Critic in residency at the Institute of Impure Science. He/him. Failure wizard.
*bass blast* Cillian Murphy (whispering): we've got to get the key *bass blast* Sydney Sweeney (also whispering): the key to what? *bass blast* Murphy: the key to all mythologies *bass blast*
Tobias Wilson-BatesManifesting Middlemarch as Nolan's next project so that I can write an LRB review of it 🙏🙏🙏
If people yell at them, it feeds their humiliation kink that they rebrand as religious persecution and mine for content. Instead, start playing or singing happy copyrighted music. Disney, Taylor Swift… or Metallica. Metallica accidentally DMCA’ed Metallica once.
Hemant MehtaEvangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...
A look inside the ruin Trump has made of the Kennedy Center. Blood boiling. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/u...
Trump Gutted the Kennedy Center. A Tour Guide Wants You to See It Anyway.In a dogged demonstration of love for a Washington institution, Sandy Weiswasser is among a few dozen volunteers still showing dwindling visitors a hollowed-out building.www.nytimes.com
If you care about trans people it's way past time for you to get a lot fucking louder about it. They're trying to build a Fourth Reich upon our ashes and liberals still call us an issue and a distraction. They want to wipe us out. Act like you know it.
Aaron RuparTrump: "No transgender surgery and the mutilization of your children. They mutilize your children. So ladies and gentlemen of Michigan, the golden age of American is upon us. We're in the golden age."
“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportationsThe couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.www.stlpr.org
67 boat strikes 221 people killed EXCLUSIVE: Operation Southern Spear has not reduced the volume, availability, purity or price of cocaine arriving in the U.S., according to an internal DEA assessment and a closed-door Pentagon briefing for senators, and has made enforcement more difficult
67 boat strikes. 221 dead. The cocaine hasn’t slowed, officials report.The president says Operation Southern Spear has virtually ended drug trafficking by sea. Pentagon and DEA analysts have concluded otherwise.www.washingtonpost.com
TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
ICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources sayThe plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.www.cbsnews.com