We must not become less of ourselves in the face of annihilation. We must hold to who we are, hold tight to our joys. i came into this world dead, grey and silent. I shall go out of strange, full of love and wondrous curiosity. I shall go a fully-grown changeling with a kiss of intent on my lips.

🔥🔥🔥First criterion disk I ever bought for …..reasons

What a beautiful moment.

For the 20th anniversary of The Gordon Parks Foundation, Bryan Stevenson curated an exhibition by the incomparable photographer Gordon Parks. The images of Parks's he selected convey the "struggle, resilience, and constant striving of Black Americans." Read more: eji.org/news/gordon-...

“Those who believe they believe in God but without passion in the heart, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself.” - Miguel de Unamuno

In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

RIP English writer Virginia Woolf, died this day 1941. “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” “The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”

It’s not a plot hole that Elmo has been 3 years old for 50 years. He was bitten by The Count, willingly. Elmo asked for the Dark Gift

No contemporary purveyor of wit makes me swoon like @jpbrammer.bsky.social does, and this one doesn’t disappoint.

41 years old, evacuated here legally, asylum case pending, kidnapped while driving his six children (one a US citizen) to school. Dead within 24 hours. Betrayed and murdered by the United States government. 42nd confirmed and reported death in ICE custody under Trump.

Man look at this photo of Toshiro Mifune this is out of control

Sculpture by American artist Emily Counts, 2020s.

This is one of the best political communications I've ever seen and it made me miss zines and niche magazines and weird little newspapers that were everywhere in the 90s.

"If you have ever traveled to or through Grand Staircase, dream of visiting, or love a landscape as deeply as a relative, please write to your representatives (especially if you are outside of UT) & urge them to oppose efforts...to remove the 2025 Resource Management Plan. (1/3)

actual jumpscare reading the Killing of a Chinese Bookie wiki

it's molting season for RFK Jr

For Playboy, I wrote about Clavicular, masculinity, and the digital image www.playboy.com/read/enterta...

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Oscar-winning director Hamdan Ballal: “Nearly a year after we won, the same Israeli settler who attacked me after I returned from LA again led an attack against my family. 4 of my family members are currently arrested, one in the hospital… we call the police, they do nothing.”

I heard from three diferent deaf people that Bad Bunny's Halftime Show is the best they've ever seen. I didn't know what to make of this until I saw the version of the show for the hearing impaired. Holy Shit, these people are incredible! youtu.be/tJBOg860IWE?...

this is what all those Mormon wives look like to me

I wrote about 'MELANIA' johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/my-melania...

My mom went to a charlatan like this when she started to succumb to Alzheimer’s and it greatly hastened her suffering and death. May he suffer the pain he’s caused ten fold

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...

Leigh Brackett was one hell of a great Sci-Fi and Noir author. Leigh wrote the original script for The Empire Strikes Back. She wrote three of Howard Hawks’ toughest Westerns and co-wrote two of the best Raymond Chandler movies ever made. She was also Ray Bradbury’s best friend.

10/10 ICE protest sign

Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that

Lee Pace for ‘THE RUNNING MAN’ premiere 📸: Jonathan Daniel Pryce

This Rocky Horror cast is nuts.

“We are a Minneapolis 2nd grade Brownie Troop of 12 including trans and neurodiverse youth and 75% BIPOC kids. We want to go to summer camp and try horseback riding! During the current ICE occupation we need your support more than ever...” And that’s how I ordered 4 boxes of thin mints.

Annie Wilkes from Misery is spiritually Millennial: ▪️cottagecore ▪️extremely toxic fandom ▪️aggressive side part ▪️weird childish curses ▪️puritanical, but also ▪️horrifyingly perverted RIP Annie you would have been so good at BookTok

my favorite genre is coming to the Criterion Channel in February www.criterion.com/current/post...

Congresswoman @ayannapressley.bsky.social has been trying to get qualified immunity eliminated her ENTIRE career. What the fuck is it going to take to get people to listen to her?

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

rough day for trad cath adult converts who just wanted real life Dark Souls lore rather than any responsibility to do good in the world

Amen.

Masterpiece. One of my favorite films of last year and one I couldn't review because of my personal affection for @adamsfamfilms.bsky.social. Their work is equisite and important.

I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.

if you enjoy these videos & would like me to make another one at some point (or even if you don't care about them at all & just want to support an incredibly urgent cause), please consider donating to my fundraiser for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund! www.gofundme.com/f/david-ehrl...

THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2025 A Video Countdown vimeo.com/1156345183

Maybe it's just cope, but my longstanding conviction is that what fascists experience as "love" would not be recognizable as such to real humans

The absolute accuracy of this.

Holy shit

As Pratchett said:

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before) Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...

BREAKING: This dog is named Susan From Accounting

We need to pick up this Overton Window and throw it as far as we can. Stop waiting for shit to “be popular” and start advocating for what is transparently right.