mtsw
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I cut film and tv
i used to be @mtsw on Twitter
i used to be @mtsw on Twitter
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It is important to promise, now, that whatever Trump builds at the White House will be torn down as soon as he leaves.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
If He Builds It, Tear It Down
Pendulums must swing.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
It is important to promise, now, that whatever Trump builds at the White House will be torn down as soon as he leaves.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
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NYC 1976. The last era of department stores.
December 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
NYC 1976. The last era of department stores.
trump kill kid
December 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
trump kill kid
I don't want to divert the main thread too badly so starting a new one. Everyone post your comically shitty and small local Trader Joe's parking lot and argue about why its The Worst In America in the replies.
I know everyone thinks this about the parking lot at whatever Trader Joe's they shop at, but I would like to nominate Bressi Ranch's Trader Joe's as the most comically undersized, badly designed and psychotic TJ's parking lot in America. A real exemplar
December 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I don't want to divert the main thread too badly so starting a new one. Everyone post your comically shitty and small local Trader Joe's parking lot and argue about why its The Worst In America in the replies.
there's a couple of what Nolan's talking about here - new sprawl-oriented neighborhoods but with a walkable-ish retail town center - in North County San Diego: Bressi Ranch and San Elijo Hills. And the result is they are two of the most expensive and desirable neighborhoods in the US
December 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
there's a couple of what Nolan's talking about here - new sprawl-oriented neighborhoods but with a walkable-ish retail town center - in North County San Diego: Bressi Ranch and San Elijo Hills. And the result is they are two of the most expensive and desirable neighborhoods in the US
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since driving discourse is raging on the timeline, i guess it's time to reup this, the greatest op ed the NYT ever ran
LONG ISLAND OPINION; DRINKING AND DRIVING CAN MIX (Published 1984)
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
since driving discourse is raging on the timeline, i guess it's time to reup this, the greatest op ed the NYT ever ran
Ok guys you know what this means: Time to do a day long discourse cycle about whether having Bovino's dad get an ignition interlock after killing a woman drunk driving would've been carceralism or not
Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
December 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Ok guys you know what this means: Time to do a day long discourse cycle about whether having Bovino's dad get an ignition interlock after killing a woman drunk driving would've been carceralism or not
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Bluesky comments are like encountering the patients the neuropsychologist Alexander Luria found in the Soviet Union:
December 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Bluesky comments are like encountering the patients the neuropsychologist Alexander Luria found in the Soviet Union:
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Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
I missed that we recently passed the 10 year anniversary of the greatest piece of writing produced in the Prestige TV Recap Era www.slate.com/blogs/browbe...
What Exactly Is Going On in True Detective Season 2? An Excruciatingly Clear Plot Breakdown.
Why are we here? Detectives Ray Velcoro (Colin Farrell), Ani Bezzerides (Rachel McAdams) and Paul Woodrugh (Taylor Kitsch) have been tasked with discov ...
www.slate.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:11 AM
I missed that we recently passed the 10 year anniversary of the greatest piece of writing produced in the Prestige TV Recap Era www.slate.com/blogs/browbe...
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NEW: The Trump-Vance White House has falsely accused an ally of Pope Leo — Sr. Norma Pimentel — of illegal activity tied to migrant aid, and cut off all federal funding to Catholic Charities in Texas.
Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
Trump-Vance White House Targets Beloved Nun in Texas, Retaliates Against Catholic Charities
Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley — praised by Pope Leo as an “agent of hope” — now faces a six-year federal funding ban. Church leaders say it’s a vendetta by the Trump-Vance White House.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
NEW: The Trump-Vance White House has falsely accused an ally of Pope Leo — Sr. Norma Pimentel — of illegal activity tied to migrant aid, and cut off all federal funding to Catholic Charities in Texas.
Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
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Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
I think about this, also in terms of vaccines, and really struggle with how you have a free society that doesn’t fall into this trap in one way or another. solved problems become invisible and the solutions become the source of conspiracy theories.
This seems logical but Dems solved* the whole problem of old-age health care costs in the mid-1960s and then they lost five of the next six presidential elections because by 1968 it was a solved problem and no one cared about it.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
December 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
This is correct'
December 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
This is correct'
What a point
Nearly a minute long point and the swing that put the ball in the stands + replay
December 13, 2025 at 2:56 AM
What a point
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Would also just like to remind the general public that Olivia Nuzzi was *also* one of the biggest boosters of the “Biden is non compos mentis & the campaign is covering it” narrative, including writing one of the core pieces that kicked it off in the first place.
Nuzzi wrote an article in Sept 2024 glazing Trump as her lover was negotiating for a role in his administration. According not only to Lizza but Nuzzi herself, she was helping RFK with these negotiations!
December 13, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Would also just like to remind the general public that Olivia Nuzzi was *also* one of the biggest boosters of the “Biden is non compos mentis & the campaign is covering it” narrative, including writing one of the core pieces that kicked it off in the first place.
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That same 30% are the unabashed fascists in the country. It's always 30 to 35%. 30% would say to bring back chattel slavery if they were sure the survey was anonymous.
December 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
That same 30% are the unabashed fascists in the country. It's always 30 to 35%. 30% would say to bring back chattel slavery if they were sure the survey was anonymous.
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The 25th anniversary of Bush v Gore is today. The conspiracy mongering & corruption of the GOP has been brewing for a long time.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
Here's Sandra Day O'Connor endorsing News Max levels of voter fraud conspiracies in the 2000 election.
December 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The 25th anniversary of Bush v Gore is today. The conspiracy mongering & corruption of the GOP has been brewing for a long time.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
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This has been on my keychain for 10 years and is probably the best money I ever spent. Frequently used for cracking open cardboard boxes and tightening tripod base plates amzn.to/47jRqoK
November 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This has been on my keychain for 10 years and is probably the best money I ever spent. Frequently used for cracking open cardboard boxes and tightening tripod base plates amzn.to/47jRqoK
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As usual with this magazine, the author concedes throughout that the point he's making is dumb as hell.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
As usual with this magazine, the author concedes throughout that the point he's making is dumb as hell.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia speaks at the ICE Baltimore field office for a scheduled check-in. Abrego was released from custody after a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration lacked legal authority to continue holding him in an immigration detention center.
December 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia speaks at the ICE Baltimore field office for a scheduled check-in. Abrego was released from custody after a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration lacked legal authority to continue holding him in an immigration detention center.
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its so depressing that the allegations against Allen are framed in the press as "the controversial controversy over the impossible to prove who-can-say allegations that Woody Allen is a pedophile" then his actual movies are like THE PEDOPHILE CHRONICLES: A TRUE STORY FROM MY REAL LIFE AS A PEDOPHILE
So I guess there are multiple teens that Mariel Hemingway's character in Manhattan could be based on
May 23, 2024 at 4:40 PM
its so depressing that the allegations against Allen are framed in the press as "the controversial controversy over the impossible to prove who-can-say allegations that Woody Allen is a pedophile" then his actual movies are like THE PEDOPHILE CHRONICLES: A TRUE STORY FROM MY REAL LIFE AS A PEDOPHILE
It's remarkable how perfectly this awful story is similar to The Dreyfuss Affair, from the banishment to a cruel tropical prison to the world's worst and stupidest people refusing to let it go even for decades after he was freed.
This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs
BREAKING: At 7am ET, in response to the emergency overnight filing, Judge Xinis issued a TRO barring the Trump administration from re-detaining Abrego Garcia.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
December 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
It's remarkable how perfectly this awful story is similar to The Dreyfuss Affair, from the banishment to a cruel tropical prison to the world's worst and stupidest people refusing to let it go even for decades after he was freed.
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doom creator id software just became the latest microsoft studio to unionize. though the neutrality agreement that has allowed CWA to organize so many studios recently lapsed, id devs told me that only applies to activision blizzard for now
aftermath.site/id-software-union-doom-microsoft-cwa
aftermath.site/id-software-union-doom-microsoft-cwa
December 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
doom creator id software just became the latest microsoft studio to unionize. though the neutrality agreement that has allowed CWA to organize so many studios recently lapsed, id devs told me that only applies to activision blizzard for now
aftermath.site/id-software-union-doom-microsoft-cwa
aftermath.site/id-software-union-doom-microsoft-cwa
They like Trump and want to help him. They have pre-written "THE COMEBACK KID" narratives ready to break out of he crosses back over 40% approval for a couple polls, not to report a narrative but to try and change it
AP on Trump now, and Biden in June 2022.
For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”
For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”
For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”
For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”
December 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
They like Trump and want to help him. They have pre-written "THE COMEBACK KID" narratives ready to break out of he crosses back over 40% approval for a couple polls, not to report a narrative but to try and change it
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An Astoria mom demands that the city appeal Judge Cheree Buggs's ruling ordering the removal of the 31st bike lane. buff.ly/eQQTp9r
OPINION: I’m Sick Of Unsafe 31st Street And The Judge Who Killed Our Shot at Fixing It - Streetsblog New York City
An Astoria mom demands that the city appeal Judge Cheree Buggs's ruling ordering the removal of the 31st bike lane.
nyc.streetsblog.org
December 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
An Astoria mom demands that the city appeal Judge Cheree Buggs's ruling ordering the removal of the 31st bike lane. buff.ly/eQQTp9r