Tonight on WWE Raw, Liv Morgan (a white woman) said that her opponent Stephanie Vaquer (who is Chilean) "grew up in a mud hut." So that's how the MAGA wrestling promotion is going.

Basically what the Warriors did to LeBron in 3 out of 4 finals

Raya and the Last Dragon. Pretty much totally forgotten now, but it's one of my favorite Disney movies of the last, I dunno, 2 decades, and it made $130 million even during COVID.

"No new wars" really just meant "f*ck Ukraine" and everyone knew it.

Starting a war from a barn outside of Dayton that's been converted to a wedding venue

Terrible news out of Los Angeles, as Ashleigh Brown and Cynthia Raygoza become the first two protestors convicted by a jury for "stalking" an ICE agent during the protests last summer. Jurors have done a better job holding the line against fascism than institutions, but that firewall won't hold.

No one should shed any tears for Khamenei, who is (was?) a monster, but it would be a very bad thing if the operation was this effective. Every successful hit emboldens the thugs in this administration and in Israel to be more aggressive. There have to be negative consequences before they stop.

At this point Fetterman is objectively worse than both Sinema and Manchin, both of whom voted in favor of a war powers resolution to end hostilities against Iran in February 2020.

It was a ridiculous PR stunt for DOJ to ever seek the death penalty in the first place in this case. There was never a chance that twelve jurors from SDNY were unanimously going to give Luigi Mangione the death penalty.

Occam's razor: Michael Tracey is a pedophile and trying to make Jeffrey Epstein cool is an attempt to normalize pedophilia to his audience.

Why would Nancy Mace want to execute her constituency though?

The Women is the kind of book where the main character unironically tells a hippie "freedom isn't free" and we're supposed to applaud. It thinks it's antiwar, but only because the Vietnam war was really hard on the Americans, and it *constantly* wags its finger at the antiwar movement. No thanks.

"Today, the police union has put out a statement. Tomorrow, they might put out a rocket full of VX nerve gas, or worse."

Among other reasons why this is insane, we were already taking this sort of fraud very seriously. The Biden Administration more than tripled the amount of federal prosecutions for fraud relating to government benefits compared to Trump I! www.ussc.gov/research/qui...

Andrew Johnson had such a racist meltdown in his 1867 state of the union that Congress impeached him two months later.

Vaccination rates for Hepatitis B among newborn babies sharply declined from 83.5% in 2023 to 73.2% by 2025.

It's fine to criticize Bluesky for being too insulary - it definitely is - but the truly egregious part of this is the insinuation that Twitter's userbase is somehow better, less weird, less toxic. Anyone who tells you that lie is just chasing the clicks as a substitute for self-esteem.

Florida prosecutors very quietly kill the case against Aaron Gleason, former Daily Wire contributor accused of molesting one of his students during Bible Class. Docket shows he was given pretrial diversion on Feb. 9 - absolutely unheard of for a felony sex assault case involving a child.

Ohio Ct Appeals: death row inmate Gregory Lott cannot be executed after the state agreed he was intellectually disabled. "It is difficult to imagine a greater injustice than allowing a death sentence to stand when even the State has conceded that Lott is no longer eligible for a death sentence."

Pirates 4, On Stranger Tides. I'll defend 2 and 3 as fun popcorn movies but this one just drained all the life out of what used to be a really fun franchise. Is Penelope Cruz Blackbeard's daughter or not? Who cares??

So much of the criticism of Wuthering Heights is that it isn't faithful enough to the original source material, and I'm sorry but that just isn't a valuable metric. It's a different adaptation. Jaws and The Shining aren't faithful to the original text either.

Muppet Treasure Island is not only the best Muppet movie, it's also the best pirate movie. Fight me.

JD Vance doesn't have to apologize for being white but he really should apologize for the shooting down of Iran Air Flight 655 by the USS Vincennes in 1988.

Plenty of legitimate criticism about how Merrick Garland handled the Epstein files but one crucial distinction is that Merrick Garland is not in the Epstein files.

The average age of death row inmates in the U.S. is 54, and the average person on death row has been there 22 years. There is no legitimate justification for shipping these people to a supermax facility. It is pure, petty retribution.

The administration has already lost on this issue in the 3rd Circuit in the Alina Habba case and they don't seem in any hurry to appeal that to SCOTUS. That said, the remedy will be disqualification of whatever crook they illegally designate US Atty, not to give Kinsella his job back.

"You might be angry that we've gone too easy on the Epstein class for all the child sex trafficking... but have you seen how much money the Epstein class is making??"

Not only does the administration fail, and remind everyone of the power of jurors and grand jurors to thwart their lawless agenda, but it will galvanize moderate Dems in Congress against an attack by a corrupt gang of thugs against one of their own. Best possible outcome.

You give me Denis Villeneuve in the director's chair, Roger Deakins behind the camera, and Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, and Josh Brolin to star, and I could turn paint drying into an Oscar nominee.

New study from the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that higher caffeinated coffee intake was significantly associated with lower risk of dementia.

They know Bannon is wrong in his interpretation of the willfulness element of the contempt statute, but they don't want to disagree with him because he's a friend of the president, and they don't want to agree with him because they might want to use that statute to prosecute Democrats.

Definitely in the minority here but I just couldn't get into James. A+ concept, but the extremely sparse, Hemingway-like prose made it really tough to get invested in the world and especially in the supporting characters.

Reactionaries can't create good art because the fear-based us-v-them, inside-v-outside binary overrides everything else so their only aesthetic criteria is "is this familiar, does this show me things I know, repeat things I've heard. Is this Us." Reactionary art is just a parade of Familiar Things.

Thoughts and prayers to New Englanders who now have to live with just 6 Super Bowls, 4 World Series, 2 NBA championships, and 1 Stanley Cup since 2002.

Bad Bunny existing as a latino in this country is the "political message" these people are mad about.

Melania drops a staggering 67% in its second weekend at the box office; on pace to lose ~$60 million for Amazon.

Pulse (Kairo) is more a collection of vignettes than a coherent narrative, but the scene where Yabe encounters the slow walking female ghost in the hallway is one of the best scares in the history of cinema.

Craig Ferguson

Luttig was also the runner up when Bush chose John Roberts to fill O'Connor's seat on the Supreme Court in 2005. Cheney backed Luttig; Bush went with Roberts because he vibed better with him in the interview. One of history's great "what if"s and getting greater all the time.

It's too bad AEW limited itself to such a niche audience by being the promotion where the wrestlers stab each other in the face with forks. There's an enormous demand for a non-MAGA alternative to WWE and most fans are just turned off by that level of violence.

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Two possibilities from here: (1) Bondi and her goons are able to fill these positions with enough 20-something federalist society dorks fresh out of Liberty University to turn this office into the legal arm of ICE, or (2) they can't, and federal law enforcement in Minnesota just... stops.

I'm sure all the people mad about Lupita Nyong'o playing Helen of Troy were just as upset about Rossana Podestà, Sienna Guillory, and Diane Kruger playing her? I wonder what's different

The idea that fidelity to the original author's understanding of their work is all that matters is nonsense. Rebel Without a Cause is a gay love story, whether the writers intended it or not. Stories grow, evolve, change, take on new meanings as audiences do the same.

The cause of the male loneliness crisis is that they arrested Jeffrey Epstein, the only man who appears to have had friends.

New report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that just 2% of federal defendants charged with human trafficking in 2023 were undocumented immigrants. bjs.ojp.gov/document/htd...

Fentanyl overdose deaths declined 36% from 2023 to 2024. "Starting in August 2023, the US drug overdose death rate declined for 15 consecutive months."

Courts have now barred Trump DOJ's from seeking the death penalty in 9 out of 29 attempts: Luigi Mangione Cory Spurlock (NV) Edis Valenzuela-Rodriguez (MD) Jonathan Pesquera-Puerto (MD) WIlson Constanza-Galdomez (MD) Richard Dangleben (VI) Monroe Merrell (NDWV) Enock Cole (VI) Jiovoni Smith (VI)

The rest of the world should boycott the World Cup, but they never will, because the rest of the world is basically crack addicts when it comes to soccer. The U.S. military could be marching into Paris and they'd still show up.

I have a better chance of getting elected to the Senate in PA in 2028 than John Fetterman, and I don't live there and I'm not running.