Just saw #OneBattleAfterAnother. I loved this movie! It’s as if The Dude was reactivated in Trump’s America. One part manifesto, two parts the importance of found family. Hilarious, thrilling, and very touching. I look forward to seeing it again.

Yes, this is laughably false. But it speaks to a larger problem: the splintered and highly partisan news ecology. A hundred influencers are right now editing this quote into videos showing out-of-context riots to juice the algorithm. Hate and division are good for content creators and owners alike.

Why I’m Leaving Academia after a Decade of Contingent Labor

For the low, low price of $249, you too can be insufferable at parties!

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

She fostered a way of being that has animated my entire adult life. slate.trib.al/qjmBOaD

this is good youtu.be/hJXEezyF2Rw?...

A documentary set to premiere on APTN takes viewers behind the curtain into the corridors of systemic inequity – from the Indian Act to residential schools to modern-day family separation. APTN News spoke with co-directors Leena Minifie and David Paperny.

I attended a special screening of @goodcanadianfilm.bsky.social last week, which airs tonight at 8pm on CBC, @cbcgem.bsky.social, and at 9pm on @aptnnews.bsky.social. It does an excellent job showing the systemic policies that have resulted in genocide for First Nations people. Highly recommended.

Your history lesson for today. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

"Let's see what's out there..." It was 38 years ago today (Sept 28, 1987) that "Encounter at Farpoint" had its premiere broadcast, introducing Capt Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D. I'm proud to have been a member of the team who made the show at Paramount.

I’ve been to live performances in front of the screen in Chico, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Paris, and Amsterdam. Here’s to 50 more years of antici…… pation!

The future owner of TikTok dreams of being “Princess Alice.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Awarding scientific grants based on scientific merit? That pales in comparison to my strategy, giving grants based on political loyalty www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

I will admit that my own theory of political change has been informed by historical examples where direct action operated in-person to interrupt the status quo. This makes a persuasive case that Internet politics needs to be taken seriously.

This AP photo shows the truck that rammed into a Mormon church in Grand Blanc, Michigan before a gunman opened fire. The truck is draped in American flags. If it carried the flag of any other country, the coverage would scream “terrorism.” Instead, the narrative is: motive unknown.

Age yourself with a film you saw in a cinema as a kid

When I hear pundits claim that Democrats need to sacrifice core values in order to win, I’m reminded of Romanian writer Panait Istrati who toured the USSR in the 1930s. When told “you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs,” he replied: “Yes, I see the broken eggs. But where is the omelette?”

Ta-Nehisi Coates comes away with the stronger, moral position. Klein takes the position that the ends justify the means, and that is simply not true for people living on the margins.

Trofim Lysenko would be thrilled. All hail the Soviet Socialist Republic of Texas!

Yet again, the Supreme Court is overruling a lower court ruling with a couple of paragraphs The practical effect is to allow the Trump administration to cancel spending that Congress appropriated, and which Congress refused to rescind. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

The Heritage Foundation lied in order to frame the disproportionate victims of gun violence as the perpetrators. www.wired.com/story/herita...

headline in my inbox: "The War on Tylenol". Except that it isn't? It's a eugenicist war on pregnant people, blaming them and their medical caregivers for autism, which the eugenicists regard as a fate worse than death. Focusing on Tylenol hides that fact.

Another 4chan edgelord shooter. I wonder how many nihilistic killings it will take for it to finally mean something? www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...

Ok, we “saved” Jimmy Kimmel. Now can we bring that same energy to migrants, trans people, BIPOC and women? Or are we just reserving that for rich white guys?

America is now first in the most ridiculous address ever given to the United Nations. #AmericaFirst #MAGA

My deepest condolences to everyone that wasn’t raptured. I was really hoping you’d leave too.

Tax churches!

head of medical ethics at NYU Med: "The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recycling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies and dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science." whew lordt

If Jimmy Kimmel is a real one, he’ll call for solidarity with all of the academics and students under fire for their speech about Palestine and Kirk

Some good news, for a change. Disney reversed course on pulling Kimmel’s show. The economic pressure clearly worked. Estimates are that they lost upwards of $4 Billion due to cancelled Disney+ and Hulu subscriptions. Keep the pressure on Sinclair and Nexstar if they don’t reverse course!

In Trump's announcement later today, he is expected to blame autism on Tylenol use during pregnancy. The evidence for this is extraordinarily weak.

Hellloooooo, journalists! Covering the Mon announcement abt #autism? CHECK OUT the last 3 @thinkingautism.com newsletters for background on the loooong trail of grift in mitochondria-autism industry, starting w/a man who co-authored entire study abt his own daughter w/o disclosing the relationship.🧵

What movie do you consider perfect?

I also want fireworks at my funeral.

The scene where Beale gets dressed down by the forces of Capital has stayed with me for years; I even took some solace figuring that eventually Trump would face a similar reckoning. But no, turns out that's part of his Special Boy hall pass, just like everything else.

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s

The new American Dream is to leave America, expats say. As more Americans look to move abroad, experts and those who have actually left share their top tips and insights about how to do it. qz.com/expats-ameri...

Emmy-winning #Andor writer, Dan Gilroy, on the Trump Administration trampling the First Amendment: “[T]his isn’t a skirmish. It’s a siege. The first thing Putin did after taking power was silence shows that criticized him. Artists are censored first because they fear us most.”

This is an excellent photograph. Credit and Caption: Curtis Evans, of Evanston, Illinois, a former Marine, carries a U.S. flag through gas deployed by federal officers as they clear protesters from the entrance of the ICE facility in Broadview on Sept. 19, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

Fellow Antifa delegates: We have reached an agreement with the Trump Administration.

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

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Perfection. “The free transmission of ideas…has too often threatened trusted figures of strength and stability such as Joseph Stalin, Kim Il-Sung, and Idi Amin. Have we learned nothing from their example about the importance of suppressing dissent from the moronic and childlike public?”

Elon Musk developing an alternative software to Microsoft called Macrohard is peak 13-year-old boy energy.

February 6, 1939. A headline pulled straight out of today’s news.

Naked authoritarian fascism. Love and support to the entire team at @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social, who *will* come out the other side of this horrendous abuse of power. Disgusted to see ABC caving to this glaringly illegal and unconstitutional threat from Brendan Carr.

“Consumer spending is being driven by the top 10 or 20 percent, and unemployment, food insecurity, and gloominess are driven by everyone else. Both groups are experiencing inflation, but only the lower-income earners truly feel it.“

“Everyone says that this new crop of American Nazis is really mean, but I, a white journalist, went out to talk to them for this profile, and they were actually really nice.”