Back to hitting around 2.15x bodyweight on the deadlifts. Feels real good

Schlock and Awe is back! With special guest Imran "Brooks Otterlake" Zaidi talking SYRIANA, the cynical, multi-narrative, Clooney Oscar-winning conspiracy thriller from 2005. listen: open.spotify.com/episode/0QBV... subscribe: schlockandawe.substack.com/p/syriana-12...

I first saw the tiny Stonehenge drop in Spinal Tap when I was probably like 13 and to date I think it's the hardest I've laughed in my entire life. RIP Rob Reiner www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg5O...

She found the same heat vent her mom loves and now sticks her head by it

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

watched The Color of Pomegranates last night and it was like getting introduced to cinema for the first time all over again. stupendous

Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."

2017: Jonathan Farkas emailing w/ Epstein about "seeing" someone, then mentioning his wife, Somers, who got an appointment from Trump to the White House Fellowship Commission. Epstein warns Farkas about the other woman. 2025: Somers Farkas was confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to Malta in October.

We did a Scream rewatch last night — better even than I remembered. Mostly about how men would rather kill you than figure shit their shit out. A hilarious riff on movies. Definitely wasn't capable of appreciating it way back when.

“This is a political prosecution and a gross attempt to silence dissent, a right protected under the first amendment," Abughazaleh said in a video she shared on social media. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

lol www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-...

quick check to see if im being trolled or theres just something special about the canadian mind: does fairmount put the cream cheese and salmon on top of the bagel intentionally

growing up you absorb a lot of misinformation, like that wiping with paper towels is a superior method of cleaning up a liquid spill, when clearly you should always dab. and yet they manufacture the concept of wiping. cui bono

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

All we hear of Christmas Adventurers is puritanical & punitive; is there nothing celebratory & joyous? Or is query naive?

opening 3 seconds of Trinidad is my new favorite music, immediate entry into the cool rock sounds canon

100%

Incredibly unfair to cast him as co-protagonist in All the Presidents Men, convincing generations of dweebish young men that uncovering government wrongdoing is the sexiest, most important thing you can do.

Farmers in deep-red Pennsylvania are struggling to find workers. They're pushing lawmakers to move faster on a farm labor solution, even as Trump cracks down on immigration. “We need people to do the jobs Americans are too spoiled to do," said one farmer and three-time Trump voter.

Per the press conference, the actual inscriptions on the casings are: "Notices bulges, OWO whats this?" "hey fascist! Catch! Uparrow, right arrow, three down arrow" "O bella cao, bella cao cao cao" "If you read this you are gay lmao"

Oh no just heard my favorite ghostface song on an amazon commercial during the Bears game

What kind of bee is this please?

Wife and I got a rescue puppy and I feel like I'm speedrunning a fatherhood test drive in the sense that on day one I tried to protect her from every mote of dust and on day 13 my stance is "eat that rat shit, knock yourself out"

New Schlock and Awe featuring @hitfactorypod.bsky.social! We examine Michael Bay's 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, a Baysian take on America's new struggling working class: Punisher-badged security contractors. schlockandawe.substack.com/p/13-hours-t...

Missing letterboxd.com/evan_c_hill/...

love the caption graphic here. "Why?"

Self-installed a roof rack on my Honda CRV Hybrid so I can use a hand-me-down kayak

Weapons letterboxd.com/evan_c_hill/...

Reversal of Fortune boxd.it/aF838R

“Two officers could be heard giving an order to troops over the radio to open fire so that the videographers could have some footage of ‘fighting.’…When asked whether the shooting was a show for the media, the officers leading the tour had a hard time containing their smiles.”

this shit is so evil www.cbsnews.com/video/the-wi...

Saw a cedar waxwing for the first time through high-end Nikon binoculars on a camping trip this weekend and now I'm dedicated to birding

happy release day to @coryhanson.bsky.social! finally getting around to copping this now and i recommend you all do the same

"The government is racing ahead for Gaza to be wiped out," Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu told the radio station Kol BaRama today. "All Gaza will be Jewish," he said, adding that Arabs who are loyal to Israel will be tolerated. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Still marinating on Eddington, but I did love it, and it's the first movie to foreground phones and social in a really effective way. Very uncomfortable to watch characters being driven insane by the same forces that will act on you the moment you leave the theater and open your apps.

Midsommar rewatch review letterboxd.com/evan_c_hill/...

just blanking on Genevieve O'Reilly or Denise Gough's extremely deft performances but the movie actor reprising his movie role in a performance that's basically just eating a big ol' ham sandwich gets the nod? It's kinda worse than if Andor had gotten zero acting nominations!

At a comedy show, Mahmoud Khalil told Zohran Mamdani, “I am excited about the possibility of raising my son in a city where you are mayor.” It was a stunning moment, Hanif Abdurraqib writes.

Most of the names of student protesters ICE was asked to investigate earlier this year were taken from Canary Mission, a pro-Israel website that aims to blacklist pro-Palestinian students and academics, an agency official told a federal court Wednesday: www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p...

every time i see this increasingly conventional wisdom take from cinema lads and Mann-heads i feel like im going crazy. i love Mann but Miami Vice is a wretched looking movie. i need to know there are other people out there who can see this

In 2021, after Eric Adams beat Kathryn Garcia 50.4% to 49.6% with 404,513 total votes, he met with Biden and Pelosi and was declared the future of the Democratic Party. Mamdani has now beaten Cuomo 56% to 44% in the final count and increased Adams's vote share by 35%.

Fondly remembering when tolstoybb was tweeting on an obvious bender that everyone should exit the american market

Honan eh? Here's their primary poll

It's a term the leftists in that part of the city use for themselves. If you're mad about this you're just saying you don't know New York politics. Which is fine but maybe take a breather

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

A new satellite imagery analysis by Dr. He Yin of Kent State University shows that nearly all of Gaza's crops, tree cover and grassland have been damaged in Israel's invasion — devastation that some have said should be prosecuted as "ecocide."

lovely little essay on "karwata" in Ganzeer's latest newsletter

The Seed of the Sacred Fig has its flaws but man is that a movie. Even if it was only in service of that final image.