angeleno
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I don’t have a spirit animal, but if I did, it might be Melvil Poupaud.
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This is the kind of thing that the Founders explicitly designed our constitution to prevent; a president who has seized wealth for his own benefit without any intervention from Congress, which in our system is supposed to be the holder of the power of the purse.
January 7, 2026 at 12:21 AM
This is the kind of thing that the Founders explicitly designed our constitution to prevent; a president who has seized wealth for his own benefit without any intervention from Congress, which in our system is supposed to be the holder of the power of the purse.
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It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
January 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
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Let’s make 2026 the year we erase the song Imagine from the collective consciousness
January 1, 2026 at 4:57 AM
Let’s make 2026 the year we erase the song Imagine from the collective consciousness
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What the KENNEDY Center used to be…
Remember that time Aretha Franklin performed at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, paying tribute to Carole King, who co-wrote “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman,” and it brought a tear to Obama’s eye and everyone to their feet? And Carole King’s reaction. Wow.
Remember that time Aretha Franklin performed at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, paying tribute to Carole King, who co-wrote “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman,” and it brought a tear to Obama’s eye and everyone to their feet? And Carole King’s reaction. Wow.
January 1, 2026 at 5:04 AM
What the KENNEDY Center used to be…
Remember that time Aretha Franklin performed at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, paying tribute to Carole King, who co-wrote “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman,” and it brought a tear to Obama’s eye and everyone to their feet? And Carole King’s reaction. Wow.
Remember that time Aretha Franklin performed at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, paying tribute to Carole King, who co-wrote “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman,” and it brought a tear to Obama’s eye and everyone to their feet? And Carole King’s reaction. Wow.
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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this just reminded me how playlist stories are my favorite things
December 26, 2025 at 4:57 AM
this just reminded me how playlist stories are my favorite things
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yeah I mean it’s genuinely sad that the “reasonable old school” Republican (who Dems eagerly and unanimously voted to confirm) is out here doing pressers blatantly geeked out coke and it’s not subtle
December 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
yeah I mean it’s genuinely sad that the “reasonable old school” Republican (who Dems eagerly and unanimously voted to confirm) is out here doing pressers blatantly geeked out coke and it’s not subtle
All this quote proves is that someone read Walter Benjamin. Benjamin said that the right seeks to aestheticize politics, and that the left must respond by politicizing the arts.
"Unlike the left and especially unlike liberals, the right has assembled for itself an aesthetic program, an answer to what the future should look like, slopified as it may be. Indeed, like all fascists, its broader program is to aestheticize politics itself." It's a good article.
December 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
All this quote proves is that someone read Walter Benjamin. Benjamin said that the right seeks to aestheticize politics, and that the left must respond by politicizing the arts.
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I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.
December 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.
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Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
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This x 1,000,000
December 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This x 1,000,000
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Many officers often use humiliating language while conducting strip searches, instructing residents to “show the pink,” “make your monkey jump,” or “give me a wink,” while they are in the bent position, writes Carla J. Simmons in an op-ed on the traumatizing ‘routine’ strip searches in prison.
How ‘routine' strip searches traumatize people in U.S. prisons
In my 20 years of incarceration, I've been strip-searched at least 500 times. Each was an act of humiliation and sexual violence
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December 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Many officers often use humiliating language while conducting strip searches, instructing residents to “show the pink,” “make your monkey jump,” or “give me a wink,” while they are in the bent position, writes Carla J. Simmons in an op-ed on the traumatizing ‘routine’ strip searches in prison.
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a lot of words, none of them denying that Hegseth gave an order to kill helpless people who were stranded at sea after he blew up their boats
November 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
a lot of words, none of them denying that Hegseth gave an order to kill helpless people who were stranded at sea after he blew up their boats
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Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
October 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
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I think it's important to note that the guy executing a world historical cover-up of his connection to the worst child rape trafficker of the century is deporting people who have committed no crime and want nothing more than to work hard and pay their taxes.
November 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I think it's important to note that the guy executing a world historical cover-up of his connection to the worst child rape trafficker of the century is deporting people who have committed no crime and want nothing more than to work hard and pay their taxes.
Fun body language between Katy Tur and Chris Matthews on @msnbc.com - maybe they are in an air conditioning draft.
November 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Fun body language between Katy Tur and Chris Matthews on @msnbc.com - maybe they are in an air conditioning draft.
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Tatsuya Nakadai, a legendary Japanese actor best known for his roles in Ran, Harakiri and The Human Condition trilogy, has died. He was 92.
Tatsuya Nakadai, Legendary Japanese Actor in ‘Ran’ and ‘Harakiri,’ Dies at 92
Tatsuya Nakadai, a legendary Japanese actor best known for his roles in Ran, Harakiri and The Human Condition trilogy, has died. He was 92.
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Tatsuya Nakadai, a legendary Japanese actor best known for his roles in Ran, Harakiri and The Human Condition trilogy, has died. He was 92.
"My ballroom... My bathroom... My ballroom... My bathroom...
(tearful) IT'S MY BALLROOM AND MY BATHROOM."
What Trump hears when he watches CHINATOWN.
(tearful) IT'S MY BALLROOM AND MY BATHROOM."
What Trump hears when he watches CHINATOWN.
November 8, 2025 at 7:56 AM
"My ballroom... My bathroom... My ballroom... My bathroom...
(tearful) IT'S MY BALLROOM AND MY BATHROOM."
What Trump hears when he watches CHINATOWN.
(tearful) IT'S MY BALLROOM AND MY BATHROOM."
What Trump hears when he watches CHINATOWN.
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Congratulations to Virginia Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger!
She is the champion working families need in the Commonwealth and we look forward to working together.
She is the champion working families need in the Commonwealth and we look forward to working together.
November 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Congratulations to Virginia Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger!
She is the champion working families need in the Commonwealth and we look forward to working together.
She is the champion working families need in the Commonwealth and we look forward to working together.
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Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
October 31, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.