andy, crump
@crumpandy.bsky.social
author, journalist, critic, & occasional token white guy; trying to do better.
words: Paste Magazine, JoySauce, The Daily Beast, Time, The A.V. Club, Salon, Cool Material, Pop Heist, and on it goes.
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words: Paste Magazine, JoySauce, The Daily Beast, Time, The A.V. Club, Salon, Cool Material, Pop Heist, and on it goes.
agcrump.wordpress.com
Would gladly drop my plans to spend an afternoon hanging out with this guy to learn the ways of peak uncling from him.
February 3, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Would gladly drop my plans to spend an afternoon hanging out with this guy to learn the ways of peak uncling from him.
Also, if I ever unceremoniously vanish from public life, just assume that Chotiner contacted me for an interview and that I reacted by grabbing my bugout bag, hitching a lift to Vermont, and making a new life there as a sugar maker.
February 2, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Also, if I ever unceremoniously vanish from public life, just assume that Chotiner contacted me for an interview and that I reacted by grabbing my bugout bag, hitching a lift to Vermont, and making a new life there as a sugar maker.
Reading this interview calls to mind the FAMILY GUY episode where Peter Griffin box traps James Woods using a trail of candy for bait, Jesus Christ.
February 2, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Reading this interview calls to mind the FAMILY GUY episode where Peter Griffin box traps James Woods using a trail of candy for bait, Jesus Christ.
Stepping out of my film critic lane for a moment for a lecture on your rights and how to act if you have an encounter with ICE; my sage wisdom, drawing on my southern Italian roots, is "ubbidite la omertà."
As ICE's presence increases, make sure to know your rights
From having a safety plan in place, to learning the difference between types of warrants, here's how to protect yourself and your loved ones.
joysauce.com
February 2, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Stepping out of my film critic lane for a moment for a lecture on your rights and how to act if you have an encounter with ICE; my sage wisdom, drawing on my southern Italian roots, is "ubbidite la omertà."
As a break in between 2026's persistent horrors: BUGONIA got some Oscar nods, most notably for Adapted Screenplay. So I took it upon myself as someone who has owned a DVD of SAVE THE GREEN PLANET! since 2004 to dig into Jang Joon-hwan's gonzo genre masterpiece, for @popheist.com.
What Does 'Bugonia's' Existence Do for 'Save the Green Planet!'?
Why did Yorgos Lanthimos remake 'Save the Green Planet!' just to sand down its rougher, pricklier, tasteless edges?
popheist.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:23 PM
As a break in between 2026's persistent horrors: BUGONIA got some Oscar nods, most notably for Adapted Screenplay. So I took it upon myself as someone who has owned a DVD of SAVE THE GREEN PLANET! since 2004 to dig into Jang Joon-hwan's gonzo genre masterpiece, for @popheist.com.
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inventing a drink called The Susan Collins. to make it, you say "I'm very concerned about this" and then you serve gin and bleach to an 11th grader
January 28, 2026 at 6:31 AM
inventing a drink called The Susan Collins. to make it, you say "I'm very concerned about this" and then you serve gin and bleach to an 11th grader
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The best part is that she's insisting they need to communicate clearly and transparently while sounding like Teddy Ruxpin doll trained in corporate buzzwords
January 27, 2026 at 5:16 PM
The best part is that she's insisting they need to communicate clearly and transparently while sounding like Teddy Ruxpin doll trained in corporate buzzwords
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many of you are coming off the top rope for greg bovino, but you really don't need to do that. bottom rope is high enough
January 27, 2026 at 1:18 AM
many of you are coming off the top rope for greg bovino, but you really don't need to do that. bottom rope is high enough
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This is the GM firing an assistant coach and hoping that will be the end of the questions, except with fascism.
January 27, 2026 at 12:00 AM
This is the GM firing an assistant coach and hoping that will be the end of the questions, except with fascism.
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if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
January 27, 2026 at 1:07 AM
if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
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People of Maine, how can the rest of the country help you stand up the way MN successfully did?
ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
www.pressherald.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:25 PM
People of Maine, how can the rest of the country help you stand up the way MN successfully did?
Really is no better time for this gif than right now, in this post.
January 27, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Really is no better time for this gif than right now, in this post.
I do not believe we should end the “abolish ICE” sloganeering; if the people stop saying it now, then it’s infinitely less likely to happen for a variety of reasons. I also hope people realize that when ICE *is* eventually abolished, it won’t be until after the rotting orange cadaver leaves office.
January 26, 2026 at 10:41 PM
I do not believe we should end the “abolish ICE” sloganeering; if the people stop saying it now, then it’s infinitely less likely to happen for a variety of reasons. I also hope people realize that when ICE *is* eventually abolished, it won’t be until after the rotting orange cadaver leaves office.
what a bunch of little bitch snowflakes
Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports
Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports
Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports
www.independent.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 7:01 PM
what a bunch of little bitch snowflakes
I think it‘s valid to fear the attempt to rig the midterms, because the Republican administration has all but explicitly stated that that‘s their intention.
But I also think it’s taking the bait to assume they’ll succeed in those efforts, because…the administration is staffed by utter morons.
But I also think it’s taking the bait to assume they’ll succeed in those efforts, because…the administration is staffed by utter morons.
January 25, 2026 at 5:53 PM
I think it‘s valid to fear the attempt to rig the midterms, because the Republican administration has all but explicitly stated that that‘s their intention.
But I also think it’s taking the bait to assume they’ll succeed in those efforts, because…the administration is staffed by utter morons.
But I also think it’s taking the bait to assume they’ll succeed in those efforts, because…the administration is staffed by utter morons.
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As JD Vance starts trying to play "nice Gestapo" to Steven Miller's "mean Gestapo," it's worth emphasizing that what's happening in Minnesota is a direct descendant of Vance's knowingly false racist demagoguery during the campaign. "Somalis are low-IQ thieves" is "Haitians are eating your pets."
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January 24, 2026 at 5:59 PM
As JD Vance starts trying to play "nice Gestapo" to Steven Miller's "mean Gestapo," it's worth emphasizing that what's happening in Minnesota is a direct descendant of Vance's knowingly false racist demagoguery during the campaign. "Somalis are low-IQ thieves" is "Haitians are eating your pets."
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Marimar Martinez was the first US citizen shot by ICE.
They claimed she was a terrorist. Said she was brandishing a weapon.
They lied. Video footage exonerated her and showed the ICE agent shot her five times.
He bragged to other agents “five shots, 7 holes”.
A 🧵 of ICE abuse
They claimed she was a terrorist. Said she was brandishing a weapon.
They lied. Video footage exonerated her and showed the ICE agent shot her five times.
He bragged to other agents “five shots, 7 holes”.
A 🧵 of ICE abuse
Text messages and a moved SUV: How the government’s case against a Chicago woman shot by a Border Patrol agent fell apart | CNN
A wide grin was plastered on Marimar Martinez’s face Thursday as she thanked her attorneys outside an Illinois courtroom and told reporters, “I’m just blessed. I’m happy.”
www.cnn.com
January 25, 2026 at 4:47 AM
Marimar Martinez was the first US citizen shot by ICE.
They claimed she was a terrorist. Said she was brandishing a weapon.
They lied. Video footage exonerated her and showed the ICE agent shot her five times.
He bragged to other agents “five shots, 7 holes”.
A 🧵 of ICE abuse
They claimed she was a terrorist. Said she was brandishing a weapon.
They lied. Video footage exonerated her and showed the ICE agent shot her five times.
He bragged to other agents “five shots, 7 holes”.
A 🧵 of ICE abuse
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they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
January 24, 2026 at 7:48 PM
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
The outcry against and critiques made of the sentiment that "this is not who we are" represent pedantry at its least constructive and most damaging, though I guess I take comfort knowing that Bluesky hasn't changed much since I returned to the platform.
my Blackest opinion is that the presumption of conflict between "America has a long and deeply rooted history of violence" and "we can and should fight against today's version of that, as did those who came before us" is less a philosophical debate about how to treat the past and more a skill issue
January 24, 2026 at 10:37 PM
The outcry against and critiques made of the sentiment that "this is not who we are" represent pedantry at its least constructive and most damaging, though I guess I take comfort knowing that Bluesky hasn't changed much since I returned to the platform.
“Another incredibly idiotic story” could be the title of a book about this whole misbegotten era, where society’s dumbest and cruelest people crank the levers of power for the dumbest and cruelest ends.
January 24, 2026 at 2:29 PM
“Another incredibly idiotic story” could be the title of a book about this whole misbegotten era, where society’s dumbest and cruelest people crank the levers of power for the dumbest and cruelest ends.
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Salute, salutary, and salutations, fuck ICE!
Shabbat shalom! Stay safe. Stay warm. Fuck ICE!
"Oh my gosh, it was so nice to see you! Have a lovely day, fuck ICE!"
"Oh you too hon! Stay safe in that traffic, fuck ICE!'
- two older Minnesota ladies, bidding farewell after the protest
"Oh you too hon! Stay safe in that traffic, fuck ICE!'
- two older Minnesota ladies, bidding farewell after the protest
January 24, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Salute, salutary, and salutations, fuck ICE!
even in my imagination there is no vengeance either ruthless enough or sufficiently creative to make us even Stevens with these Nazi fucks
January 24, 2026 at 12:34 AM
even in my imagination there is no vengeance either ruthless enough or sufficiently creative to make us even Stevens with these Nazi fucks
THE EAR, THE EYE, AND THE ARM. The reasons I leap at the chance to cover any contemporary African cinema, especially gene cinema, are many, but the impact this book had on me in terms of fundamentally altering my worldview can’t be put into a single post.
What is "your" Newbery book? The one you read when you were little (or not so little), and took into your soul?
Mine's The Perilous Gard.
Mine's The Perilous Gard.
January 23, 2026 at 12:55 PM
THE EAR, THE EYE, AND THE ARM. The reasons I leap at the chance to cover any contemporary African cinema, especially gene cinema, are many, but the impact this book had on me in terms of fundamentally altering my worldview can’t be put into a single post.