This piece is fab, and the only thing Maris could have done to make it better is to make it twice as long.

One of the few perks of being an adult is the freedom to choose to spend your free time with people — or not.

So Sweden celebrates Christmas on Christmas Eve, like, that's the present opening and big dinner. One aspect of the celebrations is — and has been since the 1950s — a clip show of ancient Walt Disney cartoons aired on state television hosted by some avuncular Swede. It's a serious cultural event.

A merry Christmas to us all, especially Dickens fans.

Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.

My holiday gift to myself is a bevy of silly novels (sheep detectives! YA Handmaid's Tale ripoff! Something current with a blobby cover!) and Dan T. Carter's The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics. I have layers.

Diane Arbus, Santas at the Santa Claus School, Albion, N.Y., 1964.

Step 1: Manhattan. Step 2: Everywhere else.

oh hi, hello, I'm the cooking idiot who wore gloves while chopping the habanero pepper but managed to get capsaicin in my eyes anyway

a good time to bump this

This to me is the biggest issue. These men spoke at grave risks to their own safety about being beaten, raped, and tortured at the order of the President of the United States. All of Weiss's odes to free speech and "dangerous ideas" is and has always been horseshit

Everyone expressing shock that an old lady would trust a person with pink hair is assuming A LOT about the personal histories of individual old ladies.

I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Ahhhhh, cinematographer Michael Bauman shot One Battle After Another on VistaVision. Now I know why I love the way it looks.

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.

Hot rat summer gives way to wet rat winter

I’ve seen several news stories about toilet rats and no no nonononono

I like a movie that’s not embarrassed about being an actual fucking movie.

Never not wondering what dinner table conversations are like in the Maya Rudolph/PT Anderson household.

Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers Me:

I see the justice department have had a go at Tristram Shandy too.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024

The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies. They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube. Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.

This is why you rarely see the anti trans side going after Hunter Schafer or Kim Petras. They went on puberty blockers and transitioned as teens. They're massively successful and living happy lives. They don't want to highlight that.

As it turns out, dads appreciate a really good gadget.

Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.

what I want trans kids, queer kids, and gender nonconforming kids to know: you are loved you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)

I already regularly give money directly to trans people, but are there any organizations that are generally terrific? In the past, I have funded Trevor, Trans Lifeline, Okra Project, Allies in Arts, SRLP, and Campaign for Southern Equality in the past, but I'd love suggestions.

Gender affirming care for trans people is safe, effective, and has a lower regret rate (4%) than almost any major medical procedure. It saves lives. These are facts. The right's talking-points are recycled "they are coming for your children!" scare tactics well over fifty years old at this point.

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

EXCLUSIVE: the Working Families Party is putting out a recruitment call for people opposed to data centers in their communities to run for local office the recruitment effort comes just 2 days after Bernie Sanders called for a moratorium on data center construction

This is why "vote blue no matter who" is bullshit. It absolutely matters "who."

The editor of my intro for this new edition of Celia Dale's SHEEP'S CLOTHING says, "It made me clutch my pearls in a good way," so my work is done.

Strippers have done so many good things over the years and almost never get credit for them

“Be gay do crimes” just got gayer and crimier

Oh come the fuck on @propublica.org

I know many things are awful but here is one genuinely useful and helpful thing you can do. No matter their party, your representative needs to hear that trans people and our families are not alone and this bill is an unjustifiable and extreme threat to criminalize the health care we need to live.

hey new york, who’s gonna primary gillen?

If you want to know what's truly going on in politics, look at that country's horror (and sometimes science fiction).

Christmas films are all well and good, but I appreciate a good New Year's film, and that's why I love The Hudsucker Proxy.

there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke

"Luigi Mangione cannot take a bad picture" is rapidly reaching "mass can neither be created nor destroyed" levels of scientific validity

My thoughts on Rob Reiner, up @thenation.com: "He was born into privilege, and all charges of nepo-babyism certainly apply [but] he paid back all those breaks ... in making the state of California a far better place to live for millions of its citizens." www.thenation.com/article/cult...

In case you need one more reason to leave Facebook and Instagram.

It's fun to express your rage and your disappointment over these quislings by telling them that you can't wait for them to get primaried. Try it!

New York | Contact Your US Senator www.callyoursenate.com/new-york/

I've been reading TERRY DACTYL in bite-sized pieces because I want to prolong the reading experience. It's too human for this world.

The trailer for No Other Choice, which gets a U.S. theatrical release Dec. 25: