Dennis B. Hooper

we need to abolish this shit

can you imagine just sitting down to plan this and not feeling any shame or hesitation. seeing jane goodall on the tv as you’re doing it and how her thing was gorillas and yours is getting ready to deport a guy who’s been wrongly imprisoned since reagan’s first term

Excerpts

Excerpts

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

TIL Robert Wise not only directed The Sound of Music and West Side Story but also edited Citizen Kane

That’s right

They like what Trump is doing, this really isn't hard. It's not both-sideism, it's running cover for the regime by choice in order to reach a desired outcome. Can we please stop cutting this institution slack it does not deserve?

June, 1993. I exhale loudly and pat my brow. The desert is punishingly hot but we’ve had a magnificent expedition so far. Specimens we never could have imagined, and the best possible team. Yet nothing makes me happier than the chance to share my work with my son. He’s struggling a bit at school, being bullied over his weight and so forth, and trying out a new, more combative personality. It’s not totally working, if I’m being honest, but I’m glad he’s asserting himself. In any case, science requires confidence, and Dr. Grant, our team leader, will make a marvelous role model. But wait, what’s this? I look over and see Dr. Grant giving some personal attention to my son! And he appears to be showing him a dinosaur claw! Incredible! I can already tell that this is going to be one of the best weeks of my son’s life

oliverdarcy (on Threads) News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you sp...

“…spell lede. Is it seriously lede and not lead? I feel like somebody’s playing a prank on me and I don’t like it, you guys…”

Alex Trebek saying "the creature" on this episode of Jeopardy! from Halloween 1997

oliverdarcy (on Threads) News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you sp...

“…spell lede. Is it seriously lede and not lead? I feel like somebody’s playing a prank on me and I don’t like it, you guys…”

Part of the reason the right aggressively demonizes George Soros is to dissuade any other left-of-center wealthy guys from doing actual politics the way every right wing billionaire happily does.

Release the Steinbeck werewolf novel!

Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss

it takes a lot to make a stew

This remains the most important piece i’ve written about the goals and ideological principles of the second Trump administration www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

bsky.app/profile/jame...

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

June, 1993. I exhale loudly and pat my brow. The desert is punishingly hot but we’ve had a magnificent expedition so far. Specimens we never could have imagined, and the best possible team. Yet nothing makes me happier than the chance to share my work with my son. He’s struggling a bit at school, being bullied over his weight and so forth, and trying out a new, more combative personality. It’s not totally working, if I’m being honest, but I’m glad he’s asserting himself. In any case, science requires confidence, and Dr. Grant, our team leader, will make a marvelous role model. But wait, what’s this? I look over and see Dr. Grant giving some personal attention to my son! And he appears to be showing him a dinosaur claw! Incredible! I can already tell that this is going to be one of the best weeks of my son’s life

Absolutely going to get fed into an LLM with a "tell me who to fire, I want to reduce headcount at least 50% so I can replace with people who I can rely on ideologically"

Google: People also ask, what is the sun’s real name? How much longer has the sun got left?

Last two lines of a poem

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

There is a style of management which does this, almost entirely defined by its lack of sufficient theory of mind to understand how other people would react to this.

A linocut print of a girl carrying an oversized carrot on her back. It's printed on off-white paper with black and orange ink.

Overgrown

Headline: "Yes, Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize."

A columnist still at WaPo.

Google: People also ask, what is the sun’s real name? How much longer has the sun got left?

Last two lines of a poem

A woman with long brown hair and a vest seen from behind and the cat is being carried in the vest with only its face showing at the back of the woman’s head, reminiscent of Gabriel in Malignant (2021)

Meowlignant (2021)

No creativity or ingenuity in thinking of ways of how to fight Trump but infinitely amounts of creativity and ingenuity when it's time to brainstorm reasons why it's actually smart to do nothing.

mac from always sunny saying "but who versus? who are we doing it versus?" because he cannot understand a plan that does not have a victim

every time you read a story about how no-strings-attached direct payments to vulnerable, marginalized or otherwise needy people are a big net profit to the society disbursing them, and you ask "why doesn't america do that?", please know that this is the answer why

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way. What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money. Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight. To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it