@louispeitzman.bsky.social @danemcdonald.bsky.social continuing to enjoy the pod, but I just listened to the Vice ep and I think (with all respect to your past and future guests) @emilystjams.bsky.social is the best guest you’ve had. Hope to see her come back if possible!

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

People on awards shows don't "make it political." The world is political. Our lives are political. Our choices are political. The only decision is whether to acknowledge it.

I stand by my assertion that Sinners on Broadway would do looooooong-run numbers. A fixture, a steady on the street, like Book of Mormon, Hamilton, Chicago

BREAKING: A push to name one of Chicago’s snowplows “Abolish ICE,” clearly linking the humorous pun to efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort, won the city’s annual snowplow naming contest, officials announced. @wttw.bsky.social

the Black Panthers were right

“A woman wouldn’t really do that!” Are women and men politicians judged equally for political scandals? Check out our fascinating evidence from Mexico, published in @respol.bsky.social bit.ly/3ZAUOqv Thread re: what Fernanda Quintanilla Domínguez, @brettbessen.bsky.social and I found (1/4)

good night sleep tight take your meds fuck the feds

I found a big sign at the thrift shop with some live/laugh/love stuff on it, so I painted over that with my to-do list. Feel free to make it yours, too.

Chicago Pope says We come to this place for magic.

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.

Making it just under the wire, but I completed my last book for #SBTBingo last night (the lovely In Case You Read This by Edward Underhill). Full blackout achieved! And now to read something outside of romance for the first time in 2 months 😆

One book to go for a full #SBTBingo blackout. Pretty good for someone who started reading romance less than 2 years ago (personal summer challenge for myself!) @smartbitches.bsky.social

this exists it is called thinking

These people calling for bipartisanship! Even now! It’s a level of delusion that defies credulity.

I too am on my way to an EGOT I survived watching the Nate Bergatze Emmys, the Jo Koy Golden Globes, and the James Franco Oscars.

“How you die does not redeem how you lived.”

yea 100% this. I am anti-bit and pro-speeches always.

11 more days for #SBTBingo. 4 books to go, 2 of which are in-progress. This has been a challenge for me as a newer romance reader!

Three weeks to go, and it'll be a stretch, but I'm still going for a full blackout. If nothing else, I can definitely get that middle line. #SBTBingo

@louispeitzman.bsky.social @danemcdonald.bsky.social listening to and enjoying the pod. One simple request. As Letterboxd users, I assume your “most watched” actor at the end of the year will be Amy Adams. I would love if you both could report on your *second* most watched come December.

True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing. Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter. Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵 x.com/andrewcuomo/...

this is the way rich people think about health insurance

One great thing about the amazing commercial year Warner Bros. is having (Minecraft, Sinners, Final Destination, Superman) is that all of its successes stem from letting filmmakers with strong visions put their stamp on the material. It cuts against a lot of recent Hollywood conventional wisdom.

I only remember small details about our family trips as kids, but of the ones I do, these are spot on.

a spell against evil #art

the first episode of looking back, moving forward is out NOW! because today is *the* day to talk about the promise of a truly representative democracy — and what it will take for feminists to build one. tune in: msmagazine.com/podcast/femi... via @msmagazine.com

trump should’ve been in handcuffs in jan 2021 and there is no way to quantify just how much human suffering will result from the disastrous decision to slow walk his prosecution or even avoid it altogether

If you read the article, this is hardly open (it was done at a private event and then clips were shared with press later). I don’t have any positive feelings toward Bush, but I find with Obama the same issue as with the leaders of the Dems, just completely unprepared for the moment. We need more!

Just finished I Shall Never Fall in Love by @haridraws.bsky.social. READ THIS BOOK!! If I had a kid, I would buy it for them, but as an adult, it’s just as meaningful. Especially loved the “history corner” after the book ended and how thorough it was. Can’t wait to read more of the author’s work.

This is a helluva letter

The only thing quieter than President Trump’s birthday military parade is Elon Musk’s phone on Father’s Day.

Let’s not mince words on exactly what the MAGA movement is.

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 78 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo (& today a video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

"I'd crusade if the new Pope asked me to" wow, cool. What if he asked you to love and protect immigrants

@thefienprint.bsky.social @snoodit.bsky.social Gonna need you both to revitalize tv’s top 5 just to cover this www.pajiba.com/news/former-...

Beautifully written. A must read.

@petersagal.bsky.social I live in the Bay Area and the other day while driving saw a billboard with you on it. But by the time I realized it was you, it changed (one of those electronic ones, which I hate) before I could read anything. Are you coming to the area for an event?

I love my echo chamber where everyone values the humanity of other people and enjoys the arts.

It’ll be a while before I can talk coherently about SINNERS but some thoughts: The history of Black music sequence is the most transported I’ve ever felt in a movie theater. I felt it in every molecule of my body. I want more of the Native vampire hunters. Give me ALL of that lore. Delroy. Lindo.

Ditto

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

This is what happens when you don't honestly teach your country's own history, when you lionize every American president as a hero and not a war criminal, when you let greed and spite dictate who holds the power. Trump is the inevitable outcome of so-called American exceptionalism.

So simple, but my favorite sign I saw today #handsoff #fireelon #dumptrump

Absolutely.

The Sopranos is probably the Rosetta Stone of modern American reaction: it consists of people who bemoan the loss of an imagined past they mainly got from movies, claim victimization based on identity but hate when others do it, and view the people who build the society they prey on as suckers.