Joe Berkowitz

"make sure to mention that he's running full court, remind people of how young and in shape he is, people hate that in politicians"

"Getting my sprinklers blown out" is my most euphemistic sounding annual house maintenance chore

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

God only knows what's gonna happen. but gotta say, of all the info that's coming out this is the bit I feel most reassured by

Convening a focus group of 30 people who have no idea what's going on and no expertise on basically any topic and just turning them loose. "Fuck me up," I tell them. "Just give me all the dumbest stuff you've got."

The Distinguished Gentleman is funny, politically sharp, costars Sheryl Lee Ralph, and ends with this line. There’s still time for Eddie to rush a sequel into production before 2028.

My "not planning to improperly interfere with elections" t-shirt is raising a lot of I am so tired.

“The most brutal act… of violence… in nature… is when, after a long pause… Nathan hits you with… the ‘okay.’”

They should move Halloween, a day for fun with friends, further away from Election Day, a day for demons rising.

watching the 4K release of Ronin with frankenheimer's commentary and learning that the car chases in the movie were happening *at speed*. no camera tricks or anything, they were straight up *racing*. "we set up all the actors in high performance driving school so they were used to the speeds."

Was rewatching Trainspotting 2 and thought whoever played Mikey Forrester in the original looks remarkably well preserved. Turns out it’s Irvine Welsh, which makes a lot of sense.

Seen this story all day today. Every headline says "27 year old Minnesota man..." I have yet to see one with the headline that the man was Somalian. The most maligned and denigrated group in Minnesota www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...

Would love to see our American free speech organization stick up for Sally Rooney... Alas.

I'm confident I could leave the Hotel California at any point.

I’ve been released from IDF custody with a “warning,” apparently because of my public profile (I told them I wasn’t even a congressmember yet, just a nominee). But several dozen rabbis & participants harvesting olives with me are still in detention.

ok, yes. i used a little blood magic to make this potion. but in my defense, it's hard NOT to use blood magic these days. all the tomes and orbs are powered by it. blood magic is really a systemic issue. in a way i'm a hero for admitting i use it

Today my book ‘Playing the Victim: How the Powerful Deny and Attack Survivors of Violence, from Domestic Abuse to Genocide’ comes out! My book draws the connections btwn domestic abusers’ tactics (particularly DARVO) and imperialism, Zionism & state violence. Link/more on it below:

Mr. El-Sayed do you disavow the Hamburglar and his reign of terror on the citizens of McDonaldland

Struggling to engage with the concept of “father and son Republican operatives Timmy and Tommy Teepell.” Come on man can even one thing be like 5% less stupid

The moment that got the second biggest reaction from my theater during You Can See Everything really stuck in my craw so I wrote about why. (With only the mildest, vaguest, not-even-a-spoiler spoilers.)

we’re making it okay to blow up your own house again

[cut to a lurking Nathan Fielder]: great tool to have in your documentary toolbox

nothing says "fall and fabulous" like a glittery accessory spleen!!! or multiple

I think we’ve found the headline of the year.

Just finished driving home from You Can See Everything and I think I'd like to hear the conversations everyone else is having on the way home from You Can See Everything.

Rare opportunity to say "Sure, Jan" and truly meant it.

Local theater

Haunting explanation from a ESPN producer on why she quit over the network’s all-out embrace of sports betting: www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

Bruh

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

Very funny and scarily well-observed, as ever, from @davidjroth.bsky.social

this is disqualifying for any leader of the democratic party, no matter how you look at it.

I watched Love Is Blind for the first time because they set it in Boston, and I wrote about it for @gqmagazine.bsky.social! Read it here: www.gq.com/story/love-i...

found an NYC Teamster whose tiktoks are just skate tricks he dedicates to other unions.

Finally, a Roadster with compressed air thrusters for limited flight.

We've somehow already arrived at backlash to the backlash to the backlash on Digger, i.e. people reclaiming Digger as a bad movie. It has been out for two weeks.

Absolutely deranged. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

hell ya

back in the olden days DOJ would investigate a particular crime it believed had been committed, rather than just poking around to see if anything was wrong

you literally never need to tell me why you're canceling a meeting or asking for a meeting to be canceled. Yes, we can do that, and I am sorry and/or happy for you about whatever happened