Sarah McBride becomes the first openly transgender person in history to be elected to U.S. Congress.

Donald Trump has won the 2024 Election. My fellow Americans, do not deny his Presidency once he is inaugurated. Do not deny the results of the election. We must move forward.

i bought this equality sticker for my car in the summer of 2016, when i thought we were mere months away from electing our first female president. obviously, history had other plans. and as i find myself feeling a lot of the same feelings i felt eight years ago this morning, i

a lot of great movies this year, but Nickel Boys stands alone.

Moron twitter doesn't realises that PhD subjects are supposed to be hyper-niche and specific, you're not getting a PhD in "books"

Thanks but, dear, I'm not insane.

Today is for HIM

Welcome to the Film Twitter Academy Awards!!!

Challengers is not being regarded properly. It’s next-level perfection. I remember leaving that movie theater ELECTRIFIED. Not a common thing these days. In a perfect world, it would be an awards season favorite in all categories, but that’s not how awards work. Challengers

New "AI" note for this semester's syllabus.

David Lynch gave us the language we needed to better articulate the indescribable strangeness of our shared reality. “Lynchian” is so overused because it’s a viscerally understandable word without any known synonyms. I can’t imagine a more beautiful artistic legacy than that.

Rewatching The Return last month I was struck by what an unprecedented line in the sand it offers. A sprawling canvas of weaving liminalities, dissonant aesthetics, and narrative that degrades instead of develops. It’s like a challenge from one century of the medium to the next

Blackbird, Jolene, and Oh Louisiana are all covers. Every single song is a collaborative project with historians advising. Beyoncé’s albums are about erasure and restoring cultural memory, so she cites every single person who worked on a song as a matter of citational ethics.

Watching A REAL PAIN... I don't think Culkin is doing Succession 2.0 at all? Kind of a lazy read of his performance here idk.

I dunno, I think the Gaitok and Mook storyline is profound. He has her on a pedestal and eventually, when he realizes that she's more interested in status/ambition than she is in his Buddhist non-violent values, that's an awakening for him. It's a subtle scene but a powerful one

Reporter: “Why do you think so many countries and governments around the world are just ignoring what’s happening in Gaza?” Greta Thunberg: “Because of racism.”

i hate the fact that math and science smart students are considered smarter than english and history smart students

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

Slavery was bad.