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I believe the precise wording was "Shove that ballroom up your FAT ass!"

All 2028 Dem candidates will be asked (starting in about a week) whether they support impeachment of Trump. There is only one correct answer: ♦️Yes. Win or lose, Dems must fight. Any Dem who advocates surrendering in advance is not qualified to be the next president.

Elvis rightsholders sue Anthropic for stealing songs and leaving them in Heartbreak Hotel

Just finished watching The Diplomat S4 and it is wildly sharp and off-the-charts entertaining. Every one of the eight episodes ends on a season-finale-level OMG-what-now twist. Wall-to-wall fun, sterling performances, and a kind of current political resonance that doesn't feel smug or forced.

During his short-lived 2020 presidential run, Sen Tim Scott portrayed himself as the kinder, gentler version of a Republican. And many Establishment pundits bought it. His record never backed that up. And neither does this:

It would be so funny if It Happened tonight, and these were his official last words.

There won't be any particularly good news out of Israel's election: It'll either be Netanyahu, or a guy with basically the same policies (at least towards Palestinians). But if Netanyahu gets the boot, that would expose him to the possibility of prison. Which isn't nothing.

I recommend reading the quote replies to this for a couple of minutes. It might cheer you up.

Well, well, well…. An analysis of voter registration records reveals Republican operative Scott Presler had 3 out-of-state voters use his Pennsylvania address to vote in the 2024 election. This is what voter fraud looks like.

Obama endorses progressive insurgent Angie Nixon for Senate in Florida politi.co/4ifgkdw

An under-reported aspect of his con: ♦️He doesn't build anything. Even his real estate "empire" is just slapping his name on buildings somebody else has built. Which leads him to be unaware of the basic mechanics of construction. Like how interior doors (including at his own properties) are made:

I was born in 1963. Let me tell you what life was like for gay and lesbian Americans then. [clears throat politely, writes book, delivers it to publisher]

this is fucking appalling. i already knew james dolan (who owns the knicks and madison square garden) was a douche but this is next-level. www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

For those of you who don't know about him: Meet James Dolan, the Vivek Ramaswamy of NYC sports and real estate.

It's ALL corruption. Jared has never earned a dime in his life: ♦️Until 2016: Pure nepo, as failson of criminal billionaire. ♦️2016-present: Pure graft, as son-in-law of most corrupt leader of any purportedly-democratic nation. Every transaction Jared makes is a grift.

I didn't have time to read his whole novel, but my eye caught this anti-logical gem: ♦️"Lyin' Amy Acton, who I've never even heard of"

the main guy who Lance Oppenheim duped on that sentencing mitigation videos documentary wrote about it, and tbh, he really gives himself away in this graf setforsentencing.substack.com/p/i-was-one-...

True. But you don't go to a live concert to hear jams from the new album. You put your lighter in the air for the Greatest Hits.

It's tragic to learn the details of Lindsey Graham paying male sex workers to shame and humiliate him when so many of us would have done it for free.

Israel frees from custody almost all suspects in two settler attacks, puts them under house arrest reut.rs/4el4FIQ

The Devils was to be a one-week-only release, launching WB's new indie-ish and rerelease label Clockwork (which will purportedly survive the Skydance purchase). But it's done such big business ($2.3 million in five days) that it's staying in theaters. If you can, see this wild piece of film history.

Listen to Mark Hamill! Signed, Guy who gets mistaken for Mark Hamill at least once a day here

Campaign finance group seeks investigation into Roger Marshall’s alleged ethics violations | #ksleg via @anna-writes.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2026/10/21/c...

"Mongoloid"?! If one of my kids called a classmate that, I'd ground him for the rest of his childhood.

Good proof of actual injury to Amy Acton's public reputation. And the damages start with the $4 million Ramaswamy is paying to damage that reputation.

No he calls a 12 year old girl who was sexually abused by her step father a liar.

Reporters need to ask both Vivek and JD: ♦️What, exactly, are you claiming Amy Acton lied about? Are you saying she was NOT sexually abused by her stepfather, repeatedly, when she was a child? Because that's what an Ohio grand jury indicted him for.

CNN, to Trump: -If you don't stop breaking the law, we may have to consider asking a judge to issue another order for you to ignore. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

So, what's the Washington Post been up to, now that it's fired all its actual journalists? Well:

Third time he's raving about John Husted's ass. Now he's going on about how huge Husted's feet are. Because if a dude's got big feet...

So many atrocities: 1. Police shoot and kill a 1-year-old. 2. Because they believe his mother stole diapers. 3. Baby was Black, shooter (White) had history of racist statements. 4. DA refuses to prosecute, calls shooting "justified." DOJ could step in. If we had one. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

So many fewer people would have gone out of their way to see this movie had there not been a multi-pronged effort by oligarchs to shut it down.

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On the Film Comment podcast, Critics Bilge Ebiri (@bilgeebiri.bsky.social) and Molly Haskell joined Film Comment Editors Clinton Krute and Devika Girgayi for a spirited wrap-up analysis of the highlights and lowlights from this year’s New York Film Festival lineup.

This is another situation where I think GenXers fall through the cracks a bit. As a gay man born in the 70s I was just becoming aware of my sexuality at the height of the AIDS crisis. I was too young to have friends who died of AIDS, but old enough to hear AIDS jokes in middle-school locker rooms.

I was wrong about this. It only took four days! Anyway, yeah. A Best Picture nomination for You Can See Everything is v. likely. Beyond that, keep your eye on Doc, Directing, Editing, Score, Cinematography, and that one category you're not sure it's even eligible for. None guaranteed, all possible.

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.

Too bad Schumer can't manage anything like that statement!

a tax revolt fueled by stupid people who don’t understand escrow payments www.politico.com/news/magazin...

beyond not understanding that you retain a benefit — growing equity — that justifies continued taxation, what is happening is that these people don’t understand that their mortgage payment included a property tax payment that went into escrow. that, and simple selfishness, is what’s happening here.

You should pay property taxes but only when you have a mortgage is a bizarre belief

Even by the currently embarrassing standards of CBS News, this, from the network's chief legal correspondent, is astonishing. Naked right-wing partisanship, Islamophobic racism, blunt-force stupidity, and inability to read the room even when the actual room is right before her eyes. MAGA grand slam!

I disagree that it's direct. At some point, common sense has to prevail. You can waste time calling every school in those states to see if they are in fact seizing schoolchildren and changing their sexes, or you can look at Trump's epic and well-documented history of lies and say, "He's lying." >

I think you lose when you start muting or underplaying the truth because you think it might upset some readers. If you're wrestling with whether your highest obligation is to accurate language or to readers who don't want to encounter accurate language. to me the choice is clear.

I do think it's a fair question to ask what the effect might have been if major media including the NYT had used the word lie from the very beginning and treated the lies as major events. You can say, "Oh, we'd all be numb." But are we any less numb because euphemisms were deployed?

GOP Senator is amazed that Vladimir Putin's best friend demonstrates his undying friendship for Vladimir Putin.

Which other enemies defeated by the United States will Trump decide to honor with statues in Arlington Cemetary? Many of his supporters have some ideas closer in time than the Civil War.

Agreed. The press forced their hand though. It always bothers me how any time a Democrat says something bad about Republicans it’s a scandal, but they can mock and belittle every big city resident in this country and nobody demands they apologize for it.