The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.
One of the dispiriting things about being a political writer in this era is that things are simultaneously horrifying and, in an intellectual sense, kind of boring. There’s nothing particularly challenging to grapple with; just a lot of hackwork where you point out the same lies for the 87th time.
We’ve been talking top movies of the 90s in my house and when pressed for my no. 1 I can’t stop myself from saying Apollo 13.
Angine de Poitrine: what if the White Stripes were French and also insane
new Stones single is an absolute scorcher
Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Send me off to a foreign land
To go and eat the silver ham
That’s right.
FEDERAL ART PROJECT TWO NOW
God is not mogged
Read a review that really intrigued me. I'd love to know what you think about it when you're through.
When we say concept execution, this is what we mean: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrcx...
Dune, Frank Herbert, 1965.
every other part of my cousin vinny gets posted all the time for good reason but god i love this stupid joke
The strange and dreadful saga of the Cascia Hall grad who grew up to become the country's largest producer of LSD:
thepickup.com/subterranean...
BREAKING: An Oklahoma representative confirmed this week that his resignation as chair of the state’s Democratic Party came after he used AI to generate a clip of him kissing a potential candidate for office, @nondocmedia.bsky.social reports.
Rep. John Waldron resigned as chairman of the #Oklahoma Democratic Party in December two months after meeting with a woman considering a run for office and then using an #AI tool to animate their photos into a fictional depiction of them making out.
nondoc.com/2026/04/10/j...
The first request for proposals drew only one bidder, Payne's firm. The state scrapped it and tried again. Payne's firm won anyway. Paul Monies has the story.
https://ow.ly/pmyO50YGQRM
Started watching The Hospital and nearly jumped when Nancy Marchand hit the screen.
What is this?
"Can you get me off the hook, Tom? For old time's sake?"
"Sure thing, Sally, and how about half the take?"
Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren smoking in bed in The Long Good Friday
Weird ass painting from FB Marketplace
"There he is"
"Here comes trouble"
"Looks like they'll let anyone in here"
Bondi Gone-di
i know writers who use AI and they're not writers
When Baz Luhrman had the guns say "sword" on the side in Romeo + Juliet, that was the best choice that has been made in any modern adaptation ever.
It’s crazy that the great gatsby takes place on Long Island like it’s simply absurd
When I listen to Springsteen, I want to hear tales of dashed working class hopes and dreams set against the backdrop of an indifferent if not openly hostile country. I don’t want to hear about politics
Trump 2 started with companies paying corrupt bribes to Trump by “settling” totally frivolous lawsuits. Now Trump will order his DOJ to “settle” a series of frivolous lawsuits by his cronies as a mechanism for stealing your money straight from the federal treasury.
