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Freelance entertainment journalist. Credits: /Film, AV Club, Fangoria, New York Magazine, Polygon, Salt Lake Magazine, Thrillist, Variety, Yardbarker and so much more! Cleveland Cavaliers Fan/Sufferer. I've been to Prague.
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“DEI” wth a hard R

submitted 11 hours ago • 61 comments

Stick yourself. Stick up for your trans friends.

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

Let me put this as diplomatically as I possibly can: if you rank Cuomo, I hope you die.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

I loved writing this piece paying tribute to "OssieDavisandRubyDee" as we call them. They were not just Black royalty, they were American royalty.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

I think Arturo Gamboa did something incredibly stupid by bringing a rifle to a massive protest at a time when everyone is on edge due to the nation's law enforcement's wanton thuggishness, but open carry is legal in Utah (also incredibly stupid). The "peacekeeper" needs to be arrested and charged.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Wrote about JAWS and the death of Alex Kintner (and why you should show this film to your children at an early age).

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Dems treating trans rights as a political third rail is contemptible cowardice.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Was consumed all day at work by the fact that trump tweeted "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!" at Iran, which from any normal president would be hugely consequential and it wasn't even a story because the media has just sort of deformed itself into nihilistic acceptance of the fact that he's insane

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

Brian De Palma next year or we riot.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

"Pac-Man Fever" - Buckner & Garcia

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Wrote about JAWS and the death of Alex Kintner (and why you should show this film to your children at an early age).

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant. This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

submitted 2 days ago • 152 comments

I've put my Rosebud prop sled from Citizen Kane to good use in many of my pictures, including The 'Burbs! www.slashfilm.com/1885058/tom-... It's now up for auction. Own a piece of film history right here: entertainment.ha.com/itm/movie-tv...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

It’s so cool that this jerkoff (qualifications: New York Real Estate Asshole) has become The Only American Diplomat

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

The Fight/Don’t fight battle is over. Dems that are more moderate on policy need to get on board with fight or they will be left behind.

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal." That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.

submitted 3 days ago • 1467 comments

Hey, a San Dimas High School grad won the U.S. Open!

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Amen to all of this. At this point, the rage I harbor for feckless Dem lawmakers who are more worried about keeping the cocktail-party peace with their Republican friends than fighting fascism is just as red hot.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This is the end of a must-read thread by one of our most vital historians. It's a terrifying sound conclusion.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

It is firmly in the “somebody’s making an active decision to downplay this” territory.

submitted 4 days ago • 259 comments

I wanted to write about Brian Wilson, whose struggles resonate with me, so I wrote this. There may be more underrated music biopics out there, but, today, this is the one I hope people watch.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Happy Father's Day

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

One of the greatest songs ever written about racist policing/villainous “law & order” regimes, sung by the man who wrote & recorded it 45 years ago, with backing by child street-corner buskers

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

submitted 5 days ago • 279 comments

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

submitted 5 days ago • 218 comments

We can’t let this place become an echo chamber we need this pov represented as well

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Get out and protest today, folks, if you can! If nothing else, it'll chase the dread away for a few hours. Go join your allies!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"

submitted 5 days ago • 2251 comments

The Scott Foster of it all is making this game a stone-cold thriller in all the wrong ways.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Take that, CHINATOWN!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

<thread> On the left: June 12, Judge Breyer writing that THE test for whether the US Marines/Guard violate Posse Comitatus will be whether they've engaged in "detaining" civilians. On the right: June 13: See for yourself. Note: The DoD has confirmed the detention of civilian to Reuters.

submitted 6 days ago • 409 comments

The only thing this guy has killed is a Golden Corral buffet.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

"Don't jump in, Engelberg, you'll flood the valley!"

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Such dishonorable cowardice. An interpreter for the US military in Afghanistan shows up to his asylum hearing and these cowards in masks arrest him without warrant and plan to deport him. The immigration judge granted him a merit hearing to decide his asylum claim, but he'll likely never see it.

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

It's a truly jarring split screen that Kristi Noem's goons attacking Sen Padilla happened at almost the exact same time as 16 Dem senators crossed lines to vote with the GOP to invoke cloture on the crypto bill, forfeiting any leverage. Dems need to act like an opposition.

submitted 7 days ago • 826 comments

If you have a Dem Senator or two, drop everything and do this now.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

We drill into military officers that Members of Congress have Constitutional oversight rights, Members outrank four-stars in protocol, and even Congressional staffers are treated like generals/admirals. To see sworn federal officers manhandle and handcuff a U.S. Senator... I'm still shook up.

submitted 7 days ago • 54 comments

When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.

submitted 7 days ago • 290 comments

And they've got Rick Moranis!

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments