On one level I respect Mamdani's political savvy but on another level it's, like, his radical strategy is "what if I talk like a normal person and close potholes" and c'mon America that should be our baseline for electing anybody 😭

You can claim that America is the same no matter who is president and that we’re an evil empire that deserves what’s coming to it, but I sure don’t like living in a country that’s run by a guy who wakes up on Easter and threatens to do war crimes. I don’t think that a Democrat would be doing that.

I understand the impulse not to let this guy's statements dictate the news cycle but the fact that he can say shit like this and it barely causes a ripple in the media is a key to his ability to maintain power. Constantly pushing the bar of normality downwards, no pressure to take responsibility.

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Calling this practice “therapy” is equal parts infuriating and baffling to me. It has shown in virtually every arena of research to be harmful, ineffective, and dangerous. Anyone practicing it should have their license revoked and be shunned from the field. 8-1…what a fucking disgrace

Loudly.

They’d rather the country be poorer and whiter than rich and diverse. Of course when the pie shrinks, the rich will demand the same amount and will tell you the crumbs you’re left with are because of immigrants or trans people or DEI. bsky.app/profile/apne...

Hey, remember when we sent Martha Stewart to jail?

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

Star Wars isn't about the Jedi or the Skywalkers or hope or mythology or any of that. Star Wars is about seeing a weird little space guy in the background of a scene when you're a kid and then obsessing over that weird little space guy for the rest of your life.

very glad as a verge subscriber and see this argument made with clarity and hard data!

A place like NYC is objectively, statistically safer than most rurality. The entirety of “fear of cities” (or towns) is the fear of having to spend time around people who don’t look like you, whether it’s black and Latino people or that weird goth girl with blue hair and a septum piercing.

Everyone, including reputable news sources: TSA wait times are running 5-6 hours. Alaska Airlines: You can't check your bag until 4 hours before your flight. JFK Airport: Why would we put seating in the terminal outside of security?

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“I am please to report” “conversations witch” Among other things, this president is also just very embarrassing. Democrats should talk more about how the president is embarrassing himself and us every day.

Scatman Crothers, Cat Man, Struthers. You can put anything you want on this Web Site, the cops never even check.

Happy adoptiversary, Pepper.

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

Toni Collette in Oh Mary when?

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Gonna hold on to this croissant metaphor for the rest of my creative life

Interesting how much of the criticism of both Sinners and OBAA is identical. "Politically muddled without a clear and simple message, and more fun and interesting to watch than groundbreaking." I dunno, maybe you guys are going to movies for the wrong thing?

F1 getting nominated was worth it so that conan could joke about a sequel called Caps Lock, I will brook no argument

A big takeaway this year has to be that Sinners and One Battle After Another were big, artist driven, swings bankrolled by WB whose future is ultimately unclear. I like living in a world where people like PTA and Ryan Coogler get to make the films they want to make with those resources.

Not playing Come What May feels like a real slap in the face.

For the record, I do not think it was the ballet thing. I think it was how good Michael B. Jordan is first and foremost, and how much people love the movie, and a little bit that I think Chalamet began to wear on people a lil bit well before that happened.

I see you orchestra playing The Winner Takes It All

Anyone know why they didn't perform all the nominated songs?

Sorry, but I cannot believe anybody is going to punish Timmy about ballet if they're out here voting for Sean Penn.

Timmy hates ballet and Jessie hates cats, true, but three-time Academy Award winner Sean Penn is one of entertainment’s more famous wife beaters, and it’s weird that it’s not brought up that much during campaign season.

Love to see Frankenstein's getting those craft awards (costume design, makeup) because it truly is a miracle of collaborative artmaking, even if you don't love everything about it as a story.

rule remains relevant

Presenting best original songs with old-school production numbers is an approach that some will call dated, I will call back-to-basics, and most people won’t care about. Big production numbers are definitionally cringe and sweaty. Knowing this, and doing them anyway, is not. Does that make sense?

turned on the oscars red carpet just in time to hear someone ask stellan skarsgaard how he thinks he'll feel tomorrow morning: "if i wake up i'll wake up a happy man, because i will be free"

To be clear: the SAVE Act does not simply require the identification voting ALREADY requires. It demands proof of CITIZENSHIP— a birth certificate with a name that matches yours now (bye, bye, married women), or a passport— both of which are expensive and take a long time to obtain.

I hate it here.

Tune in next time, when you'll hear @itsdlevy.me ask, "Is Rue McClanahan of the 90s attractive, or do we believe she's attractive because we grew up watching The Golden Girls which kept telling us she's attractive?"

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I really wish it were possible to note that somebody acted like a little shit without that being treated like a total absence of moral character, which then spawns a lot of responses about *not* lacking moral character, which distract from the original issue, which was acting like a little shit.

It’s funny—I was reading a thing yesterday where some U.S. (I think) tourists were discussing the safety of a city in another country. And one of the things they thought was concerning or potentially concerning was the presence of military personnel on the streets. And I thought, “Well.”

BREAKING: In response to the offensive comments made by Timothée Chalamet at a recent speaking engagement, the estate of Marvin Hamlisch has released a statement affirming that EVERYTHING was BEAUTIFUL at the ballet.

I know things weren’t perfect (so please no “whatabout”-isms here), but things felt so much more positive and it’s been so hard reconciling that era of positivity, when I thought things would only keep getting better, with this era, where things get worse everyday and no one cares about anything

People (parents) bitch about the time change but I say EVERY weekend should have a bonus hour added to it. “You can’t just add an hour every week without consequences, stupid.” You can if every Wednesday loses the hour of 3-4 PM, NOW WHO’S STUPID

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

China leads the world in solar deployment. Even parking lots and rooftops are being turned into solar power plants — generating electricity while using space that’s already paved. China also exceeded its 2030 wind + solar capacity target (1.2 TW) in 2024 — about six years early. #Bettrification