A plurality of the British public, along with Macaulay Culkin, know what's up.
British public’s verdict is in: Die Hard is not a Christmas movie
British public’s verdict is in: Die Hard is not a Christmas movie
Survey also reveals Britons’ favourite festive film, views on tear-jerkers and family cinema trips
When Macaulay Culkin recently said he didn’t consider Die Hard to be a Christmas film – wading into one of pop culture’s most heated holiday debates – he was booed by a live audience.
But it looks like the British people are behind the actor, with a survey revealing that Home Alone is the UK’s favourite festive film, while Die Hard has officially been voted not a Christmas movie. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
A plurality of the British public, along with Macaulay Culkin, know what's up.
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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In less than one year, Donald Trump’s misguided tariff policy has ceded US global economic dominance to China. @pkrugman.bsky.social with the receipts. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
November 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
In less than one year, Donald Trump’s misguided tariff policy has ceded US global economic dominance to China. @pkrugman.bsky.social with the receipts. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
It's CDOs. They're doing CDOs again. Except instead of houses (a thing someone will always need) it's data centers. Massive, absurd data centers so vast only a very few companies need them for one specific purpose, which itself has never earned a profit.
"sophisticated financial engineering" oh that's not good
October 31, 2025 at 6:31 PM
It's CDOs. They're doing CDOs again. Except instead of houses (a thing someone will always need) it's data centers. Massive, absurd data centers so vast only a very few companies need them for one specific purpose, which itself has never earned a profit.
Why are “safe/secure borders” and “closed borders” presumed to be the same thing? Reasonably, closed borders encourage clandestine migration and overstaying visas.
Open borders would encourage people to enter by official means where it may be documented, and leave knowing they are free to return.
Open borders would encourage people to enter by official means where it may be documented, and leave knowing they are free to return.
October 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Why are “safe/secure borders” and “closed borders” presumed to be the same thing? Reasonably, closed borders encourage clandestine migration and overstaying visas.
Open borders would encourage people to enter by official means where it may be documented, and leave knowing they are free to return.
Open borders would encourage people to enter by official means where it may be documented, and leave knowing they are free to return.
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I speculated that one reason they're hiding their faces is to keep people from outing criminal backgrounds. Well, I was right.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting
The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...
www.nbcnews.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I speculated that one reason they're hiding their faces is to keep people from outing criminal backgrounds. Well, I was right.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
I had a thought related to Platner and his Nazi tattoo.
On the right, they are all-in on virtue ethics: Elect “virtuous” leaders and they will bring prosperity, full stop. Elect the wrong sort of person—leftists, women, minorities—and the outcome will always be bad because they are morally tainted.
On the right, they are all-in on virtue ethics: Elect “virtuous” leaders and they will bring prosperity, full stop. Elect the wrong sort of person—leftists, women, minorities—and the outcome will always be bad because they are morally tainted.
October 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I had a thought related to Platner and his Nazi tattoo.
On the right, they are all-in on virtue ethics: Elect “virtuous” leaders and they will bring prosperity, full stop. Elect the wrong sort of person—leftists, women, minorities—and the outcome will always be bad because they are morally tainted.
On the right, they are all-in on virtue ethics: Elect “virtuous” leaders and they will bring prosperity, full stop. Elect the wrong sort of person—leftists, women, minorities—and the outcome will always be bad because they are morally tainted.
Seeing Trump bulldozing the White House and nakedly stealing centomillions from the Treasury met with impotent harrumphing is doing a lot to suggest that no force will stop him *except* force
Put another way: if Congress will not impeach him, what other option is there for such a lawless president?
Put another way: if Congress will not impeach him, what other option is there for such a lawless president?
October 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Seeing Trump bulldozing the White House and nakedly stealing centomillions from the Treasury met with impotent harrumphing is doing a lot to suggest that no force will stop him *except* force
Put another way: if Congress will not impeach him, what other option is there for such a lawless president?
Put another way: if Congress will not impeach him, what other option is there for such a lawless president?
What a deeply refreshing conversation. This is the discourse that the left should be having more of.
In truth, I feel that there is no chance of a return to normalcy without fundamental reform of our constitutional system.
In truth, I feel that there is no chance of a return to normalcy without fundamental reform of our constitutional system.
My discussion of the US constitution with Aziz Rana is out with @education.dsausa.org
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
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What Should the Left Say About the Constitution?
Podcast Episode · Class · 10/13/2025 · 1h 30m
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October 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
What a deeply refreshing conversation. This is the discourse that the left should be having more of.
In truth, I feel that there is no chance of a return to normalcy without fundamental reform of our constitutional system.
In truth, I feel that there is no chance of a return to normalcy without fundamental reform of our constitutional system.
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Yup. This guy nailed it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Qv...
How I View the US After 13 Years Living in Europe
YouTube video by Evan Edinger
www.youtube.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Yup. This guy nailed it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Qv...
I'm not sure if we're 10 years too early or 10 years too late for ED-209 to be a thing, but if it were available today I can't help but imagine Stephen Miller would be literally jizzing in his tighty-whiteys at the thought of deploying them as-is in LA, Chicago, and Portland.
October 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I'm not sure if we're 10 years too early or 10 years too late for ED-209 to be a thing, but if it were available today I can't help but imagine Stephen Miller would be literally jizzing in his tighty-whiteys at the thought of deploying them as-is in LA, Chicago, and Portland.
I love me some Tron, but if Tron as a franchise has to be the sacrificial anode to end Jared Leto's career as a going concern, so be it.
‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.
For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.
For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.
October 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I love me some Tron, but if Tron as a franchise has to be the sacrificial anode to end Jared Leto's career as a going concern, so be it.
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Never, ever Newsom. Fuck that guy.
Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85
October 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Never, ever Newsom. Fuck that guy.
"Gratitude" is the reverse side of the "Uppity" coin. Both are terms reserved for perceived lessers.
When they say you should show gratitude, what they mean is you should know your place and show deference to your betters.
When they say you should show gratitude, what they mean is you should know your place and show deference to your betters.
The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.
Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.
Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.
October 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"Gratitude" is the reverse side of the "Uppity" coin. Both are terms reserved for perceived lessers.
When they say you should show gratitude, what they mean is you should know your place and show deference to your betters.
When they say you should show gratitude, what they mean is you should know your place and show deference to your betters.
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My new piece, up now @thenation.com: "If only trans activists had known what size check to cut for Chappelle, they could have shut him up years ago and saved themselves all the picketing at Netflix." www.thenation.com/article/cult...
The Sad Spectacle of American Comedians Selling Out in Saudi Arabia
It turns out that edgy free-speech warriors will scuttle their principles for a check from a brutal autocratic regime.
www.thenation.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
My new piece, up now @thenation.com: "If only trans activists had known what size check to cut for Chappelle, they could have shut him up years ago and saved themselves all the picketing at Netflix." www.thenation.com/article/cult...
I just realized that those AI slop videos that are making the rounds have the *exact* same vibe as those weirdly specific targeted t-shirts that you'd see advertised on Facebook like 10-15 years ago, that pulled data from your user profile, like, "My husband was born in APRIL and loves MOTORCYCLES."
October 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I just realized that those AI slop videos that are making the rounds have the *exact* same vibe as those weirdly specific targeted t-shirts that you'd see advertised on Facebook like 10-15 years ago, that pulled data from your user profile, like, "My husband was born in APRIL and loves MOTORCYCLES."
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Buying a company by taking out a massive loan, then making the company you bought responsible for paying off that loan, is so patently evil that it should be beyond illegal. The kind of thing that inspires enlightened societies without corporal punishment to bring back the death penalty as a one-off
September 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Buying a company by taking out a massive loan, then making the company you bought responsible for paying off that loan, is so patently evil that it should be beyond illegal. The kind of thing that inspires enlightened societies without corporal punishment to bring back the death penalty as a one-off
Every American should, over their life, be able to afford to:
* Own their home
* Raise a family
* Take vacations
* See a doctor
* Retire
If Democrats want to be elected, they should be screaming from the hilltops about how they plan to solve these five problems.
* Own their home
* Raise a family
* Take vacations
* See a doctor
* Retire
If Democrats want to be elected, they should be screaming from the hilltops about how they plan to solve these five problems.
September 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Every American should, over their life, be able to afford to:
* Own their home
* Raise a family
* Take vacations
* See a doctor
* Retire
If Democrats want to be elected, they should be screaming from the hilltops about how they plan to solve these five problems.
* Own their home
* Raise a family
* Take vacations
* See a doctor
* Retire
If Democrats want to be elected, they should be screaming from the hilltops about how they plan to solve these five problems.
The demand we are seeing to speak only lovingly of Charlie Kirk speaks to a great sickness of the radical right. Namely: the need to be loved by force, because consensual love is necessarily conditional, and therefore can be withdrawn.
September 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The demand we are seeing to speak only lovingly of Charlie Kirk speaks to a great sickness of the radical right. Namely: the need to be loved by force, because consensual love is necessarily conditional, and therefore can be withdrawn.
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“The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it. And that is the real trick of the Imperial thought machine. It's easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident”
Every day this line feels more and more relevant.
Every day this line feels more and more relevant.
September 15, 2025 at 11:38 PM
“The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it. And that is the real trick of the Imperial thought machine. It's easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident”
Every day this line feels more and more relevant.
Every day this line feels more and more relevant.
“Treat others as you wish to be treated,” is the golden rule. Surely then a corollary must be, “respond to your treatment by others in kind.”
It is absurd that those who purvey hated in the name of bigotry should expect anything less in return.
It is absurd that those who purvey hated in the name of bigotry should expect anything less in return.
September 13, 2025 at 4:21 AM
“Treat others as you wish to be treated,” is the golden rule. Surely then a corollary must be, “respond to your treatment by others in kind.”
It is absurd that those who purvey hated in the name of bigotry should expect anything less in return.
It is absurd that those who purvey hated in the name of bigotry should expect anything less in return.
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Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
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If Fox News want to report that Democrats are celebrating Charlie Kirk getting shot they’ve shown over and over that they don’t need to cite posts to do it. They attribute all sorts of things to Democrats without evidence and being on your best behavior won’t stop them.
September 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If Fox News want to report that Democrats are celebrating Charlie Kirk getting shot they’ve shown over and over that they don’t need to cite posts to do it. They attribute all sorts of things to Democrats without evidence and being on your best behavior won’t stop them.
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The Charlie Kirk shooting happened essentially as another school shooting happened a state away
NEW: At least 2 people were being transported to a Denver-area hospital after a shooting involving an “active assailant” at Evergreen High School in Jefferson County, officials said Wednesday afternoon // Story by @katielang.bsky.social
Shooting, ‘active assailant’ reported at Evergreen High School
Jefferson County law enforcement are responding to an “active assailant” and shooting at Evergreen High School, officials said Wednesday afternoon.
www.denverpost.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The Charlie Kirk shooting happened essentially as another school shooting happened a state away