Jess Goldschmidt

Who will star in the just-greenlit December-release biopic “American Pope” and why is it Stanley Tucci?

08.05.2025 21:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Chris Van Hollen flying down to El Salvador and refusing to leave until he got in a room with Kilmar Abrego Garcia blows up every other “well what do you expect them to do?” defense for elected Democrats

18.04.2025 01:44 — 👍 9014    🔁 2075    💬 66    📌 61

I thought America could not get any worse, but I’m spending a weekend in Boston, so I guess it can.

04.04.2025 00:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Should I finally read “Gut Feminism”?

17.03.2025 14:52 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for your spine, conscience, and fundamental human decency.

Here he is yelling at Trump’s deportation czar about Mahmoud Khalil.

14.03.2025 14:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My current joy basically consists of reading “The Romance of American Communism.”

13.03.2025 19:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The thrill I nevertheless experience when my relatively toothless teacher’s union rep sends an email that begins “Fellow Workers”

07.03.2025 21:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Frederick Wiseman’s “Ballet” is body horror & it’s beautiful.

05.03.2025 21:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In response to a “Describe your ultimate ‘what if’” prompt, one of my students wrote “What if Musk & Trump are actually evil aliens who want to destroy & also take over the Earth?”

I am so proud & miserable.

04.03.2025 22:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Good thing we have so much entirely justified faith that American universities will protect their student protestors !!

04.03.2025 19:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Some people lost EVERYTHING don’t you think that includes athletic equipment ??

04.03.2025 18:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sean Baker’s flaccid screenwriting—in which a wafer-thin girlboss character is forced into “romance” with her babyfaced Russian kidnapper—is somehow precisely the same energy as this administration coddling Putin’s cyberterrorists.

04.03.2025 15:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“It was the Party that brought to astonishing life the kind of comradeship that makes swell in men & women the deepest sense of their own humanness, allowing them to love themselves through the act of loving each other.”

—Vivian Gornick, “The Romance of American Communism”

01.03.2025 00:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hideous nation, gorgeous land.

25.02.2025 01:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Los Angeles persists.

22.02.2025 15:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is my “La La Land”

17.02.2025 05:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Diners, Drive-Ins, and Divebomb the White House

13.02.2025 05:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0