05 Jul 2026 Reading time: 2 minutes
Four pressure tests: a polite reunion that turns into psychological revenge, teenagers chasing a classmate’s murder past the official story, a pilot forced to turn a crash landing into a rescue mission, and a president fighting the clock to turn wartime necessity into constitutional change.
Simon and Robyn’s new life starts to unravel when Gordo, an old acquaintance from Simon’s past, returns with gifts, awkward friendliness, and unfinished history. The thriller keeps shifting the moral ground under its characters, asking how long a buried cruelty can stay buried when the victim refuses to disappear.
After a classmate is murdered, Addison refuses to accept the easy explanation and begins his own investigation with Phoebe beside him. The movie blends grief, teen uncertainty, and amateur detective work into a story about how quickly a search for justice can become obsession.
Pilot Brodie Torrance saves his passengers from a storm by landing on a remote island, only to discover the crash was the easy part. With the passengers threatened by armed rebels, he has to trust a prisoner in transit and make fast choices where duty, survival, and judgment collide.
Steven Spielberg narrows Abraham Lincoln’s story to the final months of the Civil War and the political battle to pass the Thirteenth Amendment. It plays less like a statue coming to life than a procedural about compromise, conscience, pressure, and the cost of turning moral clarity into law.
27 Jun 2026 Reading time: 1 minute 
I’m endorsing Francesca Hong for Governor of Wisconsin.
Fran is a state representative, single mom, restaurant worker, chef, community organizer, and democratic socialist. She is running the kind of campaign Democrats need: rooted in working people, not corporate PACs, billionaires, or self-funding.
Her agenda is exactly right: universal childcare, paid leave for all, fully funded public schools, free school meals, fairer and cheaper healthcare, affordable housing, a $20 minimum wage, and making the ultra-rich pay their fair share.
Wisconsin deserves a governor who knows what working families are up against and is willing to fight for something bigger than cautious politics as usual.
I’m proud to endorse Francesca Hong. Please donate, volunteer, and spread the word.
26 Jun 2026 Reading time: 3 minutes
Six stories about pressure closing in: a crime-scene cleaner who may have erased the truth, a linguist asked to decode visitors from beyond Earth, a negotiator pulled into a Federal Reserve heist, a jury room where one dissenting voice changes everything, a psychiatrist recruited into CIA mind-control experiments, and a steelworker chasing justice through a broken Rust Belt economy.
Tom Cutler makes a living cleaning up death scenes, but one job at a wealthy home leaves him wondering whether he has destroyed evidence in a murder cover-up. The thriller works best as a story about procedure, guilt, and the danger of being useful to powerful people before you understand what they are hiding.
When alien ships appear around the world, linguist Louise Banks is brought in to find a way to communicate before fear turns first contact into war. Denis Villeneuve turns science fiction into a meditation on language, grief, time, and how much of the future we would choose if we could understand it in advance.
A Federal Reserve robbery forces an NYPD negotiator and an FBI agent into an uneasy partnership with a criminal mastermind who seems to be playing several games at once. As a sequel to Inside Man, it keeps the focus on leverage, misdirection, and how a heist can become an argument over buried history.
Eleven jurors are ready to convict a young defendant, but one holdout insists that reasonable doubt deserves a conversation. Sidney Lumet’s classic shows how justice can depend on patience, humility, and the willingness to challenge certainty when everyone else wants the room to empty.
A psychiatrist is recruited into a CIA program testing LSD and mind-control techniques on vulnerable patients inside a rural hospital. Built around the real MK-Ultra experiments, the film asks how quickly scientific language and patriotic secrecy can become cover for abuse.
Russell Baze returns from prison to a collapsing steel town and a brother pulled into a violent underground fight world. The revenge plot is grim, but the deeper weight comes from jobs disappearing, institutions failing, and working-class loyalty being pushed into desperation.
22 Jun 2026 Reading time: 1 minute 
I’m endorsing Melat Kiros for Congress in Colorado’s 1st District.
The era of “any Democrat will do” is over. CO‑01 deserves a representative who is willing to say exactly where she stands: with the people, not corporate PACs or AIPAC.
Melat is a lawyer, PhD student, democratic socialist, immigrant, and Denverite running on the kind of agenda this moment calls for: Medicare for All, Housing First, universal child and elder care, abolishing ICE, an arms embargo, taxing the rich, labor rights, reproductive justice, LGBTQIA+ rights, and getting money out of politics.
That is the kind of clear, working-class, anti-establishment politics Democrats need more of.
I’m proud to endorse Melat Kiros. If you’re in Denver, please pledge to vote by June 30. Everyone else: donate, volunteer, and spread the word.
