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Todd Phillips, of all people, was right about this. Unless you are a Warner Bros Discovery shareholder, whether or not Mickey 17 or Joker 2 or anything else recoups its budget is not relevant to you!

submitted 9 hours ago • 14 comments

Gene Kelly, the Muppets, and that song...beautiful and bittersweet and something for your Monday. youtu.be/2h4AKSWFxcU?...

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Oh damn :(

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

wait, you’re telling me that by objecting to unanimous consent, a single senator can grind the body to a halt?

submitted 2 days ago • 80 comments

This just isn't true. The harangue young men for not being man enough. Hustle culture, grindset, etc. -- they're all ways of scolding men into "success." But the Right tells men they are superior to women. That's the attraction. To pretend otherwise is to ignore reality.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Good to know the Post is just straight up promoting Trump's nonsensical and dangerous version of events. At this point, there is no longer any value in overlooking Bezos' influence, if this is the kind of "news" they're publishing.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is absolutely, undeniably correct. The US has a system that more or less requires the formation of two political parties and the post VRA sorting has one of them strictly dedicated to the political commitments of the Southern planter aristocracy, incompatible with plural democracy.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

With nothing but respect but Marc's work on voting rights, my ultimate loyalty is to democracy and justice, not the Democratic Party. Republicans deserve ample criticism for breaking the law. Democrats also deserve criticism for failing to fight that lawbreaking effectively.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

“The European Union alone has a GDP about 10 times that of Russia, and if you add the U.K. and Norway to that calculation, the imbalance in favor of Ukraine grows even larger.” Good piece on why Russia is in dire straits and everyone should get behind Ukraine.

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

i think a lot of brands are going to severely underestimate people's willingness to never engage with them again

submitted 2 days ago • 100 comments

All the pundits spending time on Dems’ message on trans sports could maybe use a little of their power and platform to talk about how vile this is.

submitted 3 days ago • 396 comments

I strongly suggest not sharing screenshotted garbage posts, even to dunk on them, unless you have fact-checked them. If somebody posts “there shouldn’t be a 50 percent tax on goats and there is!” don’t just QT it to shit-talk buying goats. SEE IF THERE’S SUCH A TAX FIRST.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

if you capitulate on trans kids playing sports with their friends the right will keep moving further until they are calling for “eradication” and you are telling me you are willing to join their calls if they move public opinion enough

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

Very peaceful vibes coming from Russia

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It very much seems that the only groups of people who are not treating Trump like the massive threat to... well, everything...are the mainstream news media and the leadership of the Democratic party. I do not think that is a coincidence.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

On a daily basis, Russia has a very strange way of showing it wants peace.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Yes.

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments

Not only should every member of House Democratic leadership be primaried by someone who understands the stakes of our era and acts accordingly, children's books should be written with them as examples of cowardice and ineptitude.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Newsom thinks this was a smart move, and I bet he doesn't even realise how Kirk and crew view him (correctly) as a mark to spread their propaganda.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

This is very important context for the question of same sex marriage. That said, we cannot take it as a given that the Trumpist turn against trans people will stop there. We're all in this fight together.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I was just thinking about this. Can we all go back to doing this it's part of what made this place so great and I'd even say it's more important to do now with the increased amount of trolls and bots

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

This is the most damaging step the U.S. could take towards Ukraine, according to many mil experts

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I don't think there's precedent for this level of open corruption at the federal level, certainly not in the last 100+ years.

submitted 6 days ago • 174 comments

“What he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that'll make it easier to annex us." This is the most extraordinary statement by a Canadian prime minister in the history of this country. The Trump administration is at war with Canada.

submitted 6 days ago • 28 comments

contrast with baker and madison both talking about sex workers in their speeches for anora

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

If I'd been Michael Grade in 1985, I probably would have tried to cancel the show, as well.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Nathan is brave, and entirely correct. This is definitely something we have experienced time and again on The Writers' Room.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I am sure the BBC is not the only international news agency struggling to report on Trump's government by EO, but they definitely need to do a better job than this. An Executive Order declaring something to be law does not make it law. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe...just maybe...creating a culture that encourages girls to be smart and values their hard work in school (especially high school) but consistently mocks smart boys as "gay" losers and mostly values their athletic prowess is having entirely foreseen results.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Cited by a listener as "modeling how to respectfully disagree," it's a new episode of So Much Stuff to Sing, my musicals podcast! In particular, it's a discussion of "The Song of Purple Summer" from Spring Awakening! #musicals #podcasts somuchstufftosing.libsyn.com/episode-113-...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I keep hearing that Zelenskyy shouldn’t have taken the bait. Maybe. But it’s a three year full scale war. Ukrainians are tired, not to mention defiant.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

It's not the craven sycophancy that gets me -- it's the utter vacuousness.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

seeing a lot of too-cool-for-it takes pointing out that the US has backed awful dictators before. it's certainly true that this country has blood on its hands, but this is another example of pundits treating trump like a literary foil instead of an actual president who is doing bad things.

submitted 10 days ago • 28 comments

We have thousands of years of evidence about what happens when people try to live the Christian ideal of humility and forgiveness in the face of others who are decidedly not doing so, regardless of any faith they may profess. It isn't pretty. Maybe that's not the paradigm the Left needs right now.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Well, I don't know that I had "The Post goes full openly Libertarian" on my 2025 Bingo card.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

One thing you learn as your parents get older is that if you’re really lucky, they will live long enough to need a lot of help. Yes, occasionally you get the fantasy of people living peacefully and unchanged until they’re 100 and then dying in their sleep, but it doesn’t usually go that way.

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

Getting texts from U.S. friends saying that 20% support for the far-right in Germany is scary. However, that’s substantially lower than the 49.8% which elected a far-right presidential candidate in the U.S…

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

submitted 17 days ago • 76 comments

it’s comforting to imagine that nothing could’ve been done to prevent our current disaster, or at least that nobody could’ve known. but the truth is, since jan 7th, 2021, many people have been loudly yelling that we could end up right where we are now if the people in power didn’t change course

submitted 17 days ago • 19 comments

NYC has been at its greatest when transit has been its lifeblood. It's not Tuscon. But these people have probably never actually been to NYC or any other city with mass transit.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments