Rebecca Long

American mockumentaries somehow got both nicer and more realistic this year American mockumentaries somehow got both nicer and more realistic this year

In new workplace sitcoms Stumble and The Paper, the water is warm.

Brad Lander set to challenge Rep. Dan Goldman from the left The city comptroller and former mayoral candidate will have the endorsement of Zohran Mamdani, two people tell POLITICO.

You love to see it.

www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

Okay but like
why is *anybody* buying Warner Bros
why does Warner Bros need to be bought
how big do the entertainment conglomerates need to get before they are one single conglomerate

ALL IMLS grants restored in every state & territory.

In response to a ruling from a federal judge in Rhode Island, the Institute of Museum and Library Services reinstated all previously canceled grants in every state and territory. It's a huge win for libraries and our communities.

"The reinstatement of all IMLS grants means that libraries across the country will be able to resume vital services for learning, imagination, and economic opportunity. We are breathing a sigh of relief, but the fight is not over." ALA President Sam Helmick. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.

This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!

Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

so i'm supposed to be mad that a hard-working member of the crew is FINALLY getting a little public recognition? 🙄 okay

chart of child mortality in history, roughly 48% for all societies across the globe…until the 20th century, where it plummets to 4%

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

The Pope vs. the Algorithm In his speech to filmmakers last weekend, Pope Leo XIV showed he’s been paying serious attention to the issues facing cinema as an art form.

Felt compelled to write about Pope Leo and his remarkable recent speech about cinema: www.vulture.com/article/the-...

just being out at night if you’re anywhere near roads is like actively painful at this point

The Great AI Bubble Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.

NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.

It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Buy this book! I'm in it :)

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Mere months ago, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social was polling at 1 percent—right next to “Someone Else.” Tonight, he was elected New York City’s newest mayor.
www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

The article I'm MOST proud of writing was published by Teen Vogue. I'll never understand how Conde could gut their scrappy, award-winning politics team. Such a huge loss.

I'm taking a big chance by moving from Substack to Ghost and I could use some help. Please share widely.

On a floral fabric, three hard copies of Bitch Magazine are arranged on top of a pink t-shirt with The Flytrap logo in white on it.

We were so happy to see everyone's enthusiasm for our project to reprint pieces from Bitch Media! We are all excited because we also loved Bitch just as much as you. It was a formative publication for many of us. So here's a thread of some of our fave Bitch articles.

AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.

Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS

THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS

The way I gasped when he caught this one

19 Years Later, The Most Underrated Time-Loop Movie Of The Century Just Got A Huge Upgrade 'The Girl Who Leapt Through Time' was mostly overlooked upon release, but its new 4K UHD upgrade will hopefully give it the attention it deserves.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is out on 4K Blu-Ray for the first time! (Wooo physical media!) I covered the release for Inverse ⏳

www.inverse.com/entertainmen...

Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”

Our love for Gaza's cats is a light that refuses to go out During the genocide, my mother and I walked the city's streets in search of stray cats to feed, these small souls giving us a reason to keep going

“My mother developed a system for our bread that allotted 6 small pieces to each family member over 3 days—of course, Fatosha & Massoud were included, each cat receiving one piece.” While enduring starvation themselves, Lamar & her mother walked Gaza’s streets in search of stray cats to feed.

19 Years Later, The Most Underrated Time-Loop Movie Of The Century Just Got A Huge Upgrade 'The Girl Who Leapt Through Time' was mostly overlooked upon release, but its new 4K UHD upgrade will hopefully give it the attention it deserves.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is out on 4K Blu-Ray for the first time! (Wooo physical media!) I covered the release for Inverse ⏳

www.inverse.com/entertainmen...

RIP Drew Struzan, Prolific Illustrator of Iconic Movie Posters Drew Struzan's more than 150 film posters include some of the most iconic and heavily reproduced promotional images ever created.

RIP Drew Struzan, prolific illustrator of iconic movie posters for franchises such as Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future and many more. #DrewStruzan #movieposters #RIP www.pastemagazine.com/movies/drew-...

Had zero experience with mysteries but picked up Liz Moore's God of the Woods this year because of the cover, and I've been inhaling mysteries since. It was *that* good.

gene kelly is antifa

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’ During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

AI Overview for a Google search about Yom Kippur. It reads: "While it is not possible for a person or an AI to literally write your name in the spiritual Book of Life, the Bible outlines the path to ensuring your name is included. In Christianity, this is achieved through faith in Jesus Christ, not by performing specific acts or using a ritual formula."

Serves me right for trying to Google something about Yom Kippur