I work in TV whatever that means now. Cinephile. News junkie. Treehugger. Brooklyn NY. Hating on fascists and authoritarians. I follow tons of folks to grow a great news/culture feed for myself to read, so there.
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Oh stop it, both the media for this idiotic reductive narrative and Dem centrists for being such astonishing wimps. The voters of NYC — especially young ones — made their clear choice, so either move along or go sit down. You win nothing by being cautious and scared www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
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nate silver calling this place insignificant is the final proof it has the juice and will win the presidency
To gauge how it’s “working,” one would have to be clear on what the actual work is, which is not helping to educate children but rather to imbed these systems in a way that they cannot be removed, establish them as a source of truth, and destabilize labor.
I have no idea one way or the other, but if the president was gravely ill & dying, this is exactly how it would play out. Any president, not just him. We wouldn’t want hostile foreign powers to know we were vulnerable. Especially when the leaders of said hostile foreign powers are all together.
For the first time, [Nadler] said that when Congress returns later this month, he plans to join a growing number of Democratic lawmakers trying to use congressional authority to block the transfer of offensive weapons to Israel. “ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
big tech hasn't come up with anything paradigm-shifting and useful since the smartphone in 2008 and I'm tired of all the shit they keep shoving down our throats trying to recapture that high
Grace Kelly and James Stewart on a bike break at Paramount during the filming of REAR WINDOW (1954)
Nate Silver criticizing Bluesky as inherently flawed because a large group of people who reject our current sucktopia must interact with the sucktopians or else they are not getting the full sucktopian experience.
Kudos to Kim Novak, who was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at Venice Film Festival — and used the platform to sound an alarm. "We have to open our eyes and see what’s going on and try to do whatever we can to save our democracies." youtu.be/JbXI1y2_CkY?... #FilmSky #KimNovak
Daniel Day Lewis comes out of acting retirement for his son's directorial debut Anemone.
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Jim Jarmusch has been doing his idiosyncratic thing for so long we sometimes take him for granted. But then he comes along with a film as delicate and lovely, as singular and perfectly realized as Father Mother Sister Brother and quietly floors you.
Yup he saw them bsky.app/profile/pale...
verrrrryyyy cool poster 👏
Remember this for when it all comes crashing down and former Republicans claim they never really supported Trump and they were horrified by what he was doing. The overwhelming majority of Republicans are getting exactly what they wanted.
Farewell My Concubine (1993), Director Chen Kaige
I went to see the Wizard www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/m...
Here's the new Jude Law-as-Putin by Olivier Assayas "The Wizard of the Kremlin": thewrap.com/the-wizard-o...
Reviews are in from the Venice premiere of Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother starring Adam Driver, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Charlotte Rampling & Tom Waits. www.metacritic.com/movie/father...
Jim Jarmusch is working in a PATERSON vein in his funny, tender, minor-key triptych FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER, a beautifully realized ensemble piece with not a single forced note of humor or poignancy. One of the #Venezia2025 competition standouts. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
New Stephen King horror just dropped.
Venice: Jim Jarmusch's new film is distributed by MUBI, which faces backlash for its investor's ties to an Israeli military defense startup.
After this administration hangs a portrait of Robert E. Lee at West Point, perhaps they could put up a nice one of Al Capone at the FBI. Or Mary Mallon at HHS.
An eternal “it girl” — charismatic, original and ahead of every curve right up until she died this year aged 78 — British singer-songwriter-actor Marianne Faithfull receives a fulsome, loving tribute with sui generis cinematic whatsit Broken English.
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
If it’s true, hell and all that, these private prison wanks need their own circle.
Eugenics and the elimination of “weakness” is very literally at the core of every fascist regime that has ever existed. The Nazis were famous anti-science and the very first people they imprisoned were the disabled and chronically ill. This is absolutely classic fascism.
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
Can you imagine how long the line’s gonna be to take a piss on that grave
September TV Preview: www.metacritic.com/pictures/sep... Sept 23 - Sterlin Harjo's The Lowdown (FX) and on Hulu the next day.
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
August 31st/September 1st
Looking for a date night movie? Benedict Cumberbatch has the perfect recommendation.
the Resisters were already out today in Southwest Harbor a day early and getting lots of support from passers by ✊
For the 2nd most rural state in the country, Mainers have stayed consistently engaged in #theresistance. It's making a difference in public opinion. #Maine #MEpolitics #RESIST #EveryEffortCounts Here's the list of Maine (and border) towns for Labor Day 2025, Workers Over Billionaires:
Kim Cattrall, 1988
Looking for a movie to watch tonight. Thinking I might go with DAVE. For, you know, no reason at all.
After Minneapolis, Vice President Vance and Melania Trump are trying to shift the topic from guns to mental health. But as usual, the rhetoric is the opposite of reality—Trump's drastic Medicaid cuts in his big, ugly bill will greatly impact mental health services. trib.al/UaeE8F7
who says bluesky isn’t real life
Paul Mescal, Jeremy Allen White, and Harris Dickinson all attended the 2025 Telluride Brunch.
They’re totally going to do this.
A subway for cats? Why not.
And I am the world's foremost astrophysicist ballerina who invented the piano, aspirin, and appetizers.
Your periodic reminder that Stephen Miller’s family hates him: www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
I hope we'll see such orders signed by every official with the power to sign them. This isn't radical or even liberal; it's 101, it's like saying the king can't house his soldiers in people's homes.
Enjoy it while you can. #NationalBeachDay
DEATH OF STALIN is one of my comfort movies Everyone should watch it this weekend For reasons
Guy who wrote a book saying his mom is a junkie slag and his people are lazy trash thinks that everyone else should be more grateful
Thirty-five signatories included their names. The 141 anonymous signatories “choose not to identify themselves due to the culture of fear and suppression cultivated by this administration,” according to the letter.
🚨”Milk prices jumping from $7 to $14… produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year.” Trump’s grocery prices are already too high but soon it could be so much worse. fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
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A team of climate communication experts – including many members of the former climate.gov team which was shuttered by the Trump administration earlier this year – is now working to resurrect its content into a new organization with an expanded mission. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
feed provides shot chaser and final nail
How we’ll know
Sad but true.
HAMNET destroyed me, and it will probably destroy you, too. www.vulture.com/article/hamn...
feed provides shot chaser and final nail
Attacking "ingratitude" is his specialty in dealing w non-Christian "inferiors" like Mamdani and Zelensky. Given that Vance seemingly has no moral principals & not much public support, he fears those popular kids (heroes) who do.
School kids have to go through metal detectors every morning and attend class in fear because gun manufacturers didn’t want their profits to go down *after World War I*.
Thank you RFK Jr and President Trump for halting clinical trials for children with brain cancer! How proud MAGA voters must be!!!
I'm finding today's plot both implausible and difficult to follow.
Trump’s probably not dead, but he’s definitely in the Epstein files.
We dead.
Central to the formative years of a generation. Gene and Teri. Gene and Madeline. Gene and Gilda.
Genuinely hard to see how we ever come back from this
Glad TIME made room for an AI industry critic on their Top 100 Leaders in AI list. “AI companies of perpetuating a ‘fraud’ on the American people, Murphy says. ‘Any talk about ethical or moral AI is just whitewash.’”
Attn @governor.ny.gov
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En Vacances 💛🧡🩷💜💙
uh oh
Emma Haworth, Last Day of Summer, 2015, UK painter #WomensArt
If I had said, in 2005, that 20 years later the Republican Party would be even *more* systematically opposed, not only to domestic action on climate change, but to action on climate change anywhere in the world, I would have been dismissed as a hysterical partisan.
uh oh
Thousands of DC residents chanting “fuck Jeff Bezos” outside of the P Street Whole Foods
The CDC Implosion Continues as Staff Stage Unprecedented Walkout
All Donald has is lies, projection and threats. West Coast friends, stay strong! And remember to cash your violent protest checks!
The disaster unfolding: 3/3
There is a purge underway tonight because those professionals have refused to roll over as RFK ramps up his war on the covid vaccine. We are entering uncharted territory. The foundations of public health in the country are cracking. 2/
Americans need to understand what’s happening tonight at the CDC. This was an agency held together over the last 7 months by scientists with decades of experience in public health, who hung on despite a relentless assault on science-based policy by RFK and Trump. 1/
Tonight one of the CDC’s top public health leaders, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, has resigned from his post. Below is his full resignation letter. You should read every word. This is a truly scary moment for public health in America. 1/2
For Preminger’s ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959), Ben Gazzara and Lee Remick
Multiple parent friends, none of whom know each other, have recently brought up the idea of getting a landline for their 9-10 year old kids. This is definitely becoming a thing!
Check out our September TV Preview: www.metacritic.com/pictures/sep... Sept 17 - The Morning Show S4 (Apple TV+) - Jeremy Irons, Marion Cotillard, William Jackson Harper, Boyd Holbrook, and Aaron Pierre join the cast....
'Bugonia' trailer: Emma Stone is a kidnapped CEO in her latest reteam with Yorgos Lanthimos.
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Theda Bara for The Serpent, 1916
On the same day the FDA restricted access to COVID vaccines, the CDC director was sacked and top CDC scientists are resigning. And it’s barely been two weeks since an antivax conspiracy theorist fired 180 bullets at CDC headquarters. None of this is making America healthier. What a disaster.
Donald Trump has only been in office for seven months and forced out nearly 10 percent of the federal workforce. That's more than 199,000 people. trib.al/fnm0xnd
The National Park Service just celebrated its 109th birthday. How is Donald Trump marking the occasion? By taking an axe to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS7IJaB5NDc
A new report reveals illegal gold mining is a top money maker for drug organizations. The Trump administration has gutted programs to fight the crime.
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I do understand that the news is trying to do a smear here by calling a current sitting duly elected New York state assemblyman a "rapper turned NYC mayoral frontrunner," and I'd like to emphasize "frontrunner" here, but to me this is based & we should all elect more mayors who used to be rappers
Do you think your book may have been stolen by an AI company? Then you might be entitled to be part of a class action lawsuit!
Maybe we shouldn’t let someone who doesn’t believe in germs and who thinks it’s okay to eat roadkill and swim in contaminated ponds be in charge of our national food safety.
Lutnick says extorting Intel wasn’t socialism, it’s capitalism. It’s neither. It’s communism. The grand old party is now the party of pedophiles and communism. Trump is Making America Russia. youtu.be/S6I20uESXF8?...