This is bananas.

A movie that was nominated for a ton of Oscars (12!) and won 3 of them that feels pretty relevant to right now, and yet is not discussed anywhere that I've seen is Warren Beatty's "Reds".

Do I think this is pure ratfuckery for the Democrat's Golden Boy? Kinda! I hope Beshear is a dirty little ratfucker, doing this simply to force McConnell into more embarrassing public proof of life shit. If McConnell weren't a piece of shit, I'd decry that sort of tactic. But he is.

I had never heard the tale of Hamm's brewing magnate heir William Hamm getting kidnapped off the streets of St. Paul.

I'm so disconnected from Twitter at this point when I see someone here refer to "The Bird App" it takes me a minute to realize they aren't talking about Merlin.

It is Sunday morning, and I'm still thinking about my co-worker who walked past me while I was air-guitaring in my chair with headphones. At BEST, it looked like I was air guitaring.

I hope Mee-Maw is doing OK.

At least he got to go to Disney World.

Genuinely shocked. Not sad, of course. Just shocked. I think if you took a poll on the next Senator to die, it would be 98% McConnell, with 2% picking someone else because they think he's already dead, and it wouldn't be sporting to pick him.

I think pandas bumble.

You ever screw up so bad that Amnesty International calls you an asshole? Me, neither.

Host: "Welcome to our New Dating Show! Welcome our first Bachelor, Jon! Jon, what makes you special?" Jon: I've heard other men talk about being "heartbreakers" but I prefer to think of myself as a "Heart Mender." CROWD BOOS Host: Jon, you sound like a piece of shit. Good booing, audience.

If these subpoenas don't get tossed immediately, start flashing the RED LIGHT extremely brightly. Coming after (let's face it) a center-right institutionalist media source like the NYT means they will come after ANYBODY. As obvious of an authoritarian move against the press as one could ask for.

If cities around the country are trusting this Eddie Haskell looking motherfucker, that is on them.

This case was so stupid and so clearly meant to send a message of intimidation to public officials who disapproved of the way Trump is misusing ICE. The only good thing about the result is that the Feds didn't get the jail time they were hoping for. We need more Hannah Dugans out there.

I didn't need another reason to root for Norway, but always happy to have more reasons.

The wide variety of options in the tubed meat isle. Hot dogs? Sure? Kielbasa? Fuck yeah. Bratwurst? Better believe it. Spicy breakfast sauage? Oh god yes. Give us your poor huddled masses, and feed us your homeland's tubed meats.

As a white person, I feel I can say this - this is offensively honkified.

The "Setting Off Fireworks at 2 AM because it was raining at 10 PM" Demographic is 100% Dudes, yes?

If the Timberwolves sign LeBron James, Tim Connelly should immediately run for Mayor of Minneapolis, at the very least.

MSNOW put together collection of clips of Fox anchors talking in front of the Great American State Fair.

ICYMI: Alex Jones popped like a balloon. Get the real story at www.theonion.info.

NEVER! (Hmm? time to rewatch MurderBot?)

There is a small, small part of me that will acknowledge that the FBI, in the past, on a few occasions, has done some good law enforcement work. Another part of me thinks of Hoover's FBI, and this doesn't seem particularly far off from attempting to blackmail MLK Jr. And as fruitless.

Here's my Crazy American Take: as much as the Trump Administration SUCKS, and as much as America has problems, the USA is a better host for the World Cup than either Qatar or Russia. I find it surprising that people take issue with that, but here we are.

Agreed! That's why it is heartening (to me) that American citizens are showing up at those facilities and protesting loudly, and forcing many of them to shut down. Work to do, but we aren't being quiet about this shit, either.

70 years old? Jesus Christ.

For @amockingbird.bsky.social, I shall sing the song of The Pizza Delivery guy who I never met, but I worked at the same place, and heard the story from guys who worked with him (he was fired for this.) How an innocent, perhaps not too bright, Pizza Delivery Guy almost faced kidnapping charges. 1/?

OOPS!

mad how the defining cultural image of Steamboat Willie is Mickey whistling and driving the boat, and not the bit where he plays a pig's nipples as a musical instrument while it shrieks in pain

bananas shit from Algeria and Austria.

If Enrique Tarrio is in Belfast, I'd simply hope he's never seen again. Because he went to live on a farm, of course. I'm not wishing him harm.

Oh, that's a shame.

This is great stuff right here.

Friendly reminder: buy physical media, whenever possible.

Iranian Hugh Jackman deserved that goal.

GODAMMIT, ANTIFA has struck again.

FYI: Exonyms are not inherently problematic. Many nations have multiple languages residing in them. It's OK that nations have multiple names! You are not a colonizer if you call "Österreich" Austria, I promise. There may be other reasons you are a colonizer, but this ain't it.

Hey, uh, this seems pretty dispositive re: RFK lying during his confirmation hearings. Could be grounds for impeachment. Could we maybe get started on that, before he gets to fully implement his eugenics plans?

Joe Scally-wag.

The three players in this photo: 1. Nigerian heritage, grew up in England, and is only a citizen thanks to birthright citizenship. 2. Born + raised in Holland, has a dad who immigrated to the US from Suriname. 3. Said he wanted to “make people who look like me proud” while playing on Juneteenth

You wanna open a can of worms, asked a British person about Count Binface. Holy shit.

Salah Sarsour, president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque, has been released from ICE detention after a federal judge cited “extraordinary circumstances.” Sarsour had been held in Indiana for more than two months while his case proceeds. Read more from WPR: wisconsinwatch.org/2026/06/milw...

OK, so we've nailed down the Artificial part of Artificial Intelligence; maybe time to work on the Intelligence part a bit more. Right now, it would fall for the Wallet Inspection trick.

I already have the Gumby theme song running through my head a shocking amount of the time. If I lived here, I would absolutely lose it. Side note: Drinkin' with Prickle would be fun.

It says something about my mental health that when it felt like a bug was crawling on my arm, I was relieved to discover that there was in fact a bug on my arm.

Ah, way back when the future President was just a churlish, racist piece of shit, mere weeks before he met Roy Cohn, who taught him how to weaponize it.

Thoughts on the WC today: 1. Haiti has some great last names: Expérience, Providence, Fortuné. 2. Scott McTominay has 80's Ski Movie Villain Energy. 3. Australia beating Türikye low key hurts the US. 4. Pretty sure Arda Güler is gonna do a cool thing at some point.

Some day, I'd like to appear as a guest panelist on ESPN's First Take, and react to every debate topic with "That's dumb" or "Who cares?" and then just sit in silence. I think it would be good for the show, too.

KAT: "Shoutout to my brother Anthony Edwards talking to him all the time. Those guys made me better, they made me a better leader, they made me a better player, made me the man I am today. Forever grateful for them"