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“The first thing I did was get cigarettes.” — @musex1.bsky.social, reflecting on Sept. 11 and the surreal afterlife of his Disintegration Loops series Read the full interview: selftitledmag.substack.com/p/william-ba...

For more background on the conflict between Nithya Raman and national DSA leadership, check out this 🧵 bsky.app/profile/pete...

Just a reminder that there is no good data to support these uses in K12, we are just testing it live all on kids who won’t ever be these ages again and can’t get them back if we fuck it up.

And now back to my full time job, texting the word "stop" to every living Democrat.

I don’t expect a Theranos whistleblower to be an expert in nonfiction cinema any more than I am in medical testing, but John Grierson defined documentary a century ago as “the creative treatment of actuality” and that’s still a good place to start

watched YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING and much like everyone else, I loved it. (nothing in my review is a real spoiler, but if you're extremely spoiler-averse, you should probably avoid it.) boxd.it/gYtvxV

This isn't hyperbole or a joke. Parents actually called the cops and got the black boy and his family removed and the league claimed they were trespassing because he was "putting on a show" and wasn't playing "fair."

STOP DOOMSCROLLING 🫵 this is your shinkansen break

my favorite movie from 2023. and todd haynes does incredible commentary (the FAR FROM HEAVEN commentary is top tier.)

new york forever. FUCK ICE.

Anne Wiazemsky in La Chinoise (JL-G, 1967).

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

“America’s social safety net has huge holes. If you can’t work six months because of a surgery, you’re disabled, but not enough for disability benefits. If you’re a Lyft driver in Massachusetts and you lose your job, you’re unemployed, but not eligible for unemployment insurance.”

BIRTH (Glazer, 2004)

Naza, coming soon to a theater near(er) you

Brad Lander is such a real one

if you don't understand the concept of qualitative data, you're going to find it difficult to understand social reality.

watched THE DEVILS (restored version) in 35mm @filmlinc.bsky.social and it absolutely blew me away. of course it's turned up to 11 and completely insane, but it's also a sad and profound film. and it's one of the few films about religious faith that totally works even if you're not at all religious.

we need to go back to old james bond movie.

it wouldve been news to the freedom fighters in india that independence was achieved bloodlessly.

if Zohran Mamdani used the word "Shylock" the ADL would have called in a nuclear strike on New York City by now

Jack Pierce achieved the caved in face look on Frankenstein's creature by telling Boris Karloff to remove his dentures.

For some reason I am reminded of this important fact @q.pheevr.ca

how do you write this?! how do you not realize you are the fucking problem here?! you are the one doing things worse! they are better at this than you!

This is a great example of targeted universalism. That's a term that sounded like an oxymoron to me when I first heard it, but makes sense when you think about it. We can roll out a program without any means tests, but in a way that takes into account who needs it most. gothamist.com/news/these-a...

godard arrested while filming the riots in paris, may 1968

all of this and also shame on the asian-american parents and students bringing this suit and furthering the project of white supremacy.

I tend to agree with this but it's worth asking why this shouldn't extend to cases where secessionist groups claim a mandate of ethnicity or incipient nationhood (I think it should).

I think people should ask Ds running for office how they plan to vote on these bills (there's also a pro-bail bill floating around). You can say "abolish ICE" but what will you do? Will you vote for DHS to create new crime centers for shoplifting and then feign ignorance?

“American roads are becoming deadlier for walkers. Between 2009 and 2024, pedestrian deaths increased 72% across the U.S., federal data show. Over the same period, such deaths declined in most other developed nations, according to United Nations data. In road safety, the U.S. is an outlier.” 🎁

Getting some pushback for this but so far all of the pushback is just proving my point

I BEEN TELLING YOU

And just to pre-empt the inevitable comment: Did the removal of lead play a role? Surely. Is lead "the" explanation? No. I describe myself as a Lead Episcopalian, not a Lead Evangelical: I believe in the lead hypo, sure, but, like, calmly, and just on Sundays. It's not all-consuming.*

I do feel like one of the biggest underappreciated crime victories we've had is that since its peak in 1991, total official property crime has fallen by 60%. Not the rate. The total amount. As populations grew. The rate of property crime is down over 70% from 1991 to 2025.

Its a constitutional crisis in India. Too many are not laying out the context of mass protests against the BJP's voter roll deletions-- Nicely done by lawyer Gautam Bhatia: "The story of the SIR is both an account of large-scale voter disenfranchisement in India and one of institutional crisis"

Elizabeth Taylor & Montgomery Clift take a break from filming A Place In The Sun 📷 Peter Stackpole, February 1950

"Celebrities are most interesting when they’re mating." - Mike Nichols Rita Hayworth & Orson Welles, The Lady From Shanghai, 1947. The still photographer on the set was Ned Scott.

it's just so ridiculous that no one in the actual executive class of any football club ever has to talk to the press and so the coach is out there fielding questions about layoffs

greatest sport in the world, absolute worst sports organization in the world.