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writer: 84th oscars, letterman, the nation, vanity fair, the new yorker, the baffler, the new republic, emmy nominee, neh public scholar, and author of way too many posts. rep: dara kaye/wmebooks #wgaw letterboxd: oxd.it/1lq09'>boxd.it/1lq09

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My new piece for @thenation.com, up now, on Paramount disappearing @thedailyshow.bsky.social archives, and the ethics and economics of the era of the Great Delete: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

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"what’s been lost with @thedailyshow.bsky.social archives is the vital day-to-day historical record of satirists’ forcefully dissenting from the increasingly loony right-wing media and policy culture of the 21st century." my new story, up now @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

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"what’s been lost with @thedailyshow.bsky.social archives is the vital day-to-day historical record of satirists’ forcefully dissenting from the increasingly loony right-wing media and policy culture of the 21st century." my new story, up now @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

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this is great, but there really should be a vegan alternative to finding texas power outages.

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this is great, but there really should be a vegan alternative to finding texas power outages.

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My new piece for @thenation.com, up now, on Paramount disappearing @thedailyshow.bsky.social archives, and the ethics and economics of the era of the Great Delete: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

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if trump's saying he doesn't know anything about it, it means he literally fucked it.

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it'll be another zaslav-sized wave of layoffs and disappeared movies and tv series. last week's comedy central erasure was just the beginning.

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🎶 welcome to the workers week 🎶

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sad to hear about the passing of screenwriter robert towne. i'm looking forward to his new "chinatown" series with david fincher. they were always towne's characters, and i can't wait to see what he does with them.

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predictably, all the clout chasers on here are suddenly going woke about eating dogs.

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ok, so we know he's not an alien, he's an actual kennedy.

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half the chat is looking into canadian citizenship.

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“lincoln minus one”

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i hope when the british cop shows up again it says, “imperialism is injurious to self-determination.”

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he kinda did: he lets you know how the gangsters in “the irishman” will die with captions when he introduces them.

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i’ve never seen this before. i’m watching an indian horror film, “tumbadd.” they put the smoking disclaimer in the scene:

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it's incredible that cnn just lets trump keep lying unchecked about biden's golf handicap.

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it's incredible that cnn just lets trump keep lying unchecked about biden's golf handicap.

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biden should just put hunter in the front row so that trump has to leave the building or get arrested by his parole officer.

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what with everything going on in the world today, i just don't feel right about watching a presidential debate.

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so you can play music on it *and* the rocketeer can use it to fight crime?

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classic movie rule: flipped over tables can always stop machine gun fire.

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going back in time to kill baby Mussolini so he doesn't feel left out

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he’s picking dog the bounty hunter and we’re finally going to find out what happened to db cooper’s money.

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*bursts into parmount’s ceo office* “i found our popeye!”

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*bursts into parmount’s ceo office* “i found our popeye!”

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my new piece on the academy's exhibit about the founding jewish moguls of hollywood, up @thenation.com: "to be sure, accountability culture has its place—but the evidence presented by 'hollywoodland' strongly suggests that the academy is not that place." www.thenation.com/article/cult...

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my all-time favorite shot of donald sutherland, courtesy of oliver stone and "jfk"

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lol when he got the job he got singled out for his talent for puns, and idk, maybe now he's making it his brand.

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just sat down, and i don’t think it would be a good idea to order a steak.

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Ben never misses: "Today, as the world looks on aghast at the invasion of Gaza, the competing narratives of Jews as victims and Jews as oppressors gets played out daily in the news and social media. The same can be said of the legacies of these complicated showmen..."

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My new piece, up at @thenation.com: “It’s also an answer to critics of the museum’s 2021 debut, which had no mention of them at all. ‘Where are the Jews?’ Academy members wanted to know. Three years later, the Academy found them, and no one’s really happy about it.” www.thenation.com/article/cult...

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surprising, because at least four of them have been repealed in louisiana.

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surprising, because at least four of them have been repealed in louisiana.

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after ditko, my favorite spider-man artist.

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what's the hold-up with steve mcqueen's new movie, "blitz?" all i know is that it's finished, went to apple, and will supposedly be out in 2024. that and sean baker's "anora" are at the top of my must see list this year. collider.com/blitz-movie-...

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the funny part will be watching wisconsin republicans agree with him.

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i can see everyone’s “likes” on here. feels like a nude beach.

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after the buyout, the new company will be called “alamony.”apnews.com/article/sony-acquires-alamo-drafthouse-d2c9872b3dbda4f72bec65d7985de3ff

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glad this country is finally doing something about guns:

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the icc has ruled this a proportionate response.

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well, i've tried to intimidate my enemies like that in the past, but informing them that i was born in wisconsin did not have the desired effect.

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