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The New Yorker. “I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Thru The TV Revolution” Insta/Hive/Post: emilynussbaum, Masta: .social
emilynussbaum.comJoined January 2008
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Where is MY Roy Cohn?
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"Beginning this week, , one of America’s leading journalists and media commentators, will join the Guardian US to write a weekly column on media, politics, culture and the urgent moral and political debates of the moment."
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Important takeaway here: I've covered a handful (not tons!) of criminal cases and have seen this multiple times. You think you're helping police understand what really happened. They are ***building a case against you***
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Women in the movie industry continue to have to fight for jobs and respect. But our chief film critic is uncharacteristically optimistic about female representation onscreen and behind the scenes. Call it a consciousness shift.
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KIMBERLY AKIMBO was lovely & surprising, a musical about a screwy family with a special child, like the underestimated Sarah Silverman/Adam Schlesinger musical The Bedwetter (or maybe a gentler, soft-serve spin on Matilda.) Bonnie Milligan blew the roof off as a grifter aunt
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In April 2016, I broke the story of Trump and Putin, using Russian open sources. Afterwards, I heard vague intimations that something was awry in the FBI in New York, specifically counter-intelligence and cyber. We now have a suggestion as to why. 0/20
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BREAKING NEWS: Kevin McCarthy just kicked me off the House Intelligence Committee.
And here’s why: I fought him and Donald Trump when they tried to tear down our democracy.
If he thinks this will stop me, he will soon find out differently.
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I am so tired of waiting,
Aren't you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two -
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.
(Langston Hughes)
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While I'm griping bout 90s teen realism, the big stealth beauty this year was High School, the smart Tegan & Sarah show on Amazon. Check it out for you're seeking authentic slang, plaid, indie angst, sexuality angst, Cobie Smulders and CANADA
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It really bummed me out. Just watching millions of dollars being poured into this make-a-wish for a misogynist. Of all of the long shot delusional dreams that they could have made come true - in this one city alone. That’s what they pick. How does anyone else ever win?
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I finished Paul T. Goldman. I had a hard time fully enjoying what I was watching because I feel like by watching, even though it made him look like a moron, at the end of the day I ultimately am still giving attention and social currency to a vapid, self-absorbed misogynist.
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PARTY DOWN rewatch unfortunately hits
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2 tired 2 trace the events that led to an M&M PR crisis
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He is doing an openly racist appeal to the rage-filled racists who vote in large numbers in Repub presidential primaries. "Woke" is a woefully transparent smokescreen for opposing notions like equality + tolerance. Media needs to start calling this dude out for who he really is.
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What Ron DeSantis achieves by challenging an AP African American studies course is terrible on many levels. He's equating studying historic racism to political ideology. He's playing to white grievance. He's intimidating educators. He's distracting voters. loom.ly/izJT5I4
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1. Florida teachers are being told to remove all books from their classroom libraries OR FACE FELONY PROSECUTION
The new policy is based on the premise that teachers are using books to "groom" students or indoctrinate them with leftist ideologies.
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People in the comments are making a case for a 1995 “brah,” although that seems more like something that Cali surfer dudes said (on the show, it was 2 meathead jocks in Wisconsin.) I defer to the superior knowledge of actual Zillenials on this one
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Watched the not-great That 90s Show, in which teens called one another “creeper” and “bro,” neither of which was a thing in 1995
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I tweet this every once in a while just for the hell of it:
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There are two generations, SVU/Hannibal watchers who say "wait, Raul Esparza is also a singer?" and the people who are enraged by those people
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On my deathbed I will be very explicit about what is or isn't a sled.
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This is a good article about Pass-Out, which made Bresee and his wife rich & was especially popular in the UK:
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TILT "The Golden Days of Radio" radio show launched in 1949, making it the world's most meta nostalgia show. Also, according to Wiki, its host Franke Bresee "created more than a dozen adult-oriented board games, the most notable of which is the drinking game Pass-Out."
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Not tweeting about a show I found repulsive so I don’t give it attention & then failing by tweeting THAT
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A Black professor defies DeSantis law restricting lessons on race
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We are baffled by this plot description
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Should we watch:
- Bridesmaids48.5%
- Thelma & Louise32.1%
- The Brady Bunch Movie19.4%
3,786 votesFinal results
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For those who missed it, this is a great article about some of the senseless, harsh, and decades-long punishments people are subjected to while on criminal conviction registries in #Illinois.
A few highlights:
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Wait, also The Princess Bride
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Clueless, Kissing Jessica Stein, Enchanted, Groundhog Day (and depending on how you categorize, Eternal Sunshine and Purple Rose of Cairo)
I have trouble counting & hate lists
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what’s everyone’s holy trinity of romcoms…if you say gone girl you’re getting blocked
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What's the best place to go for an April beach vacation with teenagers? Miami? I don't know that much about Florida, just exploring different options
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At Michael Flynn & Eric Trump’s event today, Leigh Dundas says she coordinated behind the scenes with Flynn & others to secretly organize a mass sick-out of supply chain & transportation workers before the Christmas season in 2021 to create havoc & try to shut down the country.
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Wistful Woman Doesn’t Want Kids But Still Wants To Name People bit.ly/3GFGx1O
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Media has seen waves of layoffs for decades 😢. But I do think people in tech forget (or were toddlers at the time) just how brutal the tech layoffs of 2002-05 were. Hopefully this will not snowball, in part b/c it ripples far beyond tech, especially here. nytimes.com/2023/01/20/tec
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