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I can't really believe it but it seems to be the case that the Times has not covered a credible accusation of rape against the President of the United States, but has two solid stories on Obama's cheesecake factory quip.

I cant wait to never see or think about Trump again

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

"I Noticed That You Mentioned Silent Films So I Wanted to Come Over and Explain a Film I am Sure You Have Never Seen Called METROPOLIS" by Berthold Woltze

Amazing early '90s promo for TNT's 100% weird. A late night movie block that aired bizarre B-movies, cult horror, and campy sci-fi films.

The United States of America became the preeminent power and horror in the world because the basis is that white men can play dress up and move through life like Barbie’s shifting from one costume to another and leave a trail of bodies in their wake.

Why is @jamellebouie.net the only major media figure routinely pointing out that Elon Musk, who is spending a quarter of a billion dollars to prop up Republican candidates, is a white supremacist? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/17/o...

Mitch McConnell is still too feeble to do things like drive a car, send an email, or feed himself. He must be eased back into daily life by serving as a United States senator.

Second this. Superb critique of the franchise.

There were actually quite a few. THE COSSACKS WHIP, for example. The tsar was used as shorthand for brutal dictatorship and a great many film folk had escaped pogroms. Lewis J Selznick sarcastically offered Nicholas a movie contract right after he was dethroned

Ben Affleck was a great Batman. MAN OF STEEL trailer is the best Superman pic of all time. BATMAN RETURNS is the best Burton. MASK OF THE PHANTASM's best Batman. PUNISHER: WAR ZONE? best Marvel. CAVEMAN'S VALENTINE & BRAVE ONE are excellent superhero films. FAST COLOR & MIDNIGHT SPECIAL f'in rip.

Probably a bad idea to wrap your face and body in slim-fit clothing on a day with 101 degree heat. Especially if the garments are made from tightly woven cotton or certain synthetics.

The war on information in the West has tread new grounds since the genocide in Palestine. Journalists and media outlets who report on the imperialist endeavors of the ruling class increasingly find themselves under the boot of legislators

The middle class is being legitimately liquidated and there’s almost no attention being paid to it and corporate media is too busy chasing the market’s profit to really even discuss what is obviously an epochal moment.

If you're a gay man, and you look at people who identify as queer, NB or trans, and you don't understand that their struggles are our struggles, then you're useless to any progressive moment. The arguments from this prim prisspot were bad when they were popular in the mid-'90s and they're worse now.

I'm not going to start with the requisite "I'm a nice person, but..." sentence, because I don't care what was wrong with him. Disappearing without explanation for four months is disqualifyingly inappropriate for an elected public servant.

Basically the Supreme Court is 5-4 on whether America is white man's country

My parents were immigrants. I was born here but was 8 or 9 when they became American citizens. So I'm an American 🇺🇸

If Mitch McConnell and his family want privacy, he should resign. Otherwise, he needs to reveal his condition and advise of his ability to do his job.

My not-so-hot take is that what Mamdani is doing *IS* incrementalism, and the bar is so deeply in hell that a politician just doing *anything* good consistently is a total anomaly for people. And I think for now that is good and fine, because it is restoring people’s faith that better is possible.

For @npr.org's Pop Culture Happy Hour, I joined my friends @aishaharris.bsky.social and @lindaholmes.bsky.social to talk about great movies in 2026 you might have missed: www.npr.org/2026/06/25/n...

Robert Altman's masterpiece McCABE & MRS. MILLER turns 55 today. Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social) reviewed it when it made its Criterion debut. filmfreakcentral.net/2020/03/mcca...

Donald Trump is on tape telling and pressuring multiple Georgia Elected Officials to commit crimes for him to win the state and he got away with it . How wasn’t the DOJ during Biden’s term not able to bring charges ?? @gtconway.bsky.social I’ll never understand this .

Florida Surgeon General announced ALL vaccine mandates will be ended As a polio survivor, i was joyous when a vaccine became available. No other child would endure such fear & suffering. He said "who am i to tell u what to put in your body. it's God's business". Hes a doctor! This is lunacy

Democrats coming out against the proposed deal with Iran on the grounds that the terms aren't hawkish enough need to read the god damn room. The winning message is that the war was illegal, completely unnecessary, wildly expensive for Americans, & accomplished nothing. Just stick to that

Marion Wong (left) as the villain of THE CURSE OF QUON GWON, which she wrote, directed and produced at the age of twenty-one, making her likely the earliest Chinese American feature film director.

Until the majority of white Americans decide that their ability to live a good life is more valuable to them than terrorizing and killing Black & Brown people at home and abroad we will never move forward as a nation

Gorsuch's majority opinion is kind of an ode to legal weed—he explains how marijuana is now legal in much of the country, and the federal government has not only tolerated but "helped fuel" the growth of the industry. So it's silly for the government to now claim that weed is so dangerous.

Amerikkka 💔💔💔

The mifespristone case shows that the abortion federalism promised by Dobbs was a lie—the goal is to ban abortion everywhere, even if that means forcing pro choice states like New York to enforce abortion bans passed by anti-choice states. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Walter is one of the best we have, and this piece in particular is aces 💁🏻‍♂️👏❤️

Eduardo Galeano sobre la hipocresía de la Iglesia católica: "No creo en la caridad; creo en la solidaridad. La caridad es humillante pq se ejerce verticalmente y desde arriba; la solidaridad es horizontal e implica respeto mutuo". Los pueblos no viven de limosnas.

Just reiterating that Trump suing the IRS in order to extract a deal essentially protecting him and his family from ever having to pay taxes again is the kind of thing that should send many people to prison. People swing from lampposts for that kind of corruption. It cannot be allowed to stand.

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

Israel is carrying out a mass ethnic cleansing campaign right now and you can't find an honest discussion of it in the US press. No, not the one in Gaza. The one in southern Lebanon that is spreading well north of the Litani River. Armed and funded by the US.

thomas is very obviously mainlining the most putrid far right slop imaginable

Banjo is nearly a year old. She is my true friend

Hanging out with a few friends tonight.

Born 20 May 1944, Grammy-winning artist Joe Cocker is best remembered for his tracks 'You Are So Beautiful' and 'Up Where We Belong'. His chartbusting version of the Beatles song 'With a Little Help from My Friends' was the theme song of the series The Wonder Years. #JoeCocker

TRUMP: Routinely falls asleep on camera, has unexplained injuries on his makeup-caked hands, regularly makes genocidal threats, posts nonstop AI slop, compares himself to Christ, goes on unhinged rants every time he appears in public THE ATLANTIC: "He's becoming purer"

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

noted profile in cowardice wants his old colleagues to stand up to the guy he kowtowed to back when his choices actually mattered www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/u...

This is not a "controversy" or a "dispute" about casting. It's a racist position being echoed and amplified by other racists. Journalists need to learn to use the word "racist" much more freely; right now, too many publications treat it as unprovable unless self-reported.