Sam Flynn - MYSTERY OF THE PALE KING out now!

James Gunn’s American Project He is few critics’ idea of a respectable auteur, but his work is more consistently progressive than any other comic-book material today.

I wrote a piece on the work of writer and director James Gunn, who is engaged in a pretty incredible ongoing enterprise that despises bigotry and authoritarianism and reaffirms patriotism for progressives. www.vulture.com/article/jame...

The GOP’s top think tank just defended an open Nazi Reasonable people can disagree about whether Hitler was good, says the Heritage Foundation.

Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition

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I’ve said this before but white guilt is useless. I don’t want people to feel guilty for things they had no part in, and guilt easily curdles into resentment. But everyone regardless should feel an obligation to correct injustice, especially if you somehow benefit. bsky.app/profile/mich...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Immortality is a child's answer to death anxiety, not a real thing with which humanity will ever have to contend. No king's alchemist ever granted him eternal life, and it isn't going to start happening now just because of Computer.

Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh, five others indicted over protest outside Broadview ICE facility Illinois congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh and five other protesters have been indicted on federal charges, accused of damaging an ICE agent's vehicle in Broadview​ last month.

These indictments are disgusting. I was there when these alleged crimes *did not* occur. The only violence that occurred was committed by ICE, as usual.

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

Lol I just asked Grok whether Grokipedia is more neutral than Wikipedia and even it can't lie about this

A screenshot of a tweet by Elon Musk (@elonmusk). The tweet reads: “When Tolkien wrote about the hobbits, he was referring to the gentlefolk of the English shires, who don’t realize the horrors that take place far away. They were able to live their lives in peace and tranquility, but only because they were protected by the hard men of Gondor. What happened to the nice man who was brutally murdered while walking his dog will happen to all of England if the tide of illegal immigration is not turned. It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die.” Below the tweet is a grey box that says: “This post is unavailable" indicating that the Tommy Robinson tweet he's QT'ing is missing. The timestamp reads: “8:02 AM · Oct 29, 2025 · 1.9M Views”.

The "hard-men" of Gondor were getting their shit kicked in until they were rescued by foreigners and a girl.

The Shire was doing fine until they let a fascist demagogue ("Sharkey" aka Saruman) take over, close the gates, impose a bunch of thug-enforced rules, and despoil nature for profit.

This is expressly suicide ideation masked in technology. The idea being that if you kill your humanity, your pain will go away.

Prosecuting the Powerful Historical data shows putting leaders on trial is a healthy democratic practice.

Sarkozy is going to jail but he’s not the first one. In our new dataset we track modern leaders who have been prosecuted by their own states. There are 215 of them. Turns out leader prosecution is a common & healthy practice in democracies. Full access link: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/28/d...

The corollary to this is the push to starve out the people and institutions that push back against this cannibalism of the social contract.

One term I've started using to describe the current moment is "performative psychopathy." There's real incentives created by the oligarchs of late stage capitalism to embrace the self-destructive nihilism of a right-wing edgelord for money. You can see it in business, comedy, journalism, and beyond

Hard to look at what's happened at NYT, WaPo and corporate media more broadly and not see an internalization of utter self-abasement.

Patron-Supported Journalism Can’t Be the Future of News Writing about the failure of patron-supported journalism is itself a kind of...

"Personally, I believe the way forward looks like collectives and worker-owned publications. To survive in late capitalism will take being anti-capitalist in practice in form and not just as a critical stance." Thank you @anamariecox.bsky.social

a big problem right now among our political, cultural and media elites is how few of them have any self-respect

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Only one of the greatest scenes in film history

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Every day, some fresh horror

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

Human beings were not built to be perceived by 1000s of strangers every single day. Again, this is not natural. The younger you are the less tools you have to withstand this.

Sorry but I do not think people in their teens and early 20s have the emotional and spiritual fortitude to withstand the scrutiny of being internet influencers. I keep seeing stories of these young people dying early or ending up completely mentally distraught. This is an unnatural way to live.

it’s beyond comprehension that scenes like this have become routine in chicago.

masked soldiers are carelessly lobbing chemical weapons—that are banned from use during warfare—on random residential streets.

this is the third time feds have tear-gassed residents in chicago *this week!*

The announcement is here! 🥳 DWELLER IN DARKNESS, the sequel to The Mystery of the Pale King and final chapter in the Deadlights Duology, coming Q4 2026!

Two hours. Never moved. Never blinked. Gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.

TRANSLATION: "Will they want rights? Because if they want rights, I'm not interested."

This, everywhere. Also, then roll it out for everyone.

They despise being an effective opposition.

What I think a lot of people don't grasp is that hypocrisy is a display of power. The sovereign is he who makes the exception and all that.