Shakespeare In Love deserved that Oscar

he’s paying tribute to Chicago by doing the baseball bat scene from The Untouchables

every team in the Premier League except Arsenal and Wolves spiritually has 18 points

At least Texas A&M can take solace knowing the academic side of its institution is being run well.

When troops are deployed overseas in places they absolutely should not be because of a warmonger ass president, and they are killed by someone who acted on their own accord, we typically don’t have a problem blaming the U.S. commander in chief

I say this to myself at least once a month

stuff that got cut from the new Beatles anthology because of woke —George’s “little gay boys saying Ringo in France” bit —longer shot of neurodivergent Swedish TV host —any visual of Leo McKern’s Help! character

I thought this was really smart overall and a great explanation of the intellectual leaders/vision of Trumpism in particular, but it bumps up against the same problem that all such essays do, which is that there are so few meaningful principles there to understand. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"If the Democratic discourse du jour pits populist socialism against technocratic 'Abundance,' nobody seems to have told New York City voters." New online: Charlie Dulik on the tangled politics of housing under mayor-elect Mamdani. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

JD Vance loves spreading 16th century pro-genocide propaganda so much

she hates this but it’s my birthday so she has to wear it

you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird

Hard to think of two more unethical journalists but what we have is bad enough—I don’t think we need to prematurely invent a scandal based on illegally recorded hearsay that’s literally being dangled as a hook

Awful. Trump admin is deporting a 23-year-old NC woman who came here at the age of 14 as an unaccompanied minor. Her father was murdered and mother died of cancer. All she has are two traffic citations, per this report from Charlotte Observer's Dan Kane: www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

For at least a year, I've been returning to the question, how would you know when it's time to leave the US? For this piece, I asked trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer Americans who, with their families and partners, have recently fled the country, about how they made this decision and how they left.

I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.

John Henry needs to pick up the phone and push Trump to fire Kash Patel. It’s the only way to fix Liverpool’s season

I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

I can't get over this part of the Witkoff call

In case you missed this, the BBC edited a historian's speech about Trump to remove the claim that he's "the most openly corrupt president in US history." This came after Trump had threatened a $1 billion lawsuit. Elite capitulation continues. Read all about it here: newrepublic.com/article/2036...

Good one by @felipedlh.bsky.social for @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-448/#i...

I wrote about what Marjorie Taylor Greene gets right (the Trump administration has failed), what she gets wrong (basically everything else) and what her resignation says about the future of the GOP newrepublic.com/article/2036...

Put off reading this because I assumed people were overreacting to the headline and packaging but my god does it pull its punches www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The Last Jedi is an atrociously bad movie but tbf I'm not sure it's worse than anything that comes after it on this list

they're calling it the most Idrissa Gueye red card of all time

This is one of RFK Jr's weirdest quotes. Why would the (apparently 3+ billion) skeletons in your closet vote for you for anything, let alone king of the world?

This is a great piece of reporting about the rise of drone warfare in Ukraine and the Silicon Valley titans who are racing to control—and monetize—it newrepublic.com/article/2027...

Like the Afghanistan pullout it also came at the same time people started getting mad about the economy and was the moment people who weakly supported him were like well I didn't vote for this.

it's very fitting that in retrospect, Trump's failure to oust Jimmy Kimmel was the point that his administration turned. It's been all losses ever since

visited 26/50 states this year and as I was listing them just now I realized: that's too many states

Thurston Moore playing a Rickenbacker hits so fucking hard

i don't think that's true though

Here's an amazing cover Cliff did of The Guns of Brixton, a seminal Clash song that of course references Cliff himself in The Harder They Come. A definite "cover even better than the original" song. youtu.be/rt10xjeIKlY?...

my brain is really cooked today... Edward Larson is on Brian Lehrer right now talking about the Revolutionary War and I thought it was Chuck Klosterman for the first 5 minutes

I love seeing this kind of stuff from pundits. OK, Liverpool need to get more physical. Who are they going to play at fullback? At the 10? In the pivot? On the wings?

really fixated on Elon repeating "vulgar roast" 30 times in this video

every now and then I’ll be at a friend’s house and be like wow… it’s three perfect books

I think I have become genuinely depressed about Liverpool

the worst Liverpool move of the summer was one they had no control (Trent leaving) but it increasingly seems like choosing build the team of the future while also retaining Salah was a huge mistake

does anyone know how to fix Liverpool

it’s better than anything either of them have ever written

He’s becoming Zohran’s own Club Chalamet

they should keep making Downton Abbey movies until 70 year old Mary and Edith Crawley are forced to listen to The Beatles. The show should just end there (their children were all killed in the war)

You can really understand MAGA based on three reactions to Mamdani Trump: recognizes that he’s charming and telegenic and makes great TV Bannon: sees him as both a formidable foe and a anti-establishment fellow traveler Miller: unspeakably racist whining

Trump wandering around in here looking for lost portraits of past presidents

Remember: the only way to save New York City from Donald Trump’s wrath is electing Andrew Cuomo.

there are about a million different incentives for Zohran to play this the way he did, it's very funny that there's basically no reason for Trump to behave this way except that 1. he loves celebrities 2. is obsessed with being liked in New York City and 3. was clearly charmed... and that worked