Jeremy Venook
@jvenook.bsky.social
Lifelong theatre kid and SF sports fan. Proud Biden/Harris alum. Competitive crossword solver and constructor. Currently: NYU Law. He/him/his
Congrats to the “Stranger Things” kids for being the first and still only party to actually finish “Curse of Strahd”
January 1, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Congrats to the “Stranger Things” kids for being the first and still only party to actually finish “Curse of Strahd”
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“it was rude and unfair of Obama to run an actual campaign, so we had to respond by nominating the worst person alive” is truly one of the all time post genres
what does it look like inside these people’s heads
what does it look like inside these people’s heads
if people on the other site think Obama was mean, i don't think they're ready for Reconstruction 2
December 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
“it was rude and unfair of Obama to run an actual campaign, so we had to respond by nominating the worst person alive” is truly one of the all time post genres
what does it look like inside these people’s heads
what does it look like inside these people’s heads
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This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.
December 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.
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Trump ran a very identity politics campaign in 2024, JD Vance is giving speeches going “it’s ok to be white,” Kamala Harris avoided identity politics, even dismissed prompts to bait her into it with “same old tired playbook, next question.” And yet.
By “identity politics,” a lot just mean identity.
By “identity politics,” a lot just mean identity.
i think a lot about how like the normie voter codes Kamala more radical than Bernie and/or Trump
Zohran is a Moderate because he's a normal guy
December 31, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Trump ran a very identity politics campaign in 2024, JD Vance is giving speeches going “it’s ok to be white,” Kamala Harris avoided identity politics, even dismissed prompts to bait her into it with “same old tired playbook, next question.” And yet.
By “identity politics,” a lot just mean identity.
By “identity politics,” a lot just mean identity.
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December 30, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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I know it’s unfashionable to complain about the plot and dialogue of an “Avatar” movie but man the script of “Fire and Ash” is so bad that I don’t know how people can look past it
December 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I know it’s unfashionable to complain about the plot and dialogue of an “Avatar” movie but man the script of “Fire and Ash” is so bad that I don’t know how people can look past it
Everybody’s talking about the implications of “Wicked: For Good” for the original “The Wizard of Oz” but I’m here wondering if Dorothy’s farmyard friends were insulted by her comparisons when she got back
December 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Everybody’s talking about the implications of “Wicked: For Good” for the original “The Wizard of Oz” but I’m here wondering if Dorothy’s farmyard friends were insulted by her comparisons when she got back
New gripe about modernity unlocked: Is it just me, or are planes sitting for significantly longer on the tarmac before leaving?
December 29, 2025 at 2:45 AM
New gripe about modernity unlocked: Is it just me, or are planes sitting for significantly longer on the tarmac before leaving?
Start a new wing in the Hall of Fame so she can be in it
December 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Start a new wing in the Hall of Fame so she can be in it
A fun thing about having taken up crossword construction is that coming up with groan-inducing puns now qualifies as productivity
December 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A fun thing about having taken up crossword construction is that coming up with groan-inducing puns now qualifies as productivity
The thing is that I can be a totally disinterested, unqualified hater, whereas my friends may have to interact with their enemies and thus have to remain cordial
I like this. It also fits nicely with my situation--hating my friends' enemies more than my own
My new year's resolution this year, as every year, is to be a more available, supportive friend as well as an increasingly looming, formidable enemy.
December 28, 2025 at 2:59 AM
The thing is that I can be a totally disinterested, unqualified hater, whereas my friends may have to interact with their enemies and thus have to remain cordial
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“it is illegal for you not to like me”
This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.
December 28, 2025 at 1:54 AM
“it is illegal for you not to like me”
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I would not give the Trump Administration a passing grade for this year.
December 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I would not give the Trump Administration a passing grade for this year.
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more confirmation that lurking clearly behind this idea of the “heritage american” is a straightforward contempt for the actual history and tradition of this country, such that vermeule has to hallucinate a framework to justify his desire to jettison the clear meaning of the 14th amendment
I had missed this latest delirium by Adrian Vermeule on birthright citizenship
'Common law?! NAH, it's the Roman law of adoption that should govern the interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution!'
thenewdigest.substack.com/p/immigratio...
'Common law?! NAH, it's the Roman law of adoption that should govern the interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution!'
thenewdigest.substack.com/p/immigratio...
December 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
more confirmation that lurking clearly behind this idea of the “heritage american” is a straightforward contempt for the actual history and tradition of this country, such that vermeule has to hallucinate a framework to justify his desire to jettison the clear meaning of the 14th amendment
Imagine going through life looking for ways to turn anything and everything into an anti-immigration screed
Simply incredible. Stephen Miller is so far down the ideological rabbit hole that he doesn't even realize this badly undermines his case against immigrants.
December 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Imagine going through life looking for ways to turn anything and everything into an anti-immigration screed
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I think one of the defining things about our era and about conservativism, is an inability to distinguish between like, the actual government, and mid-level marketing managers at Target (who choose "happy holidays" to avoid leaving out non-Christian customers)
In retrospect the Bush-era War On Christmas stuff seems more ominous than it did at the time. It was just cable news guys crying about dumb/fake shit, then and now; I mean the campaign to turn Christmas, which most everyone likes and feels warmly about, into just another thing to get mad about.
December 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I think one of the defining things about our era and about conservativism, is an inability to distinguish between like, the actual government, and mid-level marketing managers at Target (who choose "happy holidays" to avoid leaving out non-Christian customers)
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As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
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I hadn’t heard about this book til tonight but I am still firmly of the opinion that if you lived in this country and saw what happened that horrifying year, and what the federal govt and others did in response, and experienced either directly or indirectly the effect of a million plus people here…
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I hadn’t heard about this book til tonight but I am still firmly of the opinion that if you lived in this country and saw what happened that horrifying year, and what the federal govt and others did in response, and experienced either directly or indirectly the effect of a million plus people here…
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Historical revisionism about COVID-19 and the public health response is now mainstream. The next pandemic will likely be even harder to manage due to a relentless propaganda campaign to weaken public support for masking, vaccines, social distancing, etc.
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Historical revisionism about COVID-19 and the public health response is now mainstream. The next pandemic will likely be even harder to manage due to a relentless propaganda campaign to weaken public support for masking, vaccines, social distancing, etc.
I have examined my biases and found that, in this case, they are very much warranted
"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025
December 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I have examined my biases and found that, in this case, they are very much warranted
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does this woman fart unicorns and rainbows when she’s in the room with other media people? the number of folks who serve as her personal cheerleading squad while she runs headfirst into brick wall after brick wall is astounding
Bari Weiss was right about how to improve the “60 Minutes” CECOT report, Graeme Wood argues—but her “drama-detector, so refined when seeking out news stories, seems to have failed her when avoiding it in her own newsroom.”
What Bari Weiss Got Right
And what she got wrong
bit.ly
December 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
does this woman fart unicorns and rainbows when she’s in the room with other media people? the number of folks who serve as her personal cheerleading squad while she runs headfirst into brick wall after brick wall is astounding
It’s one of the least important things he’s done but I feel like “have his cronies rename things after him” is the kind of thing that could resonate just because it’s so on the nose
So they’re really gonna go with “The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Center” huh
Like they literally just pasted his name at the top regardless of whether it made plain sense in English
Like they literally just pasted his name at the top regardless of whether it made plain sense in English
December 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It’s one of the least important things he’s done but I feel like “have his cronies rename things after him” is the kind of thing that could resonate just because it’s so on the nose
It also implies the existence of Jew Whos
The 2018 Grinch movie has a choir singing “god rest ye, merry gentlemen,” which implies the existence of Who Jesus, which implies the existence of a Who crucifixion
December 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM
It also implies the existence of Jew Whos
I think quite often about how Tucker Carlson initially pitched Daily Caller as a conservative news outlet that actually did reporting and had standards and wasn’t just propaganda and within a few years it was just propaganda
December 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I think quite often about how Tucker Carlson initially pitched Daily Caller as a conservative news outlet that actually did reporting and had standards and wasn’t just propaganda and within a few years it was just propaganda