the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Maybe also explain's Musk's weird obsession with accusing others of being "pedos."

One advantage I think pop culture critics have in covering Trump is that everybody else has forgotten how deeply, C-list used-to-be-famous he had become in between his Art of the Deal heyday and when The Apprentice launched.

CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo

Very blessed to have a favorable and thorough review of my Ben Hecht book by illustrious theater historian Samuel L. Leiter! Especially appreciate that he calls it "a vividly written, always accessible scholarly study that both specialists and general readers will appreciate." shorturl.at/6WPMs

The city that gave the world Siskel & Ebert no longer has a full-time print film critic.

Donald Trump claims that Lizard People from the hollow center of the Earth are undermining our government. Democrats say that's not true. But most Americans would be scared of Lizard People if there were any. What is Democrats' plan for dealing with them? --Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com

Diaz's "Chad Diety" play from the aughts pretty effing timely right now - Racist wrestling tycoon (mix of Vince McMahon & Trump) profits off of making Muslim & Latino boogeymen fight each other in the ring. Time for a big revival - or even a film!

"We've spent a lot of money on the military and now they have nothing to do so we might as well let the president use it domestically to satisfy his own petty grudges" is precisely why the Founders feared a standing army. I mean, it's pretty much fucking verbatim.

Hate when political reporters care too much about being clever *writers*. Bored with the obvious fascism angle, they need to feel more creative and think, "Gee, what if Trump's real estate career is a metaphor for his political agenda!" More fun to write, sure. But glibly paints over the ugly truth

Reboot Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” but with Alan Dershowitz and the whole show is just enjoying him never getting food because he’s a querulous, joyless douche and he’s constantly demanding that the Laotian street vendor or whoever denounce Hamas before he’ll try the khao jee

From this month's edition of The Onion.

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Robert Wilson *was* "Gesamtkunstwerk." If you have students who have trouble understanding that term, just have them watch his work.

A big one. RIP, Robert Wilson. Responsible for many hours of mine spent at BAM over the years. Even when unsatisfying dramatically, always stunning and haunting to watch. A truly unique aesthetic, one that will forever be instantly identified as only his.

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If white kids do better than Black kids on some school performance metrics, they’ll say it’s because there’s a racial IQ difference that the science-denying libs refuse to acknowledge. If girls do better, it’s because boys are being held back.

Yes, great way both to support *and* watch PBS

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Another great thing about this "John Adams" scene is how Stephen Delane nails Jefferson as "writer who does not like receiving notes"

Idiom Shortage Leaves Nation All Sewed Up In Horse Pies theonion.com/idiom-s...

Just heard the most Noir line ever on TCM. From "Follow Me Quietly" (1949)... Interrogator: "Where do you live? Suspect: "I don't wanna live." #filmnoir

Self-Learning Netflix Algorithm Produces Jeffrey Dahmer Stand-Up Special theonion.com/self-le...

Opinion | To stop Republicans from killing them, Democrats must look inward.

The infamously dark sequel GS Kaufman & the Gershwins dreamed up to their beloved "Of thee I Sing." They basically said "Hey what if that funny President character got overthrown in a revolution and is deposed by fascist brownshits!" This was in 1933. Huge flop. (See the uniforms in photo on right)

Whether it's a random liberal nobody praising Luigi on Facebook or a Republican cabinet nominee calling for genocide against all non-whites, there's plenty of incendiary rhetoric on both sides.

'Gays Too Precious To Risk In Combat,' Says General

This, Taymor's 1994 Titus Andronicus, was one of the greatest things I ever saw on stage. Low budget production at St. Clement's Church for TFANA, but dazzling effects & visuals and a bracingly lucid reading of the play.

RIP to Bernard Kerik, a man whose life stands as proof of concept re: what Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant would have been like had it been a six-season series on FX.

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Interesting story about Foreign Correspondent: The brief epilogue, where Joel McCrea does a radio broadcast from London, was added at the last minute before the film's release in August 1940, after German bombing of Britain had intensified. Producer W.Wanger hired Ben Hecht to write the scene...1/3

Not to be confused with legendary Chicago "Porn Pope" Horsecock McCluskey of 69 Wacker Drive.

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Finally, something that would make this woman vomit

Trump Grants Refugee Status To Former SS Guards

A famous author or journalist busted in the near-future for plagiarism will blame their transgression on AI. Could anything be more predictable?

Texas Bans Being Different Around Children theonion.com/texas-b...

Let's have a complete and total shutdown on "Trump says" headlines until we can figure out what the hell is going on.

Things like this make me doubt the value of the "news interview" at all these days. Honestly, whichever party, the subject usually says exactly what you expect them to say. So I say only air an interview on the broadcast if the person *makes news*

This is something I've been really afraid of ever since the election. The ability of Trump's government to rewrite official history. So Orwellian.

So for those keeping score: Criticizing actions of Israeli government? Yes, antisemitic. Calling Jews "Christ Killers"? No, not antisemitic at all!

"A plan to fight antisemitism that is actually about boosting Christian nationalism, while chilling speech around Israel, would look a lot like what the Trump administration is doing."

Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

As part of our plan to end antisemitism, today we fired multiple Jews from the Holocaust Memorial Museum. by Donald Trump and J.D. Vance

That would be Secretary of Education Linda McMahon who's being sued for aiding and abetting systemic child molestation, just to be clear

SCOOP: The Antisemitism Awareness Act — up for vote in Senate committee tomorrow — now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements by Christian conservatives. New added language in the bill clarifies First Amendment protections. More ⬇️ forward.com/fast-forward...

Before the year is over, Trump will try to declare martial law.