"Caught Stealing" was one wild ride...also, the kind of movie that doesn't even get made very often anymore
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"Caught Stealing" was one wild ride...also, the kind of movie that doesn't even get made very often anymore
I mean, he was an incredible character, and not unlike many professors in real life back in the day...I both understood and appreciated him as much as I understood the pain he caused...it was very much like Terence Fletcher in Whiplash...I knew that "coach" way too personally
One feature of Nazis is coding their language. What he is saying is he wants a land of only white children and is obsessed with breeding whether women consent to it or not.
Drop an old person you are going to turn into in the future ...and yes, I get I am not flattering myself here :)
Don't let the euphemistic door hit you in your racist a** as "the West" dies If true, good riddance...maybe he can find his racist paradise on Mars
"30,000 had no criminal record at all" - @austinkocher.com ....not that I am good with people serving a second sentence or deportation for a crime they already did time for...but, this is CRUELTY austinkocher.substack.com/p/live-break...?
"Caught Stealing" was one wild ride...also, the kind of movie that doesn't even get made very often anymore
Journalists, in the red circled area: “Progressives just have to accept the numbers abt rising homicide and stop pushing for reforms.” Journalists, in the green circled area: “Progressives have to stop trying to make ppl accept the numbers abt falling homicide and stop pushing for reforms.”
....Cujo?
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
Remember Nate Silver refuses to use Bluesky and says you'd have to pay him over a million dollars to use it, so I'm going to suggest he not only doesn't know what "normal" people like, he doesn't even know what Bluesky is.... Signal and the noise guy is full of noise once again.
Nate Silver is wrong so often that it is almost amazing that he still tries to give advice
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
Only because they REFUSE to defend criminal justice reform...which, if they used "Serious About Safety" language, they could start WINNING (poll after poll has shown they have an advantage with) What Trump is doing, in any rational universe, is actually IDIOTIC www.bostonherald.com/2025/09/01/t...
"30,000 had no criminal record at all" - @austinkocher.com ....not that I am good with people serving a second sentence or deportation for a crime they already did time for...but, this is CRUELTY austinkocher.substack.com/p/live-break...?
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
The debate is really over two visions of law enforcement: one is based on "race-neutral," technocratic policing that relies on "hot spots" and surveillance data. The other is brute force, street-smarts, never filling out paperwork. The problem is neither one works. www.vice.com/en/article/u...
Saw this Rhino many times...even have pictures somewhere...sad :( www.woodtv.com/news/michiga...
It is a bit odd that Borderlands 4 (video game) comes out on the same day as the Downton Abbey movie... Well, probably odder that I am a die-hard Borderlands player and love Downton Abbey lol
Do you want police and troops everywhere? Total surveillance at all times? That would deter a LOT of crime at the cost of liberty Is that what we want (I predict that the answer is yes...sigh)
Yes, when police/troops are present in a particular time and in a specific place...there will be LESS crime in that particular place and at that particular time You didn't SOLVE crime, at best, you deterred it When troops leave and crime increases slightly, will you call for troops to return?
...also, "Orwellian"
I was in higher ed for 25+ years, and I felt like 8 years at the same school was pretty impressive lol...Congrats! From what I have heard, it is a lovely place :)
You guys see where this is going? Right?
What could possibly go wrong?
Agreed! Let's be #human again #America Extend empathy to our fellow progressives, our fellow woke conservatives -simply our fellow humans, who are truly trying to #DoTheRightThing Nobody's perfect. Let's #StandUnited to #FightCorruption as best we can, to #StopFascism as best we can. #resist
What do you get when you blend idiocracy, fascism, and hatred of virtue? MAGA
Beyond Legendary #IYKYK
I would agree (and I have seen them all too - several of them many times...) Craig had two good ones IMHO (which is a high number TBH)
With CC out, she is the hub for the entire offense and their first or second-best player; they have to find ways to get her the ball and keep her head in the game on offense....she disappears way too often
Beyond Legendary #IYKYK
It is also just a bizarre take on a book and previous movie where everyone is supposed to be totally unlikable...
When the Fever are good, Boston is aggressive on both sides of the ball...When the Fever struggle, Boston disappears for long stretches of the game
The first half of Fever v. Valks...1:47 minutes...no, really...that is how long the first half has been (so far) #WNBA
People have embraced criticism to the point where it has become counterproductive In theory, you can make things stronger or ensure people don't make mistakes with their money through thoughtful criticism But thoughtfulness has been replaced with pure cruelty & excess enjoyment - it is killing us
WTAF is wrong with this jackass?
"An active assault on virtue, wherever it exists" www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...
"It’s not merely rule by the worst but an active assault on virtue wherever it exists." www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...
6th clock stoppage in this game....and we have also had multiple long reviews...this game is nuts (not good for anyone when you stop the action this many times) #WNBA (Fever v Valks)
“Terrified and confused, they desperately tried to recall what little they understood about their cases, what the immigration judges had told them, and understand why this was happening” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
A federal judge rushed an emergency hearing after learning that Trump was moving to deport children to Guatemala despite an order she had issued earlier Sunday. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
JUST IN: Judge who blocked the transfer of about 600 Guatemalan minors from US to Guatemala Sunday is keeping a very tight leash on the government. Echoes of Alien Enemies Act litigation simply deafening here. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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and back to the locker room...but now back and playing ...don't see clock issues like that too often
Make that three times...wow
The very rich Peter Thiel is behind a lot of the destruction of pur democracy going on right now, and he thinks the rest of us little people are just in his way.
It's pretty annoying to think we have National Guard people yanked from their lives for this fake emergency in DC & we're paying $1 million per day for them to pick up trash & mulch grassy areas. Absurd.
They have pulled them off the court twice already...this is bizarre (clock issue) #WNBA (Fever v. Valks)
This clock issue is annoying...#WNBA (Fever v. Valks)
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" - Benjamin Franklin
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Think about it, even movie reviews have gotten cruel, and people - often people who didn't even see the movie - are piling on and trying to destroy people and careers...so movies that are otherwise fine...enjoyable...even good...can't be profitable
"Chicago is experiencing a significant decline in gun violence, with year-to-date statistics in August 2025 showing a -32.3% decrease in homicides and a -37.4% drop in overall shooting incidents compared to the same period the previous year." www.chicago.govcity/en/depts/may...
indeed
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
“New York City is seeing a return of broken windows-style policing, which former mayor Rudy Giuliani popularized in the 1990’s” “97 percent of those stopped are Black and/or Latine despite making up less than of half of New York City’s population.”
This is why looking at events OUT OF CONTEXT is a terrible way to judge and determine policy
People have embraced criticism to the point where it has become counterproductive In theory, you can make things stronger or ensure people don't make mistakes with their money through thoughtful criticism But thoughtfulness has been replaced with pure cruelty & excess enjoyment - it is killing us
"Chicago is experiencing a significant decline in gun violence, with year-to-date statistics in August 2025 showing a -32.3% decrease in homicides and a -37.4% drop in overall shooting incidents compared to the same period the previous year." www.chicago.govcity/en/depts/may...
Thanks so much 🙏🏻
"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up." ~ Anne Lamott
I try to live by this and also by the reality that we will be surprised in all directions [good and bad]. Uncertainty is a given so we might as well do what we can.
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This is the way
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As union membership goes down, more wealth gets transferred up to the top 10% from the working class. There’s a reason why corporations and billionaires spend $400 million per year busting unions.
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
Unexpectedly, when the price of Good X went way up, while the piece of nearly-identical Good Y stayed the same, demand shifted heavily towards Y. I mean, yes, I spent 6 years getting a PhD in Economics. But I feel like this is sort of outcome a five year old would expect.
...Slotkin
Oddly enough, I have been near Gorka twice...the last time he was surrounded by subordinates who he appeared to constantly demean and order around So, about what you would expect
I will give it a listen, always excited to hear about good things happening (way too much bad news in the world)
Remember when Kelsey Plum made a joke about the members of Team Clark partying too hard, and the sports "influencer" world took it as a serious dig against CC ...because no opportunity for outrage can ever be allowed to pass
Hey, I used to live there lol
If we have to become an authoritarian state, can we at least get eco-cities, bullet trains, and renewable energy?
Sometimes the time is just what the stew needed
....which saved MILLIONS of lives.... FFS
Scholars have spent a lot of time discussing whether law exists when a statute, court opinion, ordinance, etc. is not enforced. But we didn't adequately consider whether law exists when people comply with wholly illegal orders from a mad king.
Trump’s troops also successfully defended LA from dragon attack — as evidenced by the fact that the city is still standing and dragons are afraid to show their faces.
Some key insights from @gregsargent.bsky.social This reminds me of the VP debate, last year, when Walz seemed astonished he had to defend the role of expertise in policy making. This can be a nuanced issue, but now the stakes are crystal clear. Time for Dems to go on the offense
Nuns from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the women on Texas’s death row—and even made them affiliates of their order. Lawrence Wright reports on a powerful spiritual alliance.
Is the whole of our hearts And Heaven Don't tear you apart
My first op-ed workshop coming up and I've added two NEW workshops. One is a reworked version of my personal essay workshop, and the other is about idea generation and developing a practice. The second is experimental so the price point is low ($50) in case I suck www.elizabethspiers.com/workshops/
So, if you take away a Michigan score with one penalty, then give the same team a first down on third down on another...good things will happen for the Lobos...Good lord #GoBlue
The refs are starting to have an impact on this game...and not in a good way #GoBlue
Well, that was a weak targeting call...just rolled back a hell of a play by Barham #GoBlue
It's bizarre how ending "DEI" so quickly morphed into opposing anti-discrimination ordinances, except that if you listen to the rhetoric of those pushing it, it's really not surprising at all. What's truly shocking is how many accepted the phony pretense.
Beyond stupid and cruel.
Stephen Manning, this guy’s lawyer, is one of the best in the country. It’s very good news that he’s taken this case.
"There is a very strong organizing community in this city and in this region, and I hope that you see from our legislative leaders a desire to not live in a tyrannical state." On Chicago. boltsmag.org/chicago-publ...
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No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
Mayor Brandon Johnson announces executive order resisting immigration crackdown www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW24...
Let's #GoBlue
Once more unto the breach dear friends. Once more unto the breach. youtu.be/VSbA9Mqgb-k?...
Okay, let's #GoBlue
