Over just five days, the justices had decided the issue. Even as they debated the Obama plan’s possible burden on the power industry, in the entire chain of correspondence obtained by The Times, not a single justice, conservative or liberal, mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.

Another data point in “originalism is a fraud.” So much for the law is the law we can’t think about the impact. They rail against “results oriented judging” in public but when their corporate clients make requests they know exactly what to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Freedom of the press is patriotic. Not whatever dingbat tough-guy nonsense this guy says

The ‘Annoyance Economy’ Is More Than Just Annoying

The ‘Annoyance Economy’ Is More Than Just Annoying www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/b...

Uruguay generates nearly 43% of its electricity from wind and solar. In 2010, the share was less than 1%.

Most of the rest if hydro.

Today, Uruguay produces nearly 99% of its electricity from renewable sources.

More here www.forbes.com/sites/kensil...

The White House Correspondents Association is planning to "honor" Trump at its dinner three weeks from now.

No way.

It was egregious before. Now it's obscene.

We Mapped Out Where the Best Spring Blooms Are In NYC A guide to which neighborhoods have the species that are blossoming now, according to city arborists and data.

A guide to which neighborhoods have the species that are blossoming now, according to city arborists and data.

www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/08/s...

a young boy in a striped shirt is pointing his finger ALT: a young boy in a striped shirt is pointing his finger

We shouldn't all be forced to live in this episode of The Twilight Zone constantly. This is no way to live.

Sure, I spent the '80s watching action movies that were mostly military revenge fantasies about the Middle East. But then I went to college and spent the '90s watching movies mostly about Tehran schoolgirls trying to accomplish various simple tasks. The Iranian New Wave would fix a lot of people.

Can't tell you how many members of Congress who *at best* had nothing to say when I asked about the Minab girls school attack. There is a profanely cold detachment inside Capitol Hill, a mode completely unrecognizable to common human decency I wish I could properly convey to you.

Trump Mini-Speech: the Definitive Reax I think any press person who watched President Trump’s Iran cheer-up session...

"This is simply rebranding a massive strategic defeat as some kind of America First swagger." -- story of an administration in a nutshell... talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...

Trump Mini-Speech: the Definitive Reax I think any press person who watched President Trump’s Iran cheer-up session...

"This is simply rebranding a massive strategic defeat as some kind of America First swagger." -- story of an administration in a nutshell... talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...

When movies were shot on physical film, the film was measured in feet.

This is why any recorded thing is now called ‘footage.'

ICE says it provides 'proper meals.' Detainees see crystalized jelly, rancid beans and iced bologna In the business of immigration detention, researchers say, "bad food is the business model."

“Chronic hunger” at American concentration camps reported by USA Today.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

Timothée Chalamet Has a Point About Ballet

Found this statement from a respected dance critic more surprising than anything Timothee Chalamet said: "But he knows that movies have not only the potential to last but also to reach larger audiences, while the performing arts don’t." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/a...

Gags, workouts and the first cat video — the Lumières as artists and TikTokers of the 1890s The restoration of the brothers’ rapid-fire short films shows they were even more pioneering than previously realised

Wrote about the Lumières on the occasion of a new documentary www.ft.com/content/c089...

Gags, workouts and the first cat video — the Lumières as artists and TikTokers of the 1890s The restoration of the brothers’ rapid-fire short films shows they were even more pioneering than previously realised

Wrote about the Lumières on the occasion of a new documentary www.ft.com/content/c089...

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You review Seventeen years on from her mumblecore debut Yeast (2008), Bronstein returns with an anxiety-inducing exploration of motherhood, starring Rose Byrne as an overwhelmed therapist with a suspicious hole ...

“It’s been a full 17 years since Mary Bronstein’s crackling debut feature, and the long wait has filtered into the simmering anxieties and ambient aggression of her full-on follow-up”

@nicolasrapold.bsky.social reviews If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

SCOTUS Blocks Trump’s IEEPA Tariffs in 6-3 Decision The Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump’s signature economic and foreign policy...

In theory, we know this is true. But "struck down" doesn't quite capture it. These tariffs were obviously and transparently illegal. They were knowingly illegal. It is a stain on the Court that something so obviously illegal was allowed to stand for a year. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/scotus-...

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good A new study shows that targeting key epigenetic proteins may permanently switch off cancer genes. Scientists at Monash University, working with Harvard University, report they have found a way to perm...

Oh, my goodness, this is a huge breakthrough in cancer research. This is another example of why it is crucially important to fund basic scientific research.
Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good share.google/WFhMJP5m3AK4...

Ep. 377: Berlin 2026 – David Hudson on Rosebush Pruning, The Red Hangar, Dao, plus a word for Mouse Podcast Episode · The Last Thing I Saw · 02/14/2026 · 35m

Had a great time talking with @nicolasrapold.bsky.social here at the #Berlinale about Alain Gomis’s DAO, Juan Pablo Sallato’s THE RED HANGAR, and Karim Aïnouz’s ROSEBUSH PRUNING on The Last Thing I Saw — podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Ep. 373: Sundance 2026 – Chloe Lizotte on Night Nurse, Homemade Gatorade and other shorts, Public Access Redux, plus A Rotterdam Surprise Podcast Episode · The Last Thing I Saw · 02/04/2026 · 47m

always a pleasure to chat sundance with @nicolasrapold.bsky.social — some fun films on deck this year. listen in here to learn how to make gatorade at home or make long distance calls for free: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Shutting down (the stellar) books coverage at WaPo is a real telling move when your owner is literally Jeff Bezos

"Indicate your level of whelm from 1 to 10."

Ep. 371: Sundance 2026 – Siddhant Adlakha on Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!, When a Witness Recants, Undertone, Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie, plus Buddy Podcast Episode · The Last Thing I Saw · 02/02/2026 · 32m

Had a fun time chatting with @nicolasrapold.bsky.social over on The Last Thing I Saw about some films from #Sundance2026 (namely, "Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!," When a Witness Recants," Undertone" and Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie") podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.

And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”

Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

r/Minneapolis If Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, that's it for me. I've spent the last week checking on my neighbors, engaging with my city, my local police, everyone. I've supported my friends and family, made sure they knew they weren't alone in their feelings of hopelessness, powerlessness. I've called and emailed my representatives, demanding answers, demanding action. I've just been overcome with this overwhelming, almost primal need to care for and support my community. If Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, and soldiers take to our streets, then that tears it for me. My son just turned 1yr. I've done my best to be a helper, so that I can still be around to support him and spend time with him. But if I have to STAND OUTSIDE in the FREEZING COLD and get the SHIT KICKED OUT OF ME by the people who are supposed to be protecting me, if I have to do that to fight for goodness, and righteousness, and justice, then that's what I'm gonna fucking do. I'm going to do it because this is not the future I want for my son. If you've been out on the streets, and you're tired, and you're hurting, don't worry. Rest when you need to. Because I know my home and I know my neighbors. When you need to rest, two more will replace you. I will be one of them. This is my home. Minneapolis is not going to quit. Minnesota is not going to quit. And FUCK EVERYONE who tries to come in here and take from us the PRIDE, LOVE, and COMMUNITY we've built. As long as I can stand, I'm going to plant my two feet between the oppressors and the home I love. I love you all. L'etoile du Nord.

Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day