Kaleena Rivera

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‘Welcome to Derry’: We’re In a Bit of a Pickle Send in the clowns!

The premiere of ‘Welcome to Derry’ hasn’t instilled much hope in me when it comes to carrying the torch that IT and all its adaptations (yes even the first one) once lit

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A cybertruck for your face

I haven’t been this gobsmacked by an ending since ‘The Usual Suspects’

To hell with this. Richard is one of our finest critics, and Vanity Fair and its readers are so much poorer for this incredibly stupid decision.

My life is now better for knowing this

Omfg

I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.

The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans.

Per @npr.org, the Department of Homeland Security, in partnership with the White House U.S. DOGE Service, has built a searchable national citizenship register with data from the Social Security Administration & immigration records— without public notice & comment.
Infrastructure for a police state.

Two images of Zohran. On the left is the original from the campaign which shows a close cropped beard. On the right is a version used by Cuomo’s SuperPAC with an artificially longer, darker beard.

Andrew Cuomo is afraid he'll lose, so his donors want you to fear me.

His SuperPAC just sent out a mailer that artificially lengthened and darkened my beard.

This is blatant Islamophobia—the kind of racism that explains why MAGA billionaires support his campaign.

In case you folks missed it, I wrote about ‘Murderbot,’ aka the most relatable android you’re likely to ever meet

I, like so many others, love to dunk on David Zaslav but the laughter always turns to ash in my mouth when I remember the overwhelming likelihood that he, w all of his many screw-ups during his time as CEO, will ride off to the sunset with literal millions just bc that’s how the system works

Natasha Lyonne why

Kind, decent, and compassionate, Pope Francis was badly out of step with contemporary western culture.

The hype is real: ‘Sinners’ is amazing. I could nitpick a few minute details but they literally don’t matter when a movie is this strong, this self-assured, this PASSIONATE. I can see this landing on pretty much everyone’s top ten lists at the end of the year.

michelle williams meeting michelle williams is so important to me as a fan of michelle williams and michelle williams

You know the *only* reason he got out so fast was a reporter live posted about this for hours. And, a large amount of public pressure.

Every time someone gets grabbed, there has to be a robust public response immediately.

Girl they already decided they hated you and your org. This was the time to straighten up and say “and I’d do it again 💅🏼”

After being handcuffed and beaten all night, Hamdan Ballal is free and about to go home to his family, says co-director Yuval Abraham:

Last Call for ‘Severance’ Theories The finale lies ahead. What weird theories can we play with until then.

I stayed away from ‘Severance’ forums to give space to my own imaginings. Now w the finale nearly upon us, I decided to share a few of my guesses on what possibly lies ahead, including one rather wild swing of a theory

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It’s a genuinely great film but yeah, if you even have a little bit of affection for animals it is a STRESSFUL watch 😅

Spending the week catching up on the Academy Award nominees. Tonight I watched the animated film ‘Flow.’ I went in expecting a sweet family film. Instead I spent the entire hour and a half like

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

REENACT THE END OF THE SUBSTANCE DURING THE OSCAR SHOW YOU COWARDS

Bless her heart but also OMG??? 😱

Taylor Kitsch Didn’t Expect a Happy Ending The American Primeval star breaks down that brutal final scene and where he thinks the Friday Night Lights reboot will find Tim Riggins.

I talked to taylor kitsch about AMERICAN PRIMEVAL, where riggins would be 20 years later in FRIDAY NIGHT LANDS-land, and his interest in doing a comedy with danny mcbride. danny, please call him! at @vulture.com:

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