Alex Eldridge
@alexeldr1dge.bsky.social
Writer and longtime tv/film employee.
Caught myself dismissing the p4k 2025 year end lists with the "never heard of" argument, and then remembered back when they listed Illinoise as No.1 of that year and I was like "Who the HELL is Sufjan Stevens?!?" Lol
Year-end critics’ lists exist for people to fight over, so I’m happy when people complain about them. But the complaint I will never get is, “I’ve never heard of most of these movies/albums/shows.” Yes, and? Why be mad about learning about stuff you didn’t know before from the news?
December 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Caught myself dismissing the p4k 2025 year end lists with the "never heard of" argument, and then remembered back when they listed Illinoise as No.1 of that year and I was like "Who the HELL is Sufjan Stevens?!?" Lol
Honestly maybe my favorite-ever podcast series FYI 👇
Hell of Presidents, our history of the U.S. told through the office of the presidency, also now available as dedicated feed. Also incredibly proud of this one, think we "snapped" with these
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August 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Honestly maybe my favorite-ever podcast series FYI 👇
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rewarding my microwave by letting it heat up a fork as a treat
just checking in with one of the most influential philosophers alive today
August 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
rewarding my microwave by letting it heat up a fork as a treat
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it's crazy that you can be a writer for the new york times and not know who the current mayor of new york city is or the current budget of the NYPD, who despite a constant presence in the area failed to intercept a man walking around with a GIANT FUCKING LONG GUN
Monday’s mass shooting may put concerns over gun violence back on voters’ minds, and have already lead some to scrutinize Mr. Mamdani for his views on policing. “He clearly does not understand what public safety is all about,” said Cuomo w/ @emmagf.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/n...
Mayoral Candidates Navigate a Mass Shooting That Has Rattled New York
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July 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
it's crazy that you can be a writer for the new york times and not know who the current mayor of new york city is or the current budget of the NYPD, who despite a constant presence in the area failed to intercept a man walking around with a GIANT FUCKING LONG GUN
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The problem will continue to be that nothing will actually fix this except proposals from people to her left. They all think they can get by with just discourse
U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin outlined a middle-class-focused economic agenda for Democrats on Thursday, urging her party to take more seriously the dissatisfaction voters feel with their personal finances, reports @fischler.bsky.social.
Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin urges Democrats to refocus on middle-class issues • West Virginia Watch
U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin outlined a middle-class-focused agenda for Dems urging her party to take voters dissatisfaction more seriously.
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June 26, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The problem will continue to be that nothing will actually fix this except proposals from people to her left. They all think they can get by with just discourse
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Zohran’s plan is to open five grocery stores in food deserts, there’s absolutely no way that TCW ends up anywhere near one, he would find being near it to be below his station
when i buy whiskey from the ABC store, that's like the soviet union, to me.
June 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Zohran’s plan is to open five grocery stores in food deserts, there’s absolutely no way that TCW ends up anywhere near one, he would find being near it to be below his station
Busses can never be free and groceries can never be government issued but also there will always be hundreds of millions of dollars to make absolute sure neither happens.
June 26, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Busses can never be free and groceries can never be government issued but also there will always be hundreds of millions of dollars to make absolute sure neither happens.
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I wrote about this extraordinary moment in which LA leaders still seem to believe they can produce a series of megaevents in cooperation with a federal government that has occupied their downtown and is openly abducting their constituents
Tactical alert
"We are one year away from the World Cup, how could this be happening?"
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June 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I wrote about this extraordinary moment in which LA leaders still seem to believe they can produce a series of megaevents in cooperation with a federal government that has occupied their downtown and is openly abducting their constituents
The Studio episode one gave me legit stress dreams and I could hardly even watch episode two. Best show in awhile!
March 28, 2025 at 5:12 AM
The Studio episode one gave me legit stress dreams and I could hardly even watch episode two. Best show in awhile!
What a time to be alive!
March 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
What a time to be alive!
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Amid the ongoing political chaos it is important not to lose focus on what the root cause of all of this is: Some people have too much money.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-underl...
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The Underlying Problem
This is happening because some people are too rich.
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March 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Amid the ongoing political chaos it is important not to lose focus on what the root cause of all of this is: Some people have too much money.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-underl...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-underl...
Hot take: It’s actually good he’s keeping quiet, because he so clearly would not be any better at meeting this moment than any Democrat everyone is mad at.
barack and michelle obama deserve to be booed relentlessly everywhere they go for their silence in this moment
March 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Hot take: It’s actually good he’s keeping quiet, because he so clearly would not be any better at meeting this moment than any Democrat everyone is mad at.
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Happy third anniversary to the time the Chicago Bears tried to rekindle The Troubles
March 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Happy third anniversary to the time the Chicago Bears tried to rekindle The Troubles
Watching the tides turn against a certain New York senator who I have openly hated with every fiber of my being for over a decade.
March 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Watching the tides turn against a certain New York senator who I have openly hated with every fiber of my being for over a decade.
Haven’t ever felt mounting horror in quite the way I did while reading this entire thread.
Hi, hello. In order to grasp the significance of Trump crowning himself a King, you have to understand that he is literally carrying out a plan crafted by Curtis Yarvin, a right wing extremist, to overthrow democracy and replace it with dictatorial rule by a monarch-CEO.
March 12, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Haven’t ever felt mounting horror in quite the way I did while reading this entire thread.
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a group of people so forcefully committed to never winning anything again and missing the point so aggressively they’re on the verge of making the other side look strategic
Democratic Party’s newly elected Chair, Ken Martin: “There are a lot of good billionaires out there that have been with Democrats, who share our values, and we will take their money. But we’re not taking money from those bad billionaires.”
February 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a group of people so forcefully committed to never winning anything again and missing the point so aggressively they’re on the verge of making the other side look strategic
So far in 2025 I can't bring myself to hear any of the political podcasts I've listened to over the last 8-10 years, and I've gone harder than ever on Grateful Dead live shows lol
A small thing I've started doing that has had a tremendous positive effect on my mental health is listening to music instead of podcasts
January 31, 2025 at 9:22 PM
So far in 2025 I can't bring myself to hear any of the political podcasts I've listened to over the last 8-10 years, and I've gone harder than ever on Grateful Dead live shows lol
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fitting that the first big air disaster after years of loud, insistent warnings that understaffing would cause exactly this outcome, happens at the airport named after the guy who crushed the ATC union
NYT reports an air traffic controller’s seat was empty at DCA last night www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
January 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
fitting that the first big air disaster after years of loud, insistent warnings that understaffing would cause exactly this outcome, happens at the airport named after the guy who crushed the ATC union
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You've probably read about the spreadsheet naming and shaming rent-gouging landlords. But with many displaced Angelenos fleeing to Airbnbs, now the team is taking on price gouging claims for short-term rentals, too
The spreadsheet brigade that's keeping LA's rental market from exploding
There's an army of volunteers at their keyboards right now, all over the country, preventing the ignition of a secondary disaster by snuffing out LA's price-gouging rentals
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January 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
You've probably read about the spreadsheet naming and shaming rent-gouging landlords. But with many displaced Angelenos fleeing to Airbnbs, now the team is taking on price gouging claims for short-term rentals, too
I just know Laura Dern is about to make a memorial post that will reduce me to ash.
January 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I just know Laura Dern is about to make a memorial post that will reduce me to ash.
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People have gotten so into Nate Silver James Carville bullshit about politics that every argument now has to be about what will win elections instead of what you actually believe and when you end up at that point you don’t really have any values at all
January 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
People have gotten so into Nate Silver James Carville bullshit about politics that every argument now has to be about what will win elections instead of what you actually believe and when you end up at that point you don’t really have any values at all
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btw Caruso has two other major gathering spaces in The Grove and the Americana and neither are being used for donation drives, community building, etc. They're literally just still acting as profit centers.
Caruso saw danger to his community and spent all of his money to protect his and only his property.
(Also he lost by 10 points; it wasn't close)
(Also he lost by 10 points; it wasn't close)
January 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
btw Caruso has two other major gathering spaces in The Grove and the Americana and neither are being used for donation drives, community building, etc. They're literally just still acting as profit centers.