Who will star in the just-greenlit December-release biopic “American Pope” and why is it Stanley Tucci?

Chris Van Hollen flying down to El Salvador and refusing to leave until he got in a room with Kilmar Abrego Garcia blows up every other “well what do you expect them to do?” defense for elected Democrats

I thought America could not get any worse, but I’m spending a weekend in Boston, so I guess it can.

Should I finally read “Gut Feminism”?

Thank you @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for your spine, conscience, and fundamental human decency.

Here he is yelling at Trump’s deportation czar about Mahmoud Khalil.

My current joy basically consists of reading “The Romance of American Communism.”

The thrill I nevertheless experience when my relatively toothless teacher’s union rep sends an email that begins “Fellow Workers”

Frederick Wiseman’s “Ballet” is body horror & it’s beautiful.

In response to a “Describe your ultimate ‘what if’” prompt, one of my students wrote “What if Musk & Trump are actually evil aliens who want to destroy & also take over the Earth?”

I am so proud & miserable.

Good thing we have so much entirely justified faith that American universities will protect their student protestors !!

Sean Baker’s flaccid screenwriting—in which a wafer-thin girlboss character is forced into “romance” with her babyfaced Russian kidnapper—is somehow precisely the same energy as this administration coddling Putin’s cyberterrorists.

“It was the Party that brought to astonishing life the kind of comradeship that makes swell in men & women the deepest sense of their own humanness, allowing them to love themselves through the act of loving each other.”

—Vivian Gornick, “The Romance of American Communism”

Hideous nation, gorgeous land.

Los Angeles persists.

This is my “La La Land”

Diners, Drive-Ins, and Divebomb the White House