It is SUNNY and BREEZY and the air quality is MODERATE and you know what, I’ll take it

It seems like there are ever greater reasons to write, and an ever diminishing reading public. A greater need for patience and deliberation, but only the appetite for furious cacophonies. And everywhere little princelings ruling over shattered, empty lands.

"To be bold, to dare to be stupid: this single frame in THE GREAT DICTATOR is the most essential frame occurring in Charles Chaplin’s filmography. It is the most elegant and achy navigation out of comedy, straight through tragedy, and into something like the human struggle ever captured by camera."

We may be drowning on the sidewalk, breathing in toxic air, and eating lettuce that gives us diarrhea, but the Knicks are still NBA champions.

If the plot is “no price is too high to pay to bring Matt Damon home”, I am fully sat for the movie.

can't believe people are posting all these spoilers for the odyssey

Wow. 🤯

They kept distributing it until Thursday. So we've still 2 weeks of poss. new cases. "The shredded iceberg product was distributed June 29th thru July 16th in AL, AR, CT, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, and WI." www.taylorfarms.com/recall/

Isn’t it fun when you go to a movie & brunch with your friends & a couple they know and everyone’s having a great time and then the boyfriend you’ve never met spouts an antisemitic conspiracy theory & you just have to sit and decide whether you, the only Jew there, are gonna ruin brunch over it 🫠🫠🫠

England a land of firsts, one being that it was the first European nation to require Jews to wear a marking badge, in 1218. They were not formally/legally allowed back until 1657, under Oliver Cromwell.

This was probably my favorite of the new-to-me movies I watched for my NYT roundup of the fest. Run, don't walk, New Yorkers

For real. #noai #art

Imagine if a woman president spent most her time raving and crying about an election she lost 6 years ago. Emotional. Unstable. Hysterical. Unfit to lead.

It is a revelation to my students that the cultural phenomenon of "male celebrity that teenage girls love because he's sexy but coded as a bit effeminate, and that their dads hate for the same reason, which makes the girls love him even more" is literally a century old.

off to see the odyssey this am

The mother of Ruben Ray Martinez, who ICE agent Jack Stevens shot to death in Texas last year, published a piece this morning about what she wants to see from the federal government. The piece is extremely restrained and measured. I can only imagine what she had to set aside to write it.

What. The. www.oregonlive.com/business/202...

Upon leaving, we put on our KN-95 masks to prevent respiratory disease from wildfire smoke. Then we walked past the newly-installed concrete barricades, added to prevent another antisemitic terrorist attack. For dinner, we made sure to avoid any salads or leafy vegetables. #America2026

Just got back from services at our synagogue here in Oakland County, Michigan. A little girl was reading one of the newly-added "active shooter response protocol" placards which have been placed in the pews. 1/

Here’s your hot take unpopular opinion for the night. Newsies (1992) is as rich an encapsulation of the American story as The Godfather (1972) and in some ways, Newsies is the more interesting journey and challenge to the American myth because it tells a story that we simply don’t see in movies

The movie "The Odyssey" is great. But if this was 1992, we would all be listening to the Bryan Adams power ballad hit "Making My Way to You (love theme from "The Odyssey")

Disdain because it’s perceived as a children’s medium and because at some level, the suits’ disdain for work done by craftspeople.

a truly devastating "why do bad things happen to good people" is happening to a friend of a friend right now and it's absolutely gutting me

Coolest person in Hollywood is Chris Nolan’s son for this all timer cold blooded dunk on his dad

there are so many tickets available for this screening of FORCE OF EVIL tomorrow and I feel like more people should be jumping at the chance to see it on a big screen www.paristheaternyc.com/event/force-...

Kasi Lemmons' Medea Sarah Polley's Agamemnon Guillermo Del Toro's Cyclops

This is a good thread that misses the fundamental reason why: holocaust inversion. People have been saying "the Jews talk for the holocaust too much, actually Israelis are Nazis" for decades now.

I guess blatant anti semitism is just allowed on Instagram now?

it's hard to imagine what it's like being a jewish candidate for senate facing an opponent whose son-in-law is a neo-nazi. particularly in 2026.

❤️🍍 It’s Wong Kar Wai’s birthday! 🍍❤️ What better way to spend the day than indulging in his world of films! Watch our collection of the great cinema master’s work—featuring everything from CHUNGKING EXPRESS and IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE to all 30 episodes of his ravishing television show BLOSSOMS SHANGHAI

👇🎯 Once again, this is an existential crisis for American universities, & our presidents & chancellors are completely absent from the public square in speaking out against it & informing voters & students & parents of the magnitude of the threat. A total leadership failure. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Good morning, Bluesky. “What I do know is that people have always made and will always make art. Part of possessing a consciousness is wanting to be known while also living with the fundamental mysteriousness of human beings, including ourselves.” The Perfect Moment, Isaac Butler

A pancreatic cancer VACCINE! I 💙 Science!

I think people seem to genuinely not get how declaring the Totenkopf tattoo not disqualifying told descendants of Holocaust Survivors like me sounds like "fuck you and your family."

You’ve been murdered. Who do you want on the case?

I can't believe I even have to say this, but: Insisting on the reader developing basic literacy and vocabulary improvement skills is not, nor has ever been, ableism. Encountering a word you do not understand is not gatekeeping. It's an invitation for you to learn a new word. FFS.

It's a beautiful mid-summer night here in America so

Wild idea but I think the canonical Holocaust survivor should be played by a Jew

I would like one plank of the 2028 Democratic platform to read: WE ARE GOING TO SEND EVERY ONE OF YOU CORRUPT MOTHERFUCKERS TO PRISON.

hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe

Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."

Someone just sent me this photo from Chicago, unbelieveable

Happy Barbara Stanwyck's birthday. #FilmSky

Oh, damn. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Facts that Hollywood tried to keep from the masses but overtime it was proven to be true 💯🎯

One thing I really like about Ossoff is his seriousness. He's genuinely disgusted here, not merely camera-disgusted.

The 2020 fixation is not some quirk, it’s not “Trump being Trump,” it’s not a valid thing for him to talk about or worry about, it’s not part of a larger plan. It’s a deeply unwell person obsessed with slights he’s imagined he’s suffered, who has somehow made that the center of American politics.

this is the fundamental aspect of everything Trump does and says and believes. From refusing to admit his loss in 2020, to organizing a self-coup to try to remain in power, to being a convicted rapist, he is a man whose response to being told no is always, without exception, a violent tantrum.

every time trump is president you gotta wash your groceries