My husband was on the 2 train and a guy started braying about how Renee Good deserved to die and her "lesbian lover" did too. My husband got pissed and said, "You're absolutely disgusting." "Fuck you!" the guy said. "Fuck YOU!" my husband said. The guy left. See? We just need to talk to each other.

ICE officers tell media that the conduct in Minneapolis is part of a plan by Stephen Miller to provoke as much violence and death as possible—which in turn will be taken as pretext for more. “They’re essentially operating now in a resource constraint-free environment and doing very dangerous things”

We are so far past the Rubicon that it isn't worth having a discussion anymore as to whether Trump is acting as an authoritarian. The only question is whether we have the strength and courage to get back to the other side.

Weighing in on discourse that 99.9999% of you are unaware of, and you should not seek out if you're not (seriously): Even the most niche corners of art are made healthier by earnest, honest critique. To attack a critic for offering such is to imperil the integrity of the art you most care about.

I want to talk about a dystopian world we are entering - where every moment, event, and crisis just become commodities. Life stops being something we live, but something we sell and trade. It will breed both corruption & emptiness. 1/ A 🧵on why our politics can't ignore this.

Watched a movie I knew would be A LOT, it was indeed A LOT, and now I need to lie down.

I think the "flipping a switch" idea is quite clarifying, explaining the deeper logic that underpins so much angry on-line discourse and/or conspiracy theories.

Three Caballeros!

We've all seen the video. You can't carry enough water to make me think, "Ah, shooting that woman in the face and then calling her a 'fucking bitch,' WAS justified."

Every one of these is like "We talked to a moron, and this is what they thought," and then later you also find out they're the chairperson of the local GOP and were an aide to Ted Cruz in 2016.

Looool they did an entire branding exercise FOR FREE!

Congratulations to Brett Kavanaugh bsky.app/profile/ajco...

ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms

One of my goals in 2026 is to do more short-form videos about physical media. Happy to kick it off by recommending MYSTERY TEAM: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTh68tdbg/

Folks, this is one of movies I recommend to people who think they’ve seen all the funny movies. Very glad to see it’s more readily available now. The premise is basically “What if Encyclopedia Brown had to solve a murder?” It will make you laugh.

*clears throat* 🚨 MYSTERY TEAM is out today on collector’s edition Blu-Ray with a new 30 min making of doc and remastered sound and picture 🚨

Looking good, sir. Keep mainlining those aspirins.

It's true. If you take the first letter of each word spoken in the teasers in order of their release, they spell, "EVERY MARVEL MOVIE RELEASED LAST YEAR UNDERPERFORMED."

Trump's followers aren't abandoning him, so why do people keep saying they are? I wrote about the mythical crack-up of the MAGA base, and why media outlets and liberal pundits keep falling for this narrative, even though the polls show the opposite. Gift link:

We live in strange times, and 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE uses that strangeness as a point of connection rather than alienation. It’s a darkly comic, surprisingly poignant horror movie.

I didn’t play my Switch too much in 2025, and I still haven’t seen enough value from Switch 2 to consider upgrading.

Setting aside that this is the morally right thing to do, working to manufacture a case against a grieving widow and likely having to make shit up would probably torch your career anyway.

When you look at the cross-tabs, you get a very clear picture of what “popularism” means in practice. White people, mostly white men, making over 100K, get to define what’s popular and what isn’t in this political model.

Third Way can't reach a single voter, but apparently every single political journalist will parrot their nonsense without hesitating.

I wrote book reviews for a while for the WSJ well over a decade ago, and Bari Weis was my editor. One of her special tricks was to try to insert a sharp rightward slant into my essays *after* it had been copy edited, as a way of slipping her viewpoint in at the last minute.

Many thanks to Mark for supporting my work!

Look, I don't want to tell people how to vote, but choosing Home on the Range over Beauty and the Beast? Well...

Scott Adams could have been known for blandly pleasant office humor of the 90s, and instead spent over a decade showing the world he was an absolute lunatic railing at every perceived liberal slight.

They have weighed-in: universal healthcare and childcare support are pretty sturdy aspects of the progressive agenda. People don't want to have kids they can't afford.

The aggressive rise of gambling on every aspect of life is one of those things that makes you feel like you're living in the Biff timeline of Back to the Future: Part II.

I cannot emphasize how much “be the news” is the opposite of what I was taught about how to be a good journalist and strikes me as an excellent way to churn out elite solipsism that has nothing to do with the public interest and everything to do with self promotion www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...

This guy is always telling you who he’s working for. The notion that he has to be the presumptive Dem nominee is ludicrous.

Harper's Letter folks are being kind of shy lately about free speech issues. Maybe they are writing an extra long letter this time.

Thing you’re allowed to do on X dot com: Use an AI generator to make CSAM. Thing you’re not allowed to do on X dot com: Write the word “cisgendered.”

Aaron Rodgers retired from the NFL with 2:39 left in a playoff game he was playing in

Bye, Aaron Rodgers! Don’t come back!

BIG GUY TOUCHDOWN

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

It’s pretty fucked up to sack Aaron Rodgers instead of debating his ideas

What if we kissed at the bone temple

swing voters are real, here to stay, and gigantic morons

They’re desperate for a west wing episode instead of reality

/Looming hideously out of the darkness like Pazuzu in The Exorcist, voice sounding like an unusually abrasive '90s-style chirp-scratch DJ routine "There's Cheetos with protein on them now."

This is a wild hill to die on for someone who creates environments for kids. Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games (Fortnite/Battle Royale) argues against CP protections on social media/AI platforms, claiming legislators are ‘just censoring political opponents’. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Easy decision

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Been meaning to watch this since I saw 28 YEARS LATER and figured I’d better watch it now since I’m seeing THE BONE TEMPLE tonight.

Early 2025: Trump admin tries to illegally shut down the CFPB, the newest member of the Federal Reserve system. Jay Powell says nothing. Summer 2025: Trump admin tries to illegally fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook. Powell says nothing. 2026: Trump admin comes for Powell. He finally finds his voice.