The Kennedy Center shutdown breaks my heart. These are real flesh-and-blood people and our idiot president is taking food out of their mouths because a bunch of hateful rich people want to be able to do anything they can think of without consequences

The other thing is that when that kid gets out, when any of those kids get out, they don’t pay for shit their whole lives. The state should fully fund their lives, from school to food to a fucking PS5 if he wants one. That child should not have to worry about shit the rest of his life on our dime

new yorkers survive in the city long-term by traveling in a kind of invisible force field bubble that maintains another body's amount of space between you & everyone else whenever possible. the snowbanks are collapsing this & everybody is riding a knife's edge of irritation that is starting to give

every morning I wake up, read the news, walk down into hell, share a strong cup of tea with the devil who assures me it will and can get worse, walk backwards out of darkness, and emerge into the light to witness the world collapse

give me the opinion journalist job. every week the opinion will be ‘full communism now’

I don't think there are good arguments against this position

I cannot possibly explain how important Catherine O’Hara in After Hours is to me

I’m only realizing right now that for years I’d felt completely certain that Catherine O’Hara would have some grand dramatic late-in-life movie role soon and we’d all get to do like six months of “did you KNOW she’s not JUST funny but ALSO heartbreaking WHAT a GENIUS” about her

Often as I put my son down, after his shower in clean PJ’s & warm bed Im struck with a pang of guilt over the babies that don’t have this, and my mind tonight drifts to the babies in prisons in Palestine & Texas. I wonder if the people guarding their cells have kids of their own.

god I just want to live long enough that the person I’m talking to doesn’t immediately know who I mean if I say “he did something”

texting my friend Gustav Borg to ask if he knows about Jo Nesbo’s Harry Hole

oh you think the Boss is cringe? you think he’s embarrassingly earnest? you fucking reprobate. bruce has been embarrassing me my whole life

he said baby if you wanna be cringe you got a lot to learn

I saw a critique of Springsteen's new song, it being too earnest and cringe, and if I could just take a second to introduce you to the entire Bruce Springsteen catalogue we could settle this in a heartbeat.

“Austerity capitalism gets rid of redundancies and excess and all the lavish extra-ness that this movie revels in; in that context, it was miraculous to see a movie that puts so many hats on top of hats, and that was the context in which we saw it, in which was made.”

This is nothing. ICE and DHS need to be outright abolished. Call Schumer's offices and make it known.

Keep Honking! I'm Liking Sinners And One Battle After Another The Exact Right Amount

every time someone has asked me the last week or so about priorities it is rental assistance. please please please people need rent to stay in their homes. scroll down to rent relief funds and pick something www.standwithminnesota.com

shaking my head and saying “monster time is no time for this” every time I see a bad opinion about a band I like

Their basic model of the world just doesn't have bravery and decency in it, and those things confuse and terrify them

Like he’d have a 30 point increase if he dropped the ferret Nazi stuff and just did queeny there should be live productions of Evita on ABC stuff

bring this baby and all babies home immediately!!!!! impeach noem, try her for war crimes, get rid of miller.

anyway I need more of you to watch this movie so that when I say its ending provides some ideas about possible next steps for the little guy, you’ll know what I mean and agree

this is better than not this, but solidarity with anyone else who didn’t look at their phone all day and then briefly got way too hopeful about what all the “rest in piss bitch” and similar texts might mean happened

As was true in 2020, an actual work stoppage by even a single NBA team (ie the Timberwolves) would be tremendously powerful although I’m sure that everyone who has direct access to these players is telling g them not to do that. Athletes, know your own power.

building supers Siberian huskies with snow gear or similar 🤝 hell yes it’s my time to shine

Let’s hear it for the NYC building superintendents who got to break out their once-a-year sidewalk clearing gear. Saw a guy on a John Deere riding mower with a snow plow attachment practically doing donuts in front of his Mitchell-Lama building.

“The general strike is the name for when the riot, the strike, and the commune all happen at once,” late theorist Joshua Clover said..."that’s the day, the week, or the year where there will be a role for everyone.” There is a role for everyone; that time must be now theintercept.com/2026/01/24/s...

a movie you could watch today is Bacurau, which I mention only because it’s a very good movie if you’re looking for a movie to watch during the snow day boxd.it/cOxUWR

i hate living in the second act of CABARET. i miss living in the first act of CABARET

abolish borders but this is a good start

"I don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him."

Now: With double digit windchill, thousands marching in Downtown Minneapolis during a general strike. Marching and protest against the actions of ICE. Prince dance party outside First Avenue and the Prince mural - where there’s been many Prince dance parties before. Minneapolis January 23, 2026

went to three different grocery stores to get two items (tomato paste, heavy cream) and like maaaaaaybe everyone else is also making Snow Day Vodka Sauce, but this explanation where half the city turns into a college kid with a credit card buying groceries for the first time seems way more likely

Ok folks I have 10 signed copies of Basic Witches, my and @jesszimmerman.com's book of spells for all, that I'd love to give away in exchange for a $20+ donation to the Immigrant Rapid Response fund in MN www.wfmn.org/funds/immigr.... DM/respond with a receipt to claim!

listen, I’m gonna go have a fun trashy time at her Wuthering Heights, but the more I see the trailer, the more I’m convinced that if Emerald Fennell really confronted her own self-loathing, she could probably make a Madame Bovary adaptation that would be All That Jazz for the literary tumblr girls

Minneapolis is about to do something big. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/cold-city-...

“It will be -15 degrees in Minneapolis tomorrow. The people are going to shut down the city because they are sick of injustice. Let’s watch and admire them and walk beside them. If they can do it here, you can do it too. It’s warmer where you are.”

a highlight of last year for me was coming home from major surgery, high out of my mind and covered in bandages, and immediately demanding we watch Miller’s Crossing, the coziest movie there is

from hell’s heart I stab at thee, gavin newsom

some context for that “look at me doing edgy homophobia” Gavin Newsom clip is that Newsom rose to political power in San Francisco during the AIDS crisis. there’s a reason every current or former Californian you’ve ever met feels about Gavin Newsom the way Captain Ahab feels about the whale

a really great movie you could go see today or any day this week if you’re in nyc is It Was Just an Accident directed by Jafar Panahi. just saying!!

Anyway,

the entire timeline has spoken with one voice. and they're saying "Delroy Lindo"

one! good! thing! happened!

We love a vocalist who sounds like they just realized something is very wrong all the time

the moderate position on what to do about ICE is something I can’t say on this website