Rolls Royce towed in supercar parking 'crackdown' Brings new meaning to “Dude, where’s my car?” www.bbc.com/news/article...

World Cup ticket prices 'monumental betrayal' say fans' group. I’m not a football fan, but can this be real? The entry level price starts at £3,100 and it goes up to over £6,000. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Congress just gave $900 billion to the US military in case you were wondering if there were any repercussions for blowing up civilian ships on the high seas. Meanwhile, the FIFA peace participation trophy guy still manages to keep the Epstein list out of the headlines.

Is it just me, but isn’t our President a whopping piece of shit?

The Nobel Institute said the Venezuelan opposition leader, who had been in hiding since last year’s elections, will be coming to Oslo after undertaking a journey “of extreme danger.”

Elections have consequences. A man like this never belonged near the levers of power. Not the first time. And certainly not this second time when everything was knowable. We are trapped in a tragedy and must fight our way out.

It's always been a good general rule that people who brag about themselves are exaggerating their accomplishments in order to inflate their self worth. But as we've seen, a lot of people don't share that same sentiment. We call those people cult members. So many people are so gullible, it sucks.

I went to Tesco to buy a pizza. Got lots of other shopping while I was there. Forgot the pizza.

Watching Groundhog Day. I wonder how often Bill Murray watches that movie.

It’s ten to nine in the morning and you wouldn’t know dawn had broken. It’s raining all day and I wanted to nip out for some shopping today. I’m clearly going to have to wait until tomorrow.

The corruption never ends.

They see the writing on the wall and don't want to spend all of 2027-28 in the minority defending Trump from investigations and impeachment.

Trump: "We're also gonna give the tractor companies, John Deere and all of the companies that make the equipment, we're gonna take off a lot of the environmental restrictions that they have on machinery. It's ridiculous. I know b/c I buy a lot of that machinery... it's not as good as the old days."

Trump on John Deere: "We're gonna say, 'you're gonna reduce the prices.' They're gonna have to reduce their prices. Because farming equipment has gotten too expensive ... in many cases, you need about a 185 IQ to turn on a lawnmower."

ICE have lowered their recruiting standards so low that some criminals are getting in. Wearing a mask won’t be anything new but they’ll struggle to stay still when they hear police sirens and resist the urge to make up an alibi when the meet cops. youtu.be/-JSTX9PLd_4?...

Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱

We’ve had no detailed reports of the MRI scan on Donald Trump and he doesn’t remember much about it. Maybe they never did it. Maybe they slid him in, turned on a coffee maker and then told him they’d done it, handing him someone else’s results.

New in PN: A war criminal without a war "We’re watching the flimsy justifications fall apart in real time. They can try to shift the blame. They can try to say that people clinging to wreckage for dear life are somehow an active threat. But in the end, it’s just murder."

Koh: I think what we are seeing is what the founding fathers feared the most, which is the collapse of our checks and balances. The Supreme court is supposed to be a co-equal branch of government. It's basically a mouthpiece for Donald Trump at this point.

I love Paul Verhoeven but I hate that we live in one of his movies.

There’s obviously loads of discussion about Trump’s health. Definitely he is looking the grim reaper in the eye. But I think the Republicans would welcome his death more than most of us👇

Tbh I think Prime 4 deserves more credit for being the first game in the series with a good original soundtrack in 18 years

He commits crimes against humanity to stop “drug traffickers” while pardoning a notorious drug trafficker. He attacks veterans while committing treason. Make it stop.

really funny to see someone refer to a metroid game as "a metroidvania." oh word?

Have they forgotten the movie “Clear and Present Danger”, which started with the death of the President’s old pal, who turned out to have drug connections? Wonder how they’d feel if the President attacked their boat?

The new National Security Strategy of the U.S. contains some pretty explicit white nationalism: “We want to support our allies in preserving the freedom and security of Europe, while restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity.”

The funny thing about people complaining about Star Trek Starfleet Academy by calling it Star Trek 90210 is that Beverly Hills 90210 is a very dated reference. Also they clearly didn’t understand the trailer. These aren’t privileged kids.

imagine US political culture if Ford hadn't pardoned Nixon, and instead he went to jail

I took a short break from going to the cinema and now there are at least 4 on my “to-do” list, including Wicked, Zootropolis 2 and possibly Eternity. I used to really enjoy going to the cinema, but I also used to live less than a mile away.

The windchill here is -4 degrees and I’m waiting for the bus. As I blink through the ice shards blowing into my eyeballs at 30 mph, I think about how glad I am they took the bus shelter down. At least the unhoused will have cause to reflect on how little they contributed to the economy.

Here is a holiday idea - Merry Bond-mas! Let's look at some classics of the franchise. First up - From Russia With Love (1963) Sean Connery is back as 007, now in the middle of a deadly SPECTRE scheme. Pedro Armendáriz is a treat, steals the show in this one. Who else is a Bond fan?

"No one asked for TV Show/Movie." I hate when I see this comment. No one asked for TOS. No one asked for Star Wars. No one asked for NCIS: XXXXXX. Sorry if it's not something that interests you, but fuck off with the arrogant presumption that YOU know what everyone wants.

If the Supreme Court makes you mad keep in mind that within the last week Democratic senators have been voting for GOP judges to get on the federal bench

As Zelensky’s plane was departing Ireland, four large drones were heading toward Dublin Airport, The Journal reports. The UAVs reached the point where the presidential aircraft was supposed to pass around 11 p.m., but the plane landed ahead of schedule and missed them.

Pretty let down by Sainsbury’s today. My 1–2 pm grocery delivery didn’t show until way later. I was given mixed excuses first traffic, then “couldn’t access the gate,” then a claim that the driver called me (they didn’t).

Koh: This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of Defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that power.

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Norway`s worst killer besides Breivik who killed 77, Nursing Home Administrator Nesset is dead at 89.. In 1983 he killed at least 22 of his residents with Curacit. He actually admitted to 30.. He died peacefully in a nursinghome, the ironi..

Time to share another Miss Machete Favorite: Lifeforce (1985) A space mission stumbles on a strange ship, and the figures on board get brought to Earth. Vampire-like aliens are unleashed on the world. Energy zombies, naked ladies murdering, Sir Patrick Stewart is there. Who else loves this movie?

25th Amendment now.

youtube.com/watch?v=pdDI... Watching through some of this makes me wish we had a yearbook, so I could have fun with a lasting quote.

We didn’t hit it twice We did hit it twice and that’s legal The Admiral did it We didn’t see them I’m in the fog of war and you’re not even though I am right where you are

New in PN: Republicans in the era of Late Trumpism "As Trump’s political standing weakens along with his increasingly decrepit mind and body, his hold on the GOP is slipping. And the underlying political incoherence of the party that has only grown during his reign is being fully exposed."

Rand Paul: "Secretary Hegseth said he had no knowledge of this and it did not happen. It was fake news. It didn't happen. And then the next day, from the podium of the WH, they're saying it did happen. So either he was lying to us on Sunday or he's incompetent and didn't know what had happened."

The Epstein files should have already been released.

Appeals court disqualifies ex-Trump lawyer Alina Habba as New Jersey prosecutor. This apparently will affect a lot of cases. As always, the battle within the Trump administration is not between good and evil, but between tyranny and incompetence. www.bbc.com/news/article...