Bari Weiss killing the 60 Minutes CECOT piece to cover for fascism predictably Streisand Effected the story. There are other non-Bari supervised outlets doing solid reporting on the same subject. Such as Propublica's 9+ month work on this story...

One of those Hallmark holiday fanfics "A Great North Christmas" is on television as pre-presents background noise. What's jarring is that several times on the soundtrack they repurpose the Galaxy Quest theme as holiday music www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFdT...

GALAXY QUEST (1999) is a perfect film, right? With each rewatch I'm incensed that comedies are devalued for Oscar consideration, & that Alan Rickman wasn't given an Oscar nod as Alexander Dane/Dr. Lazarus

When Vance and Erika Kirk officially get together, let's agree to not retcon nor rehabilitate Usha Vance's reputation in that flatliningly dumb centrist "Free Melania" way, please

Email that Sharyn Alfonsi sent her about CBS (aka Bari Weiss) pulling their segment on the Trump admin’s (illegal) deportations of Venezuelan migrants (CECOT)

Hey, if you work at CBS and want to talk, off the record, about what’s happening there, you can get me at [email protected] or at JulieDiCaro.46 on Signal.

I was going to make a "7 Wonders Trick Taking Game" joke but it sounds like a pretty solid idea in the peak age of Ooops! All Trick Takers?

Night Soil! What a wonderful game, @jontexmo.bsky.social! And brilliant artwork by Jesse Gillespie, as well as a fabulous presentation by publisher @grailgames.bsky.social 🙂

The Treasure Ship of Zheng He is TERRIFIC. The recurring actions loop each round is genius - players map routes across the world & along 3 to 4 legs of a journey choose which actions to take for each leg, w/tactical combos & cascades and chains that maximize points across multiple ways to score.

Looking for a last-minute gift ideas? How about the Big Country topographic map from their music video "In a Big Country"

One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.

I have a Mubi account & a few gift links of Kelly Reichardt's new film THE MASTERMIND. -1st come, 1st served (it's unclear how many shares I can hand out) -DM me first name and email addy so I can send a gift link

In short, using AI in your writing is among the dumbest things you can do as a writer as it exposes you to potential legal action while affording you zero legal protections. AI is a nightmare box for idiots. Don't fall into the trap of shortcutting your writing career.

This is why, for me, STRANGER THINGS post-S1 is diminishing returns. It quadrupled down on 80's day-glo, movie/TV references, and nostalgic meta-stunt casting; spiked their soundtrack budget, then called it a day

David Shire's movie scores had as much to do with presenting & preserving the cultural zeitgeist of the 1970's as any artist: The Conversation The Taking of Pelham One Two Three All the President's Men Saturday Night Fever Straight Time Norma Rae

This is why THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE holds up 50 years later. It's NYC: everyone hates the cowardly mayor, city services are underfunded, the subway is a trash fire and people who ride it are literally being held hostage and victimized. And you see it all onscreen

Rules lawyers: is hearing any version of "Last Christmas" grounds for immediate Whamageddon, or just the Wham cover?

im not a boxer forgive me but is it good strategy to drop your gloves to your bellybutton when you're stuck in a corner?

if democrats think trans people's lives are worth sacrificing then i don't think they get to whine about losing their votes too

Update: now 168 tracks & about 8.5 hours of seasonal, song shuffling bliss

Not posting the number one movie at the box office when I was ten years old thx

My #LastFourWatched films Franz (2025) The Secret Agent/O Agente Secreto (2025) Wake Up Dead Man (2025) Resurrection/狂野时代 (2025) #filmsky #letterboxd #LetterboxdFriday

So the DOOMSDAY teaser "trailer" was a Deadline dot com one-sentence casting announcement? How cinematic

Peter Bogdanovich's 1976 box office bomb NICKELODEON was a love letter comedy set in the silent film era. The finale is a screening of BoaN that moves the audience to a standing ovation - with its racism going wholly uninterrogated. Nickelodeon (film) - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelo...

I saw FRANZ and it was excellent youtu.be/nbhRjQ4nJJA?...

"Check on your trans frie-" No. Give them money. Hire them. Buy them a video game.

Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet

This is in reference to a bill in the US govt that's being seriously pushed through, and this summary of the implications is not that hyperbolic

👀, and also‼️

ah, more props to BuzzFeed: they did figure out Epstein was at the 2011 dinner after his conviction, plus at least 3 dinners beforehand. They even reported that Brooks was there! So six years ago, NYT should have known Brooks was socializing with Epstein. For shame. (h/t @dreadfulpenny.bsky.social)

Fascists want you to pull up the ladder behind you so you think you'll be safe and unaffected because you're not "one of them"... just before fascism demolishes the building you are hiding in anyway

People need to start caring about others & not only those directly related/affected, & not only when it's transactional. We *have* to have empathy beyond ourselves & immediate orbit of family, friends, neighborhood, & community. We have to care about total strangers who are in harm's way & in need

The extreme attack on transgender youth we are witnessing from a governmental stage was enabled by The Atlantic and The New York Times.

At The Most Popular Red Sox Internet Forum™ several Area White Cis Dudes floated - like beer burps - "just asking q's" discussions about trans people. "Reasonable" convos such as "should trans athletes compete with "regular" athletes?" That was 6+ years ago. The cis complicity is nigh unforgivable

Congrats to the NYT for getting a citation in the new rules that would ban gender affirming care for anybody under 19! You did it! How's that for *impact* baby! Put it on the Pulitzer application!

I'm truly saddened by the VC pancaking of Party City because there isn't a week in NYC that goes by where Party City isn't still the best solution to a random problem I have

I get why New England got hooked by DD's branding and self-installed "Dunkins is my personality" to spackle over the shockingly bad coffee, but I'm stunned that when they went national everyone else fell for it too

RIP these 18 retail chains in NYC this year: Art of Shaving, Totto Ramen, Helzberg’s Diamonds, Naturalizer Shoes, Sprinkles, Tortazo, Vineyard Vines, Mrs. Fields, Umami Burger, Deep Indian Kitchen, Fuku, Invicta, Fresca Bowl & Poke Mahi, Intermix, Forever 21, Party City, Rent-A-Center, & Rite Aid

AI slop is essentially running the country.

If anyone wants to atone for wilfully rawdogging the POTUS speech consider buying gifts for trans peoe this holiday season

Timed mutes would fix me

remember when some of y'all were welcoming her to the resistance ... please, next time she mildly criticizes trump, please remember she's still the enemy, trying to hurt my family specifically. and they aren't gonna stop with minors.

I'm seeing varied takes on this, and I just want to say as someone who used to work as a labor archivist, looking at the history of unions and labor laws: Your job does not love you. Your job does not care for your well being. It is good to have a life outside of your job. Say no to time theft.

Not a LinkedIn wrapped. Not this. Not in this year of 2025. I can't go on. I'll go on.

I hope the NPR Tiny Desk setup is permanent b/c if it isn't, I imagine it's the intern & new employee utility share-a-desk which means they're probably evicted every few days for the concerts & try to cowork standing in a hallway

The whole 'living dead' schtick went down a reactionary, US survivalist dead end via The Walking Dead at around the same time Romero made this. Not surprising that his vision, where the dead are the underdogs waiting for their opportunity to rise against their masters, didn't catch on with viewers.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a chili dog, must be in want of sucking it behind the Tastee Freeze.

I knew I wasn’t bugging www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...