We already love JP Brammer of ¡Hola Papi!, and I at least was definitely not ever going to see Megalopolis. So let's all cherish Brammer's review:

Megalopolis is not a subtle film. So it's all the more impressive that it still manages to be deeply confusing. Characters slip into reciting Shakespeare for no particular reason. Actual Hitler shows up. There's a narrator, who is also Catilina's chauffeur (or, perhaps, Adam's Driver?), played by Laurence Fishburne, who helpfully explains themes and motifs when the imagery gets too complicated for us to understand, like the scene in which a statue of Lady Justice lies forlorn in a slum, burdened beneath heavy chains. In instances like these, Fishburne tells us in his deep, commanding voice that we are in a place where there is no justice.

The whole thing is great.

The most grave and reverend Signor Alex requests the pleasure of DQ and others' company this evening around seven of the clock in the city of San Francisco.

Plan away here!

- Pet elections that you'd recommend for donations?
- Want to toot your own horn on how you're volunteering?
- What are you doing for distraction/compartmentalizing?

I am mostly being an utter ostrich on the fact that (despite everything), it is possible to lose this election. But every now and then the possibility wallops me and I feel like dropping to my knees in utter despair.

Maybe another Hurricane thread?

Walk me through the ideal progressive way to mitigate the climate disaster for people living in fire/hurricane/flooding etc places. Domestically and also internationally. Should we be relocating people? Incentivizing? Subsidizing? Where to? Springfield, I guess?

A friend of mine loosely connected to Austin Peay in Tennessee passed along the story of this white supremacist, Logan Michael Smith, who was hired and then found out to be a secret white supremacist.

This piece of journalism is an amazing, very deep dive into unmasking and identifying this one particular fucker, and then making sure everyone knows exactly who he is.

Mossy sends in What are Wisconsin's ghost ports?

Using historic plat maps and coastal charts, they looked for anything resembling a pier or an old road that headed straight to the shoreline or a post office in the vicinity. They conducted aerial surveillance to see if anything was hiding under the surface.

Once they discovered something pier-esque, Rosebrough and the team began scouring historical newspapers online. They pulled genealogical records and tax records "to reconstruct histories of places that have mostly been forgotten," Rosebrough said.

I really feel like pier-esque ought to have been a preëxisting word.