I know I’ve talked about them before but I finally got around to finishing the latest Thursday Murder Club book (The Impossible Fortune) and it might be my favorite yet. I wouldn’t recommend skipping straight to it since there’s some continuity hooks but nobody does characters like Osman.

Robert Mueller should have stated unambiguously that Trump obstructed justice instead of dancing around that conclusion. He should have raised alarms about Bill Barr misrepresenting him. Maybe it wouldn’t have made a difference, but maybe it would have. We are all worse off for his overcaution.

Remember when Trump and the media treated random edgelords cracking Charlie Kirk jokes as a major scandal for Democrats

One of the primary criticisms of ICE is that it has been transformed into the president’s personal paramilitary to use however he wants without a clear jurisdiction or narrow mission Not exactly proving us wrong here

Unfortunate screengrab for Reba

This is so funny because I had assumed Trump allies had been the ones to nominate Maher in the first place, to honor him for being every MAGA boomer’s favorite “liberal” pundit, but it turns out that even that isn’t enough humiliation

1980s film exec: ok we need pitches for fun family comedies, go Writer: okay so a lounge singer sees a murder and has to go into hiding at a convent Exec: love it, what else Writer: a supercop has to go undercover as a K teacher Exec: yes! Writer: a bad dad dies and haunts his family

I don’t expect consistency from these people but I recall Elon’s ostensible reason to join MAGA was that the national debt is such an enormous problem that it poses an existential threat to the US, which seems inconsistent with them just kind of shrugging off DOGE’s failure like “oh well we tried”

I know "line jumper" is an evocative idea that plays on normies' basic sense of fairness but do these people know that there is no single "line," that's not actually a thing at all, that's not even remotely how the system works

Is this bad? Seems bad.

*laughs in Quillboar*

Did you know you can sort your Steam Deck library by recently played and at th bottom is a section called “Never”? Because this was a pretty horrific discovery for me, a compulsive game hoarder

Is this the Mario cinematic universe character arc for Toad

The first Tobey Maguire Spider-Man established that Peter sticks to walls with thousands of tiny barbs coming out of his pores and I know that’s not Disney canon but until we get another explanation we have to assume this is a shot of Spidey with barbs sticking out of his butt

Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid.

I would simply defeat the Leprechaun in the marketplace of ideas

Wow if only they had listened when we predicted literally every single bit of this while they were spiking the football and shouting at libs about how Trump won Iran in less than 24 hours

We turned on a St Patrick's Day playlist and it played The Boys Are Back in Town which is how I found out the band that does that song is Irish Currently tossing around a theory with the kids that the titular boys are leprechauns

All the reporting suggests they were caught flatfooted but he knows that makes him sound dumb so he's going with "I willingly walked into a trap of my own making" which is... better?

Guys I figured it out

I know they mean this to sound tough but if you take it at face value what they're saying is that Iran is doing catastrophic economic damage with nothing more than scraps and duct tape and that seems kind of embarrassing for the largest military on earth?

There's also this: Netanyahu badly played Trump and now he's ignoring Trump's demands:

Sometimes he does this rhetorical thing where he says he alone is the true MAGA and it’s so strange to watch him very openly call attention to the cult of personality that his followers deny exists

Weird Al just casually pointing his bat at center field

Oh no I finished Marvel Snap

They made them take down the videos because they would cause "reputational damage" to people like this young man, Nathan Cavanuagh, so definitely don't post this all over the internet with the name Nathan Cavanaugh attached, or this guy might suffer reputational damage. This guy, Nathan Cavanaugh.

The people who foresaw GamerGate as leading to what has become Trumpism probably didn’t even realize how right they were

Mr Trump sir they say your vice president is very disloyal sir, he says your glorious iran war that we're winning was a dogshit idea sir, do you have a response

Just casually committing war crimes because he thinks it sounds cool

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

You know what we're not griping about enough? That Donald Trump's face is going to be on U.S. currency—on $1 coins—later this year. This will be the first time a living president has appeared solo on a coin, and one of the very few times a living individual has ever been on U.S. coinage.

The restaurant is open for business, the only thing stopping people from eating at the restaurant is that it's been condemned by the health department due to all the cockroaches, but it is open as long as the cockroaches go away

This is really the endgame - they want us all reliant on them and their algorithms. No thought but what’s approved by the tech bros.

He's going with "high gas prices are good actually" we are so cooked

Extremely funny that unlike most jobs, when you get fired from a cabinet position a pollster will show conclusive proof that most of America is like “hell yeah she suuuuuucked” thehill.com/policy/natio...

He 100% heard the military brass call it an "incursion" and didn't understand the word

self-care doesn’t mean you have an excuse not to care about others

Somebody: “We’re running out of deadly and/or evil things from classic literature to name our product after. What will we do now?” Final Fantasy: “I got you.”

Slowly talking myself into the notion that the original sin of the Star Wars prequel trilogy was deciding that the Republic had to be something within Obi-Wan's living memory and therefore the Empire could only be around 20 years old.

today at the World Metaphors Classic the leader of the USA didn't bother to find out the details of the situation his team was in and blindly assumed they would win a matchup they ended up losing, jeopardizing their long-term standing for no good reason

The clownshoes White House getting very literal these days

Republicans have so embraced MAGA Jesus they get mad when someone quotes real Jesus

These remakes have been pretty dodgy and unnecessary but this is easily the most "yep nailed it" casting of them all www.avclub.com/kathryn-hahn...

Could the"Great Satan" do this, motherfucker [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, it's not clear what kind of move I was trying to do]

At one point in my life I thought finance guys were smart

My read of this is that he knows this is shaping up to be a disaster and he’s looking for a way to declare victory and move on

I really enjoyed what I've played of Monster Hunters Stories 3 so far and unfortunately @jacobdekk.bsky.social says the rest gets even better so... www.gamespot.com/reviews/mons...