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The Democrats' biggest stars this cycle:
A Muslim from Michigan
A Jew from Georgia
A Christian from Texas
Love this country! 🇺🇸
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We may look back at Zohran Mamdani’s election as the most important pivot point in American politics since 2016
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Over the last two years, many of the most powerful people in America-tech oligarchs, college presidents, media tycoons, leaders of big law firms + basically the entire pro-Israel Jewish establishment-capitulated to Trump's authoritarianism. They abandoned American democracy in its moment of maximum peril. They should never be allowed to forget it. They should wear that shame for the rest of their lives.
Takashi Yamazaki’s much-anticipated exercise in kaiju treachery delivers towering spectacle and culturally specific melodrama in a sequel to ‘Godzilla: Minus One’ that is both genuinely exciting and unquestionably somber. (Review for ‘Godzilla: Minus Zero’ in comments)
Review: #GodzillaMinusZero Gives The King of the Monsters The Grimdark Sequel Treatment
via @ScottMendelson (whose 15-year-old son liked it quite a bit) tinyurl.com/mkkwyn3b
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I was thrilled to be a guest on @FilmspottingSVU this week and speak with hosts @mattsinger and Jordan Hoffman about some great Godzilla films currently streaming. Check it out! tinyurl.com/2fvfjusy
Listen Now | @DaBoxOfficePod Episode 145: “I Told You Guys. They Wanna F*** the Wicker Man!”
-- Scott, Lisa and Jeremy dig into a weak Halloween weekend and how much ‘You Can See Everything’ compensated for a slew of underperforming October “tentpoles” --
open.spotify.com/episode/6Vh…
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PREP is a very entertaining but a whole SERIES for this is like come on can’t we just make movies?
Netflix Orders 'Prep' YA Series Based On Book From 'One Day' EP Nicole Taylor & Gloria Sanchez Prods. deadline.com/2026/11/prep-ne…
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Not only did Disney pay $0 in federal income taxes last year due to Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” it got a $1.4 billion tax refund after making $12.4 billion in profits.
“Corporation will create jobs if they get tax breaks” is a Big Lie. It never trickles down. Ever.
Disney is moving toward thousands of job cuts with the entertainment giant asking some managers to target 20% in annual cost savings, according to people familiar with the matter. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
My 15-year-old liked it a lot, but he had his fingers in his ears for much of the runtime during last week's IMAX presser. I had my hearing aids on "mute" and could still hear the movie.
Ben Wang as Ice Man is the first X-MEN casting to actually get me excited. He's has been terrific in a variety of films of the last few years (haven't seen SUNRISE ON THE REAPING yet, natch), so him getting an even higher profile plus presumably more money is "thing good."
I'm old enough to remember when Google's unofficial motto was "Don't be evil."
Google is now threatening America's schools, saying they will turn off their core search functions if schools choose to entirely block AI.
nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/go…
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"Republicans fuck up people's healthcare" is the reality, but the @nytimes wants you to think it's a failure of "Obamacare"
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He has condemned antisemitism a million times, just like Mamdani has. But imagine there was a Jewish politician and every day someone asked him to condemn pedophilia, or every day someone asked Obama to condemn the Crips and Bloods.
Maybe you’re just racist?
This isn’t about Haley Stevens. It’s about the basic question she raised: Why won’t El-Sayed just condemn the Jew-hating ad?
News flash: You can be for lower costs and stand up to hate at the same time.
jewishinsider.com/2026/10/el…
