To put it all on Republicans to stop it, is to completely misunderstand what you’re up against.

Leaders of the Democratic Party rarely talk about how corrupt the media is. That needs to change (mostly by changing who the leaders of the party are).

Get a load of this moron 👇

Congress’s three favorite lines: 1. Sorry we can’t do anything, we’re in the minority 2. Sorry we can’t do anything, we need a supermajority 3. Sorry we can’t do anything, our party’s in the White House and we have to support the president

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

Oh my god

Am joining @thehighsign.bsky.social, @justincchang.bsky.social, and @bilgeebiri.bsky.social to go deep on the year in movies as part of Slate Movie Club this year. Here's my first dispatch, on some of the smaller movies I loved alongside the much-discussed bigger ones

The part of Batman Returns where two different weird parodies of donald trump have a little conference in a sewer

Why did y’all confirm any of his cabinet nominees? That’s my question.

I, a lifelong Democrat, am calling for the resignation of Ken Martin as DNC chair RIGHT NOW! He has no vision, no leadership capability, no communications skills & no integrity. His reneging on the promise to release the results of the 2024 post-morten report is the last straw Dems may be winning

updated my letterboxd favorite movies

The thing is @mattyglesias.bsky.social sucks

I don’t want to be a conspiracy theorist or anything but I just feel like they would have released it if it concluded they moved too far left. I hope it leaks.

Mark Kelly is being targeted by the administration for pointing out a clear facet of military tradition and American law. Kelly then voted to support a nomination offered up by the administration that is trying to censor and prosecute him. And people wonder why there’s so much cynicism.

EXCLUSIVE: the Working Families Party is putting out a recruitment call for people opposed to data centers in their communities to run for local office the recruitment effort comes just 2 days after Bernie Sanders called for a moratorium on data center construction

I have soured on every Disney Star Wars motion picture with the exception of <gasp> The Last Jedi. It’s crazy that The Force Awakens came out 10 years ago. It’s a movie that is very effective at introducing the new ensemble (Rey, Finn, Poe, Kylo Ren). The rest of it, I don’t think is very good

"Brought to you by Bank of America" is such a perfect frisson of disgust to tag this with

Hear me out: every adult in the country takes a near fatal dose of hallucinogens at the exact same time. Then we see where we're at.

Democrats stop praising the fucking monster Ronald Reagan challenge

Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.

Seeing more people remark on the "George Bush started the policies that led to Trump's power" and its not like people at the time weren't warning ABOUT THIS EXACT FUCKING ISSUE! Ditto when Obama came in and continued/escalated all those policies.

My position is that I’m willing to vote for AOC, Pritzker or Walz and everyone else (especially Newsome and Buttigieg) can get fucked. (Though I also think maybe Lina Khan, Tish James or Michelle Wu should consider running because why the fuck not).

Blaming voters is funy cause its technically correct and you can easily form an argument where its a moral duty...... and that will not impact most people's behavior. It just refuses to engage in the question of "what do we do about this". You have to engage with the fact people being peopling

25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.

GLASS ONION is great, you silly geese

Jeee-zus

Is it hard for other people to think of non-Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel movies they’ve seen more than 6 times? It isn’t for me.

The imaginary "protect Bill Clinton at all costs" wing of the Democratic Party remains imaginary.

Reservoir Dogs: Great Pulp Fiction: eh Jackie Brown: Great Kill Bill 1: Good Kill Bill 2: eh Inglorious Bastards: perfect movie Django Unchained: eh Hateful 8: eh Once Upon a Time In Hollywood: Bad So QT can shut the fuck up

Jon Stewart’s piece about the regime’s escalation in Venezuela was hilarious AND incredibly depressing. When hosting TDS during the Bush years he paved the way for comedians to address politics and it seemed like that be a net positive for culture and society. But while I’m fine with comedians

how come someone is ON a TV show but IN a movie? yes I ate half a gummy thing.

Last week was George Clooney as Jay Kelly. This week it's Emma Mackey as Ella McCay. What's up for next week, Tom Cruise in Tim Cross?

Truth. Justice. Whatever. #Supergirl lands in theaters and IMAX June 26.

Crockett chased Allred out of the Senate race. I'd say she's done her job already.

If every Muslim voter in Dearborn voted for Harris, she still would have lost Michigan. If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION. If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.

Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.

Yesss

Biden was a bad president but I don’t understand the pushback on this. I mean yeah Obama was arguably a better president all things considered but he was bad too. Modern American presidents have been varying degrees of bad and the bar is in hell.

“And let me be clear, I don’t care what all you do in your fancy suit in your off-hours, I’ll tell ya, what ISNT in the shadows is your tax returns.”

Quentin Tarantino just helps to prove that just because someone maybe good at a skill this case film making dose not mean they are good at talking about it. There are a lot of people put on pedestals but they probably should be way more quiet.

Something I like to periodically bring up is that Joe Biden did actually have serious cognitive issues and 86% of Americans thought he was too old BEFORE the disastrous debate. This is useful to understand so people can understand the depths of corruption in the ruling class.

Support movie theaters. But also, theaters need to start getting better at making the experience worth paying for. We’re spoiled in Los Angeles…

This is good. But we shouldn’t be at the mercy of a police chief (or their officers) choosing to do the right thing. Frankly we can’t count on it.

So, hey...Hi, Netflix bigwigs. I'd just like to bring to your attention how little money it takes to press DVDs/Blu-rays of catalog Warner Bros. titles. In fact, they made a tidy profit off doing that for several years before you came sniffing around. Since I know you're fond of easy money...

THE WARNER BROTHERS (AND THE WARNER SISTER, DOT) WILL RETURN IN STRANGER THINGS 6

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There is no good result when one potential monopoly is battling another potential monopoly to become a very big monopoly

Look I'm not typically a glass-half-full kind of guy but pause for just a second to consider the one big upside of the Netflix/WBD deal: Indisputably evil motherfucker Larry Ellison didn't get something he wanted, and he's certainly furious about it.