Top recent posts by NPR Staffers on Bluesky

can you just say there’s a rule?

STOP CALLING THEM RECIPROCAL TARIFFS THEY WERE NEVER RECIPROCAL TIDOSJDJRIAHSOXKFHEIRIFJDBDJ

I’ve had multiple conversations with men my age, self identified liberal and moderate, who talk about the massive crime wave and we eventually get around to the fact that they’re anxious all the time, and if it’s not because of crime, what could it be? it’s not like they’re *irrational*.

it is hard to fully appreciate just how incredibly *dumb* America’s Troubles will be. Our Years of Lead Paint.

I want more movies with Ed Harris in control rooms.

It’s so rude to ask an actor “have you worked on anything I’ve seen?” like you would never say that to a gynecologist

Going to see the new Superman. I hope there's a scene where he sits in a laundromat reading Das Kapital. And also possibly a drag number.

This is such a good move by the most important streaming platform on the internet

If you are a medical professional being targeted for treating transgender minor patients, here is someone who can help.

THIS WEEK ON POKER FACE! Our season finale, a wild ride to “The End Of The Road” written by Laura Deeley and directed by my partner in crime Natasha Lyonne. Lots of love to the brilliant Patti Harrison who is terrific in these last few eps. Thanks for watching folks. All eps now live on Peacock!

James Gunn's Superman is a breath of fresh air in the blockbuster landscape: a kindhearted (!), short (!!), kid-friendly comic-book adventure, with the winningly boyish David Corenswet playing the best Superman since Christopher Reeve. slate.com/culture/2025...

Why platform this? Who gives a shit what Dean Cain thinks about anything? Sometimes actors become so closely identified with a character that it feels like you can't separate them, but sometimes, it's just some asshole who wears a suit for a little while and learns absolutely nothing.

OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD LOOK WHO HAS MOVED IN UNDER MY CREAM SAUSAGE TOMATO PLANT!!!!! KING TOAD!!!!!

Elon is really pressing his Grok

That thing where you realize the hunky contractor in SUPERGIRL (1984) is motherfucking Ellis.

I hate that I'm posting the same sentence every couple of weeks, but: this is extortion

Superhero movies -- all the big blockbuster franchises actually, are made for too much money to be so mid to outright bad. I think we should be harder on them given the resources behind them and the pop cultural oxygen they take up.

"Putting aside the serious privacy concerns, we've also seen what happens when DOGE gets its hands on federal assistance programs," said @wyden.senate.gov. "Letting DOGE staff... call the shots on who gets a financial lifeline is an outright attack on rural America." www.npr.org/2025/07/10/n...

📣 As But I’m a Cheerleader rings in its 25th anniversary, @clairacurtis.bsky.social hosts a Letterboxd pep rally to champion the iconic rom-com’s singular presence within the queer film canon, and how its subversive story remains relevant today. boxd.it/2CE

If you convinced any pro-Palestine voter to sit on their hands or worse, vote for Trump, congrats, you win a Special Purity participation trophy in helping the current full-on abandonment of any two-state solution, peace process or Palestinian national aspiration prevail. Yours is in the mail.

Maybe, bear with me now, just maybe an event centered on moving as much useless junk as possible is less appealing in a time of economic uncertainty. I just took a look. They're offering me a "deal" on a $100 tote bag, a rice cooker that is just now the Costco price, protein shakes in bulk...

Rush working on SIGNALS.

Audiences first saw Charlie Chaplin's Tramp character in KID AUTO RACES AT VENICE. Ostensibly an actuality covering the soapbox derby, the Tramp wanders into the shot and then refuses to leave the limelight. It's a witty sendup of the inevitable gawkers seen in straight films of this type.

The problem with having done so many different things under so many different identities/pseudonyms over the yrs is that many people don't know they've been reading, watching, or listening to me for a quarter of a century now. Yep - this was me on Spill.com back in the day as the "character" Carlyle

Rousing, brilliant thread on the open corruption in the Supreme Court:

For the morning crowd: filmfreakcentral.net/2025/07/supe...

Christopher Reeve as Richard Collier in Somewhere in Time is a masterclass in screen acting. You totally believe that this man falls in love with a photograph of a woman that was taken 62 years earlier, so deeply that he wills himself to travel into the past to be with her.

Gonna start an “alt ITYSL” Bluesky account that occasionally does the cryptic numbers station posts, but they’re always just variations on “55 burgers 55 fries”

Bridget Jones's Diary has now joined the Letterboxd One Million Watched Club 💖

Thank you @humanitasprize.bsky.social for nominating Simran Baidwan and Shantira Jackson for their work on our baby "Clean Slate" and whatnot and so forth. Means the world.

can't stop thinking about this one, starting to feel the itch to write about it. concerned for my mental health.

Casting live-action anime

The Times isn't even pretending anymore

Official poster for Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value starring Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, and Elle Fanning 🎥 The film will be released in select theaters on November 7.

it’s going to be important for the next chunk of time to follow disaster management experts. Keep track of what’s falling apart, develop your own plans. I dug Dr. Morton’s book, she’s a good starting node.

A DOGE staffer recently got high-level access to view and change the contents of a payments system that controls tens of billions of dollars in government payments and loans to farmers and ranchers across the United States, @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social scoops www.npr.org/2025/07/10/n...

Wrote about the entirely predictable, woefully ignorant, and wildly hypocritical SUPERMAN backlash for @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link): bit.ly/4loTNLE

Patio Hall Of Fame Album.

This confirms it: Zohran is a Democrat.

Who’s getting rowdy with us?!

I wouldn’t tell anyone if I won the lottery but there would be signs.

Walked into my bed frame again, can I get a hell yeah.

NEW from me: DOGE keeps gaining access to sensitive data. Now, it can cut off billions to farmers. www.npr.org/2025/07/10/n...

NPR continues to focus on government restructuring and DOGE's access to sensitive data. Sometimes, it happens without much fanfare or notice, even inside the agency. Have a tip for us? Search for my username on Signal (JennaMcLaughlin.54) and send me a message.

Your quarterly poke to get poked. Go online and make your appointment to share your precious bodily fluids! But let the facility do the work. Don’t just show up with a jar of fluids. Learned that lesson the hard way.

I am glad to hear MURDERBOT's getting a season two. It's a terrifically weird show and a great adaptation.

This bobblehead bitch

Today I talk to Dustin Chafin about Texas trailer parks, Mormonism, Nate Bargatze, working clean. Plus, a talk with AEW's Darby Allin about climbing Mount Everest! great stuff! Listen up! wtfpod.com

Gunn's SUPERMAN would actually pair perfectly with EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE.

Going to see SUPERMAN for the 3rd time tonight. Dragging the wife with me. 2nd time more emotional than the first as I suspected it might be. We'll see what charms the 3rd time has in store.

Hello from Zucchini Frog Too, which lives under a different plant than OG Zucchini Frog 🌱

Any other parents on here look at pictures of your kids when they were little and get such powerful nostalgic feelings that it makes you almost dizzy?

I saw access logs revealing that a DOGE staffer can now see/modify entries in an internal system at the Farm Service Agency, the National Payment Service system. It keeps track of billions of dollars in subsidies and loans to farmers and ranchers across the U.S.: www.npr.org/2025/07/10/n...

"The cancellation leaves The Pitt as the only current HBO Max original series."

The old line used to be "Republicans fall in line; Democrats fall in love," but increasingly it feels like "Republicans push people off cliffs; most Democrats still fall in love; centrist Democrats continue to question their compatriots' romantic decisions long after the wedding."

this week proves yet again that the answer to the question “what will make journalists finally quit twitter” is “literally nothing”

I had heard about Mechahitler but not about the bot sexually harassing Linda whatsherpants and I can't imagine having a time machine and explaining this situation to anyone ten years ago. But, sure, people are still on Twitter because it's boring here.

NEW: We've uncovered a new AI tactic being deployed on TikTok: A creator's verbatim words stolen and recited by an AI influencer. Experts told us this kind of trickery has overlap with the methods of state-backed influence operations. W/ @shannonbond.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/07/10/n...

Obscene pen content

I don't like sports, I don't watch sports but if every sporting event was done like this, I would be glued to my screen.

keep getting asked why love island usa is so popular right now and i truly believe the biggest reason is very, very, very simple it's on 5 nights a week. streaming seasons are short now, and they come back roughly every 18 months. and attention spans are short - monday feels like a year ago

one of my better trolls is describing Point Break as “like Heat if it was good”

every needlessly wired device is a long-term bet that the manufacturer will not fuck you over, and the odds are not in your favor

This game is fucking rad. 5E style combat with a deep character creation system. A great first game if you’ve always wanted to dip your toes in. And the art is FANTASTIC. Such a great game system. This sale is a steal!

Outshine Fruit Bars. Not an ad. So refreshing, so tasty, not overly sweet. They are keeping me sane this summer.

Watching Time After Time again at the suggestion of @mzspress.bsky.social. Ingenious story, strong characterizations, and lots of still-valid observations about "contemporary" life, including the systematic degradations of capitalism. Beautiful love story, too. You totally believe in it.

If you read one review of SUPERMAN, make it this one. Not kidding, not fucking around. This is it. Made me cry, @mangiotto.bsky.social.

Tina Romero, the daughter of late horror master George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead), makes her own mark on the zombie genre with QUEENS OF THE DEAD, and it's been acquired for theatrical release this fall:

Dumb guy alert

Pick one from each row:

*Sir Mix-A-Lot voice*

Dorothy Dalton finds out her fiance (future Christ H.B. Warner), rather than being penniless, is, well, THE VAGABOND PRINCE (1916)

The Supersize Me moral panic era took away our deep fried taco salad shells and the three inches of sugar coating original Cinnamon Toast Crunch and left us with this mockery.

Walk or Die. Lionsgate has unleashed a series of character posters today from the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King's THE LONG WALK:

Superman is James Gunn’s answer to the question “what if the real punk rock was being nice to everyone”

A tough NYC ex-cop relentlessly searches for his daughter and her psychotic kidnapper in NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER, available for the first time in 40 years with a new 4K restoration. Watch the brand new trailer now ahead of its theatrical release:

Finally saw the trailer for WICKED PT. DEUX and... do they fuck? Because all is forgiven if they fuck.

MJ Lenderman covering Jason Molina's "Just Be Simple," thank you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAup...

It's official: Art the Clown will terrorize Halloween Horror Nights 2025 guests with a TERRIFIER themed haunted house of his own, featuring no shortage of gnarly kills and grotesque encounters!

One thing that’s useful after a disaster is a thoughtful look at details of safety systems, how they work or don’t, and what might be improved. My NPR colleague Laura Sullivan studies FEMA flood maps for Texas, and hears a case that they need updating:

Here’s something you can do to help out On the Media: go to your podcast app of choice and leave the show a review. It’ll help us reach new listeners 🧡

Recently rewatched A RAISIN IN THE SUN.

I am a carbon steel convert and I will now be proselytizing carbon steel over nonstick intermittently

Bloody battles? Check. Giant monsters? Check. Blood-soaked chain mail bikini? Naturally. Watch the official trailer for the new RED SONJA movie, in theaters August 15 & on Digital August 29.

Ok but here’s the thing about the tariffs on Brazil: the US has a trade *surplus* with them. www.npr.org/2025/07/09/n...

"this misjudgment by abundance liberals is not a one-off mistake, but part of a pattern."

Reorganization of my Rosa Gallery watercolors. This is a Ukrainian brand that has a bit of a Gansai texture. Very affordable, very fun to work with. Their strong point is their greens, their blues and purples are also great. Their ochres are a bit weak, though

Overcast day in Brooklyn makes it hard to get out of bed. Lana Turner and friend understand. (Ok, I confess—this is Lana and co-star Cleo on the set of CASS TIMBERLANE (1947). Even Lana didn't sleep in full makeup, lipstick and false eyelashes. At least I hope not.)

For those unaware (as I was until about an hour ago), Abel Ferrara is publishing a memoir in October. It’s currently 25% to preorder for B&N members too.

Olympic running champion Paavo Nurmi was the darling of 1920s Hollywood, as seen here about to race Douglas Fairbanks with Mary Pickford as their starter. Nurmi’s running films were early hits of the new home movie market.

"Meeting uncomfortable moments on screen with ironic laughter to distance yourself from that discomfort is, frankly, loser behavior. You’re deliberately taking yourself out of the moment you paid $18 to sit in, and I find that so performative."

We have 4 copies of director Susan Seidelman's wonderful memoir, signed by Susan Seidelman herself! mzs.press/SIGNED-Despe...

Nurses on a 7-7 powered by cheap coffee can take ICE these cosplay cowards are so pathetic lol (also you know The Pitt writers are on this)

Sorry that your 8-year-old daughter died in the first quarter but we are mixing things up on defense in the second half

For you to copy/paste into your best ofs trackers for the end of the year👇 Waymo’ Secrets: Jason Mantzoukas, Anna Bezahler Isabella Escalante Stephanie Burchinow May Darmon.

Great thread and the video is … fun? No. But as spiky in the right ways.

SAN DIEGO! Next Tuesday and Wednesday! Two night, two restaurants -- BOTH AWESOME! Get tix now before they sell out at BillOakley dot com

I cannot stress enough how grateful I am to have a partner who is both not at all neurotic (like I am) and is also willing and fully able to be with someone (like me) who often has zero internal chill 😵‍💫