There is a trivially easy solution to the exodus issue, which is to pass wealth taxes everywhere. That probably explains why Ackerman, a NY resident, is taking an interest in CA politics.

Ferguson always manages to sound magisterial and tower-dwelling even when he's predictably, horrendously wrong. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/your-occas...

Top Putin general linked to Salisbury poisoning 'blown up in Ukraine drone strike on Russian tanker' www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

I haven't seen MARTY SUPREME yet and I'm already exhausted by the whole thing.

Other people named as co-conspirators of Jeffrey Epstein in DOJ documents: Natalia Malyshev Sarah Kellen Leslie Goff (Jeffrey Epstein's long-time executive assistant) www.justice.gov/multimedia/C... #epsteinfiles

A deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell names one of Epstein's 10 co-conspirators: Sarah Kellen. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C... #epsteinfiles

Happy 30th Anniversary to CUTTHROAT ISLAND! As a pirate-obsessed kid, this film was everything to me.

It’s that time of year again. Apologies if this is a tardy — this year has been a little busy — but here are my 'TOP 50 SONGS OF 2025'; a mix of artists I’ve loved forever and completely new discoveries. Play it loud, listen in order, and ENJOY. linktr.ee/edgarwright

Who knew that my late husband Harry’s oddball friend would be the subject of the major Oscar-tipped movie Marty Supreme? Plus, a few of my fave personal snaps of 2025 in my Substack Fresh Hell. tinabrown.substack.com/p/how-the-re...

The Spectator World's "Christmas Special" (cover illo of Epstein as Ghost of Christmas Past) arrives & the rogue's gallery of contributors include Garrison Keillor, Michael Wolff, Ann Coulter, David Mamet, & the ever-sparkling Ben Shapiro, assuring us "Not everything is wrong with America."

Someone very cleverly converted the Epstein files into photos you can scroll through in a Google Photos Drive: photos.app.goo.gl/62ip97x7yWzX...

As THE MALTESE FALCON is so revered I think people have overlooked SATAN MET A LADY. It's such fun. The cast seems like they were having an absolute blast making it. I love Warren William's irreverent approach to the idea of the debonair detective. He reminds me of Bruce Willis in "Moonlighting".

The Dashiell Hammett Challenge: SATAN MET A LADY (1936) vs. THE MALTESE FALCON (1941). Same story, very different interpretations. Dieterle vs. Huston. Warren William vs. Humphrey Bogart. Bette Davis vs. Mary Astor. Which do you prefer?

A schmoozer of satanic gifts, Jeffrey Epstein certainly knew how to flatter the flabby egos of our self-anointed cognitive elites. David Brooks is the latest prize booby to be revealed.

The Thinking Game If you haven't seen it, The Thinking Game documentary is excellent, and available for free on YouTube. You have to buy it, but the Kanye documentary In Whose Name is also pretty fascinating. (I first blogged about Kanye in 2007, discussing PHP's botched version 4 to 5 upgrade.)

What mystifies me about the Suzie Wiles blab-all is the timing. Why now? Usually you wait until late in a prez term—when you’re eyeing the exit ramp toward speaking fees, plotting your insider memoir—before shanking your clueless, psycho colleagues. If this is a ‘hit job,’ it’s self-inflicted.

Thank you Rob Reiner for your incredible life. Thank you for THE PRINCESS BRIDE, STAND BY ME & so many other wonderful classics, as well as your inspiring political activism. Losing you & Michele is heartbreaking, but your memory will live on.

"What in Gods Holy Name Is This?" Rm Brown takes a magical mystery tour into the wacky world of NY Times YouTube. Featuring Erika Kirk, Ben Shapiro, and that loony bird Palantir guy with the flyaway hair. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK7k...

What a loss. Mass market paperbacks are the ideal novel format.

I'm surprised they didn't slide Coleman Hughes or Glenn Loury in there just for the optics.

Epstein posing with a book about his life of crime... reminds me of Trump turning his mug shot into campaign merch.

between erika and samantha fulnecky, conservative eyebrows have been doing some crazy shit this month

“Science writer” superstar Oliver Sacks made up everything…

The Christmas season doesn't officially begin until Kylie breaks out the sparkles and snowflakes and this be-ith that day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B5Z...

"Can Erika Kirk help mend a divided America?" asks CBS in all insincerity. I mean, have you listened to this woman being interviewed? Pausing to gaze unto the heavens, Kirk can barely complete a sentence much less unite divided factions. As for Bari Weiss: behold our new Barbara Wah-wah.

If we had more moms in charge, you can bet life would already be more affordable in California—from child care to health care to housing. I’m running for Governor to shake up the status quo in Sacramento that has left too many families and women behind.

Happy birthday, Emily Dickinson! On this day, December 10, 1830, Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, MA. Celebrate this revolutionary poet's birthday by joining us for a virtual program (tonight!), giving a birthday gift, or sharing your favorite poem!

"This year has been a master class in the exercise of casual inhumanity." -- @tinabrownlm.bsky.social

If you're Nobody too, then make plans to join us for Dickinson's 195th birthday celebration! Newer every day: A Dickinson Birthday Celebration Weds., Dec. 10, 6pm ET VIRTUAL PROGRAM Register: emilydickinsonmuseum.org/newer-every-day-195th-birthday

Warhol superstar Mary Woronov, known for her sangfroid in the midst of the nutty Factory denizens, was BOTD in 1943, turning 82 today. She went on to have a cult movie career after her Warhol days and also wrote one of the best books about the Factory, "Swimming Underground"

On Substack’s Fresh Hell: Tom Stoppard, a radiant mind and a treasured friend, and how he repaid his private blessings, many times over, on the public stage. open.substack.com/pub/tinabrow...

Whatever one thinks of Candace Owens, the potency of her chaos magic is not to be denied. She has fissured the alt-right into pissy factions.

WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN

Kamala wanted to help y’all buy your first house but you didn’t like her laugh

So great to have writers Pat Casey & Josh Miller at the Gardena Cinema for a screening of VIOLENT NIGHT! The sequel is coming next year! #ViolentNight 🎄

The canonization of Charlie Kirk is a futile mission--he's already faded as a Christ martyr--and Bari Weiss assembling a town hall in his memory is more evidence of how bubbled up and tone deaf she is. The right wanted civil war after Kirk's death & can't take nah for an answer.

Ryan Lizza, the rat fink's rat fink.

#mri he is truly the worst

"We have opened the creaking Gates of Hell to bring you this awesome lineup..."

Trump just commuted the prison sentence of David Gentile, a private equity executive convicted of defrauding more than 10,000 investors. He served just 12 days into a 7-year term for a massive securities fraud scheme. www.perplexity.ai/page/trump-c...

50 years ago, “Coming Soon to a Theater Near You” debuted on Chicago pubic access TV, starring Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert. The rest, as they say, is history. #SiskelAndEbert

My current #letterboxd of the Top 20 films of the 21st century. Share your lists as well, #filmsky!

My Word of the Day: heteronomy The state of being governed or ruled by another person or an outside force.

News publishers file criminal complaint against Mark Zuckerberg over scam ads pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/fa...

GREAT original investigative work by @philinvestigates.com on online Nazis targeting KIDS! (fyi @karaswisher.bsky.social, @jacobware.bsky.social, @dancollen.bsky.social, @davidgilbert.bsky.social, @kieraevebutler.bsky.social, @danielharper.bsky.social, @kathleenbelew.bsky.social, @tristanl.ee)

I contacted dozens of people in media last year to alert them to this guy grooming kids on X. Got NO RESPONSE (not even @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social ) so I gave up FINALLY someone with clout did something: PHIL WILLIAMS @philinvestigates.com an investigative reporter for the local news in Nashville!

I never trusted Ryan Lizza's smirk. I always assumed that as a political journalist he was another Mark Halperin in the making, and two of them is two too many. Halperin, after his #MeToo fall, oozed back into standard pundit hackery while Lizza is oozing in every direction.

Maureen Dowd flitted through my mind because Thanksgiving is coming up, so I'm told, & that's when she annually turns the Times column over to her MAGA brother, whose turkey stuffing is between his ears. Will MoDo be slumming it again this Thanksgiving or will an editor finally say Enough already?

Marilyn Minter Is Camera Ready www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/s...