Matthew

"it's fair when republicans cheat, and it's sometimes fair when democrats counter the cheating, but it's unfair when democrats behave like republicans" has in fact always been the argument, regularly tacitly embraced in ostensibly neutral journalism

I'm a millennial, so I only communicate with my coworkers through pop culture allusions; but I'm an *elder* millennial, so those allusions are Star Wars Episode 2 and Mr. Ed.

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

At a screening of Chinatown. Every man here looks like Harvey from Stardew Valley.

I just want all these senators who are Nuremberg-posting to really understand that you can’t say this stuff and then NOT do Nuremberg. We’ll be watching and we’ll notice if you just skip it

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

Like my movie opinions, I'm afraid my Shakespeare opinions are unfortunately boring:

Macbeth is best.
King Lear is probably second.
Hamlet probably third.
None of the big-name tragedies are terrible; none of the comedies are any good (the closest thing I have to a Shakespeare hot take)

If I were picking the Oscars:

Picture: OBAA
Director: PTA
Actor: Jordan
Actress: Buckley
S Actor: del Toro
S Actress: Mosaku
O Screenplay: Sinners
A Screenplay: OBAA
International: Sentimental Value
Casting: Sinners
Cinematography: OBAA

Haven’t yet seen The Secret Agent or the docs or animated.

He demanded that she send him nude pictures and bullied her into a relationship. This is called sexual harassment. It was not “an affair”. RESIGN NOW.

I’m not sure how targeted it has been. Israel recently said that it dropped more bombs in the past three days than it dropped in the Twelve-Day War against Iran in June. Trump has promised that bigger strikes are coming. There have already been civilian casualties. Americans have already lost their lives. This is the biggest story in the world. Oh, sure. I’m not downplaying it at all. It’s a very big deal. I’m just saying that the strikes have been focussed, I believe, entirely on military assets.

Well, we are also assassinating the heads of the regime. Well, the head of the regime was, in this case, the Ayatollah, who is the chief military commander who also happens to be a theocrat with apocalyptic plans for the world. Sure, a very bad guy. I just meant that it seems like we were trying to effectuate regime change, which the President himself has said, rather than just knock out military targets. Yeah. And let me also be clear. I’ve never trusted Trump on this, or on the economy, or on keeping us safe in general.

You are trusting him on this, though, right? No. You aren’t? I’m trusting the military and our generals. I’m trusting what I understand to be the operation and the people leading it—that is, the generals and our military and our allies. You’re trusting the people leading the operation who don’t include the President? Well, I don’t trust that guy. Yeah. He’s the Commander-in-Chief, right? Sure. Yeah. But I can’t [trust him]. And he’s proven that over the past couple of days, being all over the place, unlike everybody else involved in this.

I mean, it's almost unsporting to send Chotiner after guys this dumb.

Every neighborhood needs:
- a tailor with the hot goss
- a Klingon restaurant
- a bar with a shady-ass owner

Discover Tab strikes again?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, in the Super Mario Galaxy font

Nice!

if you think the greatest threat to effeminate gay boys is the trans movement and not the cis straight men who overwhelmingly exclude and brutalize them then you should walk into the ocean immediately

literally your customer base was 90% parents of young children who want a good future for their kids in which they can be free to be themselves, no matter who they are. you told those people to go fuck themselves. they won't be back

Meme template of Lindsay and Tobias Fünke sitting on a bed. Tobias: Every Republican president starts a war of choice in the middle east to make America safer Lindsay: Well did it work for those people? Tobias: No, it never does, I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but... Tobias: ...but it might work for us.

The other reason I'm not mourning CNN today is that Netflix's offer didn't include CNN. CNN was going to end up at Paramount regardless.

Insane that nearly the entire media landscape will be owned by one family, personally, and they're just awful.

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment.

If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

Yes. The LB stats page does have a “Top 250 Women” and “Top 250 Black” directed films lists, but since those all rely on the self-selected Letterboxd community to determine the rankings, they simply cannot be as representative of filmgoers as surveys nor as interesting as critics’ lists.

WHY IS MUPPET STAR WARS NOT A THING YET!

Have you thought about Marisa Tomei lately? I have.

"University of Maryland Center for Documentary, Anime, and Pornography" is a chefs-kiss perfect 30 Rock line.

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

Pope Leo Will Spend July 4 Visiting Migrant Crossing Island Pope Leo has spoken out against the treatment of migrants in the United States several times over the last year.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

It’s literally Square, the payments company many people know. It’s just that Jack Dorsey needs therapy.

Or perhaps very similar 1.37:1 “academy ratio” sets for the discerning film bro.