Haleigh Foutch

it's not 'performative' if you're taking pictures of random fucking strangers reading. they're just reading! you're the creepy one!

Normalize calling it the Epstein Shutdown

A post by Rebecca Johnson: “I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.” A tumblr respond from mightymur: “The final, brilliant word on passive voice. "She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive "Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

Black cats are not bad luck. If you see a black cat & something bad happens after, it's because you have bad vibes, dude. The worst vibes, pal. Rancid vibes, bro.

Golly I sure wish somebody would take all these newsletters from journalists I like and compile them into one paper of news

plastic halloween eyeball

whispy white shroud ghost hanging around a tree

seed pod wafer thin and vaguely architectural in its rough oval appearance

huge stone frog or toad of unknown species but probably the sculptor just had some generic amphibian in their head and also jabba the hut.

Around #WarRavagedPortland today...

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again.

These two gotta go.

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon

The Guardian: 1st paragraph
BBC: 4th paragraph
AP: 5th paragraph
Time: 6th paragraph
Politico: 8th paragraph
NPR: 9th paragraph
CNN: 10th paragraph
NBC: 12th paragraph
Fox News: never mentions

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

RFK Jr.’s CDC may limit COVID shots to 75 and up, claim they killed kids A battle is brewing over mRNA vaccines, which could intensify backlash against Kennedy.

PSA: If you haven’t yet, it may be a good idea to get your COVID shot this week.

Reports suggest that CDC may further restrict COVID vaccine access to people aged 75 and up, unless you have an condition.

The committee that advises the CDC on vaccines meets this Thursday.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

Good time to remember all your posts are public and searchable by any interested government party. Just in case the spirit moves you to post in any kind of way.

Last call!

We won't bother you any more after this :)

Thanks to those who've subscribed or contributed or shared this post over the past week, the lights are on through the end of the year!

(And we'll be back with a proper fundraiser in a bit, to help keep things going beyond that)

#Moviesky

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We are not even six months into 2025, and movies have made $5.719 billion. The total for all of 2024 was $8.872 billion. But yeah, sure, cinema is dying.

So you can be positive nearly two weeks before you can be negative? That's fucked up!

host of the devil's plan: spending ten minutes explaining in detail the rules to a game called The Bungus Shuffle that involves a huge game board and doing calculus in your head, I am lost by minute two

devil's plan contestant, instantly: ah, so here's my strategy for the first 30 turns

cartoon panel of a man floating through space captioned he felt no pain...only the strangely pleasant ariness! now he was alone in the immensity of space and time!

imagining what it feels like to log off

On this 45th anniversary of FRIDAY THE 13TH, I think it’s time we admit that Pamela Voorhees’ cable knit sweater is iconic, albeit wildly underappreciated in the pantheon of slasher apparel. Anyone can wear a mask, but causing mayhem looking like a Land’s End catalog model is a singular diva move.

Trump Argues Toy Shortages Easily Overcome By Making Servants Dance WASHINGTON—Acknowledging that his tariff hikes could result in a frozen supply chain this holiday season, President Donald Trump claimed Friday that any toy shortages Americans experienced could be ea...

Trump Argues Toy Shortages Easily Overcome By Making Servants Dance

Sinners invites a new bold business idea. What if people want to see movies because they like them and not due to a pavlovian response to being 12 years old once!?

Scorsese likes Mothra 🥰

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

When Clive Barker was working on the MUMMY remake for Universal in the early '90s, he had a trans character in the script, and when the studio vetoed it, he basically said "I really can't stress how much I don't need to fucking make THE MUMMY" and left.

People need to be hearing about this shit every single day. Zoom in on literally anything here.

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

get in losers we’re doing pivot to video metrics again but with ai