Tom Brueggemann
@tombrueggemann.bsky.social
Palm Springs/ex-IndieWire writer, Substack now/ex-film buyer in Chicago, New York, LA/world traveler, baseball (Cubs) fan/recovering cinephile/voracious reader /caregiver to 2 older bonded dogs/Northwestern U grad/political junkie
Epstein discharge petition news: NJ Gov-elect Mikie Sheriff is going to resign from the House shortly, which mean the election is earlier & vacancy shorter in winter. It means 1 less member name on the petition. Thus crucial for all on list now to stay. (Dems will have 2nd new member from TX also).
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Epstein discharge petition news: NJ Gov-elect Mikie Sheriff is going to resign from the House shortly, which mean the election is earlier & vacancy shorter in winter. It means 1 less member name on the petition. Thus crucial for all on list now to stay. (Dems will have 2nd new member from TX also).
I do think there's more than a non zero chance JD Vance is involved w leaking Epstein emails. 1 consideration - he may not want to become POTUS before 1/20/27. Why? Because before then he can serve only 1 more term. After, then 2 (10 year max for a president if already in office).
November 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I do think there's more than a non zero chance JD Vance is involved w leaking Epstein emails. 1 consideration - he may not want to become POTUS before 1/20/27. Why? Because before then he can serve only 1 more term. After, then 2 (10 year max for a president if already in office).
So Pope Leo lists It's a Wonderful Life as one of his four favorite movies? Funfact: the Legion of Decency, the official US Catholic church movie board, issued a "Condemned" rating for it in 1946.
November 12, 2025 at 3:00 AM
So Pope Leo lists It's a Wonderful Life as one of his four favorite movies? Funfact: the Legion of Decency, the official US Catholic church movie board, issued a "Condemned" rating for it in 1946.
Yes, I hate the capitulation & cowardice, & yes the 8 + Schumer deserve scorn, but moving forward - the Repubs have a worse problem ahead (this is not a bad piece from CNN). In a nutshell - the Rs now 100% own the health insurance/care issue. www.aol.com/news/trump-s...
Trump’s shutdown win just landed Republicans with a huge political headache
Trump and Republicans now own the issue of health care, with millions of citizens afflicted by rising premiums and high deductibles amid a wider cost-of-living crisis. Trump lacks a comprehensive plan...
www.aol.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Yes, I hate the capitulation & cowardice, & yes the 8 + Schumer deserve scorn, but moving forward - the Repubs have a worse problem ahead (this is not a bad piece from CNN). In a nutshell - the Rs now 100% own the health insurance/care issue. www.aol.com/news/trump-s...
Reading a 1954 novel (George Simenon's The Brothers Rico). The lead character buys a plane ticket from NYC to San Diego (I imagine not nonstop, prop plane). It costs $162. In 2025 terms, that's nearly $2000. One way, cross country. That was normal then.
November 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Reading a 1954 novel (George Simenon's The Brothers Rico). The lead character buys a plane ticket from NYC to San Diego (I imagine not nonstop, prop plane). It costs $162. In 2025 terms, that's nearly $2000. One way, cross country. That was normal then.
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With Abigail Spanberger, you're looking at a very possible Dem VP candidate in 2028. Immensely qualified on a national level. Or more sometime later.
November 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
With Abigail Spanberger, you're looking at a very possible Dem VP candidate in 2028. Immensely qualified on a national level. Or more sometime later.
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I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.
November 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.
It's consistent with Universal policy, and it likely post-Halloween was mostly played out, but Black Phone 2, #1 movie this weekend, is out on PVOD after 18 days. I wondered if they'd push it back because it was #1. Guess not.
November 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
It's consistent with Universal policy, and it likely post-Halloween was mostly played out, but Black Phone 2, #1 movie this weekend, is out on PVOD after 18 days. I wondered if they'd push it back because it was #1. Guess not.
Not the first time a Will Smith slap has had a big impact.
November 2, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Not the first time a Will Smith slap has had a big impact.
This is not a record for multiple extra inning games in a World Series. 1991 - Twins/Atlanta - had 3.
November 2, 2025 at 3:56 AM
This is not a record for multiple extra inning games in a World Series. 1991 - Twins/Atlanta - had 3.
One things this will lack is a game 7 extra inning rain delay.
November 2, 2025 at 3:43 AM
One things this will lack is a game 7 extra inning rain delay.
If this goes much into extra inning, we could see Clayton Kershaw pitching, then possibly pitching to a win.
November 2, 2025 at 3:33 AM
If this goes much into extra inning, we could see Clayton Kershaw pitching, then possibly pitching to a win.
A walk would have been better....
November 2, 2025 at 3:16 AM
A walk would have been better....
This is the final MLB game ever without the 2 per game appeal ability to balls & strikes calls (robo umps used for the appeals)
November 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
This is the final MLB game ever without the 2 per game appeal ability to balls & strikes calls (robo umps used for the appeals)
People talk about the different world between now and earlier childhoods. One - I started trick or treating when I was maybe 6 or 7, never with older kids, maybe with a younger sister, but never ever with an adult. Today parents might be arrested for this. (Never any problems).
October 31, 2025 at 11:24 PM
People talk about the different world between now and earlier childhoods. One - I started trick or treating when I was maybe 6 or 7, never with older kids, maybe with a younger sister, but never ever with an adult. Today parents might be arrested for this. (Never any problems).
My old hometown
From an Evanston resident filming an arrest at Oakton/Asbury ~an hour ago:
"He was being very violent with her, I said ‘You got to stop that,’ and he said, ‘Step back or I’ll fucking shoot you.‘ I step back, and then I continue to record, at which point he turned around and pointed a gun at me.”
"He was being very violent with her, I said ‘You got to stop that,’ and he said, ‘Step back or I’ll fucking shoot you.‘ I step back, and then I continue to record, at which point he turned around and pointed a gun at me.”
October 31, 2025 at 8:49 PM
My old hometown
It's not impossible that the pros in the FBI uncovered a terror plot out of Michigan, but if Muslim suspects how convenient for this to happen the weekend before the NY Mayor election, how convenient that it involves Halloween after Kristi Noem said ICE wouldn't stand back from holiday kids events.
October 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
It's not impossible that the pros in the FBI uncovered a terror plot out of Michigan, but if Muslim suspects how convenient for this to happen the weekend before the NY Mayor election, how convenient that it involves Halloween after Kristi Noem said ICE wouldn't stand back from holiday kids events.
Andrew, formerly known as Prince.
Prince Andrew to be stripped of titles and move out of Royal Lodge
Prince Andrew to be stripped of titles and move out of Royal Lodge
King’s brother will surrender lease and become known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, Buckingham Palace says
Prince Andrew is to leave his home at Royal Lodge in Windsor after he was served with a formal notice to surrender the lease, Buckingham Palace has said.
King Charles has initiated a “formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours of Prince Andrew”, who will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, the palace said. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Andrew, formerly known as Prince.