High hopes for this movie, although nothing seems to dent its ongoing 97+% Rotten Tomatoes score. Could a Jim Crow-era ragtime horror movie really end up being among the best movies of the year? I will find out this after noon...

There is literally a sad trombone playing as Mr. Secretary barely contains his delirium tremens and claims the media is responsible for another drunk text to family & friends, again spilling American's highly classified military tea. Guess who won't win the White House hunger games.

By far the most compassionate, transformative, political pope of my lifetime. So beautiful that he lived to preside over one final Easter Sunday. We can hope that one of his very last visitors, Vice President Vance, regards the audience as a profound and morally instructive gift.

I'd been looking for an effective and articulate roll-up of just how self-destructive it is to rip apart our interlocking complexes of science and medicine. They took centuries to build; we will be lucky if we manage to approach their restoration in decades.

Now just stop with all the 'DeVoss was smarter', Trump steak fails, and suggestions that McMahon lacks the intellectual heft required for her position. I'm just saying if she'd earned a sliver of good will, someone would have quietly stopped her from repeatedly confusing intelligence with vinegar.

I don't think it's too early to say that republicans have found their 2028 presidential front runner.

Look for me in the crowd if you see coverage of tonight's Denver rally with Bernie & AOC on the STOP OLIGARCHS! tour. I'm making a shirt just for the occasion:

Mehdi's Aug 24 Predictions for Trump's 1st 100 days... "...end all gender-affirming programs, blocking crucial treatment..." "...revokes visas of international students supporting Palestine..." "...CIA director Kash Patel prosecutes political enemies, journalists, lawyers..." WOW... PRESCIENT AF~!

A proposed Oklahoma public school social studies curriculum document (source: NYT) includes teaching 2020 stop-the-steal revisionism and asks students to elaborate on how awesome it was to kill Roe. Wish I was kidding.

Great. I ate all that cialis for nothing. Thx, congresswoman.

God bless THE INTERCEPT. And yeah, the address seems to be legit.

I'm not tired of winning. You're tired of winning.

I resisted posting this story for a couple of days because it just seemed too dumb. It HAD to be parody. But it wasn't.

The Harris campaign has been criticized from the left for its seeking the Liz Cheney soft republican vote. It's literally become conventional wisdom in record time. This is an incoherent complaint.

Kevin Carroll, a former undercover CIA officer who is now a lawyer at Fluet, said the failure to conduct final briefings for U.S. officials holding top-secret clearances was a "terrible counterintelligence risk." * * * * * I mean, who could have ever guessed?

Hot Take: RFK, Jr. is actually a colony of preventable childhood diseases in a trench coat being operated by a dead brain worm.

In such ghastly times, what better metaphor can there be?

'What a great time to be alive if you love the theater of the absurd!' 'Film exists because we can go and have experiences. We can go into a room and walk into a dream.' 'Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me.'

Twice now Trump has been gifted a strong economy. Luckiest man alive.

HOT TAKE: Nearly all of Jesus' miracles were actually just very efficient catering hacks. Fish, loaves, wine, etc.

The president-elect isn't even in office yet, and we have the death of perhaps our most beloved ex-president, the immolation of the entire west coast, and a capitulation to the post-factual social media landscape by almost all platforms. Just me, or is this far worse than what we imagined?

No, Google Assistant, I don't need a bath. Not when I have so much work left to do. Important work.

For anyone who missed the recap of America's penultimate season, MAGA swept the election and is consolidating power, installing loyalists antithetical to their positions, and oligarch-izing our commons. Hundreds of millions brace for corruption, cruelty and control. Our final season airs next month.

Not a fully formed idea yet, but considering going this year as 'BOOTY GUILIANI' to Halloween functions.

250K new jobs. Upward revisions for July & Aug. Unemployment down again. Another stock market record breaker. Meanwhile, GOP rep. Edwards said, "I can’t imagine what Western North Carolina would be like right now were we in a government shutdown.” Indeed. www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politic...

Researchers for the Heritage Foundation have filed 50,000 FOIA requests over the past two years to find staff at federal agencies using terms like DEI and Trump to figure out who they should fire if Trump retakes power

"Alien" is considered a horror movie because its premise is "What if unwanted pregnancies could happen to men?"

This is what I do when I'm stopped by police for traffic violations. So far, it repels them more forcefully than simply asking for help with something.

This is great, and our group account is now following many of these, such as the @WashPost @vanityfair @politics-PBSNewsHour @USAToday and the @WSJ and will be boosting key political news and articles around the election here... #election2024 https://flipboard.social/@mike/113200530272564190

yes. hot take: this bullshit talk about sentience is also a way to trick government agencies into leaning into "a.i." regulation that staves off some imaginary singularity instead of, you know, actually regulating the horrible antisocial effects of bullshit "a.i." in the real world

A swine dressed in black will travel with impunity because Batman has sworn to protect Goth ham.

My favorite part of Kamala's speech today on her economic plan was when she said, "If we want to predict the future..." I thought she was going to say, then we look to the past. But instead she surprised me and said: "If we want to predict the future, we have to invent it." Perfection.

Got a new Asus laptop and it's great. I'm just not sure about installing an antiviral. I don't want autism.

Every day we get further from God's light

Mark Robinson: More like 'chat LGBTQ!'

The GOPs relationship with porn is crazy. Between shit like this and Mike Johnson and his son doing porn check ins and their obsession with the word cuck. These are the most sexually repressed people on earth and they HATE that the rest of us aren't

Metal af