Brendan Carr got $63k in gifts from CBS/Paramount in exchange for approving their merger. That’s approximately the median salary in this country.

TWIST: Emily Wilson didn’t love Nolan’s Odyssey

There's a long list of Things That Are Actually In NJ But That New York Claims Anyway, and it starts with the statue of liberty and ends with the world cup final

At the end of The Drama, one audience member shouted "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?" so loud

The new heartstopper features the twink topping the twunk, which is gonna be huge on some segments of the internet

The new season of heartstopper pretty definitively says that handjobs count as losing your virginity. 1) virginity is a fake concept so this is all stupid but also 2) handjobs definitely don’t count

I’m baffled by the conservative freakout over The Odyssey. The message is small c conservative (“the norms passed down by our ancestors are good and built civilization. Don’t break them lest you destroy the civilization you take for granted”). The right should love it!

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Tom Holland and Zendaya will return in 'The Odyssey 2: Rise of the Sea Peoples'

I liked The Odyssey fine enough. But the critics are right that it was a bit excessive to stunt cast Meg Stalter singing Prettiest Girl in the World on a lyre as the Sirens singing their song

Said this lots of times in lots of venues, but: Trump created an enormous economy — both for money and attention — with his claims of fraud in 2020. Lots of people (D'Souza, Lindell) cashed in. Countless others tried to. But six years later, no evidence of fraud has emerged. None. The end.

I just think if you’re gonna do this you need to be winning more than $100k to make it worth the risk you get fired abcnews.com/US/white-hou...

It’s going away.

one thing you have to give new jersey is that all of their place names have incredible aura. cheesequake? awesome. ho-ho-kus? delightful. secaucus? lovely. ong’s hat, zarephath, succasunna, loveladies, mahwah, moonachie, hacklebarney, lower squankum. a whole state of bangers

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Simply no better feeling in video games than finally beating Genichiro after deflecting his lighting and then perfectly parrying his seven hit combo

The fact that people are paying grifters like Jacob Wohl $600k to try to get a presidential pardon is the best possible argument for eliminating or reforming the presidential pardon power www.notus.org/trump-white-...

It is also tonally written as if it assumes it is only read by Trump-allied business people. All of the "Why you should care" bullets are written with a specific 'you' in mind!

Joe Wilson Emily Wilson 🤝 Calling someone a liar controversially

Nancy Mace hates trans people, which is crazy because only a man could have the hubris to think he should run in a statewide primary immediately after getting fifth in another race

Almost certainly too early in the morning to share nonsense like this // but life doesn’t truly begin until you’ve seen nonsense like this x.com/yakassiii/st...

Incredibly misguided hubris to be like "Yes, THAT Melanie C" in the body when you have to include "(of Spice Girls)" in the header.

@wmata.com @wmatagm.bsky.social there’s a ~300 person line at Bethesda waiting to be picked up by one of these busses. what can we do to make this suck less?

This is so goofy because $3.47 is still a price most voters view as 'too damn high'

Mitch McConnell left me on read

Appreciating a picture of a bluesky mutual's torso, call that oomphaloskepsis

If you name your team after Gotham you should play in NJ. Sorry, that's just how things work!

The only 4-1 in soccer I care about is the USWNT record in World Cup finals

lol at the Dem research firm who sent this out late last night subject line “Research and vetting on your mind?”

The USMNT and Knicks being really good except for the precise moment when Trump involves himself is really funny

Until we address the fact most talented soccer players in the US can’t afford to compete because club and travel teams have snuffed rec/school ball out, this is probably going to keep happening.

If Belgium wins there’s an asterisks. FIFA’s absurd influence in their favor by distracting team USA with fake scandals ruined their practice time and forced us to change plans while prepping to face them. The history books will remember this.

Putting GoPros on the soccer refs is a major improvement to the game, other sports need to adopt this. Give me a baseball ump line of sight cam, put a GoPro on Supreme Court justices during oral arguments, let’s see dressage from the show pony’s pov

The bouncer at this DC soccer bar just got caught taking bribes to let people pass the line, so he’s no longer taking bribes to let people pass the line

lolololol fuck off back to Bakersfield

David Lynch’s Dune [they should have let him make another one 25-30 years after his first try]

DC should hold watch parties immediately next to the embassies of every team we play I should be able to heckle Belgians in real time during the game

Trump is so ancient he played soccer in HS but it was *before the invention of red cards*

Europe: “America has no soccer culture” America: *does a wildly corrupt thing with the president of fifa* Europe: no not like that

Was tricked into going outside today and I already regret it

Both attendees were asked the please evacuate the area

Madonna’s Confessions II might be Album of the Year so far. Good enough to justify that insane Grindr marketing campaign open.spotify.com/track/3a49TE...

"The Boy Scouts changed, not because any court told them to, but because people came to understand how wrong it was to exclude a kid for who he was. That understanding built slowly, over the years, because people like you refused to disappear." medium.com/prismnpen/to...

Sure, but there is no Stalinist wing of the democratic party, so you're presenting a false choice that has the practical effect of encouraging people to be Nazis.

1. Other countries’ intel has hacked signal before, it’s not a secure channel for foreign policy decision making. This puts our troops at risk. 2. They’re clearly only doing this to avoid federal record keeping laws, which is very illegal.

July 1st, the start of Gay Wrath month

Prediction: they’re gonna let Collins and murkowski vote no on Alito’s replacement to give them cover for the midterms

It’s so goofy that the only popular part of Freedom 250 is @wmatagm.bsky.social’s fan club merch store

Sen. Chris Murphy: "Right now the biggest threat to this country are not a handful of House candidates in New York, it is the president of the United States who is trying to destroy American democracy."