Jeff McMahon
@jeffmcmahon.bsky.social
Los Angeles-based writer/editor/filmmaker. Movie watcher, book reader, politics obsesser. Denver native, NYC visitor. Fuck Elon/Trump/Putin/Bibi/etc.
With all due respect, I do not automatically follow accounts that follow me.
November 12, 2025 at 7:29 AM
With all due respect, I do not automatically follow accounts that follow me.
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More plainly visible and dynamic than I have seen before
November 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
More plainly visible and dynamic than I have seen before
It Was Just an Accident (’25, Panahi): Another foreign film that will get an American remake.
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
It Was Just an Accident (’25, Panahi): Another foreign film that will get an American remake.
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OP (not Sam, the Katherine lady) is also confusing "are excellent at math" with "are rich"
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
OP (not Sam, the Katherine lady) is also confusing "are excellent at math" with "are rich"
Is everyone else getting three emails and a phone call every day from companies wanting me to either finish an online loan application or start one on the phone
November 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Is everyone else getting three emails and a phone call every day from companies wanting me to either finish an online loan application or start one on the phone
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The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.
I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.
Greta Lee’s agent knew they had to get her into as many projects as possible before the bubble popped
‘The age of toys is over’: first Toy Story 5 teaser trailer introduces a new tech foe
‘The age of toys is over’: first Toy Story 5 teaser trailer introduces a new tech foe
Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack are joined by Past Lives star Greta Lee in Disney’s highly anticipated sequel
The first trailer for Toy Story 5 has provided a brief glimpse at the highly anticipated animated sequel out next summer.
The teaser introduces a new arrival and “all-new threat to playtime” with the tagline “the age of toys is over”. The latest character is a smart tablet called Lilypad, voiced by Past Lives and Tron: Ares star Greta Lee, bringing new tech to the old toys. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Greta Lee’s agent knew they had to get her into as many projects as possible before the bubble popped
There really ought to be quotes: amid “rising tensions”.
Pentagon’s biggest warship enters Latin American waters amid rising US-Venezuela tensions
Pentagon’s biggest warship enters Latin American waters amid rising US-Venezuela tensions
USS Gerald R Ford’s arrival is largest US military presence in region since 1989 Panama invasion
www.irishtimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
There really ought to be quotes: amid “rising tensions”.
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“.. If you add more and more product to your face and are surrounded by people who do the same, ‘you lose sight of anatomic normalcy.’”
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November 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
“.. If you add more and more product to your face and are surrounded by people who do the same, ‘you lose sight of anatomic normalcy.’”
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There’s nothing wrong with people being so bad at their jobs that they forget how to make money.
this kind of feels like freaking out over a problem that 95% of the audience is not going to have an issue with
Report: Amazon Is Struggling to Think How to Bring James Bond Back From the Dead
Daniel Craig's permanent exit in 'No Time to Die' is apparently causing issues for the next 'Bond' film.
gizmodo.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
There’s nothing wrong with people being so bad at their jobs that they forget how to make money.
At this point everybody should assume the health care market is going to implode at some point in the next three years and stock up on antibiotics or whatever.
I was at an event yesterday where Rand Paul spoke via video and talked about how great it was to send ACA money "directly to the people" so that they could work collectively to get better deals on health care.
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
At this point everybody should assume the health care market is going to implode at some point in the next three years and stock up on antibiotics or whatever.
Ghost Spy (2027): A spy who is a ghost spies on other ghosts.
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Ghost Spy (2027): A spy who is a ghost spies on other ghosts.
Groucho Marx: “I wouldn’t join any club that would have me as a member.”
Elon: [long druggy pause] Can I have your invitation
Elon: [long druggy pause] Can I have your invitation
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Groucho Marx: “I wouldn’t join any club that would have me as a member.”
Elon: [long druggy pause] Can I have your invitation
Elon: [long druggy pause] Can I have your invitation
It’s not clear to me what the Senate bill means for CA legal weed products, but I would say that one thing you don’t do when you’re a regime trying to consolidate power is take away things that make the populace calm and sedate.
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 AM
It’s not clear to me what the Senate bill means for CA legal weed products, but I would say that one thing you don’t do when you’re a regime trying to consolidate power is take away things that make the populace calm and sedate.
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Chris Cuomo is trying to make this atrocious little mustache happen even though it looks like he drew it on with a ballpoint pen
November 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Chris Cuomo is trying to make this atrocious little mustache happen even though it looks like he drew it on with a ballpoint pen
Weirdly the 2013 version of Carrie was not a third adaptation of the novel, but a second adaptation of the 1976 screenplay.
I’m sorry to have to be this guy again, but: The new film THE RUNNING MAN is not a remake of the 1987 film THE RUNNING MAN. It is a second adaptation of the 1982 novel by Stephen King.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Weirdly the 2013 version of Carrie was not a third adaptation of the novel, but a second adaptation of the 1976 screenplay.
Too bad the Wachowskis already used up their one pass to deliberately sabotage a franchise
November 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Too bad the Wachowskis already used up their one pass to deliberately sabotage a franchise
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just saying if one of the 8 folding Dems wants they can use this as an excuse to change their mind and not give Trump exactly what he wants
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
just saying if one of the 8 folding Dems wants they can use this as an excuse to change their mind and not give Trump exactly what he wants
I would love if somebody could explain how this doesn’t make him seem to be weak and ineffectual.
SCOOP: Schumer privately fought to extend government shutdown
Scoop: Schumer privately fought to extend government shutdown
"We let him know what we were doing," said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.).
www.axios.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I would love if somebody could explain how this doesn’t make him seem to be weak and ineffectual.
I don’t believe Yglesias has the emotional bandwidth to feel the emotion known as “mad”.
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I don’t believe Yglesias has the emotional bandwidth to feel the emotion known as “mad”.
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also, like, the die for pain was cast a year ago. the pain will continue for, at minimum, another three years. every choice now is between only bad options, and people will suffer no matter what choice is made, and senators cannot and should not be immune to that.
two contradictory ideas that i hold in my head at the same time: 1) i think the threat to both SNAP recipients and federal workers is significant enough now that even bad deals are worth making to prevent further harm, and, 2) everyone who caves now should retire in shame
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
also, like, the die for pain was cast a year ago. the pain will continue for, at minimum, another three years. every choice now is between only bad options, and people will suffer no matter what choice is made, and senators cannot and should not be immune to that.