Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

I think i'm a book snob. I have a lit degree, read the classics and settled on a modern american lit focus. Most of the books I read and loved for my degree were old, tightly written and well told. Every time I try to read current fiction, my brain spends the entire experience rewriting the book.

Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.

Listen, it's not my favorite genre, either. But imagine being so myopic that you can't set aside your personal music preferences for a mere 15 minutes and find a way to recognize the joy, pageantry, artistry and patriotism in a superstar's labor-of-love performance. That sounds so... miserable.

Father confronts ICE after they chase his daughter home…

The execution of Alex Pretti is playing so badly because you can look at his actions and life story - his last act was helping, boy scout, athlete, health care worker to veterans - and compare those to the men who killed him and know which you would want to be your son, brother, father, uncle.

Wouldn’t have made it out of the VEEP writers room

Alex Pretti was a great American. The people defending his killers are not.

This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

It is fun when you’re heading for a screening of a movie called THE SHITHEADS and the volunteers directing people to the correct theater have to keep asking everyone: “Shitheads? Shitheads?” I’m just as God made me, sir.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

RAGING about SINNERS being totally shut out of Best Documentary Short. Time we called out this category's bullshit systemic bias against films that are not documentaries or shorts.

SEEING IS BELIEVING DHS claims the car being chased rammed the ICE vehicle. The video shows the opposite. 📌 A father and son, a US citizen, are chased. The teen is beaten and seriously injured. The father is deported. DHS lied. The video tells the truth. Excellent reporting by Antonia Hylton.

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

I didn’t love the movie at the time, and haven’t watched it in its entirety since, but this does feel like the defining scene of our American moment.

At Davos, Trump mocked allies, rewrote WWII history, and framed gratitude as obedience—suggesting nations “owe” the U.S. for not being conquered. That’s not statesmanship. It’s imperial nostalgia and global embarrassment, delivered on the world stage.

An especially great book delivery day. Most looking forward to "The Warner Brothers," written by my friend (and former student) @chrisyogerst.com

just got out of an uber. the driver was telling me how he has to work 16 hour days, seven days a week, at two different jobs to afford rent. he doesn't have healthcare and he worries about retirement. "i would feel a lot better if we owned greenland," he told me. then he cried.

A former federal agent after watching the New York Times breakdown of the ICE shooting:

ICE is now behaving in such a way that even Tucker Carlson’s favorite Holocaust minimizing, Hitler-apologist “historian” is like “hey now guys, this is getting a little out of hand.”

Not everything is fucking RASHOMON.

When the LAPD arrests a dude at a gas station they don’t take over the gas station and use it to gas up all the cop cars tho

Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine. We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.

One of my least favorite replies is "never heard of it" and its many variations. What purpose does it serve, besides announcing a gap in your knowledge while weirdly wrapping it in arrogance?

jeremy strong in the springsteen movie looks like they made an oscar bait minions adaptation

I've seen this going around today and it's beautiful, so here's a gift link.

Hundreds of migrants with no criminal convictions are being sent to CECOT to avoid constitutional protections and public scrutiny. CBS had the story. It passed every review. It was killed anyway. This is not journalism. This is state run media. Let's Address This:

60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long. www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

Of course the mensch-iest of film critics is going to be essential reading on the mensch-iest of directors. Don't miss the ending, in which Matt imagines, It's a Wonderful Life-style, how impoverished the last few decades in Hollywood would have been without the influence & the generosity of Reiner.

Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station

This is some bullshit. My bid for Warner Bros was completely ignored after some asshole leaked my plans to call it Whatnot Bros.

The right's now hegemonic argument that cocaine is actually a chemical weapon and that mere suspicion of having it on your boat justifies an order to kill everyone aboard is astoundingly insane

That moment followed by his calling a reporter "insubordinate" while shrugging off the murder of a journalist would have ended other presidencies. "Piggy" enraged me less than the silence that followed--the indifference, the cowardice, the collective shrug is what enables the eradication of decency.

There’s a non-zero chance that at some point I simply stop engaging with anything produced after 2019 or so. Spend the rest of my life entirely living in the past.

Growing up a film fan at a time of little access & watching the Oscars where legends like Deborah Kerr & Michelangelo Antonioni picked up awards opened new worlds to me. I can’t help but be heartbroken about a show that assumes being in touch with cinema history is unhip & causes low ratings.

The Christian right for decades has fear-mongered that federal agents (under Dem presidents) would "criminalize" Christianity and literally prevent them from worshipping. Now that Trump's stormtroopers are doing it ... crickets

NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

Somebody please make a supercut of all the times Mike Johnson has answered a question with, "I don't know anything about that."

“Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it’s because it is hard.” William Zinsser #NationalAuthorsDay

When the great lines of cinema are discussed no one ever brings up Kevin Bacon in Tremors exclaiming, “I found the ass end!” Because in that moment I really BELIEVED he’d located the ass end of a Precambrian life form buried beneath the desert. Like, he and the writer delivered that reality to me.

the other thing that i miss in modern movies? actual explosions. they blew up that set!

ICE violently detain father & son walking to school—teenage boy had to be rushed to hospital. "I was just going to school," kid cries out. "I'm underage!" The 16-year-old star athlete is a U.S. citizen—agents sent him to the hospital with severe injuries to his back & neck. Houston, Texas.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

It's odd for me to realize that my first-year undergraduates are at an age where they don't really remember that there was a form of US politics prior to Donald Trump. For them, Trump is not an aberration from the normal course of political discourse, but just how US politics is done.

I loved One Battle After Another’s ending on first viewing, but the second time around I realized *how much* is going on in that scene beyond it being a really great car chase. So I had to write something about the brilliance of The River of Hills

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

I don't think folks have any conception of how radicalized a lot of moms are becoming as they go through shit like "will my babysitter get kidnapped" and "will my child be able to get the measles vaccine"