I find the apathy about Trump’s wholesale corruption - by US and overseas institutions- among the most perturbing indicators about our current era.

Imagine going through life and being this upset about people showcasing their culture with joy and beauty. I watched the Super Bowl halftime show last night and had the exact opposite reaction. It was just about the most patriotic I have felt in months, a salute to the best of what the US can be.

My bladder, liver and lack of self-respect.

Clearly an allusion to 'Green, Green, Grass of Home,' famously song by saucily handsome Welsh singer Tom Jones, who'd later assault your ears with a tone deaf cover of Prince's 'Kiss' (not the novel's inspiration)... [is what I would write if i was as culturally as illiterate as whoever wrote this]

If you’re like me and you didn’t most of the references in the halftime show, this thread is a great way to find out. I love to learn

I loved this so much. The idea to bring in the cane (both in prop and human form) to ground the surroundings is fucking genius. The only thing I can think of that packs anything like this much import into 13 or so minutes is...Kendrick last year and this topped it (swung bigger and hit the target)

I was asked to check this, the journal uses a Rail Fence Cipher, so you read each line up and down, left to right. The deciphered text in the article below is accurate, and names names. The file itself can be found here: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Ever true

Two Dumb Bitches Telling Each Other Exactlyyyy: Endgame

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Getting ready to go to NY and come back ( land have music to spare to go to NY and come back and go to NY and come back). #petheads

Everyone, but one: never tweet The President, sundowning; always be tweeting

And if they do it

Bon Ivero

The Raid: Redemption

The Statham movie version of his rescue would kick so much ass

David Gelernter: this is "how men behave"

Here me out: possible that the Treasury Secretary - who this week attended to important national business of [checks notes] recording a TikTok with Nicki (moon landing was faked) Minaj, lip-synching an uncensored 'Beez in the Trap' - may not be up on less important matters like CZ, pardons, and QPQs

I worked with a brilliant, beautiful, blonde lawyer who used this version of blindness to devastating effect. She was so good with her stiletto they didn't even see the blade

I bet Trump has told plenty of people during his life he'd pull out when he had no intention of doing so

As Prince of Darkness it's part of Dracula's role to make sure that no one in Transylvania has neck bites.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Transformative work of the day:

He's tweeting through it.

Trump promises 'just the tip'

Wodehouse endures a tumblesome night, riding wave of series of nocturnal emissions, all synched to a Hierarchy of Jeeves

A paper supply wholesaler in Scranton called Maslow's Hierarchy of Creeds

That means I will both: 1) be alive (yeah!); and 2) continue to waste this life

One surprising thing, to me, about the Epstein Cinematic Universe is how virtually all the characters are bloviators, uninterested in hearing the opinions of others/disinclined to share the mic. That many grandstanders, all together, should not work... 1/

A dodgy real estate investment firm called Maslow's Hierarchy of Leads.

Spy Magazine subscribers view the Trump presidencies the same way Marty McFly would if he found out Biff was the President in Back to the Future 3

Me, anytime Bill Ackman speaks.

part of the administration’s problem with having no tact, no chill, and no self-restraint is that it lands them in front of republican appointees who are like “what the fuck am i supposed to do with this”

1000%

Ken!

This is my last day of enforced morality! [I will gladly submit to enforced morality; this is exhausting; could you send me a townhouse cracker or a girl scout cookie at about nine thirty pm to remind me to go sleepies?]

What's the world record for time a pair pretended to enjoy/endure spending time together? [Compare/contrast with, say, Mick and Keith, where the schism is acknowledged]

I say I am seeing $35 in "damages" for this photo creeping up on me without enough warning.

Would a depressed person forget whether they had already masturbated today?

Brett Ratner: we had the 'best composer' [presumably, an analog of legendary, but presently-challenged, Dante Spinotti] Composer is [checks notes] Tony Nieman. No Wikipedia entry (i.e., he's no Morricone). He is: "a ... composer known for his work on The Gifted and People Magazine Investigates"

[Bari Weiss thinking] I could score a lot of points off Choitner

Or fictional places named after law enforcement (Sheriff Country)

Old enough to remember when Spike Lee had a merch shop on Melrose Ave.

The person to watch is David Rubenstein, who has poured millions in philanthropy into the Kennedy Center, is not going to be pleased about this, and has money, ego, and patriotism long enough to sustain a long-ass legal battle. Particularly since his cash isn't crypto.

'Financing is completed' is the new 'Funding secured'

Heroes come in many forms and this is one of them