The Purge franchise rules pretty hard, each one improving on the one before it. It’s also one of the few film franchises that doesn’t pussy out on talking about class and race politics in explicit terms. The fourth one especially feels like the perfect synthesis of b-movie sci-fi weirdness, class and race politics,…

No such thing as woke capitalism. This is inevitable. We will not ethically consume our way out of this disaster, we have to start with civil disobedience and escalate from there if our demands are not met. We have to demand that the hoarded wealth be used to transform society rapidly into sustainability. Google,…

the wealthy have their class interests nearly perfectly aligned. they will always be the absolute worst.

“Sure, Trump might have done some things I disagreed with, but he was respectable compared to President Baked Alaska!” - all of the dumbfucks defending this photo in 6 years

it’s all their land, eat a grenade

the earth is collapsing, go fuck yourself and die

The fact that he’s spent time shitting on Bernie Sanders, the only person to release an HIV plan and a plan that guarantees free at point of care healthcare and someone who’s spent decades advocating for LGBT rights, while readily supporting people like Hillary Clinton who have been completely mediocre and wishy washy …

“And Introducing” is a good podcast about good and bad music, as someone who’s kinda meh on “How Did This Get Made” (despite loving everyone involved!), I really enjoy “How Did This Get Played.” If you like movies and music, “Settling the Score” is tragically not super well-known but is incredibly insightful. And “The…

Remember when Jill Soloway said they were upset that the people who went forward with their allegations against Jeffrey Tambor didn’t let them handle it in-house and sweep it under the rug and tacitly blamed them? Gotta say: fuck Jill Soloway.

David Frum had an excellent passage 

I love how after the whistleblower info leak these morons accomplished earlier in the day, as well as Brooks’ “please don’t impeach even though technically you should” bullshit take, some pearl-clutchers were like “oh no, please don’t cancel your subscription to NYT, they’re so important!!!!!!” and then they do this…

Maybe not virulent racists, but the median is at least a solid percentage more racist than non-ICE Americans, which is pretty fucking racist.

shut the fuck up if you’re not going to help solve climate change. stop arguing about a person, start talking about how we should fix the issues she’s discussing. you’re critiquing the messenger when the news is the fucking apocalypse. if you really believe in climate change, you’ll realize how fucking shortsighted…

Burns will be replaced by K.C. Crosthwaite, the Chief Growth Officer at tobacco giant Altria, which owns 35 percent of Juul Labs. Crosthwaite formerly worked as an executive overseeing Marlboro cigarettes at the company and was in charge of pushing into non-combustible cigarette devices like the IQOS.

I mean, who cares. We know it’s killing people, we know it’s costing money, we know it’s going to get much worse. I’m not interested in throwing mud on this issue even if I don’t agree with their methodology 100%, we know it’s fucking real at this point. It’s time to agree to start fixing this issue. Thousands dead in…

awesome dude, how did the “gains” made in those departments by the compromising centrists work out for us? oh what’s that? the right wing psychos control the supreme court and the senate? they’ve redrawn all the districts so they can rule with a majority? we still don’t have fucking card check? oh fuck our healthcare…

THERE ARE LIKE 40 OF THEM RUNNING AND THEY ARE ALL DIFFERENT AND YOU CANNOT VOTE FOR THEM ALL SO LET’S TALK ABOUT THEIR DIFFERENCES

Listen to Mayor Pete.

If the portion of the American electorate that can accurately identify both the problems with and the best solutions to our nation’s problems proceeds to divide itself in half and then consume itself with rivalry over personalities while the upper class marches on to win another class war, I am going to fucking…

West Wing Thing is great, Last Podcast On the Left’s Mormonism series is fantastic, How Did This Get Played goes to Duke Nukem Forever (fucking kill me that game is shit), Citations Needed is BACK BABY, The Dollop (and its UK spinoff) continues to find wonderful stories, and Chapo has a video of their live Call of Cthu…