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.
In my experience this guy has a 50-50 chance of killing himself or somebody else in the next few days.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 21h agoRep. 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."
i think contemporary american slang—absolutely saturated with rationalist, economicist, biologistic, and computeristic buzzwords, and all with a smattering of direct quotations of donald trump—is very plausibly the worst slang of all time
A hospital patient racistly refusing to be treated, is honestly an ideal problem in that it that takes care of itself in the long run.
Eduardo Suárez@eduardosuarez.bsky.social · yesterday"NHS staff have been called "dirty foreigners" and "monkeys" amid a "noticeable" and "unacceptable" rise in racism from patients, a survey has found" news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...
Claire’s Knee (‘70, Rohmer): When the adult French man touches the knee of an actress who couldn’t have been older than 15:
I can’t imagine any past president telling everyone that he fumed about an underling for days on end. Nixon or Johnson would have done it but not told anyone about it.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d ago“.. The president is ‘furious’ with Pirro, one of the sources said, telling CNN that he fumed about her all weekend.” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...
You can’t say the Russian government doesn’t have a sense of humor
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2d agoThe Russian Embassy in Rome has blamed Ukraine for a deadly weekend bombing at a Moscow restaurant, describing it as an attempt to intimidate the Italian community in Russia.
This Chicago Tribune piece uses “tenant” where it means to say “tenet” so it’s looking like we have to abandon that one.
Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 2d agoIllinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announces run for Chicago mayor
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They both suck but at least in this country we don’t have to see MBS’ fuckin perma-smirk on a daily basis
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4d agoBREAKING: President Trump claims Mideast allies have reached parameters of a deal to end the Iran war and says U.S. will hold off on new strikes.
In this photo, Carville looks like Lex Luthor shopping at the same store where Bert & Ernie buy their clothes.
David Moore@davidrussellmoore.bsky.social · 4d agoCarville has been soaking up appearances on Fox News, Newsmax, and Beltway media by attacking the left and arguing Dems shouldn't seat democratic socialists. He hasn't mentioned he was senior adviser to a corporate lobbying firm that was paid at least half a million dollars by the crypto industry.
There’s a podcast hosted by Joe Dante and Josh “I adapted A History of Violence” Olson, and it seems to follow the standard format of one guy who knows what he’s talking about and one amiable moron.
It’s nice to see that Rubio and Hegseth, both world-class ass-lickers, have contempt for Bessent as even more unctuous and phony.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoBessent: "President Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton could not have imagined the economy that we would have created. It is the envy of the world."
There are three kids in my neighborhood who look like Hanson traveled in time from right before they got famous and the process turned them half-Hobbit
My brother saw The Odyssey and I almost typed a character’s name in a text as “Agamembob”
People will be surprised when the 11th or 12th country to have nukes is Poland
Anton Gerashchenko@antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 6d agoAn unidentified (so far) fell in Poland during last night's Russian attack on Ukraine. It created a crater about 10 meters in diameter with debris nearby. It fell about 80 km inside Poland.
I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.
Another episode in our series “The Next Thousand Years Won’t Be _Completely_ Bad”.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 6d agoAs increased rain makes grasslands and cornfields possible in parts of China that once were deserts, the world’s largest beef importer is becoming more self-reliant by expanding domestic herds.
If I chatted with Sontag at a bar: Fuck, I need to make sure I know what I’m talking about here. If I chatted with Paglia at a bar: I’m going to check on one of my friends for a minute but that’s really interesting.
Ste Jormur@stejormur.bsky.social · 7d agoIf we get one of them stoned and give the other an industrial quantity of cocaine, we can finally create this generation's version of the Susan Sontag/Camille Paglia interview youtu.be/kFgYcVbAaNs
Imagine showing up in Hades and all your pals who died during the war ask if you got killed by a Cyclops or Scylla and you have to tell them you fell off a roof
Dr Ian McCormick@wokestudies.bsky.social · 7d agoHandy Guide to the death count in The Odyssey. #Homer #epic #film #Nolan
The plan was to topple the government, look tough, lower the price of oil and therefore inflation/interest rates, and maybe salvage the midterms.
Hirschman@contextproblem.bsky.social · 7d agoEveryone realizes the war isn’t going to be over by midterms right
1% mortality comes out to 3.3 million dead Americans, which is more people than live in Iowa
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Rep. Ogles: "Look, I don't want to play down the effects of the virus, but at the end of the day it had a roughly 1 percent mortality rate. We coulda gotten through this."
No more bios. When you go to someone’s profile, you should see three blurbs: one from their friend, one from their foe, and one from an impartial judge of character that we will elect (and “dispose of”) every six weeks.
At a bar that has Captain Philips on TV and it’s funny that it’s a movie that everyone remembers exactly one thing about