Isaac! At the Butler!
@isaacbutler.bsky.social
Cultural critic and historian, author, podcaster, non-Zionist Jew. Co-host: CHARM OFFENSIVE. Writer: THE METHOD: HOW THE 20TH CENTURY LEARNED TO ACT
Twenty twenty twenty four hours to gooooo
Iwona B. Horyn!
Iwona B. Horyn!
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Twenty twenty twenty four hours to gooooo
Iwona B. Horyn!
Iwona B. Horyn!
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
Smith’s lone watchable film!
wrote about the kind of cinema that can only be appreciated in a friend's basement. that's right, I wrote about MALLRATS!
www.theringer.com/2025/11/24/m...
www.theringer.com/2025/11/24/m...
“The Little Movie That Couldn’t”: ‘Mallrats’ Turns 30
In the fall of 1995, Kevin Smith’s second film was a box office humiliation. Now, it’s become an embarrassment of riches. We chat with Smith about the movie and how it forever altered his career.
www.theringer.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Smith’s lone watchable film!
I will not get sucked into Star Wars discourse. I will not get sucked into Star Wars discourse. I will not get sucked into Star Wars discourse. I will not get sucked into Star Wars discourse. I will not get sucked into Star Wars discourse. I will not get sucked into Star Wars discourse. I will n—
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I will not get sucked into Star Wars discourse. I will not get sucked into Star Wars discourse. I will not get sucked into Star Wars discourse. I will not get sucked into Star Wars discourse. I will not get sucked into Star Wars discourse. I will not get sucked into Star Wars discourse. I will n—
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R.I.P. TrumpCare (2:12 pm, November 24, 2025 - 2:14 pm, November 24, 2025)
You will not be mourned.
You will not be mourned.
absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
R.I.P. TrumpCare (2:12 pm, November 24, 2025 - 2:14 pm, November 24, 2025)
You will not be mourned.
You will not be mourned.
Gotta say, it sucks for DC, a great theater town, that the first string theater critic not only doesn’t live in the city, but barely ever covers local theater.
November 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Gotta say, it sucks for DC, a great theater town, that the first string theater critic not only doesn’t live in the city, but barely ever covers local theater.
There are two kinds of people in this world, those who love the Bug episode of Breaking Bad and those that don’t, and unfortunately Vince Gilligan is in the former camp.
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 AM
There are two kinds of people in this world, those who love the Bug episode of Breaking Bad and those that don’t, and unfortunately Vince Gilligan is in the former camp.
The thing Justin Chang’s review of Wicked 2 really nails is the feeling that you’re watching an extended act of vandalism and aggression towards the original film. Like it’s got some Oedipal relationship to the original and it wants to ruin it for you.
November 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The thing Justin Chang’s review of Wicked 2 really nails is the feeling that you’re watching an extended act of vandalism and aggression towards the original film. Like it’s got some Oedipal relationship to the original and it wants to ruin it for you.
Even my kid hated wicked for good
November 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Even my kid hated wicked for good
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I am a citizen and so are majority of Somalis in America. Good luck celebrating a policy change that really doesn’t have much impact on the Somalis you love to hate. We are here to stay 💁🏽♀️
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I am a citizen and so are majority of Somalis in America. Good luck celebrating a policy change that really doesn’t have much impact on the Somalis you love to hate. We are here to stay 💁🏽♀️
I’m excited to see “Practice” and mean this as no knock on the show but it is extremely funny to see people on here and in the press treat a cliche (the head of an artistic practice as brutal, manipulative, cult leader) as somehow groundbreaking
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/t...
Theater as a Safe Space? ‘Practice’ Demolishes That Idea.
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I’m excited to see “Practice” and mean this as no knock on the show but it is extremely funny to see people on here and in the press treat a cliche (the head of an artistic practice as brutal, manipulative, cult leader) as somehow groundbreaking
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/t...
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well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
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Obscure YT of the day CITIZEN STEVE, a B&W CITIZEN KANE parody Amy Irving produced for Steven Spielberg's 40th birthday party in 1987! Dan Ackroyd, John Candy, Michael Jackson, Irving, Robin Williams, Drew Barrymore, Michael J. Fox and more show up!
youtu.be/BC6suzi-y60?...
youtu.be/BC6suzi-y60?...
November 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Obscure YT of the day CITIZEN STEVE, a B&W CITIZEN KANE parody Amy Irving produced for Steven Spielberg's 40th birthday party in 1987! Dan Ackroyd, John Candy, Michael Jackson, Irving, Robin Williams, Drew Barrymore, Michael J. Fox and more show up!
youtu.be/BC6suzi-y60?...
youtu.be/BC6suzi-y60?...
Whew pluribus goes right off the rails immediately in episode two
November 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Whew pluribus goes right off the rails immediately in episode two
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Sometimes having a president with borscht for brains is good actually?????
November 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Sometimes having a president with borscht for brains is good actually?????
lol nothing matters
A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
November 21, 2025 at 10:11 PM
lol nothing matters
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THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
![II. Credibility
The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6]
Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage.
[FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifpyry2il5toxbr3iejgrsxs6kmnwve75qwnhebfp44ieyjrfpsdu@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
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In an interview today, Netanyahu says the following
•There will never be a Palestinian state, even if this means no normalization with Saudi Arabia
•Israel won't leave the occupied Syrian territories
•Israel would like a deal with Turkey but is prepared to treat it like Iran
•There will never be a Palestinian state, even if this means no normalization with Saudi Arabia
•Israel won't leave the occupied Syrian territories
•Israel would like a deal with Turkey but is prepared to treat it like Iran
Netanyahu: ‘There will not be a Palestinian state,’ even at cost of ties with Saudis
In interview with Telegram channel, PM says border deal with Syria 'preferable' but won't budge on security demands; Israel to boost arms industry to ease reliance on US
www.timesofisrael.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
In an interview today, Netanyahu says the following
•There will never be a Palestinian state, even if this means no normalization with Saudi Arabia
•Israel won't leave the occupied Syrian territories
•Israel would like a deal with Turkey but is prepared to treat it like Iran
•There will never be a Palestinian state, even if this means no normalization with Saudi Arabia
•Israel won't leave the occupied Syrian territories
•Israel would like a deal with Turkey but is prepared to treat it like Iran
Hey Folks! Come hear a sneak peak of my new history of the culture wars tomorrow as part of Fall of Freedom!
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Hey Folks! Come hear a sneak peak of my new history of the culture wars tomorrow as part of Fall of Freedom!
I continue to find the maybe happy ending casting controversy to be kinda odd. The roles are robots, nothing in the show indicates that robots have a racial identity, and the fill in for Criss was almost certainly chosen because he’s the lead actress’s boyfriend.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/t...
The Debate Over Colorblind Casting Isn’t Settled After All
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I continue to find the maybe happy ending casting controversy to be kinda odd. The roles are robots, nothing in the show indicates that robots have a racial identity, and the fill in for Criss was almost certainly chosen because he’s the lead actress’s boyfriend.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/t...
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To this day I'm still chastised by people when I say that the leadership of both parties are opposed to partition. This is just true. I frankly do not understand the reticence to accept this reality. One party says they support in words but oppose in action and other has united words and action.
Every single self styled Zionist political party opposes partition, the vast majority of the Jewish public oppose partition, and both leaderships of the two major parties in the United States oppose partition. It is a fair question as to what exactly is to be done in the face of this.
62% of Israelis, and 73%(!) of Jewish Israelis, said they'd oppose Palestinian statehood, even if it's coupled with normalization with Saudi Arabia.
The Israeli public (not just government) and the rest of the world seem to be moving in 2 very opposite directions. www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
The Israeli public (not just government) and the rest of the world seem to be moving in 2 very opposite directions. www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
November 20, 2025 at 12:15 AM
To this day I'm still chastised by people when I say that the leadership of both parties are opposed to partition. This is just true. I frankly do not understand the reticence to accept this reality. One party says they support in words but oppose in action and other has united words and action.
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Oh, I don’t know. Our rivers no longer catch on fire and our air is far less poisonous than it used to be, even in smog bowls like Los Angeles. And I think those are good things.
If there’s no shale gas then there’s no shale gas, but I still think environmentalism is basically bad and politicians should focus more on material prosperity.
November 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Oh, I don’t know. Our rivers no longer catch on fire and our air is far less poisonous than it used to be, even in smog bowls like Los Angeles. And I think those are good things.
This seems… ominous
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
November 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This seems… ominous