Millions of Americans are already learning that their health insurance costs for 2026 are going way up. I want to hear from you so we can make this impossible for the GOP to ignore the consequences of their policies. If your premiums are going up, reply below and please share your story.

We have updated our call script so you can let your Senators know how you feel about this (TERRIBLE) deal they just advanced... 👉🏽 5calls.org/issue/federa...

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why

Chuck Schumer needs to retire. First from leadership, then from his seat.

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Noirvember 5: Gun Crazy (1950, Joseph H. Lewis). Really solid movie! The camerawork during the driving sequences was quite impressive.

“Describing rapid response networks and neighborhood moms as professional agitators shows just how out of touch these agents are, and how extreme their views are.” — U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis

Noirvember 4: The Long Goodbye (1973, Altman) -- woof, this one did NOT work for me. I like Gould, I liked this well enough until the scene where Marlowe and the writer drink together, but it was all meandering downhill after that. Lots of very intentional choices that felt meaningless.

For @msnbc.com I wrote about how Tuesday's election gives Democrats the blueprint for overcoming Republican anti-trans attacks and how thus should settle all the talk about throwing trans people under the bus. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Movies 2 & 3 for Noirvember: Devil in a Blue Dress (Franklin, 1995) and Leave Her to Heaven (Stahl, 1945). Both are okay and have cool moments. Washington and Turner are both great. But DiaBD's voiceover detracts, and the courtroom scene in LHtH is unfortunately laughable. Worth watching though!

Maybe pundits should spend more time in densely packed, left leaning urban areas where the "real Americans" live

Here’s my my pitch for why you care about your state attorney general. The entire conservative judicial machine *depends* on conservative state attorney generals. John Roberts can’t take a case asking to destroy voting rights if a state attorney generals doesn’t bring it.

First movie up for Noirvember: Machine Gun Kelly (Corman, 1958). My first Roger Corman film and like the third or fourth Bronson I've seen this year, after having never seen any of his films. This one has some surprising character work that kept me interested and a couple of quite good lines.

Peter Watkins has died - perhaps the least-appreciated great British filmmaker (and you sense he wouldn't have wanted it any other way). www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

“I hope that in the not too distant future, our grandchildren and great grandchildren will react to this moment with horror, rather than denial, and want to know more. They’ll want to know what you were doing. What will you tell them?”

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

A witness in our case had ICE reject all her documents after using facial rec on her. For her, tho, it seemed like nothing could make them accept that she has a right to be here. Either way, a gov policy of not trusting gov-issued docs is going to violate lots of people's rights.

It's a great day to establish a monthly donation to Wikipedia. Even a small amount helps!

I love Rebecca DOWN. Known as Dollar Tree Dinners. Her “Meal in a Bag” is meant to provide ppl with a complete meal that is $8 or less, is shelf stable, & can be made without access to a full kitchen. I love this as a direct aid option. Good for neighbors & elders who can’t/wont go to a pantry.

Attacks on trans rights are often framed as efforts to "protect women." But the reality is that such attacks only protect the patriarchy. Because enforcing a strict sex-based gender binary makes it easier to tilt that binary into a hierarchy where women are subordinate to men.

"We can stop. We can pause. We can demand something better. And we must. Because there is a body count."

you probably haven’t seen CONFESS, FLETCH but you definitely should, and also there should be at least 3 more of these

Breaking: The Department of Justice announced it will "monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions [in New Jersey and California] ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

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I agree we need a big coalition. So if transphobes want to fight fascism, I'd say they need to recognize that antifascism is going to need a big tent, so they're going to have to stop issuing political purity test and let trans people live their lives. We can't afford to shrink the tent for them.

ICYMI: We've updated our list of Trump's cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes to include September, which was another doozy of a month in the artrocity space. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors

“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”

Premiere of Cat People in 1942 at the Rialto Theatre in Manhattan.

Wrote a thing. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Once you notice that they never mention the first-order content that is either allegedly censored or students must be compelled to listen to, but only talk about second-order ‘controversial’ or ‘upsetting’ speech, you can’t unsee it. Is it ISIS propaganda or instructions on how to build a car bomb?

“Now more people will choose their representatives,’’ Czarny said. “And however that turns out, whoever they choose, it’s better for democracy.” www.syracuse.com/news/2025/10...

No, resurrecting the corpse of Anne Frank so 12-year-olds can gossip with her is not how you “make history come alive.” It’s how you destroy history so that someone can come in, rewrite it, and then author a future to their liking.

The soft opening for this was telling teachers to necromance chatbots out of Anne Frank. There’s a historical parallel to this I’ve been chewing on, a bit of gristle stuck in my teeth since I wrote this footnote about a public debate in Weimar Germany on the educative potential of replicas. 🧵

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Good morning! My comrade @annakornbluh.bsky.social and I published today in Hyperallrgic ean op-ed about the gutting of our right to culture and the ways to defend and fight back. Link below!

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

Absolutely incredible work here from @hankgreen.bsky.social:

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Strongly recommend reading the whole article…very insightful. P.S., Now’s a great time to start masking again.

The final season of #SolarOpposites is NOW STREAMING on HULU and with Hulu on Disney+! THE ALIENS THE WALL IT ALL COMES TO THIS Tell your parents to resubscribe so you can use their account.

Today's newsletter is all about this brilliant ad www.readtpa.com/p/a-politici...

This is such a thorough take down of Bari Weiss and the vapid shill she is for oligarch billionaires. He especially shreds the Free Press over it's coverage of trans issues and the so called whistleblower Jamie Reed. youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

Happy Columbo’s Day

Relevant today, as always.

Today I'm doing a talk about Women and the (early) Gothic and it might be time for a list! So here are ten early women writers of the Gothic to give an idea of the range of things that women were creating in the period!

This is known as the Mel Brooks method www.slashfilm.com/1109726/mel-...

Students from Cheyfitz’s course speak out against his suspension and explain what happened in the classroom leading up to it. www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...