Oscar Isaac, but in character as Llewyn Davis.
Who do you want to guest host a potential revival of The Muppet Show?
There were, I confess, many head-scratching moments in MELANIA, but one sequence at the end was particularly bizarre to me and I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I dug around and then wrote about it. (Cameo by Joan Didion.)
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/m...
‘Melania’ and the Missing First Lady
Mongolia Winter Olympics uniform, it’s over, no contest
Painting with White Border by Vasily Kandinsky, 1913
botfrens.com/collections/212/con…I would like to thank everyone who signed up for my new newsletter, The Hard Pass. The response has been unexpected and I am flattered.* I have written a new post, trying to decide if Marty Supreme is better or worse than Dr. Martin Best from the Fox series Best Medicine
Who Is The Better Marty: Marty Supreme Or Dr. Martin Best?
When I first saw on social media that Josh Charles's character on the new Fox series Best Medicine is named Dr. Martin Best, I thought it was a joke. Then I found myself wishing it were true because t...
A Shocking Sex Scandal Rocks the Trad Right
Sex, lies, and audiotape—and the hypocrisy of the trad lifestyle project.
This week's shocking Traitors episode has me considering God. Full recap here:
premiereparty.com/p/the-traito...This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.
It's kind of amazing how the worst consequence many of our most powerful people can conceive of is someone being mad at them online, to the degree that they are driven to distraction about it even in the abstract.
It’s really weird for some corners of the media to do a whole “the Epstein files are a moral panic that has gone too far” thing when no one has faced any sort of punishment and doesn’t sound like they’re going to.
All I have for you is a word, and a gesture: Tenet
This is a remarkable
@nytimes.com split screen:
A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained"
But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.
I'm sorry but this story is bullsh*t. Katie Britt was so worried about Liam Ramos that she did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO HELP HIM? Come on. This section right here shows Britt's true self.
“.. I’m sad for our country,” she said. “I don’t think that the escalation that we’ve seen, particularly in Minnesota, I don’t think it is. … ”
She paused for another eight seconds ..
“.. productive.”
@nytimes.com #ALsen
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Why are so many movies about kidnappings right now? On ‘Bugonia,’ ‘It Was Just an Accident,’ and ‘Dead Man’s Wire,’ and the power of seeing the downtrodden confront those with great power hostage.
Why Are So Many Movies About Kidnappings Right Now?
Why are so many movies about kidnappings right now? On ‘Bugonia,’ ‘It Was Just an Accident,’ and ‘Dead Man’s Wire,’ and the power of seeing the downtrodden confront those with great power hostage.
the rich & powerful are having a class solidarity moment
The View From The Lane: A show about Spurs: An annual injury crisis & Spurs' 'disgraceful' response
Host Danny Kelly is joined by The Athletic's Jack Pitt-Brooke and Jay Harris to discuss Spurs' rebel leader, Christian Romero, and his comments relating to the team's injury crisis. They also touch...
I’m taking my Simpsons research to strange new places.
my favorite multi year long mad men bit is ken cosgrove being the only decent person in advertising and it causing a ton of problems
*SPOILERS IN VIDEO*
This is probably the highlight of my television career to date.
Bake-off fans! I chatted with
@daviddennisjr.bsky.social about what it’s like to compete on the show—the prep, the behind the scenes logistics, Paul and Prue, all of it. 🧑🏻🍳
it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
"If Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein disqualifies him from holding power, why does the company controlled by Epstein's business partner and co-owner retain access to the UK's most sensitive national security infrastructure?"
Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.
Jeffrey Epstein Co-Owned Venture Fund with Palantir Founder as it Entered UK Government
The Russian connected convicted sex trafficker co-owned a fund with Peter Thiel, now embedded in Britain’s most critical infrastructure with the help of Peter Mandelson
GET HIS ASS
NEWS
Elon Musk and others LOSE their bid to duck depositions in DOGE litigation.
Judge doubts protections for "high-ranking government officials" for multiple reasons. It's unclear they ever had that status, and Musk "left government service."
Doc
buff.ly/uhpSOTz
Me on the death of the Washington Post sports section.
This isn't a day to be nostalgic. It's a day to be angry.
www.theringer.com/2026/02/04/m...
Death of a Sports Section
The Washington Post sports department was dismantled before its leaders gave it a chance to change
i love wonks but i just wanna say that there’s a real hard limit to how much you should care what a policy wonk thinks about politics. my go to example: the equivalent of wonks and think tank types in FDR’s day never liked him. The NYT ed board never actually got behind the new deal. too gauche.
worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
EDDINGTON VENGEANCE
Pedro Pascal officially replaces Joaquin Phoenix in Todd Haynes’ new gay romance movie ‘De Noche,’ Variety reports.
He stars opposite Danny Ramirez.
Now I don't think Spurs will actually get dragged into relegation or even, meaningfully, a relegation fight, but I do wonder how the club patting itself on the back for not panicking in the market over injuries might age if we were to do so.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tygN...
Johan Lange reflects on Spurs' January transfer window
YouTube video by Tottenham Hotspur
Our very own
@minakimes.bsky.social went on The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Big Game and gave us a behind-the-scenes look at how everything went down. Check out the pod below and watch her bake on the Roku Channel!
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Behind the Scenes of My Great American Baking Show Experience | Viewer Discretion
YouTube video by Mina Kimes - ESPN
Crazy story: A bank analyst published a report showing Kalshi users lose money even faster than sports gamblers, so Kalshi first tried to pressure the data provider to change their data and then accused them and the analyst of conspiring to extort them when that doesn’t work.
This is bonkers. MAHA 'farmers' with ecoli tainted raw milk admit they really don't know how to make the stuff after all.
"Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact."
people.com/ballerina-fa...
Hannah Neeleman's Ballerina Farm Halts Sale of Raw Milk Due to Bacteria Concerns: Report
Hannah and Daniel Neeleman have paused Ballerina Farm's sale of raw milk following health violations discovered during routine testing. Screenings from summer 2025 showed high levels of coliform, the ...
There's something to be written (and maybe someone already has) on how the democratization of statistical analysis out of the academy has coincided with the rise of stats as a rhetorical tool representing scientific certainty – exactly the opposite of what they are. See it a lot in sports, for ex.
[upbeat zohran voice] I'm here at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, where 80 years ago some important progressive work started [smash cut] but hasn't ended. So here's what we're doing:
exactly. this is not difficult.
as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...A new study puts a number on the potential human toll of sharp aid cuts over the past year, projecting an extra 9.4 million deaths by 2030 if the current trends persist.
Global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030, study projects
The Lancet study examines how the dismantling of international aid by the U.S. and other countries could undo decades of health gains.
We’re crafting SEO keywords so artisanal and bespoke that we have learned the true name of HBO Max’s Station Eleven adaptation is “10-Part Silo Replacement Sci-Fi Series.”
Palantir needs to be obliterated the same as ICE, and Peter Thiel can face the Truth and Reconciliation committee he’s spent his entire life trying to negate.
If we want to fix our country, this is non-negotiable.
Forgive me, Jesus, because I genuinely deeply enjoy how perpetually unhappy and desolate these losers are.
“White kids are just the right amount of lazy” is some fascinating racism.
Reminds me of the argument from the right that hard-working immigrants who bust their asses in food service, landscaping, etc. rob red-blooded American teens of the right to half-ass it at your first job.
I'm not saying anything new here but the rapid normalization of open extreme racism, thuggery, & general idiocy on the American right is really astonishing! This has been the case for a while now but has become notably worse in the last year, w/ these people increasingly just sounding like
"No two characters were alike. And once she’d dug into them, she was so committed that you you stopped thinking of what she was doing as a performance and started to feel as if you were just watching a person being themselves. A bizarre person, that is."
www.rogerebert.com/tributes/the...
The Belle of Absurdity: Catherine O'Hara (1954-2026) | Tributes | Roger Ebert
Brilliant, beautiful and constantly surprising, Catherine O'Hara found the truth in often absurd characters.
Today in extremely random videos I forgot existed….the time I etch a sketched Bill Belichick on camera.
I thought Trump stopped all the wars
it’s giving shiv roy.
lmao
has anyone else noticed that this has been a *horrible* year for Cuties Mandarin Oranges
someone should tell these guys that homer simpson is considerably more of a “real” person than homer the poet ever was.
Oh no it’s da freaking Noid! He’s causing mischief!
Turning Point USA has announced the performers for their alternative Super Bowl halftime show:
Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice, and Gabby Barrett
Christopher Nolan, good on the issues
in retrospect, it's so fucking funny that for years people assumed Nolan was a conservative because he made multiple Batman movies (in which cops are the dumbest people alive), but it turns out he's actually woke, is a big union guy, and thinks the communists in the '30s made really good points
It’s a tragedy Vinny Chase wasn’t invited back for The Devil Wears Prada 2
Most Chotiner interviews are like that scene in Saving Private Ryan where the German speaks soothingly to Mellish as he slides a bayonet into his heart.
Chotiner shot that man right in the face with his own gun and he never heard the *click*.
Oscar Isaac, but in character as Llewyn Davis.
