Charles Mudede

If catastrophe strikes on Tuesday, and all you can see is four years of gloom and more gloom, then it might be the right time to take a ferry to Bainbridge for two reasons. One, the November-colored waters of Elliott Bay will match and maybe even soothe your mood. (One thing you can always depend on is the love misery has for company.) Two, there is a festival, Bainbridge Film Festival, which features a superb distraction, the comedy Micro Budget. Directed by Morgan Evans, who has worked for The Onion, the film cannot be praised for originality but for getting the most out of a concept that really should have no gas left in it: The mockumentary.

We wake up today with this certainty: None of it mattered. The secret documents, the sky-high covid deaths, January 6, the racist statement after racist statement, the economic crash, the sexual assault allegations, the pussy grabbing, Moscow, Roe v. Wade, the conviction, and what have you. All of it amounted to a hill of beans. And there will certainly be more outrages in years to come; and once again, they still will not matter one bit. If we, on the left, come to this understanding, we can move on by simply asking: What, then, does matter? What truly counts in American politics? What is its actual ground? This kind of clear thinking might prove to be invaluable.

The Stranger took a trip through the new MoPOP exhibit, and 1980s New York City.

The Democratic Party is stuck with believing in what the GOP plainly disregards: The United States of America.

One really great thing to do every day of the week!

We went to FOB Sushi the day it reopened, and Charles Mudede was bored.

Blaise Agüera y Arcas's New Book What Is Life? Evolution as Computation Picks Up Where Alan Turing Left Off

A Netflix Show Dreamed up a Luigi Mangione Nearly Two Years Before He Killed the CEO

What did Donald Trump's return to the White House make loud and clear? White votes are more important than all other votes. No other voting block has the power to return a candidate to the highest office in the land after they attempted to overthrow the government, were convicted of a crime, and paid a pornstar to keep an affair on the down low. And that’s not the half of it. On November 6, we could not look away. We had to see white supremacy (politician, billionaire, voters, the political system) in all of its hory glory.

The plot: A black CNN contributor, Muncie Daniels (Colman Domingo), is wrongly accused of killing a very popular neo-Nazi influencer Mark Simon