Howard A. Rodman

During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind

Trump with the Kennedy Center honorees

Overlook Hotel
July 4th Ball
1921

Fake, of course. But not a joke.

Image of the water tower in the Warners lot in Burbank with the WB logo covered with a large red N.

you know what’s missing in music these days, is the deedle-dee. like ‘lord i was born a ramblin man [DEEDLE-DEE].’ or ‘workin for the clampdown [DEEDLE-DEE].’ i know this is chopped as hell of me but the deedle-dees are the best part of every song they’re in so 🤷‍♀️

i'm glad that stem colleagues now care that university administrators' claims of departmental "profitability" are all bullshit now that it's coming for them but a little solidarity while the humanities endured this for decades would've been cool

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last

The only Christmas movie to know me by

The only Christmas movie to know me by...

people died for birthright citizenship. i get that it’s more fun to be a pundit when your team has the white house and you get to brag to friends about visiting the oval office; but what i’m wondering is if maybe that’s actually not a good reason to throw away something we fought a civil war to win?

Colleges everywhere are jumping into similar generative AI “custom brand academic tools”. The vibe’s one of intoxication, mesmerization, FOMO, eagerness to rake in corporate AI “grants”. This premature headlong rush? A Stepford Wives conflation of “the inevitable” with “the good”—no evidence needed.

Fritz Lang, dining with Marlene Dietrich.

Fritz Lang, peering into a 35mm motion picture camera viewfinder.

Fritz Lang in German, monocle and cigarette.

Fritz Lang as Fritz Lang, director of "Odysseus," in Godard's LE MÉPRIS (a/k/a CONTEMPT).

For Fritz Lang, who would have been 135 years old today.

You can read the story of his very last days in Berlin before fleeing the Reich in my novel DESTINY EXPRESS, forthcoming May 2026 from @rarebirdlit.bsky.social and @unnamedpress.bsky.social...

So true, Jeff. And so sad.

National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.

Tell me you're a white supremacist tin-pot dictator without saying you're a white supremacist tin-pot dictator...

www.sfgate.com/national-par...

Great (and, alas, necessary) statement from the @wgawest.bsky.social and @wgaeast.bsky.social.

Compare and contrast with that of the DGA...

"USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025."

Now do the DoD.

USC, also drinking the Kool-Aid:

Bon courage.

The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years.

Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.

The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

ultimately this will lead to a boom of creation being found outside the studio system because it cannot survive in a vacuum of monopolies disguised as an iconoclast

An alien and a predator side by side with tagline ‘WHOEVER WINS... WE LOSE.’

The way I feel about corporate mergers in my line of work is best expressed by the tagline on the Alien Vs Predator poster

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

cameo but for murder

All media mergers end up hurting writers, actors, directors, and everyone else who works in the industry. Executives, assistants, caterers, teamsters, everyone. Fewer companies means fewer jobs, period.

should not be complicated to grasp that we cannot have war crimes without a war — but we can and we do have murder, and when we've programmatically murdered scores of victims we have mass murder

It remains slightly troubling to me that the wealthiest man in the world and the commander in chief of the world's largest military are overt white supremacists

Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."

If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.