this whole story is great but the quote post with further context from the dad made me cackle I’m obsessed with this kid

Trying to stick to just the Mike Mills set in the Criterion sale…but those new 4k John Waters releases are really tempting me.

I finally made it to the Great American State Fair. The columns on this fake building are something to behold.

it wouldve been funny if goldfinger wasnt a movie and just a crazy song about a guy shirley bassey made up

theyre not “predictors” theyre gamblers, hes trying to get 18-34 year olds addicted to gambling

If you want to know JD Vance’s character, he demonized Haitians with an ugly and pernicious lie that they ate dogs and cats, joked about it. The Supreme Court has killed their Temporary Protected Status and they are scrambling. www.thebulwark.com/p/after-supr... www.thebulwark.com/p/after-supr...

Yes. You rarely get to change the world overnight. It's rarely a good idea, even if you did. You change it in degrees and bring people around to your way of thinking. Then you remind people all along who did it, and what more can be done. That's politics.

I will vote for a platform of de-Trumpification. It needs to be a scorched-earth removal of every hateful symbol.

-Billy Joel/The Stranger -Fine Young Cannibals/The Raw and the Cooked -Haircut 100/Pelican West -Queen/A Night At The Opera -Evita (Original 1979 LA Cast) -Elvis Costello/My Aim Is True -The Best of The Moody Blues -Eric Clapton/Unplugged -Talking Heads/Stop Making Sense -The Go-Go’s Greatest

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The woman who did this should be prosecuted and shunned by decent people for the rest of her life.

thank you jd vance for helping instigate an ethnic cleansing campaign

absolutely. i think that there should be more of these big, federally organized civic activities. an annual fair where each state showcases their best food and fare is actually a great idea.

“my passion is graphic design”

It’s PTA’s birthday which means I am legally required to repost my long piece on Liminality in his filmography. I don’t make the rules! cinemanerds.blogspot.com/2025/07/mago...

BREAKING on MS NOW: House Oversight just issued two subpoenas to billionaire and Epstein associate Leon Black — after he refused to answer questions about allegations that he signed NDAs with young women. One subpoena is for Black to appear under oath on 7/16. The other is for the NDAs themselves.

When you've won the war.

The “Country Roads/Sweet Caroline” discourse on the Telemundo broadcast is sublime

what rule of fight club is this

sigh and now I’m gonna have to put Fight Club on after the match.

Shin Godzilla's theme of a stuffy political old guard being both unprepared and unwilling to handle apocalyptic disaster and effectively forcing a proactive new group to take the reins is, ummm, pretty timely.

The people clapping for this should be shunned by their neighbors.

With seven decisions with the *same* 6-3 lineup over the last three days, I really can't wait for all of the hot takes from the folks who keep insisting that #SCOTUS *isn't* defined by its ideological division.

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oh no they’re going to start calling democrats the same thing they’ve been calling democrats for 20 years now

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Lost and Found in the Cathedral of Cinema is the new book by Jeffrey Overstreet, whose writing on cinema and spirituality was a revelation to me. Reading it is like watching a beautiful film that unreels like a dream. I wrote the foreword. All copies signed by both of us. mzs.press/SIGNED-Lost-...

genuinely crazy to watch these people freak out over what is essentially 21st century new dealism

The Tea Party was a top-down astroturfed marketing campaign to rebrand the right wing of the GOP to a something that wasn't associated with George W. Bush's toxic Presidency. The extent to which it was an "insurgency" or "anti-establishment" is wildly overstated.

Friends, they’re not even trying to hide their voter suppression. ⬇️

Thank you sir — I will get back to working on my pilot script, The Farting Pope

Technically, they’re Remains now.

Did you ever watch Salo and wish it had more jokes? I wrote about John Waters's Desperate Living!

David Corenswet reacts to the viral 'Supergirl' cup "Don't like that one bit" 💀 (via ET)

Generally speaking, polls have shown the Democratic Party's problem is not being seen as too woke, but weak and ineffective. Judging by tonight's primary results, Democratic Primary voters are intent on fixing this www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

A tent big enough for everyone but the left, eh.

Vote blue no matter who though

“I, an ex-leader of a political party, think you are running for our nomination incorrectly because you actually try to represent progressive values, instead of do-nothing centrism like me! Let’s continue to advocate for nothing!”

My guy there are two parties in this country so we’re gonna knock one into a shape that can get things done.

a party is what its voters choose to make it, not what the people at the top say it is

Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.

Mamdandate.

Breaking news: Democratic primary voters in New York City delivered victories to Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D), unseating a sitting House incumbent and bypassing another’s handpicked successor for two leftist candidates who received the mayor’s endorsement.

I would rather lobotomize myself with a wooden kitchen spoon

Eric Andre couldn't dream of making an interview this awkward

Condoms are blind bags for a penis.

i don't really know how "the government is sending deportees to dangerous countries on purpose to imprison or kill them" is not a bigger story