Barbara Gomes Marques is documentary filmmaker who risks imminent deportation to Brazil. Loud voices in the film community could be especially helpful right now.

i love ta-nehisi coates so much

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

popping back in from mat leave to say i profiled @katmabu.bsky.social for @wired.com and you should read it! she's running a fascinating campaign: www.wired.com/story/kat-ab...

New: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

Good piece by Alaa Salama, on the futility and dangers of symbolic statehood www.972mag.com/palestinian-...

it feels so good to write again, to play games again, after the worst year of my life. i picked a ridiculous game (that i love!) to relearn controller skills with, but taking my time makes it possible aftermath.site/silksong-hol...

a whole generation of corporate leadership telling on themselves

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

"Never have I felt so personally disrespected by TIFF, as both a Jew and a human being." for the newsletter, i wrapped up #TIFF25 with some words on the great Rose of Nevada, and a long rant about Cameron Bailey's shameful display in support of The Road Between Us

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

ICYMI on a lazy Sunday, I had some words over at WIRED. Orwell: 2+2=5, Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk are must watches for the times we're living in

“Severance" actor Tramell Tillman has won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series. He is the first Black man ever to win the award #Emmys

Noel’s analysis is so thoughtful and made me want to watch all of these!

These are WIRED’s picks for some of the most urgent and unsettling films from the 50th annual Toronto International Film Festival. www.wired.com/story/from-o...

My first for WIRED: I spoke with TIFF directors about their films on power, survival, and the state of our world today. Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, in particular, moved me to tears. www.wired.com/story/from-o...

Corporate media bravely continues Charlie Kirk's legacy by committing to destroy the careers of anyone who disagreed with him: www.404media.co/comcast-nbcu...

I’m on crazy pills, apparently. Hats off to Ezra Klein for virtue signaling with his whole pimply ass out without any shame. Let’s be clear, Kirk was not our era’s most effective practitioner of persuasion, he was an activator for the bigotry and hate that was already thriving in people’s hearts.

a really wonderfully considered piece from @nymag.com. cultural criticism is the heartbeat of american cultural production and its history. the form gives tangibility to how we remember and how critique brings us to a place of societal betterment…. there is no life worth living without it.

“Let’s begin by saying that we are living through a very dangerous time.” So opens “A Talk to Teachers,” which James Baldwin delivered to a group of educators in October, 1963.

The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I want to be a writer, not an entrepreneur

“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink

LeVar Burton: literary hero! ❤️💪 magazine.1000libraries.com/levar-burton...

you could write a lot of words about this topic or you could use just one word: access. pop stars and the machine that churns them out figured out they don’t need us or care about us and whatever actual merit this work has. power is another word to use here, sure! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The blood of our martyred journalists in Gaza has not yet dried before the Israeli occupation forces committed another crime against Al Jazeera cameraman Mohammed Salama, together with three other photojournalists.

I wrote about the em dash

All of this phasing out of criticism, this terrible devaluing of it. I’m sad for myself as a lover of it, someone whose life has been enriched by it, but also, how are young people going to learn to really engage with art, to think and feel deeply about it, make connections between it and the world?

Girl got the Denzel Interview! 👏👏 Really can't wait to see Spike’s take on High and Low

I interviewed Denzel Washington about his new movie Highest 2 Lowest! When I brought up AI, he talked about his deepfakes and said "I'm 70 years old, but I pray for your generation." Lol.

Professional criticism is not the same as individual reviews. They can both be useful but criticism is a skill-based genre like any other writing. The yelpification of criticism isn’t evolution.

It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.

For @wired.com, I spoke with Noah Hawley about ALIEN: EARTH, which was inspired by his fears as a parent about the world we live in today. www.wired.com/story/in-ali...

some yall finally ready to call it a genocide and it’s like welcome you been late af now actually do something

“Reviews, far from being conservative, are the most inherently progressive mode of arts writing . . . In downgrading reviews, publications yield to the temptation of corporatized impersonality.”

GAZA IS STARVING DO NOT LOOK AWAY

“I think this might be the new spot,” says Xavier Hardy, a realtor and DJ. “All the celebs will probably be here.” Read about @jasooooon.bsky.social’s day at the Tesla diner with Elon Musk loyalists (featuring bananas photos): www.wired.com/story/search...

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So we really got frontpage columnists out here measuring genocide by body count now? This argument boils down to ‘If Israel wanted to erase Gaza, it would’ve done it better.' Huh?

Jubilee is a grift starter pack

Ozzy Osbourne has died at the age of 76, his family says

What the culture war over Superman gets wrong | Noel Ransome

Just a PSA: I can’t tell you how important it is to get messages like these with the way things are going. Whether it be a DM, email, encouragement like this matters

“This is my third time in Gaza since December 2023 as a volunteer surgeon with Medical Aid for Palestinians. … But nothing has prepared me for the sheer horror I’m witnessing now: the weaponisation of starvation against an entire population.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One of the saddest things about Cosby actually is that so many talented artists like those of the Cosby Show have to be tainted by his legacy, they had nothing to with his abuse, sometimes they were his victims.

variety.com/2025/tv/news... Such awful news