This was Arab public opinion of recognizing Israel as of December 2025.

Sorcerer (1977), Dir. William Friedkin

This is spreading all over Bluesky today and is wildly misleading--it is from eight months ago and it is in reference to working with NATO allies and arming Ukraine.

I understand that claims of antisemitism are often weaponized and at the same time think it is very easy to speak out against this war for many excellent reasons without alleging that the US is doing a Jewish holy war

Father… mother… always you wrestle inside me. Always you will.

There is no evidence that Epstein blackmailed American policymakers. This is getting insane.

I really liked this Times piece (by the daughter of Weathermen!) about how critics promised her a different movie from what One Battle After Another delivers. I think she’s largely right. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/o...

Hilariously, almost all the comments on this piece are about CatGate (which fwiw happened after this piece was filed).

Cat disliking aside, Jessie Buckley is the most interesting (and quite possibly best) actor of her generation. I wrote about why that is, and about Buckley’s dream work focused process: slate.com/culture/2026...

Cat disliking aside, Jessie Buckley is the most interesting (and quite possibly best) actor of her generation. I wrote about why that is, and about Buckley’s dream work focused process: slate.com/culture/2026...

So I am enjoying season three of blue lights but… do Belfast cops really have to keep their identities secret and check for bombs under the cars every morning and stuff?

Lol yes, please keep suggesting this. Republican candidates will LOVE taking questions about it all summer.

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When two of the smartest guys (and guests) you know make the same point. @jasondashbailey.com @philipgawthorne.bsky.social @diehardoab.bsky.social @isaacbutler.bsky.social

I wish I had written my Timothée Chalamet assessment after this whole dissing opera and ballet flap BUT! I think it’s central point about the tension in his career between actor and star holds up! slate.com/culture/2026...

Seems madam? Nay it is.

Michael Stipe watching Michael Shannon et al play life’s rich pageant (later he joined them on stage to sing These Days and The Great Beyond. I cried. A lot.)

Always a good day when you get to rewatch a Martin Ritt film for work.

Imagine thinking that your little nests of herbs and fruit leather insects and pickled kelp or whatever are worth ruining people's lives and literally beating up a generation of restaurant workers for. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/d...

It was literally her job to motivate more voters to vote for her than her opponent. That’s how representative democracy works.

BTW a good novel for this moment is Walter Tevis’s MOCKINGBIRD.

I give up, Claude is conscious. Ergo AI developers must face imprisonment or execution for performing medical experiments on their living slave.

It is with a heavy heart that I must inform you that ACAB includes Charlie Mingus.

This book of smart, touching, essays by @tmcallister.bsky.social would make a great gift. Just saying.

I feel like the critical response to The Bride! Is almost a reflection of like learned helplessness or something. “Sure this movie is a mess and in poor taste and a work of egomania that makes no sense but at least it feels like a human made it!” Like “made by a human” is our high standard now?

Otto: Apes don't read philosophy. Wanda: Yes they do, Otto. They just don't understand it.

I care about ballet and opera a lot more than I care about Timothee Chalamet, but I will always maintain a baseline level of respect for a man who convinced the world for like three straight years that the height of glamor is to look like a pixie that's six months late on its Mustang payments

Yes I think if I ran a press it would specifically be for novella length nonfic. The problem is still $$$ tho, so I guess it’s… if I ran an imprint at a large press I would specifically do novella length nonfic etc etc etc

Dr Garcia is the lowkey villain of the Pitt in this essay I will—

Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.

The only thing I can do about 'this is not a regime change war, we just insist on selecting the new government after launching a military campaign to topple the old government' is make stupid puns

The inevitable Supreme Court case where they rule that because you checked a EULA box you can’t sue openAI for your son’s death is gonna be rough.

It’s so fucking good!!!

So this is a fun piece and no shade on Kyle, but man did the framing “is reality tv the new Juilliard” put a bee in my bonnet. Juilliard is a school, it exists to provide training. Reality tv might be a springboard to a career, but it does not provide real training. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/m...

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I have used the missiles that were in the arsenal and which you were probably saving for Russia Forgive me they were powerful so shiny and so deadly

You won’t find a better or safer environment for effeminate gay boys to freely be themselves than a community where trans kids are affirmed.

It's by no means the most important piece of the whole Paramount mishegoss but I feel like we don't talk enough about how Larry Ellison looks like 2010s Mickey Rourke got stung in the face by like 200 bees

This makes sense I just also think we have figured out how to solve it, and this is a massive problem for democracy!

When people ask me about grad school— which to be clear was extremely helpful for my career— I tell them that I was lucky and they should not expect anything career wise to come out of it….

Spain is one of the few European countries with an actual moral spine these days. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Having one of those days where it’s like “I really still can’t believe we elected the worst person in the entire country to be President. TWICE.”

Hard to celebrate Purim when your President is Haman.

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lol, come on, man. 1. Iraq and Iran are different countries? 2. Dude died because his tank fell into a river!

If you take a break tho you’ll be streets behind.

Congratulations, America. "Insider trading on bombing" is a thing.