If my time spent as a classroom teacher taught me anything, it's that the processes that make up how teachers are trained, incorporated, and applied within classrooms are ultimately doomed to collapse. The assemblage that makes up American education is reaching a crisis point.

Trump's extraordinary letter to Norway about Greenland - in full and fact-checked

Now seeing "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple" (2026) directed by Nia DaCosta

imagine telling yourself on january 6, 2021 that five years from now things would be so much worse

Now seeing "Avatar: Fire and Ash" (2025) directed by James Cameron

The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply. I want to make sure this is very clear.

So many in media are ill-equipped to interview officials about what’s happening because they begin with the presumption of legitimacy and don’t know enough about history or U.S. foreign policy to foment intelligent pushback and hold officials accountable.

Don't overthink the Trump admin's reasoning here. They don't have a grand scheme. They are willing to upend the international order because they think everyone else will be too scared to fuck with them. And whatever terrorist attacks this inspires against us will just help them electorally.

This was either a terrible or a great time to start reading "Cyclonopedia"

one lesser awful thing about the Epstein files is that genuine crimes against a huge number of children are being morphed into fuel for the influencer industrial complex who don't care about truth or accuracy and just want grist for the content mills

Now seeing "Hamnet" (2025) directed by Chloé Zhao

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

there's just something so bleak about the fact that the seemingly apolitical murder of two elderly people by their profoundly ill son becomes a political football before the bodies are even cold

There have been so many jarring and painful and violent depictions of birth and postpartum and motherhood in American film the past few years… I wonder if something happened

Congratulations, David Zaslav, on being the most destructive force in US entertainment in the entire history of show business

The obsession people have with characters in fiction making good, moral decisions needs to be stopped. Like, did none of y’all learn in middle school ELA that most plots are driven by conflict? If characters were only allowed to make good decisions, so many important stories just wouldn’t exist.

Genuinely surprised that, with all of the Stephen King references that "Stranger Things" has made, no one has connected Vecna’s actions and the plan of the Crimson King in "The Dark Tower". Genuinely, I feel like I’m the only one who’s noticed this.

The fact that thousands of people are frying their brains with feedback loops of AI-generated gobbledygook that they interpret as divine revelation should scare everyone

Getting back to work! #playwright #theatre #AdamOfTheAsh #Frankenstein

Not Udo Kier 😢

Now seeing "Wicked: For Good" (2025) directed by Jon M. Chu

The AI industry marginalizes and devalues human creativity rather than affirming it. Those that say “AI is a tool” never acknowledge what the industry does to artists to legitimize its mythology. By describing itself as “the future”, it devalues what doesn’t fit that identity/territory.

Despite being on this Earth for 28 years it still feels like a huge betrayal every time the sun sets at 5 pm. How can they keep getting away with this

We’ve arrived at America trying to sell an ultra-rich pedophile ring as a new type belle époque.

Any attempt to ascribe rigid structures on complex desires ultimately break down. This is why arguments in favor of an objective metric for artistic quality fail on every level.

I became an AI skeptic bc the only cogent use cases AI boosters gave were, "a better search engine". but regular search engines already worked fine for 99% of people. the few folks who needed something more were like, me and my colleagues, none of whom found tremendous value in AI search tools

Now seeing "Die My Love" (2025) directed by Lynne Ramsey

Cynical, angry, and delightfully misanthropic. Will Tracy’s script as well as the performances are the stand-outs, here. While some narrative choices are more effective than others, "Bugonia" is a funny and upsetting exercise in pessimism.

Now seeing "Bugonia" (2025) directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

more people need to read Cyclonopedia.

Few things are as demoralizing, to me, as pathological incuriosity.

Zohran was polling at six percent in January. Nothing is impossible

Now seeing "Shelby Oaks" (2025) directed by Chris Stuckmann

I’m too sentimental for my own good. I always have been.

Truly, I just need to stop letting myself feel hope

Now seeing "Frankenstein" (2025) directed by Guillermo Del Toro

Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.

Cuts to social protection for people living in poverty have created “fertile ground” for far-right movements around the world, according to a United Nations report. https://cnn.it/3JlsNyN

Antonin Artaud in The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) ✍️

A building isn’t as important as the people his administration has murdered but there’s something breathtaking about seeing them literally demolish parts of the White House. I can’t stop looking at it

Allyson: “Oh, I see. Looking at other women, huh?” Me: “…darling, this is LinkedIn.”

I feel like George Santos exemplifies a lot of what’s broken in the “justice” system. He was a corrupt politician, he briefly experienced the horrors of inhumane prison conditions, then the corrupt president moved to yank him out—and his victims received none of what they were owed in the process

Every day I am more proud to be a Delta Green fan! The Arc Dream crowd are just the best!

Taylor Swift announces next album title: The Queen in Yellow. She told Variety: "A few years back I came across this amazing play and I was so inspired. It's been living in my head for years. I even dream of it, of the city in the play."

Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist

He was, in fact, a VERY good boy

Now seeing "Good Boy" (2025) directed by Ben Leonberg

yeah this is child abuse sorry

Say what you will about Gavin Newsom and his policies, but what is undeniable is the decision to troll the Trump administration is having an effect. Since beginning his Trump-esque trolling in August, betting markets have bridged the gap between Newsom and J.D. Vance in a hypothetical 2028 race.