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The MAGA right is fighting each other again. The losers are their constituents.

"Readers bought about 184 million print adult fiction books this year." Sharing a gift link to the NYT's survey of the industry's health, which is more encouraging. That's a LOT of books. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/b...

Responding to Chris here but in general to many: I came up with this description of the problem about two years ago: Covering Trump is like asking Herbert Morrison to broadcast the Hindenburg disaster every day. “Once again, Phil, I have to go with ‘oh, the humanity.‘ Back to you.”

H/T to David Gerrold for the share from Facebook...😉

I am going to be consuming epic levels of caffeine today because I fully intend to stay up until midnight so I can make absolutely sure that 2025 leaves & doesn't even attempt to sneak back in the door. It needs to bleed out in the gutter, alone & unloved.

they're literally doing the Bors mister gotcha meme

"When historians look back on President Trump’s second term, they may see it as the pinnacle of the Republican Party’s enduring support for Israel." archive.is/bP9Hy

Minnesota Republicans and Donald Trump are right now pretending to care about fraud. Fraud is bad. The shit in MN was terrible. But … let’s me clear that they don’t actually care.

This is the 7th person whose sentence was commuted by Trump that has been rearrested on new charges. And don't pretend Trump cares about fraud in MN. This guy bilked over a $1 billion and Trump let him go.

To be fair, whatever contract Chuck Redd had, he had it with Kennedy Center. Not the Trump Kennedy Center.

This is a tired strategy: accuse journalists seeking response and more information of "stalking" and "harassment"... rather than engage even to simply offer a "no comment." People in power, especially taxpayer-funded ones, should have to answer questions: www.propublica.org/article/prop...

They want all of America voting like Black people pre civil rights movement

Trump: “I’m doing a magnificent, big, beautiful ballroom that the country has wanted…it’s bigger than I told you. It’s, you know, after realizing we’re gonna do the inauguration in that building. It’s got all bulletproof glass...” What inauguration?

I was half awake when I saw this then shot right up. Echoing Michael, but huge thanks to @casella.bsky.social and @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org for the kind words about US. Really generous. Appreciate Casella/ARB for covering so much of the indie spec fic scene in general. Stoked to be included!

"There is a trick Stanley Kubrick pulls in “2001 A Space Odyssey” so quietly that it took me decades to notice. The film presents itself as grand, cosmic, Olympian, big music, big ideas, vast silence, but underneath all that, it is oddly restrained." - Robert Hawks www.facebook.com/share/p/17zH...

Millions of workers are toiling away from their families over the holidays. So thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Pay all workers a living wage.

1990S SCREENWRITER: oh yeah you basically always have to make the families in these movies be ultra-rich in a completely unremarked on way because otherwise it feels bad when Beethoven fucks up their car. but it's not like anyone is going to let that warp their entire worldview! ah ha ha

H/T to Candace Giard-Gonsalves...🫣💯🎯🤬

What Ed said: bsky.app/profile/edbu...

I'd call Pete Hegseth a pig but I have too much respect for ACTUAL PIGS...🤬

Insane NY Post column suggesting that the new First Lady who is sad about leaving her longtime neighbors in a not fancy NYC neighborhood is an ungrateful brown woman

What a RUBE!!!!! 🤬

H/T The Iron Snowflake...🧐🎯💯🌞

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Trump is increasingly worried about his own mortality, and he's trying to use government to create a physical legacy that will outlive him. Which is why every bit of it must be torn down and smashed to bits. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-rena...

Roderick Heath is one of the best film critics you probably haven't read.