The French Dispatch (2021) Dir. Wes Anderson Runtime 108 minutes 🚬 x 86, or one cigarette every 1.26 minutes ⚠️ REAL SMOKER MOVIE ⚠️ https://howmanycigarettes.com/the-french-dispatch/

Trump's UN speech was his most embarrassing showing since the "DON'T TAKE TYLENOL" one

Summary of Trump’s speech to the UN today: 1. Your countries all suck. 2. None of you know what you are doing. 3. The US is better at everything. 4. All because of me. 5. I’m right about everything. 6. You should listen to me & do what I say. 7. And give me lots of awards.

Okay. So this is wholly on the Republican controlled government then.

Wanna feel poor? Here's what the biweekly payments sent to a coach on a $10 million buyout really look like.

45-54 being the second best demo for Cuomo... lol

Remarkable self-discipline from @swin24.bsky.social not to drop an f-bomb until 8:30 into this episode.

RFK Jr: The Amish don't have autism The Amish:

Yeah in retrospect it was a mistake for Biden to fire every single border patrol agent and customs official and just have open borders.

We've seen the polling; the race is over. Mamdani is going to be the next mayor of NYC. Democratic leaders, including @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, need to accept the reality and get on board now.

Kamala Harris on Mamdani: Look, as far as I'm concerned, he's the democratic nominee and he should be supported.

Actually, I could be reading into it but I think they’re going harder since Trump tried to sue them for eleventy bajillion dollars.

lol

Free speech is when Republicans can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/jdcm...

tired: Great Man theory of history wired: Broken Man theory of history

NYT headline so much better than WaPo and AP.

Our corrupt government

Oh dear. It seems Dr. Oz’s company sells Trump‘s big autism cure. What a crazy happenstance.

Zohran Mamdani ahead of Curtis Sliwa and tied with Andrew Cuomo on STATEN ISLAND?! there is no race. it's over over.

President Nixon's principles of negotiation and statecraft. - RZ

This operation, a botnet with a ring of sites surrounding NYC, feels like a preview of what nation-state conflict would involve in the years to come. It could've shut down cell service and Google maps in Manhattan entirely. There are almost certainly more of these around the country and the world.

This is best story by far about the SIM farm uncovered in New York by Secret Service. The intent of the farm is not, as suggested by other stories, to disrupt Secret Service protection of dignitaries attending the UN or taking out mobile service for all NY but about managing criminal enterprises

How it started // How it’s going

The supporting cast for the Colts are playing so well, each in their various roles, but the one thing in common is they're crushing it in YAC. Per Next Gen Stats, the Colts are 4th in the NFL in total Yards after the Catch, and 2nd in team YAC over Expected. 2024 they were 31st and 28th.

When you watch Daniel Jones and the Colts, the first thing that stands out is how Shane Steichen and the supporting cast is making things incredibly easy for Jones (which isn't a bad thing!). Cover 2 from TEN, and a hi-lo between Warren and Michael Pittman Jr. It's like catching from a JUGS machine

New in PN: Trump posts his Watergate tapes "People! The man literally used his social media platform to tweet out a demand that his attorney general prosecute his opponents, ones he’s already characterized as 'guilty as hell.' This isn’t 'venting.' It’s criminal."

Nexstar and Sinclair, which own a combined 20% of local ABC affiliates, will still not broadcast Jimmy Kimmel. Sinclair is a conservative company that donates to and supports right-wing causes.

Trump's brain is now incoherently flitting from topic to topic as the UN sits listening him to complete silence

This makes logical sense. Unfortunately for China, it faces the rather incredible headwind of its cult-of-personality ruler believing some very wrong things about macroeconomics, such as “deflation not so bad if it happens”

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Post-materialism, but fascist: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmat...

Who Burned the Bronx? Bench Ansfield’s Born in Flames argues that landlords—driven by financialization and the development of insurance “brownlining” in the 1960s and 1970s—are largely to blame. newrepublic.com/article/2007...

Experimental post: The Inevitable March of Time From the moment of this post, Super Mario Bros. is now closer to World War II than it is to the present day.

I remember it like it was yesterday.

I'm just gonna keep reposting this inane BS from Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence on the roving immigration patrol case from LA.

A crowded category in 2025, though, with strong competition from the Oval Office visits from Zelensky, Bukele, and Ramaphosa. And it’s only September.

A challenge to politics-understanders: why was Biden so unpopular given the very good policy he delivered on wages, climate, & antitrust, among others? This is not an invitation to relitigate 2024, but rather explore what his political failure reveals about the underlying mechanisms of politics.

I'm so embarrassed to be an American right now. Donald Trump is a senile old codger, standing before the United Nations, reading a speech clearly written by an alt right lunatic and a bunch of oil and gas lobbyists. Well done, U.S. voters. You really fucked this one up.

Pope Leo is said to have accepted Cardinal Dolan's resignation and to have picked his successor as New York archbishop. Will Dolan serve in retirement as spiritual advisor to Turning Point USA? In any event, his adherence to the GOP is far stronger than his adherence to the Catholic Church.

And national Dem leaders still won't endorse the Democrat and overwhelming favorite to be NYC's next mayor... What are @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social thinking?

what an insane turn of events for curtis sliwa. good for him, or whatever.

NEW mayoral poll from Suffolk University, conducted Sept. 16-18, with a 4.4% margin of error: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff... Zohran Mamdani - 45% Andrew Cuomo - 25% Curtis Sliwa - 9% Eric Adams - 8%

There are only a handful of field goal blocks every year—and for some reason, they always seem to happen on critical, late-game kicks. That's not a coincidence—and I talked about why in my first (!) Monday NFL newsletter of the year:

Rubio previews Trump's UN speech: "POTUS will point to his own history with the UN going back to his time as a developer. He actually offered to fix the UN building & instead they decided to go in a different direction, wasted a bunch of money ... it's emblematic of how feckless the UN has become"

you don’t hear a lot about Reince Priebus these days

This has been incredibly successful for Greenland, which gets a lot of its budget in the form of a subsidy from Denmark, but which has grown substantially with its collective ownership model, that builds in shared prosperity across the citizenry: prospect.org/world/2025-0...

Here are the incredible statistics on state-owned companies in Greenland. prospect.org/world/2025-0...

So @ryanlcooper.com went to Greenland. Not to scout it in accordance with U.S. manifest destiny; to check out one of the largest and best-run portfolios of state-owned companies in the world, including the territory's largest single employer. Ryan explains how it happened in this great report.

The next two minutes of video show me offering to walk off with him since he's not being detained. He declines, because he "doesn't want to be rude". Less than two minutes later, they place him in cuffs with no explanation and stuff him into a car with NY plates.