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Chris Wilson
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Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
liz and dud watching tv in lodge 49
October 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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great column, great close
I am not in the business of giving politicians advice. But I will say that if the experience of Lincoln suggests anything, it is that there can be no real success without principle — ironclad and unyielding. You can tweak your message and follow the polls as much as you’d like, but unless you stand for something greater than the sum of your platform, your maneuvers and machinations will be for naught.
October 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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when I'm friends with Henry Kissinger, capable of ignoring large swaths of American history and also love Star Wars

www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
In terms of human rights, I’ve always found it a little bit puzzling, given what you write, and given who your wife is, that you two were so close to Henry Kissinger. Of all the pre-Trump political figures in America, he is the one I think of as in some ways the opposite of liberal, given his behavior toward the rest of the world. I’ll tell you a story. I wrote a book a few years ago on Star Wars. We invited Dr. Kissinger to my Star Wars book party, and he said, “You wrote a book about Star Wars? Why’d you write a book about Star Wars?” He was puzzled and courteous, but really confused. And then he came to the book party, which was quite generous. He was a busy person. But, despite his busyness, he came to the book party. Yeah, and then I gave a talk on Star Wars, and he came up to me afterward and he said, “Oh, I see why you wrote a book on Star Wars. There’s a lot there. It’s, like, about families and it’s about governments and freedom.” The amount of curiosity and generosity that he showed was incomparable. I don’t know anyone who showed that level of curiosity and generosity. And we really got into Star Wars. He just wanted to think about it. I know there are strong views about his career, and I’m hardly an expert on his career. But your wife is one of the great human-rights experts in the world. I asked you about him being anti-liberal, and your response was that he was very nice to you about your book. About Star Wars. It is certainly a touching story. But that’s not totally an answer to the question. Yeah. Well, I don’t know. What he would think of this book I’d love to know. But no second thoughts about being friends with him or anything? I feel generally very grateful for friendship, and he was, when I knew him, a person of immense kindness. Those who think of him as someone who was something horrible or worse, I don’t know what to say about that. But you could have an opinion on it. You have an opinion on all kinds of things, right? Well, on him and his role in government, that’s not something I’ve particularly studied, so I don’t know. I know some people who think he was a horrible historic figure. They would say, “Would you be friends with Genghis Khan? Would you be friends with Stalin?” And I wouldn’t be friends with Stalin, so I concede that. Well, the next time someone brings up a terrible anecdote about Cambodia or Vietnam, I will definitely drop the Star Wars story to show that people have two sides. Yeah. And I get those who think you shouldn’t be friends with someone who did terrible things. I hear that. I can just say that he was, as a very large number of people would say, though many fewer would say it publicly, an extraordinarily generous friend. Professor, thank you so much for doing this. Great, thanks. If we go light on the Kissinger part, I wouldn’t complain, because it could dwarf everything else. ♦
September 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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RIP Robert Redford, handsome and charming king of kings. The Old Man & the Gun was such a lovely send-off and worth your time (among many others obvi).
The Old Man & the Gun poster
September 16, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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What a great piece on how this country swapped freedom and social programs for the maximum quantity and variety of treats.
In return for consumer abundance, many middle-class Americans would take business and political leaders’ word for it when they said that the government was expensive and wasteful and that the social safety net needed to be kept lean to discourage laziness and freeloading. In return, their taxes would be low and, if they worked hard, the power of consumerism would provide the opportunity to buy whatever they wanted or needed—no bureaucrat would choose how to spend their money for them.
April 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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A continuing series

thehill.com/changing-ame...
Conservative “The View” host Meghan McCain has returned to the show after an extended parental leave. McCain experienced health complications during and after the birth of her child, causing her physical pain that she called “deeply humbling.” The experience led to a sort of epiphany for McCain, who is now a staunch advocate for mandating parental care for mothers in the United States. Said co-host Whoopi Goldberg, “That’s funny, we have been fighting for this for years: begging, screaming.”
April 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Share some of the best eyes in movies
Michelle Pfeiffer in Married to the Mob
March 16, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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In honor of the White Lotus premiere remember Mike White had a previous show on HBO and it is great.
Poster for the TV show Enlightened
February 17, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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The Row House Cinema in Pittsburgh doing Christmas right
A theater marquee with Muppet Christmas Carol and Die Hard
December 24, 2024 at 12:51 AM
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Post an Onion headline that lives in your head rent-free
Attempt To Meet Different Types Of People Thwarted By Partygoer Who Also Watches 'Friday Night Lights'
December 1, 2024 at 11:31 PM
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Paul pierce rocket emoji tweet
November 15, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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If I may humbly submit - for I believe the first time on this platform - my suggestion for the next Bond.
Vanessa Kirby pulling out the garter belt knife in Mission Impossible Fallout
November 8, 2024 at 4:52 AM
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October 2nd, 2024.
Washington Post headline reading As Harris shifts to the center, progressives hold their fire — for now
November 6, 2024 at 10:54 PM
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It's a shame the Harris campaign nixed the "weird" messaging because it really is a perfect way to describe these guys.
Stephen Miller tweet saying If you know any men who haven’t voted, get them to the polls.
November 5, 2024 at 11:19 PM
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Big sky deadly trails poster
October 28, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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Spent a couple days in New River Gorge National Park in West Virginia and it was very nice.
The New River from Grandview Rim Trail New River Gorge Bridge from below New River Gorge Bridge from the Longview Trail lookout The sun rising over fog from the Endless Wall Trail
October 25, 2024 at 5:14 PM
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hahahaha okay sure
Substack election dialogues schedule/rogues gallery
October 10, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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Pretty much every line in this remains funny and every song remains great and every little side character is wonderful and it still looks awesome. Otherwise not much to recommend.
Film marquee showing O Brother Where Art Thou?
September 6, 2024 at 3:44 AM
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Have heard worse ideas.

www.politico.com/news/2024/08...
Even Democratic candidates in the toughest battleground turf are begging the Harris-Walz campaign to get them on the trail. Walz is already in discussions with multiple down-ballot candidates about setting up joint political events. One idea from the Minnesota governor and former football coach: attending a series of Friday night high school football games in key districts, according to two people familiar with the discussions.
August 17, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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Love this @sepinwall.bsky.social. Please make more seasons of Lodge 49 so many people (including Paul Giamatti) will be happy.

alansepinwall.substack.com/p/taking-bat...
Speaking of shows that too few people noticed at the time but are still streaming now, last week I attended an event where Stephen Colbert interviewed Paul Giamatti. At one point, Giamatti was asked if he had one movie he starred in that he felt not enough people had seen. He pivoted and instead invoked Lodge 49, the AMC dramedy that he executive produced, and made a couple of hilarious guest appearances in. I loved that show — a super vibe-y, extremely plot-light tale of two guys who improbably become best friends as part of a local fraternal order — and Giamatti’s mention of it prompted me to check for its current whereabouts. It’s on AMC+, so if you happen to already subscribe for Interview with the Vampire or anything else, I highly recommend it. Here’s what I wrote at the start of its second season. (There are no Season One spoilers, because the show is impossible to spoil.)
August 2, 2024 at 12:23 PM
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This was in Florida at at the start of the "Don't Say Gay" bill push.
Hangman Adam Page with rainbow gear during his entrance
July 19, 2024 at 1:44 AM
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some might say

www.politico.com/news/2024/06...
“What Trump has always had an instinct for is figuring out how to scoop up people that he might not have previously thought he could get,” said Republican strategist Scott Jennings. “Now some people might say that’s craven or he doesn’t have any core values or whatever. But he’s got to win the election.”
June 22, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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some great stuff from @davidjroth.bsky.social "HOA with a SWAT team" gonna live in my head forever

defector.com/they-are-ins...
The order they are after is all around us—a Homeowners Association with a S.W.A.T. team at its disposal, a business that grows at a steady rate without making anything anyone could use, a world in which things simply happen and continue to happen, a pristine desolation that is safe precisely because of how empty it is. But what they are afraid of grows even as they starve it, which is why these people, with all their power, are always so insecure. It is why, despite the relentless imposition of their annihilating concept of safety, they can't ever quite feel safe. They know how bad it would be for them to be seen clearly; they are fucking terrified of being treated as they treat others. They know that people can recognize their demands as what they are, and that there are still spaces in which to reject them. And they sense, maybe, that this false and failing security can't last. "The more they try to silence us," a Columbia grad student told the Times last week, "the louder we get."
April 30, 2024 at 6:24 PM
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You've been murdered. Who do you want on the case?
Hank and Britt from Terriers.
March 23, 2024 at 4:44 AM
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Boyd and Raylan in Thailand 🤠☺️
An Instagram post of Walton Goggins and Timothy Olyphant together in Thailand, they look like they're having a great time
March 20, 2024 at 3:14 PM