We Are the Bad Guys The swaggering threat to global stability is us.

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-are-the...

Even Tony Kushner Warned Steven Spielberg About Making ‘Munich’ Kushner—who cowrote the screenplay for Spielberg’s controversial, eerily prescient film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—recalls telling the director, “You do understand that we’re going to get ...

This is a phenomenal interview from @coreyatad.com

Jessica Tisch rooting for the villains in the 2000 children’s movie SNOW DAY

tapping the sign www.thenation.com/article/poli...

excellent work here www.instagram.com/dailycuh/

If I show up to your funeral and your body is in this I’m leaving

Taking A Stand by refering to Harry Styles’ new album as the acronym KATTDO only

[listens to Sometimes It Snows in April for 18 hours straight]

How the LA Review of Books destroyed itself “All non-profits run on exploitation, but these guys don’t even try to hide it."

it sucks how much everything sucks "lol" nobaddaysinla.substack.com/p/how-the-la...

“Dodecahedron”s, Ranked

3. Aphex Twin
2. $ilKMoney
1. Mandy, Indiana

taking comfort in the fact that Jared Kushner’s voice still sounds like a dying clown horn

I think I’m gonna die in this house Charli XCX’s post-Brat misadventures in Hollywood

really loved this one from @chrisrichards.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

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dying to know why Lana used 12 separate engineers on this song

telling my friends I’m playing Baldur’s Gate when I’m really playing Journalism Sim Tower

we need to invent a new circle of hell for whoever is making these TMZ collages

I’m really, really sorry to hear this, Chris. You and the rest of the staff deserve so much better.

I’ve been laid off by The Washington Post

Serving as this newspaper’s pop music critic for the past 16-plus years has been my privilege, my joy

Endless solidarity to my righteous colleagues, endless gratitude to our faithful readers

not much to add to watching my hometown paper get murdered by a contemptuous billionaire, only that WaPo completely shaped my view of the world and that I hope an orca sinks Jeff Bezos’ yacht

A fun study in how fake stuff gets passed weirdly around the Internet: I stumbled across one mention of Didion purportedly saying that Nancy Reagan smile was "a study in frozen insincerity" in her essay "Pretty Nancy," which did not sound right to me, so I googled it:
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Donate to Support Laid-off Vox Media Workers, organized by Victoria Song On Friday, January 16, 2026, the Vox Media Union received news from management about … Victoria Song needs your support for Support Laid-off Vox Media Workers

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Pigeons & Planes Has a Website Again After a few years without a home base, we're bringing back the Pigeons & Planes website. This is why.

very happy to see the return of a P&P site! www.pigeonsandplanes.com/read/pigeons...

Ratboys Are Playing the Long Game The nicest indie rock band in Chicago has finally uncorked its true sound—it only took 16 years. We catch up with the humble, hard-working Ratboys and talk about swinging for the fences with their new...

Ate hotdogs, got tiki drinks, and holed up in a snowstorm with Ratboys, who've never sounded more like their truest selves than on this album

YouTube video by Thundercat Thundercat - 'I Did This To Myself (feat. Lil Yachty)' (Official Audio)

important www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpmu...

How legacy media fell for Trump’s fake “pivot” in Minnesota No, Trump did not "change course."

entire industry staffed by marks popular.info/p/how-legacy...

part 2 coming in somehow floppier

the inflatable arm flailing tube man of political statements

YouTube video by NPR Music John Fogerty: Tiny Desk Concert

hot damn Fogerty still sounds fantastic www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4uz...