Phillip Maciak
@pjmaciak.bsky.social
TV Critic @ The New Republic //
DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) //
teaching @ Wash U in STL //
https://linktr.ee/phillip.maciak
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, sixers
DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) //
teaching @ Wash U in STL //
https://linktr.ee/phillip.maciak
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, sixers
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@pjmaciak.bsky.social
· Apr 16
I'm writing a cultural history of the DAD! With Plume! Get ready for Father's Day 2027, friends! This is what's happening now! @duttonbooks.bsky.social
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Brad and Janet walking into Dr. Frank-N-Furter's house:
FUCK ARE YALL DOING?!
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Brad and Janet walking into Dr. Frank-N-Furter's house:
I taught this essay — as part of a unit on the whole "Cat Person" phenomenon — and students went WILD for it. Telling Gen Z students about everything that happened with this story is like telling them about the Moon landing for the first time.
November 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I taught this essay — as part of a unit on the whole "Cat Person" phenomenon — and students went WILD for it. Telling Gen Z students about everything that happened with this story is like telling them about the Moon landing for the first time.
WHOA!
BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
WHOA!
Imagine the horrors that would have unfolded if ChatGPT had existed in accessible form in March 2020.
I am obsessed with this guy in the Rancho Gordo FB Group who decided to spend hours working with AI to figure out "the best" bean recipe instead of.....looking at actual recipes
Truly an abomination — and such a good example of how AI tricks us into thinking we can reinvent the wheel with its help
Truly an abomination — and such a good example of how AI tricks us into thinking we can reinvent the wheel with its help
November 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Imagine the horrors that would have unfolded if ChatGPT had existed in accessible form in March 2020.
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I am obsessed with this guy in the Rancho Gordo FB Group who decided to spend hours working with AI to figure out "the best" bean recipe instead of.....looking at actual recipes
Truly an abomination — and such a good example of how AI tricks us into thinking we can reinvent the wheel with its help
Truly an abomination — and such a good example of how AI tricks us into thinking we can reinvent the wheel with its help
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I am obsessed with this guy in the Rancho Gordo FB Group who decided to spend hours working with AI to figure out "the best" bean recipe instead of.....looking at actual recipes
Truly an abomination — and such a good example of how AI tricks us into thinking we can reinvent the wheel with its help
Truly an abomination — and such a good example of how AI tricks us into thinking we can reinvent the wheel with its help
Help me out: a couple weeks ago, somebody posted something— I'm pretty sure it was a newsletter — critiquing the limitations of Andor's politics re: Disney. I don't think I reposted or bookmarked: anybody know what I'm talking about?
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Help me out: a couple weeks ago, somebody posted something— I'm pretty sure it was a newsletter — critiquing the limitations of Andor's politics re: Disney. I don't think I reposted or bookmarked: anybody know what I'm talking about?
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Ask yourself, "Would Brian be more famous than Matt Yglesias if contempt were not a form of currency?" Then remind yourself that a better world begins with you
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Ask yourself, "Would Brian be more famous than Matt Yglesias if contempt were not a form of currency?" Then remind yourself that a better world begins with you
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My whole feed is
a) I hate Chuck Schumer, or
b) you don't understand politics, don't be mad at Chuck Schumer
a) I hate Chuck Schumer, or
b) you don't understand politics, don't be mad at Chuck Schumer
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
My whole feed is
a) I hate Chuck Schumer, or
b) you don't understand politics, don't be mad at Chuck Schumer
a) I hate Chuck Schumer, or
b) you don't understand politics, don't be mad at Chuck Schumer
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SNAP benefits are currently being held hostage by the Trump administration and their fate now lies with the Supreme Court.
Beneath the legal arguments are real people who simply need food—a former federal worker, a single mother of 4, a disabled man. I spoke to them. Here are their stories:
Beneath the legal arguments are real people who simply need food—a former federal worker, a single mother of 4, a disabled man. I spoke to them. Here are their stories:
The voices of SNAP
Recipients have become political pawns. They explained, in their own words, what Trump withholding funds has been like.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
SNAP benefits are currently being held hostage by the Trump administration and their fate now lies with the Supreme Court.
Beneath the legal arguments are real people who simply need food—a former federal worker, a single mother of 4, a disabled man. I spoke to them. Here are their stories:
Beneath the legal arguments are real people who simply need food—a former federal worker, a single mother of 4, a disabled man. I spoke to them. Here are their stories:
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Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
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“Much of the centrist manosphere’s rhetoric is predicated on refusing to see half of what’s in front of you.” OK @winterjessica.bsky.social ! www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
“Much of the centrist manosphere’s rhetoric is predicated on refusing to see half of what’s in front of you.” OK @winterjessica.bsky.social ! www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Yes! Retain your capacity for disappointment!
it’s weird to love a politician
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Yes! Retain your capacity for disappointment!
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wrote an essay about the lowdown, and how it can be hard to think about drama at a time when there never seem to be consequences for bad guys, and how the lowdown offers us a way out
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
Drama in a Time of No Consequences
The Lowdown finds hope in a world where most crimes go unpunished.
www.vulture.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
wrote an essay about the lowdown, and how it can be hard to think about drama at a time when there never seem to be consequences for bad guys, and how the lowdown offers us a way out
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
THE CHAIR COMPANY is a high-surrealist critique of the dehumanization of work and a portrait of fragile humanity.
It's also better than Severance. There, I said it.
For @newrepublic.com:
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
It's also better than Severance. There, I said it.
For @newrepublic.com:
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
“The Chair Company” Is a Horror Show About The Workplace
Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin’s new show is distinctly more surreal and uncanny than “Severance.”
newrepublic.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
THE CHAIR COMPANY is a high-surrealist critique of the dehumanization of work and a portrait of fragile humanity.
It's also better than Severance. There, I said it.
For @newrepublic.com:
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
It's also better than Severance. There, I said it.
For @newrepublic.com:
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
Senators are like basketball podcasters. You want them to address your interests, but all they want to talk about is how they have to fly so much.
Maybe important to note it was the disruption in air travel that Democrats couldn't stand and not, you know, 40+ million people not knowing where their next meal was coming from.
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Senators are like basketball podcasters. You want them to address your interests, but all they want to talk about is how they have to fly so much.
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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Trump is 30 points underwater. Dems swept the special elections. People know the GOP is responsible for the shutdown. So the Dem Senators pulled out their big guns... and shot themselves in the foot.
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Trump is 30 points underwater. Dems swept the special elections. People know the GOP is responsible for the shutdown. So the Dem Senators pulled out their big guns... and shot themselves in the foot.
Remember when the Clinton campaign tried to get everybody hyped up about Tim Kaine because he spoke conversational Spanish?
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Remember when the Clinton campaign tried to get everybody hyped up about Tim Kaine because he spoke conversational Spanish?
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I’ve voted 7 times to reopen the government in a way that holds Trump accountable for his lawlessness and prevents a health care crisis.
I’m prepared to work toward a compromise, but this “deal” before us does not come close to meeting those terms. Voting NO.
Full statement:
I’m prepared to work toward a compromise, but this “deal” before us does not come close to meeting those terms. Voting NO.
Full statement:
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I’ve voted 7 times to reopen the government in a way that holds Trump accountable for his lawlessness and prevents a health care crisis.
I’m prepared to work toward a compromise, but this “deal” before us does not come close to meeting those terms. Voting NO.
Full statement:
I’m prepared to work toward a compromise, but this “deal” before us does not come close to meeting those terms. Voting NO.
Full statement:
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November 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
“Much of the centrist manosphere’s rhetoric is predicated on refusing to see half of what’s in front of you.” OK @winterjessica.bsky.social ! www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
“Much of the centrist manosphere’s rhetoric is predicated on refusing to see half of what’s in front of you.” OK @winterjessica.bsky.social ! www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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I fear this kind of talk would work on a lot of people I know. We might be in trouble because he would be an okay candidate but I suspect a horrible president.
Newsom: "Think about the state of mind of the VP. How do you square the circle when you go to a prayer breakfast? Old testament, new testament. What's the fundamental thing that connects John to Matthew to Proverbs? It's this notion of hunger, feeding the poor. It's central to advancing God's will."
November 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I fear this kind of talk would work on a lot of people I know. We might be in trouble because he would be an okay candidate but I suspect a horrible president.
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JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WALMART.
(This is real. I took the screenshots.)
(This is real. I took the screenshots.)
November 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WALMART.
(This is real. I took the screenshots.)
(This is real. I took the screenshots.)
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