Doing our Stranger Things rewatch ahead of season 5, and this line gets me every time.

I do feel like I’m living in an alternate timeline that the TVA will come along and prune in a minute.

Got super inside baseball for this installment of "Journalism is Fucked and We're All Doomed" asking whether publicists are really aware, or not, of what's happening in entertainment journalism. Like, share, subscribe w/the PR person in your life. [Paywall] thefilmmaven.com/publicity-in...

Even if you have AMAZING employer insurance and will never leave your job and they keep costs down or fully fund it...no employer health insurance can save you from hospital/clinic/supplier/etc closures caused by falling off a cliff on Medicaid, Medicaid, and private insurance reimbursement.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.

If we’re removing ACA subsidies, the states that decided to enact penalties for not having insurance better also be reversing course.

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

Shutdowns weren't a thing in the US either, until they were invented by the Carter administration. It's not some natural, immutable characteristic of the US system of government, although people (not the OP) talk about it that way.

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

Been making the rounds all week

MSNBC reported Schumer's office felt that the longer that shutdown went on, the more likely it was that people would start to blame the Dems. My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.

Corporations are now more emboldened than ever to exploit workers who only have the option of put up with low wages and overwork because they can't be without health insurance. It's always been predatory, but 8 spineless dems just threw chum in the water.

So @schumer.senate.gov really thinks we don’t understand that he orchestrated this by getting senators not up for re-election to vote yes?

Great, I guess health care just became a pipe dream.

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In case you missed it, I wrote a thing to hopefully help folks not land in the wrong place. Since then, it’s been agent/editor approved more than once. Hah. gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/too-many-s...

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Just saw someone on TikTok refer to NYT as the “once-respected New York Times,” and I can’t help but feel that’s how we should all be describing it these days.

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

Big agree. Star Wars is best when the Skywalkers are anywhere else but on camera.

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

The most corrupt administration in American history.

Being this determined to starve people is deeply weird and deeply cruel.

The fourth season of #TheWitcher begins a new chapter for the Continent, with our heroes facing terrible dangers on all sides. Use our full recap guide to get the most of your binge watch.

I’m sick, so tonight’s being spent in a blanket fortress with soup, my e-reader, and anime. (So basically, it’s like every other night, but my nose is stuffy.)

What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

Fuck. This. Shit. No.

Parks and Rec isn't a hill to die on, but one thing it gets right is this whole government thing rests on the shoulders of people you will never know, caring a lot about jobs you've never heard of, fighting challenges thrown at them from every angle just to make life a little better for everyone.

Gross, but I’m 100% going to try it.

A new Chaos Walking TRILOGY?! I am so (not) ready for this.

Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning

Yikes, absolutely hate this for GRRM and fans if it’s true.

A breakdown of US air traffic triggers a seismic effect on global transport infrastructure that would make the escalating effects of the America Crisis on the global system impossible to play down.

Happy Stranger Things Day! I guess I’ll take this chance to share my latest piece for ComicBook as we all await the fifth and final season: comicbook.com/tv-shows/fea...

Yet another digital comic book app, Sweet Shop, launched its beta today with 24 publishers. Biggest selling point, per the press release? "As part of their commitment to the hard work of creators and publishers, Sweet Shop does not accept AI comics." sweetshop.app

the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from

one of my least favorite new publishing "truths" is that books only deserve consistent marketing & publicity if they are already doing well, it's the new "needs experience to get experience" 🤡

Love that we're apparently just normalizing this kind of conversation in the biggest newspaper on Earth.

“Actually, the Democrats are losing with these wins” is some wild shit.

Just had a family friend I rarely speak to respond to my post in support of Zohran Mamdani with a crying Emoji, and man, the “I’m entitled to my opinions” crowd sure can’t handle other people’s opinions.

Mamdani: "I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life but let tonight be the final time I utter his name."

Honestly, we needed this. Today, sanity and humanity won. It’s encouraging and heartening. And this evening, bask in that warmth, and remember that feeling. Tomorrow, the fight continues.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Libbing out so hard I might listen to the entire Hamilton soundtrack

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

BIG WIN: the Democrats have won the Governor of Virginia and Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. These races were both called quickly, which points to a sizable win.

Rewatching Iron Man 3 for an article (me, writing about the MCU again!!!), and I’m sorry, y’all were wrong to hate on this movie.

sorry but mamdani and cuomo should have worn blue and yellow hats, respectively