Emily Nussbaum

I don’t usually wear pajamas to the airport, but that twit from RW: Boston is making it feel like anti-facist resistance

I’m “people calling each other ‘turkeys’” years old

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okay having finished this episode i can say that there is truly no reason for toby huss to be here, he just walks in wearing the hat, mariska goes "still doing the hat thing huh" and then he walks out

A+

Something to be grateful for on Thanksgiving

There’s a lot not to like about this administration, but I really appreciate its bursts of incompetence

Sex Lies and It’sahit!eotape

Apple TV: your one-stop shop for prestige TV shows that are extended metaphors for working for Apple

Except For Socially, You’re My Role Model, Charlie Brown

More wonderful enormous faces have emerged to float in the Thanksgiving Day parade Beast In Me float, including Bill Irwin and Kate Burton

As a historian, I have been torturing myself by watching some of the series that the White House in cooperation with Hillsdale College produced about American Independence (tellingly, they avoid the word "revolution").

There are so many errors that it is hard to know where to begin. But I'll try

Exactly, it has a candied, relaxing quality instead of feeling too real

I am very excited to watch that

I'm just a great composer
And not a violent man
But I lost my composure
And I shot Ferdinand
Crying "it's well and kosher
to say you don't understand
but this is for Holland-Dozier-Holland"
His last words were
We don't know anything
His fading words were
We don't know anything

I have this idea that the Thanksgiving Day Parade should advertise this show with huge balloons of Rhys and Danes’ worried/angry faces, bobbing down the street amidst the Snoopys

I mostly like that no one in it is acting charming. They are all just walking around being traumatized, obsessive or coldly narcissistic, climbing in and out of houses, devouring chickens, sneering, scoffing and grieving

I know The Beast In Me got mixed reviews, but 3 eps in I am really enjoying it! I like thrillers, blocked writers and real estate shenanigans, and also, I like when wonderful actors with enormous heads look alternately worried & angry, so it works for me

When he first met Zelenskyy, I wondered whether he’d be charmed – Z is also a TV star turned president, after all! And once or twice, I thought that their dynamic was shifting… but it always wears off, Trump goes back to his default setting

I think Mamdani did an amazing job with Trump, he was charming & warm but also disciplined, on message. I also think it’s a mistake to think there’s a cheat code with Trump, that when he abuses someone, it’s the target’s fault… you cd do everything “right” & the man can still explode

A real eye-opener! And there were no explanations of the more obscure activities, so everybody had to brainstorm what they meant

SIC was there in the 80s too, it had a contraceptive co-op and it was an amazing institution! I’m so glad that’s still going on

Whoa, was it mainly focused on consent or unspecific safe-sex things? They keep shifting the approach & it’s often eye-roll-inducing but maybe it works, I have no idea

The main thing I remember was “internal water sports“ & “external water sports,” which were in different categories. Somehow, I don’t think this is the way that colleges would approach the subject nowadays

I knew about that sex act bc on the first day of college, at the height of the AIDS era, we all received a detailed pamphlet listing safe, semi-safe and unsafe acts, which was QUITE the conversation starter

I liked the part where the president suddenly sang, "Because I knew you...I have been changed for good."

what is happening today

A cropped screenshot from a Canadian government website with the prompt "What's your occupation?" The answer "Writer" has been provided, generating the red text error response "Please enter a valid occupation."

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

Which reminds me of one of my favorite New Yorker corrections

We've seen this over and over again. Trump seems genuinely surprised when he learns that Fox News has been bullshitting him.

I happened to be in the audience for the Colbert taping last night where @warren.senate.gov called out David Ellison *by name* and I'm honestly shocked it wasn't edited out. We love to see it.