Phillip Maciak
@pjmaciak.bsky.social
TV Critic @ The New Republic //
DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) //
teaching @ Wash U in STL //
pjmaciak.substack.com
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, sixers
DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) //
teaching @ Wash U in STL //
pjmaciak.substack.com
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, sixers
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Phillip Maciak
@pjmaciak.bsky.social
· Apr 16
I'm writing a cultural history of the DAD! With Plume! Get ready for Father's Day 2027, friends! This is what's happening now! @duttonbooks.bsky.social
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Tyrese when asked which Sixers player he’d like to join him in the All-Star game: “PROCESS!”
January 23, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Tyrese when asked which Sixers player he’d like to join him in the All-Star game: “PROCESS!”
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Mark Kelly? The guy who texts me every day of my life?
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) told CNN he is seriously considering running for president in 2028.
thehill.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:11 AM
Mark Kelly? The guy who texts me every day of my life?
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This really gets to the core of what makes Vance such a detestable figure
January 22, 2026 at 8:24 PM
This really gets to the core of what makes Vance such a detestable figure
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the woke mob is giving He-man pronouns
January 22, 2026 at 6:47 PM
the woke mob is giving He-man pronouns
ICE isn't some august democratic institution in need of reform that's being misused by a corrupt president. It's younger than both the leads on Heated Rivalry, and it's being used exactly as originally intended by the Trump administration, as a release valve for xenophobic panic. Abolish it.
January 22, 2026 at 7:07 PM
ICE isn't some august democratic institution in need of reform that's being misused by a corrupt president. It's younger than both the leads on Heated Rivalry, and it's being used exactly as originally intended by the Trump administration, as a release valve for xenophobic panic. Abolish it.
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Well, this is really something. A majority of *working class whites* disapprove of ICE, per new NYT poll.
Dovetails with the unpublished data that I got from Quinnipiac finding similar on working class more broadly (see below).
(cc @gelliottmorris.com )
Dovetails with the unpublished data that I got from Quinnipiac finding similar on working class more broadly (see below).
(cc @gelliottmorris.com )
Quinnipiac gave me unpublished data from new poll and it finds huge, huge, huge percentages of young and working class voters have seen video of Minneapolis shooting.
Majorities of both disapprove of ICE. Pundits are getting the working class/immigration wrong:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
Majorities of both disapprove of ICE. Pundits are getting the working class/immigration wrong:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
January 22, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Well, this is really something. A majority of *working class whites* disapprove of ICE, per new NYT poll.
Dovetails with the unpublished data that I got from Quinnipiac finding similar on working class more broadly (see below).
(cc @gelliottmorris.com )
Dovetails with the unpublished data that I got from Quinnipiac finding similar on working class more broadly (see below).
(cc @gelliottmorris.com )
I liked OBAA fine. It's not even remotely PTA's best movie, but that's not how the Oscars work, and I'll be happy if they win. All the same, it's a little embarrassing for the Academy to be finally setting up to reward PTA for making a super-expensive blockbuster that flopped.
January 22, 2026 at 3:44 PM
I liked OBAA fine. It's not even remotely PTA's best movie, but that's not how the Oscars work, and I'll be happy if they win. All the same, it's a little embarrassing for the Academy to be finally setting up to reward PTA for making a super-expensive blockbuster that flopped.
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Yes to the age limit - and absolutely not to Rahm Emanuel for President
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
Rahm Emanuel Calls for Age Limit of 75 for President, Congress and Judges
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 3:52 AM
Yes to the age limit - and absolutely not to Rahm Emanuel for President
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
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ICE kidnapped a 5 year old in Minnesota and sent him *by himself* to fucking Texas
January 21, 2026 at 11:39 PM
ICE kidnapped a 5 year old in Minnesota and sent him *by himself* to fucking Texas
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Just shared this one Facebook, because I had to get the words out. Sharing here in case its in any way useful to you.
January 21, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Just shared this one Facebook, because I had to get the words out. Sharing here in case its in any way useful to you.
Apparently, DROPS OF GOD, one of the craziest TV shows I've ever seen, is back for a second season. Get ready for some high-stakes oenology! I wrote this back when Mel stumbled upon the first season a few years ago. pjmaciak.substack.com/p/red-wine-s...
Red Wine Supernova
Seriously, do you know about the trilingual prestige wine-tasting family melodrama?
pjmaciak.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Apparently, DROPS OF GOD, one of the craziest TV shows I've ever seen, is back for a second season. Get ready for some high-stakes oenology! I wrote this back when Mel stumbled upon the first season a few years ago. pjmaciak.substack.com/p/red-wine-s...
Interesting alternate universes — not necessarily *good* but interesting — include ones in which Al Gore ran for president again in 2008, 2016, or 2020.
January 21, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Interesting alternate universes — not necessarily *good* but interesting — include ones in which Al Gore ran for president again in 2008, 2016, or 2020.
The year is 2086, a solar storm has wiped out all technology on Earth, and the survivors of the resulting societal collapse have banded into roving tribes that wage war over vanishing resources of fresh water. AppleTV+ announces the release of season 61 of FOR ALL MANKIND.
January 21, 2026 at 5:46 PM
The year is 2086, a solar storm has wiped out all technology on Earth, and the survivors of the resulting societal collapse have banded into roving tribes that wage war over vanishing resources of fresh water. AppleTV+ announces the release of season 61 of FOR ALL MANKIND.
The real shocker is going to be when the Milwaukee Bucks come out of nowhere and trade Kyle Kuzma and three first round swaps for Greenland at the trade deadline.
January 21, 2026 at 4:00 PM
The real shocker is going to be when the Milwaukee Bucks come out of nowhere and trade Kyle Kuzma and three first round swaps for Greenland at the trade deadline.
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per the story, the “Abolish ICE is bad” dude is also a “former Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection official”
The author of a controversial memo from centrist think tank Searchlight telling Democrats to abandon the slogan “Abolish ICE” is a senior advisor for WestExec, a D.C. shadow lobbyist for corporations in the defense, surveillance, and immigration enforcement industries.
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
Author of ‘Don’t Say Abolish ICE’ Memo Is a Corporate Consultant - The American Prospect
Blas Nuñez-Neto is a senior adviser to WestExec, a shadow lobbyist for defense and tech firms.
prospect.org
January 19, 2026 at 2:58 PM
per the story, the “Abolish ICE is bad” dude is also a “former Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection official”
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One thing that's cool is if you say anything critical of Gavin Newsom you get 600 generic pfp accounts with 3 total posts calling you a bot or a paid op
January 18, 2026 at 4:13 PM
One thing that's cool is if you say anything critical of Gavin Newsom you get 600 generic pfp accounts with 3 total posts calling you a bot or a paid op
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hard not to notice that as trump's polls crater and gop gets crushed in election after election, news orgs are not racing around hiring progressive commenters and boasting about how they're reaching out to real americans by following the will of the volk.
January 18, 2026 at 5:58 AM
hard not to notice that as trump's polls crater and gop gets crushed in election after election, news orgs are not racing around hiring progressive commenters and boasting about how they're reaching out to real americans by following the will of the volk.
We've been using our AC/ heating company for a decade. I've scheduled three HVAC service appts with them since they installed an AI assistant. The first one was scheduled for the wrong day, the second one they sent a plumber, the third one they sent someone who didn't know how to service radiators.
January 17, 2026 at 3:55 PM
We've been using our AC/ heating company for a decade. I've scheduled three HVAC service appts with them since they installed an AI assistant. The first one was scheduled for the wrong day, the second one they sent a plumber, the third one they sent someone who didn't know how to service radiators.
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The Terminator POV scanning shot, but for figuring out who wants mushrooms.
January 16, 2026 at 9:04 PM
The Terminator POV scanning shot, but for figuring out who wants mushrooms.
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We Need A Whiskey Friday With Tony Dokoupil Of The Left
January 16, 2026 at 3:49 PM
We Need A Whiskey Friday With Tony Dokoupil Of The Left
The @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social apparently has turned 15, which means I've been writing about TV for about that long. It's hard to overstate how much I owe to LARB. Happy anniversary! lareviewofbooks.org/celebrating-...
Celebrating 15 Years of LARB | Los Angeles Review of Books
lareviewofbooks.org
January 16, 2026 at 3:29 PM
The @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social apparently has turned 15, which means I've been writing about TV for about that long. It's hard to overstate how much I owe to LARB. Happy anniversary! lareviewofbooks.org/celebrating-...
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We recently tested ~ a dozen public statements from a diverse set of Democratic elected officials on the murder of Renee Good and this was the top testing one
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
January 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
We recently tested ~ a dozen public statements from a diverse set of Democratic elected officials on the murder of Renee Good and this was the top testing one
Ok, Arya travels across the great Sunset Sea and discovers a place called Kansas. There, she uses her training with the Faceless Men to transform into someone who looks and sounds exactly like Bridget Everett. The show is called Somebody Somewhere, Season 4, a Game of Thrones Story.
HBO is in "very early development" on a Game of Thrones spinoff starring Arya Stark, following the collapse of a previous sequel idea that would have featured Jon Snow. https://bit.ly/3Zep8ah
January 15, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Ok, Arya travels across the great Sunset Sea and discovers a place called Kansas. There, she uses her training with the Faceless Men to transform into someone who looks and sounds exactly like Bridget Everett. The show is called Somebody Somewhere, Season 4, a Game of Thrones Story.