Sun, Nov 2 “The Front” screens at Borscht Belt Film Fest www.borschtbeltfilmfest.org/films2025 Zero Mostel’s McCarthy-era showbiz role resembles his real life story in a Catskills resort episode. I’m a guest panelist for this all-too-relevant, brilliant movie also ft Herschel Bernardi & Woody Allen

There is an all out (non-violent) civil war in the American Jewish community. It has been brewing for a long time, but it is starker than it has ever been.

There's a part of me that thinks that overturning Obergefell might be the only thing that could get the liberal white gays to actually take any material action against the fascist regime.

Christopher Columbus himself was a monster, but Columbus Day was instituted in 1892 to combat rising anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic bigotry after the lynching of eleven Italian-Americans. The same revanchists defending Columbus Day as "part of our US heritage" in 2025 would have opposed it in 1892.

Editing styles within the same movie serve different story purposes. Editor Brian A. Kates, ACE, discusses style choices on "Kiss of the Spider Woman." Please, read or listen to the whole interview! READ: bit.ly/AOTC-KOTSW-blog LISTEN: bit.ly/AOTC-KOTSW-pod @borisfx @Facilis @abramkat.bsky.social

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms. Collective boycott. Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

Complete Chantal Akerman and Terence Davies retrospective, and more films to watch in NYC this week.

We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Jerusalem. Signs read "STOP BOMBING GAZA" "EVERY CHILD IS INNOCENT."

someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

The first large-scale Nazi book burning was on 6 May 1933, when Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin was attacked by Nazi students. It would take decades for science to recover the knowledge about trans-affirming healthcare that was destroyed that day.

It won’t fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu x.com/dr_demetre/s...

Now that the academic purge is coming for Jewish Studies and Holocaust Studies, can we please stop pretending this has anything to do with "fighting antisemitism?"

Watch the official trailer for Bill Condon’s Kiss of the Spider Woman starring Diego Luna, Tonatiuh and Jennifer Lopez 🕷️ 💋 The film will be released in theaters on October 10.

I hold a PhD from the University of Chicago, and I am generally proud of that fact. I am deeply horrified by how they are hollowing out on the world's great research universities.

it's crazy how we just take for granted now that the president is a deranged racist

You will not see a more tangible encapsulation of the genocide. A war of utter annihilation waged as a joint enterprise between the Israeli state on the ground and its allies in consistent support. The debt of reparations that the West owes to the Palestinian people at this point is incalculable.

It needs to be said that creating an absolutely stultifying culture is part of the march of authoritarianism, and that’s what we’re seeing right now. It limits the space for dissent, drives people into despair, and forces them to tune out and give up because there seems to be no escape otherwise.

they say they believe in things like "the free market" but then you see what's happening at CBS and it's very clear that they do not

The first trailer for It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley documents a life cut tragically short. Watch ahead of a release next month: thefilmstage.com/its-never-ov...

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

Glad to see this letter: blogs.timesofisrael.com/we-are-nyc-r...

Good thing the Democrats spent the last week melting down about Zohran Mamdani winning the NYC mayoral primary because otherwise more Americans might have known that the GOP was planning to fuck them to high hell and that wouldn't have been a good use of their time oh wait

can you believe these things were said from the stage of the Glastonbury festival

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

gotta say, Brad Lander's really walked the walk in these past weeks and it's not something I'll soon forget

I think today is the right day for this piece. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/o...

Donald Trump cannot be trusted to lead America into war. He is unaccountable to America. He is lawless. He only seeks conflict to cover up for his failures. Congress must step up and reassert its power. No more forever wars.

A beautiful afternoon to bike with @bradlander.bsky.social

What is clear is that all those who call to penalize terms they *believe* to *imply* violence (implication those using the terms reject) have not thought seriously about what would happen if this approach would be applied consistently to everyone, including themselves.

It is absolutely infuriating that the word "antisemitism" has been perverted to mean "anything that threatens a Christo-fascist ruling order" instead of something centered around, you know, actual Jews.

Given that the footage is all over the internet, "assault" is an outright lie of astounding proportions.

Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.

More than 1,400 Israelis and Iranians call for ceasefire and diplomacy docs.google.com/forms/d/1DmH...

At a moment in time when the Trump administration is trying to define Jewish safety and Muslim safety in explicit opposition to one another, there is something beautiful about the most prominent Muslim and Jewish candidates for mayor teaming up and refusing that oppositional narrative.

I don't think I've ever seen a New York City political ad quite like this one.

Come learn with me and Professor Rabbi Shaul Magid this Thursday at 6pm EDT about the ways in which American Judaism, post-ethnicity, and post-nationalism are allowing us to rethink our history and our future. bit.ly/acj-magid

First trailer for Bill Condon’s ‘KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN’. Starring Tonatiuh, Jennifer Lopez and Diego Luna. #KissOfTheSpiderWoman #JenniferLopez

Jennifer Lopez in Bill Condon’s ‘KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN’. In theaters October 10. #JenniferLopez #KissOfTheSpiderWoman

Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85

Dozens of companies who sponsored Pride marches last year have pulled out this year, including: Dyson Nivea Tiffany & Co. Capital One UPS Disney DoorDash Live Nation Nissan Citi Corporate Pride was always a hoax. https://popular.info/p/pride-and-prejudice-in-corporate

I told the truth about the West Bank and was threatened and assaulted. Now I’m relying on you to act Our lives are blighted by illegal settlements, and 22 more have just been approved. Unless Israel is held to account, we will be erased Issa Amro www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We were *this close* to mass murder. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Israeli soldiers gunned down Amer Rabee, a 14-year-old Palestinian American boy who was born in New Jersey, last month in the West Bank. His death has spurred anger over soldiers’ use of force and an apparent lack of accountability. nyti.ms/4dDu6E7

Best read as a reasoned call to action, not a question. And we will need vivid terms for where we are going — oligarchy and fascism — as well as what we are seeking — freedom and equality. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...