More A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS casting! Based on the novel, not the play. ;) I would love to see the play though variety.com/2026/film/ne...

I can despise Benjamin Netanyahu and his governing coalition with just as much verve. And I can do it without rushing to utilize his faith as the main descriptor. The tell is Trump is not marked as an unscrupulous Christian, but a member of the "Epstein" class. Raw anti-Semitism. Fuck this asshole.

In retrospect, seems bad that we played Fox News 24/7 on USAmerican military bases worldwide for the last 25 years.

“If they can automatically enroll men into the draft at 18, they can automatically register Americans to vote at 18. Ask yourself why they won’t” Josh H.

So amateur. The time to say this is Tuesday post genocidal rant and pre utter capitulation.

But it does highlight how much pre-Trump American political differences, however fierce, took place in the context of a shared commitment to some basic liberal-democratic values. Inshallah some of that sticks for a while if and when the horrors subside.

High five to everyone who has suffered from anxiety, burnout, and depression without even once stealing 0-days from their employer and selling them to the Russians. www.zetter-zeroday.com/trenchant-ex...

vance is so personally off putting that even foreign electorates want nothing to do with him

Happy Shoulda Finished The Job Day

When we take back power, I do not want unity or healing, I want revenge. I also don't want a lecture on "but that's just like Trump, he wanted revenge." He was wrong, we are right. It's different. Get a moral compass. Revenge or sit down. Call it "justice" if you must, it's that too.

Google has created a misinformation crisis. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Yah, what really struck me about these photos over ones from the past is seeing the atmosphere -- how thin it is, the colors in it, and also how seemingly clear the break is between it and space.

Wait, Amelie is from the 00s? (it is, 2001) At a certain age everything between 1995 and 2016 feels like it was the same decade.

“You’re alienating half of your audience by being political” Motherfucker, my “audience” is people who aren’t pieces of shit, who care about others. That’s who I make stuff for. There is no “other half”.

Perhaps if they upgraded the treaty from being signed on Truth/Social and Twitter to Threads it'd have more force.

I once used Google image search to find a picture of Gene Wilder and Gene Hackman together in the backseat of a car in BONNIE & CLYDE only for Google AI to tell me that while they were friends, they were never in a movie together…next to said fucking picture of them in a fucking movie together.

NYC is the greatest city in the world to just walk.

It's embarrassing to not read the terms of a peace treaty when they're all 280 characters or less.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk: Victor Orbán’s minister offered Sergey Lavrov to send him EU documents through the Hungarian embassy in Moscow. It’s really beyond shocking.

If one's country were so great, other nations would be lining up to join it like they do for the E.U. Russia, China, and Trumpistan should learn this. But of course they know they aren't, thus all the invasions and threats.

lol, asking FIFA to take a moral stance you'd have a better shot with the Penguin

The reason the press loves Trump is because he is an absolute content factory. Like if you had a 24/7 World Series going where every single player was drunk.

Stop calling him a master strategist. He may have wrecked his economy, failed to change a regime and had to make a massive "goodwill gesture", but he has NOT taken 1.3 million casualties doing it. 😤

Don't taco Tuesday this shit. Millions of people spent the day wondering if they would get vaporized, and no one in our government stood up to him. Nothing cutesy about it.

They're walking him so much that Ohtani is going to get fat

amazing to me how many Very Serious People kept trying to pretend there was a plan here

One thing I very much worry about is that Trump will eventually react to all the TACO stuff by committing insane levels of war crimes and getting tens of thousands of people murdered.

Well, losing a war to Iran and having to withdraw from the Gulf would be one way to finally do that pivot to Asia

Technically speaking the strait is open so long as you're willing to give Iran $2M per ship (and Oman I suppose). And technical speech is the best kind of speech.

I think the point is actually that Donald Trump is a deeply unwell man who is increasingly out of control and disconnected from reality and his allies on Fox News and elsewhere saying "listen, Dementia Grandpa just says shit sometimes" is both true & not the defense they think it is

A speaker tells the story of how Hugh Thompson intervened to stop the My Lai massacre. Genocide, says the speaker, relies on obedience. He hopes his words reach servicepeople who must decide whether to commit war crimes.

You get to the end of the article when all the advisors are in the room and see that Trump has surrounded himself with cowards and sycophants.

Seems doubly weird coming from guys so wedded to an adolescent caricature of machismo. But there’s a line from Foucault in Discipline & Punish that I keep thinking of about the way people take a perverse pride in the reflected strength implied by their own subjugation & submission.

No decent human being or believer in American values does this. Vance should be exiled to Russia.

Yo, @washingtonpost.com, I used to be a subscriber. Now you're a fascist collaborator. Has your subscription base gone the way of CBS News's viewership yet? Bezos should look up how Petain ended.

Trump decision-making algorithm:

Like Project Hail Mary being presented as "non-political" ideals of joy, international teamwork, and diversity are so clearly morally and meritocratically correct, that they have become baked into our outlooks to the point where they're no longer political, even though they are absolutely political.

A blockade is an act of war so you'd be declaring war on China, India, the EU, and whoever else is using the strait.

One other issue is I'm not rich and got about 200 bucks a year to dedicate to news subscriptions. I used to subscribe to NY Times and Washington Post, but the post is run by a fascist collaborator now and the Times keeps whitewashing and both-sidesing insanity and the destruction of the republic.

But I don’t know how you compete in a world where producing journalism is expensive and producing perfectly legal instantanous knock-offs of a news story is effectively free.

The two least-bad options right now seem to be (1) Pray there are enough public-spirited donors to make nonprofit journalism viable, and (2) Use journalism as a kind of loss-leader prestige brand & make your actual revenue selling some kind of parasocial experience around the journalism.

One great thing about 1929 is that it launched 24 years of Democratic presidency, the defeat of global fascism, and the death of 5 million Nazis.

Absolutely batshit!

Modeled after Putin's Russia -- suck the nation dry enriching oligarchs and tossing bodies at Ukraine while raw sewage runs through the streets in the places where those soldiers are drafted.

the capital of a country that until recently was a key Russian ally in the Middle East.

Jesus. Denuding your military to give control of the region to a country that wasn't a significant threat. Trump better at least get a Trump Tower Beijing and Trump Tower Shanghai out of this level of gifting to Xi.

This Reddit post is formatted like a joke but it’s actually a very dry recitation - at times, direct quotes - of America’s public war strategy over the last month. This can’t go on. This is deranged. Impeach and imprison.

Was feeling melancholy, but then I dug up Theoden with an undercut from my vault of memes

Bracketing the Trump delusions, these people have convinced themselves that they're unappreciated geniuses who have unraveled the secret connections behind all things and that's why they vote against normie dems like Harris/Biden/Waltz and the wholly imagined cabal running the world.