the other day I had the depressing thought: what if this is it? what if this is the big novum of our time? what if nothing cooler comes out and we're stuck with a plagiarizing chatbot that makes people suicidal?

This is laughable from the ground here. I mean, scary, yes, absolutely, but the idea that anyone in the metro is gonna get fired is such a deliberarly wild mis-read of the mood here. Just smacks of desperation and a "pulled our pants up but realized we forgot to wipe" rush to do too little too late

I am also looking for a literary agent to help me shop my next book(s).

& the tone of it, at least on X, is less the trad racist/misogynist one of frustrated control and more the new incel one of total disgust and hatred

rhizome.org/editorial/20... thinking about how in 2017 Josh Begley and Seth Freed Wessler and I did a commission for of all places the Ace Hotel gallery about immigrant detention centers

@harikunzru.bsky.social you see that Soderbergh read AUDITION? extension765.com/blogs/soderb...

Tried to describe what life here is like these days, and why, despite it all, I'm optimistic and so, so proud of this community.

"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”" "“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"

this 100% gonna turn out to be something some batshit Soviet scientists invented in the '70s www.cnn.com/2026/01/13/p...

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER: the girls from Double Whammies get together to do some (political) crimes

the Anacostia

due to changes in editorial leadership & direction, i won't be writing for (or subscribing to) Filmmaker Magazine any time in the near future. i had a *lot* of fun writing for Vadim and Scott over the last five years however. links to favorite pieces below

Three youths got on my subway car and announced "showtime, showtime!" However, they merely stood there quietly then got off at the next stop. Mamdani's New York is a HELL HOLE

do you guys hear that bell tolling? wonder who it’s for. it’s so loud lmao

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

Current* conditions near Sheboygan, WI:

conservative position remains states are the ultimate arbiter of whether or not abortion is murder but not whether shooting someone in the face is

This is exactly what it must have felt like to live under an Ancien Regime monarchy. The courtiers competing for proximity to the royal personage, controlling his access to information, everyone in the kingdom psychologizing the ruler to work out why things are happening

The official line on this is that a "domestic terrorist" tried to run down an agent, and all his colleagues, standing just a few feet away, stand there calmly twiddling their thumbs—as law enforcement officers are notoriously prone to do when one of their own is assaulted.

Like the bible says: live by the sword, no worries

Delighted to have received a grant from a submerging writers foundation, which supports mid-career authors while they age, procrastinate and feel their early promise ebb away. Grants like this are essential to the production of unmarketable work of limited appeal.

post NRx accounts on X have been pushing the line "liberal white women are the worst people in the world" for a year (?) or so

Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.

I was asked what image really stands out for me from the scene of today's killing of an observer by federal agents. It's this one, where border patrol Commander Greg Bovino appears to be staging a photo op less than an hour after and just a few dozen feet from where a federal agent killed a woman.

That’s the one

constantly updating stories (often without any note) is bad and we regularly see the nytimes doing ghost updates without notes to meaningfully change stories under the guise of "breaking news"

I remember when they said this about Rodney King.

just watched the second video and that's murder

everyone doing the whole "wait until we have confirmed facts of ICE shooting we don't want to spread misinformation" as if spreading misinformation wasn't the primary way politics functions now

AMERICAN LIBERAL: Okay, yes, "your" sending me to the camps—but how does that address skyrocketing grocery costs???

If we go to war with Russia over this, it will the funniest timeline

In case you need yet more evidence that we're living in a Robocop timeline.

"Do they seem worse in the summer or winter?" "I don't know. We haven't been there in the summer yet."

have fond memories of this show, which primed me for THE X-FILES. had no idea Dante was involved (but then i was 9)

happy anniversary

seriously doubt going to war with the EU would shift Trump's numbers

"But this rough magic I here abjure . . . I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book" The Tempest (Act 5, Scene 1)

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

love to have a helicopter-ridden skyline because the president has ordered a foreign head of state to be forcibly detained and tried on my island

I will be governing your country remotely via shitposting and late night threats on social media. If you don’t do what I say, I will blockade, bomb and eventually starve you. This is called freedom

this is a moment that calls for way more warped tour dates than they have planned

Ohhhhh my god the president misinterpreted a classic antiwar song? should we tell everyone? Should we throw a party?should we invite greil marcus?

“flex room. tenant not allowed in kitchen. $3000/month”

This one is resonating today. #Andor

used to be cowards and dullards would fall back on saying 2 things can be true. but today I’ve seen people pushing 3 things… 4… Nick Kristof listed 5 simultaneously true things. we are experiencing an 8-blade razor epistemological situation here.

Turns out, Man isn't the only creature that is aware of its own mortality; Man's just the only creature that's such a drama queen about it.