Eugene

Basically

Pretty much!

Once you start noticing it you can't stop: when the real Trump falters and is incapable of defending his administration (more and more frequent) the actual Trump is "subbed out" of news coverage for an invented, imaginary, often explicitly hypothetical version of Trump who is reasonable and cogent

Finally the kind of analysis I didn’t even know I was missing in life

I’m writing about this right now and should be doing that instead of this. However this poem tracks with what I’m processing. I don’t really understand all the performative closure stuff we do culturally. It seems enough for me to know I’m done.

I made the dumb joke but this is actually the right take amidst the tragic idiocy of the moment

Mehdi and Tom need to go out for Indian food now apparently.

“This is a student who did nothing wrong on a campus that is already in mourning,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the "enraging" story of right-wing figures falsely claiming with zero evidence the Brown University gunman was a Palestinian student.

Literally the hardest thing I’ve ever seen in my life

I gotta sit down with this thread. What a treat.

I heard someone call Netflix the Hollywood Death Star and lmao

One of the interesting things about the Dealbook Summit is inevitably the attendees say unhinged things which distract us from the fact that the Dealbook Summit would not be part of an ethical journalism outlet.

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

Now I am reminded why they always want our food

Tom Stoppard: A BBC Radio Drama Collection Audiobook on Libro.fm The collected BBC radio productions of the internationally renowned playwright Tom Stoppard One of the giants of British theatre, Sir Tom Stoppard has been writing for the stage and screen for over 50...

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With Stoppard's death it's worth mentioning that you can get the BBC radio versions of pretty much his entire body of work for a single audiobook credit (also available on Audible, but Libro.fm is far better)

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Remains an all time theatrical experience for me!

An extremely illuminating thread!

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Bros love to ‘splain all the things BIRTH OF A NATION allegedly invented (spoiler: it was nothing) but they sure clam up when I ask how many non-Griffith silents made before BOAN they’ve seen. They know everything but can’t remember that?

I’ve seen hundreds.

Christopher Nolan’s Akira

So glad Memo is getting some shine on the national stage

RIP a legend

This is very good (as usual!)

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…

“After consulting w/ friends more media-seasoned than I, and exchanging emails w/ the reporter laying out what I was and wasn’t interested in speaking about, I agreed to an interview. I did this because, in ways you might think I have outgrown by now, I’m a fucking idiot”

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I feel ridiculous for being unaware of this history and I’m grateful to know it now

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

just want to correct everyone: this is the WESTCHESTER KNICKS logo, not the NY Knicks. The G League affiliate, which is fitting.

omg

"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.” Fucking SAVAGE for him to invoke Mario Cuomo.