Fox News Sends Trump Quarterly Tithe Of 3 Blond Anchors https://theonion.com/fox-news-sends-trump-quarterly-tithe-of-3-blond-anchors/

Trump Claims He Will Marry Maduro’s Wife Until Suitable Replacement Found https://theonion.com/trump-claims-he-will-marry-maduros-wife-until-suitable-replacement-found/

Here is the editor of Tablet agreeably reposting someone calling nonwhite NYC immigrants "worthless biotrash." It's astonishing how quickly this stuff has escaped containment

Fun fact: Norman Rockwell (b.1894) & Humphrey Bogart (b.1899) were born on the same street in NYC, West 103rd, just steps from each other & apparently both grew up in that 'hood at the same time. Rockwell's heartland aesthetic was invented, the dreams of a city boy, not this Aryan fantasy crap.

What a sad statement it will be on the 250th anniverary of America's founding that after a century of moral reckoning with our history, we decide to totally forget all that, whitewash everything, and pretend we're still in the 18th century.

This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.

"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase

Maybe we need to encourage a different term to distinguish basic Strasberg/Stanislavsky-influenced "Method" acting from whatever it is people complain (rightly or wrongly) Day-Lewis, Leto, etc do. Like "Immersive Method"? "Fantasy Camp Method"? I dunno

President Dipshit here, there will be a War tomorrow. No I did not ask anyone else about it first. Thanks

Referring to Woody as "one of the most powerful men in the world" is certainly the best review he's gotten in a long time.

Always loved Groucho's hilarious Eugene O'Neill reference in "Animal Crackers." Pretty obscure reference for a wide-release Hollywood film in 1930. But it must have killed in the original 1928 stage version on Bway (where Strange Interlude was still playing). Amazing it was retained in the movie.

I haven't seen a single commenter or article point out that Tennessee Representative Aftyn Behn's name is very similar to the 17th century British woman playwright Aphra Behn. Do I have to do everything around here?

Higher Ed expert Kevin Carey: "The administration is very clearly working to purge people of color--especially Black people--from elite institutions and positions of power. This is part of their plan, and the universities are going along with it."

For those needing proof that the concept of legal vs illegal orders is a real thing in the military, here's an example from WWI. (Via "Paths of Glory") youtu.be/G7Mvs5Ic8us?...

When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.

My kids have whooping cough, there are no toys on the shelves, and my brother-in-law was deported despite being a US citizen. But at least I know there won't be black Santa Clauses this year.

Props indeeed to Roman Bohnen! One of the less famous alums of the Group Theatre, he actually shows up in a lot of 40s movies. (Before being blacklisted, that is.) His papers are at NYPL Performing Arts Library, an interesting archive from the period.

Dennis Hastert Just Going To Assume He Welcome Back In GOP

Honored to have the illustrious Alisa Solomon include my "Ben Hecht's Theatre of Jewish Protest" on Jewish Current's latest "Shabbat Reading List"! jewishcurrents.org/shabbat-read...

"God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Yes happy #OddCoupleDay to all who celebrate! ("On November 13, Felix Unger....") To relive your favorite episodes check out our archive of "1049 Park Ave: An Odd Couple Podcast," ep-by-ep recaps plus interviews with some of the writers and cast&crew family members: odd1049parkavenue.podbean.com

Worst Woody movie EVER!

THE JAZZ SINGER (1927) Director: Alan Crosland

My kids have measles and my SNAP benefits were cut. But at least those cashiers at Walmart aren’t writing “they/them” on their name tags anymore.

In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.

If Mamdani wins I will leave New York. I will go live in one of the other 5 houses I have, perhaps the one in South Florida, or the one in Paris, or Napa, or Cabo, but I will definitely leave New York. I will keep my apartment, though, because it's awesome and New York is great. But I will leave.

“And we at The Washington Post love it!”

People aren't struggling, they are experimenting with frugality! 🧑‍🔬🔬🧪

it’s kind of funny that the New York Times, which is probably at least 50% Ivy League on the editorial side, is one of the primary drivers of contemporary anti-intellectualism, but not really funny in a good way

There is a full-on push in NYC right now to use "Mamdani doesn't make Jews 'feel safe'" as a cudgel to get Cuomo into office, and it is utterly disgusting. You know what makes me feel unsafe? People who casually characterize us as a trembling single-issue monolith scared of the big bad Muslim.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

C.Bigsby's 2-volume bio of #BOTD Arthur Miller remains definitive but J.Lahr's new one is a valuable starting point for more concise reading. Was glad to review it for @americantheatre.org last year. Lahr has a great storyof visiting Miller in the 70s... 1/2 www.americantheatre.org/2023/01/30/t...

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

I'm sure this is true in many fields of writing, but: The easiest way to write a big attention-getting piece on some area of culture is if you don't know enough about it to know how many of your impressive, sweeping statements about it are wrong

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It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.

I wrote for @theatlantic.com about Trump’s plan to purge Black people from the Ivy League. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Love the little "small print" joke from this 1949 historical mockup from The Onion...

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.