Thee Harry Caul
@theeharrycaul.bsky.social
East coast Audio Production Editor, writes @ theeharrycaul.com & letterboxd.com/harry__caul/ on a life in a world where films existed
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Thee Harry Caul's Annual January Re-watchlist 2025
I have an all time favorites list here on Letterboxd (don't we all?) so each January I choose my number-listed films matching the last digit of the current year (###5 this year) and create a most sati...
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I have an all time favorites Letterboxd list (don't we all?)so each Jan. I choose my number-listed films matching the last digit of the current year (5 this year) and create a most satisfying re-watchlist for the beginning of a new year.
November 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
Two impeachments last time. This time we get two crashes.
Beware the Oligarch's AI Bubble
They’re likely to burst.
robertreich.substack.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Two impeachments last time. This time we get two crashes.
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Well-reported piece on publishing. But what I've found is that great sales make your publisher mad at you. I earned out my advance on all of my books, which I know is rare, and thought would be good. But I got treated worse with each book, down to them not even providing books to a sold-out launch.
I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...
The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus
Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it
thewalrus.ca
September 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Well-reported piece on publishing. But what I've found is that great sales make your publisher mad at you. I earned out my advance on all of my books, which I know is rare, and thought would be good. But I got treated worse with each book, down to them not even providing books to a sold-out launch.
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BYD, the Chinese automaker that overtook Tesla in electric car sales last year, is now shipping electric freight trucks to Italy, Poland, Spain, and Mexico. In total, Chinese companies accounted for 80% of the world’s 90,000 electric cargo truck sales last year
China won the electric car race. Up next: freight trucks
Nine Chinese giants dominate a market Tesla and Volvo can barely crack.
restofworld.org
September 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
BYD, the Chinese automaker that overtook Tesla in electric car sales last year, is now shipping electric freight trucks to Italy, Poland, Spain, and Mexico. In total, Chinese companies accounted for 80% of the world’s 90,000 electric cargo truck sales last year
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If it weren’t for Comey, Trump likely would never have been elected president.
This timeline is nuts.
This timeline is nuts.
September 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
If it weren’t for Comey, Trump likely would never have been elected president.
This timeline is nuts.
This timeline is nuts.
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Pippa Norris on the global rise of authoritarian populism, riding the reactionary wave in response to a post materialist change in cultural values.
Pippa Norris
YouTube video by UW School of Journalism & Mass Communication
youtu.be
November 13, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Pippa Norris on the global rise of authoritarian populism, riding the reactionary wave in response to a post materialist change in cultural values.
I think this is right after the diaper filled up.
Trump to the UN: "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."
September 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I think this is right after the diaper filled up.
Through Fukuyama’s Disowned Looking Glass
Kneel Before Zod | John Semley
The new Big Bad is the American Way itself.
thebaffler.com
September 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Through Fukuyama’s Disowned Looking Glass
Interesting spooky stat re:Arsenal. When Martinelli scores first in a game, we nearly always win.
September 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Interesting spooky stat re:Arsenal. When Martinelli scores first in a game, we nearly always win.
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in (your) life:
1. Realizing again that I'm still not sure what doomscrolling is.
2. Walking. So far u take a break.
3. Dogs.
4. All the free books online. Fill your hours with epub(s).
5. Learn to cook ten great dishes awesomely. Learn ten more.
1. Realizing again that I'm still not sure what doomscrolling is.
2. Walking. So far u take a break.
3. Dogs.
4. All the free books online. Fill your hours with epub(s).
5. Learn to cook ten great dishes awesomely. Learn ten more.
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
1. Watching Buster Keaton movies
2. Listening to a score while you walk & pretending like you’re in the movie
3. The way the tape goes into a VHS player
4. Reading something that makes you feel less alone
5. Really old movie theaters
1. Watching Buster Keaton movies
2. Listening to a score while you walk & pretending like you’re in the movie
3. The way the tape goes into a VHS player
4. Reading something that makes you feel less alone
5. Really old movie theaters
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
1. Cold side of a pillow
2. Autumn in New York City, sweater-weather temperature
3. Crocs (the shoe, not the reptile)
4. Finding stuff after thinking you lost it
5. Cats
1. Cold side of a pillow
2. Autumn in New York City, sweater-weather temperature
3. Crocs (the shoe, not the reptile)
4. Finding stuff after thinking you lost it
5. Cats
September 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in (your) life:
1. Realizing again that I'm still not sure what doomscrolling is.
2. Walking. So far u take a break.
3. Dogs.
4. All the free books online. Fill your hours with epub(s).
5. Learn to cook ten great dishes awesomely. Learn ten more.
1. Realizing again that I'm still not sure what doomscrolling is.
2. Walking. So far u take a break.
3. Dogs.
4. All the free books online. Fill your hours with epub(s).
5. Learn to cook ten great dishes awesomely. Learn ten more.
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September 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
NYT with a quick primer on the leader of 'groypers', and the split within MAGA that has become violent.
Nick Fuentes: A White Nationalist Problem for the Right
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
NYT with a quick primer on the leader of 'groypers', and the split within MAGA that has become violent.
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I had a lovely time talking to @TaylorLorenz about her block buster reporting on Dem influencers paid by dark money, a practise that is both ethically dubious and politically ineffectual. www.thenation.com/podcast/soci...
Dark Money Invades Social Media
On The Time of Monsters: Taylor Lorenz on the shadowy groups backing some big Democratic influencers.
www.thenation.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I had a lovely time talking to @TaylorLorenz about her block buster reporting on Dem influencers paid by dark money, a practise that is both ethically dubious and politically ineffectual. www.thenation.com/podcast/soci...
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Not to interrupt production at the takes factory but they should probably identify and catch the actual killer before we decide what it all means.
September 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Not to interrupt production at the takes factory but they should probably identify and catch the actual killer before we decide what it all means.
September 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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"An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content." www.wired.com/story/dark-m...
A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers
An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content.
www.wired.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
"An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content." www.wired.com/story/dark-m...
Remember this scary laugh fest? I wonder who in the news would want to play Khrushchev now? Who would want that chance? Who would like that dance? Who would want to go the studio? Who would want to play that killer? Be in that thriller? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukJ5...
THE DEATH OF STALIN - OFFICIAL TRAILER [HD]
YouTube video by eOne UK
www.youtube.com
August 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Remember this scary laugh fest? I wonder who in the news would want to play Khrushchev now? Who would want that chance? Who would like that dance? Who would want to go the studio? Who would want to play that killer? Be in that thriller? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukJ5...
I haven't understood for over twenty years how anyone can listen to this guy for more than five minutes without considering calling in a wellness check.
Trump: "When you go to a voting booth... they asked me for my license plate, right? I said, I don't know if I have. And they said, sure, you have to have it. Oh, it's a very impressive actually."
His brain is mush.
His brain is mush.
August 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I haven't understood for over twenty years how anyone can listen to this guy for more than five minutes without considering calling in a wellness check.
Won't send troops to Ukraine, is sending troops into LA and DC. That's just about all you need to know.
August 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Won't send troops to Ukraine, is sending troops into LA and DC. That's just about all you need to know.
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Everything happening now was obvious by March 2021. That's why I wrote about it *then*.
This matters because this is a planned autocracy. Feigned surprise at horrors is meant to rewrite history and present our plight as if it wasn't a plan obvious four years ago and countenanced by both parties.
This matters because this is a planned autocracy. Feigned surprise at horrors is meant to rewrite history and present our plight as if it wasn't a plan obvious four years ago and countenanced by both parties.
July 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Everything happening now was obvious by March 2021. That's why I wrote about it *then*.
This matters because this is a planned autocracy. Feigned surprise at horrors is meant to rewrite history and present our plight as if it wasn't a plan obvious four years ago and countenanced by both parties.
This matters because this is a planned autocracy. Feigned surprise at horrors is meant to rewrite history and present our plight as if it wasn't a plan obvious four years ago and countenanced by both parties.