Polling is consistent: about 24% of Americans are dunces.

It is fully irresponsible to argue for an American return to global leadership. This country is deeply unwell and has no business leading anything until that's no longer the case. There's a whole world out there capable of tending to the world's problems. We must tend to ours.

Now that we've saved Jimmy Kimmel Live can we make it funny

Colbert must really feel like shit right now that no one protested on his behalf.

[squeaky high voice] EVERYBODY LOVES THAT JIM KIMMEL NOW [booming low voice] BUT DOES ANYBODY WATCH HIS SHOOOOW

top 9 of the week

Nikai is fall ready 🎃🍂 #ambassadorwolf #happyfall

Secrets and Lies (1996, Mike Leigh)

Blue Prince is my favorite game I've played in a while. Love a good brainteaser.

Jimmy Wales should get the Nobel Peace Prize for his contributions to sharing knowledge with humanity. A truly liberatory thing.

So many Trump voter origin stories begin with something involving liberals being mean to them or looking down on them, but no one on this planet has more contempt for the average Trump voter than MAGA influencers. Trump voters are the most cucked people in America and it's not close.

Phantom Thread but maybe this would change if I rewatched Licorice Pizza.

if you really want to stick it to Disney, and other corporate media giants, become fascinated by things they would never produce, so that they might fade into the background noise of life.

One of my best friends is a Disney Adult, they're good people.

never go full Igor

They're pretending that Charlie Kirk is their MLK because they *hate* MLK and they're happy to use Kirk's death to troll libs.

what movie do you consider perfect?

Why do I get the feeling the president's Truth Social DMs aren't going to end up in the National Archives?

The last few decades have been really tough on Travolta, I'm glad he gets to dick around in his giant plane that he weirdly loves so much.

Les Miserables, with his accompanying tenor.

If you live online, as most people with elite email jobs at media companies do, you might get the impression Charlie Kirk was a household name and a famed and beloved American.

Well, I live in and love Los Angeles, plus I get to vacation in... somewhere between 18 and 21 national parks, depending on where precisely the lines cut through Southern California, Colorado, and Arizona, so I'll stick to H, thanks.

I fucking hate the Black Keys but I gotta give it to the guy

Ashamed to say Adam Conover's team beat mine in music trivia last night.

Maybe 2026 is the year I get a signature hat

Hey look what happens when your media company doesn't immediately capitulate to Trump (you do not have to, under any circumstances, "hand it" to the New York Times)

Remember when Bernie Sanders had a minor heart attack and everyone in the media was like NOPE SORRY YOU CAN'T BE PRESIDENT NOW and instead we got Joe Biden and then Donald Trump again

how you gonna be named 'winsome earle' in a world where twin peaks season 2 exists

At least a dozen movies here you will finish and then drop an immediate YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS in the group chat.

FINALLY a movie where Batman faces up against his arch nemesis, the Clown Prince of Crime, THE JOKER

There's a whole lot of people who are going to miss what's going on here because it's not a literal golden calf

I know this sounds stupid but I honestly can't wait for Bill Simmons to go ballistic with Cousin Sal over this.

Far more dangerous than Trump, I think, is how quickly the last eight months have pulled back the curtain on America's elites and shown everyone how venal, how cowardly and how utterly mediocre the foundation of our society has been.

On top of everything else, 5'11 and 158lbs is a stringbean. If Ben Shapiro were taller than 5'2 he would know that.

A new era for Fake Melania

1. PHANTOM THREAD 2. LICORICE PIZZA 3. PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE 4. MAGNOLIA 5. THERE WILL BE BLOOD 6. INHERENT VICE 7. THE MASTER 8. BOOGIE NIGHTS 9. HARD EIGHT

The answer is D and it's not particularly close. G would be a distant second.

Redford list Eight he acted in: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Downhill Racer The Hot Rock The Sting Three Days of the Condor All the President's Men The Natural All is Lost And two he directed: Ordinary People Quiz Show

Ballast Big Night Blood Simple Crumb Daughters of the Dust Hale County This Morning This Evening Hoop Dreams Poison Sherman's March True Love

RIP Robert Redford I'm glad you did not have to live to see Sundance moved to Boulder, Colorado.

RIP Tomas Lindberg. SLAUGHTER OF THE SOUL is a foundational metal record. pitchfork.com/news/at-the-...

Getting fired because someone sent my boss a post where I criticized Robert Redford's performance in Lions for Lambs

If, as the story goes, your real age is 70 - the number of artists you recognize on the Coachella lineup, I am a sprightly 11 this year.

Everybody gamely says “Vance hosted Kirk’s podcast” instead of “the regime officially turned the major channel into state-controlled media just as it began its violent crackdown on any opposition or dissident messages.”

Clean comic Nate Bargatze is, I think, the last thing America can agree on.

When Hannah Einbinder said 'go birds' I felt that, as a birdwatcher.

What's described here is why Charlie Kirk was an effective gateway for right-wing radicalization. He presented himself as a genteel motivational speaker to believers and used that to smuggle in bigotry.