jamelle

imagine if political journalists showed the same solidarity for their illegally imprisoned colleagues that jake tapper showed for fox news when obama tried to move their seat in the briefing room to the second row

served a spread of roast pork, black beans and rice, tostones and a slaw dressed with lime juice and olive oil. it was delicious.

really nothing better than being able to entertain friends with food and drink

The Long American Counter-Revolution - Boston Review Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

Very interesting essay by David Waldstreicher. Thanks to @jamellebouie.net for sharing it in his newsletter.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

this is it. the thing that makes me unserious, to this point, is that i have red lines about who i’ll engage with as a voice worth hearing

we got a fancy bidet and basically transformed our daily lives

this is very helpful to me, a person who lives on the opposite side of the country

i know "the whole bloody affair" exists folks, but it has never received a wide release and certainly not one on home video!

i gotta get that time cop 4K. who put it out?

i have a lot of affection for KILL BILL and one thing i want more than anything is just a big remaster that presents both volumes as a single feature.

as a kid my solution to "how do i get girls to like me" was "hang out with and befriend girls" and it worked!

this definitely describes me

ABOVE THE LAW is segal. SUDDEN DEATH is van damme. you're thinking HARD TO KILL most likely

when i made the case that there were more than a few service members like this guy people on here refused to believe it but

i see a few "who could be married to matt walsh" type replies but the thing about people like walsh is that they are married to the people who would have them and *vice versa*

it's not that SUDDEN DEATH is good, but even in its perfect mediocrity there is a level of competence and craftsmanship that feels missing from today's equivalent

Congressional acquiescence in Trump’s clawback bill is further evidence (though none was needed) that separation of powers in the U.S. is moribund. Yet journalists and pundits cover the story with fascination rather than horror. Prof Neil Buchanan has the details on the blog. 👇

one of the great cinematic special effects is just setting a guy on fire

this movie has an insane body count

hell these days if the current vice president got taken hostage at a hockey game people would cheer

most unbelievable thing about this movie honestly is that someone would try to take the vice president hostage. who cares?

tonight’s movie

today in spiders

"the constitution mandates anti-black racism"

Every half-hidden sneer or bit of gentle condescension that he wrote about has been retroactively validated too. Those old money types had your fucking number, buddy. Should have treated you far, far worse. You were right, you didn’t belong, and it’s because everyone else there *was* better than you

One of the things about JD Vance is that he is completely 100% aware that what he is doing is evil and has made a deliberate, conscious choice to do evil to get power. He’s not self-deluded or dumb. He hasn’t drunk Kool-Aid. He’s decided to do evil for power.

I’ve thought about this quite a lot. For some New Yorkers, this phrase refers to civil disobedience and protest, a call to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. But I know for many Jewish New Yorkers, it brings to mind images of the like that you are speaking of. I was sitting with a rabbi not too long ago who told me how the same phrase is heard very differently by her and it’s heard as a reference to bus bombings in Haifa, restaurant attacks in Jerusalem. It engenders a fear in her and in others of those very attacks coming home here in New York City. That distance between what some intend and what others hear is a bridge that is too far, and it is why I have not used the phrase and why I discourage its use. My focus is on building a movement for justice and equality, and as it pertains to Israel and Palestine, I think often of the words of Noy Katsman, who lost their brother in the horrific war crime of October 7th. Noy said we must believe in all life, Israeli and Palestinian, Jewish and Arab, that it is equally precious. That is the vision that I hope to fulfill. It was just a few months ago that I met a New Yorker in Brooklyn who told me of how more than 80 members of her family have been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza. This is a devastation that many New Yorkers are feeling personally. It’s one that for others, they are witnessing on a day to day basis, and it continues until today. Just last week, NBC News reported that the Israeli military bombed a health clinic in Gaza, killing 10 children, including a 1-year-old who had just uttered his first words hours before. We are speaking of a place that is now home to the greatest number of child amputees in modern history. What offends so many in this city is this horror is one that is subsidized by our country.

This is what mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani told @errollouis.bsky.social when asked about the slogan "globalize the intifada" and his position on Palestine. (When Mamdani said "images you're speaking of," he was referring to the Second Intifada.)

Full interview here: ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

he is a model for a practical but still deeply felt and intelligent faith!

breyer seemed to take seriously that be was a judge — not a legal academic or legal philosopher or policymaker in robes — but a judge whose job is to consider the real world

“anything that might possibly benefit a black person is anti-white discrimination” rests on the unspoken belief in black inferiority