Joe Heike

YouTube video by Be Kind Rewind Why Vanessa Redgrave Gave the Most Controversial Oscar Speech Ever

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This is like in Peter Pan where the audience tries to revive Tinkerbell with applause. Except, you know, the opposite.

Congestion pricing was designed to finance more than $15 billion in critical transit upgrades in New York City. Those investments will take years. But the parallel changes at street level are already apparent. Here’s what we know so far. nyti.ms/4mbuGg0

Did your mom just discover the 90s Tim Allen sitcom Home Improvement and had ti tell you about it?

This piece from the great Marvin Kalb gets to one of the most important yet under-appreciated things about Edward R. Murrow, which my own research is making very clear:

Murrow’s whole approach to journalism grew from his firsthand experience of seeing democracy fail (& very quickly) in Europe.

this is a straightforward delusion

Myrna Loy by George Hurrell for Vanity Fair in 1935

we love campus free speech. we need to let weird middle aged freaks go to the center of campus to yell at students about how they are faggots. but the second students start saying controversial things like “children shouldn’t be bombed” we must deport them

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer

Kirsten Gillibrand

Eric Adams

Andrew Cuomo

Kathy Hochul

the entire NY Democratic Party, outside of AOC, needs to be completely burned to the ground

Clue is unquestionably correct, along with some bangers

Still thinking about Newsom. For a Democratic leader to consent to a framework that portrays trans people as a group that is trying to take something away from other people is flatly unforgivable. It is what the right does. And a Democrat who will do it to one group will do it to any group.

So what’s the point of Disney owning everything if they can’t manage to get ABC and Hulu to actually work together for one live event?

Hulu ruining the Oscars is really poetic coming after Sean Baker’s speech about streaming services killing the movies

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC Andrew Cuomo is the Chaos

Andrew Cuomo is running for Eric Adams’ second term: the same donors, the same agenda, the same chaos.

But I believe New Yorkers are hungry for a different kind of politics—one that puts working people first.

Also, Cuomo almost single-handedly cost Dems the House.

He let the GOP gerrymander NY’s Senate to thwart progressives, pushed through an amendment to try to block future Dem maps, & chose conservative judges who blocked Dems from gerrymandering after 2020 while the GOP ruthlessly drew TX, FL, etc.

Will never understand people who go to extreme lengths to live longer, like that lunatic who drinks his son's blood or whatever other freak shit he does. Live *longer*? I'd like to die *right now*!

If the Democratic leadership is conceding one-party rule, then the progressive wing of the party needs to step up and take the reins.

We've had 33 long years of neoliberalism in the party. Time to try something else. The modern GOP is not interested in bipartisanship. Time to move on.

NOT NOW, MELVILLE. READ THE ROOM.

We are living through Republicanism boiled down to its essence: Everyone should be deprived of everything, because otherwise, somebody I don't like might get something I don't want them to have. We call it an ideology, but it's really a personality: Greedy, withholding, suspicious, angry, cruel.

Cats (2019)
Dir: Tom Hooper

Adams has made it clear that he will be an ally to Trump...and potentially vying for a Presidential Pardon.

New Yorkers deserve a mayor who will stand up to the incoming administration, not one who will comply with Trump’s fascist agenda.

They’ll say, Thomas Edison
He’s the man to get us in
To this century
And that man is me

They’ll say, awww Topsy
At my autopsy
But they never be
More shocked than me

17. Strange Darling
18. Trap
19. Queer
20. A Real Pain

13. Hundreds of Beavers
14. The Bikeriders
15. Alien: Romulus
16. Juror #2

9. Hit Man
10. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
11. Conclave
12. La Chimera

5. The Substance
6. Nickel Boys
7. Janet Planet
8. The Brutalist

My Favorite Films of 2024
1. Challengers
2. Dune: Part Two
3. Problemista

Honorable Mentions to Mike Cheslik for Hundreds of Beavers, Julio Torres for Problemista, Annie Baker for Janet Planet, Arkasha Stevenson for The First Omen, and Jane Schoenbrun for I Saw the TV Glow

My favorite directors of 2024
1. Denis Villeneuve for Dune: Part Two
2. RaMell Ross for Nickel Boys
3. Luca Guadagnino for Challengers
4. Sean Baker for Anora
5. Coralie Fargeat for The Substance