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Barry Sonnenfeld is underappreciated
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"From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible."
Who Said It: The Hell Priest Pinhead or Olivia Nuzzi?
“Olivia Nuzzi did it all for love. The former political journalist has written a combustive portrait of America, President Trump, and the scandal w...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Lovely way to brush off a gruesome, sadistic murder as a small faux pas while simultaneously blaming the victim.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Another banger for the Michael Shannon file: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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This is coming out as the hardest own in the history of social media.
November 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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One of the right wing's top cultural initiatives was trying to destroy the idea that assholery deserves shame and we'll have to reverse that. "I'm just expressing an opinion I'm entitled to." Ok but you're an asshole. "I'm simply doing a business practice that technically isn't illegal." Ok. Asshole
October 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Agreed
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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We all need to channel this Chicago man’s utter contempt
Here's a short video of an Edison Park man confronting border patrol. You can hear others in the background. #chicago
October 31, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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COATES: “Trump’s saying, ‘Y’all, I’m just gonna kill people.’ And the Greatest Deliberative Body has nothing to say about it. Y’all are punk, y’all are cowards.”
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
October 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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If you’re like me, you sat up on your chair when S-tier character actor Kevin Tighe turned up in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. I had a wonderful conversation with him about it for The Reveal: thereveal.film/interview-ke...
Interview: Kevin Tighe on ‘One Battle After Another’ and a great career on stage and screen
The great character actor talks about his return to the screen in 'One Battle After Another' and a half-century journey in the business.
thereveal.film
October 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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October 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
October 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"
September 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Remember this. The Nazis were defeated by geologists and car mechanics and school teachers and milkmen. Ordinary people from all over the world who risked their own lives to put the fascists in the ground where they belong.
the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.
Hegseth: "Maximum lethality -- not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We're gonna raise up warriors. Not just defenders."
September 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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The abject capitulation of nearly every major university, not just to fascist ideology but old-school gangster shakedowns, is so depressing

They really are just hedge funds with classrooms attached to them
August 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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What to make of POTUS's attempt to fire the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)?

Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...
August 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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People lament that things weren't as good as they were when they were kids but, jesus, is anything? When you're kids, the experience of new favorite things is *incredible*. It's why we shit on perfectly fine films now and then spend $50 on 4K steelbook special editions of ENEMY MINE and LADYHAWKE.
June 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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i kind of think the opening sequence in STAR TREK (2009) is the best thing abrams ever put to film
June 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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June 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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“.. these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
May 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Jeff Bezos is not fit to own the Washington Post.
Pretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post.

techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...
AWS enters into 'strategic partnership' with Saudi Arabia-backed Humain | TechCrunch
Amazon says it'll work with Humain, the AI company recently launched by Saudi Arabia’s ruler, to invest '$5 billion-plus' in a strategic partnership.
techcrunch.com
May 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Read the fantastic "The Curse of Bigness" by @superwuster.bsky.social . Informative review of the evolution of legal/political thinking on antitrust efforts in the U.S. Changed the way I look at the issue. Illuminates structural/cultural failures contributing IMO partly to our current federal chaos.
May 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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In college, I slept through courses, daydreamed, skipped lectures, tore through books at the last minute so I could write a passable essay, and often stupidly viewed my education as something that was interfering with my life. Squandering a chance to learn is not new. I'm glad AI wasn't around then.
May 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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What a line from Warren Buffett this morning:

“Be kind, and the world is better off. I'm not sure that the world will be better off if I'm richer."

[applause] 🙏🏼
May 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Along with all of the other things that this is, it is also the direct & inevitable consequence of the failure to put a lot more senior executive branch officials in jail for a very long time for Watergate, Iran-Contra, torture, & all of the other things in the last 50 years.
Boasberg: So the president's foreign-affairs power exists once the plane crosses but not before that?

US: That's when his power is at its strongest

Boasberg: The president has extra powers over a plane once it's crossed into international territory?
March 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM