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There’s a movement to draft Barron Trump, but I think a campaign such as this would be more effective if it impacted someone Donald Trump knew personally.

And BOOM goes the dynamite. To all the AI Bros who have slid into my mentions to tell me that you CAN in fact copyright AI materials, the Supreme Court has told you to go suck rocks. A prompt is not authorship. And if there is no author, there is no valid copyright. www.engadget.com/ai/the-supre...

To reconsider a fundamental of American history, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was not an act of war, but merely a strategic strike. It needs to no longer live in infamy, perhaps.

Had you ever told me I'd be sitting in the White House basement writing a professional email with the subject "Comment on POTUS's rash" I ... well I'm not sure how I would have reacted.

It would be insane to not have some kind of joke about what happened but jokes about disabled people are so often just plain hacky, variations on “That’s weird!” “That’s annoying!” or in this case “Cut it out (or else???)!” It’s not as cruel as it is lazy writing

ah, Rubio with literally the German rational for started WW1 - we must attack first because they will attack us if we attack them.

Worth a re-up 11 days later. And I honestly wish it wasn't.

💔 Get well soon, King.

Oops! All Tonys! The table is round, but our focus is squarely on the issues. This CBB roundtable features a triumvirate of Tonys— as Alimony Tony, Tony Sony and Room Tone Tony debate the most important topics of the day.

A casserole. They invented a casserole. TACTICAL ALPHA BOY KIBBLE

The unspoken third phrase in "Bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus ..." is "...and all the Jews die" but they skirt over that bit of the mythology.

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Wagner Moura reflects on hearing how his previous work inspired fellow Oscar nominees 🏆 🇧🇷  Watch his full filmography breakdown, including his early Brazilian films (like Lower City, Basic Sanitation, Ó, Pai, Ó and Elite Squad): boxd.it/fgI

I KNEW IT!

happy birthday daniel craig 😎

One of the biggest problems with modern media is the way they uncritically repeat the bullshit these liars say to them in their sales pitches. Stop being PR agents for assholes.

Child gets furious every time Lucy calls Charlie Brown a blockhead because his head is round. This is viewing number 50 of The Peanuts Movie.

I will never understand how anybody could look at a photograph of a beautiful creature and think that it needed to be improved

It’s the Beetlejuice rash!

“I am Spartacus!” “I am Spartacus!” “I am Spartacus!” “I am Chuck Schumer.”

These are troubled times, but never forget your God-given, inalienable right to never give one single shit about anything John Bolton might have to say.

There is absolutely nothing "controversial" about Tilly Norwood. She's just a terrible idea. Who wants to pay an agency to rent their digital asset when they can literally make their own...in an industry abjectly against exactly this sort of thing? There may be AI CHARACTERS but never AI celebrities

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Dating is like riding a bike

love when I'm in the military and my boss is, like, "Time for Armageddon!!!!"

Watch the #ScaryMovie trailer now. The sixth installment of the comedy franchise spoofs Scream, Terrifier 3, Halloween, Sinners, Smile, Weapons, Longlegs, The Substance and more. In theaters June 12.

People like to frame creatives as being anti-AI because of a Talent vs No Talent argument of superiority. My position is based on how humans treat scarcity. PEOPLE DO NOT PAY FOR WHAT THEY CAN EFFORTLESSLY MAKE THEMSELVES If I can make something for free with little effort, why pay you to make it?

I just want a world in which I can say wow these dill-flavored Triscuits hit the spot without feeling like I'm stealing time from absolutely necessary screaming from absolutely everyone including me

Lot of scumbag Dems announcing they need to be aggressively primaried atm.

But in my opinion not nearly as funny as Duck Soup.

This is bad for Republicans. Trump wasn’t supposed to molt into his final form until after the midterms.

Tell you what, if Michael B. Jordan wins the Oscar, that would be a great thing. I loved Ethan Hawke’s performance in BLUE MOON. Loved it. But it’s a race now, and either one of them winning is an absolute good.

Book recommendation, a wonderful and informative doorstop covering American film to 1907, a topic usually taken care of by a single chapter or even a paragraph in many general histories of film

happy 36th birthday to one of the best thrillers ever made

I realize life or death betting is evil but my stomach also twisted up hearing about betting on youth sports. It’s only a matter of time before someone hurts a little leaguer for not throwing a game

"A regular meal, however expensive, can always be written off as satisfying your most basic need to eat. But you cannot argue that a 15-course dinner, each course paraded out over three hours like show dogs, is about fulfilling a biological need for hunger. This is pure, vulgar indulgence."

There will absolutely be generic AI models to plug into things, but they will: A) not be celebrities and B) Be an immediate sign that you took shortcuts to savvy viewers, making them seem cheap and undesirable. Anyone who has played with music software and knows Stock Loops has seen this happen.

Bruce Campbell is a Good Egg, and this news absolutely sucks. I hope for a miracle and good news for him and his family.

These awards should come directly from a police department's budget.

Douglas came home from doggy daycare looking SMUG. They put him in with the littles (he's 37 lbs) and is the biggest one by far, so I suspect he is organizing a gang of socialist minions for some kind of uprising. (Pictured in his salad days)

Strong Caligula vibes from this administration

Big week in the McWeeny house. My dad is 86 today. My youngest son is 18 on Wednesday. Time is a river and I am drowning in it.

“hey guys— DID YOU KNOW that cinematographers design and shoot all-CG shots?”

damn rest in peace Bob Power

“If you prick us, do we not bleed?”

When it’s both your circus and your monkey

[Palpatine voice]: "Yesssssss."

"I love my country, but I have to remember that my ancestors were enslaved, my forefathers were considered three-fifths a person, that in the 1970s I could not get a credit card without the signature of either my father or a husband." Rousing stuff from Chaz Ebert! www.rogerebert.com/women-writer...

Anna Camp is constantly getting involved in mess, and if I told you, "There's a famous white, blonde woman named Anna Camp," you might reasonably conclude, "Does she keep getting involved in mess?" so it all checks out.

5 year olds today: i have every piece of media i could ever want to consume, on demand at all times, designed specifically for my likes and interests 5 year old me: i guess i have to listen to the crash test dummies

Sometimes Silverman can't be saved. Martin Scorsese moves past Dennis Dugan to go on to the next round:

And it will be called Mount Max

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I'm trapped and under attack on the moon - while back home in Paris my daughters are furious, the labradoodles are sick and, worst of all, I left my Mounjaro pen in the fridge

a very reasonable question i have about bridgerton is, what about ireland? did the england of bridgerton decline to do an imperialism in india or the caribbean but then still try to conquer ireland? and if it's a non-imperial england then ... how is there a united states

Today’s lesson was reflection and this is another painting that didn’t go to plan but I had fun. Big drip on the sky? Hot air balloon! 😃

Siri, what is a meritocracy

Today in Blank Check March Madness, you can either hang out with Craig and Smokey on a Friday, or Jules et Jim on a Vendredi. It's F. GARY GRAY (3) vs FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT (6). Vote here: www.blankcheckpod.com/march-madness

This is some greasy funky southern rock and I am extremely here for it, meet you behind the bleachers for a smoke after seventh period, wear your high-waisted jeans, it's 1974 youtu.be/QKHGmFvzjJ4?...

Or a baby that just threw a bottle on the floor

So we’re just supposed to try to go about our lives today.

The toddler has taken to observing, nearly daily, that I am "the big one" and Dad is "the short one." Like he's not WRONG but also it's very funny.

I have an interview with the director of The Ugly Stepsister as well as the hair, makeup and VFX folks that fell through at an outlet. Interview is completed, just need somewhere to run it. If anyone has connects at horror outlets, hit me up, would love to place it!

Won’t lie, going to Austin next month and I’m nervous about it, with everything going on. But these past few months have been personally terrible. I’m lonely and need to reconnect with friends. It’s my 30th wedding anniversary. We’re coming, and we’re going to have fun.

How do these idiots still continue to completely miss the first order FLAMING FIERY moral issues in “no war” that are before and beyond the dispassionate points about money spent? (And for the fucking record, I’m not saying the money’s not an issue, ok.)

I realize that “you’re worrying about this now, now of all times?” is pot-kettle from a silent film account but some of the discourses today have big Titanic deck chair reorganization energy

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Is everything and everyone imploding

This fucking butt plug with feet... I loathe him.

Hey, I made a playlist of my favorite songs of February 2026. tinyurl.com/yz44z2kp

at this point people who don’t see this as a grift deserve everything they get

FDR when he meets a distant female cousin

Oh come ON. If that's "preventative" what the hell is "severe skin condition" supposed to look like? Also, GTFO with calling that spot "reddish" in the article, try "fiery oozing mess"

After #SCOTUS allows massive redistricting in TX & CA, it intervenes in NY case. www.npr.org/2026/03/02/g...

Yeah I’m writing to @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov today to tell him I agree he should definitely investigate this deal before it’s allowed to go through.

Badge of honor. At his age, income & melanin index, you want to get those numbers up.

One of Pete Hegseth's (many) major problems is that he's to much of a dolt to effectively project the mania to which he aspires

OK maybe this is me just grabbing an electric fence but...why people mad at Jamelle Bouie?

both great, but truly, do not miss the chance to see Wallace Shawn do The Fever Sun/Mon nights. As he observed, “This is the first time I’ve done this in the middle of a big war.” Also a delight to see him walk through an Off-Broadway audience and be treated, quite appropriately, like the pope.

Man on MSNOW with big “pinto bean” poster making me realize why not to have words in frame with you. I’m just reading pinto beans pinto beans pinto beans…

We still carry soap with a prize inside!

Run your eyes over this marvel; a palindrome of two-letter pieces. See “ad” at the front and at the back, etc. Doesn’t it make you want try it?! I marvel at these.

Pumped to announce this new blu from Kino Lorber of my favourite Oliver Stone film, the deeply underrated TALK RADIO. A shocking film more relevant today than ever, Eric Bogosian should have swept awards season. Shared audio commentary duties with @joshnelsonfilm.bsky.social, its one of our best ❤️

My other passing thought for the evening, for about five of my followers: you know, the "Understanding the Times" curriculum that I went through (twice!) as a homeschool teen turned out to be, in fact, useful for understanding the times, just not really in the manner that I think they meant it to be

In case you missed yesterday’s review, I covered wanton kilt flicking projected across New York City

I honestly think I might enjoy an F. Gary Gray series more (slightly more of a wild variance in film quality, with HIGH highs and LOW lows), but a Truffaut one would be fantastic as well, and he's the lower seed, so... I voted Truffaut!

Just in case you forgot, Trump ALSO left a bunch of Americans stranded in airports with no information in Mexico after he took out a cartel leader like last week! Because these are the kings of Not Thinking This Through.

Got mine. The reaction wasn’t fun but I know what Scott’s talking about; I’ve had friends who had it and it’s seriously painful. Get your shots.

“We’re not dumb about it!” Hegseth is going full Fredo here

I was idly minding my own business the other day and suddenly remembered the existence of this particular adaptation of LEFT BEHIND and wondered, whatever possessed people to make it? And think it would be a hit? in 2014? Like what happened there? www.rottentomatoes.com/m/left_behin...

When did "the request" become "the ask"? I've never understood why it's become the norm. Instead of I'll make the request," " I'll make the ask," or "I'll put in the ask." It sounds...odd to me? Grammarians, what's the story here?

I wrote about DTF St Louis, in which David Harbour plays a guy who wants to cheat on his wife but can't.

Happy to share that I did my first "video conversation" in the special features for this new @cine-matographe.bsky.social release! Like a real expert or something!

And away we go! Chicago Critics Film Festival is coming soon.

“Enemy of people use big words. Try to confuse Tiger Pete. Tiger Pete will not be fooled, enemy of people will face midnight hammer!”

Live right now! the morning show with Open Mike Eagle: post tour coffee | yachty vs old school | mc paul barman x Kenny Segal LP | Dogsweat Day twitch.tv/open_mike_ea...

In test case over whether marijuana users can legally possess guns, #SCOTUS J. Gorsuch reminds that founding fathers Adams & Jefferson drank way more than was good for them. www.npr.org/2026/03/02/n...

"The real transformation comes from the folks who show up."

Why check out an actual action movie when you can watch an immobile Chris Pratt Google and make FaceTime calls for 90 minutes?

I wrote about the BAFTAs, August Wilson, and the NY Times podcast on Toni Morrison