Garrett Eisler

I haven't seen a single commenter or article point out that Tennessee Representative Aftyn Behn's name is very similar to the 17th century British woman playwright Aphra Behn. Do I have to do everything around here?

Finally, the hot take that needed to be taken!

Higher Ed expert Kevin Carey: "The administration is very clearly working to purge people of color--especially Black people--from elite institutions and positions of power. This is part of their plan, and the universities are going along with it."

YouTube video by Movieclips Paths of Glory (4/11) Movie CLIP - A Controversial Order (1957) HD

For those needing proof that the concept of legal vs illegal orders is a real thing in the military, here's an example from WWI. (Via "Paths of Glory")

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NBC: “FDA claims COVID shots killed 10 children and vows new vaccine rules”

When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.

Stoppard actually holds the Tony record for playwrihjts. Not that he cared, I'm sure! (Runner up is T. McNally, if you count his Best Book for musicals.)

My kids have whooping cough, there are no toys on the shelves, and my brother-in-law was deported despite being a US citizen. But at least I know there won't be black Santa Clauses this year.

Props indeeed to Roman Bohnen! One of the less famous alums of the Group Theatre, he actually shows up in a lot of 40s movies. (Before being blacklisted, that is.) His papers are at NYPL Performing Arts Library, an interesting archive from the period.

Dennis Hastert Just Going To Assume He Welcome Back In GOP

Dennis Hastert Just Going To Assume He Welcome Back In GOP

trump with pig nose and ears, text: QUIET PIGGY

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Honored to have the illustrious Alisa Solomon include my "Ben Hecht's Theatre of Jewish Protest" on Jewish Current's latest "Shabbat Reading List"!

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Oh no. Such a powerful presence. I had the rare privilege of seeing her Mary Tyrone (1999 at Syracuse Stage. Opposite your other star of the day, Sam Waterston!) Her diminuitive size compared to her castmates made her perf all the more striking.

"God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Yes happy #OddCoupleDay to all who celebrate! ("On November 13, Felix Unger....") To relive your favorite episodes check out our archive of "1049 Park Ave: An Odd Couple Podcast," ep-by-ep recaps plus interviews with some of the writers and cast&crew family members: odd1049parkavenue.podbean.com

Worst Woody movie EVER!

THE JAZZ SINGER (1927)
Director: Alan Crosland

My kids have measles and my SNAP benefits were cut. But at least those cashiers at Walmart aren’t writing “they/them” on their name tags anymore.

In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.

If Mamdani wins I will leave New York. I will go live in one of the other 5 houses I have, perhaps the one in South Florida, or the one in Paris, or Napa, or Cabo, but I will definitely leave New York. I will keep my apartment, though, because it's awesome and New York is great. But I will leave.

“And we at The Washington Post love it!”

WSJ standfirst reads "From buying half a cow to watering down soap, people are experimenting with frugality-and it is affecting sales at consumer companies"

People aren't struggling, they are experimenting with frugality! 🧑‍🔬🔬🧪

What Zohran Mamdani Learned as an Africana Studies Major at Bowdoin

it’s kind of funny that the New York Times, which is probably at least 50% Ivy League on the editorial side, is one of the primary drivers of contemporary anti-intellectualism, but not really funny in a good way

There is a full-on push in NYC right now to use "Mamdani doesn't make Jews 'feel safe'" as a cudgel to get Cuomo into office, and it is utterly disgusting. You know what makes me feel unsafe? People who casually characterize us as a trembling single-issue monolith scared of the big bad Muslim.

White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

Lahr asked to see the shed Miller wrote "Death of a Salesman" in. (A shed he built himself, of course). Miller had since moved but the shed was still on the old property, now owned by someone else. So Miller goes there and says, "Hi, I wrote my play in your shed. Can I show it to my friend?" 2/2

C.Bigsby's 2-volume bio of #BOTD Arthur Miller remains definitive but J.Lahr's new one is a valuable starting point for more concise reading. Was glad to review it for @americantheatre.org last year. Lahr has a great storyof visiting Miller in the 70s... 1/2

www.americantheatre.org/2023/01/30/t...

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did.

We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

I'm sure this is true in many fields of writing, but: The easiest way to write a big attention-getting piece on some area of culture is if you don't know enough about it to know how many of your impressive, sweeping statements about it are wrong

DHS Says Social Media Will Be Screened for ‘Antisemitism’ as It Purges Pro-Palestine Immigrants Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem says people shouldn't try to "hide behind the First Amendment."

Border Patrol Posts Instagram Propaganda Video Featuring Antisemitic Slurs The video was pinned to Border Patrol's Instagram Reels. By Matt Novak Updated October 15, 2025

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It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.