I’m from Whoville, and I say kill the Grinch!

Batman Returns is a great Christmas movie. Stranger and hornier and grosser than most Christmas movies, but a great Christmas movie nonetheless. (Michael Keaton the king as demonstrated below.)

Merry Christmas everybody youtu.be/-W2IP-BTu30?...

The problem Bari Weiss is encountering here is that this tone of condescending baby-speak only really works with people whose delusional victim complex has already been endlessly coddled by their news producers of choice (i.e. right-wingers and billionaires)

A gritty reboot of ducktales where huey duey and louie help mine workers in south africa unionize and overthrow flintheart glomgold

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

I have never, once in my career, heard of a news org responding to a decline-to-comment with, “Well, we’ll hold it until you do.” The reason is obvious — it gives the subject of your story a pocket veto.

There is a very specific and special joy to Rhea Seehorn going nuts on a whiteboard.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

My "our financial, educational, nonprofit and political elites are not mass rapists" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

Straightforward case of "I didn't think the 'cut vital government services party' was going to cut the services I rely on". That said, these angry Montanan Trump voters should invite Trump and Musk to personally fell trees. Let them use those chainsaws correctly. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

i know it’s not like cool to say a musician rocks and use one of their most famous songs as an example but also tom petty went fuckin crazy on “runnin down a dream” dude

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

I love a chart where even if you didn't know what happened, it's pretty easy to put your finger on *something* having happened at a particular moment

I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury

I am so proud of them. the kids did it. they made a new stupid number to say. they may now take their place in history.

1. Only the rich *currently* have access to the most expensive hospital chains 2. Dunno who runs it, but it's better than lunatic insurance companies whose literal job is to deny care to people 3. This is also the current system. I am rich and have great care and I can't ever fucking see anyone

Lot of very interesting and despairing stuff in this kyla.substack.com/p/everyone-i...

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

Great title

I swear it's like a cheat code, doesn't matter what it is you're writing. Grammatical oddities, character voice inconsistencies, tonal or perspective whiplash...something about just reading it aloud as if you were reading it off to a buddy across the room makes problems jump out at you.

this is extraordinary. too many people in my profession have circled the wagons around someone who lacks the moral sense of a child

Really appreciate the clarity of the president saying black people are ruining the country and this entire room of groveling empty suits saying nothing bsky.app/profile/just...

The canceled TV show you’ll never stop thinking about.

I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...

The canceled TV show you’ll never stop thinking about.

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

putting on my favorite thanksgiving holiday film — sam raimi's spider-man

Happy Thanksgiving

yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything

i thought "well it can't be that sad, surely?" but no, it is

lmao there it is

this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics

Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly

tl;dr I think the normative discourse around "objective writing" and "the view from nowhere" being the platonic ideal of writing paved the way for generative AI to take over in spaces where creativity and exploration could have developed voice and confidence in young people, and that totally sucks.

every epstein email is some creep complaining about MeToo and then being like “oh before i forget, any advice on how to use my position of authority to force women into sleeping with me?”

epstein emails released and everyone coming out as a pedophile to defend donald trump

“There were expressions in the Democratic Party that suggested all that matters to where you fit now is based on your identity, and therefore, the only things we can do for you have to do with your identity." who exactly in any sort of prominent role was saying this??

It rocks that all 20 people who genuinely think the Olivia Nuzzi stuff is interesting have editorial discretion at major media outlets. Just publish your group chats

As far as critics are concerned, the typical American leftist is at once: 1) Downwardly mobile and worse off than their parents 2) A trust fund kid so well off from family wealth they will never have to work 3) A successful, gentrifying yuppie who wants to destroy the system that benefits them

8 years of "What is a woman?" and now it turns out that the comeback was "define a child"

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

The damage done by treating Trump's victory as some sweeping mandate in the first eight months of his term really was massive, but ending that collective delusion - i think with the help of last week's elections - really is having profound impacts.

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

Every single time! Epstein will write: "porsecters h4arrsed me w/ sbuopenas al bcuase tr4ificing myners .due porcess much???no" and then there's, like, the former president of a university or white house counsel or something replying: "You're totally right, and also I love you with all my heart."

Finally got to write about this obsession. Elon pushed people to stop linking the articles they were talking about. He's started to roll that back, but we were left with a culture of people yelling at screenshots of headlines on monetized accounts

Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...