Are you fucking kidding me?

This is how every other country imagines life in America

Between this and Ireland’s Meta investigations, hope stays alive

Marco Rubio: 'What to get someone who has everything? I thought a crystal football' Pope: 'ok' Total lack of awareness. Leo has literally been an Augustinian most of his life, and has taken a vow of poverty.

Yo @democrats.org @padems.org I don’t want text messages and emails I never signed up for. PA gets political ads pretty much year-round and it’s intrusive. I can’t imagine it’s not counterproductive.

TCM is a gem of American television and I hope it lasts forever. @tcmtv.bsky.social #TCMParty

It’s white supremacist fascism? Is that how it’s different?

agree with @implausibleblog.bsky.social Also, is Slimer anti-Semitic now? Did I miss an odd adoption of “Ghostbusters” by the right? The way Mac the Night (McD’s moon man) is a White Supremacist now and tiki torches are the decor of choice for Yankee Doodle Nut Jobs?

pretty neat that the President is pretending his war is over, so that he and his family can grift on his trip to China.

@thebulwark.com here’s a thing stupid Dems are doing thay yanks my chain: putting up fairly unimportant bipartisan legislation with my shithead MAGA Rep, so that my MAGA Rep can run looking bipartisan.

i am so keen on this film. ‘The Odyssey’ as a proper summer blockbuster? Sign me up.

This is nuts.

oh, so it was an international billionaires’ ball and all.

Pope Leo on World Press Freedom Day: "Unfortunately, this right is often violated, sometimes flagrantly, sometimes covertly. We remember the many journalists and reporters who are victims of wars and violence."

@masnick.com My Rep is proposing this legislation to use AI to predict whether a Veteran will attempt suicide. It seems up your alley: docs.house.gov/meetings/VR/...

She may have said ‘wow’ but the British upper classes do speak in code.

“At age 19, after two failed attempts to reach the US via Honduras and Mexico, he succeeded. He received a work permit under the Temporary Protected Status program for refugees, worked as a janitor and at a UPS warehouse. He became a US citizen in 2006..." www.wvgazettemail.com/life/religio...

Any good, immersive TV recs?

My recommended read of the weekend:

Chapter 1. The Universe Chapter 2. Yeah, I called him “Jeff” (Also, love a good bookstore. Screw Bezos & the Waltons. Happy reading, all!)

I wish this man felt trapped by reality— the closest he’s come to reality in the past 26 years is his janky TV show.

Every thing I learn about these hideous people makes me think we know next-to-nothing about them. Beyond profane. Also, can someone get this scumbag a spellcheck?

“.. Really ugly consumer spending number, with nearly all of the increase going to gasoline, health care, and financial services - aka necessities.” @matthewstoller.bsky.social

How long til American taxpayers are buying out LIV? I give it a day.

Chicago Manual of style

Long-shot bets on military action made on Polymarket have a win-rate almost four times higher than the platform average, according to new research, raising fears that wagers placed by insiders could reveal classified information. Read the full story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/Zqokt5y

ICYMI: Peter Thiel is building an AI system to attack and discredit journalists who criticize Big Tech, and downrate them for protecting their sources. Yet another emergency for the open society and democracy.

EXCLUSIVE My big behind-the-scenes look into how Gov. Josh Shapiro has courted Amazon amid the mounting backlash to data centers Complete with internal emails, memos, an “exclusive” offer for help with faster permitting and a NDA no one would explain to me. My latest for @heatmap.news 😌

Josh O'Connor, on the incredible performance note he got from Steven Spielberg while shooting Disclosure Day apnews.com/article/disc...

they can't jam this pos out the door fast enough at the valuation my god *SPACEX’S STARLINK REVENUE PER USER FELL 18%: INFORMATION

Despite creating a billion-dollar franchise - with a new $200M budget Hollywood blockbuster launching in a month - the creator of He-Man's family were unable to afford his dementia and care facility costs, and had to setup a GoFundMe. Mattel gave $5,000.

This House Believes That “Moonstruck” is the First Film in ”The Fast & The Furious” Series. #LaFamilia

“A Confederacy of Dunces” seems to really be having a moment and it makes me properly happy.

@jvl.bsky.social @timmiller.bsky.social don’t know if anyone @thebulwark.com has the Christo-Fascist beat, but thought Trump‘s reading last week was a pretty funny selection. 2 Chronicles 7:11-22

Listen, I love the movie and I'm even fine with its Oscar win, but this is a lot.

We are #1

Every single guy we hate at that dinner left his wife in the dust like that scene from FORCE MAJEURE

Did not know Montemurro was here! Hits for the bullpen, but still a good day for this Cubs fan.

The most corrupt president in history:

you *know* my man Witkoff will only eat cheeseburgers in Pakistan. bitch sends his Heinz ahead of him in a diplomatic pouch. (“it has to be Heinz.”)

Lopatto is *always* worth reading

Except "Jackie Jormp-Jomp"

The Astronaut-Fighter Pilot Mark Kelly? Or like, some other Mark Kelly? IDK, but I’m pretty sure there’s an entire genre of American motion pictures devoted to valorizing the former.

A nice thing about Dick Wolf is that I don’t know anything about him. A billion TV shows made and I have no clue about that man.

Shout out to all the uncs putting it on the line for freedom. Hitting unc status does not mean it’s time to give up.

Any fans of Medea? Greek tragedies? People to follow in that zone?

This is all fascinating and an ape of what’s happened in politics, and the flip side of Geese.

Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

Congrats to Tim Cook, whose obituary will feature extended quotations from the president's uh praise