The intervention episode is possibly the best Sopranos script to use for this, too.

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

Reads like Clockwork Orange with a life-changing brain injury.

I would be remiss not to point out that "Tricking Milli Vanilli into performing a concert for a dictator" is LITERALLY a storyline from the 1990s 'Super Mario Bros 3' cartoon 🙃

Khanna: "This is a Dred Scott court. They have engaged in the fastest rollback of Black political rights since Rutherford Hayes ended Reconstruction in 1877. One-third of African American seats are threatened. We are not speaking up strongly enough against a court that's rolling back civil rights"

just a nightmare

Wow: “The tooth’s hollow had been scooped out by a stone drill rather than by natural decay or wear… The findings indicated that the prehistoric patient underwent a deliberate Stone Age root canal, a discovery that pushes back the earliest evidence of intentional dentistry by more than 40,000 years”

hard to exaggerate how heroic these men were. they likely saved dozens of children's lives. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The only way to do it is to carve it up into its major stories and adapt them individually. Judging from his work on The Green Knight, David Lowery could turn The Children of Hurin into a pretty effective Greek tragedy. www.nme.com/news/film/pe...

Fighter, Thief, Black Belt, Red Mage, White Mage, Black Mage

On our way to start shooting the new episodes of MST3K this morning. Very exciting! (He’s gonna drive)

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

Anyone who takes the Krassensteins seriously wasn't paying attention to their grifty antics during Trump's first term. But in their defense, they ARE very funny.

Who can forget Kubrick's famous match cut, which instantly encapsulates humankind's 300,000-year-long evolutionary quest for better-smelling toilets?

We can easily do without CNN, but TCM is the greatest cable channel of all time. Rest In Peace, Ted Turner.

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

Here’s the price of regular unleaded gasoline at the same Costco in Arvada, Colorado in January and yesterday. Are we tired of #winning?

It's incredibly good that Abdul is doing this and incredibly important that pro-Palestine candidates do this as a general matter, even if they don't get sufficient credit.

Me: I voted for Donald Trump because I had him confused with that other guy. Donald Duck. NYT reporter: Are you sure you want me to print that next to your real name and a drawing of you? Me: Yes.

They even got the fascist sympathies right, although I suspect our modern tech overlords aren't literal Nazi superbabies.

The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium has newly assembled an informative free online course on the history of the Holodomor in Ukraine within a global context of famine and genocide. coursera.org/learn/holodo...

How we beat back the corporate takeover of America: 1. Break up corporate monopolies 2. Continue building union power 3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics Let’s keep working to unrig the system.

Kim Tae-ri in "The Handmaiden" - BOTD

Worth remembering that America might not exist as we know it had Washington not decided to inoculate the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. And their 17th-century medicine was immensely more debilitating and dangerous than modern vaccination.

“I can’t believe what you say because I see what you do.” — James Baldwin

Yesterday @reified-systems.itch.io pointed out that Basil's face from this Fawlty Towers VHS collection is nearly exactly The Expression from Disco Elysium, and my mind is blown. I genuinely think this may be the original inspiration! So many details match up

To any Hungarians annoyed that Americans are placing the credit for your momentous victory on the shoulders of our stunningly repellent little weasel of a VP: you are correct to feel that way, I'm sorry, we just want to seize any available oppurtunity to humiliate him specificially

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

Hungary's 2026 could be our 2028 with enough popular will and the right leader at the helm.

And on April 12, 2026, the heirs to the economic aristocracy that Roosevelt combated are on the cusp of killing his legacy both at home and abroad. It's up to the American people to recognize and reclaim their birthright before it's too late.

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Librarian Luanne James fired as the county’s top librarian for refusing to move 100+ LGBTQ books from the children’s section to the adult section She stands by her decision stating relocating books would "compromise her professional obligation against govt-mandated viewpoint discrimination" 📚

Tom Morello opening speech in Minneapolis 🔥

your grandparents voting for reagan

"Video games are toys" -> "Video games are art" -> "Video games are an entertainment product" I lived through the whole evolution. Yeah, we get artistic indie work still now; but we used to get shit like Spec Ops, an interactive reimagination of Heart of Darkness told through modern military trope.

Official statement re: Dan Bongino

Honestly, Donald Trump is probably more racist than George Wallace ever was. Wallace was an opportunist who embraced racist politics because it played well with his electorate. Trump is a true believer in racism who keeps saying racist things despite the political blowback.

The only negative thing I have to say about Mamdani is there's not someone like him in every city across America.

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

I understand that there are a lot of folks on the left who instinctively recoil from religious language, and with good reason given its use by the right. But please listen to this, and focus on how he's trying to realign "Christian values" so they align with and advance progressive policy goals.

US Troops killed all the guards at Dachau for this kind of shit.

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

as someone who pushes hard against conspiratorial thinking in my professional and political life, it is deeply irritating when, on top of the untold human harms Epstein caused, it turns out he was at the center of at least half a dozen actual conspiracies

This is difficult news to share: 4 well knowm people in our community that some of us consider close friends - aren't real. Sadly, I was recently made aware of a catfishing operation involving these 4 accounts. I'm sharing this publicly due to the number of people affected.

PSA: After months of investigation, we have determined that @emperorel.bsky.social, @ramen316.bsky.social, @caroocaroline.bsky.social, and @rahbie.bsky.social are all catfish accounts operated by one man. This is not a joke. We have diligently verified all details beyond any doubt. All catfish.

I don't think people appreciate enough the fact that, at a time where global warming was approaching an inflection point yet renewable energy was finally becoming economically viable, we decided to squander that opportunity because literal death cultists decided we needed Infinite Bullshit Machines.