El-Sayed: "Once a government agency like ICE is told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land, which is the Constitution itself, I don't think you can reform or retrain. I think we need to start from scratch ... I think we need to abolish it."

At the time, medical authorities said "If any of this works, it'll look like we overreacted," and yep, here we are.

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · 10h ago

MAGA/MAHA sycophants now claim that because mitigation measures worked 6 years ago, this is proof they were unnecessary. The stupid, it burns.

Takes like this are very tempting but IMO go too far. The polling miss last night was historically exactly average for a primary — no evidence polls have gotten worse recently. And remember 2022 had the most accurate House and Senate polls in history! bsky.app/profile/gell...

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 13h ago

There’s no actual alternative to polling but I just don’t believe they capture public sentiment in any reliable way anymore

Don't say the new generation isn't educated. My son is playing laser tag with some friends and he just shouted "I LET YOU KNOW I WAS COMING. I'M ODYSSEUS, BRO."

wow, i was not expecting to be blocked by @kenjennings.bsky.social over this. We’ve previously interacted in friendly ways, so i reached out in good faith & not trying to drag him. I was giving the benefit of the doubt that maybe his transphobic behavior was unintended. really disappointing.

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

This sentient Will Ferrell SNL sketch has honestly gotta be stopped.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Bessent: "We've seen President Trump last week threaten what would have been the largest military campaign since World War 2 against the Iranians, and now because of that we are in talks with the Iranians. I think there's a chance we may have a deal today or tomorrow to open the strait."

I'm always dumbfounded when people are like "a trans player could take away a scholarship and an opportunity for a cis girl to go to college" because, basing educational opportunity on how good someone is at a game seems like the bigger problem to me.

This is like saying LOTR is a singularly resonant fantasy story, or Star Trek a singularly resonant sci-fi. Spidey is the defintional superhero. The record breaking success of his movies is WHY we have an MCU.

Adam B. Vary@adambvary.bsky.social · 2d ago

I'm seeing a lot of SUPERHERO MOVIES ARE BACK posts in the wake of #BrandNewDay's success. Spider-Man movies were breaking box office records well before the MCU existed. They are a cinema phenomenon onto themselves, because Spider-Man is a singularly resonant and relatable character.

*except* by the civilians on the boat who refused to play his game. Always an important qualifier. Gotham saves itself, Batman wasn't at all involved in their ordeal.

Rurururuha!!!@tarararara23534.bsky.social · 2d ago

It was very weird also. Because Joker by the end of the movie won.

Remember a few weeks ago when The Odyssey was doing well and people were saying it's because audiences are desperate for original movies and tactile filmmaking? lol

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2d ago

LOS ANGELES (AP) — ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ scores opening weekend record with $360 million, topping ‘Avengers: Endgame’.

This goes beyond cringe to some whole other category for which we don't even have a name. We need our best scientists on this.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Trump: “The Winning Shot in the Bedminster Club Championship! Thank you very much to all of those who participated. I won with a 70, & am so honored in that, unlike the rest of the field, I’m given very little time to practice, bc I’m focused on many other things. It’s called TALENT, and I have it”

the wnba alienating their core audience for the sake of people who wouldn’t watch a wnba game to save their child’s life is a bold gambit, to be sure

I think this is absolutely true, and also why they reached into Lucasfilm to cancel Acolyte. However, it's worth pointing out that Evan's has said Feige took him to dinner in 2018 (!!) and asked if he would return as Nomad. They were never giving Mackie the spotlight.

Adam ➡️ UMAD 2026@arbiterw.bsky.social · 5d ago

I dont think that's ridiculous to say

They finally made a Candy Bar That Is Good For You. Everything I've tried from Barebells has been tasty but this straight up tastes like a mix of Snickers/Payday. So good.

"a chance to uphold the league's values of inclusion, such as including my belief that some people should be excluded"

The Athletic@theathletic.com · 4d ago

Speaking for the first time since ralliers began assembling in support of her stance against transgender participation in women’s sports, Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham said this was an opportunity for the WNBA to uphold its values of diversity and inclusion. nyti.ms/4fHr4Qn

If you’re a Gondorian soldier your experience with hobbits is a tiny guy shows up with a wizard and is immediately taken in the Steward’s counsel. He saves Faramir when the Steward goes mad. A second tiny guy arrives with the Rohirrim and kills the Witch King. The first one then goes on campaign …

It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...

Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 5d ago

Another datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right

I worry that most cynical among us, hopped up on 30 years of law and order rhetoric, will say "this is the system working: he didn't do anything wrong and now he's free." As if the terror and wide-scale publicity of an arrest and federal prosecution is not a horrible punishment in and of itself.

CNN@cnn.com · 5d ago

The Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj

Chaperoning a preschool trip to the aquarium and one of the other dads who is vaguely familiar with what I do comes up to me and goes “man I sure hope we get some Nuremberg-style trials at the end of all this”

Well, it’s invoicing day, and since they’re really apparently not going to pay me for something I wrote for them two months ago, I guess today is the day to post about how @vulture.com fucks over its film freelancers. Long (sorry) thread, with receipts:

Vulture@vulture.com · 2mo ago

There are 118 feature films, plus galas, talks, podcast recordings, and more at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Our guide to the movies and events worth lining up for.

oh is it caravan season again it always comes around so fast

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Trump: "If we're not in office our country will be invaded at levels that make Spain look small time. That's gonna be a talking point for the midterms."

Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal having Spider-Man eating Little Caesars pizza might be one of the biggest insults they could pay to the character. deadline.com/2026/07/spid...

The war on trans people is tremendously evil in a multitude of ways but it's also just a clear cut case of bullying. A group of assholes picking on a tiny minority simply for existing. If the situation feels at all "complicated" to you then you've consumed too much propaganda.

Tremendously shitty way to respond. Jfc.

Ken Jennings@kenjennings.bsky.social · 6d ago

This may be true of others but I actually got express permission from the trans community to keep NYT games and recipes. I also have a news subscription, which is arguably worse, so I had to specifically send in a written request. Took 30 days but I got approved.

Emily Wilson's piece on Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY for the LRB went viral and was received very positively by many — but not by virtually every film critic I know. For @animusmagazine.bsky.social I wrote about why: animus-magazine.ghost.io/a-tale-as-ol...

A Tale as Old as Time

Emily Wilson’s piece on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey evinces an archaic perspective on cinema’s value as art

animus-magazine.ghost.io

I think if Nolan wants to keep pushing himself his next movie should be a Dial M for Murder/Wait Until Dark/Panic Room style thriller set in a limited location with a female protagonist.

Aside from its many other problems, the idea Fauci was America's power-abusing covid dictator is somewhat complicated by the fact that he never had the power to do the things they're mad about. His recommendations bound nobody and were not particularly rigorously followed by the actual policymakers.

This hearing is driven entirely by Elon Musk's algorithm. Not a single normie voter alive today has thought about Anthony Fauci for at least five years. On X this is a pressing issue - maybe the pressing issue - of the day. It doesn't matter at all.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

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