Marion Teniade Johnson
@marionteniade.bsky.social
It’s me! I’m the pop culture critic in question!
we’ve add a new thing at GOOD MOVIE and i’m very excited about it
we commission a pop culture critic to write an essay about one specific character from one specific movie
it’s called Character Study
first up: Jules from My Best Friend’s Wedding goodmovie.substack.com/p/character-...
we commission a pop culture critic to write an essay about one specific character from one specific movie
it’s called Character Study
first up: Jules from My Best Friend’s Wedding goodmovie.substack.com/p/character-...
Character Study: Jules from My Best Friend’s Wedding
Julia Roberts is not like the other girls
goodmovie.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
It’s me! I’m the pop culture critic in question!
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this was written by @marionteniade.bsky.social
she did a really great job
the essay is sharp and funny and insightful
go read it
she did a really great job
the essay is sharp and funny and insightful
go read it
we’ve add a new thing at GOOD MOVIE and i’m very excited about it
we commission a pop culture critic to write an essay about one specific character from one specific movie
it’s called Character Study
first up: Jules from My Best Friend’s Wedding goodmovie.substack.com/p/character-...
we commission a pop culture critic to write an essay about one specific character from one specific movie
it’s called Character Study
first up: Jules from My Best Friend’s Wedding goodmovie.substack.com/p/character-...
Character Study: Jules from My Best Friend’s Wedding
Julia Roberts is not like the other girls
goodmovie.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
this was written by @marionteniade.bsky.social
she did a really great job
the essay is sharp and funny and insightful
go read it
she did a really great job
the essay is sharp and funny and insightful
go read it
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“We operate in a society that demands that we empathize with the people who have and harm the most.”
Terrific read from @marionteniade.bsky.social.
Terrific read from @marionteniade.bsky.social.
On empathy
Who demands it, who denies it, who deserves it.
open.substack.com
September 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
“We operate in a society that demands that we empathize with the people who have and harm the most.”
Terrific read from @marionteniade.bsky.social.
Terrific read from @marionteniade.bsky.social.
This is surreal because my answer to this question is literally Shea Serrano
the first one was chuck klosterman — my all time favorite author
the most recent one is this writer named marion teniade — a pop culture critic i happened across a couple months ago — incredibly sharp — she’s gonna have a big career
the most recent one is this writer named marion teniade — a pop culture critic i happened across a couple months ago — incredibly sharp — she’s gonna have a big career
Who’s the writer who when you read them makes you say out loud, “Fuck yeah. This rules.”
September 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This is surreal because my answer to this question is literally Shea Serrano
The Alien franchise had maintained one ongoing narrative for nearly 50 years: how a megacorporation keeps feeding its workers, soldiers, and prisoners into a grisly machine to keep the gears of colonization and capitalism moving. It’s ruthless…and oddly comforting.
The undying relevance of the Alien franchise
A funhouse mirror version of our world.
open.substack.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The Alien franchise had maintained one ongoing narrative for nearly 50 years: how a megacorporation keeps feeding its workers, soldiers, and prisoners into a grisly machine to keep the gears of colonization and capitalism moving. It’s ruthless…and oddly comforting.
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Grateful to @marionteniade.bsky.social for this. This is the future of art under capitalism: movie-length ads for tech corporations.
The war of the worlds is over. The oligarchs won.
A red-pilled War of the Worlds.
marionteniade.substack.com
August 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Grateful to @marionteniade.bsky.social for this. This is the future of art under capitalism: movie-length ads for tech corporations.
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Also there's no need to obscure US history of barbarism. Some folks always want to reach for Holocaust comparisons like there's not a guard tower from Angola in the Blacksonian, like camps used to hold Japanese Americans were a picnic.
They gave detainees wormy food. The facilities were filthy.
They gave detainees wormy food. The facilities were filthy.
People want to substitute "Auschwitz" for "Alcatraz" to emphasize how bad this is. But this crisis in Florida is far from the universe of Auschwitz, where more than a million were murdered. Instead of equating them, I'd say we should act now to stop the future from getting any closer to the past.
July 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Also there's no need to obscure US history of barbarism. Some folks always want to reach for Holocaust comparisons like there's not a guard tower from Angola in the Blacksonian, like camps used to hold Japanese Americans were a picnic.
They gave detainees wormy food. The facilities were filthy.
They gave detainees wormy food. The facilities were filthy.
Raising my sweet girl Sesame to be a podcast bro, I fear @ifbookspod.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social @michaelhobbes.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Raising my sweet girl Sesame to be a podcast bro, I fear @ifbookspod.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social @michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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Breaking News: Southern Baptists voted to call for the reversal of the Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage, spurred by the end of Roe v. Wade. https://trib.al/BtObJR8
Southern Baptists Adopt Effort to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage
The nation’s largest Protestant denomination was motivated by conservative Christians’ success in reversing Roe v. Wade.
trib.al
June 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Breaking News: Southern Baptists voted to call for the reversal of the Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage, spurred by the end of Roe v. Wade. https://trib.al/BtObJR8
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About 5 million borrowers are at risk of having their Social Security checks and tax refunds taken as well as their wages garnished over defaulting on student loans.
How Congress Quietly Made It Nearly Impossible for Borrowers to Escape Their Student Loans
The story begins in the 1970s.
www.teenvogue.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
About 5 million borrowers are at risk of having their Social Security checks and tax refunds taken as well as their wages garnished over defaulting on student loans.
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"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...
Go, Elon, and Never Darken Our Doors Again
The worst ultra-billionaire on Earth says he’s leaving government. Let’s hope he actually does it.
prospect.org
May 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...
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Tapper soft launching the flip
May 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Tapper soft launching the flip
I love this rebrand honestly. “Babes, I’m not unreliable, I’m mercurial 😏”
May 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I love this rebrand honestly. “Babes, I’m not unreliable, I’m mercurial 😏”
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Donald Trump has long-espoused eugenicist and ableist beliefs.
For @motherjones.com, I put together a timeline of some of these greatest (or worst) hits, which shows a pattern, starting back in the 1980s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
For @motherjones.com, I put together a timeline of some of these greatest (or worst) hits, which shows a pattern, starting back in the 1980s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Donald Trump's decades-long obsession with eugenics
A timeline of the president's thoughts on "good genes," IQ, and which disabled people should "just die."
www.motherjones.com
May 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Donald Trump has long-espoused eugenicist and ableist beliefs.
For @motherjones.com, I put together a timeline of some of these greatest (or worst) hits, which shows a pattern, starting back in the 1980s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
For @motherjones.com, I put together a timeline of some of these greatest (or worst) hits, which shows a pattern, starting back in the 1980s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The Trump administration is engaging on an all-out assault on the institutions, workers and standards that make learning and knowledge production possible, in the hopes of securing political dominance forever. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
May 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The Trump administration is engaging on an all-out assault on the institutions, workers and standards that make learning and knowledge production possible, in the hopes of securing political dominance forever. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
If the Mission: Impossible movies have been successful at one thing, it’s rehabbing Tom Cruise’s public persona.
(If they’ve been successful at two things, it’s that and convincing me that Tramell Tillman needs his own submarine movie.)
(If they’ve been successful at two things, it’s that and convincing me that Tramell Tillman needs his own submarine movie.)
Tom Cruise thinks that he's Tom Cruise
Reckoning with how Ethan Hunt saved his creator.
open.substack.com
May 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM
If the Mission: Impossible movies have been successful at one thing, it’s rehabbing Tom Cruise’s public persona.
(If they’ve been successful at two things, it’s that and convincing me that Tramell Tillman needs his own submarine movie.)
(If they’ve been successful at two things, it’s that and convincing me that Tramell Tillman needs his own submarine movie.)
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FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value.
There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.
There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.
May 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value.
There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.
There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.
Dems trying to make a Joe Rogan of the Left :: DC trying to make an Avengers.
I wrote a bit about the misguided effort by Democrats to replicate Joe Rogan the right-wing podcast ecosystem.
May 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Dems trying to make a Joe Rogan of the Left :: DC trying to make an Avengers.
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very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students
after announcing that foreign students are being banned from Havard, Noem warns "this should be a warning to every other university to get your act together."
May 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students
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i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet
May 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet
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Trump’s racist trolling of South Africa’s president today is perhaps the most racist WH moment since Woodrow Wilson screened Birth of a Nation there in 1915.
i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet
May 22, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Trump’s racist trolling of South Africa’s president today is perhaps the most racist WH moment since Woodrow Wilson screened Birth of a Nation there in 1915.
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Under its new leadership — who spread misinformation throughout the pandemic — the FDA announced it will limit all Covid vaccines to adults over 65 and those with certain medical conditions.
Covid continues to spread and cause harm. This an anti-science move that will kill more Americans.
Covid continues to spread and cause harm. This an anti-science move that will kill more Americans.
May 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Under its new leadership — who spread misinformation throughout the pandemic — the FDA announced it will limit all Covid vaccines to adults over 65 and those with certain medical conditions.
Covid continues to spread and cause harm. This an anti-science move that will kill more Americans.
Covid continues to spread and cause harm. This an anti-science move that will kill more Americans.
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the moral and creative vacuousness of having AI generate this stuff is less surprising to me than the prevalence of people who use AI constantly without the slightest understanding of its limitations
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
the moral and creative vacuousness of having AI generate this stuff is less surprising to me than the prevalence of people who use AI constantly without the slightest understanding of its limitations
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There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university.
University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
A must read
May 18, 2025 at 9:20 AM
There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university.
University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
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US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has quietly rescinded several internal policies that were designed to protect some of the most vulnerable people in its custody—including pregnant women, infants, the elderly, and people with serious medical conditions.
US Customs and Border Protection Quietly Revokes Protections for Pregnant Women and Infants
CBP’s acting commissioner has rescinded four Biden-era policies that aimed to protect vulnerable people in the agency’s custody, including mothers, infants, and the elderly.
wrd.cm
May 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has quietly rescinded several internal policies that were designed to protect some of the most vulnerable people in its custody—including pregnant women, infants, the elderly, and people with serious medical conditions.