Matt Lavine

50 degrees out, much snow-ice-sludge gone, and the dogs of nyc are palpably happier.

Exclusive: Read the draft executive emergency order for Trump to take control of elections Lawyers and legal experts explicitly said that such an order is blatantly unconstitutional.

I so wish this wasn't a real thing we have to think about or deal with. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Mamdani pitches Trump on housing with mock newspaper in latest White House visit President Donald Trump has met with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at the White House to talk about big federal housing investments.

This Mamdani team is GENIUS : TRUMP TO CITY: LET'S BUILD apnews.com/article/dona...

Why Trump Put a Clown in Charge of the FBI Kash Patel’s beer-soaked ineptitude shows how a lack of standards for top law enforcement has insidious consequences.

Know you prob know all this, but seeing it summed-up here, editorially, is really something. These summation documents will one day be great historical evidence, should humans get past this time. nymag.com/intelligence...

Anyone got digital screeners for Hamnet or The Testament of Ann Lee? i've been a little cash broke, so haven't been to the movie theater enough the last couple months.

8. Briefly relevant to my thrift-vintage tv show work.
Will never stop missing the corporeal. the smell of ink. The different sounds made by touching or crinkling paper. The timeless things (that physical deteriorate over time, every mark or wrinkle a permanent addition). Personal mass ephemera.

7. ... metaphorical weight. Anyhow. Almost everywhere you could go - shabby beach-town arcades, to every small town with a college, to Paris, to everywhere, posters were a kind of token / totem. Presumably those stores are gone now. Magic screens being the all-encompassing addiction of choice.

6: As were newspapers. And the invention of the printing press gave rise to democracy, and the concept of literacy, and the way we arrange our brains and ideas and memories. So the poster was a kind of - mark of quality by printers. The actual physical press having both concrete and metaphorical

5: Art album adjacent. Of the smell and care around a good, important hardcover book. But also of the flavor-texture and care of a good coffee-table art book. Do aliens have posters? Were these qualities specific to Western-culture? obviously, all these things were derived from the printers.

4: ...they'd look through file drawers to pull it out, by matching the code. Or they might phone downstairs, so you could be doubly disappointed when it wasn't there... And you'd treat like this precious delicate commodity. Posters were amazing _ And almost in a category of their own.

3: And they were important. Related to identity and space. Are they still like that? Do kids and homes with kids have frames? We used to go down to the giant Harvard Coop, which sold albums and tons of stuff... but it had a huge, amazing, poster department. This way where there was display, then...

2: ... Maybe you were lucky enough to save-up or be gifted a one from your favorite movie; or giant art-poster of some band ... they met at this juncture-mixture of hi and lo art. Like you might tear-out a magazine page and add to same wall. Or your parents had awesome Klee prints in wood frames

Had a small flash-memory epiphanyte last night: POSTERS were this non-attention-seeking part of our culture for so long. In every city or town you went to, there were poster stores: Rock-Poster stores. And art poster stores. And it was kind of a neat big deal to get your sports team poster.

Anyone wanna work-trade to give me a lesson in DaVinci Resolve? Many years back i learned basic Avid, more basic after effects, some final cut, etc etc... But could use a DaVinci Tutorial. I can offer something that is equivalent amount of time.

I'd like to see a super-cut of Harry Dean Stanton as-broken-dad figure in bathrobe, flannel, old sweats? His character in Pretty in Pink and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me is pretty much almost a straight line.

Paramount Has a Secret Plan to Buy Hollywood Before the Cops Arrive Paramount consigliere Makan Delrahim has plans to close the Paramount-Warner deal and do mass layoffs before antitrust enforcers can even file a case.

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Everything about this 'Board of Peace' just reads super-scam, real estate development, replace the UN and NATO with this twisted corp.

Donald Trump’s Pantomime United Nations

Actor Shia LaBeouf accused of using homophobic slurs while assaulting New Orleans bar patrons Actor Shia LaBeouf has been charged with battery and is accused of repeatedly using homophobic slurs while hitting multiple people at a New Orleans bar during Mardi Gras.

At this rate, wouldn't be surprised if the Rump admin made crazy Shia LB a dike or ambassador or assistant Secretary of State or something. apnews.com/video/actor-...

Big AI Isn’t Waiting for the Backlash Meta and other AI companies are ramping up their lobbying before politicians figure out how unpopular the data centers are about to be.

This is brief, but seems important: nymag.com/intelligence...

#lowdownbrilliant

YouTube video by Curzon THE STRANGER | Official UK & IRE Trailer - In Cinemas 10 April

Every now and then you see a trailer and your like: I am gonna watch the fk out of that movie!
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This is such a wild thing to say to someone who just shot an unarmed person bsky.app/profile/jmet...

Bovino sent this email at 3:11 p.m. on Oct. 4.

This is what the scene looked like at 2:48 p.m. when the first group of feds made their exit. They gassed people again at 3:27 p.m.

So during this attack, Bovino congratulated his guy who kicked everything off by shooting a woman five times.

Saw two stories of protagonists in detective procedural death-of-the-week dramas for major networks getting locked into death-trap type rooms, believing that they can't get out and are about to die. ... BWhen the locked doors open our heroes do NOT rush out, choosing to linger. Weird direction.

‘They Couldn’t Break Me’: A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo

As much as we've all read our Zinn, and all give proper shit to the U.S. and it's history - I do wish more friends had studied the Agit-prop of the Soviets and the Chinese and more. How else do you categorize this? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

Almost no doubt, now, that the next several rounds of major elections will be under the control (and determined) by the Rump Regime. .... .... It is bizarre that it is not now a given.

The Weekend: Primetime on Instagram: "“We need to get better at treating this like a business. Like [Amazon] Prime for human beings.” This is what the acting director of ICE, Todd Lyons, said at a pri... 69K likes, 2,335 comments - theweekendprime on January 22, 2026: "“We need to get better at treating this like a business. Like [Amazon] Prime for human beings.” This is what the acting director of IC...

Reminder that this is the kinda shit you thought was saved for dystopia B-horror-sci-fi movies. Once you remove the soul, shame, guilt, moral ethos - you’re left with these barbaric man machines: www.instagram.com/reel/DT0taUg...

'Washington Post' journalists plea to Bezos: Don't gut our newsroom Members of the newspaper's union say they have been warned the company could cut as many as 300 jobs, although no announcement has been made.

Members of the newspaper's union say they have been warned the company could cut as many as 300 jobs, although no announcement has been made.

Queens man's double murder conviction tossed after 33 years in prison "The amount of evidence that was withheld is nothing short of substantial and even alarming," a judge said.

Just a reminder that, even in 2026, some very very old injustices are being righted. What is it that they used to say about the arc of the moral universe is long, but bends toward justice? gothamist.com/news/queens-...

‘Melania’ Review: Brett Ratner’s First Lady Documentary Is a Cheeseball Infomercial of Staggering Inertia There's no drama to Brett Ratner's cheeseball First Lady documentary, which should have been called "Day of the Living Tradwife."

... There’s no drama to it. It should have been called “Day of the Living Tradwife.”
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