Trump knows that everyone understands what "Low IQ person" means when he says it but the press isn't willing to write it. He knows they will always cover for him and he loves that he can get away with it. He's used so many old timey racist terms he hopes no one knows but he also does this

He's a liar and a killer. I don't know what else to tell people, he's a rich eugenicist, he wants as many poor people as possible to die in the name of 'health.' He's a genuinely and uniquely malign figure in American life and his appointment was an act of violence

Probably because it’s how I came to the show, but I dearly love the Raines/Ziemba JAY complete studio recording as well.

That score is so good, “Sweetriver,” which was cut from the show, is as gorgeous a song as I’ve ever heard.

Sweeney Todd.

This thread got me to rewatch it tonight, first time since theatrical, and boy howdy does it.

This is VERY college theater, but in the 90s Mason Gross did Mamet’s Edmund, and the homeless man we all either ignored or gave to outside the theater on the way in ended up burning an actor in the show. Came into the lobby, then into the house, then on stage. They got me.

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

No previous American president, in any era, of any party, would have tolerated a drunken, erratic, absent FBI chief
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

This was shit we were fighting twenty years ago. More than that, actually.

I watched 48 Hours for the first time a few weeks back and was like, “Yeah; I don’t care about the case, when is Annette O’Toole coming back?”

A reminder, as Obama and Mamdani come together for the first time in person, that Mamdani is everything the GOP said Obama was... but wasn't: an African-born socialist Muslim.
#justsayin

We live in a country where the two most dynamic, charismatic, eloquent politicians of this century have the first names Barack and Zohran. This is what bothers the white supremacists so much.

Raw, uncut joy.

It sounds dumb, but all the nano bullshit is the single worst thing they ever did in making these movies. Pushed obvious fantasy that had the feel of the real world over the cliff into something that feels weightless and cartoonish.

Look, I made a hat.

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

Mehdi Hasan: Trump just publicly referred to the Strait of Hormuz as the “Strait of Iran.” Not only does this look like total capitulation from his administration but I am trying to imagine the GOP/Fox response if Joe Biden had said this.

When a sentence starts with “Trump says” or ”Trump said” I assume that it’s a lie. Why do so many reporters continue to think they are sharing useful information when they begin like this?

If you get mad at THE PITT for not doing what you wanted THE PITT to do, you should try writing your own shit. I mean it! That's an impulse you can put to use instead of just being an entitled fan acting like art exists to meet your desires.

Gonna start not paying the full bill at the grocery store, gas station, restaurant. “Dinner was $108? FAKE. Here’s $90.”

a close up of a man 's face with his mouth open ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his mouth open

Hello, Stranger - Barbara Lewis. Moonlight.

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Thing that in my head where the timelines shouldn’t work, but they do. Roald Dahl blurbing The Silence of the Lambs.

Stephen Miller almost says that Trump is seeking a "final solution" in Iran but then catches himself

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

That’s it, we’re all done, this is the definitive take on AI, it’s so good that it’s what AI will give you one day when you ask for the definitive take on AI, only it will add some errors and flat, dull language.

The kids these days will hardly believe it, but a mere two years ago, the mental & physical (lack of) acuity of Elderly Presidents was the Great Issue of Our Time. Someone should tell Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson, so they can write a book on it.

Thank you.