Government efficiency!

GRAVITY (dir. Alfonso Cuarón, 2013)

What perfect album came out the year I turned 16? Alas, 1983 was a truly not-good year for rock music; these are my favorite albums, but I wouldn’t rate any above a B+.

Damn, I really thought I would finally enjoy a P.T. Anderson film. Just hate the way the guy tells stories.

The Democrats called out racist shitbags and serial sex offenders. If you heard those attacks and felt they were calling *you* out personally, then that's entirely on you, champ. The rest of us white guys didn't hear that. At all.

“Dinesh D’Souza, the right-wing commentator who has peddled racism against Black Americans for decades, mused: ‘In a career spanning 40 years, I have never encountered this type of rhetoric. The Right never used to talk like this. So who on our side has legitimized this type of vile degradation?’”

Bill Bryson FTW

Trump take benefits, permanently

Fox's lead story: NEW TRUMP NICKNAMES JUST DROPPED

Ah yes, Afghanistan, that famous success story

Sounds like an implicit acknowledgment that Trump's tariffs have indeed raised food prices, not that his guys with the fixed creepy TV grins would ever admit it

ADOLESCENCE (dir. Philip Barantini)

Incidentally: Five years ago today, the outgoing president, having just lost an election by seven million votes, was posting shit like this around the clock. The update is that he's still in the denial stage, and his theory of the case has failed to progress.

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Dan Scavino tweets this group photo of the WH Personnel Office, of which he has been put in charge, and I think you’ll agree that they have defeated the scourge of DEI.

Seems as though Democrats should be all EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN today

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump take Thanksgiving

"The episode underscores the haphazard ways consequential policies are sometimes brought before the president, and how Trump’s govern-by-whim nature can backfire." Not only no adults in the room—no adults even allowed *near* the room.

No wonder it seems as though the same couple of DOJ people sign every filing: Everyone there has quit or been fired. And Trump wanted to legalize white-collar crime anyway, but it helps that there's no one left to prosecute criminals—federally, anyway. Can—will—state prosecutors step in? (gift link)

This is what's so aggravating — yes, it was not working in extracting a policy concession but it was working in *driving down trump's numbers and provoking GOP infighting* which is what's important if you take Dem rhetoric about the perils of MAGA remotely seriously.

He's going full Marie Antoinette. Has no one told him what happened next?

It’s wild: He *knows* he’s on camera. He insists on being at the center of every frame. He’s hyper-aware of critics poking fun at his inability to stay awake. And he *still* nods off.

Democrats "won hundreds of lower-profile state & local contests—often swamping Republican incumbents with overwhelming turnout, suggesting that voters’ desire to send a message opposing President Donald Trump was deep & wide." (gift link) The top priority for '26: make Trump even more unpopular.

Post a nonreligious image you think of as holy

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

Via @roncharles.bsky.social, learned that USPS will be debuting a Phillis Wheatley stamp in January! Hoping Stephen Miller doesn't catch a glimpse before then and draft tweets for his boss railing against the whole notion of Black heritage #BookSky about.usps.com/newsroom/loc...

Rudy Giuliani convened a press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping five years ago today. Good times. No, really: The times are unlikely to *ever* get any better than this.

Five years ago today. Update: Trump and his fans never got past the denial stage.

*sips tea* virginiamercury.com/2025/11/05/d...

What a predicament!

Yes please

The Fox News home page, acknowledging that its readers will find Republican losses "disappointing." (Spoiler: Neither of the two possible reasons is that Americans hate Trump.)

Woke up, checked @politico.com, last night was no dream

Not a surprise, but congrats to @marklevinenyc.bsky.social, New York's next comptroller! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I hope it physically pained Sean to read this aloud

Asylum released THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS fifty years ago today! The sequencing is off-putting, beginning with a nostalgic pop track and an experimental throwaway. But after that: seven #JoniMitchell gems, evocative and lyrical, beautifully written, arranged, and sung. In my all-time top ten LPs.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans hate Donald Trump, but he still has the power to make life difficult for companies & universities, so no surprise that they're terrified of him no matter his approval ratings. I didn't expect them to begin canceling A-listers such as @anandwrites.bsky.social, though.

VOTE TODAY!!! This is so thrilling, the possibilities!! This feels like my city and my country and it makes me proud.

After 25 years living in the US of A

True, that’s why I wrote in Nick Fuentes

For years, I was sure that the announcement of Dick Cheney's death would mark a national day of celebration. Everything his worst enemies said about him—evil, nasty, corrupt, responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths—was 100% true. But then he joined the Resistance, so . . . mixed feelings?

Trump was asked by 60 Minutes about immigration agents using aggresive"H tactics like busting people's windows. "Have those tactics gone too far?" "No", Trump said, "I think they haven't gone far enough." This is what that looks like in the real world. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

it is not remarked upon enough that these guys just genuinely and sincerely hate america and hate americans

We're past midnight in New York, happened to check Facebook Memories, and got this. What's happening now: my *second* genuinely exciting baseball game!

OK, *now* air the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ad

65 years ago today: Sen. John F. Kennedy, a few days before the 1960 election, held a rally at Douglas Aircraft’s Long Beach plant, and my maternal grandfather, Harry Landy—an official w/ Douglas Local 148 (UAW–CIO)—ended up in this discolored snapshot, stuck in family collage frames over the years.

Presumably this was weeks or months in the making, but hard not to see it as a charming fuck-you to Cuomo's gutter racism

"My Grandma would want me to fight them." I have loved Lynda Barry cartoons for 40 years. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...