Ah yes… The Sixers picking up where they left off.

The first TRON endured in our imaginations because it used special effects and CGI NOT to make something look 'real' but to make something new and different. The subsequent TRON films have _completely_ failed to understand this in favor of 'but now the light cycle looks real.'

Me at 23: “cool! this has bacon in it” Me today: “shit, they put bacon it it.”

we’re living under a canopy of raised questions that’s so dense we’re developing night vision

I’ve been looking around for the most credulous mid-campaign piece about Trump’s obviously fatuous Project 2025 disavowal, and I think it might be this one from Politico. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Water’s very green today. Is this that pistachio tide?

This is the time for us to understand our power. We will get through this moment as we always have: Together.

If there was a poll about the shutdown that was like "60% of voters blame Democrats" we'd get wall to wall news "analysis" saying the Democrats must immediately capitulate or face electoral ruin, but when we have the opposite (like we do now) the media doubles down on efforts to blame Democrats

As long as the loudest folks on the left insist tone-policing, compromise on human rights, and acquiescence are our only options for a unified country, they will continue to lose the faith of the marginalized. And even when they win, they’ll just be waiting to lose the same way again.

Frankly, the voters stripped the Democrats of all their power in the federal government. We have to make up that with bodies on the street

A kid who is using free government provided Wi-Fi is a kid whose family doesn't have to buy shitty and expensive AT&T cellular service to do homework. Also, AT&T has a LONG history of defrauding school subsidy programs; a gravy train that stops if you start doing things differently.

After my parents brought me to Baltimore with McKeldin Fountain, the Aquarium, and the Gallery, I dreamt of it as like a semi-submerged Atlantis for years

Great time for Trump to gleefully threaten more mass firings

The President made the biggest cut to food assistance in our nation’s history. Families will go hungry so Trump’s billionaire friends can get richer. They can hide the numbers. They can bury the reports. But they cannot hide this moral tragedy from the eyes of God.

Washington, D.C. has broken their pact with all 50 states and we’re paying the price to the tune of $370 million every week.

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

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There are federal employees deemed as essential who are expected to work and not recieve a pay check. From there any owed bulk sum for back pay is not guaranteed. This is chaos

The person in your ER who is an illegal alien, if they exist, is extremely likely to be on staff in some capacity.

Q: How did the White House decide it was appropriate for Jared Kushner to be working on matters that involve Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia -- 3 countries combined that have given him more than $2.5b LEAVITT: It's frankly despicable that you're trying to suggest that it's inappropriate

He's literally sending 20B of YOUR MONEY to Argentina or whatever so he can take half of it when he leaves or gets pushed out. Do you really think he won't drain every cent he can?

Republicans JUST VOTED DOWN our bill to avoid a government shutdown at midnight and address the healthcare needs of the American people. Republicans are plunging us into a government shutdown rather than fixing their healthcare crisis.

Is there a sorrier spectacle on a stage than Pete Hegseth spouting a bunch of bullshit? Actually, yes: Any comedian who performed at the Riyadh comedy festival.

We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.

Now that enough time has passed I’m sharing something that I’ve been wanting to FOREVER: In April ‘23 Mychal Givens had his lawyers draw up a letter accusing me of conspiring with his ex-wife to ruin his reputation and threatening to sue me if I didn’t passionately tweet nice things about him 😂

Reminder: the point of the massive, lavishly funded, decades-long campaign by the right to take over media was not to make the public love Republicans, it was to make the public hate Democrats, so that no matter what Republicans did, it would be forgiven. They know: it won't matter ...

My whole life I was told that the left hates America, but it’s MAGA that declared war on American cities.

Type of guy who never stops talking about how the left is literally like 1984: "We are going to ban 1984"

President Trump wants to kill American citizens the right way. By Ezra Klein

Tom Waits’ classic ‘Rain Dogs’ came out 40 years ago today

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

The cast of Starship Troopers give their thoughts on the upcoming remake of the film and remakes in general. "Why do you want to re-paint the Mona Lisa?" #LACC

Republicans control the House, Senate, and White House. Ripping health care away from millions was their choice. Jacking up Americans’ insurance costs was their choice. And if they shut down the government, it’ll be their choice, too.

The Deputy Chief of Staff... is in charge of military strikes? Do we even have a president?

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

I’ve seen enough

Donald Trump cut funding for pediatric cancer research.

Lol

Wait, that was Holliday’s first hit in 35 plate appearances?

Republicans would rather shut down the government than help millions of Americans afford health care. This article tells some of their stories, and is a good reminder of what’s at stake.

Be the cringe you wish to see in the world

This is the correct way to think of Klein and Kirk

Me to MASN+ after the final out of the game

Reminder: American farmers lost the China market to Brazil (which Trump has pushed closer to China bc of his tantrum about Bolsonaro) and Argentina (which Scott Bessent is bailing out with $20B of taxpayer $$). Americans are literally paying Javier Milei to poach American soybean markets.

Before the election, they claimed that they weren’t protesting Trump because he wasn’t in power. Well, now he’s the president, and they’re still protesting Kamala Harris, not him. It’s clear these Free Palestine protesters are disingenuous. Almost like they just want to humiliate a Black woman. 🤔

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

Huge indictment of the Orioles that all of these players that the Orioles gave up on are hitting better than the players on the team who are supposed to be their stars.