Howard A. Rodman

What Lauren said. New Yorkers: come join me and the wonderful Robert Polito on July 8 at Salmagundi Club, Fifth Ave between 11th & 12th. Reading/signing/ conversation/celebration. Admission gratis but RSVP essential. www.eventbrite.com/e/screenwrit...

The votes initially haven’t been there for a lot of things (ending slavery, women’s right to vote, interracial marriage, bodily autonomy, same sex marriage, etc.) but we did the fucking thing anyways because IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO

Weird propaganda ad during the World Series calling liberals the *new* racists. If true, aren’t the republicans implying that they’re the OG racists? Like “Yep, we’ve been the racists for the past 400 years. NOW it’s the liberals!”

The @nytimes.com today refers to “Medicare for all and other left-wing positions.” Yet according to a 2026 Kaiser Family Foundation poll 66% of US adults favor a national "Medicare-for-All" style health plan. Are 2/3 of American adults leftist? Or is NYT again marginalizing widely held positions?

"Young mayor gets caught using police gym for pickup basketball" is the plot of a kids movie where the mayor is the hero

VICTORY: A federal court just put the chainsaws down at East Potomac Park The plan was to turn a public park into a private tournament course for Trump & wealthy golfers. The trees stay while we fight it out in court @democracydefendersfund.org & partners are on the case 👇- TN

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

Fun fact: the cinematographer of Metropolis also shot I Love Lucy.

One week til Halloween. (He carved it with a shotgun.)

May 8, 1968 Student demonstration, Quartier Latin in Paris

NIGHTFALL (1956) may be a B-noir, but it’s the work of A-list artisans. Jacques Tourneur (OUT OF THE PAST) directed a screenplay by Stirling Silliphant (Oscar winner for IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT), based on a novel by David Goodis (DARK PASSAGE, SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER) #TheNoirCollective #Nightfall

100% this and proud to have @lydiakauppi.bsky.social on our team.

Why is this student so upset about the mushroom, though? What could it have done to make her protest across the whole continent

How will The Onion survive? Trump Pushes to Evict the Press From the White House President Trump has talked about replacing the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room with an indoor swimming pool. —NYTimes. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

the wild thrilling sounds that were heard, were the voices of newly drowned men in the sea

There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

he toiled away, as if toil were life itself, and the heavy beating of his hammer the heavy beating of his heart

he found himself hard by the very latitude and longitude where his tormenting wound had been inflicted

Here, now, are two great whales, laying their heads together; let us join them

The problem with your checking account is that it's not crawling under a duck. I can help with that! The best way to eliminate those pesky cash reserves is the annual 50%-off sale at Criterion. 22:24 left as I write these words. I get no commission here: writing as a fellow cinephile addict.

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

Since when to Supreme Court Justices recused themselves due to conflict of interest?

ICE arrested a 56-year old green card holder, i.e. a lawful permanent resident, and detained him in the Rio Grande Processing Center, where he died. www.texastribune.org/2026/10/19/t...

Because four of the Justices have book contracts with a party's corporate parent, the Supreme Court LACKS A QUORUM to hear BMG v. Vetter, and one of the worst copyright decisions in recent memory is affirmed by default. It's just one bad look after another. www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...

I'm in the West Bank this week as part of the “Protect the Harvest” coalition along with Israelis for Peace, Unarmed Civilian Protection in Palestine & Protect the Harvest.

I was among her sources for a couple of pieces in 2009 and 2014. A real pleasure to work with her — smart, engaged, loved movies in all the right ways. And yes: kind, at each and every moment.

I was among the sources for a couple of her pieces in 2009 and 2014. It was an honor and a pleasure to work with her. Gone way way too soon.

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

Yes. The conservative scheme for education is a three-way split: high-priced academies for the children of the wealthy, religious instruction to brainwash the middle class, and a rump of prison-like public schools to discipline the lower class into obedience.

This Wednesday! Ce mercredi! Be there or be square! Soyez-y, sinon vous passez à côté !

I disavow the Tom Lehrer song National Brotherhood Week.

El-Sayed is going to forced to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood at least a dozen times more before the midterms. The point is clearly not the answer. The point is the question. It's basically push-polling.

I would like to see the end of the term "vaccine skeptic," to be replaced by "reality denier." These so-called skeptics are actually the most gullible rubes on the planet when it comes to conspiracy nonsense and tech-bro slop; the only thing that makes them skeptical is peer-reviewed evidence.

TikTok owned by the Ellisons who now have Paramount, Warner Broa, CBS and CNN. Was real great to let fascists take control of virtually all media.

Nobody hates free speech more than the fascist tech oligarchs who claimed to care about it more than anyone. What an absolute joke. P.S. they also hate democracy. As we hand them control of the country. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

After a 'night of carnage' in Kyiv... Musk had been alarmed about the possibility of adverse consumer reaction in Europe. “He tweeted out that he was innocent and that it was the US administration that did it." Joint effort for Putin. Midterms Nov.3 End this crap www.smh.com.au/world/europe...

Hindsight is easy, but I do think a lot about what a cataclysmic mistake it was for the Democratic establishment to concede instantly, in 2016, that "basket of deplorables" was a gaffe. It could have been used to own a hard truth, with nobody backing down from it.

Merriam Webster out here fighting for its life

John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry began on October 16, 1859.

Republican politicians are *obsessed* with schoolchildren coming home a different gender because of pro-trans teachers, WHICH NEVER HAPPENS. But they are completely indifferent to schoolchildren not coming home *at all* because of guns, WHICH HAPPENS ALL THE TIME!

on October 14, a black bear entered the Mammoth Lakes Library at 6 am. it was the 100th anniversary of the publication of Winnie-the-Pooh. the bear went directly to the employees' food supplies. i know what you're thinking. the answer is yes. he ate a pot of honey. this was a pilgrimage.

This is just flat out racism. No other way to describe it, and if you see someone trying to do otherwise (looking at you NYT editors) then correct them.

Leadership:

as you read the insane campaign fundraising numbers dropping today please recall that currently Elon Musk is personally responsible for about 1 in every 20 dollars spent on behalf of Republicans nationwide in 2026; I wouldn’t be surprised if when the dust settles that number is as high as 1 in 10

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