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The World’s 3RD deadliest Comic Book Geek, Cinephile, Political Wonk, Music Nerd, Digital Strategist, Human Rights Activist – He/Him, because it's all connected.

Real Live IL 9th Voter!
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Some punchable punks are about to get punched people! 🥊
January 28, 2026 at 4:02 AM
I might actually scream if I see another film or show where old for a Gen-Xer is indicated with 60s music
January 28, 2026 at 3:34 AM
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Bet you their entire signing bonus that they’re too stupid to know what an embassy is and their bosses were too stupid to tell them
January 28, 2026 at 3:16 AM
January 28, 2026 at 3:18 AM
January 28, 2026 at 3:16 AM
I was really hoping for another, less blithely racist, pulp esthetic revival before the end times.
January 28, 2026 at 3:14 AM
This all could have been avoided at like 6 different inflection points, but no.
January 28, 2026 at 3:10 AM
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more evidence that "heterodox visionary" always means, "phrenologist."

always.
In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:
January 28, 2026 at 3:01 AM
O’ FFS this dipshit isn’t a moderate, he’s a ‘class’ populist and therefore a reactionary who should never been the Democratic nominee because adults should understand that “economic populism” is cartoonish ultimately regressive ideology off the left/right axis whose adherents can’t be fking trusted
January 28, 2026 at 3:07 AM
Wait. The ban whistles stuff is real and not a joke someone cooked up in “photoshop” ???
January 28, 2026 at 2:56 AM
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#WonderMan is truly remarkable. Welcome to your new favorite series! Hysterically funny, big-hearted & utterly charming. Captures LA lovingly. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II & Sir Ben Kingsley are PHENOMENAL. I’ve never sobbed during a Marvel anything before until binging this special gem
January 25, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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Christy @christylemire.bsky.social and Alonso @aduralde.bsky.social gather nuts and berries and start a fire for Send Help. #filmsky 📽
SEND HELP Movie Review | Sam Raimi | Rachel McAdams | Dylan O'Brien
YouTube video by Breakfast All Day movie reviews
youtu.be
January 27, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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Ernst Stavro Blofeld declined the offer, saying he did not wish to be associated with CBS News.
New CBS contributors announced: Grand Moff Tarkin, Lex Luthor, Norman Osborn, Cruella De Ville, Javert, Titus Andronicus, Killmonger, and the Beastfly from Silksong.
January 27, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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#Sundance has been a blur so far, but it's time to start sharing my reviews!

First, and most importantly, is my review of JOSEPHINE for @thewrap.com.

Beth de Araújo’s uncompromising tour de force is the highlight of this year's festival. Fearless and trailblazing; tough to watch, yet unmissable.
'Josephine' Review: Beth de Araújo's Fearless Crime Drama Will Make Your Blood Boil – And It Should
If Beth de Araújo's "Soft & Quiet" was a brass-knuckled jab, her follow-up, the 2026 Sundance premiere "Josephine," is her title-winning haymaker.
www.thewrap.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Not to take anything away from Brown but I wish people wrote up the actual victorious Jayhawker militia leader, James Henry Lane, the adoring way they do Brown
You want a bunch of John Browns? Because this is how you get a COUNTRY of John Browns
TOM HOMAN: “We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous. We’re going to put their face on TV. We’re going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods, in their schools, know who these people are.”
January 28, 2026 at 2:31 AM
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Siouxsie Sioux
Kyoto, 1982
© Anton Corbijn
January 26, 2026 at 6:37 PM
HAHA! I'd cancel Paramount+ again if I could but alas.
January 27, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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R.I.P. Sal Buscema.
January 26, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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#TombTuesday 12 seconds of bright winter sun & a cold east wind across the ancient burial mound of Bryn Cader Faner in the Eryri/Snowdonia uplands

Quite a place to have been buried or scattered 4500 years ago 😮

🎥 My own, Sunday
January 27, 2026 at 6:43 AM
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‘The rebels shared Assad’s view that Kurdish demands for federal autonomy were really illegitimate separatism. Now that they control the government, they are in a position to act on that view.’

@tomstevenson.bsky.social on Syria, from the blog.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
Tom Stevenson | The End of Rojava
The Syrian government’s effort to take full control of the north-east clearly has the approval of the United States....
www.lrb.co.uk
January 27, 2026 at 12:50 PM
It’s so typical but also so weird when someone winds up hating us instead of hating them because their attempt to pass failed.
Jesus, Dean Cain is even a worse human being than I thought.
January 27, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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Making maximalist demands while the party on your side - while it can use political leverage now to try and get *some* concessions - controls none of the levers of power is just an insane theory of politics.
January 27, 2026 at 12:29 PM