Joe Heike
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This is like in Peter Pan where the audience tries to revive Tinkerbell with applause. Except, you know, the opposite.
August 30, 2025 at 4:26 AM
This is like in Peter Pan where the audience tries to revive Tinkerbell with applause. Except, you know, the opposite.
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Congestion pricing was designed to finance more than $15 billion in critical transit upgrades in New York City. Those investments will take years. But the parallel changes at street level are already apparent. Here’s what we know so far. nyti.ms/4mbuGg0
May 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Congestion pricing was designed to finance more than $15 billion in critical transit upgrades in New York City. Those investments will take years. But the parallel changes at street level are already apparent. Here’s what we know so far. nyti.ms/4mbuGg0
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This piece from the great Marvin Kalb gets to one of the most important yet under-appreciated things about Edward R. Murrow, which my own research is making very clear:
Murrow’s whole approach to journalism grew from his firsthand experience of seeing democracy fail (& very quickly) in Europe.
Murrow’s whole approach to journalism grew from his firsthand experience of seeing democracy fail (& very quickly) in Europe.
America needs another Edward R. Murrow—a journalist whose fearless reporting exposed the dangers of McCarthyism. In 2025, as democracy wobbles, who will stand up to power and expose the truth? Marvin Kalb explores this question.
Is There a Murrow in the House?
Edward R. Murrow exemplified a free press unbowed by autocracy—and if American democracy is to survive, we need his like again
contrarian.substack.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:28 AM
This piece from the great Marvin Kalb gets to one of the most important yet under-appreciated things about Edward R. Murrow, which my own research is making very clear:
Murrow’s whole approach to journalism grew from his firsthand experience of seeing democracy fail (& very quickly) in Europe.
Murrow’s whole approach to journalism grew from his firsthand experience of seeing democracy fail (& very quickly) in Europe.
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this is a straightforward delusion
Schumer told Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater: “Here’s my hope … after this election, when the Republican party expels the turd of Donald Trump, it will go back to being the old Republican party.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Chuck Schumer clung to belief Republicans would ‘expel’ Trump, book says
Even as 2024 election loomed, reporters say, Democratic Senate leader was sure GOP would ‘expel the turd of Trump’
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:52 AM
this is a straightforward delusion
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Myrna Loy by George Hurrell for Vanity Fair in 1935
March 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Myrna Loy by George Hurrell for Vanity Fair in 1935
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we love campus free speech. we need to let weird middle aged freaks go to the center of campus to yell at students about how they are faggots. but the second students start saying controversial things like “children shouldn’t be bombed” we must deport them
March 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
we love campus free speech. we need to let weird middle aged freaks go to the center of campus to yell at students about how they are faggots. but the second students start saying controversial things like “children shouldn’t be bombed” we must deport them
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
March 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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Chuck Schumer
Kirsten Gillibrand
Eric Adams
Andrew Cuomo
Kathy Hochul
the entire NY Democratic Party, outside of AOC, needs to be completely burned to the ground
Kirsten Gillibrand
Eric Adams
Andrew Cuomo
Kathy Hochul
the entire NY Democratic Party, outside of AOC, needs to be completely burned to the ground
March 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Chuck Schumer
Kirsten Gillibrand
Eric Adams
Andrew Cuomo
Kathy Hochul
the entire NY Democratic Party, outside of AOC, needs to be completely burned to the ground
Kirsten Gillibrand
Eric Adams
Andrew Cuomo
Kathy Hochul
the entire NY Democratic Party, outside of AOC, needs to be completely burned to the ground
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Still thinking about Newsom. For a Democratic leader to consent to a framework that portrays trans people as a group that is trying to take something away from other people is flatly unforgivable. It is what the right does. And a Democrat who will do it to one group will do it to any group.
March 8, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Still thinking about Newsom. For a Democratic leader to consent to a framework that portrays trans people as a group that is trying to take something away from other people is flatly unforgivable. It is what the right does. And a Democrat who will do it to one group will do it to any group.
So what’s the point of Disney owning everything if they can’t manage to get ABC and Hulu to actually work together for one live event?
March 3, 2025 at 4:32 AM
So what’s the point of Disney owning everything if they can’t manage to get ABC and Hulu to actually work together for one live event?
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Hulu ruining the Oscars is really poetic coming after Sean Baker’s speech about streaming services killing the movies
March 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Hulu ruining the Oscars is really poetic coming after Sean Baker’s speech about streaming services killing the movies
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Andrew Cuomo is running for Eric Adams’ second term: the same donors, the same agenda, the same chaos.
But I believe New Yorkers are hungry for a different kind of politics—one that puts working people first.
But I believe New Yorkers are hungry for a different kind of politics—one that puts working people first.
Andrew Cuomo is the Chaos
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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March 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Andrew Cuomo is running for Eric Adams’ second term: the same donors, the same agenda, the same chaos.
But I believe New Yorkers are hungry for a different kind of politics—one that puts working people first.
But I believe New Yorkers are hungry for a different kind of politics—one that puts working people first.
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Also, Cuomo almost single-handedly cost Dems the House.
He let the GOP gerrymander NY’s Senate to thwart progressives, pushed through an amendment to try to block future Dem maps, & chose conservative judges who blocked Dems from gerrymandering after 2020 while the GOP ruthlessly drew TX, FL, etc.
He let the GOP gerrymander NY’s Senate to thwart progressives, pushed through an amendment to try to block future Dem maps, & chose conservative judges who blocked Dems from gerrymandering after 2020 while the GOP ruthlessly drew TX, FL, etc.
Andrew Cuomo, in addition to being a serial sexual harasser, knowingly sent people with Covid into old folks homes, leading to a massive rate of infection and death for the elderly.
Read and share the @propublica.org story about how Andrew Cuomo killed your elders.
Read and share the @propublica.org story about how Andrew Cuomo killed your elders.
“Fire Through Dry Grass”: Andrew Cuomo Saw COVID-19’s Threat to Nursing Homes. Then He Risked Adding to It.
A nursing home in Troy, New York, followed the governor’s order to accept patients being treated for COVID-19. Six weeks later, 18 residents were dead of the disease.
www.propublica.org
March 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Also, Cuomo almost single-handedly cost Dems the House.
He let the GOP gerrymander NY’s Senate to thwart progressives, pushed through an amendment to try to block future Dem maps, & chose conservative judges who blocked Dems from gerrymandering after 2020 while the GOP ruthlessly drew TX, FL, etc.
He let the GOP gerrymander NY’s Senate to thwart progressives, pushed through an amendment to try to block future Dem maps, & chose conservative judges who blocked Dems from gerrymandering after 2020 while the GOP ruthlessly drew TX, FL, etc.
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Will never understand people who go to extreme lengths to live longer, like that lunatic who drinks his son's blood or whatever other freak shit he does. Live *longer*? I'd like to die *right now*!
February 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Will never understand people who go to extreme lengths to live longer, like that lunatic who drinks his son's blood or whatever other freak shit he does. Live *longer*? I'd like to die *right now*!
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If the Democratic leadership is conceding one-party rule, then the progressive wing of the party needs to step up and take the reins.
We've had 33 long years of neoliberalism in the party. Time to try something else. The modern GOP is not interested in bipartisanship. Time to move on.
We've had 33 long years of neoliberalism in the party. Time to try something else. The modern GOP is not interested in bipartisanship. Time to move on.
February 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
If the Democratic leadership is conceding one-party rule, then the progressive wing of the party needs to step up and take the reins.
We've had 33 long years of neoliberalism in the party. Time to try something else. The modern GOP is not interested in bipartisanship. Time to move on.
We've had 33 long years of neoliberalism in the party. Time to try something else. The modern GOP is not interested in bipartisanship. Time to move on.
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NOT NOW, MELVILLE. READ THE ROOM.
February 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
NOT NOW, MELVILLE. READ THE ROOM.
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We are living through Republicanism boiled down to its essence: Everyone should be deprived of everything, because otherwise, somebody I don't like might get something I don't want them to have. We call it an ideology, but it's really a personality: Greedy, withholding, suspicious, angry, cruel.
January 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
We are living through Republicanism boiled down to its essence: Everyone should be deprived of everything, because otherwise, somebody I don't like might get something I don't want them to have. We call it an ideology, but it's really a personality: Greedy, withholding, suspicious, angry, cruel.
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Cats (2019)
Dir: Tom Hooper
Dir: Tom Hooper
January 23, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Cats (2019)
Dir: Tom Hooper
Dir: Tom Hooper
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Adams has made it clear that he will be an ally to Trump...and potentially vying for a Presidential Pardon.
New Yorkers deserve a mayor who will stand up to the incoming administration, not one who will comply with Trump’s fascist agenda.
New Yorkers deserve a mayor who will stand up to the incoming administration, not one who will comply with Trump’s fascist agenda.
NYC taxpayer funds will be used to pay for Mayor Adams' trip to Florida, where he will meet with Trump tomorrow, per a City Hall source.
Adams is expected to be the only city official in the meeting with Trump, source says.
www.nydailynews.com/2025/01/16/a...
Adams is expected to be the only city official in the meeting with Trump, source says.
www.nydailynews.com/2025/01/16/a...
Adams to meet with Trump Friday amid concern over immigration policy, pardon speculation
Mayor Adams is traveling to Florida on Friday to meet with President-elect Donald Trump amid growing concern the incoming president’s immigration and fiscal policies could have a major impact…
www.nydailynews.com
January 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Adams has made it clear that he will be an ally to Trump...and potentially vying for a Presidential Pardon.
New Yorkers deserve a mayor who will stand up to the incoming administration, not one who will comply with Trump’s fascist agenda.
New Yorkers deserve a mayor who will stand up to the incoming administration, not one who will comply with Trump’s fascist agenda.
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They’ll say, Thomas Edison
He’s the man to get us in
To this century
And that man is me
They’ll say, awww Topsy
At my autopsy
But they never be
More shocked than me
He’s the man to get us in
To this century
And that man is me
They’ll say, awww Topsy
At my autopsy
But they never be
More shocked than me
January 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
They’ll say, Thomas Edison
He’s the man to get us in
To this century
And that man is me
They’ll say, awww Topsy
At my autopsy
But they never be
More shocked than me
He’s the man to get us in
To this century
And that man is me
They’ll say, awww Topsy
At my autopsy
But they never be
More shocked than me
My Favorite Films of 2024
1. Challengers
2. Dune: Part Two
3. Problemista
1. Challengers
2. Dune: Part Two
3. Problemista
January 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
My Favorite Films of 2024
1. Challengers
2. Dune: Part Two
3. Problemista
1. Challengers
2. Dune: Part Two
3. Problemista
My favorite directors of 2024
1. Denis Villeneuve for Dune: Part Two
2. RaMell Ross for Nickel Boys
3. Luca Guadagnino for Challengers
4. Sean Baker for Anora
5. Coralie Fargeat for The Substance
1. Denis Villeneuve for Dune: Part Two
2. RaMell Ross for Nickel Boys
3. Luca Guadagnino for Challengers
4. Sean Baker for Anora
5. Coralie Fargeat for The Substance
January 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
My favorite directors of 2024
1. Denis Villeneuve for Dune: Part Two
2. RaMell Ross for Nickel Boys
3. Luca Guadagnino for Challengers
4. Sean Baker for Anora
5. Coralie Fargeat for The Substance
1. Denis Villeneuve for Dune: Part Two
2. RaMell Ross for Nickel Boys
3. Luca Guadagnino for Challengers
4. Sean Baker for Anora
5. Coralie Fargeat for The Substance
My favorite Leading Actress Performances of 2024
1. Zendaya in Challengers
2. Mikey Madison in Anora
3. Demi Moore in The Substance
4. Cynthia Erivo in Wicked
5. Willa Fitzgerald in Strange Darling
1. Zendaya in Challengers
2. Mikey Madison in Anora
3. Demi Moore in The Substance
4. Cynthia Erivo in Wicked
5. Willa Fitzgerald in Strange Darling
January 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
My favorite Leading Actress Performances of 2024
1. Zendaya in Challengers
2. Mikey Madison in Anora
3. Demi Moore in The Substance
4. Cynthia Erivo in Wicked
5. Willa Fitzgerald in Strange Darling
1. Zendaya in Challengers
2. Mikey Madison in Anora
3. Demi Moore in The Substance
4. Cynthia Erivo in Wicked
5. Willa Fitzgerald in Strange Darling
My favorite Leading Actor performances of 2024
1. Glen Powell in Hit Man
2. Josh O’Connor in Challengers
3. Ryland Brickson Cole Tews in Hundreds of Beavers
4. Julio Torres in Problemista
5. Richard Gere in Oh, Canada
1. Glen Powell in Hit Man
2. Josh O’Connor in Challengers
3. Ryland Brickson Cole Tews in Hundreds of Beavers
4. Julio Torres in Problemista
5. Richard Gere in Oh, Canada
January 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
My favorite Leading Actor performances of 2024
1. Glen Powell in Hit Man
2. Josh O’Connor in Challengers
3. Ryland Brickson Cole Tews in Hundreds of Beavers
4. Julio Torres in Problemista
5. Richard Gere in Oh, Canada
1. Glen Powell in Hit Man
2. Josh O’Connor in Challengers
3. Ryland Brickson Cole Tews in Hundreds of Beavers
4. Julio Torres in Problemista
5. Richard Gere in Oh, Canada