Asher Elbein

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A film with serious flaws -- all of the Disney films are -- but it's got some genuinely incredible sequences and was willing to genuinely commit to the narrative thrust of the sequels in a way that their theoretical architects ultimately quailed from

I continue to believe that the executive branch loudly proclaiming a mission is to "liberate" American cities from their elected governments is bad.

I like when The Last Jedi

The thing is that the big boys are fundamentally very very good at making cars and when they get serious about doing EVs its gonna be very hard for the startups to compete

I’m quoting this because it is a very fair point for which I have an answer: The first thing is to recognize that in a democracy there is no such thing as “ the majority.” Instead, there are many and multiple overlapping majorities that can be assembled from different parts of the whole.

More otter video. Really the sweetest and largest river otter I've seen. @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social and I were stunned it hung out so long.

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My take on DSA convention discourse is that we need to impose democratic centralism on posters and only posters

No, the DSA delegate vote on the “anti Zionist resolution” does not mean 2/5’s of the org is “Zionist” - it was a debate abt the most effective way to implement the 2017 BDS resolution & the nature of DSA membership. Do not spread false information or participate in unprincipled propaganda plse

And with all due respect to those who find it useful, TikTok is not a replacement for what is being lost.

The devaluation of skill, experience, and expertise is a crisis across cultural journalism right now--it's being felt profoundly in theater. It's great that anyone can post a review, but that does not, even in the smallest way, replace what's being thrown away.

It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.

this is correct. we may not get another chance to fix things, but we might, and the fixes are entirely legal and do not require a constitutional amendment: no filibuster, more states, more judges. It could be done in an afternoon, and should be.

basically the American electorate has developed antibodies to mealy-mouthed Democratic triangulation but not to outright lying, a tactic only Republicans have the chutzpah to use at the moment

do you, or any of the hundred brain dead marks making this assumption, that 43 percent of the most dedicated organizers in DSA are fascists, stop to think for a single fucking solitary second that maybe in an organization obsessed with internal politics it isn't about whether we oppose Zionism

Israel defenders love to whine about a double standard and the thing is they're right, but not in a way that helps their case.

Antisemitism on the Left needs to be rooted out with the ruthless precision of a surgeon.

It’s a cancerous rot on all of our organizations and it kills (literally, in the case of our Jewish comrades).

god the bad faith is unbearable sometimes, I know you don't actually believe your comrades are Nazis it just lets you clout farm with non-members

Will journalists across the world speak out on the murder of their fellow journalists? Or will many remain quiet as they have before on the intentional murder of their colleagues for doing their work?

Jesus.

i'll be honest literally the only upside of spending so much time trawling twitter for DSA convention updates was more cocaine banana starbucks organizer lady tweets (and I don't even follow her lol)

Other styles of reporting and newswriting are allowed to exist. You aren't the king of reporting style any more than the Times is, dude

Revealed preferences theory suggests that Wall Street executives value their ability to call their subordinates gay at approximately 8 trillion dollars

"why are institutions continuing to fold at the same time that trump's approval numbers are going down and some methods of oppositions are proving effective" is The Question right now imo

The thing with Hogwarts cosplay in 2025 is it marks you as either actively a bad person or someone so completely incurious as to be indistinguishable from one

Mad enough that I apparently omitted a word from the first post. Oh well!

This is rattling the doors and demanding slop

The more I look at this, the madder I get

There are so, so many valid reasons to be frustrated and angry at the NYT, and this sort of thing frankly isn't one of them. "How dare this article deploy a modicum of descriptive language in the lede" makes you sound insane