When you’re not a heartless ghoul with hatred where your blood should be, Eli lets you be handsome.

today is the day Joyce Carol Oates truly became the inventor of big jeans

If they stick to the exact letter of the law on this (“no portrait or likeness of any living person shall be engraved or placed upon any of the bonds, securities, notes, or postal currency of the United States”), I don’t see the problem.

Hand to God, Vince Gill has one of the best voices in popular music. “I’m Almost Ready,” a Pure Prairie League track from 1980, is an absolute showcase for what Gill can do.

Don’t you want to make the giant axolotl happy?

:: looks up what name Creedence performed under from 1964-1967 :: Oh, wow. Yeah, that’s pretty damn racist!

To make matters worse, if the House doesn’t go back into session, this cave-in will be worth even less than the white flag it was written on.

Watching the live feed from the Senate floor via PBS and the vibes are not very “world's greatest deliberative body” right now.

Apropos of nothing, why does Ted Cruz look like he’s playing Professor Marvel in a community theatre production of The Wizard of Oz?

There’s a very real possibility that Liv Ullman is our greatest living actor and has been so for going on fifty years or more, and it’s only because she’s been particularly selective about what scripts she picks up that her name doesn’t top more such lists.  Evidence: Face to Face (1976) 📽️

At the risk of sounding like a scold for posting about this too much: your call to a senator right now could be a key factor at a crucial moment. Please read this thread & call if you haven't.

Poor Thomas had to endure one of these dinners and bore it with such pep and grace!

Can someone please nail 99 copies of Isaiah 58:6-8 on the White House front door?

“I don’t want to go back to La Boca, and I can’t in good conscience recommend that anyone else eat there.” A wonderfully-written review of a very good restaurant is one thing, but a wonderfully-written review of a very bad restaurant is something else all together. Bravo, @hels.bsky.social.

Mamdani is going to implement shishito law and we’ll all have to eat blistered thin-skinned peppers with every meal.

Mamdani is going to implement shishito law and we’ll all have to eat blistered thin-skinned peppers with every meal.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

"Gentlemen, to bed! For we leave at eight-thirty for nine. And we rise at just after daybreak. Seven-thirty, so just after daybreak. Gentlemen to bed, for we leave at nine-thirty on the dot. On the dot."

Saraband (2003) is beautiful. It isn’t perfect, it isn’t as tight as a younger Bergman might have directed it. At the same time, it’s more sentimental than an earlier Bergman would have allowed, and for that I am actually grateful. This story, these characters. They deserved this returning.📽️

If you zoom-in on the little camo blobs, some have little palm trees on them. I like to think that he has no idea they are there. None whatsoever.

“But when you play-act at real magic, and you know how to do it, who is to say what is real and what is not?” Well, time to go listen to Dr John…

Like the invasion of Poland?

The day that Brad Lander puts up his video announcing he's going to primary Schumer is going to break this site.

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down / Of the big lake, they called Gitche Gumee

This is entirely unnecessary. The story is finished.

An administration full of strange men who want so badly for a father to mutter “I love you, son.”

time to revisit some emily lore: I used to run social for PRH, and my now-husband used to run social for Melville House, and sometimes we would banter and flirt from our respective professional accounts (it was the early days of ~weird brand twitter~ and our bosses weren't watching too closely)

Just got an alert that ICE is showing up today in Park Slope. I have a feeling that their presence is going to grow quickly in retaliation for Mamdani’s win. Chicagoans have learned a lot. I have to think ppl have put together good resources to post about how to effectively resist them?

2020s: Tár, Drive My Car, Lovers Rock, and honestly Past Lives because that ending was so good it made me think the whole movie was 20x better than it actually was in the last ten years: Pain and Glory

At this point, you have to wonder just which murder Ross Douthat witnessed or what body he helped bury. Or how many of each in total.

Sentimental Value is the kind of film Ingmar Bergman would be making in 2025, a story centered somewhat on a film director (named Borg, but let’s be honest, it’s Stellan Skarsgård playing Bergman) trying to make the kind of film Bergman would make in 2025. 📽️

James Gunn please make a movie about Clark Kent’s Hillbilly Bride

It’s giving “cat fud.”

Having had the misfortune of eating a footlong from Subway, I must confess that self-inflicted bodily harm is indeed possible, even likely.

Strangely, snatching food from the mouths of children while posting AI videos of a king shitting on us didn't work out well.

I’m in London right now and, awake at 3am, at once overjoyed at the results and crushed not to be in NYC celebrating with everybody, I was like “ok where can I go to celebrate and who can I celebrate with”

New York brought the flavor to the rice.

Never let them say you can’t be a mensch AND a hater

the downside is I’m devastated that we can no longer use this tweet, which was one of my favourites

Totally forgot that I put this up after the Primary win in June and only remembered when it started recirculating last night. Good things? Possible.

Eugene Thee Debs

Worth a reshare tonight

Cuomo manages to get one more “Mamdami” mispronunciation.

all my life I’ll cherish the memory of Thomas yelling “what if your mayor was hot?!?!” at UWSers on a freezing cold sunday morning

posted this four months ago but tonight as buckaroos like mamdani sweep elections i will post again. hope this is sign to all establishment goofs that trotting to the center is not the move. protect the buckaroos who are in perilous circumstances and do not give an inch

Had to be either… Bloomberg, Ackman, or Catsimatidis

this is very funny, but to be earnest for a moment: the same guys setting $10M on fire here are the ones who can’t stand the idea of buses being free, of rent being affordable, of anything at all being easier for all the people for whom $10M would be an unimaginably transformative amount of money

Mamdani hasn’t addressed supporters yet — but posted a video to social media with a straphanger-eye-view of subway doors opening on City Hall station (BMT, not IRT) A voice-over says “The next and last stop is City Hall.” (An announcement that would be true for IRT service but not the BMT)

Eight months ago, @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social and I stood on street corners in the UWS on a cold Sunday and asked people if they thought they deserved a better (hotter) Mayor. Turns out they did.