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Saw You Can See Everything the other day. I was rapt the full 3 hours. A beautiful character study. I have high praise
Sometimes the metaphors for destroying the post-WW2 US-led order write themselves If this happened in something like Tom Clancy book it would be too obvious a metaphor
Hegseth: We are banning reporters from the Pentagon. Washpost: We have exclusive photos of the historic Dwight Eisenhower globe that was damaged in Hegseth's zeal to move it out of storage and into his office. Gift link ⤵️ wapo.st/3WF2YQo
Ganja & Hess (1973) Directed by Bill Gunn starring Marlene Clark and Duane Jones.
every day the administration finds a way to sink lower
The United States is now importing fuel from Russia, per President Trump.
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
I’m back this week with some thoughts on violence, civil conflict, revolutions, and, yes, Luigi Mangione www.liberalcurrents.com/you-wont-win...
You Won’t Win the Revolution
The descent of stable societies into ones of endemic violence rarely produces anything but new forms of tyranny and terror.
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Argentina is a Western country with colonial ambitions. Don't be fooled into thinking they have a rightful claim to the Falklands just because they speak Spanish.
of course letterboxd had to be down after I finally see Odyssey in 70mm IMAX
Even if the Strait fully opens tomorrow oil reserves will run to the lowest level in decades and put real stress on infrastructure. And it's not opening tomorrow. Nobody seems to realize how bad it's going to get.
our economy is being artificially propped up by consumption, investment, government spending, and net exports
Ted Turner lived long enough to witness the complete befouling of a significant part of his life’s work (CNN, cable news, arguably cable television altogether) but somehow Turner Classic Movies endures and that’s pretty awesome.
At this point I don't even know what Heidi Klum looks like without a costume
being a little selective with dates, SpaceX starship flew 6x Mar 14 2024-Mar 13 2025, only 3x Mar 14 2025-Mar 13 2026. There has been a serious slowdown in the program, when at the start of 2024 everyone would have expected an orbital flight and payload delivery by now
We have astronauts coming back from the moon right now. I think that's pretty cool
The Chapo Traphouse boys have sudden strange new respect for Tucker Carleson
The war is Trump's War and I don't intend to call it by any other name
If olivia nuzzi didn't exist, aaron sorkin would have to invent her