Despite creating a billion-dollar franchise - with a new $200M budget Hollywood blockbuster launching in a month - the creator of He-Man's family were unable to afford his dementia and care facility costs, and had to setup a GoFundMe. Mattel gave $5,000.

See King Charles visits Trump, talks about the importance of supporting Ukraine, one phone call with Putin and he's back to Moscow rhetoric. It's useless trying to convince Trump, his admiration and sympathy will always be with authoritarians.

Mapped the IDF's newly declared "Forward Defense Zone" in south Lebanon. Its maritime boundary fully absorbs Lebanon's Qana gas field, whose exploration rights were explicitly guaranteed under the 2022 US-brokered maritime border agreement. @weatherwar

conservative free speech is when they speak and you listen or suffer the consequences

Never has there been a criminal gang so boastful and proud of its crimes.

This ought to be a deal-breaker among "religious" MAGA but they will shrug it off. That's no surprise to those who follow the phenomena of the prosperity gospel, mega churches, Evangelical armageddon Zionism: a large chunk of American Christianity has been hollowed out of virtues and ethics.

Eagerly anticipating Trump saying: "I barely knew the guy,"

Leavitt makes this ridiculous claim for the same reason RFK Jr. said that Trump is a geographic savant. Few believe it but Trump loves to hear it and wouldn't want to cast doubt on it. They are trying to insulate themselves against Trump's firing temper tantrums.

While Trump is shouting about the total obliteration of Iran, *bombing them back to the stone age", US embassies in the region are attempting to reframe that as "tensions". These are not serious people.

It's fortunate that Canada is in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization because while I can imagine it surviving a Trump exit in some shape or another, I cannot see it survive a rebranding operation.

Have you seen Iran's official review of the Melania movie?

I saw a peculiar billboard on the side of the road today, I thought I misread it at first but no it's real...

PROTIP: Maybe be a little suspicious when anyone tries to convince you that it's the most vulnerable people with the least amount of political influence and power who are the cause of all your problems

You might almost be fooled into thinking that Lavrov is condemning his boss. But you would be wrong, blatant displays of hypocrisy are meant to demonstrate dominance.

given the modern conservative fascination with Sparta it's at least a little funny that they've engineered a situation in which Persia is able to level a dramatically uneven battlefield by forcing the conflict into a narrow pathway

Market manipulation. The timing of Trump threats (usually Friday nights) then backing down (usually early Monday mornings) on war and tariffs tell you all you need to know.

I have this morbid curiosity to read Trump's The Art of the Deal, because the guy only has one speed in negotiations, threats, blackmail, extortion.

I give it 3 weeks until the Pentagon issues a blanket ban on deployed personnel listening to podcasts.

Tony Tony Chopper from One Piece has been named an "Official Supporter" of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), with several activities planned to support the organization's initiatives!

Trump: "the US will massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field" An analyst insisting a petroleum engineer on the possibility: technically if you drain the Persian Gulf so you have oxygen to burn all the gas exposed with a thermonuclear impact. Multiple gasps Engineer: he asked

The Trump administration in their National Security Strategy said that the EU's current trajectory is a threat and that it supports nationalist Eurosceptic movements. You accuse the EU of being anti-Trump? I WOULD FUCKING HOPE SO

Cartoon door @kamagurka.bsky.social

Trump has until July 4th this year to convince Americans and the world that the 250th anniversary is not an expiration date.

Retired French General Michel Yakovleff: “The US asks us for help and wants us to share the cost of their fiascos. Joining Trump’s coalition today is like buying a ticket to dinner and dancing on the Titanic the evening after it hit the iceberg.”

TRUMP IN ONE SINGLE EVENT - "They won't be there for us" - "We have some that are really enthusiastic. They're coming already" - "This isn't 'need'" - "If we need anything, they should be jumping to help us" - "We want them to come & help us w/the strait" - My attitude is we don't need anybody"

Tell me you've never read a book without telling me you've never read a book challenge

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

Mind blowing how many Evangelicals believe they can orchestrate the second coming of Christ by starting wars as if it's some Hollywood demon summoning ritual. Are they really certain their faith has a Messiah? Because this sounds more like a bloodthirsty genie in a bottle.

Everything you need to know about Donald Trump in one question and one answer.

We are living in a time of absolute, utter madness...and too many people are unwilling to acknowledge it. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

Remember how the media tried to stoke Islamophobia by debating whether US muslims were celebrating 911? Evangelicals are dancing as brown people get murdered in the name of their god and the media won't bat an eyelid

Iceland will hold a referendum on Aug. 29 to decide whether to relaunch its stalled talks to join the EU, its government said today.

They will piss down your back and tell you it's raining.

I love when American politicians say they have the greatest military in the world - lads, you spent $2.3trillion and 20 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban.

Sorry but I love it every time that the fraud betting apps go health insurance mode and find the smallest discrepancy to justify not paying out to the inside traders who are its core customer base. Eat shit.

Gorillaz "The Mountain" 8-minute short film is now online. Directed by Jamie Hewlett, Max Taylor & Tim McCourt at The Line studio. An homage to the golden era of 2D animation, produced with a hybrid analogue-digital workflow. >> www.catsuka.com/news/2026-02...

You can just say things.

I predict that once this deal is done, James Gunn will be fired as head of DC Studios.

Who did this??

I get that not everyone is familiar with sci-fi terminology but a newscaster on NBC describing robots as cyborgs annoys me greatly. youtu.be/stNO7V8xJHk?...

Happy Anniversary to those who celebrate cat attorneys.

Kudos to China for declaring that car companies shouldn't be allowed to let people burn alive in order to have fancy futuristic doors.

Canada is laughing hysterically tonight, and I’m with them

so if Grok was a humanoid robot, at this point we'd simply take it behind the shed and blow its positronic 'brains' out and everyone — including Asimov, rolling about in his grave — would agree that's the only sane and safe thing to do

If somebody could have convinced me in the 90s that conspiracy theorists would embrace the new world order, I would probably have been less frustrated by their bullshit.

I'm done ordering books from Amazon, the lower prices and fast delivery does not justify them destroying books with their nonsense packaging. This business model might work for them but continuing to engage with it makes me an accomplice and fuck that.

Tokyo Godfathers is one of the best films of this century. A key reason is that it portrays Tokyo with an almost overwhelming level of care and detail. Satoshi Kon and his team moved mountains to make this film's world feel real — as we explore today: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/satoshi-ko...

Buddy: it would be cool if a telepathic animal was discovered Me: physical constraints make it impossible for biological organisms to control the generation or reception of radio waves Buddy: I mean like reading minds without signals Me: how do you suggest that would work? Buddy: telepathically