for no particular reason and definitely unrelated to the below post or the one it’s referring to: I saw It Was Just an Accident today and wow what a great movie boxd.it/bJJltB

I agree that Noem should resign and be criminally charged (I mean, I’d prefer several other things, but I would settle for that) but I think it’s important to say that there’s no number of resulting arrests that would make this raid defensible or any less of a heinous moral atrocity

From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte

the way this has been comprehensively written out of the entire cultural notion of “millennials” will never cease to shock me

The way too many people actively avoid talking about the unreliability of one of the most famous unreliable narrators in all of the literary canon is really something.

one must imagine monica lewinsky happy

how much do you think about “and you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you” for me it’s the normal amount

I swear to god I just want to live to see a world where nobody’s talking about Bill Clinton’s penis

HEAT was a love story. 📽️

This man, Rev. Michael Woolf, wrote this for us earlier this month: "It is up to us to keep our communities safe from this terror, and scripture tells us that God will meet us there—at the picket line, amid the tear gas." sojo.net/articles/opi...

for years now I’ve been referring to all the wellness guys and healthfluencer masculinity bros, up to and including RFK Jr, as pro-ana bloggers, and you can do this too

it’s not a coincidence that the hyper-aggressive marketing and discourse about perimenopause, particularly the notion that it starts SO much earlier (30??) than we thought arrived at the same time as the renewed dominance of the idea that a woman’s only value is as a disenfranchised child bride

I swear this actually happened: I’m in London right now, a few days ago I’m at a coffeshop, a British family is sitting at the table next to me, the teenage son asks his parents “want to hear a joke?” in that too-loud, over-eager, I-know-a-joke-I’m-not-supposed-to-say-out-loud teenager voice

Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

personally, I think we should stop platforming all of Gaiman’s projects, including the ghostwriting ones

if ever there’s been a day in history that proved there are worse things to be than not rich

all kinds of guys in this country with too much money and no idea what to do with it and not one will pay a john goodman impersonator to follow larry summers around with his blown-up epstein emails on a placard going "is this your homework, larry? is this your homework, larry? is this your homework,

huh, weird, it’s almost as though the thing where social justice movements such as metoo become uncool and déclassé just as they’re on the verge of gaining real currency & causing real change were a process that benefits the wealthy and corrupt already in power and perhaps is even engineered by them

The existence of Predator: Badlands implies the existence of a Predator: Days of Heaven & honestly, I think Linda Manz could take the monster down.

a beautiful review (as ever) by Dana on what’s almost certainly my favorite movie of the year

It is journalistic malpractice to be within a city block of Vance and not read him this tweet through a bullhorn

nabokov: you can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style american century of humiliation: bet

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

What a great day for finding out that a lot of things people thought were conspiracies are actually backed up by emails that are like hey pedo, let us pedo together in pedoland on the second day of the pedo month

I wore high heels to a holiday party in a teeny nyc apt (I’m very tall w no shoes), I went to get a drink and realized halfway across the room when I was yanked backward that I’d gotten the entirety of the party’s xmas decorations caught in my hair and had been pulling them across the apt behind me

All Tits Are Real All Borders Are Fake

let Carmen Maura from Volver be James Bond

Please share & give to help Ahmed's family survive Israel's continuing genocide. His family's been left homeless and starving as winter approaches, & his children are very sick & in urgent need of unaffordable & scarce healthcare:

a nation in which it’s both illegal to take a CBD gummy and illegal NOT to gamble does slightly seem like a nation that’s lost its way

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

we should not be letting any company get away with blaming AI for their failures. I'm not even sure how we got to this point. people are like "it's just a tool" okay so is a forklift and we still hold somebody responsible when it goes wrong and hurts someone. this is YOUR AI!

today is the day Joyce Carol Oates truly became the inventor of big jeans

Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”

broken record on this but a similarly great beat for left wing media would be covering arts and culture and not just focusing primarily on politics and current events because there's a massive void there right now

2020s: Tár, Drive My Car, Lovers Rock, and honestly Past Lives because that ending was so good it made me think the whole movie was 20x better than it actually was in the last ten years: Pain and Glory

The unionization of digital media was and is so important, and we gotta start reminding the bosses that it’s the floor

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

oh no, is the lesson here that if we want the rewards of living through history we must submit to the mortifying ordeal of living through history, oh no

I’m in London right now and, awake at 3am, at once overjoyed at the results and crushed not to be in NYC celebrating with everybody, I was like “ok where can I go to celebrate and who can I celebrate with”

fuck the beresford

“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

"Many of them, he said, held legal status, but were unable to immediately produce their documentation to the agents. “Some people left their property, their work permits in their lockers here,” [their boss] said. “I could bring it to them and get them released. But I don’t know where they are.”"

Never let them say you can’t be a mensch AND a hater

Hey Dersh

I'm afraid that Woke 2 will be quite operational when your candidates arrive.

MAMDANI CAME OUT TO JA RULE "NEW YORK" AND IMMEDIATELY QUOTED EUGENE DEBS

What we live in now is a demented cult exalting the right of a tiny handful of people to immiserate the rest of humanity for no real reason. It will end. It will end so totally that one day it will be nothing but a footnote in history books.

Today’s Mood in NYC.

all my life I’ll cherish the memory of Thomas yelling “what if your mayor was hot?!?!” at UWSers on a freezing cold sunday morning