I grew up in a neighborhood that went for Cuomo +53
My current neighborhood (of twenty years) went for Mandani by +67
Willowbrook, East Williamsburg
New York, New York
My current neighborhood (of twenty years) went for Mandani by +67
Willowbrook, East Williamsburg
New York, New York
November 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I grew up in a neighborhood that went for Cuomo +53
My current neighborhood (of twenty years) went for Mandani by +67
Willowbrook, East Williamsburg
New York, New York
My current neighborhood (of twenty years) went for Mandani by +67
Willowbrook, East Williamsburg
New York, New York
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What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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I know we're not supposed to talk about Woody Allen, but ANNIE HALL is one of the supreme American movies & Diane Keaton's wild charisma is 90% of the reason why. And btw her performance of "Seems Like Old Times" is pure magic—up there with the greatest musical scenes in cinema, zero doubt
October 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I know we're not supposed to talk about Woody Allen, but ANNIE HALL is one of the supreme American movies & Diane Keaton's wild charisma is 90% of the reason why. And btw her performance of "Seems Like Old Times" is pure magic—up there with the greatest musical scenes in cinema, zero doubt
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Ken Jacobs (1933-2025)
A great artist, a wonderful teacher, & speaking personally, a close friend for over 50 years. Linking to a piece I wrote to mark his 80th birthday.
www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/m...
A great artist, a wonderful teacher, & speaking personally, a close friend for over 50 years. Linking to a piece I wrote to mark his 80th birthday.
www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/m...
October 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Ken Jacobs (1933-2025)
A great artist, a wonderful teacher, & speaking personally, a close friend for over 50 years. Linking to a piece I wrote to mark his 80th birthday.
www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/m...
A great artist, a wonderful teacher, & speaking personally, a close friend for over 50 years. Linking to a piece I wrote to mark his 80th birthday.
www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/m...
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Journalism that fails to infuse a historically informed lens is akin to covering the smoke but never asking who lit the fire. History-centered journalism should be the framework within every newsroom.
October 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Journalism that fails to infuse a historically informed lens is akin to covering the smoke but never asking who lit the fire. History-centered journalism should be the framework within every newsroom.
Show me a love truer than the Times’s for the word “norms.”
September 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Show me a love truer than the Times’s for the word “norms.”
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If this monstrosity ever gets built, it's where their Nuremberg trials should be held before we put them in jail & tear it down.
CBS got their hands on a rendering of Trump's big White House ballroom. We'll let you pass judgement in the replies here.
September 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
If this monstrosity ever gets built, it's where their Nuremberg trials should be held before we put them in jail & tear it down.
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If you live in New York—or you live in LA next week or you live in Chicago the week after that, etc.—I really can't recommend seeing PREDATORS @filmforumnyc.bsky.social more strongly. You will not see a more thought-provoking film about documentary ethics. And that's one of so many layers to this.
September 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
If you live in New York—or you live in LA next week or you live in Chicago the week after that, etc.—I really can't recommend seeing PREDATORS @filmforumnyc.bsky.social more strongly. You will not see a more thought-provoking film about documentary ethics. And that's one of so many layers to this.
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the best movie at Sundance is now playing at Film Forum
A New Documentary Revisits To Catch a Predator. You May Not Like What It Finds.
We’re still living in the world that this show helped create.
slate.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
the best movie at Sundance is now playing at Film Forum
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A stark, bewildered feeling, as of death, came over me.
August 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
A stark, bewildered feeling, as of death, came over me.
All you got is this moment.
Twenty-first century's yesterday.
Twenty-first century's yesterday.
Wesley Morris invited his longtime friend, film critic Eric Hynes, to dissect the trends, snubs and outliers on the Times’s 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century list and to shed a few tears over their own top 10s. https://trib.al/3ntU8So
July 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
All you got is this moment.
Twenty-first century's yesterday.
Twenty-first century's yesterday.
Shoot this into my veins
June 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Shoot this into my veins
Also wouldn’t mind if the mayor of NYC actually liked NYC.
Without making any endorsements, it does seem like in a city of 8.5 million residents, it’s not too much to ask for the mayor to actually live in New York City.
June 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Also wouldn’t mind if the mayor of NYC actually liked NYC.
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ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds.
He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.
He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.
This is political intimidation.
He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.
He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.
This is political intimidation.
Whoa! NYC mayoral candidate and current city Comptroller Brad Lander seemingly arrested at the NYC immigration court while attending to escort someone attending their hearing.
Lander just got detained by federal agents as he tried to escort a man out of the courtroom. Lander was taken in an elevator with masked agents, along with one member of his NYPD security detail.
June 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds.
He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.
He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.
This is political intimidation.
He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.
He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.
This is political intimidation.
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“A Theater Near You,” curator David Schwartz’s salute to 17 landmark New York screening venues, opens @ MOMA on Thursday ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
June 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“A Theater Near You,” curator David Schwartz’s salute to 17 landmark New York screening venues, opens @ MOMA on Thursday ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
Cannes 2025: The Return of the Academy Ratio
May 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Cannes 2025: The Return of the Academy Ratio
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It’s so funny when people try to make sense of his ramblings. “It’s hard to figure out how he would implement such a plan” lol he’s an impulsive moron who doesn’t understand shit, it’s like ascribing complex motives to a dog eating another dog’s poop
“It is unclear how such a tariff would work because movies aren’t physical goods that move through ports like most items subject to tariffs. [Trump] would need to determine how to value a movie in order to apply the tariffs, as well as what the threshold would be to classify it as an import.”
Trump Calls for 100% Tariff on Movies Made Overseas
The president called the use of incentives by foreign countries to draw filmmakers and studios away from the U.S. a national security threat.
www.wsj.com
May 5, 2025 at 3:12 AM
It’s so funny when people try to make sense of his ramblings. “It’s hard to figure out how he would implement such a plan” lol he’s an impulsive moron who doesn’t understand shit, it’s like ascribing complex motives to a dog eating another dog’s poop
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The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.
May 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.
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Jeffrey Katzenberg's 1991 memo (the inspiration behind JERRY MAGUIRE) about the state of Hollywood and the need to get back to the “singles and doubles” philosophy that drove the launch of Touchstone Pictures and Hollywood Pictures is unfortunately more prescient than ever.
April 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Jeffrey Katzenberg's 1991 memo (the inspiration behind JERRY MAGUIRE) about the state of Hollywood and the need to get back to the “singles and doubles” philosophy that drove the launch of Touchstone Pictures and Hollywood Pictures is unfortunately more prescient than ever.
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A fringe group of bigoted weirdos have dragged British media, government, and law into their hateful obsession with trans people. Grim, depressing, and dangerous. Everyone with power in the UK who's played along should be ashamed of themselves.
April 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM
A fringe group of bigoted weirdos have dragged British media, government, and law into their hateful obsession with trans people. Grim, depressing, and dangerous. Everyone with power in the UK who's played along should be ashamed of themselves.