Modern The Americanization of Emily about a guy who just wanted to do some minor profiteering on polymarket but now has to be the first to person to shout Leeroy Jenkins on Kharg Island for a White House tiktok.
Recognize, like in a line up?
I know we joked about it on the Patreon episodes, but discussing City Lights this week I think it's apparent that after Zatoichi we need to relearn how to do the podcast. Thankfully, Criterion is giving us an amazing run of films to recover with.
This is masculinity.
I tried to represent the effect visually through the medium of text and image
Post-Zatoichi I feel like the Criterion Collection is apologizing to us: Chaplin at his nearly his best in City Lights, Gerwig eclipsing Baumbach in Frances Ha, then the greatest anti-cop movie ever made (Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion).
Now to be fair from 1916 to 1945 the back of the mercury dime had a fasces on it.
How about an ipod submarine?
In the war but not of the war.
The guy who voices Master Chief from the video game "Halo," who was featured in a White House meme video showing missiles blowing people up in Iran, calls it "disgusting and juvenile war porn" wapo.st/3NhffGm
18 years in food service and I'd never had a customer leave their shoes before.
An homage to a panel from the Achewood web comic. Phillipe, a young and eager otter, who is wearing a shirt and tie and a helmet for some reason, is happily singing a song to himself as follows: Born... in the USA! I went to school and I got an... A! I ate a hamburger and said hooray! Maybe it will happen today! The final line is obviously my addition. The art was redrawn by me and is not just a copy of the original panel. Done in black lines and halftone shading on a toned paper background. You do not need to trouble Chris Onstad about this.
Westminster Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again. Statement: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.” – Oliver Robertson, Head of Witness and Worship Quakers in Britain, 5 March 2026
Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists.
STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
The Zatoichi boxset ends on an entirely middling note, but at least Ichi gets to hide in a container too small to contain him.
Once again I will point out that most deaths in early concentration camps occur from illness and poor conditions. But these deaths are not accidents; this is one of the intended outcomes of a concentration camp.
The use of AI to identify targets (without subsequent specific human confirmation) should be considered a war crime.
And by that I don't mean "we should make a rule" I mean that straightforward application of the existing rules would tell you that it is a war crime.
How to Deescalate ICE Step 1: make friends with three velociraptors.
Finally moving on from the Zatoichi boxset and most of my notes for the next episode are just "wow Charlie Chaplin is so much better at making movies than Shintaro Katsu."
The administration’s complete failure to conceive of consequences of the Iran war is derived from the same impulse that makes them think anti-ICE protests must be astroturfed: they think so little of everyone else that they don’t realize being killed bothers us
"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard
A judge just tossed out Columbia University's disciplinary actions against 22 students over the 2024 Hamilton Hall occupation, finding the school relied on sealed arrest records and held individuals responsible for group actions, violating its own rules.
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In the '90s, a guy named Frank Perreti made a play at being the Christian Stephen King by writing a novel about a group of townspeople whose sins manifested as oozing rashes as their skin. Eventually, the ooze summoned a big dragon who ate them all. Anyway.
Plaintiffs continue their outreach and report here on “the number of Plaintiffs who wish to travel independently to a U.S. port of entry or who wish to be flown from a third country to the United States for their court proceedings, understanding that in both scenarios they will be detained upon arrival.” ECF No. 247 at 7. There are nineteen (19) such Plaintiffs as of the date of this filing. Further details are submitted separately under seal, as ordered by the Court.
Incredible.
19 of the 137 Venezuelans whom Trump sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act, & who were swapped back to VZ & then escaped to 3d countries, seek to come back to the US to contest their Tren de Aragua designation—knowing they'll be detained (& God knows what else) by the Trump Admin.
Bored of Peace, amiright
My earliest memories of public events, night vision views of tracer rounds on the nightly news.
Remember, the enemy of the enemy is not your friend. Because a fascist is mad at a company led by a eugenics cult doesn't mean you should align with the latter.
Arguably calling this "unconstitutional" is correct, not in the common meaning of "breaks established law" but in that the very act of issuing this order would be a violation of the separation of powers, the very backbone of the constitution, and of the Tenth Amendment, the backbone of federalism.
No it wouldn't. Executive Orders aren't laws, they're memos about how the administration will interpret laws. There's no federal law to interpret here.
