Toby Muse
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KILO: Inside the Cocaine Cartels has now been translated into ten languages. Filmmaker, authour, foreign correspondent.
Paul Schrader appears to be grieving his wife's death in the most Paul Schrader way possible, by attending a weeklong ayahuasca retreat in Costa Rica and posting Facebook updates like "First aya dosage tonight. Vomitted but no high. No visions. Six hours of boredom."
@NFTC_News I walked into the CVS on 12th street yesterday as 30 kids were absolutely looting the candy and drink isle. Staff just watched and said it happens weekly. Won’t be long before they close I’m sure.
BREAKING: The S&P 500 is now set to open above 6,800, trading just 2.9% away from a new record high. The index has added +$1.6 TRILLION today.
Ingraham: Tonight’s news is bad news for Democrats. They thought they had Trump in a box but the last laugh will be on them.
Evening viewing recommendation? On @criterionchannl, watch OUT OF THE PAST (1947) in our Jacques Tourneur collection! 🖤 bit.ly/4bZw94W Everything you want in a film noir you’ll find here: a tenacious detective (Robert Mitchum) spinning his wheels to make good, a drop-dead beauty (Jane Greer) up to no good, and a moneyed mobster (Kirk Douglas) with a shark’s grin, plus double crosses, fall guys, shadowy rooms, and bleak souls.
AXIOS: Democrats weighing runs for the White House want to forget many of the positions they took in 2020 — and they're hoping voters will too. Party leaders have shifted on border security, DEI, crime, climate change, COVID lockdowns, and more, ahead of the midterms and 2028 election. Many Democrats believe they lost to Donald Trump in 2024 because voters didn't like some of their left-leaning policies, not just how they were communicated. axios.com/2026/04/05/dem…
These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.
Shelly Kittleson is a penniless freelance journalist. She was snatched off the street in Baghdad this week. Kidnapping her is totally pointless, in addition to being criminal and cowardly. x.com/alexplitsas/st…
Farmers shooting at an American helicopter today. Perhaps the stupidest thing I’ve seen: the media claiming plastic surgeons in LA, and has been comedians in London, are somehow representative of these people. It genuinely feels like we never learn.
Scoop: @SecWar Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement, sources familiar with the decision told @CBSNews.
RT if you miss having a President with a functioning brain.
One reason for our moment of cultural stagnation: if people can't make a living working in culture - music, cinema, journalism, literature, documentaries - the talented have options, they go elsewhere. The only ones making anything will soon be the children/spouses of the rich.
It’s hard to make a living as a writer: fellowship money dries up, freelance rates keep dropping, and book advances aren’t what they used to be. Our new issue features a forum on the side hustles that journalists, novelists, and poets take on to survive. thebaffler.com/odds-and-ends/…
