Roxana Hadadi
@roxana-hadadi.bsky.social
Vulture TV critic, SOUND OF METAL Criterion author, Peabody Awards juror, usually complaining about something.
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Roxana Hadadi
@roxana-hadadi.bsky.social
· Sep 25
🚨SPOILERS🚨: I wrote about the ~ENDING~ of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER; what it says about the past, present, and future of this country; and how beautifully it envisions an "I have friends everywhere" mode of resistance. again, SPOILERS. at @vulture.com:
www.vulture.com/article/one-...
www.vulture.com/article/one-...
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in general, the moment after a surprising, decisive victory seems like the time to study why that person won, not to lecture them on how they theoretically could have won better
OPINION: "Calling the president a fascist does nothing to advance the Democrats’ cause — and more of the party’s leaders would do well to realize that." — Jonathan Zimmerman
To defeat Trump, stop calling him names
Calling the president a fascist does nothing to advance the Democrats’ cause — and more of the party's leaders would do well to realize that, Jonathan Zimmerman writes.
www.inquirer.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
in general, the moment after a surprising, decisive victory seems like the time to study why that person won, not to lecture them on how they theoretically could have won better
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There are 50,000 food insecure children in Maine and 2 trans athletes. Every single candidate running for office who can drum up concern about the latter but has nothing to say about the former is telling on themselves. They don’t care about children. Only power. And they’ll hurt kids for it.
25 Nov 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- In unusual move, Sen Susan Collins (R-ME) signs petition for referendum on the 2026 ballot that would bar trans students from sports teams, locker-rooms and bathrooms. She's in a hotly contested election & this is pbly one way to increase Rep turnout.
Sen. Collins signs Maine petition for initiative to restrict transgender rights
The proposed referendum aims to enforce President Donald Trump’s <a href="https://themainemonitor.org/maine-title-ix-battle-national-consequences/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">stance on ...
www.pressherald.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:24 AM
There are 50,000 food insecure children in Maine and 2 trans athletes. Every single candidate running for office who can drum up concern about the latter but has nothing to say about the former is telling on themselves. They don’t care about children. Only power. And they’ll hurt kids for it.
bumping -- I loved TRAIN DREAMS and its dual depiction of our broad irrelevance and specific responsibilities so so much. would appreciate it if you gave it a read --
I wrote about the beautiful TRAIN DREAMS, and how one change from its source material turns the film into a timely argument against complicity, inaction, and ignoring crimes done to our neighbors, esp. when they look different from us. SPOILERS. @vulture.com:
www.vulture.com/article/trai...
www.vulture.com/article/trai...
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
bumping -- I loved TRAIN DREAMS and its dual depiction of our broad irrelevance and specific responsibilities so so much. would appreciate it if you gave it a read --
yeah, when I talked to him for S1 he phrased it similarly. I think he spoke with kathryn about it more in depth but there is definitely a "the divide is vast" sense about what happened there and how each side will contextualize what went down.
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
yeah, when I talked to him for S1 he phrased it similarly. I think he spoke with kathryn about it more in depth but there is definitely a "the divide is vast" sense about what happened there and how each side will contextualize what went down.
ROGUE ONE slander on the TL ... sorry but saw gerrera and bodhi rook and cassian andor and RUESCOTT MELSHI are all my beloved beautiful boys
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
ROGUE ONE slander on the TL ... sorry but saw gerrera and bodhi rook and cassian andor and RUESCOTT MELSHI are all my beloved beautiful boys
I wrote about the beautiful TRAIN DREAMS, and how one change from its source material turns the film into a timely argument against complicity, inaction, and ignoring crimes done to our neighbors, esp. when they look different from us. SPOILERS. @vulture.com:
www.vulture.com/article/trai...
www.vulture.com/article/trai...
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I wrote about the beautiful TRAIN DREAMS, and how one change from its source material turns the film into a timely argument against complicity, inaction, and ignoring crimes done to our neighbors, esp. when they look different from us. SPOILERS. @vulture.com:
www.vulture.com/article/trai...
www.vulture.com/article/trai...
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A tradition like no other... @kateyrich.bsky.social joins us for our annual Thanksgiving week hunk parade on This Had Oscar Buzz! In this case, it's the drawling, murderous, charismatic preachers and vengeful sons of THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
November 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A tradition like no other... @kateyrich.bsky.social joins us for our annual Thanksgiving week hunk parade on This Had Oscar Buzz! In this case, it's the drawling, murderous, charismatic preachers and vengeful sons of THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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We asked former ‘Vanity Fair’ editor-in-chief Graydon Carter about the smartest gift he’s ever received, what he’d give for under $25, his dream White Elephant lineup, and more.
How Graydon Carter Gifts
We asked former ‘Vanity Fair’ editor-in-chief Graydon Carter about the smartest gift he’s ever received, what he’d give for under $25, his dream White Elephant lineup, and more.
nymag.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
We asked former ‘Vanity Fair’ editor-in-chief Graydon Carter about the smartest gift he’s ever received, what he’d give for under $25, his dream White Elephant lineup, and more.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?
love udo kier's work in BACURAU and THE SECRET AGENT so much. completely oppositional performances and completely oppositional characters. kleber knew what he was doing casting kier.
Two great against-type Udo Kier performances worth checking out: As a middle-class revolutionary getting cucked by his own father in Fassbinder's The Third Generation, and a one-scene turn as a Holocaust survivor in this year's The Secret Agent.
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
love udo kier's work in BACURAU and THE SECRET AGENT so much. completely oppositional performances and completely oppositional characters. kleber knew what he was doing casting kier.
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Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
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the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
I remember enjoying None of This Was True
November 23, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I remember enjoying None of This Was True
😴😴😴😴😴 me hearing "distortus rex"
November 23, 2025 at 3:17 AM
😴😴😴😴😴 me hearing "distortus rex"
awful. also amazed by NO memorable dinos
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 AM
awful. also amazed by NO memorable dinos
stages of thanksgiving prep, as I am midway thru:
- find recipe online, get excited
- go to Costco, loathe my choices, regret not getting a hot dog to go
- decide what movie or TV show to put on in the background while I do kitchen shit
-- 5 hours later --
- still have no decision about to watch
- find recipe online, get excited
- go to Costco, loathe my choices, regret not getting a hot dog to go
- decide what movie or TV show to put on in the background while I do kitchen shit
-- 5 hours later --
- still have no decision about to watch
November 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
stages of thanksgiving prep, as I am midway thru:
- find recipe online, get excited
- go to Costco, loathe my choices, regret not getting a hot dog to go
- decide what movie or TV show to put on in the background while I do kitchen shit
-- 5 hours later --
- still have no decision about to watch
- find recipe online, get excited
- go to Costco, loathe my choices, regret not getting a hot dog to go
- decide what movie or TV show to put on in the background while I do kitchen shit
-- 5 hours later --
- still have no decision about to watch
It was so astonishingly boring. The end result was that unfortunately I too like the characters in the movie gave absolutely zero fucks about the dinosaurs
November 23, 2025 at 3:08 AM
It was so astonishingly boring. The end result was that unfortunately I too like the characters in the movie gave absolutely zero fucks about the dinosaurs
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redid my personal site post-layoff :)
my contact form is open! if you're looking to talk to or commission someone with expertise in covering and analyzing social movements, prison and police abolition, trans politics, climate organizing, cultural criticism... reach out! (my DMs are cursed rn, lol)
my contact form is open! if you're looking to talk to or commission someone with expertise in covering and analyzing social movements, prison and police abolition, trans politics, climate organizing, cultural criticism... reach out! (my DMs are cursed rn, lol)
Lex McMenamin
Lex McMenamin is a writer, editor, and organizer from Philadelphia, based in New York.
lexmcmenamin.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
redid my personal site post-layoff :)
my contact form is open! if you're looking to talk to or commission someone with expertise in covering and analyzing social movements, prison and police abolition, trans politics, climate organizing, cultural criticism... reach out! (my DMs are cursed rn, lol)
my contact form is open! if you're looking to talk to or commission someone with expertise in covering and analyzing social movements, prison and police abolition, trans politics, climate organizing, cultural criticism... reach out! (my DMs are cursed rn, lol)
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Barack Obama said he wanted to look forward and not relitigate the crimes of the Bush administration regarding torture and Guantanamo Bay. That allowed for the drone war to proliferate and for even more expansion of executive power under Trump.
There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.
It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 23, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Barack Obama said he wanted to look forward and not relitigate the crimes of the Bush administration regarding torture and Guantanamo Bay. That allowed for the drone war to proliferate and for even more expansion of executive power under Trump.
exactly right
Whatever else you can say about her, it turns out Olivia Nuzzi has a real talent for getting some of the worst men to stand up on their own two feet, stick out their chests, and say loudly, "By the way, I'm a real piece of shit myself"
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
exactly right
we bought beautiful lovely cozy flannel sheets like a decade ago and only used them for one winter because global warming, baby! Maryland winters no longer get nearly cold enough to justify them. sad because again: so goddamn cozy
As someone who runs hot and loves flannel, I’m coming to the sad conclusion that flannel works TOO well, omg. 🥵
I get cold, put on my flannel pajamas and then I’m drenched in sweat and standing in front of an open window. (Part of this is a side effect of my SSRI, so I’m like a sentient heat lamp.)
I get cold, put on my flannel pajamas and then I’m drenched in sweat and standing in front of an open window. (Part of this is a side effect of my SSRI, so I’m like a sentient heat lamp.)
November 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
we bought beautiful lovely cozy flannel sheets like a decade ago and only used them for one winter because global warming, baby! Maryland winters no longer get nearly cold enough to justify them. sad because again: so goddamn cozy
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to