super fun conversation with Joe and Josh! wide-ranging: AI, culture, is Aaron Rodgers cooked? (yes)

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TPM’s @kateriga.bsky.social joined @heartlandsignal.bsky.social's @eisendrath.net to discuss the Supreme Court’s turn against democracy in recent years, culminating in last week's Voting Rights Act decision. Listen for a better understanding of how we got here and where we’re headed.

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I was pretty confident this was the case. Nice to see confirmation.

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Trump’s Great Insight: How The Freedom Caucus Ran the GOP

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Why Are MAGA Influencers Defecting but Not MAGA Voters? @kateriga.bsky.social and @joshtpm.bsky.social discuss the DHS secretary confirmation hearings, a big defection on Iran, and the Illinois primaries on the latest episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/liste...

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I somehow need to get a UHD Blu-ray player to watch again. I had no idea my regular Blu-ray player could not read the UHD Blu-rays. Got the really nice Blu-ray set of Highlander recently with new cast interviews and whatnot, and cannot watch it. It's an absurd premise, but somehow the movie works

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It's time to fess up and admit I have seen every official Highlander movie and TV show. As awful as both versions of Highlander II are, the 3rd installment breaks the entire universe. The TV show could have been saved if the Kurgan killed them all in the finale, making it a plausible prequel.

Did you see bsky.app/profile/dael... It's something, both the thread (great) and the film. There are worse vehicles to sell Queen music *cough Flash Gordon *cough.

I watched Highlander for the first time over the weekend and there is a lot i'll never forget, for good or for bad, but this in particular will be rattling around in my brain for decades.

I am so heartily sick of fan culture. It has destroyed so much.

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