A decade ago, when Trump one the first time, I and other Black writers tried to make us see that racism — both explicit and deeply seeded — was at the root of Trump’s rise. We were dismissed even as late as last year as people attributed economic anxieties to Trump’s wins. DO YOU BELIEVE US NOW?

Even Nature is getting in on Heated Rivalry

Same energy www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I wrote about how women are going feral for Heated Rivalry, and what that tells us about the state of masculinity. Maybe the real romantasy is not sex and romance with dragons and fairies, but sex and romance without misogyny and gendered hierarchy.

Heated Rivalry coming out at this point in the authoritarianism timeline is giving very How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed vibes.

That we're in a place, at a time, when someone has to write this headline, this article — it's almost unfathomable. Please do read @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social's take. www.statnews.com/2026/01/12/m...

The jarring UFC plug at the Golden Globes, an assertion of violence and domination, was to make a point for fascism in advance of two actors playing queer characters in a show about joy and pleasure coming on stage. I could feel it in my body what it was intended to do.

This needs to be studied

This headline belongs in the Louvre

In the age of "AI actors" and algorithmic content, there is still absolutely no way a stochastic parrot regurgitating prior datasets would have come up with Heated Rivalry or Connor Storrie or Hudson Williams.

maybe heading towards some of those weeks where decades happen

There is nothing more Left than to perceive no one in the world outside of USA / the West as having any agency or self determination at all. Absolute master class in Lefting. 🧑‍🍳😘

If Iran manages to overthrow its regime with total silence from the Western left it’ll be the biggest indictment of their uselessness to do anything but spoil their own democracies.

The golden age of internet is back on Threads. Its giving Mad Men era social media.

The most conflicted person to be in Heated Rivalry fandom is Ukrainian. 💔

The stone is rolled away; lo, He is risen if ever signs and wonders were, here is one atop the Cristo Rei, I survey Lisbon as Elizabeth Holmes is forcefem castration kinkposting from prison

Last nigh my dog woke up in the middle of the night and started wandering around the room like a Roomba and I kept saying “come” “come here” but it didn’t do anything, and I was too groggy to get up and put her back into bed, and so I just said “cheese” and then she jumped back into bed.

Texting my friend whose husband is from Tehran: Hey what is going on? Texting my friend who is from Minneapolis: Hey what is going on?

I cant even tolerate it in movies / TV

The vibe I bring to the 2026 malfunction

The insuppressible innate construction of this joke just underscores how the animosity between these 2 peoples is manufactured

If Iran ends their fundamentalist regime at the same time that America is kicking off its…

NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.

I still maintain how remarkable it is that this show has completely escaped the rightwing commentary industrial complex. It's like this show doesn't exist in their alternate reality. There is nothing that they can grab onto to make you enraged and resentful that can overcome the horniness and joy.

There has never been a more embarrassing time to listen to anything men making tech to “optimize” their way to love have to say than in the era of Heated Rivalry. And I truly love that for us. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/s...

Saw someone refer to the US as the “subcontinent” and i will never unknow this framing.

Listen, im not paying attention to shit cuz I already knew.

The 2 minute delay it took me to remember what my screename is.....

why do i want you to learn about Lana’s story? first, that there’s no better way to understand Ukraine and russian imperialism than through personal stories of Ukrainians who risked everything to resist it. but there’s also something else. maksymeristavi.substack.com/p/lana-sati

painful loss for the Ukrainian queer family. Lana aka Sati, a fearless, brave hero who sacrificed their life on the Ukrainian frontline so the rest of us in Europe can keep living as authentic selves in peace and comfort.

I agree with @jamellebouie.net: This definitely about gender but as @jenka.bsky.social has told us: it’s also about the end of oil

That Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams had both been individually writing / directing / starring in / editing their own short films prior to Heated Rivalry is really doing nothing dispel the Matt and Ben allegations I called from the jump.

All of this has happened before

There we go. That there’s a headline.

Being antivax but on GLP-1 would suggest otherwise

It is the most bizarre feeling to sit in a doctor's office wearing an N95 and be asked if I'm sick by a maskless nurse who can't stop sniffing. Please, please mask in healthcare settings.

I keep thinking about how Heated Rivalry has captured a level of male sex appeal that the MCU still hasn’t figured out.

I regret to inform you one of the most on point takes I've seen about Heated Rivalry is on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/pulse/heated...

EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43

Following the fall of Maduro, many Russian war bloggers are starting to realize in what bad shape Russia is. The events in Venezuela are unanimously considered a strategic Russian defeat, and they admit that Russia is currently too weak to help any Russian allies.

I just saw a take & I think some ppl are so depressed they dont even know how to allow themselves to enjoy what is probably the most joyful mass experience in movie / TV, and I say this as a person with a film degree, history. If u want to find reasons to be miserable just stick to politics fandom

Its crazy how hard the right has to work and how much money they have to invest to try to win the culture war and then a Canadian TV show abt two gay hockey players made for $28 takes over the world in the course of a month.

Bro supported invasions until he got invaded.

This is so true. The more data we get, the more we're important, unanticipated protection www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/h...

Here we go. Christmas vacation is over, baby. The machine is back on.

at least part of everything this government does is to impress a handful of psychos on twitter

My grand unified theory of why people cant stop talking / thinking abt Heated Rivalry is that, functionally, watching it is experiencing falling in love.

OMG 😭 Huntington's is an inherited disease that's like Alzheimers + Parkinson's all in one. NOW: "once the gene therapy has been delivered into the brain... [it] injects a piece of DNA to reprogram the neuron to become a factory for its own cure." LIFE SAVING! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhEx...

A lot really going on for Asian and Russian people seeing trauma cycles be broken watching Heated Rivalry

It’s 2026. If u tell me someone is a “free spirit,” the only thing i hear is “anti-vax”.