This is very true! And one way I try to help set my students up for success is to have a strictly enforced electronics ban and attendance policy.

How could we possible figure out that a movie about divorced couple reconciling during an office Christmas party, with a score made up of Christmas song adaptations, that ends with the words merry Christmas, was a Christmas movie

The thing I find weird about Die Hard is a Christmas movie discourse is… the movie is overtly a Christmas movie? It’d be like if every year people posted “JUST A REMINDER A CHRISTMAS STORY IS A CHRISTMAS MOVIE”

The through line of Weiss's journalistic ethos is that criticisms of conservatives are stale the moment they're uttered because they're predictable, but literally any take that cuts against a liberal/left line is a bold insight never before heard or seen in such startling fashion

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Any Democrat who thinks it's appropriate to "find common ground" with the Republicans on issues like high school sports teams is negotiating with a political party that does not believe trans people should exist. This policy will kill people, so maybe stop wringing your hands about volleyball.

I'm old enough to remember Paul Wellstone's death, and how Republicans led the dumbest pundit dickheads in a round of schoolmarm scolding after liberals celebrated Paul's life in partisan terms. All I can say is: Get over it. This is how we should pay respects to one of our own: Partisan as fuck.

A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker. This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.

When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.

A Few Good Men. Best in Show. A Mighty Wind. Miss Congeniality. Barcelona. All three movies in Linklater's "Before" trilogy. Music & Lyrics. Michael Clayton. All films that were able to be made because of the production company Reiner co-founded in order to give talented filmmakers creative freedom.

Writing is (usually poorly paid) labor. Paywalls are part of how that labor gets compensated. online ads and premium subscriptions alone do not create enough revenue to cover the cost of labor. You are not entitled to the fruits of other people’s labor for free!

The only conclusion I can draw from this is that there is something physically wrong and cognitively wrong with Trump, he knows it, and he's angry and frightened.

(3) After the failure of One Eyed Jacks, Brando was pretty open about mostly taking roles for money, and then mostly treating those roles with contempt. You can think that’s cool or not, but it has nothing to do with his training.

(2) Here’s a few female Method actors, off the top of my head: Kim Stanley, Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Ellen Burstyn, Marilyn Monroe, Estelle Parsons, Shelly Winters, Anne Bancroft, Julie Harris.

It has been brought to my attention that Kristen Stewart did a whole thing dunking on the Method and also demonstrating she knows fuck-all about it in an interview with the New York TImes.

Can confirm this is a real thing. Every single day.

I hate Twitter but I just still dont consistently get to see delightful little posts like this on here yet & theyre all im really looking for in a microblog website

Being annoying on your own timeline is free speech. Being annoying in someone's replies is harassment. Quote posts are a gray area of the law still being developed

I mean, this is an execution

I haven't seen a single commenter or article point out that Tennessee Representative Aftyn Behn's name is very similar to the 17th century British woman playwright Aphra Behn. Do I have to do everything around here?

R.E.M. Green tour Mike Doughty/Regina Spektor Maxwell’s 2003 Last full Jane’s Addiction show (right before the final one with the fight) Low at First Ave Xmas 1997 Cheap Trick at Riverfest

like watching a concert pianist play the flight of the bumblebee. Nobody says they're not gonna do shit quite like chuck schumer. watch the master at work:

I can’t believe I’d never seen this before. Staggeringly good. Check out Flansburgh’s shit-eating grin right before he goes in for his vocal part. They know how good they are and how special this moment is.

And this is so obnoxious because actual-politics is kind of a fucking layup right now. Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government. Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives. Duh.

It’s a slogan for political operatives who think campaigns are won and lost based on placards and stump speeches. It tells no story. It has no anchor in the actual world we actually live in. It is a type of politics that eschews being actually political at all.

“Strong floor, no ceiling” is absolutely the type of slogan that a focus group of swing voters will tell you they find appealing after it has been a whole hour and they just want to go home. It’s a slogan for people convinced this country *really* wants a Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign.

I named my fists Thorstein and Veblen because you're about to conspicuously consume them

This movie owns. The whole trilogy is great. Kids tell me it’s not MCU canon and that makes sense because it’s so good.

To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.

*chuckling* why don't you play socialist cards, where everyone gets a hand from a central authority according to rules

Andrew Royo not taking home any hardware is a travesty

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport

In my Grifters and Ideologues theory, Hegseth is your classic grifter. Hegseth doesn't know his job well and doesn't care to know if well. He is obsessed with how people look, which reveals a profound lack of understanding of the military and an obsession with tv.

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Working people have been left behind in New York. In the wealthiest city in the world, one in five can't afford $2.90 for the train or bus. As I told Trump today— it’s time to put those people right back at the heart of our politics.

Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism

there aren’t enough words to articulate how funny this is

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There is a species of democrat that would rather spend the rest of their lives praying at the alter of any rebublican that says a negative thing about trump than devote one cent or second of their time to a progressive candidate in their own state who has been on the right side of history from jump.

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one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)

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Great conversation with @cmolanphy.bsky.social here. Makes sense that Hit Parade episodes are pegged to feature film length, because like films, one can suddenly find oneself in the mood to revisit a favorite.

Imagine believing that Bernie would not have won the 2016 and 2020 elections. Staggering levels of cope.

You might not have caught what just happened on the Senate floor, but the Senate just “deemed as passed” the Epstein resolution. That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk. Wow.

Again, AI was never gonna turn sentient and kill us, instead it’s serving the powerful in the same way various technologies have for millennia. That’s the dirty secret of AI, that it’s actually just The Same Old Thing.