The streamer will acquire the studio, along with HBO and HBO Max.

He's hardwired.

The US govt is screaming—in words, actions, and now a strategic document—that America has switched sides in the world, preferring authoritarians and a transnational white nationalism over liberal democracy. Like Russia, a US foreign policy goal is to undermine the EU. Will Europe finally listen?

"Trump, in his way, is as much of a wolf as Putin. Europe has run out of excuses to pretend otherwise". My Swamp Notes with @martinsandbu.ft.com on why Europe must make those frozen Russian assets work for Ukraine. The time for that is now. as.ft.com/r/9144c41b-7...

Yikes — This new Orwellian Pentagon propaganda video touting “transparency” as they fill the *press corps* with loyalists like Loomer & Gaetz plays like a horror film. We are very far off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸

My local record store is hosting a lil listening party and signing event with yours truly on Sunday. Come have some brunch and watch me try not to make eye contact while other people listen to my music? www.facebook.com/share/16iX6K...

“What have I done!” 🤡

And there's the motive.

The Dems should make a point of applying the pitchforks to crypto bros, the private equity crooks, Big Pharma and the insurance companies.

I’m believing all of this more each day.

The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

The majority in an unsigned order says: "The District Court improperly inserted itself into an active primary campaign, causing much confusion and upsetting the delicate federal-state balance in elections." Kagan in dissent: "The majority today loses sight of its proper role."

BREAKING: Supreme Court GRANTS Texas request to restore redistricting maps apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social

Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for $50 million. Now Netflix buys the studio that supplied Blockbuster with hits for $72 billion. Tech companies officially own the film industry now. Algorithms will now decide which movies get made.

The most important line in a solid piece by @iandunt.bsky.social "And yet for all its flaws, Bluesky offers something which is becoming vanishingly rare in the modern world: a vision of life without the algorithm. What I see is what I have chosen to see. We own our own destiny on Bluesky."

WaPo is reporting that Bradley told lawmakers that Hegseth DID give a kill order.

Again: the Purpose of LLM- type "AI" bullshit engines is not to tell you the truth or to lie to you, but to tell you something you are statistically determined to be more likely to accept, irrespective of facts— which makes them perfect for accelerating dis- & misinformation & persuasive propaganda…

More than anything else classism is that if you lose your company half a million you get fired, but if Zuck loses Meta 77 billion he gets paid $28 million. Meritocracy doesn't fail due to DEI, if fails becaues we can't ever let a rich nimrod suffer consequences for any level of screwup.

A book containing puzzling drawings and a strange writing system has intrigued cryptographers, historians, linguists, and more for centuries... In our latest bonus episode we get enthusiastic about the mysterious Voynich Manuscript with @chirila.bsky.social!

BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake? TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.

The most interesting part of this story isn’t that the pipe bomber is MAGA. That was blatantly obvious. What should interest folks is that the FBI and DoJ hid that fact from you, and still haven’t made a statement. This info is coming from sources on the condition of anonymity.

This is the third newsroom (at least) with an FBI leak about the suspect being a Trump supporter. Seems some FBI folks — presumably not the political hires —are very eager to get this out there.

BREAKING on MS NOW:   Brian Cole Jr., the suspect accused of being the Jan. 6 pipe bomber, confessed to agents that he planted the bombs and has indicated he supported President Trump, according to two people familiar with his interview.

"One of the most staggering things is that the Roberts Court has ruled for President Trump 90 percent of the time in shadow docket cases. Lower courts keep restraining the president but the Supreme Court is repeatedly saying that the president and his party are above the law"

there are of course many examples of political constituencies that have in fact killed scores of children (en route to some other evil goal), but I can't offhand think of any historical examples of a political constituency organized for that specific purpose

It's decided. Europe is closing the tap on Russian fossil fuels once and for all. Energy independence starts now. → link.europa.eu/tykVJf

Ancient rock art was meant to be heard as well as seen and now acoustic archaeologists are bringing the sounds of prehistoric rituals to life

I'm speechless. Go see this now and be awed. There is good in the world. xkcd.com/3172/

Exactly

when trying on pants, do this in the store. then tell the sales associate "the menswear guy told me to do this." IG mr.funkys0ul

It’s worth reading this article in full because it points out how while Epstein had a lot of friends, Thiel was one of the few he actually invested with.

> @samsteindc.bsky.social

Happy Monday! It's a new week! We had a quiet sunrise today but even more notable was the complete absence of waves – it looked more like a pond than an ocean. Tap and turn horizontal for full size and stereo. I hope you have a great day!

It is a TOP priority of the GOP to get rid of vote by mail because they can’t intimidate and challenge voters based on race with mail in voting. I wish I could believe that Dems will actually fight them on this, but we know Chuck and Hakeem. Whatever the AIPAC position is, is what they will do.

Two miles of ice core on the shelf at our national ice core facility in Lakewood, Colorado. The WAIS Divide core from West Antarctica is a 3400m long (deepest US core, 2nd deepest ice core ever) 68,000 year old record of high resolution climate.

Comey: "I'm grateful the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on malevolence & incompetence... I was inspired by the career people who refused to be part of this travesty. It cost some of them their jobs, but it preserved their integrity, which is beyond price"

Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"

from "the pro peace ticket" to "we're invading venezuela to steal their oil" in just about 12 month

He oughta know; he’s both professionally qualified and with plenty of first-hand observations of TACO Add him to the long list of negative observations from those who’ve dealt with TACO, including the current pack of sycophants…🤬

There’s nothing more Republican than: “That’s their problem”….

Half the emails I get about my YouTube channel: "Love that your channel has no intro, no CTAs, no editing - please never change" The other half: "I noticed your channel has no intro, no CTAs, no editing - our agency can fix this for $2,000/month"

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

Trump was going to help Bolsonaro escape his prison term and bring him to the US. Any other president would have been arrested for this crime of trying to aid and abet a felon. Trump is a criminal wannabe dictator. Why is no one standing up in the Republican Party!

😲 I am shocked, Shocked!, I say !!!

All of these things would be good for the American people. So, if that is your goal, you would work to make these things happen. On the other hand, if you just wanted to get rich and powerful and stay that way, no matter the consequences, you could work against all these things.

"There's some signs of cracks, and what we're seeing in Congress is that fear of Trump is starting to turn into loathing of him." @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @timmiller.bsky.social discuss why Trump’s grip on the House might finally be breaking. lnk.thebulwark.com/4oX2lLf?utm_...

The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.