Michael Markowitz
@markowitz.bsky.social
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He/him. Writer. Los Angeles, CA.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002864/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
On this day in 1845 London inventor Stephen Perry patented the vulcanized rubber band. Speaking of Vulcans, on this day in 1986 the top secret final scene of “Star Trek IV” was filmed, unveiling the new Enterprise. Though James Doohan played a Scot, his parents were Irish. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
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If you’re one of those people who pronounces “Oh my God” as “Ohhhh - wuhhh myyy Gaaaaa - duhhhhh!”? Please stop.
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If there had been cable news during World War II, and Hitler’s Chief of High Command had been diagnosed with cancer, would anchors have added “Of course we send him our best wishes for a speedy recovery.”?
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“Let that super-sized ‘In Memoriam’ segment prove that the length of the Oscar broadcast doesn’t matter as long as that length is filled well.”
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Update from Kyle Buchanan
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/15/movies/oscars-2026-live-updates-red-carpet/c9bb594e-8fdc-5cab-a30c-43343c026b8f?smid=url-share
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The US does produce the most oil. If Trump believes oil shortages mean we make more profits, as he’s said, why would we still “drill baby drill” aiming for 50% more oil?
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Reporters and pundits always say someone “said the quiet part loud” but I suspect few know they’re quoting Krusty the Clown, who spoke the line in the classic “Simpsons” episode “A Star is Burns,” which aired on this date in 1995.
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You Don’t Know How Bad the Pizza Box Is The delivery icon hasn’t changed in 60 years, and it’s making your food worse.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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You Don’t Know How Bad the Pizza Box Is
The delivery icon hasn’t changed in 60 years, and it’s making your food worse.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/01/pizza-delivery-box-design-soggy/672712/?gift=ufc9mF0WhdaJh1gKoIP8I0bcxSKTWLP1jaMGLkmndm4
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When Trump denies wanting to kiss that steel company president I’d give anything if a reporter would sing, “You think he’s gorgeous, you want to kiss him…”
3 months ago
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While Trump is speaking all I can think of is the scene in “Horse Feathers” when Groucho pokes his head into a college classroom and says, “Have they started sawing a woman in half yet?”
3 months ago
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“I’m very good at reading language.” — saddest POTUS flex ever. And it isn’t even true.
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3 months ago
I will give $1000 to anyone in that room who will yell out "what the fuck are you rambling about, old man?"
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Trump is listing amounts that are not zero: one dollar, ten dollars, ten cents, etc. The dementia is strong.
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3 months ago
this has been driving me insane for two years
add a skeleton here at some point
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I challenge Trump: If he can complete the Easy level of the NY Times “Pips” game in under 10 minutes — if at all — I will vote for him in 2028.
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Brilliant post, nails the Freakshow of Peace event perfectly, AND includes a gif from “The In-Laws.”
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All week I’ve had this song — against my will — running through my head. Can’t stop singing it. The way Bing sings “Here’s my beret” is so… I don’t know if “rakish” is the right word but I love it.
youtu.be/lVkZpPJpzD4?...
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Going Hollywood Bing Crosby
YouTube video by WindlePoones
https://youtu.be/lVkZpPJpzD4?si=v_BG6h3B4CjWMgNR
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RiffTrax Makes MST3K! — Four NEW episodes in 2026!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/rif...
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RiffTrax Makes MST3K! — Four NEW episodes in 2026!
Mike, Kevin, and Bill are heading back to the Satellite of Love for Mystery Science Theater 3000: THE RIFFTRAX EXPERIMENTS!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rifftrax/rifftrax-makes-mst3k
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3 months ago
His blood pressure has got to be through the roof right now, so if anyone has a chance to ask him an aggressive question about the Epstein files, that really could make It happen today. Come on, reporters. We'll build statues in your honor.
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3 months ago
The most shocking thing about this decision: 3 Justices would have let Trump use a statute that doesn’t mention tariffs to impose unrestricted ones.
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On this date in 1816, Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” debuted at the Teatro Argentina in Rome. All as prelude to the great 1950 Looney Tunes cartoon “The Rabbit of Seville,” written by Michael Maltese and directed by Chuck Jones. it made unwitting opera lovers out of generations of kids.
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The Tennessee Holler
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What would normally be presidency-ending scandals not even a blip on the radar Daily
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Rachel Maddow
3 months ago
How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.
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Yikes!
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Fifty years ago this month American television viewers were obsessed with the miniseries “Rich Man, Poor Man.” I don’t know if younger people can appreciate just how massive a cultural event this show was.
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Perfect description of the problem with most YouTube reactors: The “Indiana Jones Doesn't Matter" theory isn't just annoying because it's wrong but because it's emblematic of the I-must-be-smarter-than-the-movie criticism that's ruining the way we talk about movies.
collider.com/indiana-jone...
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'Raiders of the Lost Ark': Why the "Indy Doesn't Matter" Criticism Needs to Be Put in the Ground
One of the most common criticisms of Raiders of the Lost Ark is that Indiana Jones has no effect on the movie, but that's not how stories work.
https://collider.com/indiana-jones-doesnt-matter-theory-is-bad/
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4 months ago
Swalwell: ICE agents shot Alex Pretti and Renee Good. And the only person in the world who has been held accountable by DHS is the pilot who somehow forgot to move Kristi Noem’s blankie.
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Remember Trump’s second day in office, he fired the Coast Guard commandant (first woman to lead an Armed Forces branch) and gave her 3 hours to vacate her home? Is that the house Kristi Noem is living in, rent free? If so that’s added outrage.
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I have lived through countless “nontroversies” from Tipper Gore to the “War on Xmas” but this Bad Bunny outrage is the stupidest of them all. Conservative lawmakers plan to investigate Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show
www.pastemagazine.com/music/bad-bu...
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Conservative lawmakers plan to investigate Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/bad-bunny/conservative-lawmakers-plan-to-investigate-bad-bunnys-super-bowl-halftime-show
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Foreigner, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Spinners and The Four Tops “consistently tour without any original members, instead handpicking and training other musicians to perform their material on the road.”
www.vulture.com/article/when...
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When Is a Band Not the Same Band Anymore?
From Foreigner to Lynyrd Skynyrd, a number of legacy acts are touring without any of their original members. Audiences don’t seem to care.
https://www.vulture.com/article/when-is-a-band-not-the-same-band-anymore.html
4 months ago
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Hey, MS NOW, I have never respected John Kasich or cared what he thinks. Ditch this guy.
4 months ago
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Am I missing it, or does the
@ms.now
iOS app really have no search function?
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Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change The Environmental Protection Agency repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being. It means the agency can no longer regulate them.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...
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Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/climate/trump-epa-greenhouse-gases-climate-change.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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The EU Wants to Cut Off Visa and Mastercard
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Kill (the Dollar) Bill
Two boring stories that should worry you.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/kill-the-dollar-bill?r=qt7n&utm_medium=ios
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Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years 🤔
thehill.com/homenews/med...
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https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5733236-gallup-stops-presidential-approval-ratings-polls/
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Clearly, Bondi was told that she’s incapable of an “I’m listening” face so she spends all her time meaninglessly leafing through her notebooks. It’s obnoxious.
4 months ago
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Happy Birthday to the great Leslie Nielsen, born February 11, 1926.
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The Turning Point USA show “wasn’t even a live trainwreck, it was a canned one. They had time to fix it and simply chose not to. And, hell, if that’s not symbolic of the state of American politics, I don’t know what is.”
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I wasted 30 minutes of my life watching the Turning Point USA halftime show so you don’t have to
It’s hard to mount a culture war when your big counteroffensive looks like a youth-group lock-in made up of kids who found God in a megachurch but lost their personality somewhere in suburban Atlanta....
https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/super-bowl-halftime-show/turning-point-usa-halftime-show-recap
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I want to live in a neighborhood like the one in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, not one filled with Trump’s armed stormtroopers.
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Decoding Fox News
4 months ago
The Turning Point USA Half Time show broken down into two minutes - the highs, the lows, the poor audio production and overuse of pyrotechnics. A 55-year-old man dancing around in shorts. It was everything and nothing all at once.
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To Trump’s claim that “no one understands” Bad Bunny, the NFL wants the Super Bowl to be a global event, and there are far more native Spanish speakers in the world than native English speakers.
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Most churches don’t discuss Jesus as much as Morning Joe does. Enough already.
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4 months ago
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Ah, Super Bowl Sunday. When non-football-fans have no problem letting football fans enjoy hours and hours. And in two months, non-Oscars-fans will complain the Oscars are too long.
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Kids in school learn, at the very most, five things about each POTUS. Future kids will only know about a handful of Trump’s monstrous deeds, instead of the hundreds you or I could list from following this day to day. He’ll get off easy.
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"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)
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Opinion | This Is Just Who Trump Is
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/opinion/trump-obama-video-apes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KVA.vKKi.YyyTPNX6x0r4&smid=url-share
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We need a larger House of Representatives, combined with proportional representation
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The House of Representatives is too small. Here is one way to fix it.
YouTube video by Vox
https://youtube.com/watch?v=KhQGHY44XPM
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Luca Migo ❌👑
4 months ago
RFK Jr now claims that we can cure schizophrenia and bipolar disorder with a simple keto diet. When will he be stopped?! This guy’s a danger to public health.
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The MAGA crowd could conceivably take pride that Bad Bunny, a 100% American, is the most streamed artist in the world… if they weren’t too stupid to realize Puerto Ricans are Americans.
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Every reporter who interviews Trump knows he’s going to brag about the cognitive test being really hard, but not one challenges him.
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Someone once asked me what the best things about America were and I said, in no order, the national parks, the Smithsonian, the Kennedy Center, and the Lincoln Memorial. And now Trump is fucking and/or has fucked with them all. Heartbreaking.
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