sucks that it’s come to this, but if congressional Republicans wanted to put up a national gerrymandering ban or multi member districts etc, it would pass *for sure*. until then fight fire with fire
Natasha Lyoner would be such a great Columbo
Here’s the 5th Circuit’s opinion openly and directly defying an on-point Supreme Court precedent that prohibits the display of the 10 Commandments in public school classrooms.
Shameless defiance of SCOTUS, but we’ll see if the supermajority cares. txvalues.org/wp-content/u...
it's not that there are no important books, it's that there are too many for any single person or entity to fix and dictate which ones they are
When John Roberts agrees with a Republican policy he will "conclude ... as a matter of law" he has "a solemn obligation to preserve it." If he doesn't like (most likely a Democratic) policy he will "conclude ... as a matter of law" that he needs to "stuff it in the garbage."
He pitches & hits.
Hi, new followers dropping by from the #Hugos announcements!
I’m currently on a train coming back from signing SIDEQUESTED books in NYC! It’s our other comic and the book is just one month old, but you can read it for free here!
The Justice Dept’s theory of the case— that the group that single-handedly disassembled the Ku Klux Klan defrauded its donors by concealing that it was using paid informant to do that work and more— has about as much merit as the now-dismissed charges against Jim Comey.
And it's an insane inversion of historical gender norms: the successful image of a man in the past was one who not only was professionally successful, but also raised multiple successful, well-behaved children, and that's not something you can get *without* nurturing.
Also I rather suspect the academic achievement gap - boys now trail girls substantially in the aggregate - has a lot to do with these sorts of attitudes pushing male teachers out of primary school education.
It is bad and false to tell boys and men that they aren't and cannot be nurturers.
- Jason Alexander (#12) - often thought to be trying to channel Groucho into his Columbo; some fans considered his portrayal erring on the side of foppish over scruffy
- Natasha Lyonne (#13) - popular but controversial choice; reactionary fans have tried to write their own fanon excluding her
Burt Young as PALUMBO in Murder Can Hurt You, a TV movie knockoff of Murder by Death
Casey Kasem as a Peter Falk impersonator in the Hardy Boys
Burt Young
Casey kasem
- Eugene Levy (#9) - spearheaded the Columbo renewal of the early 2000s, only lasted one season as Levy did not want to be tied to the character; remains a well-respected Columbo but not many people's favorite
- Mandy Patinkin (#8) - Columbo for the "new Columbo" TV movie, which was originally intended for a box office release but that didn't work out; well-loved but undeniably a one-off
This whole thread is so wonderful:
Best:
we all know I have no life, so:
Sarah Isgur QTing the NYT shadow docket story: In 2014 and 2015, the Court used the “shadow docket” to stop Texas’ anti-abortion restrictions from going into effect while the case was pending. The left was thrilled with the shadow docket at that point—years before this case even existed…
Isgur is such a fucking hack. the case she’s referring to is one where the 5th Circuit entered a stay and it was appealed to SCOTUS. the case in the Times story involved the Court intervening to stay an EPA rule while a lower court was still adjudicating the issue.
An issue common to all of our LPET posters is that they think criticism means forbidding people from enjoying media in general. First of all, people are just as allowed to dislike things as they are permitted to enjoy them—you can’t trick them into changing their minds with your authoritarian meme posting. Second, I introduce this radical idea: you can still enjoy things while being critical of them—it can even lead to a greater appreciation of societal and historical context, and it can make you usefully wary of the role the shit forces of the world play in the media we consume. It can also help us maintain our political and social integrity while watching or reading or listening to whatever is offered to us. For example, my peacenik, anticapitalist proclivities may make me critical of many mainstream blockbusters, but they also afford me a greater appreciation of movies like Office Space and Dolly Parton’s classic 9 to 5. Finally, though our LPET posters think otherwise, it is indeed possible to like some things about a piece of media and dislike things about that same piece of media all at once. in the upper left is a pull quote reading: In a society ruled by scam politics and near total entertainment, it is surely a strange time to be a critic.
and i would further argue that while the article is right that "becoming usefully aware of the role shit forces of the world play in the media we consume,"is indeed one of the joys of being critical (even of the things we love), it is also precisely what many in fandom cannot tolerate & do not want
as the term "imagined communities" implies, it quickly crystalizes into a kind of pseudo "petty nationalism." three thousand gamergates in a trenchcoat. "X is good but has a toxic fandom" isn't it just so!
The first person who replies feels that the critic's argument is a personal attack on their consumption practices. This person thinks, "Well I like superhero movies and do not consider myself a jarheaded nationalist, and this person is conflating me, because of what I consume, with other jarheaded nationalists." The problem with this line of thinking is that the person doing it has identified themselves with what they consume, and therefore any attack on media they enjoy becomes an attack on them personally. Luckily, there exists a simple remedy: don't identify with what you consume.
i would argue that this is the basically inescapable nature of "fandom culture." fandoms are effectively a kind of imagined communities in which the chief unifying shared identity is media consumption. which is why fandom can't help but become fiercely anti-critical
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Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.
there is this belief that men are like bull elephants, lone wanderers in the wild who are exiled from the social community of mothers and children. this is fucking insane. we are like the soft little apes who hoot and dig grubs out of the ground: communal, horny, undignified, and that's fine
Simple rule: the Senate should not confirm any appointee to any post who can’t say clearly who legitimately won the 2020 presidential election. Not just who was “installed”, but who won the vote and the electoral college.
impossible to overstate how poisonous this shit is. dudes on the street smiling and waving at your toddler are an indicator of a happy and functional community
I suppose I should also give impending readers a heads up: Holy Terrors is THE LAST BOOK IN A TRILOGY. All three books will be provided in the Hugo Packet! If you read HT and only HT, you're gonna have a bad time!
Two sea lions swamping a small boat
Only in Puget Sound, Olympia, Washington:
A pair of Stellar Sea Lions, weighing in at at least one ton total weight, commandeer a small sailboat
📸Dane
This is already demonstrably incorrect. And Wright isn't even dead yet.
Featuring (top to bottom): ICE UPON A PIER by Ladz YELLOW JESSAMINE by Caitlin Starling THE DRAGONFLY GAMBIT by A.D. Sui THE TIGER’S DAUGHTER by K. Arsenault Rivera FEED THEM SILENCE by Lee Mandelo HARROW THE NINTH by Tamsyn Muir THE ALL-CONSUMING WORLD by Cassandra Khaw HOUSE OF HUNGER by Alexis Henderson LAST TO LEAVE THE ROOM by Caitlin Starling and AN EDUCATION IN MALICE by S. T. Gibson
Mean lesbian stack? Mean lesbian stack! Longtime viewers of Bar Cart Bookshelf know I love some toxic in the community, so I pulled together this stack of some of the most sinister sapphics in my library. Mad scientists, warlords, contract killers, vamps, empresses, mercs. It’s a good day to be bad!
It's only inflation when the Fed does it. Otherwise it's from the sparking price increase region of France
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