Ed Winstead
@eswinstead.bsky.social
Writer (NYT, BOMB, Interview, etc.), editor (EIC of Guernica, now long retired), occasional journalist, full-time pedant.
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Ed Winstead
@eswinstead.bsky.social
· Dec 28
Movie idea: YOU, ME, AND MCPHEE - A young couple on a road trip across the country pick up a hitchhiking John McPhee just this side of the Appalachians. Tensions brew as both begin to fall for John, who delights them each in turn with different topics of conversation.
The best comedy ever made, The Cable Guy, isn’t even on this list
The movie listed at #1 is so incredibly misplaced that it calls into question the veracity of the entire list. It belongs on the list, yes, but SO MUCH further down. An absolute, credibility-wrecking flub. Boo, @variety.com! Boo!
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The 100 Best Comedy Movies of All Time
Variety's list of the 100 best comedy movies of all time includes 'Annie Hall,' 'Pretty Woman,' 'Waiting for Guffman' and 'Young Frankenstein.'
variety.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The best comedy ever made, The Cable Guy, isn’t even on this list
You mean to tell me that everyone's talking about the combination of sex and a pre-enlightenment understanding of science and the human body? Surely they're referring to this
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Spectrum of Desire
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November 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
You mean to tell me that everyone's talking about the combination of sex and a pre-enlightenment understanding of science and the human body? Surely they're referring to this
4columns.org/livingstone-...
4columns.org/livingstone-...
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“When he told them he was born in Raleigh, the agent questioning him grew angry, Vazquez said. They abruptly pulled off the road into the parking lot of a carpet cleaning company, where they dumped him, a half mile away from where they picked him up.” ncnewsline.com/2025/11/20/t...
‘They basically just kidnapped me’: US citizen taken by Border Patrol in Cary • NC Newsline
As Border Patrol agents swept the Triangle area, a construction worker born in the U.S. was among those detained.
ncnewsline.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:04 AM
“When he told them he was born in Raleigh, the agent questioning him grew angry, Vazquez said. They abruptly pulled off the road into the parking lot of a carpet cleaning company, where they dumped him, a half mile away from where they picked him up.” ncnewsline.com/2025/11/20/t...
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Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
The @inquirer.com might be the best paper in the country right now
Amazing, no notes, I do not desire to learn anything else about this story, for it would only detract from the perfection on this headline.
November 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The @inquirer.com might be the best paper in the country right now
What the hell kind of chairs are these
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 AM
What the hell kind of chairs are these
Me not reading about how women ruined the workplace in the New York Times.
November 7, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Me not reading about how women ruined the workplace in the New York Times.
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WSJ: Operation Warp Speed Aimed at Covid and Hit Cancer
Melanoma patients who got an mRNA vaccine for the virus saw median survival times double.
👉 on.wsj.com/43W1ylj gift link
Melanoma patients who got an mRNA vaccine for the virus saw median survival times double.
👉 on.wsj.com/43W1ylj gift link
November 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
WSJ: Operation Warp Speed Aimed at Covid and Hit Cancer
Melanoma patients who got an mRNA vaccine for the virus saw median survival times double.
👉 on.wsj.com/43W1ylj gift link
Melanoma patients who got an mRNA vaccine for the virus saw median survival times double.
👉 on.wsj.com/43W1ylj gift link
I worked on a campaign for a House of Delegates seat in Virginia many years ago when we lost in a wave like the one that hit the GOP yesterday, and man it was not fun. Couldn't be happier for them.
November 6, 2025 at 5:50 AM
I worked on a campaign for a House of Delegates seat in Virginia many years ago when we lost in a wave like the one that hit the GOP yesterday, and man it was not fun. Couldn't be happier for them.
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This would be GREAT for housing affordability. Zohran keeping his promises.
Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor — possibly igniting mass exodus: poll
Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor — possibly igniting mass exodus: poll
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are prepared to bolt from the Big Apple if socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani wins Tuesday's mayoral race — potentially setting the stage for the largest population flight in US history, a new poll warns.
nypost.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This would be GREAT for housing affordability. Zohran keeping his promises.
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"American philanthropy can and must play a bigger role in strengthening the financial infrastructure of the literary organizations and nonprofits that serve these literary artists." —Elizabeth Alexander, poet and President of the Mellon Foundation lithub.com/good-news-a-...
Good news! A new fund will distribute $50 million to literary nonprofits.
Several charitable groups—among them the Ford, Hawthornden, Lannan, MacArthur, Mellon, and Poetry foundations—are teaming up to launch the Literary Arts Fund, an effort to give the “essential…
lithub.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"American philanthropy can and must play a bigger role in strengthening the financial infrastructure of the literary organizations and nonprofits that serve these literary artists." —Elizabeth Alexander, poet and President of the Mellon Foundation lithub.com/good-news-a-...
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Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.
October 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.
The top issue in Gallup is now "The Government / Poor Leadership"
October 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The top issue in Gallup is now "The Government / Poor Leadership"
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Old Soviet joke:
Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?
One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals
Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?
One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals
New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST
October 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Old Soviet joke:
Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?
One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals
Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?
One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals
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I am never ever fucking EVER getting over these fuckers just driving around snatching our neighbors off the street.
October 17, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I am never ever fucking EVER getting over these fuckers just driving around snatching our neighbors off the street.
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BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
October 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
Bad writing
October 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Bad writing
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This is nightmarish and every Dem politician, every media figure who is silent is complicit. This is not supposed to happen here. Masked thugs with guns dragging moms away in front of their screaming children. Trump’s government must be destroyed and his accomplices must rot in prison
CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
October 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
This is nightmarish and every Dem politician, every media figure who is silent is complicit. This is not supposed to happen here. Masked thugs with guns dragging moms away in front of their screaming children. Trump’s government must be destroyed and his accomplices must rot in prison
And he doesn't even teach classes! Imagine what the benefits for actual professors must be, even adjunct ones!
Per sources: Bill Belichick has discussed buyout options with North Carolina’s hierarchy. Belichick has signaled a willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in media
October 9, 2025 at 12:37 AM
And he doesn't even teach classes! Imagine what the benefits for actual professors must be, even adjunct ones!
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The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
At a performance of Beethoven’s Third Symphony a man dressed as Beethoven gave me this while I was standing in line to enter.
October 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
At a performance of Beethoven’s Third Symphony a man dressed as Beethoven gave me this while I was standing in line to enter.
Harvard Students Skip Class and Still Get High Grades, Faculty Say
www.nytimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.
ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
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ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.
ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Eyes Wide Shut is a Christmas movie and Alan Cumming is the Santa
October 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Eyes Wide Shut is a Christmas movie and Alan Cumming is the Santa