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Writer: 84th Oscars, Letterman, The Nation, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The Baffler, Air Mail, Emmy nominee, NEH Public Scholar, and author of way too many posts. rep: Dara Kaye WME #WGAW letterboxd: https://boxd.it/1lq09

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it’s scarier to me that *our* crazy person has a nuclear weapon right now.

06.03.2026 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

so, we're keeping our objectives limited to regime change, assassinating their entire gov't, choosing their next leader, destroying their uranium enrichment program, encouraging a popular revolution, encouraging a kurdish insurgency, and blowing up girls schools. got it.

06.03.2026 03:52 β€” πŸ‘ 148    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

so, we're keeping our objectives limited to regime change, assassinating their entire gov't, choosing their next leader, destroying their uranium enrichment program, encouraging a popular revolution, encouraging a kurdish insurgency, and blowing up girls schools. got it.

06.03.2026 03:52 β€” πŸ‘ 148    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Alpha Critic Reviews on Instagram: "Famed comedian Rodney Dangerfield presented the Oscar for Best Makeup during the 1987 Academy Awards. Born as Jacob Rodney Cohen in 1921, Dangerfield started up a... 15K likes, 136 comments - alphacriticreviews on February 24, 2026: "Famed comedian Rodney Dangerfield presented the Oscar for Best Makeup during the 1987 Academy Awards. Born as Jacob Rodney Cohen i...

"no laughs, just cute stuff. that's all i do." www.instagram.com/reels/DVKW_1...

06.03.2026 03:05 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I love how honest Trump is when he has absolutely nothing to lose.

06.03.2026 01:00 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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I love how honest Trump is when he has absolutely nothing to lose.

06.03.2026 01:00 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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@thehardtimesnews.bsky.social

05.03.2026 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 90    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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The Widow and the Firebrand: How Candace Owens Turned a Conservative Succession Into a Crusade Against Erika Kirk With her new multi-part series 'Bride of Charlie,' Owens has trained her sights on the Turning Point USA CEO and exposed a fault line running through the heart of the American right.

hugely disappointed in candace owens for calling her erika kirk documentary "bride of charlie" instead of "bride of chucky." www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

05.03.2026 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Widow and the Firebrand: How Candace Owens Turned a Conservative Succession Into a Crusade Against Erika Kirk With her new multi-part series 'Bride of Charlie,' Owens has trained her sights on the Turning Point USA CEO and exposed a fault line running through the heart of the American right.

hugely disappointed in candace owens for calling her erika kirk documentary "bride of charlie" instead of "bride of chucky." www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

05.03.2026 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

!!!

05.03.2026 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

they got rid of bovino and it didn't change anything. it won't matter until miller is gone.

05.03.2026 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

sheehy is a maga navy seal and the β€œmarine” is a marine veteran running as a green party candidate in north carolina and still wearing his uniform. fox will accuse him of stolen valor in the morning.

05.03.2026 07:56 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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so, maron’s new look is basically β€œcool tevye.”

04.03.2026 03:37 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Son Emerges as Leading Choice to Be His Successor

oh, here's why. iran has an unlimited supply of ayatollah khameneis. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/w...

04.03.2026 01:54 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

how is it we’re killing off iran’s entire first, second, and third tier leadership but it doesn’t feel like we’re going to β€œwin?"

04.03.2026 01:48 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

comedy the way it used to be? so we're getting a semi-funny white guy from snl who inexplicably gets thirty movies?

04.03.2026 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's a way of saying that by embracing the Declaration that Mamdani is becoming an American, as if he isn't already one.

03.03.2026 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

more like iran humiliated us with the hostage crisis 47 years ago and we never got over it. i hear trump is still mad about skylab falling, too.

03.03.2026 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

why not? you were agreeing with a nazi a few days ago.

03.03.2026 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is bad for Republicans. Trump wasn’t supposed to molt into his final form until after the midterms.

02.03.2026 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 108    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

This is bad for Republicans. Trump wasn’t supposed to molt into his final form until after the midterms.

02.03.2026 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 108    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
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Live: Iran confirms supreme leader Khamenei is dead after US, Israeli attacks The United States and Israel launched the most ambitious attack on Iran in decades on Saturday, and Iranian state media has confirmed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had been killed.

Congrats to Salman Rushdie on outliving a second Supreme Leader

www.reuters.com/world/iran-c...

01.03.2026 03:10 β€” πŸ‘ 239    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3
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Live: Iran confirms supreme leader Khamenei is dead after US, Israeli attacks The United States and Israel launched the most ambitious attack on Iran in decades on Saturday, and Iranian state media has confirmed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had been killed.

Congrats to Salman Rushdie on outliving a second Supreme Leader

www.reuters.com/world/iran-c...

01.03.2026 03:10 β€” πŸ‘ 239    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3
the image is tom cruise hanging from an airplane in MI:8 and looking his age.

the image is tom cruise hanging from an airplane in MI:8 and looking his age.

idc about any of that too much, but I wanted "No Time To Die" to end on him retiring from the field and becoming the new M. Why kill him when we all know a new Bond is coming back. As far as being too old for this shit, come on

01.03.2026 02:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

when your only sources are trump, israel, and iran you might as well ask a magic eightball

01.03.2026 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 156    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

when your only sources are trump, israel, and iran you might as well ask a magic eightball

01.03.2026 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 156    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

wtf - i misread that and thought the nyt confirmed it.

28.02.2026 22:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

reading the quotes and comments on that, or seeing dems dump trans rights, or newsom’s pivot to β€œcultural normativity,” and you can see how dead intersectionality and id politics really is on the left.

28.02.2026 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Ayatollah just died. I heard they regenerate and the third one will have a whimsical taste for jelly bellies, science-related puns, and wear a top hat.

28.02.2026 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2