🚨 HUGE ongoing surge of ICE arrests, with ICE directing 80% of all officers to go out into the field and round people up, aiming to hit 2,000 arrests a day; which would be more than during the Minneapolis surge. This may be why the nun in Texas got briefly picked up. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

This is the best of who we are and what we represent. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"It is remarkably unimaginative to hold film to the standard that it must directly reflect our reality to speak any worthwhile truth."

It doesn’t have to be that complicated. We could just let trans kids play sports.

Wemby: “I refuse to carry the burden of having to hide my emotions.” This is amazing.

Because I'm an insane person, I know Reid Wiseman from getting name-dropped in an episode from the Yahoo! season of Dan Harmon's COMMUNITY about 11 years ago. In simpler times. #JeffWritesToAstronauts #They'reNationalHeroes

This piece is deeply moving.

“Rowling has made it abundantly clear that she thinks attacking transgender people via the legal system is a worthwhile cause and a good use of her vast personal fortune…there’s no way to watch this show without supporting Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting…”

We’ve lost all concept of this, but government services are not supposed to be profit making enterprises. government services are not publicly traded corporations. They are, and I can’t stress this enough, government services

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

Very few pieces of television are as perfectly crafted — and have given me as much enjoyment — as the Behind the Music two-parter about the Blue Jean Committee.

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

“It’s just a horrible, horrible, horrible place,” he said of his detention camp. “I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”

Absolute truth here. Bezos and his hatchet men are full-on wearing hot-dog costumes, "trying to find who did this," after driving away both new and longtime Post readers since they pivoted to "anti-woke." But of course, it's never *their* fault.

"When in doubt, draw a distinction." Not sure where he got it, but in grad school one of my teachers taught me that. This (long) thread is about the key distinctions I rely on as a critic. There's a Twitter version from 2021. This one builds on that one. I will post them one at a time. Ready?

When the veil of dreams has lifted/And the fairy tales have all been told/There's a kiss at the end of the rainbow/More precious than a pot of gold 🌈 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwLZ...

I wouldn't say that Bari Weiss is a dumb person's idea of a smart person, but her "innovations" are basically a non-journalist's idea of genius. Everyone at CBS News already knows everything she is presenting here as revolutionary.

just me out here searching every Derrick Rose legacy story, in vain, for the phrase "we men" — and yes, I hate as much as you that it's necessary

gift link for @mashagessen.bsky.social on state terror in America: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

"A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." www.archives.gov/founding-doc...

We must not become numb to the fact that this is violence in service of a racist ideology. We must not become numb to the fact that this government is targeting Black and brown immigrants because it does not want Black and brown people in this country. This is targeted racial violence.

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

in: earnestness out: cynicism that keeps you at a distance from what and who you love

Tom Ripley rolling his eyes and crossing out whole sections while editing Marge's deeply solipsistic book about life on the Amalfi coast. #MyAtrani

Truly great reporting on Bovino’s life story, from his childhood as a second generation American to his current role tormenting prospective Americans. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

Read to the end. It's not a typical Epstein essay.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Our Gen X kings Wes and PTA are in full daddy-daughter mode this year and I love it. Building the core emotional stakes around Zsa Zsa, Nubar, Liesl and her mother /// Bob, Lockjaw, Willa and Perfidia. #OBAA #PhoenicianScheme

It should be obvious now that their project is white Christian nationalism, erasing the growth and progress of The American Century to reinstate a nastier, poorer, more brutally constricted society. It's their governing ethos, often stated as such.

Wes Anderson is my favorite film director and has a direct line to my soul, and THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME is an absolute delight. It took me until the 4th viewing to clock that the old-timey boys agree to "play 2-on-2" and then ... play H-O-R-S-E. Korda does acknowledge he's not much of a sportsman :)

The answer is: Hell yes, trans kids should be able to participate in sports according to how they identify. The emotional damage done by rejecting a kid’s identity is the real concern here. Not the bigotry of a busybody parent trying to bully that one kid.

Haven't been this ashamed of being a UVA alumnus since a similar group of abominable white people tried to do this to the previous university president 12 years ago.

Great list. RIP Jessica Walter RIP Andre Braugher RIP Michael Kenneth Williams RIP Maggie Smith RIP Naya Rivera

In all of these end-of-year raves for FURIOSA, I'm not seeing anyone grapple with the stark fact that it is *significantly* more unpleasant than FURY ROAD.

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

"Who can we shoot?" John Steinbeck had something to say about this in The Grapes of Wrath, when a bank worker is knocking down shacks on foreclosed land and a farmer thinks a rifle will fix things.

A MAN ON THE INSIDE is absolutely lovely, a great follow-up from THE GOOD PLACE crew that's funny and thoughtful in similar ways. And to the naysayers, yes, sure, there aren't tremendous dramatic stakes — I mean, unless you count the existential challenge of living, and dying, and doing both well.

Increasingly enamored by ARCANE as something like ANDOR-for-teens, with the visual verve and style of the SPIDER-VERSE.

If I were interested in the horrible, stupid thing that guy said, I would follow his ramblings directly. You do not need to share it with all of us.

everything is covid. lack of trust in science & institutions, covid. inflation, covid. decline in quality of urban governance, covid. antisocial behavior, covid. sports gambling and non btc crypto proliferation, covid. migration patterns and labor force impact, covid. descent of higher ed, covid.

not saying anything groundbreaking here, but I really think "politics as a form of content to be served up and consumed like all other forms of content" has been an enormous, underrated disaster in terms of giving folks the illusion of being informed while essentially being gamed like a drug addict

retvrn to charging a reasonable fee for a good service that delivers real value

starbucks barista: order for cathy lou cthulhu: (visibly incensed) i guess that's me