if you’re looking for something to listen to today try my new podcast with @lionel_trolling on the political and military hollywood thrillers of the 1990s

This is just false. Trump hasn’t tempered his language one bit. Here’s a snippet of CSPAN’s closed captioning from his speech in NC on Saturday—less than 48h ago.

TODAY: Please join our co-founder @drjkwilliams for a discussion about historical data and genealogical research at 1:15pm (cst). We will be convening here https://t.co/EmTWi8QS37

much as I understand the instinct to instinctively dunk on the NYT's Southern coverage, this is an attentive feature on an attentive book by a Southern photojournalist on the food that local (not corporate) gas stations make and sell. Kate is the best in the biz : )

opening up some old episodes of the patreon for anyone to listen. here is our first episode, on "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold." check it out and please consider subscribing!

Fourth, it’s concerning that apparently Nau was being fed this perspective by UVA staff, naming Collette Sheehy, Senior Vice President for Operations and State Government Relations and co-signer of UVA’s letter opposing 2117 Ivy, as one of his sources of information.

Our concerns about UVA interfering with the city’s efforts to address its affordable housing crisis continue to escalate. Now a member of the Board of Visitors is suggesting the city’s efforts are in opposition to UVA & spreading inaccurate information.🧵 https://t.co/4DpI8aQiFW

this is now the third time i’ve come across the claim that “free palestine” is a threatening statement. not “from the river to the sea” not “globalize the intifada” just “free palestine.” giving the game away

Height is OK. Charlottesville is land-constrained and needs housing, people are ready for apartment complexes. Size and design and grace are independent factors. Limited size and setbacks do not make beautiful architecture, freedom to design does. https://t.co/C12LQuMd9r

"His designs are profoundly unpatriotic. They are the sadistic fantasies of a petty tyrant who genuinely believes that people who oppose him are vermin and need to be rooted out." @brianbeutler on why Trump 2025 would be worse than Trump 2017 https://t.co/J2Xrdigown

The call for entries for the 2024 Hillman Prizes is on now through Jan 30:

a movie begging for the Linkin Park treatment

I’m such a Danica fan boy, one of the best state legislators in the country IMO, the right pisses their pants while she’s fixing roads and getting kids school lunches https://t.co/hc42rcIuyG

New Patreon episode! On "The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover," written and directed by Larry Cohen.

This should be a concern of every single person of conscience in this country. They’re repeating the post-9/11 playbook, which criminalized and targeted Arab and Muslim institutions throughout the U.S.

Gazan poet Heba Abu Nada, who died yesterday in the bombardment.

BREAKING: The Gaza Health Ministry says at least 500 people killed in an explosion at a hospital that it says was caused by an Israeli airstrike.

BREAKING: Reports now of a massive massacre in Gaza after an Israeli strike hits a hospital in Gaza where hundreds were sheltered. Initial reports fear the worst.

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