The Apostle Paul would like very much to be excluded from this narrative, Tim.

I believe we’re all allowed one (1) parasocial relationship at any given time and this is one of the big ones in my rotation. anyway, really really excellent piece by @natalieweiner.bsky.social on Amanda Shires

It’s so exhausting to be constantly embarrassed at an international scale.

So ICE guys in masks in California will be arrested then, right?

In observance of the Rapturous assumptions being made about today, allow me to offer a little advice…

Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth* A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel” Person watching on tv: well if they say so

I clicked through to see if there was any verbiage considering the anti-fascist etymology of the word, and (surprising nobody) there’s nothing. Someone could tell him it was founded by a guy named Reginald Q. Antifa and he’d just go with it.

A Ship To India (1947) is early in his Bergman’s career, but we can count on the central lovers’ reunion to be Fraught™ beyond measure. Her name is Sally, she was a showgirl, but that was seven years ago, when she used to do a show, and everything feels the same for Johannes, but not for Sally.📽️

Even reduced to clip art, you can see the racism.

The MMR has been administered effectively since the Nixon administration, but let’s just go with whatever this guy’s feeling today.

Shanah Tovah, New York City. Here's to a sweet and hopeful New Year.

We won't be silent in the face of inhumane, illegal violence against immigrant New Yorkers. We won't stop fighting until we get #ICEoutofNY. Join me and others this Thursday, September 26 at 6:00 PM in Foley Square.

Did you want more well-written, thought-provoking, of-the-moment stories set in the Star Wars universe like Andor? Well… It’s good to want things, I guess.

The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) is so stylish, so much like a Ralph Lauren magazine advertisement came to life and decided to do crimes, while also being damn near improper with its lingering close-ups of Dunaway’s and McQueen’s faces as they play chess in the sexiest way ever and since. 📽️

It’s worth remembering, and especially today, that the “they” who crucified Jesus was the state.

“what is happening to immigrants right now, it’s happening to you. what is happening to trans folks right now, it’s happening to you. what is happening to disabled people right now, it’s happening to you.” the word from @revmicahb.bsky.social at judson memorial church this morning.

I’m not saying that @bradlander.bsky.social could take this Senate seat in a cakewalk. Nope. Not saying that at all.

Why does nobody ever say how impossible this is? If your drug costs $100 to refill now, reducing the cost by 1500% would mean the pharmacist at CVS is handing you a stack of 14 Benjamins with your medicine.

NYT stays stanning the “That Fucking Guy” category.

Why does nobody ever say how impossible this is? If your drug costs $100 to refill now, reducing the cost by 1500% would mean the pharmacist at CVS is handing you a stack of 14 Benjamins with your medicine.

What’s that? Dollar Store Lex Luthor is corrupt?

Worth noting that the official “How to seek asylum in the U.S.” page on usa.gov hasn’t been updated since before the last Presidential election.

The magic of The Sting (1973) is in the way Redford and Newman find ways to make every look, every gesture count, to give us all the sense that even if the cameras weren’t rolling they’d still be doing and saying the same things. I’d follow those boys anywhere. A perfect pair. So would you.📽️

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

“Now every time someone sings the song, they don’t get the words right, but God knows, that was a great record.” @elongreen.bsky.social on Kris Kristofferson’s songwriting, Janis Joplin’s (re-)interpretation, and the woman who inspired Bobby McGee.

No, Kash. No. The name of Toto’s 1978 hit song is “Hold -The- Line,” not “Hold -On- Line.” Just embarrassing.

I just got an email from Joe Coffee apologizing profusely for having to drop a 1.5% tariff surcharge on all transactions, but sure… golden age.

“I have to remain strong and confident that the United States still has some caring and decency left and that in the end justice will prevail.” Journalist Mario Guevara has been in ICE custody since June. @bittersouth.bsky.social has published his Letter from Folkston Detention Facility

The Apostle Paul would like very much to be excluded from this narrative, Tim.

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Roses are red, Paid leave's legit, news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

DHS has arrested @nyccomptroller.bsky.social for looking out for New Yorkers. Again.

This is what it will take. This is how to make it better.

“Face coverings also inhibit our ability to fellowship with other believers, including singing worship songs…” Cathy Stein, cited here, wrote in 2021 about how Jesus would’ve disliked not just vaccines, but masks and social distancing. The All In Ohio post is down, but Wayback Machine isn’t.

Sally Rooney unable to collect award over Palestine Action arrest threat

Ever think sometimes that everything that’s happening now could have been avoided had Lorne Michaels said “No” to the idea of Donald Trump hosting SNL on November 7, 2015? Because I think about that way too much.

I'm a single issue voter, and my issue is "the government shouldn't be fascist."

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Complying in advance will not save you.

with all natural predators & competitors in the late night ecosystem decimated, a plague of jimmy fallons descends upon the countryside. they're everywhere. they eat the grain. they strip the leaves from trees. you can hear them tittering on the roofs, the scurry scrape of those nasty little claws

Jeweler in Le Marais: “Pardonne-moi … Attendez … Ces pépites sont-elles les pépites manquantes?” Thieves: “Uh… Non. Hon hon.”

PTA’s body of work is really such a gift for that one friend who’s always hoping you’ll text them to ask if they can talk to you about Thomas Pynchon (it’s me, I’m the friend)

It’s the year 7 BC, and somewhere in the woods near what would become Chicago centuries later, a pale human blinks angrily at the sun.

It’s Never Over (2025) plays loose with Jeff Buckley’s history, picking and choosing the way he goes from the son of a dead folk-rock star to an ascending star in his own right. Watching him come up in New York City alone makes for a good story. He falls in love, he plays in café, he gets noticed.📽️

Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵

let’s just say that if you asked me “what’s the hottest scene in a movie, any movie, ever” I would not have to think about my answer

I know correlation isn’t causation, and I know numbers this small are anecdotes not data, but Redford, like Lynch, certainly does provide evidence towards the notion that trying to do good in your life might be related to continuing to get hotter right up until the day you pass from this earth

Mark Harris’s Mike Nichols biography from 2021 is one of the most rewarding reads of the last few years, and a lot of the joy is how Robert Redford is a recurring character starting with Nobody Loves Me AKA Barefoot In The Park.

Today (like every day) is a good day to (re)watch Sneakers (1992). 📽️

“His eyes dazzle.” Redford was never not handsome, was never not charming, but there’s something profoundly sexy and earthshaking about his entrance in Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (1969). It’s right there in the screenplay. It’s the eyes, like gems in the dust. 📽️