Even as a critic who has tried to write about MJ’s legacy with nuance and grace, I appreciate the clarity the director of Leaving Neverland brings to the table

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Usha seems like the kind of person who vaccinates her kids so when the new baby arrives I look forward to the press asking JD about whether they’ve gotten the hep B vax

I keep hoping HBO will find a way to offload the documentary to some other streamer/network/studio/anyone who will put it back up. It deserves to be seen, widely.

WITCHES (chanting as they stir the ingredients of the potion into their bubbling cauldron): Eye of tiger, thrill of fight, challenge of our rivals, stalks of— wot th'? This isn't a potion. What even is this?

[Elsewhere]

ROCKY (pausing midway up the stairs): Wait, what newt?

I keep hoping HBO will find a way to offload the documentary to some other streamer/network/studio/anyone who will put it back up. It deserves to be seen, widely.

This is an extraordinary, searing interview. In the context of the repulsive new Jackson biopic, it raises questions about why so many people just don’t want to know what he did. FWIW I saw Leaving Neverland before HBO pulled it, and I absolutely believe those kids.

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

and Ben Bradlee had to fight hard for them to keep it! as soon as it became something that looked like something, the White House reporters wanted to take it over and use it to burnish their access credentials, but Bradlee and Graham cared more about getting the story right

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

People with preexisting conditions also don’t deserve to die

Usha seems like the kind of person who vaccinates her kids so when the new baby arrives I look forward to the press asking JD about whether they’ve gotten the hep B vax

This is now true.

Most Americans: I’m going to die working this job 😞

Members of Congress: I’m going to die working this job! 😃

Fun fact: Women's sports are segregated not to protect women, but to protect *men* from losing *to* a woman.

Don't believe me? Look up Jackie Mitchell. Struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Then suddenly women were unfit to play baseball.

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I’m just now seeing this and my heart is broken for you. I am so so sorry. I’m so glad you all had each other.

Mini penne With a photo of a mall miniature penne pasta

*Sean Connery voice

The Virginia Gerrymander Disenfranchises Republicans Republicans seem to have expected that Democrats would continue to follow rules they had long since enthusiastically abandoned.

Republicans loved gerrymandering as long as their opponents were committed to fair maps. Now that Dems are responding in kind, conservatives aren’t having as much fun. But the only thing worse than constitutional hardball is unilateral constitutional hardball. (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I've said it before but have we tried offering him an Emmy in exchange for leaving office

i really sincerely think the gerontocracy critique would go away if we offered health insurance post-retirement to congresspeople

A complaint I keep seeing (mostly in the Bad Place) is that critics should be reviewing MICHAEL for what it is, rather than what they think it ought to be. But sometimes critics have a moral obligation to reject the terms a movie sets for itself, or at the very least to interrogate those terms.

Submitted a financial assistance request for my biopsy bill and when i finished and went to the pending application it showed my income as over a million dollars and like, what, I'm so confused

Pretty shocking that northern Virginia would break so heavily against Republicans.

Sure, hundreds of thousands of people there saw themselves, their loved ones, or their friends saw their careers and livelihoods turned upside down by Elon and his DOGE boys.

But where's their bipartisan decorum?

Screenshot of an online opinion article by the Editorial Board. The headline reads, "The Texas gerrymander freakout," with the subheadline, "What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy." The publication date is August 20, 2025.

​Screenshot of an online opinion article from The Washington Post by the Editorial Board. The headline reads, "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss," with the subheadline, "The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it."

The WaPo editorial board when Republicans gerrymander in Texas versus when Democrats gerrymander in Virginia.

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

Narrator: T-REX IN: MISTAKES WERE MADE T-Rex: What?! T-Rex: No: no mistakes were made!!

T-Rex: Things are good, and I'm not in the business of making mistakes! EVERYTHING'S FINE! Dromiceiomimus: Hmm... "Mistakes were made" - past tense. T-Rex: Oh no - it's saying I've made past mistakes and didn't even NOTICE?! T-Rex: Unnoticed mistakes are the worst KINDS of mistakes!!

Utahraptor: And it's "mistakes" - PLURAL! T-Rex: That's WORSE! T-Rex: Frig, my entire past could be one huge mistake! Utahraptor: No, T-Rex, it can't - because one huge mistake is singular, and this is plural! So, silver lining is at least ONCE in your life, between two larger mistakes, you did, briefly, do SOMETHING correctly.

T-Rex: T-Rex In: I Did Something Right Once! Off panel: I don't think you can just name things like that. T-Rex: T-REX IN: I DID SOMETHING RIGHT ONCE AND THAT HAS TO COUNT FOR SOMETHING! T-Rex: T-REX IN: PLEASE REMEMBER THAT RIGHT THING I DID, EVERYONE

t-rex in: no no no, no more mistakes, only correct things all the time forever and ever!!! please please please

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