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Joel Cunningham

@joelevard.com

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Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · Jul 10

With every day that passes I wish more fervently that I believed in hell

Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 6h

ok Mr. Burns

House Speaker Johnson Calls Bad Bunny at Super Bowl ‘a Terrible Decision,’ Says It Should’ve Been Someone With ‘a Broader Audience’ — Like Lee Greenwood

House Speaker Mike Johnson says it is 'a terrible decision' to book Bad Bunny for the Super Bowl, saying Lee Greenwood would have been a better pick.

Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 2d

I don't understand feeling that way. It's pretty obvious from my seat here in Brooklyn, and that's with pretty rigid walls in place to protect my sanity from the immediate horrors of the news cycle

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 3d

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 3d

truth

Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · Jun 4

Increasingly understandable why all the humans in that Spielberg movie were like "Fuck AI! Launch it out of a cannon and into a big whirring fan!"

Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 3d

The way this was a perfect accidental double feature

One Battle After Another poster

Thelma poster

Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 3d

No luck—the options in Phoenix are not too broad. I was hoping we could see Eleanor the Great but that theater is 40 minutes away.

Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 3d

Seriously though, up through like 2008 there were 3-4 movies opening every weekend that appealed to a broad audience. Now most weeks you can choose between an obtuse A24 drama and a horror movie. What are we supposed to take our moms to see

Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 3d

She did not accept my suggestion of just going to see One Battle After Another again.

Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 3d

My dad died this week and my mom wants to go to the movies to get out of the house. We saw One Battle After Another last night but there's literally NOTHING else worth seeing. The movies have failed us

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 5d

still in shock every time i see kristi noem or other MAGA women who look like they are porn stars performing in a reality TV show "cruelty island"

Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 5d

enjoy your liminal space time

Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 6d

And I did!

Joel Cunningham
PRO
Diva 1981
DIVA
Watched Oct 1, 2025
Impeccable vibes for this gorgeously composed
wrong man caper. Honestly mad I don't live in
Paris in the early '80s.
M 1 like

Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 8d

Second reference to Diva I've seen this week, now I gotta watch it.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 8d

War crimes are just politically incorrect

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 8d

The worst part about being an elder millennial is realizing that everyone younger has only known political insanity

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

great piece from the always-great @pastpunditry.bsky.social and a welcome antidote to vacuous commentators whose historical memories seem to go back no further than the first iron man movie

Opinion | The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left

www.nytimes.com

Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 8d

You are the third person who has mentioned this recently

Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 9d

Wow seems bad maybe you should fund healthcare

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Mike Johnson: "The WIC program, the nutrition program -- women, infants, and children -- that program won't be funded. FEMA won't be funded."

Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 9d

Why yes I do ostentatiously flaunt my Hell Gate tote

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Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 12d

You can also rewind up to 90 min if you want to try to catch the beginning

Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 12d

Or the biggest movie deal EVER apparently

Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 12d

…Aidan

Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 12d

My favorite part of this scene is how Damon is gearing up to give the hero's speech and then he gets clocked by debris and just...dies. He thought!

Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 12d

I would love to see Modest Mouse open for Vampire Weekend. I would not be able to enjoy a Fountains of Wayne show :(

Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 12d

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13d

"No hate, no fear! Immigrants are welcome here!"

Absolutely massive crowd at the New Yorkers Against ICE march. Blocks long!