Altman always has an expression on his face like he just saw some cops in the doorway while the maître d’ is pointing out where he is

Beaverton Editorial Board Official Op-Ed: No.

TV writers were right in 2023 and are being proven more right every day — there was a stable television model that made everyone lots of money and put out good shows. Then execs with no understanding of the industry confused the production model and the distribution model, and they blew it all up.

Good. Nuke them from orbit.

Or, hear me out, you clean up your own mess of a president and leave us the fuck out of all this.

Least-trusted news source in Canada! Take that, The Rebel and Politico!

“My friends, I am here to lead you as a warrior in the fight against woke culture,” said Poilievre as the rhinestones of his pure white space age cowboy outfit blinded several onlookers. “That is why I am introducing my new anti-woke stage persona, Butch Sassidy 3000.”

I don’t believe the adage “everything Trump touches dies”, but I do believe that everything fun he touches immediately curdles to shit.

The formal end of DOGE marks the collapse of a massive scam. Elon Musk used it to secure tax cuts for the rich while delivering less than ten percent of promised budget cuts. The initiative crippled US soft power and cost more money to fix than it saved. It also caused thousands of deaths

Back writing my nonsense.

I don’t think that’s the takeaway at all, for the record. Most of the country did good things in 2020-21, and it was heartening to see. The problem is that it got like 30% of the population into doing bad things performatively, and they haven’t stopped. I worry that’s leeching into the groundwater.

Modern conservatism has morphed into “Amy time you’re asked to do anything for anyone else, that’s tyranny”, which only really works out if you’re a billionaire, so it makes sense why they're pushing it so hard.

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This sequence put such a big dumb smile on my face. X-Men 97 continues to walk such a fine line of earnest nostalgia, deploying fist pump action sequences and big broad emotions that feel heartfelt as opposed to cringe. I also won't say no to more 90's needle drops.

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

$50 mil for 24 Sussex repairs to be fundraised by Carney starting OnlyFans

"Take it from me, a maniacal billionaire who is neither a doctor nor a software engineer."

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Every day I think about how people who don’t make games utterly hijacked the videogame industry and then told everyone who makes games that the videogame industry no longer needs them. For all my rumination, I still can’t quite convey the scale and parasitic vileness of the medium’s appropriation.

A maniacal billionaire retweeting a platform owned by another maniacal billionaire, promoting a propaganda film portraying an trust fund millionaire (played by a real life trust fund millionaire) doing extrajudicial murders of "evil Muslim invaders assaulting European women". Tech was a mistake.

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The midterms are in November, and new house members won’t be seated until January. If Republicans have to start framing Democrat oversight as illegitimate lawfare 6 MONTHS early, then that’s a giant neon sign of criminal consciousness of guilt.

"Democratic socialists are taking over!!" declared about US politicians who would at best be Canadian Red Tories

It's absurd that Vance would imagine that Nixon is in some way "rehabbed" as opposed to "GenZ barely conceives that 'Richard Nixon' is a person who existed in history versus a comedy character sometimes referenced in the media of their elder siblings"

The entire Silicon Valley business model is now “spend billions to get people more addicted to online gambling”.

I've made the mistake of listening to a lot of Peter Thiel interviews recently to try to understand his worldview. The guy is an absolute third-rate thinker who contradicts himself every 30 seconds and nobody pushes him on it.

Republicans “love blue collar working joes”, until that joe actually knows how to do a job correctly.

I've done it. I've created the dumbest thing.

Mark Carney named next UK Prime Minister

This sentence is a horrifying rollercoaster.

I’m sorry, no. This is not the guy who did the reflecting pool. No. Come on. We’re just putting a hat on a hat here. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

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Hockey Night In Canada moves from CBC to Rogers; Canadian Cultural Identity reduced to butter tarts, Eugene Levy

Rats. On one hand, I woulda watched more of this show. On the other, it was a nicely tight one season story which ended in a very satisfying way, as Stranger Things perhaps should have.

Trump successfully diverted to inflatable decoy G7

If this anecdote is true (it’s probably not) then the Iranians completely suckered a $300 bil surrender out of Trump by appealing to his most obvious weaknesses: flatter his ego, and shit talk Obama.

"You couldn't make my old sitcom again today, it would be cancelled for not being PC enough! Just take a look at this blazing hot clip!!!" <proceeds to play a network comedy so tame that it's available on every in-flight menu>

New sportsbetting app boasts 80% addiction rate

The question isn’t “who in Trump’s cabinet would be secretly taping meetings“ but rather “which of these jackals *wasn‘t* wearing a wire?”

JD Vance is a product of Peter Thiel, who is obsessed with Carl Schmitt. Schmitt argued that a dictator seizes power through a "state of exception"—when the rules are suspended due to some "emergency." "Sovereign is he who decides on the exception." Vance is vastly more dangerous than Trump.

This is 100% correct, but so long as YouTube (and Google) are US corporations, there will be absolutely zero will to regulate them as such from Congress or any White House (especially not this corrupt one). The question becomes: how are us other countries gonna start collectively playing hardball?

Vance, Rubio compete in White House UFC undercard

New 30 Rock just dropped

“Alright ICE, we’re gonna go storm New York City, so let’s just hope they’re not all collectively bath salts hyped up on some kind of incredible come-from-behind championship victory…”

Beach Boys albums: Surfin’ Safari: surfing is great Little Deuce Coup: surfing and cars are great Pet Sounds:

WORLD CUP: Canada ties with Bosnia-Herzegovina, reignites WWI

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It just doesn’t seem sustainable for everything to be impossibly stupid and incredibly evil at the same time. At the very least, we have to pick one or the other.

“I mean, It’s one bag of chips, Michael, how much could it cost? 9 dollars?”