Homayoun Ershadi (1947-2025)

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

literally doing the Leonard Nimoy “well my work is done here” bit but with complete sincerity.

Enough is enough. Contact your Democratic senators TODAY and tell them to call for Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. We desperately need new leadership in the Democratic Party.

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.

What is the argument for voting for Democrats for harm reduction if the harm is not fucking reduced

I am once again saying that we saw what wall to wall, panic coverage of a crisis looked like after the Biden debate and there’s no reason Trump isn’t getting that kind of coverage except for class solidarity.

finally saw BELFAST, MAINE this year which just instantly feels like one of the most consequential American films ever made. i could’ve stayed in that world for another 4 hours.

new letterboxd top 4 dropped.

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

i still don’t think i’ve seen even close to a single piece of evidence that zohran mamdani is antisemitic beyond him believing children in palestine shouldn’t be killed by israel

Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc

hot tip: this movie is really fucking good.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN

MISSISSIPPI MASALA IS NOW REQUIRED VIEWING IN ALL NYC PUBLIC SCHOOLS!!!!!!!

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Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

genuinely one of the most cowardly moments in modern political history. Schumer should be primaried ASAP.

could I see something in the next two months that changes this? maybe? this feels pretty set in stone though.

Locked in with @arimelber.bsky.social.

hug your war criminals a little tighter today

if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.

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Has anyone worked up the net worth of Cuomo’s parents vs Mamdani’s? Why does this weird narrative of a professor and a filmmaker as wealthy elites continue? Do they think Mira Nair made Marvel films or something?

This entire "the Dems need to abandon identity and focus on economics!" discourse is being driven by rich assholes who would melt down at the slightest hint of higher taxes on the wealthy or more welfare for the poor. Look how they're treating Mamdani! It's cynical bullshit all the way down.

Knocking ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER because it doesn't do activism the way you think it should is a symptom of online culture's belief that all art *has to* reflect and preach a realistic progressive political model for its era. But that's not how art, stories, or humans work.

Are the movies the problem? Sure, somewhat. But I continue to maintain the decline in box office isn't scarcity of product but the short theatrical window. The casual moviegoer will not go to the theater if they can see it on a streaming in a matter of weeks. They just won't.

was there tonight too, can confirm. totally, unabashedly rocked.

The voice of a generation

not to downplay the seriousness of this indictment but the federal government is claiming that kat abughazaleh, a labubu-sized woman, impeded the movement of an SUV

A Machine That Prints Money will open on Broadway this February. playbill.com/article/dani...

Just in: Zohran Mamdani caught calling someone "bro", but our investigation has unearthed the truth. This person was not, in fact, his biological brother. Why did he lie? Tune in tonight at 10 for this and more breaking news.

they’ve genuinely got nothing. just sad, really.

i was all in on mamdani until i found out that he called his dad's cousin his "aunt" instead of using the term we all know and love, "cousin once removed"

saw an ad for Southwest showing a bunch of people ecstatic about them switching to Assigned Seating and I refuse to be gaslit like this.

I want Zohran to win because he’s the best candidate but also because it might make some of America’s most insane racists finally have a stroke

Ezra Klein running articles about how the Democrats have to move to the center while Border Patrol and ICE tear gas my neighborhood, cannot stress enough that every liberal institution is not capable of dealing with what's actually happening

more people need to know what's happening here. Chicago citizens are doing the damn work in standing up to these militaristic losers, but it is a nightmare right now.

The next president can clear the National Debt with a pay-per-view of the demolition of the ballroom.

literally the only words in this headline that aren't morally objectionable are "With Andrea Riseborough."

Chappell Roan Unveils Midwest Princess Fund for Trans Youth — and She’s Already Raised $400K

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