This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

I hate that this assumes that the artists we like have politics we inherently agree with. Like sure, rattle off the list of critically venerated “bad-politics-havers” (Morrissey, Gibson, etc), but also the non-right-wing crank side of things often ain't great either!

Really terrible timing for Dems to be collaborating with the GOP on a stablecoin bill while Trump and his family are putting out a stablecoin! This is going to hit the floor next week.

Not to discredit the work of any anti-hate group, but "outside the bubble" research is pretty vital

JFC, the whole Musk Roman salute thing, is such a perfect little encapsulation of everything... a gross and bleak but also materially meaningless thing we will hear endless debate about... as if he's not unambiguously, overtly aligned himself with fascism already?

You can really see the "ok, that's it, I'm just gonna do it, it's gonna look epic" synapses fire off in real time

your compulsion to be Reasonable And Polite is going to be remembered

A enduring myth about pretrial detention is that it’s necessary to ensure a person’s return to court or prevent harm to the community. But as longtime public defender Justine Olderman shows, the real purpose of jailing people ahead of trial is punishment.

As such, pretrial detention must be ended.

if you want artists to make weirder art, you have to create stable living conditions that allow them to. homogeneity isn't a matter of artists lacking culture-- there are many soulful artists out there-- it's a matter of unregulated corporate dominance combined with artists who cant afford to create

I hate boiling it down to snark but, “the Zodiac is like the Velvet Underground of serial killers- he didn’t kill a lot of people, but everyone who read about it became extremely annoying” from the How to Find Zodiac episode of the Patreon is just too good

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Friedkin and Altman are always the "except" to my kneejerk eye-roll at New Hollywood worship. Their movies really seemed to deliver on the rejection of norms the whole movement promised.

R.I.P. Mr. Friedkin.

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