This is sweet and also upsetting: rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

Where Is The Palestinian Ghandi? A profile of Issa Amro, by Nicholas Casey

nytimes.com/2024/05/01/mag…

sorry but the Stereophonic actors all competing against each other for awards is a very Stereophonic thing to happen

Personally I think this sounds very bad. time.com/6972021/donald…

This is excellent news. Jennifer Fox is a hero for pursuing this case and The Tale is an incredible film: nytimes.com/2024/04/30/us/…

Columbia University's student radio station WKCR is doing amazing, measured coverage right now. They're livestreaming on Instagram under @ wkcr_oncampus

WKCR, Columbia U’s station, reports such a surge in listeners tuning in on line to their terrific live coverage that they had to go off air for a sec to switch to lower sound quality to accomodate the demand on the stream. If you can switch to FM signal, they recommend it: 89.9

I guess the answer to this is obvious, but did the National Enquirer ever perform a catch-and-kill for a famous woman, the way they did for Trump, Schwarzenegger and Tiger Woods? (As opposed to just printing the story)

Bummed Jenn Colella didn’t get nominated for SUFFS. She was a real standout for me.

A mom I know procrastinated on choosing a name for her newborn son for so long that the government office emailed her that if she doesn't register him in 72 hours they're just gonna assign him a random name.

Anyway now I'm curious what a random government-assigned name could be.

1962.

The broadcaster Arthur Godfrey complained, “Now you can’t kid anyone anymore. Negro and Italian jokes are out. It’s sad.”

Currently fully, freakishly obsessed with this Tortured Artists album & I think I figured out the source of my initial wariness: I wasn’t wild about Midnights other than a handful of tracks (Anti-Hero, Bewjeweled, Vigilante Shit, chorus of Mastermind.) But this? ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Everyone seemingly discovering Mike Faist via CHALLENGERS just confirms how few folks saw Spielberg’s WEST SIDE STORY, which is a shame because that movie is a masterpiece and one of the best things Spielberg ever made (yes really!)

Kristi Noem’s Chad Gadya

Can we...just accept that we suck at this?

I want to tell you a story that has made me kinda hopeless about Twitter's ability to affect positive things happening, and it starts with this tweet from Hillary Clinton.

twitter.com/HillaryClinton…

Killer essay on the rise of Mid TV by James Poniewozik:

nytimes.com/2024/04/27/art…

For family movie night we watched THE POST, a movie abt Katherine Graham, manila folders, typewriters, notepads, rotary phones, pay phones, elevators, lemonade, cigarettes, the sadly temporary death of access journalism & Tom Hanks having the time of his life playing Ben Bradlee

I am generally an 'it's just make-believe' guy about this kind of stuff but was watching a show where a racist cop in the early 90s says 'sex worker' and come on now

Biden is going to go on Hot Ones. We all know this. It's inevitable. Why are we delaying the inevitable.

The thing people are not understanding here is that all the Vice Presidents have killed dogs