Wisely Quiet

The movie being a love letter to his childhood and the use of bright colors is probably why it was successful. People like bright colors, and his generational cohort also read those comics and were curious to see how it translated to the big screen.

Heckuva job Joe.

When is a tent too big? Regarding Abundance Conference 2025

"This isn’t a matter of enforcing purity tests or deplatforming people. It’s a matter of knowing what you and your movement stand for. Frankly, it’s also just a matter of having some self-respect." publiccomment.blog/p/when-is-a-...

Some meth dealer just struck gold after Stephen Miller bought out his whole stock to pump into Trump so Vance doesn't become president.

Share this tweet if you are down for a national walkout.

Gavin Newsom is a genuinely bad person and any admiration you have for him needs to be directed toward actually good people like JB Pritzker or Andy Beshear.

Beer Cultures Here and There — Beervana Or, how Britain got the Honorable Order of Bass Drinkers while Americans got the milkshake IPA.

How Britain got the Honorable Order of Bass Drinkers while Americans got the milkshake IPA.

Average young Democratic talent: 42, policy staffer for a 72 year old Senator or first term state rep whose Congressional district is held by a 68 year old who will never retire

Average young Republican “talent”: 27, jacks off to Spanish nationalist atrocities, GS-12 at DHS, will run for Congress

The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US The rule of law presupposes that there are rules that provide a consistent, repeatable, and knowable set of outcomes. That’s no longer the case.

This will have to count as my Supreme Court term review.

I make that point that there's no point in reviewing what the Supreme Court has done because the rule of law is dead in this country anyway.

My latest in @thenation.com

This Palestinian’s Story Undercuts Claim That IDF Doesn’t Target Civilians “What we are going through cannot be justified — it is literally a genocide,” says Reem Zidiah.

Frustrating to hear liberals use "misinformation" as an excuse for being so late to realizing that the genocide is a genocide, or at the very least a terrifying attempt at ethnic cleansing (ahem, The Atlantic).

Palestinians have said this for years now. You didn't listen. This is from 2023:

YouTube video by The Daily Show Peter Beinart - "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning" | The Daily Show

@peterbeinart.bsky.social talks about his book "being jewish after the destruction of gaza" on @thedailyshow.com

How the Trump Administration is Constructing Jewishness According to President Trump, Chuck Schumer is “not Jewish anymore.” Nor are Jewish Americans who vote for the Democratic Party. Nor are Jewish college students who oppose the Israeli government’s…

"Because politically conservative, deeply religious Jews are the embodiments of true Jewishness, they are the only subset of the American Jewish community with the authority to define antisemitism and capacity to experience it." Good piece. lpeproject.org/blog/how-the...

How dupes turned online shopping upside down Getting copied is devastating — but not necessarily illegal. Who owns what in an era of unprecedented mass consumption?

New from me: The internet is built on sameness. People hawk the same stuff, use the same music, write the same SEO articles. Now the aesthetics and modes of the web have escape into the real world.

If you thought your feeds were derivative, wait until you see dupes:
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

As someone who voted for Kamala Harris,

Dems/Liberals/Speakers of Truth, simply cannot save or sanewash Biden's legacy on Gaza. There's no version of this where he's not a villain, even if we accept the premise that, on net, Trump has been worse.

I wrote this newsletter post in response to this exact phenomenon.

www.dataandpolitics.net/the-selectio...

That dude is the final villain of a JRPG right before he turns himself into Mecha-Hitler.

Rich white man who fucked up badly needs to explain why he didn't fuck up badly in Nazi jiz rag.

*sigh* I guess when it rains, it pours. I had hoped that fuckup had taken the fucking hint and decided to shut up for once in his life, but I guess not.

I knew Luthor reminded me of someone.

Biden could have stoped it in one phone call -

I wish I lived in the AU where Rahm Emanuel stayed in Japan and ran a podcast about the best vegan restaurants to visit on each island.

I genuinely think what we’re seeing is the Big Sign that the traditionally liberal establishment (both the Dems and media) are owned by exactly the same people as the conservatives. If they’re willing to dive this far headfirst into open racism, there’s nowhere they aren’t willing to go.

What Ocean Ramsey does is not shark science or conservation: some brief thoughts on “the Shark Whisperer” documentary Netflix has a new (sarcastic air quotes) “documentary” out about Ocean Ramsey, who longtime readers and followers know is a serial wildlife harasser who also coordinates massive online …

Enough of you asked me about this that I wrote some brief thoughts on Ocean Ramsey's particular brand of pseudoscientific nonsense. I believe this addresses almost all of the frequently asked questions I receive, but as always I am happy to answer serious questions asked in good faith.

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Besides the Democratic leadership, right?

I cannot fathom any reason to speak positively about the Biden administration on anything, including the IRA which made it more expensive to buy EVs, at this point. Everything he did, no matter how good it was overall, was always at least one or more steps back on something important.

I suspect it's also a dig at Biden both for his cancer diagnosis and his administration's support for cancer research.

A Swingin’ Surprise or Two The best-kept secret in the history of Marvel Comics was in high dudgeon by the time he sat down at his typewriter. It was a July afternoon in 1971, and Ron Whyte, a playwright and activist, was about...

Me and @zachrabiroff.com have discovered that a gay, disabled, pill-popping Yale Drama grad likely ghostwrote many of Stan Lee's most famous comics

Marvel Comics and Disney don't want you to know about Ron Whyte

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"Face it tiger ... you just hit the jackpot!"

To Create is Heroic BeanPaste published a post on Ko-fi

wrote a ko-fi blog post about how spiderman being a photographer, superman being a journalist and captain america being an illustrator is important to me ko-fi.com/post/To-Crea...

Looking over microfilm while doing some research was one of the coolest things I did in law school, and everyone should do this even if they aren't writing a book or a paper.

I’d never thought I’d say this but now I’m US Senator Levar Stoney curious.