I like that every 28 ____ Later movie is kind of a different genre (respectively: horror, action, psychedelic road trip) but they all work

I'm gonna go with...no?

At the end of the day there is no meaning or center in Kirk’s death. It is as hollow as America. You cannot built a movement on that.

I cannot begin to describe how badly this picture book is written. Absolutely no one involved tried to read it out loud even once before publishing

"Next FDR" is available to the first Democrat with guts right now

FDR won 42 states in 1932, it wasn't by pandering to Hoover voters. Then Republicans called him a socialist for 4 years. Then he ran for reelection and won 46 states

CEOs live in a right-wing bubble and are startled to learn that the market for unpleasant weirdos is much smaller than the market for normal people. See also the collapse of Target

The scene in 28 Years Later where a kid in the post-apocalypse compares something to taking steroids and then is like "uh of course I wouldn't know what steroids are". Incredible writing, Alex. Never feel like you have to do a second draft

today is a good day to ask yourself how much you actually support the independent artists and creators you enjoy, beyond just liking and subscribing. do you pay them money for their work? do you buy their things? fund alternative culture now or be left with the slop.

This is 100% false obviously, but I was stunned to learn when my first book came out that the recommended tables at Barnes and Noble are paid placements chosen by publishers

hell yeah brother

Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact. www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...

genuinely believe that a large number of political, economic and media elites do not realize that nearly half the voting public did not vote for trump

I'm not loving how every failed presidential candidate gets paid the entire budget of the publishing industry that year to write a book called I Learned Nothing

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.

I also feel constrained by doing normal stuff and will instead be performing a terrible one man show

Saw The Swell Season at the Greek tonight, and holy shit do they put on a good show. 2 hours, no opener, no encore, banger after banger

I'm not smart enough to say whether this was just coincidence, but McCarthyism started a couple years after the last time Americans as a whole were asked to make a sacrifice

Covid is gonna shape American politics for years and years because it was the first time most Americans were asked to make sacrifices and they lost their minds because of it.

can kids these days type? because of forums and AIM, I type like it's the 1950s and my job description is Typewriter. that's probably not a thing anymore right

I miss when there were more than 3 websites

Haha remember dial up modems? And old school websites? And that one website we all kept coming to, even though we never typed in the address, the one that was a black screen with a picture of a man, and every time we visited the man in the picture was just a little closer? Haha. And remember AIM?

this is a minor complaint overall compared to the bad shit google does, but it's annoying that now it always adds some other keyword on autocomplete of what I'm typing. if I'm trying to google a hotel it won't suggest the name, it'll suggest like "[hotel name] parking" no thank you!

I mean, I dunno, maybe elite society will so thoroughly roll over that Trump will become the first autocrat to fully and successfully consolidate power while deeply, historically unpopular but I don't think it's going to go the way he thinks it is

His current disapproval number is about the same as the week after Jan 6, for comparison. He is disastrously unpopular.

The headshot is sending me. She's the Joan Didion of soliciting dick pics from people who want to outlaw rabies shots

I see we've reached the "uhhhhh just don't worry about it, it's fine" part of the bubble

Oh good we're still talking about this

One reason we're here is that the media class has fully lost the plot

In non political news, I finally watched The Substance, which had two admirably fully-committed performances, and was a solid B-

"I'm glad you think there are going to be elections in God in heaven, shut up.

A reminder that it is impossible to parse a difference between his positions and political activities, and that of David Duke. The question always should be: would you do this for David Duke

Big brass balls. If there’s some “crisis of masculinity” in America, it boils down to man-children who lack the cojones of this polite, soft-spoken, badass accountant and therefore fail to understand that “showing up for our neighbors” is what being a man means if it means anything.

cancelling Disney+ and Hulu is well and good but it’s not a huge hit on an individual level but Disney adults? people who spend real money at the parks? you guys can make a dent, call ‘em up and tell them your vacation is postponed until they pull their heads out of their asses

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

they should invent a kind of news that is good

hey hey rfk how many kids did you kill today

The Kimmel firing is a big blunder—clearly government-instigated, clearly protected speech, and everyone knows who Jimmy Kimmel is.

at the zenith of RFK Jr. breaking medicine, science and trust forever, Olivia Nuzzi is named West Coast Editor of Vanity Fair.

It's not super encouraging to consider that Isaac Chotiner has gained a reputation as a kind of Anton Chigurh of interviews simply by asking relevant questions, following up on them, and not trying to be the subject's best friend

generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)

They fired someone famous and well-liked in defense of a guy most people don't know and most people who do know him dislike, on the orders of history's most unpopular president

South Korean protest culture is one of the country's huge strengths and it relies in part upon having large networks of people who can be mobilized at short notice. The U.S. is at nowhere near this stage of organization but it badly needs to be.

I've lived in both a full blown autocracy (China) and one of the great resistance states (SK) a) if you were *actually* practicing security, none of this would be on this highly visible public platform. b) courage is an important part of resistance, organization is an even more important part

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok