The Rock is very much an Obama Era celebrity and I don’t know how else to explain it

I think the problem with the Rock is that the Rock still thinks he’s really cool while John Cena realized that he’s a ridiculous human being and did interesting things with that and Batista realized he was a ridiculous human being and decided to become Daniel Day Louis

This week's House of the Dragon moves all its pieces across the board a little at a time. Highlights include an anti-Valyrian racist villain in Ormund, a series of unfortunate choices by Rhaenyra, and a rare moment of emotional distress that *doesn't* end in violence for Daemon. (Gift link!)

fun fact: just because a visit was uncoordinated does not mean it is suddenly legal to hold the visitors at gunpoint

Rep. Ro Khanna talks about the experience of being detained at gunpoint by Israeli “settlers” and the IDF:

Damn does that kid look like Alicent

it's one of those thing that a lot of secular people don't get but uh, Reformed Protestant evangelicals *really* really fucking hate Catholics

Keynes had these guys pegged decades ago, but they are too hubristic and greedy to understand that their knowledge is decades out of date. It’s the equivalent of telling musicians that they’ve got to get the radio to play their tapes. But they earn more a year than both of us will ever make…

Ormand Hightower giving big Lestat energy in that bathtub scene

No surgeon general and our HHS secretary is … that guy…so federal health officials aren’t communicating that cyclosporiasis needs to be treated with specific antibiotics. (This CDC guidance is from 2024.) However they did post another video of RFK doing pullups. www.cdc.gov/cyclosporias...

As just one example, China has actually been promoting reading of books for both adults & students, via national “reading weeks” & an annual reading conference. Reading of both print & digital books is rising, with Chinese adults reported reading an average of 4.8 print books last year & minor 11.7.

Not everybody reads, of course. 60% of the population had read a whole book last year, which may not seem that much higher than US (which is 48%, if I remember correctly), but the rates have been moving in opposite directions. China topped 50% for the first time in the 2010s.

The Millers are such lovely people.

Flying while experiencing chest pains or other issues is also a big red flag. My dad he flew while experiencing mild discomfort in his chest and his doctor rushed him into surgery the next day because of It and he still almost didn’t make it

Like any good proof of life photo, Mitch McConnell is holding a newspaper to corroborate that he was in fact alive on July 12, 2026.

graham choosing to put off medical care that likely would’ve saved his life because he was scheduled to be on meet the press in the morning is the most perfect encapsulation of his career one can imagine

I have a general theory that a lot of these dudes both miss college and have enlarged their egos that they think they’re too good for that space and do they’re perpetually unhappily

This paragraph gave me an epiphany about Matty Y. It's not that he doesn't understand how politics words. It's that fundamentally, he doesn't understand *what politics is.*

It’s an obvious but still important reality right now that putting people on your network who represent or defend the current administration means choosing to amplify people who will knowingly, aggressively, and frequently lie to your audience.

Speaking of death, Trump's now worried he's next, and that it won't be from natural causes But the real risk is to all of us, as paranoia causes him to widen the war and crush civil liberties, including a shocking probe of the NYT Caligula, DJT, and my new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

MS NOW: Two Atlanta-based FBI intelligence analysts were fired last week after refusing to participate in the Trump admin's investigation of Georgia's 2020 election. The analysts told colleagues they did not believe the investigation was justified under FBI and DOJ policies.

It's genuinely hilarious that whenever someone on the right dies, Trump can't even pretend to care about them for more than like 5 minutes. Lol

…if cops or feds gun down people they or trump deem to be scum for instance

A key difference here is I’m not aware of a single Dem who says that if the immigrant kills someone they shouldn’t face prosecution and severe consequences; but that is not the case when you ask your average elected Republican what should be done about qualified immunity or what should occur…

"Five people, including three U.S. citizens, were killed as a result of those shootings, nearly all of which involved officers firing at people in vehicles." "The driver weaponized his vehicle" has become a license to kill, with no risk of a follow-up investigation.

The value system of the greater manosphere is not just anti-female, it's anti-human. Success is defined by physical perfection, wealth, and dominance--but it's not in pursuit of goals these straight guys actually want like love or sex with women, it's just to impress other vacuous men.

My guess would be the FBI is always involved in sudden deaths or things with sitting politicians but we never knew but Kash is notorious for posting when he shouldn’t

Lindsey Graham was a simple, tragic man to understand. He lacked a moral core. The great empty spaces of his life were filled with an insatiable need for “relevance.” He found it as a cast member in the most malignant reality show ever made. steveschmidt.substack.com/p/lindsey-kn...

People deserve to be remembered for who they were. Lindsey Graham tried on many different skins and ultimately settled on the very worst version of himself. There were, at one point, a few shreds of something you could call principles--not many, but they existed. There were none at the end.

Hi I’m Johnny Knoxville welcome to Jackass

Make it make sense, because that'd be a completely normal thing to do The Sr senator from your state is being reported as regaining faculties after a near death experience, and taking visitors... GO SEE FOR YOURSELF

The NYT obituary of Lindsey Graham makes no mention of his effort to overturn the 2020 election by calling Georgia’s secretary of state to intimidate him into manufacturing votes for Trump. The Times, like all news media, is GOP propaganda erasing Republicans’ history as election deniers

My understanding of what is next is that: (1) GOP Governor Henry McMaster will appoint Graham's replacement. (2) Graham's seat was already up for election this year, & he had secured the GOP nomination. This suggests there may have to be a special primary election: law.justia.com/codes/south-...

Yeah, now the Senate GOP *really* can’t afford a McConnell vacancy

The latest eruption of hostilities and Iran’s clear intention to control the Strait suggests not only that Trump has no idea what he’s doing, but that he’s losing worse by the day. Which means the U.S. is losing worse. Total disaster. And all brought on entirely by Trump’s arrogance and idiocy.

The lesson of course is "be cool and fun," something that MAGA just isn't capable of right now (though in fairness that applies to much of Bluesky as well)

Pretty classy message by the Norwegian Embassy. #WorldCup

victory lapping on this one

The administration has responded to the kerfuffle and said that they'll take a look at making a new map. Great. All THAT said, some of the responses have been absolutely unhinged. bsky.app/profile/lemi...

Scorsese selling his soul in the NYT to AI is even more hilarious now. I'd wager the median Nolan stan is more likely to be pro AI than the median Scorsese stan and yet this guy had no problem being like "the kids hate it and they know ball" This is a movie guy. Respect for movie guys

Born to be a 250 pound TE bullying safeties in the slot, forced by birth to play a sport where they penalize you for being stronger than the people around you.

England has 2-3 guys surrounding Haaland at all times like he's Hannibal Lecter being transfered to Tennessee.

There are incredible new cancer drugs every year that are showing promise at defeating cancers that were previously guaranteed death sentences — and the Trump administration is doing everything it can to illegally kill the grants that fund the research. MAHA indeed!

trump did actually make a major public health contribution with operation warpspeed. his followers hate it and he's disavowed it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

To me, one of the major shifts in US society and politics was that for decades we had successfully marginalized these voices to the fringe. We must do so again. You do not, under any circumstances, have to amplify these voices.

I think if the stories ever get out, this place is gonna rival the island for nightmare fuel. I think it could be even worse

“In all honesty, I cried before I played… it’s been five months to the day since the last time I played.” Caleb Wilson made quite the first impression in Vegas: 35 pts (7 threes), 2 stl, 3 blk 📰 Original post

fascinating how consultants who work with one (1) generational talent on the rise and don’t fuck it up (carville, plouffe/axelrod, even karl rove to some extent) get declared political geniuses and kingmakers even though they never manage to use their genius to make anyone else a king ever again