Ryan Sanderson

There are a couple really good acts in Ed 3. I'm unsurprised by this.

Trump says of Somalia that "all they have is people that shoot you all the time ... it's a shit house country"

I wrote about You Can See Everything for Twin Cities Geek. Easily the best film so far this year. It’ll be in the running for best of the decade.

Nearly $22 million in taxpayers funds has been spent to air the ads, with nearly half spent after Trump promised to fund what the White House calls public service announcements through his super PAC. n.pr/4e35Z2U

For the love of God, stop saying this regime's ruthless authoritarianism "raises questions" and start telling us what answers you have for us. If you can't do that, get the fuck out of the way.

I keep trying to think of any historical example where a given technology's PROMOTERS AND TRUE BELIEVERS were like 'we are absolutely going to ruin your fucking life so be prepared like it's the end of the world'

ya i mean i do genuinely think that one of hegseth's goals is to drive people appalled by barbarity out of the military, because the long term plan is to make the military shoot at us, and the same guys who object to this won't do that either.

I wrote this mixed-positive review of the first six episodes of Seven Havens.

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I just had a true millennial experience. Watched an episode of Bluey, then listened to an AJJ song, and they made me feel roughly the same thing.

New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

If you are a causal watcher and you hear people saying this, and no pushback, you assume its true. No wonder people are mad. But in reality, this is what the actual evidence, still on the CDC website, says: www.cdc.gov/covid/vaccin...

Poll results vs. how poll results are presented in the Wall Street Journal.

Republicans are currently denouncing everyone in the Democratic Party as a “communist” and if you think Democrats firing at their left flank will make those attacks *less likely* and *less effective* you should try reading up on the history of McCarthyism

Check in on the Harry Potter adults in your life! They are not OK!! (Nothing new has happened, they're just not OK.)

Beyond all the talk of scale and spectacle, Christopher Nolan's take on THE ODYSSEY ends up being a critical reframing of the story. One that thankfully eschews so many of the notions of western individualism - and remembers the tenets of Greek drama itself... www.patreon.com/filmcrithulk...

Admirable clarity @science.org

#SpiderNoir is wonderfully weird, beautifully shot, and one of the best Marvel TV series yet. Your spoiler-free review. #TwinCitiesGeeks twincitiesgeek.com/2026/06/nich...

While leaving Earth behind, the latest season of #ForAllMankind remains committed to exploring humanity’s possibilities. #TwinCitiesGeeks twincitiesgeek.com/2026/06/for-...

it continuously stuns me how rightwingers don't know how anything works at all on a systematic level so they assume nothing should be done about anything ever

I get viscerally angry when people ask for more onions on their sandwich in movies.

This last weekend at the movies felt special, btw. My favorite film (I LOVE BOOSTERS) did the worst, but it's so cool that something as unique as Backrooms caught the public imagination. I haven't felt this kind of energy at the theater since Barbenheimer. It was fun to watch.

FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER

American Black women now have fewer voting rights and reproductive rights than their mothers did at the same age. Progress isn’t a straight line, indeed.

NGC 2775 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2hGUtgk

Man I just got nothing left in the tank this week.

While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget. NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy... The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%. NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break

I wrote about Michael Mann's 2006 Miami Vice for Perisphere. Many of Mann's movies draw from the energy and aura of city life, but with this film and COLLATERAL, he leaned into it all the way until it became the most important part of the films.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Studios laying off hundreds and thousands of employees with the excuse that they can move production to the UK and not have to pay for healthcare because the UK has socialized medicine should be humiliating to the US government.

Putting "the only place where I know how to live without guilt or shame is a hot tub" on an application for the local spa.

Fundraiser for librarian Luanne James, who stood up to her rightwing library board that demanded she remove kids books with any trace of LBGTQ+ characters or content. "I will not comply." They sacked her and cops escorted her out. She's a hero. This banned author just donated.

"I am going to listen to one, and only one, song on the Kendrick Lamar album DAMN." - Me, a fool, soon to become a liar

Is the sentence, "Theaters are temples where you pay homage to the feeling, dreaming creature you should have been allowed to remain," too intense for a short article on the opening of a new movie theater?

Pege Hegseth's chief of staff tried to block the promotion of a black female combat veteran because, as the article notes, "President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events" in Washington DC