Sidney Lumet’s 1988 movie Running On Empty is kind of a weird/interesting double feature with One Battle After Another. It’s on Kanopy, fyi.

The decline of third spaces and hangouts, such as malls, video rental places, arcades & skate parks has been a direct result of the rise of convenience and has also been objectively bad for society as a whole. Its not that everyone HAS to socialize, but having no option to without bars is a failing.

This is so wrong

Like some of you all have to go looking in transcripts of not denouncing to try to find antisemitism but here it is hot and fresh and clear as day

Hi, hello, now please understand THIS person is antisemitic

ChatGPT gave a significant portion of my students the wrong answer to an easy quiz question that everyone used to always get right

I had two groups of students turn in annotated bibliographies that were ChatGPT generated - not a single citation actually existed

Wow!

Lol, oh nooooo

EVEN ON POLITICO! God damn! Heck yeah!

god I hate that Chuck Schumer is retroactively making Rotating Villain Theory true but how else do you describe actively recruiting a late-seventies filibuster supporter for the top offensive opportunity on the map

Holy fucking shit excommunicate this man from this city. Get out and don’t come back.

Like a lot of us here, the Lock 'Em Up-est comments I see on social media are coming from, well, extremely normal people. So I wanted to explain how extremely helpful it would be this weekend if they scared the shit out of everyone driving them nuts.

Thank goodness!

was literally just telling some folks that i thought mamdani was going to break 50%

Andrew this is your campaign manager. I just wanted to tell you to keep posting this shit

A confrontation between federal immigration agents and a resident:
“We’re protecting US citizens.”
“I don’t want your protection… You’re Nazi skinheads.”
“Why are we Nazis?”

Cuomo ranting about protestors ahead of what is likely to be a giant and very popular protest on Saturday is quite a choice

You would think that if an American anti-antisemitism organization served any purpose, it would be to react strongly when the Vice President of the US defends people for praising Hitler. But you would in fact be wrong.

A start, but you will be amazed to see when and how often the cameras go off

I would start pretending I was having a heart attack to end the interview early, at that point

He just sent out a great piece on the Terminator franchise I read during my lunch break today that was great!

I am a subscriber and we should be absolutely encouraging folks to not be doing this on substack. Grateful for Drew for making the change.

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And what was Zohran polling when he entered the race?