newmethos
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Freelance projection designer, climber, and hiker. Mixology is a habit and a hobby. Movies when I have time for them.
Over halfway through the decade?!? What are your favourite films each year so far?
2020: Dick Johnson is Dead
2021: Summer of Soul
2022: Fire of Love
2023: Zone of Interest
2024: Nosferatu
2025: Sinners
2020: Dick Johnson is Dead
2021: Summer of Soul
2022: Fire of Love
2023: Zone of Interest
2024: Nosferatu
2025: Sinners
Over halfway through the decade! What are your favourite films each year so far?
2020: Small Axe
2021: Summertime
2022: We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
2023: Godzilla Minus One
2024: I Saw the TV Glow
2025: Sinners
2020: Small Axe
2021: Summertime
2022: We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
2023: Godzilla Minus One
2024: I Saw the TV Glow
2025: Sinners
Halfway through the decade! What are your favourite films each year so far?
2020: Promising Young Woman
2021: Shadow in the Cloud
2022: Vesper
2023: Nimona
2024: Orion and the Dark
2025: Train Dreams
2020: Promising Young Woman
2021: Shadow in the Cloud
2022: Vesper
2023: Nimona
2024: Orion and the Dark
2025: Train Dreams
January 2, 2026 at 5:36 AM
Over halfway through the decade?!? What are your favourite films each year so far?
2020: Dick Johnson is Dead
2021: Summer of Soul
2022: Fire of Love
2023: Zone of Interest
2024: Nosferatu
2025: Sinners
2020: Dick Johnson is Dead
2021: Summer of Soul
2022: Fire of Love
2023: Zone of Interest
2024: Nosferatu
2025: Sinners
So many clean sheets in the Prem today, what the hell?
January 1, 2026 at 11:08 PM
So many clean sheets in the Prem today, what the hell?
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This.
They’re advertising strength because they don’t have it.
Take their message seriously.
It’s who they are.
But don’t buy their product.
They’re advertising strength because they don’t have it.
Take their message seriously.
It’s who they are.
But don’t buy their product.
DHS publicly fantasizing about massive state violence should be taken seriously, and warrants labels such as fascist and white supremacist. But don't lose sight of the fact that it's beyond their capabilities.
The regime's desire for authoritarian repression is bottomless. Its capacity isn't close.
The regime's desire for authoritarian repression is bottomless. Its capacity isn't close.
They want to wipe out almost a third of the country. It’s got nothing to do with illegal immigration.
It’s white nationalism pure and simple. They’re fascists, and there’s no reason to doubt it.
It’s white nationalism pure and simple. They’re fascists, and there’s no reason to doubt it.
January 1, 2026 at 5:28 PM
This.
They’re advertising strength because they don’t have it.
Take their message seriously.
It’s who they are.
But don’t buy their product.
They’re advertising strength because they don’t have it.
Take their message seriously.
It’s who they are.
But don’t buy their product.
I completely agree with this analogy and I would add one additional similarity: the work of the exegesis is to hide the act of interpretation, to foreclose the possibility of a different conclusion. “The text means this, I didn’t make that up”
An analogue I’ve noticed between fundamentalist scriptural exegesis and jurispudential originalism as actually practiced in the wild: Both enable a kind of ventriloquism by assuming univocality in the texts they purport to interpret.
January 1, 2026 at 3:39 PM
I completely agree with this analogy and I would add one additional similarity: the work of the exegesis is to hide the act of interpretation, to foreclose the possibility of a different conclusion. “The text means this, I didn’t make that up”
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So important to understand 👇👇👇
Trump and Stephen Miller are actually failing in crucial ways. Deportations are lagging behind their goals, courts are mostly functioning, and their fascist, ethnonationalist cruelties have unleashed a countermobilization of unexpected scope and power.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2046...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2046...
January 1, 2026 at 3:28 PM
So important to understand 👇👇👇
I do have faith in the Constitution, just absolutely zero faith that John Roberts has any insight into that document at all. May he live long enough to see his anti-democratic legacy swept aside
Chief Justice John Roberts touted the independence of the federal judiciary as a “counter-majoritarian check” and urged Americans rattled by partisan politics to keep faith with the Constitution. https://cnn.it/3LsloyF
January 1, 2026 at 2:29 PM
I do have faith in the Constitution, just absolutely zero faith that John Roberts has any insight into that document at all. May he live long enough to see his anti-democratic legacy swept aside
Drumeo, man, cool as hell introducing folks to new music and musicians at all times, very cool: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHU4...
Kriss Drummer Hears "Baba O'Riley" For The First Time
YouTube video by Drumeo
www.youtube.com
January 1, 2026 at 6:28 AM
Drumeo, man, cool as hell introducing folks to new music and musicians at all times, very cool: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHU4...
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Interesting thread on the origin of the MetroCard!
The retirement of the MetroCard at midnight tonight is bittersweet for me. In 1983, as a young lawyer, I took a year's leave of absence from my law firm to serve as special counsel to Richard Ravitch, chairman of the NY MTA. He gave me the task of leading a study ...
It's the final day of MetroCard sales—so as we say farewell to an icon, let's take a look at how it all started.
Thank you, MetroCard, for moving New York to the very last swipe.
Thank you, MetroCard, for moving New York to the very last swipe.
January 1, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Interesting thread on the origin of the MetroCard!
Zenni offers what now?!?
Also I have new specs (finally got a new prescription!!!!) and am trying out zenni's anti-facial-recognition feature. Not sure if it works in photos posted online tho
December 31, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Zenni offers what now?!?
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Thanks to a series YIMBY reforms—and high-quality administration—in San Diego, the city has been in the midst of a building boom, even as construction has plummeted elsewhere. The result? Rents are down six months in a row. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/12/17/s...
San Diego rents have fallen for 6 months. Should you ask your landlord for a deal?
San Diego rents are down 0.3% year-over-year to an average $2,520 per month.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Thanks to a series YIMBY reforms—and high-quality administration—in San Diego, the city has been in the midst of a building boom, even as construction has plummeted elsewhere. The result? Rents are down six months in a row. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/12/17/s...
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KEEP TELLING BULLIES "FUCK YOU, MAKE ME"
BREAKING: After legal setbacks, President Trump says he's dropping push for the National Guard in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland for now.
Trump says he's dropping push for National Guard in Chicago, LA and Portland, Oregon, for now
President Donald Trump says he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon.
bit.ly
December 31, 2025 at 10:42 PM
KEEP TELLING BULLIES "FUCK YOU, MAKE ME"
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GOP: Did you interact with Fani Willis.
Jack Smith: Well maybe to hunt down what a criminal shithole Rudy Giuliani was to Ruby Freeman.
Jack Smith: Well maybe to hunt down what a criminal shithole Rudy Giuliani was to Ruby Freeman.
December 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
GOP: Did you interact with Fani Willis.
Jack Smith: Well maybe to hunt down what a criminal shithole Rudy Giuliani was to Ruby Freeman.
Jack Smith: Well maybe to hunt down what a criminal shithole Rudy Giuliani was to Ruby Freeman.
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Trump lost. People should say that a bunch so he hears that
BREAKING: After legal setbacks, President Trump says he's dropping push for the National Guard in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland for now.
Trump says he's dropping push for National Guard in Chicago, LA and Portland, Oregon, for now
President Donald Trump says he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon.
bit.ly
December 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Trump lost. People should say that a bunch so he hears that
No one’s gonna need to reach back to English history to offer examples of why protections against an arbitrary and capricious executive exist
In his veto letter, President Trump blamed the Miccosukee Tribe for having “actively sought to obstruct reasonable immigration policies that the American people decisively voted for when I was elected.”
via @floridaphoenix.com
via @floridaphoenix.com
Trump vetoes Miccosukee flood protection, citing tribe’s opposition to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
The Miccosukee Tribe’s lawsuit contesting an immigration detention facility in the Everglades cost them federally funded flood protection, at least if President Donald Trump gets his way.
www.newsfromthestates.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
No one’s gonna need to reach back to English history to offer examples of why protections against an arbitrary and capricious executive exist
I don't have much time to contribute to this discourse, but the responses are incredible, a rabbit hole you could go down for days
MTV is officially ending all of its music channels.
In honor of that, what's your favorite music video?
In honor of that, what's your favorite music video?
December 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I don't have much time to contribute to this discourse, but the responses are incredible, a rabbit hole you could go down for days
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As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
Every time duder says something obviously and outrageously false about Tesla, what it is achieving, what it supposedly will achieve, I check the stock price. Invariably, it has gone up. $450+ memestock, the value wholly untethered from reality
Elon Musk is making up claims about Tesla on X and won’t allow community notes to be attached.
December 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Every time duder says something obviously and outrageously false about Tesla, what it is achieving, what it supposedly will achieve, I check the stock price. Invariably, it has gone up. $450+ memestock, the value wholly untethered from reality
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Useful to think of the U.S. as a petro-state in which fossil fuel interests have captured both a major political party and large swaths of the country to advance their industry and undermine clean energy competition, from nuclear to solar. thehill.com/policy/energ...
December 31, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Useful to think of the U.S. as a petro-state in which fossil fuel interests have captured both a major political party and large swaths of the country to advance their industry and undermine clean energy competition, from nuclear to solar. thehill.com/policy/energ...
It’s been clear for awhile what a hollow shell Dr Oz is now, but he seems to be in a race with the devil himself to demonstrate what at an absolute void of a human being he wants to be, a person who cannot be trusted on any subject at all
Dr. Oz on the "super flu": "Every year there's a flu vaccine. It doesn't always work very well. That's why it's been controversial of late. But like many illnesses, the best news out there is if you can take care of yourself so that when you do end up running into the flu, you can overwhelm it."
December 31, 2025 at 1:44 AM
It’s been clear for awhile what a hollow shell Dr Oz is now, but he seems to be in a race with the devil himself to demonstrate what at an absolute void of a human being he wants to be, a person who cannot be trusted on any subject at all
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Open up this picture fully.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
December 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Open up this picture fully.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
Might be the most slam dunk vindictive prosecution case in history
Newly unsealed docs show DOJ moved to prosecute Kilmar Abrego Garcia for smuggling only after it became clear Trump might not be able to deport him. Sure looks driven by a desire to punish him for fighting back against Trump/Miller lawlessness. Trump had to be right.
www.cbsnews.com/news/abrego-...
www.cbsnews.com/news/abrego-...
December 30, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Might be the most slam dunk vindictive prosecution case in history
I am quick to describe myself as a capitalist, I don’t object to the principle of a billionaire, but billionaires sure are hellbent on proving that, in reality, they are pretty objectionable
Billionaires’
very existence means that occasionally attainable luxuries are priced beyond reach of 95% of us. Whether you make $35K/yr, $350K, or $3.5M - to them we are losers & suckers to be bilked.
They’re pulling all the ladders up behind them.
thelooker.thedailybeast.com/where-billio...
very existence means that occasionally attainable luxuries are priced beyond reach of 95% of us. Whether you make $35K/yr, $350K, or $3.5M - to them we are losers & suckers to be bilked.
They’re pulling all the ladders up behind them.
thelooker.thedailybeast.com/where-billio...
Where Billionaires Go to Avoid Millionaires on Vacation
The ultra-elite spend their holidays a little differently.
thelooker.thedailybeast.com
December 30, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I am quick to describe myself as a capitalist, I don’t object to the principle of a billionaire, but billionaires sure are hellbent on proving that, in reality, they are pretty objectionable
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"Financially devastating but morally exhilarating" is a state of grace our enemies will never know
December 30, 2025 at 5:32 AM
"Financially devastating but morally exhilarating" is a state of grace our enemies will never know
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The industries of the future are remaking the world
“Over the past decade, while the United States ramped up fossil fuel exports, China has focused on dominating renewables. Today, Chinese companies make so many of the world’s solar panels, electric vehicles and batteries that they are slashing prices and scrambling to find buyers.” Gift link:
Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The industries of the future are remaking the world