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Published: December 31, 2025 16:50

I know it's gauche to talk this way still in your 30s but while I was expecting the pop stars and actresses to become younger than me I was not expecting the mayors

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Published: December 31, 2025 16:00

Every New Year's I think of this poem from Marge Piercy: "How much have I dared in opposition? How much have I put on the line for freedom? For mine and others? As these freedoms are pared, sliced and diced, where have I spoken out?"

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Published: December 31, 2025 14:45

The clear point to me for this was the Wisconsin court races last spring. They lost, Musk was shelved, political gravity took hold [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 30, 2025 22:48

Already responded to thesis herw but even just from a strategic POV if you lower the standard for acclaim to "opposes the overthrow of democracy" you actually help move the conversation towards people who want to overthrow democracy [contains quote post…

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Published: December 30, 2025 22:21

These are usually small businesses, 4-5 staff at a time being paid $11/hour for stressful, skilled labor. The witch-hunts that targeted them in the 80s were genuinely destructive to the landscape for providers generally [contains quote post or other…

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Published: December 30, 2025 14:23

Peak [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 30, 2025 12:50

Zohran Derangement Syndrome (racism) [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 30, 2025 12:25

I think a lot of people would be perfectly happy with illiberal policies (like the ones MTG continues to support for trans people, immigrants, women, free speech, you name it) as long as they can keep the uniparty, Morning Joe framework of politics they've…

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Published: December 29, 2025 22:56

Never take the day off when there are gay penguins to save [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 29, 2025 22:52

I was backstage at an event in a small, crowded room watching the actual program of the event on a television feed. I backed up towards the corner to make room for other people watching the TV and heard the smallest "excuse me" and turned around to see I'd…

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Published: December 29, 2025 18:27

It's illustrative of the role transphobia plays on the right: no matter how fractured they get over Epstein, Israel, tariffs or anything else transphobia is still the glue that binds them [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 29, 2025 15:38

Seems bad!

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Published: December 29, 2025 15:09

"stuff happens" [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 29, 2025 02:10

Rewatching OBAA and forgot the first screener question to join the elite white supremacist cabal was whether you'd ever been to therapy

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Published: December 28, 2025 19:59

One wonders how many men want such a virtual lover that "never says no" when the point for such men is that she says no and they do it anyway [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 28, 2025 16:17

2025 was relentless for many, including transgender people and our families. I wrote a year-end reflection on what it might take to be optimistic about 2026 and beyond…

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Published: December 28, 2025 13:19

Gwyneth in Marty Supreme made me want to rewatch The Royal Tenenbaums and I really do hope Wes Anderson leaves the dollhouses behind and comes back down to reality in his storytelling

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Published: December 28, 2025 02:48

On Marty Supreme and vampires

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Published: December 28, 2025 02:06

Compelling artists to perform for the head of state [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 27, 2025 20:38

Put on the movie Clockwatchers without knowing anything about it and I stg this was my reaction to the opening credits

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Published: December 27, 2025 01:32

I finally learned how to use Letterboxd btw boxd.it/5Nj6B https://boxd.it/5Nj6B

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Published: December 27, 2025 01:05

Transgender for everybody

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Published: December 27, 2025 00:45

Dying at this review of Richard Linklater's Slacker

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Published: December 26, 2025 16:05

Long ago, the four nations lived in harmony

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Published: December 26, 2025 14:54

Never beating the Dubya allegations [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 25, 2025 22:30

Went for a walk today and saw them wandering around an abandoned Logan Circle--complete charade. they should be home with their families! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 25, 2025 17:03

Elf sequel where his dads children's book publisher has a business conflict with an Unnamed Major Online Retailer so Buddy infiltrates it's fulfillment center and unwittingly organizes it

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Published: December 25, 2025 16:18

My lasting memory of Elf is seeing it in theater with this guy I had a huge unrequited crush on and for weeks after when one of us left a room the other would say in a deep voice "bye buddy hope you find your dad" and the other would reply "bye Mr.…

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Published: December 25, 2025 04:20

Me: overstimulated by 14 hours of screen time, a quart of coffee every day, sleeping to podcasts and YouTube videos Zuzu Bailey: I can't sleep. I want to look at my flower

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Published: December 25, 2025 03:48

Still can't get over using the record player to make rotisserie chicken

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Published: December 25, 2025 02:40

Buffalo girls won't you come out tonight

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Published: December 25, 2025 01:01

I saw Marty Supreme and as someone who's pretty sure Timothee Chalamet is a social experiment we're all enduring I genuinely really loved it

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Published: December 25, 2025 00:46

Ordering some Indian food do you want anything

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Published: December 24, 2025 20:10

Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens

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Published: December 24, 2025 14:26

Legitimately what Weiss deserves. So desperate to be a public intellectual but dragged into chud infighting. It's like the end of a children's movie where the rich villain falls into a manure pile [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 24, 2025 13:19

Today in enshittification: this J Crew sweater is one month old

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Published: December 23, 2025 21:24

Genuinely beautiful [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 23, 2025 21:11

Really enjoyed this generally but something Jude gets at I hadn't thought of is how many people who'd rather wish Dworkin away assign to her books the same kind of persuasive, theory-to-practice quality that she assigned to porn [contains quote post or…

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Published: December 22, 2025 19:50

Same playbook used on the genocide in Gaza--throw up a smokescreen of conflicting claims and hairsplitting so the audience is comforted by their own ambivalence to other people's suffering. Every item in this is pointless if you know that torture and rape…

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Published: December 22, 2025 16:25

The recent trans rights cases--Skrmetti on health care, the shadow docket passport order, and the pending athletics cases--should be seen in this context, as vehicles for chipping away at the promise of equal protection [contains quote post or other…

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Published: December 22, 2025 14:56

She only knows how to digest criticism as an attempt to silence her even when the criticism is that she's silencing others [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: December 22, 2025 12:59

This to me is the biggest issue. These men spoke at grave risks to their own safety about being beaten, raped, and tortured at the order of the President of the United States. All of Weiss's odes to free speech and "dangerous ideas" is and has always been…