NEW: @katie-drummond.bsky.social spoke with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social about internet fame, technocracy, and... Linkin Park? www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

TRON: Ares is interesting in how it depicts the ways in which corporations are fighting to use AI…while also advocating that AI is the…hero? My review on my newsletter that you can subscribe to for free right now. www.multipotentiality.net/tron-ares-do...

For my first investigative piece as a sports enterprise reporter at NJ.com, I teamed up with Keith Sargeant to look into some of the root causes of violent outbursts at high school games across the state. We spoke to congressional leaders, coaches, athletic directors: www.nj.com/highschoolsp...

"Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours. 'I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up. I asked if they had a warrant and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.'"

We have a justifiable affinity to our dogs and “Good Boy’s haunted house-through-a-doggo’s-eyes certainly takes advantage of that anxiety. We’ll most likely outlive our pets…but what if the roles were reversed? My review: (subscribe for free) www.multipotentiality.net/good-boy-wil...

It’s undeniable that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is great portraying Mark Kerr in “The Smashing Machine.” Rather it’s the story choices that doesn’t allow the audience to forge a connection with what made Kerr the legend he was. My review: substreammagazine.com/2025/10/the-...

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” is unrelenting in the way it portrays the lowlights of motherhood. A job often celebrated for stress tests as a cop out in finding solutions for them: www.multipotentiality.net/if-i-had-leg...

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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

The way Dems try to dance around Mamdani’s name concerning endorsements, you’d swear he was Beetlejuice.

Had a great time talking to @parkermolloy.com about my work on the AI bubble www.readtpa.com/p/the-man-ca...

‘HIM’ is what I would classify as the “Peele-ification” of films that strive to mimic the “Get Out” visual style and commentary, but don’t understand why it was successful: substreammagazine.com/2025/09/him-...

I regret to inform you that in order to understand the Jimmy Kimmel situation you may have to familiarize yourself with very boring things like a broadcast station megamerger and FCC ownership rules. I wrote about the Nextar-Tegna deal last month www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

For nj.com: wrote about Blink-182 and how they are still likable after 23: www.nj.com/entertainmen...

For nj.com: wrote about Hozier’s set at Sea Hear Now and why artists speaking out against injustice matters more than ever: www.nj.com/entertainmen...

For nj.com: There’s a food insecurity crisis in New Jersey due to inflation, government cuts to affordability programs ahead of the Big Beautiful Bill. Spoke to four food pantries and farmers about what they are seeing: www.nj.com/food/2025/08...

Wrote about System of A Down’s first NJ concert in over a decade and metal icons getting older after Ozzy’s passing: www.nj.com/entertainmen...

Hello world. I have a new (old) blog/newsletter called Multipotentiality. You can read about it and subscribe here: www.multipotentiality.net/capitalizeth...

"Night after night, the show gives airtime to political arsonists like Michaels and Jennings, whose contributions amount to provocation, misinformation, and hijacked conversations." Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social, who used to work there, unloads on CNN. www.status.news/p/melania-tr... [wall]

‘Barbarian’ was a film that never wanted to settle the audience. Whereas Zack Creeger gives up the game early in ‘Weapons’. Its our natural inclination to find answers in tragedy that keeps us with it. My review: substreammagazine.com/2025/08/weap...

Hey, you! Yes! YOU! Help Kotaku reach 1,000 followers on BlueSky. Either follow us or share this post! We want to spread our very good blogs to more people on this site. And we need your help. bsky.app/profile/kota...

If you are one of the people just finding out about Kim Davis appealing to the Supreme Court to challenge Obergefell, you should follow @autonomynews.co! Her lawyer filed it on July 24 and the Lexington Herald leader covered it then. I see an ABC News story today that notes it happened “last month”

DC statehood is now an imperative. No more dicking around. Next Dem majority, get it done immediately.

Yall imma be real: this disaster season is gonna be bad. Like, there might not be home to go back to bad. Like, the government might not be able or willing to help bad. Like, all we have is eachother bad. Read this thread, then donate or snag the bundle to help us get ready. 🧵👇

After seven years, I brought back my Lollapalooza portrait series with seven artists: substreammagazine.com/2025/08/loll...

Legitimately devastating

Jobs report is a real doozy

I'm launching a newslettah! Please read/subscribe! It's called Nina Watches Everything (well, not everything but a lot) about the way TV and film shape how we think and talk about the world First up: Gambling on Rotten Tomatoes scores (and the absence of gambling in recent sports shows/movies)

Stephen Colbert is not a journalist lol

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

The juxtaposition of the heat wave warning in the corner

I was going to make a pivot to video joke about the media industry but I have already recorded a second video for my job and pitched a third one because I'm good at thinking of ideas

It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.

Substream Radio has been in my brain for a minute. Where listeners can hear the interviews and discussions taking place as well as read them. For the first Ep, I talk to the founders of Hopeless and Fat Wreck Chord records about their partnership. substreammagazine.com/2025/07/fat-...

I also wrote about the excitement and absurdity of trying to buy “The Odyssey” ticket a year ahead. The lesson here is that more IMAX theaters should be built. But I fear perhaps the opposite will happen: substreammagazine.com/2025/07/the-...

For NJ.com, I wrote about the Yendor Theater Company and how they are using a new series of one person plays called Soul-O to elevate playwrights of color in underserved communities: www.nj.com/entertainmen...

EXCLUSIVE: DeSantis diverted disaster prep resources during hurricane season in the rush to build the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention camp talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/co...

A good subplot in the new ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ is how the franchise wants to be remember in the wake of ‘Scream’s’ success. But it leaves it hanging and all the things it’s shooting for, its spiritual sibling did already. substreammagazine.com/2025/07/i-kn...

"Betting that this time, hinging the future of our industry on massive, monopolistic tech giants will work out is the most Lucy with the football thing I can imagine." www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

If you're on the SAVE plan for re-paying student loans (& currently in forbearance), Department of Education announced today they'll be restarting interest accrual for those loans on August 1. If you don't change plans, you'll remain on forbearance and accrue interest. www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

NEW: Internet extremists were really excited by the vile and antisemitic things Grok said yesterday, seeing it as proof that an "unbiased" chatbot is an inherently bigoted one. Gab CEO Andrew Torba was especially ecstatic: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New for NJ.com: I wrote about a collective in Newark that adapted the "Drunk History" template and created an event to demonstrate the integral role one of Black history of America's oldest cities and how it plays in the country's fabric as a whole. www-nj-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nj.c...

‘Superman’ is all of James Gunn’s excitement to have the character he loved as a kid in his toolbox. It doubles as a window into the new DCU where there’s almost too much going on. But it doesn’t shy away from the current times and an alien’s place in it. substreammagazine.com/2025/07/supe...

I wrote about how Brad Pitt has effectively albeit transparently used F1: The Movie and its press tour to rehabilitate his image, in order to obscure the violent allegations about abuse toward Angelina Jolie & his current estrangement from his six kids, @vulture.com. www.vulture.com/article/brad...

Hell yeah, Kotaku

I go back to what Pete Doctor said about Pixar training the audience to expect movies on Disney+. It still feels that way with their original films. ‘Elio’ was a victim of a studio looking at their formula as a endgame, rather than something special. substreammagazine.com/2025/07/elio...

I’m glad festivals like Rock The Bells exist. It’s a one-live living, breathing mural chroncling decades of hip-hop history that cuts out the fluff and gets right to the craft. My latest for NJ Dot Com: www.nj.com/entertainmen...