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not the main point, but I think a problem is that too many movies are trying to look like $100 million movies. yes, it's easier to do explosions. but do you *need* to do the explosions? if everyone does the explosions, doesn't it just feel a different kind of cheap? www.vulture.com/article/gene...

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it's obviously insanely corrupt and impeachable to threaten the contracts of a company because their CEO criticized you, but unfortunately all operators are busy at the moment assisting other callers

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having giving it careful consideration, she has concluded that, in fact, new yorkers deserving nothing more than a man who has played politics with our lives for a decade

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you can say what you want in politics but it's strange and unusual to say the city needs the person you also say is "a corrupt bully with a record of alleged sexual misconduct"

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amazing arc here. remember going to an event with Ramos in 2018 with a guy wearing a "Homo not Cuomo" shirt www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/n...

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they're not saying "soy right" they're saying "i am right"

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went to the new Frick and there's obviously some great stuff, but it is no Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

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i think everyone who just used "Big Beautiful Bill" on first-reference should also have to call it "Trump's disgusting abomination" for fair-use

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"Stephen, 34, and Katie, 28, had fallen in love—as young people do—while figuring out how to separate children from their parents at the border" www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/08...

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think of all those dudes who have to unload their cybertrucks now

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trump's one great gift is immediately zeroing in on everyone's insecurities and it's really a nice pairing of artist and subject here

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this feels like the number you come up with if you have no idea what the current speed limits are

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candidates have this really adorable idea that everyone is going to hear about their plans and the fundamental reality of the race will be upended

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andrew cuomo asked his biggest political regret and it is not...that

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brand lander talks like someone doing a bit

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hope we get some really stupid question about bike lanes

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“According to LinkedIn, the bulk of Fugate’s leadership experience comes from having served as secretary general of a Model United Nations club.”

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"Another lobbying veteran described the frank exchange as 'outer-borough Mafia shit.'" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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joni ernst comment is such a classic "dumb thing to say"

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Your taxpayer dollars, no longer at work: "Local social welfare authorities and police shared their observations of sharp increases in intimate partner violence, child abandonment, child marriage, and trafficking in persons in the food-insecure areas they serve" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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For the July/August issue of @motherjones.com, I dived into Elon Musk's relationship with Aspie supremacy and how it's promoted online. This ideology, coined by the late autistic blogger Mel Baggs, also dehumanizes autistic people with high support needs. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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"Without intervention, continued deterioration of the food security situation will lead to loss of life." Elon Musk is trying to whitewash his legacy with USAID. These State Department cables tell a different story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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they've never had a bond villain who uses corporate HR verbs, but i think they should

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about once a day a bus is stopped on my block for 10 minutes because a car decided to simply double-park instead of pulling in front of an unused driveway entrance. and these dipshits blame traffic on bikes.

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man how did I guess

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Amazing.

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appreciate the New York Young Republicans adopting the same immigration stance as Idi Amin

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if you're wondering, yes, that's what he looks like now

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one of the funny dynamics wrt national discussion of nyc politics is that everyone assumes the nyc electorate is progressives from their bluesky feed

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Great collection of authentic bigfoots, haters will say they're bears

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picture in your head a 38-word Andrew Cuomo answer about the "Elizabeth Street Garden." Okay. Now open your eyes. You nailed it! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/n...

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