Emily Nussbaum

@emilynussbaum.bsky.social

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Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix

Joke TV trailer for Ben McKenzie’s anti-crypto film
Like one kind of thing, it will be reacting, gas on that, turtle, and you mind if I'm acute. If you, you know, relic when I'm so standard. who sp wine just into our trusty support representative.
Marnie on Girls
Makeshift noose on January 6
Small copper with larger one
Screaming Knicks fan and dude climbing street sign
Dialogue about a world without shrimp—or a world with nothing but shrimp—from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
That last part is key: There are no signs (yet) that Weiss or Ellison want to turn CBS News into another Fox News. And by all accounts, Bilton isn't a political hack with a far-right agenda (even if he has plenty of' experience writing about right-leaning tech executives with mixed reviews for his efforts). But assuming he survives into the fall, Bilton doesn't have to be a lackey for Trump and MAGA in order to damage the credibility and journalistic sanctity of 60 Minutes. Simply being 30 percent less aggressive on Trump than it was during Simon's run, or giving right-wing ideas and powerful tech corporations a more friendly platform, would do the trick.
And that leads back to the other theory about why Weiss has acted in such a seemingly reckless manner with regard to 60 Minutes (and CBS News in general): It's all about playing nice with the Trump administration as Ellison's Paramount looks to close on its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. "We can't ignore what's taking place there right now," former CNN anchor Jim Acosta - who knows something himself about being thrown to the wolves to appease the White House - told his fellow legacy-media refugee MacFarlane Tuesday during a podcast conversation. "It seems to me that the Ellisons, along with Bari Weiss - this is an ideological project that they're on. This is not a journalism project. This was what a lot of people were worried about, that this network was going to be turned into basically a propaganda arm of the administration — and if not a full-blown propaganda arm, a news organization that pulls its punches when it comes to covering people in power right now."
Andy Bouchard from Evil
Julianna Margolis standing by her husband in The Good Wife, which I upsettingly can’t watch anymore because it’s on CBS
Galinda in her bubble
Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Band
Musk and Altman
Broad City North Brother Island episode
Weird militaristic or possibly supernatural creatures in the background of Trump’s stupid I Am Dr Jesus meme
Hey guys, we hid the Afikomen, whoever comes home this summer and finds it get a prize
"I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can" and the Jill Clayburgh backlash By Molly Haskell, Vogue, May 1982 I'm a fan of Jill Clayburgh and her graceful, klutzy, three-quarter liberated heroines. A ballerina manquée myself, I first fell in love with her as Erica, in that scene in "An Unmarried Woman" in which she is dancing around the bedroom, wearing high socks, bikini pants, and a T-shirt, to the music of "Swan Lake," blissfully unaware that her magic carpet is about to come crashing to earth. And there was the final scene in which Erica makes her way through SoHo, carrying and being carried by the huge canvas bequeathed her by her departing lover. Her shaky odyssey was a perfect metaphor for the situation of the "new woman," disoriented, yet gallantly trying to pull all the pieces together. With that sense of strength under fragility, Clayburgh comes closest of any actress to defining the reality of most women of my generation, caught as we are between 'eighties feminism and 'fifties conservatism. In "I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can," she once again plays a woman in extremis-a television producer who breaks a Valium habit that has escalated to sixty milligrams a day, only to experience a psychotic withdrawal when she unwisely tries to quit cold-turkey. There's a beautiful final scene that might almost serve as a sequel to "An Unmarried Woman." Having lifted herself out of madness, Clayburgh's Barbara Gordon has come back to CBS to recut the documentary on the dying woman poet (Geraldine Page) who has been both friend and adversary to her. The documentary ends, as the film ends, with
Abolish Ice Butterfly
Slideshow image from Baby of the Year sketch in So I Think You Should Leave
In a conference call in late January, the official, Aakash Singh, laid out the department's basis for prosecuting demonstrators: National Security Presidential Memo 7, a sweeping directive issued by President Trump last September. It expanded the definition of domestic terrorism to include not only violent crimes like assault, but also relatively minor ones, like revealing the personal details of agents or getting in the way of immigration enforcement. Mr. Singh said that "coordinators" in U.S. attorneys' offices responsible for charging protesters under NSPM-7 should be "hounding" federal agents to make cases, according to people familiar with his remarks. He also suggested that the department wanted headlines along with indictments, promising that officials in Washington would be "blasting out" prosecutors' work. "Go big," Mr. Singh said, "and go loud."
Halfway through the season, Mr. Garrison's Trump appeared as a standup comic. As the crowd chants "Douche! Douche! Douche!" he struts onstage with a microphone, as cocky as Dane Cook. "So I'm standing in line at the airport, waitin' in security because of all the freakin' Muslims," he begins, and then, when his fans hoot in joy, he tries for something nastier. "And the T.S.A. security people all look like black thugs from the inner city, and I'm thinking, Oh, good, you're gonna protect us?" When racist jokes get only bigger laughs, he switches to gags about sticking his fingers into women's butts and their "clams." Finally, some white women walk out. "Where did I lose you, honey?" he taunts them from the stage. "You've been O.K. with the 'Fuck 'Em All to Death' and all the Mexican and Muslim shit, but fingers in the ass did it for you. Cool. Just wanted to see where your line was."
Picture of Selina Alko
When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king What he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight And he'll win the whole thing 'fore he enters the ring There's no body to batter when your mind is your might So when you go solo, you hold your own hand And remember that depth is the greatest of heights And if you know where you stand, then you know where to land And if you fall it won't matter, cuz you'll know that you're right
Blanche Dubois
Birthday mojito selfie
"You get out your Fascism for Dummies book for the 15 things you do, and we tried to include as many of them as we could in the most artful way possible., GIlroy tells The Hollywood Reporter. "How were we supposed to know that this clown car in Washington was going to basically use the same book that we used? So I don't think it's prescience so much as the sad familiarity of fascism." Fascism is a word that Disney asked Gilroy to refrain from saying during the earlier promotional phases of Andor's spring 2025 release.
Eight months later, after it became clear that the North Koreans had hacked Sony, and after the studio had lost its relationships with many of its most important stars-including Will Smith, Adam Sandler and Angelina Jolie-I spoke to President Obama about the whole incident. Unsurprisingly, he asked the right question: "What were you thinking when you made killing the leader of a hostile foreign nation a plot point? Of course that was a mistake." The mistake? My decision to greenlight a project on the fly.
I made one last attempt to understand how Parikh feels about working inside the system. He turned back to television. "Did you ever watch 'Parks and Recreation'?" Parikh asked. "Ron Swanson was my hero, not because he just loved steak, and bacon, and everything else, but because I was a government contractor," Parikh explained. "Now, I am temporarily with the government. Right? Working for the government, but hating them every bit. Right? That guy's my hero."
Whiskey and Bryan Dunn
N is for Neville who died of ennui
In the imagination of some on the right, Good quickly came to stand in for all the grating Resistance moms they'd like to see crushed. Fox News sneered that Good was a "self-proclaimed poet" - she's the winner of a prestigious poetry award - "with pronouns in her bio." The conservative radio host Erick Erickson described her as an "AWFUL," or "Affluent White Female Urban Liberal." It's entirely possible that had Good lived, the Trump administration might have tried to prosecute her. That's essentially what happened to Marimar Martinez, a U.S. citizen in Chicago, in October. Martinez was in her car trying to warn people about ICE when she collided with a Border Patrol vehicle. Federal officials claimed she "rammed" a car driven by the agent Charles Exum, while her lawyers say he sideswiped her. Exum then got out of his car and shot her five times. Martinez survived, only for the Justice Department to charge her with assaulting a federal officer. Her lawyers soon discovered that Exum had been boasting about the shooting in text messages. In one, he wrote, "I fired 5 rounds, and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys." In another, he said, "Sweet. My fifteen mins of fame. Lmao."
Norman Rockwell painting where the guy is right and everybody else is wrong
Frozen live feed from the Chicago New York countdown
Brushes at Museo del Objeto del Objeto
Sondheim had begun designing board games in his teens. He sent an idea to Parker Brothers and then considered suing when the company put out a game-Park and Shop-that he thought copied his. When he was twenty-three, he created a board game alternately called Stardom or Camp, in which players compete to succeed in Hollywood by sleeping their way to the top-the winner beds Norma Desmond-while affixing colored sequins to their faces. (The game was uncovered intact after his death, as his belongings were being prepared for auction.) Another, known as the Game of Hal Prince, or Producer, gamified the business of Broadway, with points allotted for good reviews and wild cards that ribbed Sondheim's contemporaries. (Jerome Robbins abandons the show to see his therapist.) Sondheim also collected antique
Timothy Olyphant in Go, a Christmas movie
Final night of Hannukah candles
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young
First night of Hanukkah candles on the 🕎
Geoffrey, Darren and Richard from Slings and Arrows
Old-fashioned subway train with man in a hat
Festive subway sign reading “New York Transit Museum Holiday train”
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Calls Somalis 'Garbage' in Anti-Immigrant Tirade
The Mind-Body Problem cartoon by Roz Chast
Image of controversial Pilates ad woman with worried eyebrows
I'm just a great composer And not a violent man But I lost my composure And I shot Ferdinand Crying "it's well and kosher to say you don't understand but this is for Holland-Dozier-Holland" His last words were We don't know anything His fading words were We don't know anything
Midsummer shot of woman crying surrounded by other women