John Turturro's Sweater

Amid Trump crackdown on Chinese students, one US university appears to block them altogether Purdue says no ban on Chinese students exists, but reportedly rescinded dozens of offers after warnings from legislators

Purdue jealous of IU's reactionary reputation, tries to catch up.
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the university has covered itself in a giant I'M WITH STUPID t-shirt

Real artists love the work of being artists. It’s not supposed to be easy to create something special. The corporate mentality trying to convince you otherwise is only trying to lower your standards to their own preferred level of mediocrity.

This one hits hard.

Vulgar auteurist critic struts into discourse, tweets "Paul WS Anderson > Paul Thomas Anderson," proudly thumps chest, breaks three ribs.

Vulgar auteurism: John Carpenter is great!

Everyone else: Yes, we've been saying that for--

VA: GODDAMN IT, WE SAID HE'S GREAT!!!

Every once in a while I think back to when a cadre of "vulgar auteurist" crix boldly, ignorantly, and obnoxiously announced to Film Twitter that they were taking over and it's still some of the weirdest shit I've ever seen online.

Yupppppp.

The most common question is, “How do I turn it off?”

Chad Rye, "an AI assited fantasy author."

Some days the jokes just write themselves.

CAN CONFIRM

Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.

The Supreme Court:

YouTube video by Olympics Alysa Liu wins the Olympic gold medal for the United States

I urge you to stop what you're doing and watch Alysa Liu's free skate from yesterday. I have never seen anything like this. I understand why sports writers are born now. I have never seen anyone as free from the burdens of this world as this pierced Oakland girl spinning to Donna Summers.

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Pritzker’s invoice to White House:

(via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov

In October 2024, the Georgia secretary of state’s office launched an investigation after receiving numerous reports from residents across several counties saying they’d received partially prefilled absentee ballot applications from Musk’s America PAC. trib.al/n6hAZOC

The “fuck your feelings crowd” is really feeling some things today.

Random poster: "I like gallows humor."

Joke fact-checker: "There is nothing humorous about the gallows, as this 850 page history of that abhorrent practice shows...." *dons monacle, licks finger and eagerly flips pages*

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court.

Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business.

As well as everyone else who stepped up.

Pretty sure a Venn Diagram of doomers and joke fact-checkers is a near-perfect circle.

i would love to see this Top Vietnam Man

NJ lawmakers introduce the FUCK ICE Act.

The bill "permits civil action for violations of US Constitution related to immigration enforcement."

😬

It’s this scene from THE KING OF COMEDY in email format:

I imagine it was extremely disturbing

In the reboot the butler stays on X, refuses to form an opinion about anything or judge anyone, ignores his exasperated crush by being online all the time.

I've been mostly nonplussed by Timmy Chalamet's whole awards season schtick, even a bit amused by it at times, but now I've learned American Cinematheque just programmed a retrospective for him and I wanna break shit

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically