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Technically Die Hard probably isn’t a Xmas movie because you’d enjoy seeing it anytime during the year rather than only one time of the year. Similarly to how any song you’d enjoy hearing anytime rather than only on 12/24 or 12/25 technically could never be a Xmas song.
December 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Technically Die Hard probably isn’t a Xmas movie because you’d enjoy seeing it anytime during the year rather than only one time of the year. Similarly to how any song you’d enjoy hearing anytime rather than only on 12/24 or 12/25 technically could never be a Xmas song.
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Goodfellas | Christmas Party | 1990
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December 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Yeah the two times Biden was aggressively partisan (the Omicron message and the Philly speech) everyone lost their minds
December 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Yeah the two times Biden was aggressively partisan (the Omicron message and the Philly speech) everyone lost their minds
I’ve made the mistake of arguing with right wingers who will still
insist that she is a victim of “unfairness” despite their acknowledging that she and the transgender athlete she tied with both lost to four cis women.
insist that she is a victim of “unfairness” despite their acknowledging that she and the transgender athlete she tied with both lost to four cis women.
NEW: Riley Gaines, the former collegiate swimmer turned right-wing media figure, made $474,313 last year from the conservative nonprofit org, the Leadership Institute. More striking than her total comp was the way it was structured.
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Leadership Perks: Riley Gaines Scored Big Bonus From Nonprofit
Gaines, the former Kentucky swimmer turned OutKick commentator, banked $474,313 from the conservative political organization in 2024.
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December 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I’ve made the mistake of arguing with right wingers who will still
insist that she is a victim of “unfairness” despite their acknowledging that she and the transgender athlete she tied with both lost to four cis women.
insist that she is a victim of “unfairness” despite their acknowledging that she and the transgender athlete she tied with both lost to four cis women.
The smoking in the joker films is an example imo where it’s distracting and basically indulging an actor’s compulsive habit rather than organic to what they are going for. Like I didn’t buy an isolated guy like that developed what’s more often a socially derived habit like that.
As writers who put influential images on the screen, we need to get better at this - and I include myself. It's easy to use smoking to suggest a character is edgy, independent or a rule-breaker. But there are better ways.
With more actors, pop stars and other celebrities spotted unapologetically smoking, the cultural taboo against it shows signs of ebbing. That worries antismoking advocates. 🔗 on.wsj.com/49om2X4
December 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The smoking in the joker films is an example imo where it’s distracting and basically indulging an actor’s compulsive habit rather than organic to what they are going for. Like I didn’t buy an isolated guy like that developed what’s more often a socially derived habit like that.
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Finally found a copy of Sokurov’s film about the final days of Lenin ailing at a Gorki estate titled “Taurus”. It was middle of a weird trilogy. First one “Moloch” about Hitler and “The Sun” about Hirohito deliberating on a decision to surrender.
December 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Finally found a copy of Sokurov’s film about the final days of Lenin ailing at a Gorki estate titled “Taurus”. It was middle of a weird trilogy. First one “Moloch” about Hitler and “The Sun” about Hirohito deliberating on a decision to surrender.
I liked that the Salkinds and French journeyman director Jeannot Szwarc reteam after Supergirl to immediately make another failed blockbuster.
Merry Christmas Eve again, darlings!
I watched Santa Claus: THE MOVIE (1985) and it was KOOKY. This review is mostly just a therapeutic unpacking of whatever the fuck happened there with John Lithgow and Dudley Moore doing a Christmassy version of the War on Drugs.
I watched Santa Claus: THE MOVIE (1985) and it was KOOKY. This review is mostly just a therapeutic unpacking of whatever the fuck happened there with John Lithgow and Dudley Moore doing a Christmassy version of the War on Drugs.
Tech Bros Ruin Everything, but Most of All Christmas – Black and White and Read All Over
A Marxist Approach to Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)
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December 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I liked that the Salkinds and French journeyman director Jeannot Szwarc reteam after Supergirl to immediately make another failed blockbuster.
That run of MCU movies feels so long ago now but also in a weird pocket of time where it’s also not long enough for it to be an organic response to a nostalgia demand even from its fans.
That Chris Evans Doomsday teaser looks like an ad for home and auto insurance, are the fans of this stuff really that old now
December 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
That run of MCU movies feels so long ago now but also in a weird pocket of time where it’s also not long enough for it to be an organic response to a nostalgia demand even from its fans.
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Really getting irritated by the jokey condescending tone of the free press that has now migrated bari's memos and among defenders like Greame wood. I like to joke around and have a good time, online. But circumstantially appropriately.
“It’s the new Jeffrey Epstein jet.”
Kristi Noem “posting a fun video in front of caged, tatted men.”
Look how Bari Weiss’ The Free Press wrote about CECOT — the El Salvador megaprison Trump shipped people to — just months before she stopped the 60 Minutes segment on it:
zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
Kristi Noem “posting a fun video in front of caged, tatted men.”
Look how Bari Weiss’ The Free Press wrote about CECOT — the El Salvador megaprison Trump shipped people to — just months before she stopped the 60 Minutes segment on it:
zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
December 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Really getting irritated by the jokey condescending tone of the free press that has now migrated bari's memos and among defenders like Greame wood. I like to joke around and have a good time, online. But circumstantially appropriately.
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I mean it’s absolutely an ethnic cleansing at this point right
"I'm in utter despair that the Russians are taking my apartment, and I am powerless to stop it," Anna Shevchenko, 30, who lived in Mariupol when Russia invaded in 2022, told the Kyiv Independent.
"That house holds all my childhood memories. I love it very much."
"That house holds all my childhood memories. I love it very much."
Putin issued a decree. Now, thousands of Ukrainians face losing their homes
Editor's note: The names of some of those from Russian-occupied Ukraine have been changed for security reasons.
With one decree, Russian President Vladimir Putin this month effectively legalized prop...
kyivindependent.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:33 AM
I mean it’s absolutely an ethnic cleansing at this point right
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The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
December 24, 2025 at 5:04 AM
The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
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lol yeah that’s fuckin airtight wrap it up everybody no one’s ever been stupid and evil at the same time
December 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
lol yeah that’s fuckin airtight wrap it up everybody no one’s ever been stupid and evil at the same time
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jesus the Palm Beach Police really sought arrest warrants against underage Epstein victims for coming forward and cooperating, and (purported) admitting to crimes, and it caused the victims to become uncooperative with the federal investigation
![. . . very cooperative, but the police at that point had to let [redacted] know that what she had done that she could be facing charges.
Q And that was after they had told her earlier that she didn't need an attorney present, correct?
A Exactly.
Q Okay. So this happens to her with the Palm Beach Police Department and did the Palm Beach Police actually present or propose charging [redacted]?
A They did get a probable cause affidavit against [redacted].
Q And is that why Ms. [redacted] and her attorney were concerned about her testimony here?
A Yes.
Q Now was a subpoena issued for Ms. [redacted] on behalf of this grand jury?
A Yes, it was.
Q And before Ms. [redacted] would comply with that, did she -- did her attorney request some sort of order?
A Yes.
Q And what did he ask for?
A He asked for immunity for [redacted].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eoss3vmzem55cm5kuddhdmwn/bafkreiariijffjjrgfh26o22jjr76pwprinvnbpkcho5lyi2sucfbqlooy@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
jesus the Palm Beach Police really sought arrest warrants against underage Epstein victims for coming forward and cooperating, and (purported) admitting to crimes, and it caused the victims to become uncooperative with the federal investigation
A big obvious thing for me is a lot of the same people begging for it now and “why didn’t Garland do this?!”would be tsk tsk tsking about it being “seedy” or w/e if the Biden admin did it. They don’t have the basic self awareness to even halfway accept this accurate observation though so…
I think it would be bad for the AG to use their position to spread innuendo about a presidential candidate even if it is Donald Trump. It will be very bad when Bondi does this to the 2028 Dem nominee
December 24, 2025 at 1:07 AM
A big obvious thing for me is a lot of the same people begging for it now and “why didn’t Garland do this?!”would be tsk tsk tsking about it being “seedy” or w/e if the Biden admin did it. They don’t have the basic self awareness to even halfway accept this accurate observation though so…
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Message wasn't insulting enough apparently
December 24, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Message wasn't insulting enough apparently
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It's actually totally reasonable for people to be mad when their stuff gets stolen, which is why rules against people stealing stuff are a feature of virtually every culture.
December 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
It's actually totally reasonable for people to be mad when their stuff gets stolen, which is why rules against people stealing stuff are a feature of virtually every culture.
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I'm 90% sure he pivoted to the right because they don't care about the sexual assault allegations
Exhibit #268 as to why you shouldn’t get too attached to “leftists” whose entire worldview is really just unfocused anti-establishment blathering
December 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I'm 90% sure he pivoted to the right because they don't care about the sexual assault allegations
Nuclear threats are intractable from Russian leadership’s entire concept of foreign policy so why give up leverage there?
Russians reject idea (and Ukraine's demand) for joint management of Europe's largest Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant. “Only we can manage the station,” said the head of Rosatom Corporation.
December 23, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Nuclear threats are intractable from Russian leadership’s entire concept of foreign policy so why give up leverage there?
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Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a optimistic tale about how the arachnids of Klendathu could be defeated
Dutch filmaker: At long last, we have parodied the Torment Nexus from terrible sci-fi novel Please Create The Torment Nexus
Dutch filmaker: At long last, we have parodied the Torment Nexus from terrible sci-fi novel Please Create The Torment Nexus
The whole “don’t create the torment nexus” joke is funny and applicable to a lot of things, but do feel like there’s this irritating tendency to act like sci-fi has been exclusively progressive and transgressive throughout its history
December 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a optimistic tale about how the arachnids of Klendathu could be defeated
Dutch filmaker: At long last, we have parodied the Torment Nexus from terrible sci-fi novel Please Create The Torment Nexus
Dutch filmaker: At long last, we have parodied the Torment Nexus from terrible sci-fi novel Please Create The Torment Nexus
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The report also notes that the Russian authorities "are prepared to tolerate high casualty rates over a long period if these losses do not affect public and elite support for the conflict and can be compensated for by new recruitment."
December 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The report also notes that the Russian authorities "are prepared to tolerate high casualty rates over a long period if these losses do not affect public and elite support for the conflict and can be compensated for by new recruitment."
He’s right and the Biden admin was 100% right at the time to say this and the countless libs and lefties who sought refuge on here and do resistance posting now who at the time pathetically tut tutted the administration over this is responsible for the climate that led to RFK Jr’s rise and Trump 2.0
December 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
He’s right and the Biden admin was 100% right at the time to say this and the countless libs and lefties who sought refuge on here and do resistance posting now who at the time pathetically tut tutted the administration over this is responsible for the climate that led to RFK Jr’s rise and Trump 2.0
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I barely know who Sally Jenkins is, but she's probably getting off by posting people making fun of her on this site to a group chat somewhere.
I've seen this dynamic before and it's because she's under the mistaken assumption that this site has zero influence
I've seen this dynamic before and it's because she's under the mistaken assumption that this site has zero influence
December 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I barely know who Sally Jenkins is, but she's probably getting off by posting people making fun of her on this site to a group chat somewhere.
I've seen this dynamic before and it's because she's under the mistaken assumption that this site has zero influence
I've seen this dynamic before and it's because she's under the mistaken assumption that this site has zero influence
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Biases as a trans person aside, I think at some point we need to make a stand simply because Republican affirmative action becoming the norm will make it functionally impossible to teach.
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Biases as a trans person aside, I think at some point we need to make a stand simply because Republican affirmative action becoming the norm will make it functionally impossible to teach.