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Jim had wanted to direct the movie himself, but had been persuaded that, for the Muppets' first foray into film, a more experience director was probably needed. Jim selected James Frawley, a director of comedies and TV shows like The Monkees. He would be a good fit.

OTD in 1979, THE MUPPET MOVIE opened in theaters across the United States. Jim Henson noted (with typical understatement) that its reception was "Great!" and it was one of the most profitable films of the decade. But getting the Muppets to the big screen in the first place was hard work.

I mean, I’m not brain smart but it seems to me you stop fascists from rising to power by doing bold things that will make life materially better for everyone so they don’t blame being poor on poorer people.

In general this is what happens, the DCCC bigfoots into a seat, and when they lose they pull all the support they were planning for the general election. And when the remaining candidate is battered with no help, and loses, the DCC goes "see we told you they weren't a good candidate"

Whether it's trans rights or Palestine or immigration or improving services or fixing wealth inequality or (long list continues), it's all the same thing really. Voters who voted Labour did so because they figured Starmer and Labour would be on their side. He wasn't and they weren't.

Boooooo

I don’t know a lot of German words but I do know that one

"The nature of Trump’s personalist presidency, in which the entire govt is organized around turning his whims into reality and the barest hint of dissent is swiftly punished, makes the question of his age *even more important* than it was with Biden, who was surrounded by competent people."

Everybody is gonna be mad at me Because 1) this is why “I hate Trump” sucks as a Shibboleth 2) Dems , Libs and Radicals are terrible national communicators , have abandoned helping FACILITATE national convos and this is why they are prey to this 3) yes this about our acceptance of bigotry

A fascinating discussion between Adam Harris and Adam Serwer about birthright citizenship. “One of the authors of the 14th Amendment, John Bingham, said that ‘the purpose of this is to get rid of the horrid blasphemy that America is a White man’s country.’” @adamserwer.bsky.social @adamhsays.com

Side note: live your life in a way that doesn’t make your last name (Quisling) a noun that means treasonous collaborator. (Like say running Norway for the Nazis)

My neighbor told me a cat keeps eating his british prime minister so I asked how many PMs he has and he said he just goes to the commons and gets a new PM afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding PMs to a cat and then his daughter started crying.

Classic John Madden moment. "Did you ever notice that heavy guys are always pulling up their pants? It seems like skinny guys ought to pull up their pants all the time, but heavy guys pull up their pants." youtu.be/mgw0fCG1-zQ?...

they said it couldn’t be done, but we’re doing it, folks. the lexus december to remember sales event is coming to tehran, and you hear it so much

Alan Greenspan was a hack ideologue who did unspeakable damage to the economy and who created much of the terrible inequality of the New Gilded Age we face today. He also may have had sex with Ayn Rand. Good riddance to bad rubbish. My obituary is here. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/06/rare...

Bruce Campbell’s birthday today

This is like learning about how Samuel Beckett used to drive Andre the Giant to school when he was a kid

[some kid in 2226 halfway through Le Mort’e du Donald by Maggie Haberman] man this shit sucks bsky.app/profile/pwna...

Countries with pyramids are currently undefeated in the World Cup

This Father's Day, I'm thinking about how my dad immigrated to the US after escaping the bloody Vietnam War, only to see his bloodline die out because his son stumbled into a menswear forum, where he spent the bulk of his adult life arguing about pants with teens named Pablo Thriftscobar.

Neutrality is inclusivity that makes space for bigotry

MAYBE STOP FUCKING WITH HISTORY TEACHING THEN

gasp, is that at least verbalized support for the study of the dreaded humanities

i think the non-college Latino/Asian defections are real but i think it's going to revert as the party gets more outright hostile to minority interests: i don't think the Trump-era of multiracial populism outlives him

Tomorrow, all dads are 50% off

Holy fuck

Cape Verde has a population of roughly 42. That they can put together a World Cup qualifying team is insane enough. This is fantastic. I am cheering for you, you green-ass islands.

genuinely unbelievable that as individuals we just have no choice but to tolerate that there are sometimes just malfunctioning unguided missiles zooming around the streets at absurd rates of speed because a few people think it’s cool

CABO VERDE WE ARE WITH YOU

is holdin a lil plushy 😭

NO. This is just a set up to make taxpayers bail out this shitty industry when the bubble pops. Also a way to help kill the copyright lawsuits against these terrible companies. Hell no. Make them pay and let them die.

who needs to worry about genocide when you can rotate a perfect golden sphere of cumming shrimp in your mind palace forever

Rhode Island is a special place with a LOT of culture, come visit.

This quote from the power broker really hit me

tired of the "#1 dad" nonsense. if you're a dad, stop treating it like a joke and post your actual national dad ranking. i'm # 492,018, which is actually really high up there, but more importantly it lets me enter ranked dad lobbies where i can get matched up for fistfights with dads of my caliber

When Bowie attended Peter Sellers’ 50th birthday party in Los Angeles, he put together an impromptu group called ‘Trading Faces’ - including Bowie (saxophone), Bill Wyman (bass), Ron Wood (guitar), Joe Cocker (vocals), Jesse Ed Davis (guitar), Keith Moon (organ, vocal, drums).

Happy Father's Day 🖤

I’d been hearing that Irantifa was behind it

Where’s Charles Dickens when you need him? Chuck would’ve written this the SHIT outta this

Please submit a comment on this proposed set of funding rules by July 13, it'll allow the cancellation of any federal grant and block spending if applicants or institutions don't pass a political litmus test (like supporting trans ppl whatsoever). www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM...

Research has shown that dogs are more intelligent than we think. But not all of them.

Some amazing behind the scenes look at the practical effects on Fallout! It's great to see this kind of artisry filming in Los Angeles! #filmsky #moviesky #behindthescenes

Only one of these four headlines hints at the most important aspect of this story, which is that the president tells preposterous lies to avoid responsibility for his endless fuck-ups.

Haven’t seen a dedicated crew of Saudis crash and burn on American soil since…well,

Cc'ing you on the notes I took on this criminal fucking conspiracy

Inquisition is on