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It's hard to overstate what a catastrophe it would be for moviemaking and moviegoers if the Ellisons are allowed to acquire Warner Brothers and merge it with Paramount. I know that rooting for Comcast and/or Netflix sticks in a lot of throats here but those would be far better alternatives... >

I’ve had a major talent crush on Michael Urie for years, so it was great to chat with him at length about Richard II, Jeff Hiller, Adam Driver, physical comedy, being a gay actor and more. Enjoy! www.timeout.com/newyork/news...

A lot of people didn’t like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me

The Trump administration is trying to sell federal student loans to private companies. This sale would be a giveaway to wealthy insiders at the expense of working-class borrowers and taxpayers. It’s a tremendous mistake, and I’m fighting back.

Alissa's tenure at NYT has carved out so much space for documentaries, and here she addresses the threat of A.I. on our understanding of "truth" and how nonfiction filmmakers are fighting back: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...

i am tired of being gaslit by medical offices, you have never once changed the options of the phone menu. sick of your lies actually

You don't often see this at the end of a whistleblower story:

Making a TV show where by the end of episode one it's managed to coyly imply that every single recurring character separately has some sort of sexual or romantic history with every single other recurring character, then for the rest of the season none of this ever comes up again.

every epstein email is some creep complaining about MeToo and then being like “oh before i forget, any advice on how to use my position of authority to force women into sleeping with me?”

Everybody has a type, but this feels like someone taking a big whiff of a corpse flower plant & saying, “mmm! refreshing”

Stephen Fry is an actor, comic, novelist, memoirist, radio presenter, television personality, gay-rights advocate, mental-health campaigner, and, as of earlier this year, Knight Bachelor. Now, he’s starring in “The Importance of Being Earnest.” https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/QwCp5E

I spoke with BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg about his wonderful new Netflix comedy Long Story Short, which tells the story of a Jewish-American family throughout different stages of their lives:

This piece is important. It is also a great (annoyingly great) example of what a properly resourced team of journalists can do. There are five bylines and almost 20 additional reporting credits on this piece. I've wanted to write this story for months but... do not have that many colleagues

i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate

The amount of TikTok memes inspired by that Bubba rumor—Reynolds Pamphlets riffs, an imitation of Trump watching the 2016 election styled to look like the climax of Challengers—is impressive/nuts

One thing that's been heavily proven to me is Bluesky is not all politics. The music, record, cd, movie, books, horror and lots more scenes are heavily alive and well here with almost zero negativity. Better engagement here than Facebook has been in years.

I didn’t like the show Euphoria very much when it was on HBO, but apparently I like it when it’s chopped up into niblets on TikTok? I don’t know what this says about the show, but it doesn’t speak well of me

father-in-law cracked a good one about Jack Schlossberg: “I wanna show up to one of his rallies with a sign that says ‘No Princes’”

Chicago Pope says We come to this place for magic.

I always like it when PBS says that viewers like me.

He's a 10 but his life, his love, and his lady is the sea

i'm actually a very large bean

Around D.C., analogies about Laura Loomer abound—she is everything from Trump’s Rasputin to the “MAGA Grand Inquisitor.” Loomer thinks the most apt comparison is to Joseph McCarthy, a parallel she finds flattering. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/nzLTtb

"ProPublica’s reporting debunks the idea of a ’Tren de Aragua complex' taken over by a horde of terrorists. We found no criminal convictions for 18 of the 21 Venezuelans we identified. Three of the men had been charged with offenses ... but in each case the charges were dropped."

Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.

That "clubby" NYT headline is awful, but the piece itself is clear-eyed & observant, if cool in tone — it's by a strong writer & it documents the creepy, backpatting insider world of guys griping about MeToo as it happens. The NYT is always doing this! If the hed was different, the piece wd be legit

People are crazily creative & weird! www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMKLWsjD/

People say Cancel Culture is real and then you see Lydia Tár being invited to meet the Pope. 🙄

What’s the Pope’s take on Pluribus

Annoyed that the Pope keeps saying cool stuff, I don't want to like the Pope

"blending governance and family business" for the love of

Sick of my iPhone‘s voice command getting worse & worse. From adding random capitalization/punctuation that I haven’t dictated, to getting the dictation exactly correct at first, but then changing it to incomprehensible word salad just when I’m hitting send, it’s total garbage.

Perfect review: www.vulture.com/article/thea...

Tfw you have 2 cocktails in a revolving bar

When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.

Always cool when this happens. Story in 🧵--->

Hold up

An absolute triumph for the "I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards" set.

sadly recalling that the screeners I was really enjoying, a show where bryan cranston played a woman and was married to daniel radcliffe (?), were in fact a dream I had at like 2am last night

it brings me a tiny flicker of hope that someone as profoundly opportunistic as marjorie taylor greene has decided it’s fine to move away from the fold

This is really good article whether you love, hate, or couldn't care less about Wiener. It gives a good sense of what governing is really like. How long it takes, how many valid yet competing interests are at play, and how most observers & participants can only see their own side.

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

it's actually quite easy not to openly fantasize about people being killed in horrible ways, and I recommend it

I think this is a point of view worth keeping in mind when thinking about Patton Oswalt's suspension

Ken Burns made a documentary about Americans who declared "No kings!" and rose up against the military occupation of their cities. What could possibly be polarizing about that? [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/a...

Yes. Maybe something more will come out. But thus far what we know is that they found a reporter was acting inappropriately and pushed him out.

Notable trend: Curmudgeonly, bereaved middle-aged lesbian best-selling authors are the detective-like protagonists of two (2) major but very different streaming shows