**** for Predator: Badlands, "an exceptional sci-fi action thriller with memorable characters, beautiful and terrifying animals (and plants), a structurally airtight script, and lead performances that deserve to be included in discussions of the year’s best." www.rogerebert.com/reviews/pred...

Predator: Badlands very good, Sarah Schachner getting to resurrect some sounds from Anthem for a score playing in IMAX even better

I like how the caption on this photo reads as if he's making a claim that could not be independently verified.

As my general two cents: don't cancel your WIRED subscriptions. Best culture, best newsroom of anywhere I've worked. I love the living shit out of these folks, and they don't deserve to be negatively impacted by a decision that was made by the parent company, not them. And it's only $2 a month.

BEGGING Democrats to finally learn this lesson

Today I finally got myself organized and did some food pantry donations. I started with the state-by-state stats on who benefits from SNAP the most and picked the 6 states with the highest percentage of recipients. 1/ www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

Seems to always boil down to whether or not you think poor people deserve pleasure or if you think an appropriate punishment for being poor is hunger, malnutrition, and misery.

Despite pleas from Gov. JB Pritzker to pause federal immigration enforcement operations while children celebrate Halloween, teams of Border Patrol agents — including one led by Cmdr. Greg Bovino — tore through Chicago’s Northwest Side and nearby suburbs. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/c...

I wrote a piece on the work of writer and director James Gunn, who is engaged in a pretty incredible ongoing enterprise that despises bigotry and authoritarianism and reaffirms patriotism for progressives. www.vulture.com/article/jame...

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

The Late Bronze Age collapse plunged the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East into a period of chaos and starvation, but 300 hundred years later, the region emerged stronger and more prosperous than ever. Could the same thing happen here in the United States?

Everyone: WHY IS DIGITAL MEDIA DYING?! Also everyone:

everybody just posting screenshots and quotes, no links and no attribution begging all of you to have a crumb of information hygiene

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

This is so fucking bleak and is being inflicted intentionally upon vulnerable people by Republicans who have no desire to help their own constituents (never mind anyone else) survive.

This article quotes the university president saying Lia was on the women's swimming and diving team, but she's not on this year's roster on their athletic department website. The NCAA banned her from being on the team when Trump first took office.

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"There will be those who take one look at ... A House of Dynamite and consider it a form of propaganda for the national security apparatus. This is frankly ridiculous — the film is all about how the system, even when functioning perfectly, will surely fail us." www.vulture.com/article/revi...

During the budget hearings, we heard directly from the mayor's office that there was no strategic plan for 2028. Nearly six months later, with less than 1,000 days to go, we're still "headed in the direction of developing that plan"

"I can't wait to hear how organizers plan to "deliver a major event in accordance with the highest global human rights standards" when the federal government is kidnapping people off LA's streets."

"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA" * article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window

My only note on One Battle After Another is it breaks the rule of Chekov’s karate class

Truly good luck to folks running against Susan Collins but I did not need the Janet Mills campaign to text me about it from SIX different numbers

Anyone wanna see the SEND HELP poster? Rejoice, Sam Raimi is back!!

We’ve officially launched! Lots of ways to support this new initiative that supports street vendors from 🧊 we keep us safe! Interest form and flyer below! #BikeChi forms.gle/dY931Sxzs6V9...

I don't always reply to the pitches I receive from publicists (because I have a job that I do and if I did, I would never get to do my job). But here is a tip for aspiring publicists: Critics do not "write a Rotten Tomatoes review." No critics do this.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous. This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

I wish I was surprised that Deadline claims it asked questions that were actually asked by me and other journalists at this James Gunn press conference. No one from Deadline even *submitted questions* for it (and I know, because I moderated). This is just brazen and sad.

Similarly describing him as an "expert on antifa" rather than an "antifascism researcher" further legitimates antifa as a proper noun in a way that makes zero sense

1. Anti-trans outrage is losing its bite. Last week, Elon Musk led a mass boycott campaign to get trans characters removed from shows on the platform. Major conservatives joined in. Now, we have the result: the boycott was a fizzle, and Netflix stock is up. Subscribe to support my journalism.

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

"At a moment of Hollywood contraction, when there are already too few exciting comedies on the TV calendar, there’s a real sadness in putting a giant bummer asterisk next to one of the few good ones."

the singular failure of the Biden era was not jailing Trump and his high-level coup plotters for that crime while Biden controlled the federal government; this failure is manifest now in Trump having blanket permission to rule as a king from SCOTUS and the default loyalty of federal police. Hell!

It’s not our first turn with authoritarianism (Jim Crow; internment) but also this took about 8 years, with an assist from Biden in his refusal to impose consequences on an attempted coup because he didn’t want to face political backlash

"The backlash shouldn’t be dismissed as an overreaction. . . . The pattern is always the same: Technology doesn’t have to be good to be disruptive, only viable enough for corporations to monetize. The concern isn’t that Norwood will “land” a role but that the system might be ready to cast her."

Increasingly, I feel as if these self-proclaimed coalition builders talking about "winning the middle" aren't talking about the people they hope to win over. Rather, they're talking about themselves, and defining what it will take to keep them in the tent. Not opposed to purity tests; issuing them.

It's fascinating and revealing how many centrists think refusing to compromise on human rights to gain the support of bigots represents a "political purity test," yet also think that a bigot saying "I won't join you unless you accommodate my bigotry" does NOT represent a "political purity test."

Just going through this list again there are so many red flags. We still don't have an after-action report from the January fires with updated evacuation plans. There is no plan for more shade. There is no plan to keep LA clean. We are unable to pick up all our trash on a regular non-Olympics day!

How’s it going? Compare 2019’s breakout pop culture critter to 2025’s.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

PUT IT BACK

and that’s why, when Kamala Harris became the candidate, she made justice for Gaza a cornerstone of her poli— *touches earpiece* okay, so, I’m being told,

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

This plan, which Yaroslavsky called "unrealistic, unaffordable, and fiscally irresponsible" was approved by council 11-2

"If you think city services are bad now — and I think all of us would agree that they suck — and you thought maybe one day we would have funding to restore service, I have bad news. It's going to get worse." Councilmember Katy Yaroslavsky absolutely shredding the $3B convention center plan to bits