crooked-marquee.bsky.social:

hey @support.bsky.team wtf is this bullshit

Boy you can just realllllllly fucking tell who's never had to get on the horn with an insurance company huh

LET HER COOK

Jesus fucking Christ! Everybody already knows where they stand! It's not a secret, they say it all the time!

Hard-pressed to think of a movie I’ve seen more times than this one, but I’m rewatching it tonight (on laserdisc!) because I get to write about it for NYT

In honor of the Richard Burton's 100th birthday this week, we look back at “The Spy Who Came In From the Cold,” a role that offered him the rare chance to underplay his brash persona. crookedmarquee.com/richard-burt...

It’s so weird to have President Senile George Wallace so many years later

this is literally never not accurate

Utterly hilarious that a single motherfucker who has paid one lick of attention for the past decade put a goddamn "IF" into this sentence

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

it's almost as if you shouldn't and can't negotiate with completely amoral vacuous shitgoblins

They used to wiretap your phones to collect this kind of information from you but now you pay for a Bluecheck and post it yourself

Did women ruin the workplace? No! Did I personally ruin my own weekend writing about the cynical fuckery that led to the New York Times asking that question? I sure did! Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting

Man that sucks, do you know anybody in power over there who could stop it

also! WHY PATTI SMITH MATTERS (or any of the books in the MUSIC MATTERS series as well as all UTP books!) is on sale at the University of Texas Press' website for 40% off (50% off ebooks) with the code UTXGIFTS utpress.utexas.edu/9781477320112/

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

Remember when they said the reason they caved in March was so they could get a better deal in September lmao

It's so much more cynical and manipulative than there just being eight dipshits who don't want their Thanksgiving flights delayed. It's a deep, unfixable rot throughout the entire Dem leadership apparatus. I've never felt more nihilistic about our political system and the inequality at its core.

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

The Hateful Eight is right there for anyone casting about for a hooky headline.

Extremely our misfortune that the only person in America worse at making deals than Donald Trump is Chuck Schumer

I think “We will keep fighting” is the most galling piece of this. KEEP fighting?!? Motherfucker when did you START

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

"The Senate Democrats!" can be read with the same cadence, and to the same effect, as "The Aristocrats!"

One of my low-key all-time favorites, David Mamet's 'Heist,' hit theaters on this day in 2001. From the old site:

Tim Kaine is like the Zelig of shit that fucking sucks

These same bums will be asking us for cash at the next deadline; looking forward to sending this back to every Senate fundraising text

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Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”