As millions of Americans were losing their SNAP benefits the Pentagon spent: 🔹️$6.9 million worth of lobster tails🦞 🔹️$15.1 million for ribeye steak 🥩 🔹️$2 million for Alaskan king crab 🦀 🔹️ and even $98,329 on a Steinway & Sons grand piano ✏️ by @newrepublic.com

if you want to understand how trump talked himself into an war of choice to overthrow the government of iran, you have to start where all discussions of great wartime leaders start: with french postmodernists and SUNSET BOULEVARD

Hulu has the weirdest “Continue Watching” UX; it’s like “well, you didn’t watch Love Story fast enough so we buried under it three shows that aren’t on now and the 5 minutes worth of an episode of Going Dutch we autoplayed three months ago.”

I just wrote the words "nuts and bolts" in an email and Gemini told me I should say "fundamentals" instead, and I am apoplectic. I'm sorry a pile of nuts and bolts was your MOM but some of us can write our own emails.

What a deeply evil and pathetic time

It’s incredibly frustrating that no corruption, no recklessness, no perversion is enough for the people capable of removing President Trump to remove President Trump.

There are so many reasons to hate prediction markets, but tonight it’s because while playing my dumb little mobile game that I hate, I was served a Kalshi ad that was just like, up close on Trump’s face? Then Vance’s, then Trump’s again? Fuck me for trying to have a little rest?

"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

I don’t know what my point is but the government killed 100 children on the first day of bombings and there are members of Congress still supporting more bombings and that is a grotesque level of inhumanity I cannot reckon with.

Been weighing whether to post the thoughts I had about The Breadwinner trailer on the day we went to war with Iran?

pretty stunning chart

I’m glad that the JFK Jr-CBK Love Story gets the important history right: Mark Wahlberg sucks.

Fact check!!!

"News is a record of things that have happened." On the long list of things I can't believe need to be explained to adults with power these days, NEWS IS A RECORD OF THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED. Kalshi is not the new journalism you mouthbreathing wallet jockey fucks. www.theverge.com/business/881...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

I don’t make the rules but if you go on the internet* and defend any decision Emerald Fennel makes, you’re a royalist. But also if you go on the internet* and criticize any decision Emerald Fennel makes, you’re a narc. *not on Letterboxd! That’s the time and place!

Can someone make me a supercut of all the network procedurals who have duped live forever Bryan Johnson and then murdered him? I will also accept ones where he’s the murderer.

It’s important to find something in the Epstein files just for YOU. Mine is when Jeffrey KEPT trying and failing to hang out with Gilbert Gottfried and ask him what elementary school he went to.

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

They tried to arrest people for saying "you should follow the law" which really tells you where we are at lol

Of all the texts that ask for money, the ones that do wacky things with fonts…

Love the creativity in Minneapolis. Click for pics.

This dude is intense and correct

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

with his $253.2 billion, Jeff Bezos could afford to pay 100 sportswriters $100,000 a year for the next 25,000 years

I know "boomers typing haha" but seriously what is up with all the equals signs SPECIFICALLY in those emails

The arrests of Lemon and Fort are intended to deter journalists from doing work we need them to do, and that the First Amendment was meant to protect. DOJ should drop these prosecutions or the courts should throw them out. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...

I think there needs to be a new category of capitalism crimes invented for this type of rip-off, a law that would make selling $108 vaginally-sheer leggings as a mass mall brand without some kind of warning a jailable offense. Larceny by deceptive public nudity, maybe.

Here you go Pam Bondi www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong. I landed on "slopagandist." Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

Watching the Ashley St. Clair interview and reading the Kanye West ad and spending some time today allowing myself to hope and maybe even almost kind of a little bit believe that people really can change/get help/renounce vile shit. Almost! Maybe! Just for me, I'm not telling you what to do!

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Can anyone tell me what this MEANS. I can think of lots of meanings! What does it mean?

They called it Best Medicine but they could have called it Beach House

Imagine being one of the men who escaped Maduro’s Venezuela, sought asylum in the U.S., got instead sent to months of hell in El Salvador, got sent back to the country you’d fled in the first place as if that was some kind of win for you, and now finds out the U.S. says it’s running your country too

If things were different, Chevy Chase could really play Ben Franklin right now

As politely as possible, the absolute epidemic of elder millennials to young Gen X performing the rites of early adulthood in film and TV is out of control. I say this watching 47-year old Bryan Greenberg as a guy Emily in Paris meets at Friends-themed bar trivia.

There seems to be a glitch on the Us Weekly website where the word "addresses" triggers a sales link that reads "(🛒Up to 50% off Dresses!)" which is bringing something special to this article about a reality TV star facing their addiction

Rewatching New Girl for generalized comfort and I’m in the Mr. Fancyman episodes and he just said “Jess, I’m 42! I’ve made a lot of money, and I enjoy spending it!” and now I am back where I started.

In Christmas movies, the bad boyfriend is always rich and high powered and not emotional enough, which is just SO DIFFERENT than the bad boyfriends of real life.

We make fun of celebrities and rich people for having giftwrapping rooms but when you’re surreptitiously wrapping gifts in your parents’ guest room on a lumpy bed it’s like, are they onto something?

I know the M.O. for newsletters is regularity but I get the MOST excited when I see a newsletter from someone who hasn't written their newsletter in a long time because it means they had something they HAD to say.

It feels like as a society we have reached peak Grinch. Santa? Fuck him, America’s face of Christmas is the Grinch now.

Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.

Love your friends and family as much as Vince Gilligan loves depciting a process

It’s weird how 2012 was like, one of the last good times and also we’re permanently stuck in all the dumbest parts of it. This post was prompted by the RHOBH wearing flower crowns.

It's because she doesn't know how to be the head of CBS News. Just no clue what a person in this role does. Similar to how Pete Hegseth and Sean Duffy don't know how to be cabinet secretaries. A hallmark of this movement is people being out of their depth. It says, "expertise is unnecessary."

ah yes, all workers should have the right to hurl racial slurs at black customers