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Nick Kouhi

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Freelance critic and programmer, based in New York. Can be found in Screen Slate, The Brooklyn Rail, and Journey Into Cinema, among many other places.

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Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

06.10.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 15021    πŸ” 2788    πŸ’¬ 222    πŸ“Œ 92
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How Trump’s Case Against Revolution Wind Fell Apart The administration argued in the name of national defense β€” but Orsted had receipts.

Scoop: Trump lost the legal battle over halting the offshore Revolution Wind project after Orsted, its developer, brought reams of evidence to court alleging the government was lying about military security concerns.

It’s a sign truth can empower companies Trump targets.

Via @heatmap.news

26.09.2025 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1688    πŸ” 529    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 24

All the Average Horses

27.09.2025 13:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hegseth is a character who got edited out of an Armando Ianucci screenplay for being "a little too cynical a caricature even for me"

26.09.2025 03:04 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Me finally throwing on MINGUS AH UM for the first time in the past year.

25.09.2025 00:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The population of Germany before WWII was ~65 million. The current population of the United States is 340 million. Five fold more population. With 27 times the land area.

They’d need more than 13,000,000 mobilised, organised goons to reach Kristallnacht levels of militancy

25.09.2025 00:11 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Help a Trans Survivor Heal After a Violent Hate Crime, organized by Madison Carstens Hi, my name is Madison and I'm asking for your help to get thro… Madison Carstens needs your support for Help a Trans Survivor Heal After a Violent Hate Crime

Madison Carstens, a transgender woman from Seattle, was attacked by six men in a transphobic hate crime on Sept 2. She suffered a ruptured eardrum - that may have permanently damaged her hearing - and a severe concussion that will keep her out of work for weeks or months.

Do your thing, fam. (1/2)

24.09.2025 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 831    πŸ” 879    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 15

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

23.09.2025 10:03 β€” πŸ‘ 12161    πŸ” 3380    πŸ’¬ 439    πŸ“Œ 220

SCOOP β€” Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

22.09.2025 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 9055    πŸ” 2742    πŸ’¬ 363    πŸ“Œ 765

Largely agree with what Bouie says here, but also think it's interesting that he's using the language of Baudrillard to make these points!

22.09.2025 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.

List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

22.09.2025 23:23 β€” πŸ‘ 12258    πŸ” 6262    πŸ’¬ 601    πŸ“Œ 446

You do know that if you can strong-arm a corporation like Disney into reversing its decision to bend the knee to trump, you can likely do it to the others, right?

22.09.2025 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 211    πŸ” 85    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

I think we should all let ourselves have a moment of pride and hope. They brought Kimmel back without forcing him to apologize or donate to Kirk’s wife, which was their stipulation at first.

Collective action, protesting, and boycotts forced their hand.

Celebrate the wins!!

22.09.2025 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 685    πŸ” 122    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 3

β€œThese ones go to 11”

21.09.2025 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women.

The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring β€˜reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

20.09.2025 08:10 β€” πŸ‘ 6995    πŸ” 1794    πŸ’¬ 127    πŸ“Œ 108
Tweet from Dan Satterfield 

Ok, I keep getting asked about how to complain about Kimmel.
The best way to complain that will have the biggest impact?
See if you have a Sinclair or nexstar station in your area.
2. Watch the local newscast tonight or some time this week.
3. Note the companies that bought tv adverts.
4. Call them and let them know you will boycott them until they quit supporting that media company.
Trust me. I worked in tv for 45 years.
Nothing you do will have greater impact.

Tweet from Dan Satterfield Ok, I keep getting asked about how to complain about Kimmel. The best way to complain that will have the biggest impact? See if you have a Sinclair or nexstar station in your area. 2. Watch the local newscast tonight or some time this week. 3. Note the companies that bought tv adverts. 4. Call them and let them know you will boycott them until they quit supporting that media company. Trust me. I worked in tv for 45 years. Nothing you do will have greater impact.

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

19.09.2025 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3500    πŸ” 1405    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 68

Beyond cancelling Kimmel's show are about 200 writers and crew members in LA who just lost their full time gig.

18.09.2025 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 7880    πŸ” 2129    πŸ’¬ 171    πŸ“Œ 81

If you can’t donate, please just share this postπŸ™πŸ»
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16.09.2025 09:38 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

Exactly. They can't get me fired and I'm not scared of a few mean messages, so they got nothing.

Two things are true:

1. These people really want to make the US into Nazi Germany 2.0

2. They're pathetically weak. Their successes come from making people afraid of power they don't really have.

15.09.2025 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1775    πŸ” 401    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 4
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Love Bites Extras Casting Love Bites is Women Against Film's debut feature about a messy coven of transsexual vampires fight, suck, and eat each other alive. We're looking for extras for multiple scenes. Extra work is unpaid b...

come be in my movie, pretty please! We want every trans woman in new york city to be in Love Bites. We love you, join us.

13.09.2025 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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The Washington Post Fired Me β€” But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America β€” and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

15.09.2025 11:07 β€” πŸ‘ 45509    πŸ” 15901    πŸ’¬ 2523    πŸ“Œ 2184
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this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

14.09.2025 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 32149    πŸ” 8397    πŸ’¬ 377    πŸ“Œ 585

Calling it "gamified conversation" gets at something important. In a conversation, the audience is the other person. In a debate, the interlocutor is not the audience, but the competition, and the audience is is external to the interaction. We need more conversation, and less debate.

12.09.2025 13:25 β€” πŸ‘ 221    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

My completely unpleasant take is that you cannot make a career of inciting others to violence and normalizing using politics as a motive for violence and expect a good outcome. There has been a decade of sewing. And the reaping is of a bitter bloody harvest. My condolences to the children.

10.09.2025 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 799    πŸ” 139    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 9

Charlie Kirk was a private citizen

Melissa Hortman was a seated lawmaker in MN

No Flags were flown half staff at the WH for her death by gun violence

10.09.2025 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 5226    πŸ” 1540    πŸ’¬ 119    πŸ“Œ 53

I HATE when people compare AI to the printing press, it's so disingenuous. The printing press was opposed by the elites because it put power in the hands of everyday people, and popularized a vernacular. AI does the opposite, by allowing elites to bypass artists and laborers.

09.09.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 881    πŸ” 276    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 7

Most excellent thread on making ICE melt.

08.09.2025 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 440    πŸ” 96    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

"but we can't support trans rights, it's unpopular!"

just a reminder that US approval for marriage between black and white people at the start of the civil rights movement was 4%, reaching a whopping 20% by the end of the movement

it's 95% now

you don't wait for popularity for a rights movement

07.09.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 5372    πŸ” 2246    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 38

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