I’m hear we’re doing Star Wars rankings!

Pritzker's ranking of the Star Wars films is pretty close to how I have them. Good, considered. Will be very funny when The Mandalorian And Grogu comes out and everyone has to decide if it's better or worse than Solo. Pritzker's list: ESB ANH ROTJ R1 TLJ ROTS TFA SOLO TPM AOTC TROS

It’s ok Bouie is allowed to have some bad takes on Star Wars

Jeffrey Goldberg's editorial leadership has been a disaster for the human race

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Unreal

Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall

Absolutely Bisexual Panic at the HAMNET screening tonight

something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked

What if Nurgle was Slaanesh, the most horrifying thought in the entire 41st millennium

RFK Jr. is going to be responsible for so many deaths by the time he is out of office I cannot possibly bring myself to feel any sympathy for the woman who helped enable him.

My favorite piece of content today.

Mamdani turned his haters into waiters at the table of success

Zohran cucked Trump in less than an hour, adjust what you think political strength looks like if you don’t think it looks like him

'People forget what Khashoggi was investigating when he was murdered. He was writing about Kushner turning over classified info to MBS, who used it to hunt down, arrest and murder his opponents.' h/t @cocacolakid

My fiancee dropping some new feminist theory

The President of the United States is publicly calling for the political prosecution of his political opponents, urging the death penalty because they urged soldiers to uphold the rule of law. This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.

I am a big @xkcd.com fan but I am sad to find out that Randall doesn’t know that the Star Wars wiki is called WOOKIEPEDIA. xkcd.com

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.

Cool good

Oh man

forgot how racist she is

When will Bluesky finally say something negative about HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.? Bradley P. Moss, Esq. is waiting.

Oh, and don't forget the gratuitous shot at queer and trans communities at the very end of this screed:

“The Riddle of the Sphinx” episode of Inside Number 9 is one of the best shortform horror stories I’ve ever seen. I don’t know why this show hasn’t found a cult audience in the US yet it consistently fucks me up.

People want to believe that the GOP’s electoral success in red states is the result of dirty tricks and gerrymandering instead of the sincerely held beliefs of a majority of the population because a mechanical issue is easier to fix than wrestling with how to make people not believe what they do.

I fully believe that it’s not the government’s job to prevent people from access to addicting things and vices, but it does have a responsibility to make sure companies aren’t doing incredibly predatory things.

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

@crobertcargill.bsky.social My friends are driving me crazy about this so I have to ask… I saw Edgar Wright at Lincoln Square tonight and snapped a photo…But did I completely miss the fact that another phenomenal genre filmmaker was standing with his back to me?

One caution I'd offer as everyone goes through these emails is that *Jeffrey Epstein* (of all people) saying something in an email does not automatically make it true!

my politics are that i just want a world where there are no 17 year olds desperate enough to let Matt Gaetz exploit them

Can we just take a minute and acknowledge that our POTUS is right OUT IN THE OPEN lobbying Congressional members to vote against releasing the Epstein files?! Like... what the fuck else does anyone even need to know?

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

basically we have to assume fetterman defects in 27-28 if there is any way whatsoever it gains him power. he's also really fucking stupid so I think he will also defect if it loses him power

No one under thirty has voted in a presidential election where Trump *wasn’t* on the ballot.

Letterheads and signage alone would quickly run the bill upward of $1 billion, with a full overhaul likely rising to double that amount.

Opposing genocide is the moral duty of our time. Yet Palestine Action activists have been held in prison for over a year without trial. Six are now on hunger strike. Detaining peaceful protesters under counter-terror powers is indefensible. This is political imprisonment in all but name.

Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

Don't call the cops on someone in a mental health crisis unless you want them dead.

I feel like we're in a weird world where the average Dem partisan, engaged voter is better informed than most of their representatives

no money for politicians

books have no tech tree, no fog of war

Just imagining the media on Earth 2 on a day when President Harris's aides are fighting to withhold food stamps and raise healthcare prices for tens of millions of Americans while she hosts a former affiliate of al-Qaeda and ISIS in the Oval Office

i think Senator Lander has a ring to it

Fight don’t fold.

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.