Jonathan Lack

My review of YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING is up now at Fade to Lack. Took me a while to wrangle the magnitude of this film into a coherent reaction, and even as I went deep and got personal, I still only feel like I scratched the surface. www.jonathanlack.com/p/review-you...

At some point soon, this won’t even be a controversial view. The government’s relationship with SpaceX as it stands right now is untenable. www.thebulwark.com/p/nationaliz...

In a time of rising antisemitism, we could use an organization dedicated to opposing it. Instead we have the ADL, which shrugs at Sieg Heils and anti-Jewish slurs at the top levels of govt to fixate on this. I grew up a few miles from Brighton Beach, and we called the area "Russian," not "Jewish."

Here's a direct link to House Dem's Judiciary Cmte report. The executive summary begins: "A growing body of evidence demonstrates that Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s." democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

691 words about Cheesecake. 434 words about rape.

Not a big story, it's just the Attorney General working with an imprisoned pedophile to help cover up the pedophile President's crimes conducted with his best friend for 15 years, a pedophile who the President sent, as a birthday card, a drawing of a naked adolescent girl.

PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE Episode 24 of NEON GENESIS EVANGELION I am confident I am right about this and may have even started a little video project about it once but I will not be taking further questions at this time.

Eric Bauza is a colossal loss. Just on the level of talent, I think the assumption is we’d never have another Mel Blanc, capable of doing all those voices - and yet, there he was, doing them beautifully. And on a personal level - seems like he was an amazing person. Gone so so much too soon.

I don’t expect a Theranos whistleblower to be an expert in nonfiction cinema any more than I am in medical testing, but John Grierson defined documentary a century ago as “the creative treatment of actuality” and that’s still a good place to start

I choose to see the upside of this as a great moment for people to learn what a documentary is (hint: this is wrong)

there are a lot of options to make old archival photos pop that aren't this!

The fact of the matter is GTA VI is entering a meaningfully smaller console market than GTA V did in 2013 (when there were about 160 million PS3+360s, versus about 130 million PS5+XSs today), and the idea one game - no matter what it is - will change that trajectory is, well, *unsupported.*

This is eminently reasonable, extremely well-argued, and essential reading. Erin is correct about all of this, and it is doubly urgent given what we've seen in the UK. 2026 is the time to correct the Dems about this. 2028 may be too late.

Josh Turek made the calculation that he doesn't need the votes of trans people or our friends and allies, so I say we see if his calculation is right. But no one in their right mind would ever vote for a candidate that would take away their daily medication. You shouldn't expect it of trans people.

You all have seen Erin and I fiercely clash over tactics over the years, but this piece makes a wholly reasonable ask that I also endorse. The four in the header image especially suck shit.

Some folks have really tied themselves into knots with this belief bordering on zealotry that the release of the New Big Game is going to have millions and millions of new people buying current gen consoles next month that they'll twist every single piece of info into that story no matter what.

The other big win for the anti-authoritarian side tonight, and something I need to read up on much more, because it’s an incredible and inspiring story.

John Oliver called JD Vance a “fucking cunt” multiple times tonight, on a story about the plague of Nazi-ism in the GOP, which is a pretty perfect way to celebrate his first show after Skydance bought HBO. Using the Ellison dollars to call these Nazis what they are is a good start.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

Just went to a retail GameStop for a piece of my son’s Halloween costume. If you’re young and wondered what the final days of Blockbuster looked like, you can get a taste of the experience right now at your local strip mall

If the Kansas Dems - one of the only Dem groups that’s proven they can win in deep red territory - can say this, then folks like Turek in Iowa have no excuse (besides genuinely held bigotry).

Our Tomino-thon episode on GUNDAM F91 premiered overnight because I messed up the scheduling - but that means you get to listen to one of my favorite eps of the season, on a movie I love dearly no matter its flaws, a little bit early! youtu.be/g4KTFTPTlOM?...

What I wrote about Gavin Newsom a year ago is never more applicable to several Democrats today. I foresaw this coming, and I continue to hold this true.

Something I wish more people would realize.

Ashamed to admit I am the kind of SAW fan who clicked through this, went “oh, it’s the theatrical cuts, not the unrated versions,” and closed my browser. I have become a snob about SAW edits. What am I anymore?

I encourage any future Dem President to think along these lines and keep pressing until the other side is willing to accept a return of the rule of law. Unilateral disarmament doesn't work bsky.app/profile/gran...

seems like "on the orders of a nazi every major news outlet on the planet hounded an innocent man to death because he's black" should be one of the biggest stories of the year

Sorry still thinking of $1,200-$1,800 dollar console just conceptually. Those are Real Computer numbers. You can just get a real computer for that kinda cash. The entire premise of the console is “this is a baby computer you don’t control but it’s standardized and affordable” but they can’t do that.

Vivek Ramaswamy ran an ad attacking his opponent for being raped as a child. But he's also one of the few Republican politicians who is still allowed within 200 feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.

Holy fuck did they have a vision for a post-Reaper War Mass Effect. It's super bittersweet, but I'm glad all this info is coming out. The team deserves to have their work appreciated, and EA deserves the shit that's going to be thrown at them for cancelling such a promising game.

Good news indeed. Would be great for at least one longstanding developer with a big legacy to survive the 2026 bloodletting.

Remarkable. I don't know how to explain what journalism is to two of the largest media outlets in America. Journalism is not repeating an obvious, comical lie, then tacking on who said it at the end.

Trump didn't like Ramaswamy until he saw him sticking up for child rapists and their enablers. He hated the Ivy League until Cornell had a prominent fraternity gang-rape story in the news. He's not just a rapist, not just a serial rapist—he's a rape *enthusiast,* and it's why Republicans love him.