Noah Berlatsky

Gonzales needs to blitz the airwaves and she needs help to do it

that is *not* a good starting point for Hick, even if Gonzales can't make up the distance in time

Kristi Noem Is Out. Take The Win. No, the guy replacing her is not better.

Kristi Noem is out as DHS Secretary. So who's up to replace her? Senator Markwayne Mullin, a former MMA Fighter that's threatened to beat up people during Senate hearings.

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it's really unclear he's running for president...and it's important to have good senators too!

taking this with a big grain of salt; independent polls have shown the race much, much tighter; this is an internal Kirshnamoorthi poll

Out of Sight was a much better film viewed in my 40’s than 20’s. The film aged well I think!

Van Hollen is right and the ADL is a disgrace.

Shot from the film “Out of Sight”, with George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez gazing into one another’s eyes

I like the overall film more than you did, I think, but you’re absolutely right about what I like best about it.

Exactly right.

The Civil Rights Division was able to show that it took exhaustive (and exhausting) work to litigate even the most obvious violations of the voting rights protections in the 1957 and 1960 acts, which ultimately convinced Congress and then SCOTUS that a much broader law was needed.

which makes it a much more interesting and distinctive film than it would otherwise be, I think.

Out of Sight isn't a great film; it's a pretty conventional post Tarantino heist effort.

except for the way that it just repeatedly emphasizes a female gaze in the eroticization of clooney.

Gazing at George Clooney Women get to watch in Out of Sight

wrote about Out of Sight, George Clooney, and the female gaze. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/gazing-at-...

I think he just doesn't actually care; it's just about scoring rhetorical points.

Ryan Grim ® @ryangrim I will take the internet's word that that's a Nazi symbol but if you're just looking at it on the wall of a parlor without the internet it looks more Grateful Dead than Nazi. 11:00 AM • Oct 21, 2025 • 49.7K Views •••

Omg

Several studies have looked at data from elections to see if "move to the right" keeps the far right from winning. Conclusion: it validates right-wing propaganda in voters' minds, repels your own voters.

Here is one.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"In the crescendo of orgasm I have sometimes been known to shout out the incumbent Pope's name" I have been back on the apps literally one minute. This is from the second profile I have looked at since reactivating. I am doomed

good

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Kristi Noem.

The only thing I have to say about Firefly is that years ago I decided to write a book about Confederate Lost Cause-ism in pop but I didn’t because realizing just how much more of it there was than I’d ever even imagined almost broke me. I’ve been indescribably angry at every single purveyor since.

kind of a sign of just how worried GOP are that they're frightened of losing a seat in MT.

I am still awake and doom scrolling because I don't want to go to sleep and wake up and doom scroll

Whenever conservative parties win, they typically try to see just how far to the right they can go before everyone turns on them. Whenever center-left parties win, they end up backing away from progressive policies and "moderating" in hopes of trying to appeal to people who didn't vote for them.

Just like Dems won in 2020 mostly bc they were Not Trump and people were upset about Covid, Labour won their elections in 2024 on being Not The Tories. Policies were kind of secondary. (And Trump won in 2024 mostly on being Not The Democrats). That whole period was just bad for parties in power.

I remember being annoyed after Labour won and Democrats in the U.S. were like, "Oh! Please come tell us your secrets to winning!" Labour comes over here, gives Dems absolute dogshit advice about moving to the right (especially on social issues), and we ended up w/ Harris trying to run the playbook.

When it was simply that there was a massive anti-incumbent wave all around the world with people everywhere pretty much attributing everything they didn't like about Covid to whichever party was in power.

the best explanation for why they shifted right and have doubled down is that Starmerites believe their success was based on ejecting Corbyn, rather than on an anti incumbent year.

All it does is give the more right-wing parties an excuse to get *even more extreme.* You end up turning off your own voters while ushering in fascism.

Labour is what happens when the nominally "center-left" party stands for absolutely nothing and just shifts more and more to the right in a foolish attempt to woo voters to their right: a massively unpopular party that's going to get absolutely crushed... and right-wing policies.

Kristi Noem was absolutely horrible. Markwayne Mullin could easily be as bad, for two reasons.

1. he is a far right asshole also
2. Trump specifically wants a genocidal fascist in that office.

10 more days for an enterprising Maine Democrat to collect 2,000 signatures and give themselves a shot at sending Chuck Schumer's favorite septuagenarian, Ryan Grim & MattY's favorite Nazi tattoo guy, and Susan Collins to the exits:

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