Ty Burr

Ah. Sarcasm travels badly online.

OMG, really. He's a DINO. Terrible on the homeless, LGBTQ+ rights, easy target for Republicans as CA Gov., has no core principles, essentially a haircut and a suit that wants to be President and will do or say anything to get there. Has a great social media person, though.

Currier & Ives 2026

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BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

You only have a short time to comment. They are trying to destroy our forests to enrich a few logging company executives and the politicians they’ve paid off.
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This is right. And people hate to hear it, but Joe Biden’s single most important task was to Trump-proof the US.

His task was to destroy the Republican Party to punish them for Trump, salt the earth over them, and implement big structural reforms to stop future R minority extremism.
And he failed.

True enough.

Moroccan meatballs, roast potatoes, roasted cauliflower with onion-garlic gravy: Comfort food for a time of grotesque imperial misadventure. Tonight we eat, tomorrow we fight.

This just in: Irony Officially Pronounced Dead

Living in the USA is like being a passenger on a flaming bus driving the wrong way on the freeway and the driver is a 12-year-old in a Nazi uniform

What an absolute piece of shit.

This statement is appallingly bad--like, the administration *illegally bombed a school.* It's mind-boggling to me for this to be the reaction from a human, much less a purported leader of the Democratic Party. I need a new senator stat

Trump on Twitter: Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!

JD Vance on Twitter: Twenty years ago we invaded Iraq. The war killed many innocent Iraqis and Americans. It destroyed the oldest Christian populations in the world. It cost over $1 trillion, and turned Iraq into a satellite of Iran. It was an unforced disaster, and I pray that we learn its lessons.

Stephen Miller on Twitter: If young men don’t want to be drafted to fight in Kamala’s and Cheney’s 3rd World War they better get out and vote for Trump.

Tulsi Gabbard on Twitter: No war with Iran.

Lies And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them

Let history record that these were known as the Epstein Wars.

What to Watch: Oscar Shorts! Reviews, predictions and links for all 15 nominees in all three short film categories, plus a belated look at "KPop Demon Hunters" and "Song Sung Blue."

New in the Watch List: Reviews and predictions (and links!) for all three Oscar short film categories, plus a few bemused thoughts on the all-American kitsch of "Song Sung Blue."

www.tyburrswatchlist.com/what-to-watc...

Still the best photo I've ever taken.

(The little girl in the picture is 31 yo today, in her first year of medical residency and is a badass in every conceivable way. Happy birthday, E. -- love ya MTTCT.)

Pale Fire (Nabokov)
Far Tortuga (Matthiessen)

What is the book you think you have re-read the most?

Frederick Wiseman 1930-2026 What the great documentarian leaves as his legacy: The human species, observed.

A little late to the game, but I explored the life and legacy of Fred Wiseman, one of the most important filmmakers this country has ever produced. www.tyburrswatchlist.com/frederick-wi...

I Caught POLITICO and the New York Times Laundering Pink Slime "News" How the sexist backlash to AOC and Gretchen Whitmer at the Munich Security Conference led me to a scammy "local news" outlet pushing a coordinated right-wing narrative

nice exploration of how right wing propaganda and "pink slime" newspapers (fake local papers built by right wing propagandists to lie to locals) propped up the whole AOC "um" non news cycle

A large white dog with snow booties and a red winter coat looks disconsolately at the camera while a foot of snow and howling winds await him outside.

Do I have to?

Have you? Cause I want to read that.

So sorry to hear it and for your loss as a friend, Matt. He was such a memorable actor and writer.

Love this one and how a viewer’s sympathies shift from aunt to niece and niece to aunt just as the uncle’s does.

Hey, it's free!

Robert Duvall 1931-2026 Farewell to one of the cinema's greatest character stars.

I tried to pick the 10 most memorable Robert Duvall performances. I stopped at 19.

This is how you live a life

Have you ever seen "Blind "? Oh my God. The long, long take of a little boy finding his way all on his own from his classroom to an office on another floor has stayed with me for years.

It was from 2017 -- IIRC, a discussion of his New York Public Library doc Ex Libris.

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