Daniel Woodrell died of pancreatic cancer at 72--the same cause and age of my own mother's death. This cancer is detected late & works swiftly. My mom got 100 days from diagnosis to death. Recently, researchers have made advancements in treatment, but the GOP is putting a stop to that. 1/

I can’t imagine anything more ominous to come from the richest man in the world, who is currently hoarding wealth and resources at an unprecedented level, than: I don’t think any of this is real, I don’t think any of you are real. Cool, cool.

"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!" "no problem boss. i'm on it"

This one of many reasons why critics are still important. It’s our job to seek out art that’s outside the algorithm, because most people don’t even know what their options are anymore.

But this would mean all the tech & media companies just *want* fascism & aren’t actually kow-towing to a uniquely powerful admin? That can’t be.

someday a real Black Friday will come and wash all the scum off the streets

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

One thing I wish would make a comeback is stationary phones. I don’t like that people have the capacity to speak with me on the same thing I listen to podcasts on. That should be its own thing that has its own dedicated room in the house and I should have to wear a suit to use it.

I published OIL BEACH in 2023. I was happy to put my weird little musings about this very big coastline in it press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... I wasn't able to promote it as much as I'd hoped because I got pretty sick when it came out 😩, but I hope it is still finding its readers 🐬🛢️

REMINDER: if you think your right-on lefty/socialist/communist/etc. politics justifies pirating books, well guess what? Most writers don't make a living wage from their books or writing work, and stealing from them makes you a class traitor.

"The logical end point of AI progress is feudalism for 99.9 percent of humanity, so vote for me and we'll eliminate the billionaire class responsible for it" is a political platform I will vote for, if offered.

My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?

We have got to collectively help people understand that of course the local* cops are acting as an arm of the machine. That is their purpose. People need to grow their minds & grieve what they've been conditioned to believe about cops being there to help/serve/protect. (*wherever you are)

WOWWWWW— that didn’t take long: “Crews walk out on on Nashville tunnel, claiming Musk’s Boring Company Failed to Pay Workers and Snubbed OSHA concerns” As we suspected, that absurd not-a-town-hall with Steve Davis aged like guacamole 🥑 nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...

The presentation and art direction on this piece are fantastic, as is the excellent reporting.

If filled, all the Waymos in this video could probably accommodate only ~125 people. Also, Waymo just created a method for activists to shut down a street. Fabricated traffic can be weaponized.

The moderate position is that someone should set all of these cars on fire.

Movie scenes set in movie theaters are my thing.

Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.

My day and discussion with beloved Udo from 2014 when we drove around the desert and talked ... and went to thrift stores. And more: thesunsetgun.com/2025/11/25/t...

As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.

DOGE was Elon Musk’s grand experiment in running our government like one of his companies: big promises, reckless cuts, and real people left hurting. Now it’s been quietly shut down eight months early because it never came close to delivering the savings he bragged about.

> @samsteindc.bsky.social

I WANT IT.

Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone. Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work. Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.

Good trouble 👏👏👏

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.

2022 vs. 2025. 🤡

Thread of streetview images of LA County Zigzag Moderne residential buildings, hotels included. All of these were built within a three year span of 1929-1931. Ordered roughly by decreasing height — starting with the tallest and easily most famous: 8358 Sunset Blvd, WH

I've seen this image enough now that I feel like I should point out it's fake.

All love to @awalkerinla.bsky.social 💗 I challenge our city to allocate resources appropriately & demonstrate courage to create permanent open streets! We don’t need “CicLAvia brought to you by Netflix sponsored by Chipotle in partnership with Honda” our city has the money we just have no spine!

OH NO! DISASTER! WHAT A BAD IDEA!

Despite knowing Clint Massie was abusing girls for years, church leaders never reported him to police. It felt like “a group of people who are not just trying to protect someone — but something,” the DA said. “They have enabled something awful here.” With @startribune.com

somebody on here suggested awhile back that a pretty compelling 2028 Democrat campaign promise would be "on day one I will deploy a WPA-scale army of forensic accountants across every square inch of the federal government" and I think about that every day

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

Hmmm…what USAID wasn’t bad for America…what if getting rid of it only hurt us and everyone else? What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?

It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.

Private equity is looting our malls, doctors' offices, and nursing homes. Heck, you name it, and private equity has probably already bought it. Their scheme spares no one. I’m fighting to stop it.

this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

Letterboxd Video Store. Coming early December 2025. 👀 More info: boxd.it/2OU

Robert King had this metaphor comparing them to getting in your car to go somewhere exciting but oh no you forgot your keys, arguing you should never make your audience feel like they’re looking for your keys with you. I like that a lot!

Hey fellas who think it’s cool to do shit like this, how would you feel if someone took your photo and turned it into humiliating, degrading porn? How about your daughter’s yearbook photo? How about your son’s yearbook photo? Still think it’s no big deal?

I quit the former Twitter two years ago this week, and I am here to tell you that my online life got a lot better for having left it. In two years I've not been tempted to go back, and I haven't felt any penalty in either career or community for not being there. It's nice to be here and not there.

Late late-stage capitalism

People have largely tried to act like ICE/CBP failed and retreated from LA and that is completely untrue. If it weren’t for the relentless coverage of places like @lataco.bsky.social these stories would be completely under the radar.