I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.

also please don't yell at me, I'm not on the side of the bean counters here, but I'm puzzled why One Battle After Another cost $150 million? set in contemporary California and shot on location, a few car crashes, some air cannon explosions--that used to be how you made an action movie on the cheap!

One Battle After Another is the first movie I can recall that dives right into "the sweater vest Republican is evil"

It looks like Dinosaur Field Station of NJ is closing and selling their Dino sculptures

NEW: Hawaii's Supreme Court keeps releasing opinions that denounce the U.S. Supreme Court. The latest? A new ruling that requires the police to record all interrogations from now on. The author took it as an opportunity to say Hawaii's court will protect due process—while SCOTUS isn't:

I feel strongly that the president should go on TV and explain to the American people what palm beach in the ‘90s was like www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

it's absolutely fucking crazy that "retroactively legalize Watergate" and "exclude Black people from literally every area of public life" are the two primary a objectives of the chief justice and yet he is never reported on like the vicious gutter racist he is.

helluva way to repay someone who got him elected in the first place

people are doing the plot of the South Park movie for content

America Magazine please do a video game review I'm begging you

if we expand this out to paintings, here's Cupid pissing on Venus at The Met

Des Moines has you all beat

Just out of One Battle After Another on the big screen and I’m levitating. It’s an electric, righteous, fiery, and darkly funny mediation on contemporary America. It’s one we’re gonna argue about. It’s Incredible. See this one as BIG as you can.

...Aileen Cannon let the golf course guy represent himself?

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

remember when she left Fox to work at NBC

Experimental post: The Inevitable March of Time From the moment of this post, Super Mario Bros. is now closer to World War II than it is to the present day.

one minor indication of the collapse of civil society is that Tic Tac felt obliged to rush out this statement in 2016, yet as far as I can tell there has been no press release from Helldivers

is there a rapture timezone or

brain autofilled this Global War An Rerror

Think I’m going to get a lot of use out of this.

is that good

a slightly smaller man sitting on your lap for several hours, you say 🤔

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

I'd forgotten how during a Trump presidency it's difficult to follow what's happening locally since the federal news is all-consuming This has to be the least attention I've ever paid to a Virginia election

Great Moments with Mr Lincoln revamp to include "Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." from his first SOTU

The 2am subway closure is nice, but bus service should reflect that change, especially after it just went a massive overhaul

her name couldn’t really be WILL OBEY

Ezra Klein 🤝 Neera Tanden Despite the overwhelming popularity of abortion rights in all states, we should surrender instead

Renting physical media is better than paying for a trillion streaming services that don’t even have the movie you want to watch available

Hey! You see this? Did you hear about this? They're having the summer festival in Omelas

Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.

Did some early voting 🗳️ Election Day is November 4 Plenty of time to make a plan to vote this year in Virginia!

millennial nursing home, fact check true

first day of Virginia early voting! 🗳️🇺🇸

Michael Eisner publicly attacking Bob Iger is crazy, what year is it

I would have thought the shame of losing the Democrats a federal trifecta 2023-25 would have been enough but

Chalk messages at Arlington home of top White House official strike a nerve with GOP heavyweights

Hearing that that Senate Republicans have a vote queued up today for a national day of remembrance for Charlie Kirk - and Dems can stop it by simply objecting. Will one of them do it? Word is that no Dems are saying they will object right now.

the Oscars air on ABC, and that's another show we know Trump watches and is mad about

Hollywood digging around for MAGA projects to greenlight worries me that the masturbatory Confederacy show Benioff and Weiss wanted to do after Game of Thrones might see the light of day

I want to read a critique of religion as portrayed in Silksong because it strikes me as extremely /r/atheism and I'd like someone with a better understanding than I to support or dispel that takeaway The reviews I've seen regrettably aren't picking apart theme in the same way as game mechanics etc

actually what's next for Disney though, like if Trump demanded they bring back Splash Mountain but make it more racist they definitely would, right getting rid of all of the gay and environmental stuff in your recent movies worked really well, another surrender in advance win

the awards campaign for One Battle After Another is getting out of hand

Bob Iger, accelerationist?

its kind of insane that we’ve been forced to watch rightwingers openly celebrate and taunt everyone over the death of people like trayvon martin for over a decade now and now they’re trying to grandstand over the one time it’s personally affected them and political project

"beloved coastal highway"

I didn't participate in the "energy you bring to Bluesky" quote threads earlier because I didn't want to be a downer, e.g.

I can’t believe this is real