Alex Eldridge
@alexeldr1dge.bsky.social
Writer and longtime tv/film employee.
Caught myself dismissing the p4k 2025 year end lists with the "never heard of" argument, and then remembered back when they listed Illinoise as No.1 of that year and I was like "Who the HELL is Sufjan Stevens?!?" Lol
James Poniewozik@poniewozik.bsky.social · 9mo agoYear-end critics’ lists exist for people to fight over, so I’m happy when people complain about them. But the complaint I will never get is, “I’ve never heard of most of these movies/albums/shows.” Yes, and? Why be mad about learning about stuff you didn’t know before from the news?
Honestly maybe my favorite-ever podcast series FYI 👇
Chris Wade@chriswade.bsky.social · last yr.Hell of Presidents, our history of the U.S. told through the office of the presidency, also now available as dedicated feed. Also incredibly proud of this one, think we "snapped" with these www.patreon.com/collection/1...
rewarding my microwave by letting it heat up a fork as a treat
John Herrman@jwherrman.bsky.social · last yr.just checking in with one of the most influential philosophers alive today
it's crazy that you can be a writer for the new york times and not know who the current mayor of new york city is or the current budget of the NYPD, who despite a constant presence in the area failed to intercept a man walking around with a GIANT FUCKING LONG GUN
Jeffery C. Mays@jeffcmays.bsky.social · last yr.Monday’s mass shooting may put concerns over gun violence back on voters’ minds, and have already lead some to scrutinize Mr. Mamdani for his views on policing. “He clearly does not understand what public safety is all about,” said Cuomo w/ @emmagf.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/n...
The problem will continue to be that nothing will actually fix this except proposals from people to her left. They all think they can get by with just discourse
West Virginia Watch@westvirginiawatch.com · last yr.U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin outlined a middle-class-focused economic agenda for Democrats on Thursday, urging her party to take more seriously the dissatisfaction voters feel with their personal finances, reports @fischler.bsky.social.
Zohran’s plan is to open five grocery stores in food deserts, there’s absolutely no way that TCW ends up anywhere near one, he would find being near it to be below his station
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last yr.when i buy whiskey from the ABC store, that's like the soviet union, to me.
Busses can never be free and groceries can never be government issued but also there will always be hundreds of millions of dollars to make absolute sure neither happens.
Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · last yr.1. Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is trying to recruit a write-in candidate to run against Zohran Mamdani. This would only help Mamdani as it would take votes away from Eric Adams.
I wrote about this extraordinary moment in which LA leaders still seem to believe they can produce a series of megaevents in cooperation with a federal government that has occupied their downtown and is openly abducting their constituents
Tactical alert
"We are one year away from the World Cup, how could this be happening?"
torched.la
The Studio episode one gave me legit stress dreams and I could hardly even watch episode two. Best show in awhile!
Amid the ongoing political chaos it is important not to lose focus on what the root cause of all of this is: Some people have too much money. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-underl...
The Underlying Problem
This is happening because some people are too rich.
hamiltonnolan.com
Hot take: It’s actually good he’s keeping quiet, because he so clearly would not be any better at meeting this moment than any Democrat everyone is mad at.
Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · last yr.barack and michelle obama deserve to be booed relentlessly everywhere they go for their silence in this moment
Happy third anniversary to the time the Chicago Bears tried to rekindle The Troubles
Watching the tides turn against a certain New York senator who I have openly hated with every fiber of my being for over a decade.
Haven’t ever felt mounting horror in quite the way I did while reading this entire thread.
Crystal Fleming クリスタル@alwaystheself.bsky.social · 2y agoHi, hello. In order to grasp the significance of Trump crowning himself a King, you have to understand that he is literally carrying out a plan crafted by Curtis Yarvin, a right wing extremist, to overthrow democracy and replace it with dictatorial rule by a monarch-CEO.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a group of people so forcefully committed to never winning anything again and missing the point so aggressively they’re on the verge of making the other side look strategic
Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 2y agoDemocratic Party’s newly elected Chair, Ken Martin: “There are a lot of good billionaires out there that have been with Democrats, who share our values, and we will take their money. But we’re not taking money from those bad billionaires.”
So far in 2025 I can't bring myself to hear any of the political podcasts I've listened to over the last 8-10 years, and I've gone harder than ever on Grateful Dead live shows lol
eve6@eve6.bsky.social · 2y agoA small thing I've started doing that has had a tremendous positive effect on my mental health is listening to music instead of podcasts
fitting that the first big air disaster after years of loud, insistent warnings that understaffing would cause exactly this outcome, happens at the airport named after the guy who crushed the ATC union
southpaw@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2y agoNYT reports an air traffic controller’s seat was empty at DCA last night www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
You've probably read about the spreadsheet naming and shaming rent-gouging landlords. But with many displaced Angelenos fleeing to Airbnbs, now the team is taking on price gouging claims for short-term rentals, too
The spreadsheet brigade that's keeping LA's rental market from exploding
There's an army of volunteers at their keyboards right now, all over the country, preventing the ignition of a secondary disaster by snuffing out LA's price-gouging rentals
torched.la
I just know Laura Dern is about to make a memorial post that will reduce me to ash.
People have gotten so into Nate Silver James Carville bullshit about politics that every argument now has to be about what will win elections instead of what you actually believe and when you end up at that point you don’t really have any values at all
Some days it’s like “Huh turns out it was good, actually, that I was too lazy to read that guy’s books/see that guy’s TV shows.”
Seeing people spraining their ankles to dive in front of strays Karen Bass is catching from the metaphorical gun Karen Bass is firing… I don’t love to see it!!!
The Thomas Guide in 3 years:
I Want You To Get The Word Out There That We Back Up The Wire GIF
Alt: The Stringer Bell I Want You To Get The Word Out There That We Back Up The Wire GIF
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🍃🍃🍃 Adam Jay 🍎🍎🍎@bullgooseparty.bsky.social · 2y agoGoogle’s search is so bad I’m re-learning the card catalog.
LA is facing a serious budget crisis and it is all caused by our elected officials defunding city programs & giving all of our money to LAPD. This is well documented. @lacontroller.bsky.social has been warning about this. STOP SHARING THAT POLITICO PIECE!
People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · 2y agoWas LAFD defunded by $17.5 million? YES Some council offices and the mayor are now trying to cover for their disastrous budget by claiming that they approved new LAFD contracts, which happened 6 months AFTER they approved the FY24-25 budget, leading to services and 58 LAFD positions cut