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It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

They gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue. The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point. They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.

Real talk. If your ass is still on board with the walkin' circus peanut you lost your damn mind.

The great thing about the Trump endorsement is that even before his terms as president and all the misery attached for blue-state America, there was no more disliked celebrity in New York. Donald Trump was known to New Yorkers as a constant chisler and self-aggrandizing vulgarian. Mazel tov, Andy.

[smiles coyly] "Do go on."

I've even seen Wallace Shawn in Rifkin's Festival for crying out loud, but canvassing for a better world is way the fuck more important than pop culture literacy. @HOUSEOFDEVI rules.

So it’s Godzilla Day? GODZILLA MINUS ONE isn’t just a great Godzilla movie, it’s one of the best movies of the decade. Flat out. Movies can really be that good.

...has endorsed Andrew Cuomo.

In times like these it is important for writers to remember to: Look after your neighbors. Care about strangers. And write angry.

Who I’m voting for NYC Mayor

Been thinking about Joyce

A good way to weed out the jerks in the Deadhead world is asking what they think of Donna Jean. I absolutely love her. An integral part of the all-time best Dead era. RIP. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Diane Ladd (1935-2025) 🤍

I am in no way anti-Christmas or anti-fun, but it is still decorative gourd season and by God we will savor every delicious second of that while we can. We can't let them take our decorative gourds away before they have served their grateful nation.

There are still 37 working days left in 2025 - 58 days total. There's still plenty of time to hit that writing goal & finish that script or book. 3 pages a day - just 750 words a weekday - and you can write a complete script. 4 pages a day - 1000 wds a day - and you can write a novel. You got this.

Mark Hamill is enough of a resistance lib that we could probably get him to read this in the Joker voice if we really tried.

Tomorrow, here in Minneapolis, and back in my hometown New York City, there are candidates on the ballots that voters are really excited about, despite the best efforts of Democratic Party leadership.

The delightful thing about social media is that BOTH the gun nerds AND the TTRPG nerds are in the comments.

This is a big fucking deal…

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

We could not have done this without you. Much love to everyone who has gone out to see our creepy little slice of 1982. www.fangoria.com/black-phone-...

My neighbor is putting up their Christmas decorations. I'm calling the fucking cops.

Much love to every one of you who went out to see BLACK PHONE 2 this weekend, making us once again the number one movie in America! You guys fucking rule.

"The capitalist juggernaut that is devouring what is left of our industry seems to be running out of things to cannibalize, and must manufacture more scarcity in its quest to sate its horrifying bloodlust."

ugh im going to start a newsletter fuck fuck fuck

First look at Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige and Keke Palmer in Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters 💛 The film, also starring Poppy Liu, Eliza Gonzalez, LaKeith Stanfield, Will Poulter and Demi Moore will be released in theaters on May 22, 2026.

Q the Winged Serpent has just endorsed Andrew Cuomo.

how I will choose to remember the Blue Jays 2025 season and postseason:

Yes please, someone release this film!!!!

One yoga matt in the fourth largest airport in America

There is an entire generation of us who grew up only knowing Martha Raye as the spokeswoman for denture cleaner, Polident, completely unaware of her lifetime of comedy hits.

Just a tiny hint about social media usage: I am here to be social and I do not define social as “replying with a definition that ChatGPT spit out” If I wanted ChatGPT, I would be on ChatGPT. Why do these people think they have access to some kind of rare resource?

Thom the Turkey has successfully been deployed. Let us hope the War of Holidays Aggression doesn’t have to escalate any further.

Not quite the same thing, but as a kid, I saw the Disney Channel Little Mermaid "making of" a zillion times. It was SO excited that Buddy Hackett, whom I'd never heard of, was playing Scuttle, so when trying to convince my (extremely Christian) parents to go see it, I said, "THEY GOT BUDDY HACKETT!"

Heeey this is my 777th silent film review!

I spent the weekend offline, so I'm late to the Ozymandias poetry-spoof craze (if you missed it you must be following the wrong people!). Anyway I couldn't stop thinking about it, so here's my contribution.

The big lesson I've learned in reading long lists of Kids' Choice Awards winners is that you get a real sense of how the permissiveness of American parenting has shifted across the last nearly 40 years. In this essay I will

Pantsuit Girlboss

My new piece, up @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Sexiest Man Alive? We want Sexiest Man Dead! Reply with images of late, lamented, beautiful men. I will kick things off with perennial top choices Paul Newman and Toshiro Mifune

You know you've lived life right when your mother texts you at 2PM asking if you're up yet.

Trying to force someone to do what you tell them by threatening them with unspecified punishments by the most powerful man in the world is extortion.

Dying laughing at this montage of Joe Rogan’s advanced stage brainrot from his love for AI and the excruciating clips of forcing his guests to listen to entire AI made songs from start to finish while he jams out like a spoiled ham loaf jiggling in a deli slicer youtu.be/DUIo20nsBEQ?...

It's time to pick which generational cohort of kids had the best taste.

Halloween decorations have a shelf life of exactly one day. October 31st: fun and spooky. November 1st: Get that shit OUT. We’ve moved on. The season is OVER. Pack it up.

NYTimes: "Progressives will probably win a lot of elections tomorrow. Here's why that's bad for progressives."

Fango is saddened to hear of the passing of beloved actress Diane Ladd. Known to genre fans for her roles in WILD AT HEART, SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, and CARNOSAUR, among many others. We send our deepest condolences to her loved ones.

Zohran Mamdani working to peel off a few more "Curtis Sliwa Cat Lady" votes 😭

Cuomo's last-ditch message to voters:

For a long time, I thought Fred MacMurray was a lovable sitcom star in the vein of Dick York or William Frawley. In college, I saw him play cruel, cynical, exploitative, sexually insatiable men in Double Indemnity and The Apartment (released the same year My Three Sons premiered!). Mind blown.

Got it but what are the downsides

#JonStewart is staying put on #TheDailyShow and has renewed his deal to continue hosting one episode per week through December 2026. variety.com/2025/legit/n...

Kyle Gallner is writing and starring in MAN VS., with Radio Silence co-founder Justin Martinez (V/H/S/Beyond) directing the survival creature feature:

mostly the last few days have made me think about how messed up it is for NYC to have had so many mayors who never once showed up at the gay bar at 1am

So, then, no, the Teen Vogue they're absorbing into the Vogue.com site is not going to be the same Teen Vogue that has been doing such strong consistent political work. Cool, cool, cool.

I've been a film critic for 22 years, and this is the first tax year I made minimum wage (my highest annual income yet). I can afford to do it solely because my partner's income gives me that luxury - no other reason. I feel top of my game in some ways, but realistically this is just not a real job

Trump take Thanksgiving

Oh hell yes. Grilled pork steaks and roasted root vegetables to celebrate the beginning of Texas Autumn. Hell of a meal.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmgx...

@danielsloss.bsky.social is on the Downside podcast, out soon!

Continuing my watercolor book learning with more space stuff

New York, you have a chance to do the coolest thing tomorrow. Excited to watch it happen.

TCM already had a Diane Ladd double-feature scheduled for later this month, for what would've been her 90th birthday. Keep an eye out for it, on November 30. They're showing ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE and RAMBLING ROSE, both must-sees.

The real question is how she found the address of his home pit.

I’ve noticed three of my evil apps have asked for new rights to my data today and furthermore are not working lol

Why is he made up like he's going to play Detective Vargas in a remake of Touch of Evil

Derp

Really sad about this news. Todd has dealt with so much already, this just seems stupidly cruel. Sending best wishes to an American treasure. Also: If you assault Todd Snider, that's a "go straight to hell" ticket right there.

From under the radar gems to coming of age classics, here’s what to watch during fall semester, streaming now on Mubi. For a limited time, MUBI is offering 90 days free, exclusively for students. Link to offer details & full film list here: boxd.it/GOGNo

Tickets for The Downside Podcast LIVE! in Brooklyn are now on sale

Very funny that the three winningest movie franchises at the Kids' Choice Awards are The Hunger Games, the MCU, and Alvin and the Chipmunks.

Barry, John Barry. Happy Birthday.

All gods bless Zohran Mamdani

I reserve the right to smack these right the fuck off your face if you're photographing me without my consent.

Normalize deleting your bad takes.

Toho and director Takashi Yamazaki are re-teaming for the next Godzilla movie, with Yamazaki handling the VFX as well as writing & directing the Godzilla Minus One follow-up. The title was revealed by Toho tonight: GODZILLA MINUS ZERO!

buying a ticket for a movie + a Q&A on the opposite side of Los Angeles and knowing I will have to face the harrowing gauntlet of crossing the city during rush hour

"This is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger."

Honestly, any actor who has not read The Method at this point should not be allowed to use the term in interviews.

There are a lot of headline constructions that make me stabby but of them all this is the absolute worst

A nocturnal, sex-filled New York odyssey, early works from an Iranian master, and new series from an underground German lesbian filmmaker and a Japanese New Wave icon are featured in our latest edition of Shelf Life. boxd.it/2Ns

It must have been awkward for Riley to stand so close to someone whose ideology she doesn’t identify with - a winner

Jennifer Lawrence shares the films that she wants to show her children (and the one she doesn’t) 👀 The Die My Love star talks about the cinematic canon of female madness and collaborating with Lynne Ramsay and Robert Pattinson: boxd.it/cSk

🚨 Heads up, friends, the Bend, Oregon show has been moved to November 9th! Tickets from Oct 24th are still good‼️ Thank you for your patience and flexibility! 💛 Get info and tickets at www.towertheatre.org/event/maria-...

Had the depressing thought for the first time today that as AI makes people dumber, there will be less and less daylight between humans and AI, it’s just a race to the slop bottom

I'm no political consultant but as someone who writes about TV/media it's interesting to me how many people want to make his success either about *only* his particular platform or *only* his charisma/facility with media. You can't separate content and form that neatly!

Autumn Joan Blondell with #MondayMood

Watch the "Consider Helen" episode of "Enlightened."

Halloween may be over, but there's still plenty of horror arriving on streaming this month:

If being an aloof wife contributing from behind the scenes is a crime, slap on the zipties

The kid loves the especially meta episodes of Bluey to distraction, so I am raising them RIGHT.

The first look at GEISHA WAR, from filmmaker Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police), is as gory as you'd expect:

[Staring straight ahead] I... have... never... been... happier.... www.thedailybeast.com/jennifer-ani...

Form your own worker-run collective & we'll subscribe. 💙

I just learned that there is a brush shape called an Eradicator and that is 100% what Ferengi call their generals

Always love that Jesus named this character after one of his besties. We've all been there, Mr. Christ!!!

Thrilled for @theflytrapmedia.com!