Evan deCatanzaro
@edecatan.bsky.social
Indoor enthusiast, pretentious wordsmith, insufferable pedant, cantankerous cynic, poseur extraordinaire, and self-styled critic of the Kitsch and Famous.
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Everyone on here being like aNoThEr AmEriCaN wAr fOr OiL my guys even in Iraq we didn't get the oil and that was the MacArthur Genius Grant version of whatever this is
January 4, 2026 at 3:52 AM
Everyone on here being like aNoThEr AmEriCaN wAr fOr OiL my guys even in Iraq we didn't get the oil and that was the MacArthur Genius Grant version of whatever this is
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I had an old post on Twitter about this. The US spends about 18% of its GDP on the social safety net and 3.5% on military. Germany spends about 24-25% of its GDP on the social safety net and 2% on the military.
Our military spending is not why they can have nice things or why we don't.
Our military spending is not why they can have nice things or why we don't.
January 6, 2026 at 3:23 PM
I had an old post on Twitter about this. The US spends about 18% of its GDP on the social safety net and 3.5% on military. Germany spends about 24-25% of its GDP on the social safety net and 2% on the military.
Our military spending is not why they can have nice things or why we don't.
Our military spending is not why they can have nice things or why we don't.
This is classic Atlantic writing: vivid, anxiety-forward, elite-sourced, and deliberately alarming. Designed to provoke seriousness, without interest in probability.
NEW: Is Greenland next?
After Trump’s strike on Venezuela, some Europeans think he may now act upon his desire for Greenland
And that, which could spell the end of NATO, might happen without any military force - and perhaps with just a Truth Social post www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
After Trump’s strike on Venezuela, some Europeans think he may now act upon his desire for Greenland
And that, which could spell the end of NATO, might happen without any military force - and perhaps with just a Truth Social post www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
Is Greenland Next?
After Venezuela, Europeans think Trump may actually be serious.
www.theatlantic.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:31 PM
This is classic Atlantic writing: vivid, anxiety-forward, elite-sourced, and deliberately alarming. Designed to provoke seriousness, without interest in probability.
It's offensively hinky that Gwyneth Paltrow is being promoted for Best Supporting Actress in "Marty Supreme" while A24 pretends that Odessa A’zion isn't in it and doesn't exist. She and the movie's fans should be righteously outraged.
December 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM
It's offensively hinky that Gwyneth Paltrow is being promoted for Best Supporting Actress in "Marty Supreme" while A24 pretends that Odessa A’zion isn't in it and doesn't exist. She and the movie's fans should be righteously outraged.
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Speaking ill of the dead is controversial, particularly when it was a violent death. It’s edgy; it’s sensitive; best avoided in most cases, etc.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
December 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Speaking ill of the dead is controversial, particularly when it was a violent death. It’s edgy; it’s sensitive; best avoided in most cases, etc.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
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Trump pardoned the ex-president of Honduras who shoveled hundreds of tons of cocaine into the U.S. He pardoned the founder of a black market who imported fentanyl from China.
These men poisoned America & killed millions. Whatever Trump’s illegal boat strikes are about, it sure isn’t drugs.
These men poisoned America & killed millions. Whatever Trump’s illegal boat strikes are about, it sure isn’t drugs.
Trump move to pardon Honduras’s ex-president shows counter-drug effort is ‘based on lies and hypocrisy’
Why has Trump blown up alleged narco boats in the Caribbean and at the same time decided to let a big-time trafficker off the hook?
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Trump pardoned the ex-president of Honduras who shoveled hundreds of tons of cocaine into the U.S. He pardoned the founder of a black market who imported fentanyl from China.
These men poisoned America & killed millions. Whatever Trump’s illegal boat strikes are about, it sure isn’t drugs.
These men poisoned America & killed millions. Whatever Trump’s illegal boat strikes are about, it sure isn’t drugs.
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Year-end critics’ lists exist for people to fight over, so I’m happy when people complain about them. But the complaint I will never get is, “I’ve never heard of most of these movies/albums/shows.” Yes, and? Why be mad about learning about stuff you didn’t know before from the news?
December 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Year-end critics’ lists exist for people to fight over, so I’m happy when people complain about them. But the complaint I will never get is, “I’ve never heard of most of these movies/albums/shows.” Yes, and? Why be mad about learning about stuff you didn’t know before from the news?
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ACAB and Defund The Police -- the two most destructive messaging efforts from sloganeers who don't actually want to fix a fucking thing and will, at every opportunity, alienate the entire electorate from actual police reform for the sheer pleasure of their own self-regarding purities.
Eat a dick.
Eat a dick.
Okay but ACAB includes David Simon.
Hard, fast rule from a veteran police reporter: Excepting anyone engaged in infiltrating a criminal conspiracy in an undercover capacity, any law officer who hides his identity from the public is a shitheel is doing vile shit and is, in fact, actively destroying the credibility of law enforcement.
November 6, 2025 at 3:02 AM
ACAB and Defund The Police -- the two most destructive messaging efforts from sloganeers who don't actually want to fix a fucking thing and will, at every opportunity, alienate the entire electorate from actual police reform for the sheer pleasure of their own self-regarding purities.
Eat a dick.
Eat a dick.
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I legitimately think one of the absolute poisons of American political discourse is how “but will this matter electorally” has become the only metric used by basically the entire non-partisan media for assessing a story’s importance
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I legitimately think one of the absolute poisons of American political discourse is how “but will this matter electorally” has become the only metric used by basically the entire non-partisan media for assessing a story’s importance
I am comfortable with the political label "pro-death". Supporting capital punishment is the component of this for which I am least enthused, but it is appropriate for uncommon violent offenders who cannot be rehabilitated, and it's a pity our legislators abolished this option.
‘No hope of rehabilitation’ for Quebecer who killed 10-year-old in 1994, judge says
A Quebec man who was convicted of second-degree murder in the killing of a 10-year-old girl north of Montreal in 1994 has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I am comfortable with the political label "pro-death". Supporting capital punishment is the component of this for which I am least enthused, but it is appropriate for uncommon violent offenders who cannot be rehabilitated, and it's a pity our legislators abolished this option.
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New piece up @ca.theconversation.com: TL;DR, Canada needs to be strategic and diplomatic, but it cannot keep caving to a bully's version of the truth. theconversation.com/mark-carneys...
Mark Carney’s apology to Donald Trump: Far from ‘elbows up,’ it seems Canada has no elbows at all
An Ontario ad on Ronald Reagan’s support of free trade may have been an unnecessary risk. But Mark Carney’s apology to Donald Trump was an unnecessary own-goal.
theconversation.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New piece up @ca.theconversation.com: TL;DR, Canada needs to be strategic and diplomatic, but it cannot keep caving to a bully's version of the truth. theconversation.com/mark-carneys...
November watchlist:
Blue Moon
The Sheik (Valentino)
It Was Just An Accident
No Bears (re-watch)
Kes
The World of Jacques Demy
The Mastermind
Un chapeau de paille d'Italie
Babe (re-watch)
Train Dreams
Nuremburg
Broken Blossoms (re-watch)
Bugonia
When Night is Falling
Spies (1928)
La Haine
Blue Moon
The Sheik (Valentino)
It Was Just An Accident
No Bears (re-watch)
Kes
The World of Jacques Demy
The Mastermind
Un chapeau de paille d'Italie
Babe (re-watch)
Train Dreams
Nuremburg
Broken Blossoms (re-watch)
Bugonia
When Night is Falling
Spies (1928)
La Haine
November 2, 2025 at 3:14 AM
November watchlist:
Blue Moon
The Sheik (Valentino)
It Was Just An Accident
No Bears (re-watch)
Kes
The World of Jacques Demy
The Mastermind
Un chapeau de paille d'Italie
Babe (re-watch)
Train Dreams
Nuremburg
Broken Blossoms (re-watch)
Bugonia
When Night is Falling
Spies (1928)
La Haine
Blue Moon
The Sheik (Valentino)
It Was Just An Accident
No Bears (re-watch)
Kes
The World of Jacques Demy
The Mastermind
Un chapeau de paille d'Italie
Babe (re-watch)
Train Dreams
Nuremburg
Broken Blossoms (re-watch)
Bugonia
When Night is Falling
Spies (1928)
La Haine
"The Thin Red Line", "American Psycho", "Panic Room", "Phone Booth", "Girl, Interrupted" and I at least respect arguments in favor of "Fight Club" and "Requiem For A Dream". Nothing of consequence since then. Movie stars with 30+ credits but no "good or successful films" scarcely exist.
I will never understand how Jared Leto has remained a working movie star for 30 years despite never starring in a good or successful film
October 21, 2025 at 6:58 AM
"The Thin Red Line", "American Psycho", "Panic Room", "Phone Booth", "Girl, Interrupted" and I at least respect arguments in favor of "Fight Club" and "Requiem For A Dream". Nothing of consequence since then. Movie stars with 30+ credits but no "good or successful films" scarcely exist.
When I'm accused of being Predictably Male for passionately defending Woody Allen and Michael Jackson, I tell them, no, I shall also defend Joan Crawford until I am breathless and blue in the face. Then they shut up. And never speak to me again.
October 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
When I'm accused of being Predictably Male for passionately defending Woody Allen and Michael Jackson, I tell them, no, I shall also defend Joan Crawford until I am breathless and blue in the face. Then they shut up. And never speak to me again.
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Yeah so this is breaking through. The 20b to Argentina and family farms are going under because they can't sell to their markets and the president closed USAID is not something that's just going to get shoved under the rug.
VARNEY: Some Iowa farmers are frustrated because Trump is putting $20b into Argentina to bail them out. They're worried that the administration is focused on foreign financial aid at the expense of American farmers.
BROOKE ROLLINS: The president's focus remains 100% on America first
BROOKE ROLLINS: The president's focus remains 100% on America first
October 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Yeah so this is breaking through. The 20b to Argentina and family farms are going under because they can't sell to their markets and the president closed USAID is not something that's just going to get shoved under the rug.
Potential quandary for Canadians who will inevitably weigh in on this: if U.S. electoral maps, particularly in the South, were drawn by independent commissions using Canada-style principles (i.e. compactness, community integrity, and population equality, but not race or partisanship)...
my main takeaways from listening to the Supreme Court oral argument today are
-the writing is on the wall for the Voting Rights Act
-the Republican justices are now throwing racist spaghetti at that wall; they'll pass of whatever sticks as the opinion's rationale
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/calla...
-the writing is on the wall for the Voting Rights Act
-the Republican justices are now throwing racist spaghetti at that wall; they'll pass of whatever sticks as the opinion's rationale
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/calla...
The Conservative Justices Have So Many Ideas For How to Kill the Voting Rights Act
The Republican justices already know where they’re going. They just have to figure out which route they’re going to take to get there.
ballsandstrikes.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Potential quandary for Canadians who will inevitably weigh in on this: if U.S. electoral maps, particularly in the South, were drawn by independent commissions using Canada-style principles (i.e. compactness, community integrity, and population equality, but not race or partisanship)...
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Holy crap I did not see this coming. Bob Mould reviving Sugar with the same personnel and *new music*?!
pitchfork.com/news/sugar-r...
pitchfork.com/news/sugar-r...
Sugar Reunite for New York and London Concerts, Share First Song in 30 Years
Bob Mould’s post–Hüsker Dü band returns, three decades later, with “House of Dead Memories”
pitchfork.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Holy crap I did not see this coming. Bob Mould reviving Sugar with the same personnel and *new music*?!
pitchfork.com/news/sugar-r...
pitchfork.com/news/sugar-r...
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“The Israeli govt has committed several war crimes over the past two years and also at the same a non-trivial portion of criticism of “Israel” is also just antisemitism” is just an extremely bad discursive problem to have, and I don’t see any way that it doesn’t get worse. Pretty bad!
I sit down in my BlueSky captain's chair and furrow my brow authoritatively.
"Damage report, Mister Scott."
"Ma'am, the Nazi gumbo meme has breached containment and..."
"I've heard enough. Load the torpedoes, set phasers to kill, and burn the planet. No survivors."
"Aye, captain."
"Damage report, Mister Scott."
"Ma'am, the Nazi gumbo meme has breached containment and..."
"I've heard enough. Load the torpedoes, set phasers to kill, and burn the planet. No survivors."
"Aye, captain."
October 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
“The Israeli govt has committed several war crimes over the past two years and also at the same a non-trivial portion of criticism of “Israel” is also just antisemitism” is just an extremely bad discursive problem to have, and I don’t see any way that it doesn’t get worse. Pretty bad!
Like it's title, "Orwell: 2+2=5" isn't very good at synthesizing information into something truthful or coherent. Orwell was not an "All Things Are The Fucking Same" thinker, but his most ardent disciples frequently are.
October 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Like it's title, "Orwell: 2+2=5" isn't very good at synthesizing information into something truthful or coherent. Orwell was not an "All Things Are The Fucking Same" thinker, but his most ardent disciples frequently are.
Nature is unremittingly vile and should never be forgiven for what it has just done to Diane Keaton. Worst celebrity news of the year.
October 11, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Nature is unremittingly vile and should never be forgiven for what it has just done to Diane Keaton. Worst celebrity news of the year.
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A good example of why direct inflation adjustment of this sort is more deceptive than clarifying when applied over very long stretches of time where consumption patterns are very different.
Basic foods (bread/grain) probably devours a third of Cratchet's income, but not the modern worker's.
Basic foods (bread/grain) probably devours a third of Cratchet's income, but not the modern worker's.
October 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
A good example of why direct inflation adjustment of this sort is more deceptive than clarifying when applied over very long stretches of time where consumption patterns are very different.
Basic foods (bread/grain) probably devours a third of Cratchet's income, but not the modern worker's.
Basic foods (bread/grain) probably devours a third of Cratchet's income, but not the modern worker's.
Yes, I'm sure "anti-woke" was a coordinated entity with a unified purpose, executing a singular goal. That's exactly how inane time-wasting culture warriors operate. Likewise, the Punk Movement must have had a unified purpose to destroy musical harmony!
October 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Yes, I'm sure "anti-woke" was a coordinated entity with a unified purpose, executing a singular goal. That's exactly how inane time-wasting culture warriors operate. Likewise, the Punk Movement must have had a unified purpose to destroy musical harmony!
That would amount to...the same thing as every other news broadcaster. Don't watch TV, but do subscribe to The Free Press which features vital content on a weekly basis.
"The project—[Weiss'] and that of her backers—is to establish herself and her cohort not as new-right media, but as the new *liberal*media, staking out the leftmost acceptable position within the new right-wing paradigm." The dream of Marty Peretz on far grander scale.
Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector
On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...
defector.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
That would amount to...the same thing as every other news broadcaster. Don't watch TV, but do subscribe to The Free Press which features vital content on a weekly basis.
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Yeah, SCOTUS has kind of made their bed here. There's no reason for the democrats to give up anything while SCOTUS allows impoundments and recissions.
Also: it makes zero sense to do a "deal" on any spending when Trump has already proven he will impound appropriated money at any time for any reason and SCOTUS has said repeatedly that him doing so is fine
In another era, a group of Republican Senators like Tillis, Cassidy, Collins and Murkowski would join with a handful of Democrats to iron out a deal to extend ACA subsidies and end the shutdown. But in a Trumpified GOP, there is little incentive to do that.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
October 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Yeah, SCOTUS has kind of made their bed here. There's no reason for the democrats to give up anything while SCOTUS allows impoundments and recissions.