Betsy Nagler
@betsynagler.bsky.social
Screenwriter & filmmaker. Alum of The Writers Lab, Stowe Narrative Lab, 2023. The Women’s List 2024.
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“Bret Easton Ellis interviews Quentin Tarantino” feels like a wish I made in my college dorm on a monkey’s paw in 2002
December 4, 2025 at 7:23 AM
“Bret Easton Ellis interviews Quentin Tarantino” feels like a wish I made in my college dorm on a monkey’s paw in 2002
How did I not know this human rights abomination is still open?
Detainees at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ facing ‘harrowing human right violations’, new report alleges
Amnesty International finds immigrants at Florida facility were shackled and left outside in metal cage for up to a day
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:32 AM
How did I not know this human rights abomination is still open?
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The worst part about the boat strikes - regardless of who ordered what and besides the ultimate tragedy of lives lost - is they’re forever a stain on the professionalism and dignity of the United States military.
They’re an insult to every American who ever sacrificed to do the right thing.
They’re an insult to every American who ever sacrificed to do the right thing.
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The worst part about the boat strikes - regardless of who ordered what and besides the ultimate tragedy of lives lost - is they’re forever a stain on the professionalism and dignity of the United States military.
They’re an insult to every American who ever sacrificed to do the right thing.
They’re an insult to every American who ever sacrificed to do the right thing.
I think they mean “The-I-Should-Hate-My-MAGA-Husband-But-I-Can’t-Because-I’ve-Compromised-Everything-In-My-Life-For-Him-And-Have-Nothing-Else-Left” Club.
Cheryl Hines made a rare appearance alongside Melania Trump and Usha Vance on Monday.
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Behold! The I-Hate-My-MAGA-Husband Club
Cheryl Hines made a rare appearance alongside Melania Trump and Usha Vance on Monday.
www.jezebel.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I think they mean “The-I-Should-Hate-My-MAGA-Husband-But-I-Can’t-Because-I’ve-Compromised-Everything-In-My-Life-For-Him-And-Have-Nothing-Else-Left” Club.
The real reason to watch All’s Fair is to see Naomi Watts, Glenn Close and Niecy Nash act using something increasingly rare in Hollywood: their original faces.
December 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The real reason to watch All’s Fair is to see Naomi Watts, Glenn Close and Niecy Nash act using something increasingly rare in Hollywood: their original faces.
“There could have been a version of this book in which she dared to interpret her fall from grace as continuous with the country’s — in which she, too, was shocked to find herself seduced by charismatic vulgarity, in which she admitted to ugliness or inelegance.” Now that’s a book I would have read.
Review | Olivia Nuzzi tries and fails to save her reputation in ‘American Canto’
The flashy reporter who lost her job at New York magazine over a relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. returns with a memoir light on gossip — and reckoning
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December 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
“There could have been a version of this book in which she dared to interpret her fall from grace as continuous with the country’s — in which she, too, was shocked to find herself seduced by charismatic vulgarity, in which she admitted to ugliness or inelegance.” Now that’s a book I would have read.
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A lot of effort here trying to equate herself to Monica Lewinsky, a person who was not a major political journalist and was in fact just an intern when she was dropped into the news against her will
December 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
A lot of effort here trying to equate herself to Monica Lewinsky, a person who was not a major political journalist and was in fact just an intern when she was dropped into the news against her will
Well this story is getting interesting. Also, last time I checked the definition of having someone's back did not include throwing them under the bus, but what do I know?
Scapegoat Identified. Tabs, Tues., Dec. 2, 2025
BRADLEY!
www.wonkette.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Well this story is getting interesting. Also, last time I checked the definition of having someone's back did not include throwing them under the bus, but what do I know?
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I am once again asking United States Senators to take a trial ad class to learn cross examination and witness control techniques plz
One thing to note about Bove’s response re: whistleblower report is that he didn’t explicitly deny making the “fuck you” comment.
Would be interesting to see his response if a senator directly asks him if he denies saying that
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Would be interesting to see his response if a senator directly asks him if he denies saying that
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November 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I mean at least it’s a good headline.
Has a single reporter asked anyone on Team Trump about why it's OK to bomb little boats that "might" have drugs on them while pardoning one of the biggest drug dealers we've managed to convict?
Maybe I missed it, but has even one Republican in Congress spoken out against Trump’s corrupt pardon of a guy convicted of helping funnel more than 500 tons of cocaine into the U.S.?
November 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I mean at least it’s a good headline.
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Has a single reporter asked anyone on Team Trump about why it's OK to bomb little boats that "might" have drugs on them while pardoning one of the biggest drug dealers we've managed to convict?
Maybe I missed it, but has even one Republican in Congress spoken out against Trump’s corrupt pardon of a guy convicted of helping funnel more than 500 tons of cocaine into the U.S.?
November 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Has a single reporter asked anyone on Team Trump about why it's OK to bomb little boats that "might" have drugs on them while pardoning one of the biggest drug dealers we've managed to convict?
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the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
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Pete Hegseth is violating international law the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
November 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Pete Hegseth is violating international law the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
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If a few select American investors make billions of dollars from an episode of mass killing, it cannot legally be considered a genocide.
by Jared Kushner
by Jared Kushner
November 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
If a few select American investors make billions of dollars from an episode of mass killing, it cannot legally be considered a genocide.
by Jared Kushner
by Jared Kushner
yes Pitchbot YES.
Talentless frauds close to the White House are making billions by crashing the American economy and selling out America’s allies. Here’s why democratic socialism is unthinkable.
November 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
yes Pitchbot YES.
This fits in with everything this administration does: horrible and also stupid as hell.
The Trump admin now says nursing isn't a professional degree.
The admin plan to redefine what constitutes a professional degree to exclude nursing and limit access to student loans — outraging national health care groups and leaving nursing students questioning how they'll pay for graduate degrees.
The admin plan to redefine what constitutes a professional degree to exclude nursing and limit access to student loans — outraging national health care groups and leaving nursing students questioning how they'll pay for graduate degrees.
November 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This fits in with everything this administration does: horrible and also stupid as hell.
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Trump's crypto memecoin.
Multi-million dinners with CEOs.
Firing independent officials in charge of rooting out corruption.
Giant tax cuts to Trump's billionaire friends.
Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in our nation's history.
Multi-million dinners with CEOs.
Firing independent officials in charge of rooting out corruption.
Giant tax cuts to Trump's billionaire friends.
Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in our nation's history.
November 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Trump's crypto memecoin.
Multi-million dinners with CEOs.
Firing independent officials in charge of rooting out corruption.
Giant tax cuts to Trump's billionaire friends.
Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in our nation's history.
Multi-million dinners with CEOs.
Firing independent officials in charge of rooting out corruption.
Giant tax cuts to Trump's billionaire friends.
Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in our nation's history.
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The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.
it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.
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Could’ve put eight jars of unsalted mayonnaise on the table and accomplished the same flavor profile
Karoline Leavitt's Thanksgiving spread. Please dissect.
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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
November 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Could’ve put eight jars of unsalted mayonnaise on the table and accomplished the same flavor profile
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The reason people don't like conservative students is that whenever they're inconvenienced or annoyed they throw a tantrum and call in national media to terrorize their peers.
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The reason people don't like conservative students is that whenever they're inconvenienced or annoyed they throw a tantrum and call in national media to terrorize their peers.
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As the Trump administration clumsily moves toward an unnecessary and irresponsible and narcissistic war with Venezuela, I want to take a brief moment to offer this sentiment to those who voted for him over VP Harris because they believed it would keep us out of unnecessary wars:
FUCK. YOU.
FUCK. YOU.
November 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
As the Trump administration clumsily moves toward an unnecessary and irresponsible and narcissistic war with Venezuela, I want to take a brief moment to offer this sentiment to those who voted for him over VP Harris because they believed it would keep us out of unnecessary wars:
FUCK. YOU.
FUCK. YOU.
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I am so ready for Me Too, Chapter Two
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
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Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I am so ready for Me Too, Chapter Two
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This absurd pardon shows the murderous boat bombings were never about stopping drugs
November 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This absurd pardon shows the murderous boat bombings were never about stopping drugs
YEAH NYC!
600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me:
November 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
YEAH NYC!