honestly can't stress enough, as a former family law attorney, how depressingly common Max Miller's behavior and words are, right down to the petty fixation on custody procedure and rules when faced with allegations of shocking violence.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Rep. Max Miller: "When I was reported for child abuse of my daughter for a broken collarbone, my daughter was in my ex-wife's care 9 out of the last 11 days and she took her to the emergency room, which is a contempt violation from our shared parenting plan."

Obviously he has no compunction about making shit up himself, but I do sincerely wonder how much of his understanding of the world is based on subordinates sending him AI imagery he thinks is real.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "We have photographs or tapes -- like moving cameras, right? -- where people are on the side cutting it with a box knife."

If you suppress something that needs to be expressed, only grief and pain will ensue. Spider-Man learns this the hard way in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, a phenomenal portrayal of loneliness and heartache, but also of bravery and honor. Holland was born to be Spider-Man. Great movie.

Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

BREAKING: The Trump administration has moved to drop its felony Reflecting Pool case against a former Olympic canoeist, admitting their allegations against David "Davey" Hearn don't hold water.

Trump administration drops Reflecting Pool case, blaming damage on ‘botched’ installation

The Justice Department said “it is difficult to attribute the widespread damage to the Reflecting Pool to vandalism, let alone to establish that fact beyond a reasonable doubt.”

nbcnews.com

By the way, it's incredible to me that with The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day taking up much of the screen space at my local AMC, *Obsession* still has a showing tonight. Supergirl and Disclosure Day are gone. Wow. Obsession came out 76 days ago!

It’s incredible how much fascism’s greatest weapon is liberalism’s (small l)’s lack of faith in itself

Choices define the unfurling of our lives, but they don't necessarily have to define us in perpetuity. The world I want to live in is also filled with grace and understanding. Boyne's book beautifully explores this. Ambitious in scale and scope, while ultimately evincing intimacy, humor, and heart.

if there’s anything I would want to drill into the public consciousness it’s that there are almost always like a dozen ways to approach any given problem and some of them will be more effective than others and we have to stop acting like the questions around it are against fixing the issue

There is absolutely no need for Fauci to apologize to a collection of liars, grifters and freaks. Moreno showed his entire ass today.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

lmaooooo -- Bernie Moreno asks Fauci to apologize to Laura Ingraham (who is standing behind Fauci) and other right-wing grifters

“That the richest man in the world and the biggest donor to the president and ruling party of the United States openly and repeatedly endorses ethnic cleansing and insinuates violent threats ought to be of greater concern to the world’s power brokers.” Indeed.

Anthony L. Fisher@anthonylfisher.bsky.social · last wk.

Elon Musk’s embarrassing Economist interview and subsequent racist tantrum ought to present the media, government, investors and index funds with a simple yes-or-no question: Should huge chunks of the economy and millions of Americans’ retirement funds be tied to this man’s fortunes? (new @ms.now)

Imagine devoting your life to public health, responding to two major pandemics, and then having to talk with these dipshits

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

Moreno is a moron and an embarrassment. This whole hearing is disgusting. What a farce.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

lmaooooo -- Bernie Moreno asks Fauci to apologize to Laura Ingraham (who is standing behind Fauci) and other right-wing grifters

Such a weirdo.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Trump taps on Lindsey Graham's casket

I don't think McConnell is secretly dead or anything, but it is bizarre they released another photo and don't just do a video. If he's well enough to apparently make cogent statements for a press release, then he can do a video surely.

Cutting money that provides food and health care but spending $300 million to permanently deploy the military to the streets of the capital in times of peace is tinpot dictator stuff

Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · last wk.

What could up to 2k illegally deployed troop apartments cost, Michael? $148,000? Each?

The most obvious second half of a headline you'll see today. Such a damnable situation that seems to be ongoing without end. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

67 boat strikes. 221 dead. The cocaine hasn’t slowed, officials report.

The president says Operation Southern Spear has virtually ended drug trafficking by sea. Pentagon and DEA analysts have concluded otherwise.

washingtonpost.com

Now, naturally, I'm doing what one ought to do after seeing a great film: listening to Ludwig Göransson's incredible soundtrack.

Brett Milam@brettmilam.bsky.social · last wk.

My full review: brettmilam.com/2026/07/26/f...

If you're someone who has any modicum of affection for the moviegoing experience — the thrill and awe of seeing a movie in the theater — then seeing a movie in true IMAX 70mm is something you have to experience at least once.

Nolan's "The Odyssey" is grand and spectacular, but where it triumphs is in the intimate moments, often on the face of Damon's Odysseus (let's go, Best Actor!), a much more remorseful character than his book counterpart. But a good choice as a representation of man's hubris and need for humility.

Welcome to the clicktatorship

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2w ago

The use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.

Hierarchy, newsroom tension, fatherhood, and even life and death are explosively explored in Hideo Yokoyama's 2003 book (translated in 2018). As a former journalist, like Yokoyama, I was enthralled by the newsroom scenes and how decisions are made, especially when covering a world historical event.

christ, our political press are the most pathetic people on earth.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump jokes about serving a third term — and gets laughs at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

He tells us all the time how much he doesn’t care. Good job electing this person again, Americans.

oh, come on — “Grieving”! As if he felt a thing for the guy except as a tool.

well this is easily the most detestable thing a president has ever said about us troops he had killed

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump on fallen US troops: "All of them said very strongly, 'We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.'"

NYC’s small business owners have said it over and over: endless paperwork and uncertainty has made getting their stores up and running too difficult. So we’re cutting red tape, eliminating redundant permits (did you know you need a permit just to serve some ice cream?), and speeding up inspections.

A predictable, and by now tedious, tactic of incompetent military leaders is to attempt to spin criticism of their catastrophic misjudgements as an attack on the troops they have flung into the meatgrinder.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

😳 Hegseth snaps at Peters: "Your characterization of this incredible effort as a failure if reckless and irresponsible and smear the sacrifice of the troops. Shame on you." Peters responds: "You, sir, are the failure!"

Oh, well, that’s all right then.