nazi demons fleeing back down there again. time still working on 100 year cycle. we are going to get another chubby checker by 2060 and he is going to do such a twist

Jeers to Viktor Orbán, and cheers to the Tisza Party, whose political ideology I will not be looking into further 👍

There is no more perfect a depiction of contemporary Zionism than Israel blowing up a shul in the name of Jewish safety (aka Israeli intransigence).

Great review of @mollycrabapple.bsky.social new book, which is already making monsters squirm and shriek. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/b...

As a Jewish historian who works at a university, I think it’s great that an administration committed to destroying “the internal globalist enemy” which is staffed by groyper antisemites is collecting lists of Jews. Can’t see any potential downside here at all.

It was really impressive how quickly my alma mater kowtowed to fascism

I watched a bunch of Rohmer and wrote about it. And then waited a month and a half to publish it. Enjoy! www.simplerandwithmorelaughter.com/turn-turn-tu...

if you ever want a laugh tru to imagine what podcast all the men on your train car or bus are listening to. One guys listening to the Fart Brothers Goofaround Hour and another‘s listening to Supervised Visitation Dads. One guy might be listening to This American Life.

If you liked that Ring commercial finding the doggo: Now imagine instead of “Milo match” it says your name on a cop’s screen when you walk by.

Y’all didn’t realize they were using “Democracy dies in darkness” as a mission statement, not a salutary motto

I wrote it! Check it out !

anyway RIP to the greatest youtu.be/fggXs7oIP7Q?...

chicagoreader.com/film-tv/movi... My latest for @chicagoreader.com — a very fun confluence of a bunch of different subjects I love! Enjoy :)

HAHA

this is a 30 Rock bit that got cut for being “too boring”

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

I went to Hebrew school with a guy who has an under-5 in Marty Supreme so I think I get some kind of prize

Here is my big 2026 goal. How do I game Google to make me the first thing that appears when you google "Jewish guy". And NOT in an anti semitic way. In a Marty Mauser way.

Very excited about my newest feature in @chicagoreader.com chicagoreader.com/performing-a...

Just heard disappointing news that @warren.senate.gov will co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act again despite overwhelming opposition from LGBTQ, human rights, abortion rights, and racial justice groups. This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.

Have yourself a Benson little Boonemas

Odious is kind of the only word you can use to refer to Cuomo

New chair company recap! www.simplerandwithmorelaughter.com/do-they-keep...

I wrote about THE MASTERMIND for the @chicagoreader.com

www.simplerandwithmorelaughter.com/theyre-just-... I’m recapping THE CHAIR COMPANY over on my site!

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

Also my preliminary OBAA take (because I’m planning something long form): movies can’t save the world, PTA knows that, this is a film of his beliefs and hopes

www.simplerandwithmorelaughter.com/the-revoluti... New! I wrote about Bread and Puppet in Chicago!

Nails why accusations of hypocrisy never land with MAGA: “But the real secret is locating the animating impulse behind contemporary fascist sexuality: Hedonism for me, puritanism for thee.”

@rsasch.bsky.social recommends the world premiere of "Rabbits in Their Pockets" at Lifeline Theatre for @chicagoreader.com! chicagoreader.com/performing-a...

anti-anti-fascist feels like it should have a one-word synonym

New me in @chicagoreader.com chicagoreader.com/performing-a...

If the Tikvah Fund becomes the main representative of academic Jewish Studies in the United States, which is clearly what the US government wants, we will be telling queer and trans scholars that they have no place in Jewish Studies. And it will be a loss to all of us in the field.

The garment-rending that came with the Notre Dame fire would be an under reaction to this. Vile

Thomas Rousseau, leader of white nationalist Patriot Front, spoke at a vigil for Charlie Kirk in Fort Worth, Texas over the weekend. This is the first time I'm aware of that Rousseau and his loyalists did not attend a rally wearing Patriot Front's trademark uniform. They feel emboldened. 1/3

*Black Keys voice* baby I’m Nathan for you

Watching Nashville wearing my Boogie Nights shirt

the media rush to canonize charlie kirk is legitimately maybe one of the weirdest things of this nature i have ever seen in my life

“he was an accelerationist force whose work to dehumanize LGBTQ+ people and threaten the free speech of professors, teachers, and school board members around the country has directly put the livelihoods and physical safety of many people in danger. We do no one any favors by ignoring this...”

did I hallucinate the cold-blooded murder of a husband and wife legislator in their homes by somebody pretending to be a cop? was that a figment of my imagination?

There’s a reason that Curb is still funny and Unfrosted was dogshit

He can't hear you. Also I love that you're rancorous about the hat but not that he's depicting himself as a character who's a slaughtering mass murderer of innocents who is the embodied representative of the insanity of war. He's threatening Chicago with war. You're barking at an ai pic about a hat.

“It's not clear whether Trump can officially change the name without congressional action, but he told reporters, "We're just gonna do it." We’re not gonna media our way out of this thing until journalists start leading off with this stuff in the headline instead of the 7th paragraph.

Feeling very seen here

Ohohohohohohoohh

the reason he posts like trump is because he is like trump

GOOD NEWS! For the FIRST time ever, and after MORE THAN 30 YEARS of HIV vaccine clinical trials, researchers have developed a vaccine that has SUCCESSFULLY generated TIER 2 broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV and BLOCKS viral infection in vaccinated PEOPLE.