It's leaving at the end of the month, but I think High Noon is around through May.

Happy Birthday to the great Harold Lloyd, born 133 years ago today

Austin 3:16

Security lines are utterly unpredictable at this point, is the big thing. (Also people knocking back a couple double bourbons, David Brooks style.)

On the other hand, a bunch of undergraduates heckled Nazis, so both sides are to blame.

The reappearance of this take from this quarter is really interesting, actually; I think it’s evidence of an ambient worry that Rooseveltian politics and policies look suddenly possible

Yeah, she's a FDR stan!

I keep wanting her to do a New Deal podcast with @rauchway.bsky.social.

If I were doing a Booster Gold movie in 2026—and I think one would even work!—I'd give up on the "quarterback who threw a game" angle and make him a disgraced Jake Paul-ish influencer, explaining both his overwhelming thirst and his overall incompetence.

Would you also accept `main() kampf`?

A three-hundred trombone choir laying one of their members to rest to the dulcet sounds of "Taps".

Oh, yeah, he's a talented campaigner for sure.

"Why did Schumer work so hard to recruit a candidate of middling popularity who doesn't seem that interested in being Senator, knowing that Maine unions hate her like poison?" is the obvious followup question, and, welp

This is true, but also it's the case that all the traditionally-credentialed alternatives (I keep pointing at Troy Jackson) stayed out while Mills hemmed and hawed, so Maine unions (who hate Mills like poison) had to find a guy and so they found Some Guy.

Rest in Power to a major figure in the AIDS treatment activism in the 1980s, a time when many were indifferent or looking away.

The reason for the season.

The vibe and aesthetic actually demanded is "is a racist", so.

Mills as the only statewide elected Dem froze everyone out, especially since a torrent of DSCC money was going to flow in for her, and three credible Democrats (including Troy Jackson, who would be absolutely unbeatable imo) plus Shah and Junior King decided to clown-car the gubernatorial primary.

Ideal relationship dynamic

Exactly one year ago today:

This—minus the AI angle—is basically the way Chicago's legendary punk venue the Lounge Ax got got. Constantly noise complaints filed by people who had moved into a new condo behind the club.

See also the Donald Westlake-as-Richard Stark "Parker" crime novels, in which you are constantly rooting for a sociopathic shark in human form because he is good at his job.

Worse than that—the Times spun it in a front-page article as "he hasn't seen barcode scanners" when he was reacting to a fancier new kind of scanner (which did error correction on damaged labels) at a national grocery store convention where he was giving a speech. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superma...

IIRC from the Slate story she didn't tell any lies for that, just omitted any references in her work history to being a journalist (so I think Army deployment to college to bartending).

I still remember the MAD Magazine parody of it, in which Ferris claims to be not the Sausage King of Chicago but Mayor Harold Washington.

Blumhouse or A24 or someone probably figured out how to go viral off it.

The Wetland Project has been my favorite alternate-reality radio experience since it began. Since it only happens once a year, you can’t become accustomed to it. Close your eyes and be washed over by the sonic reality of an isolated bog on Saturna Island!

I think they’ve really taken off in the last decade since you can post them to YouTube etc for attention; it feels like before that they were exceedingly rare.

You could bring MAGA's strongest soldiers to their knees just by letting car manufacturers sell directly to consumers.

Underwood's gonna have to become a Florida Woman to posterize him again, I guess.