She was arrested. news.yahoo.co.jp/pickup/6553284

Rev Sun Myung Moon’s widow, and now head of the Unification Church (FFWPU) Hak Ja Han has been detained pending an arrest warrant in the South Korean political bribery scandal news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/c3c...

The cure for autism is doing pull-ups in jeans

Can’t believe I endured the years of torment of Mourinhoball to finally get a team that plays Pepball to have Pep fucking play us with Mourinhoball

Because it’s Bolsonaro you’re not sure if he’s doing this to stay OUT of jail or to get IN hospital apnews.com/article/braz...

What did I tell you — what do I always tell you www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Gotta respect Latoya trying to use her frequent flyer points before they expire when she's in jail www.nola.com/news/courts/...

Full armor of god is a call to spiritual warfare — Vance might be catholic but he’s deeply influenced by charismatics

Deep in the jungles of Bougainville, a man crowned himself king, founded a bank with no money and promised salvation through spreadsheets. Sean Williams of Underworld introduces us to Noah Musingku: architect of the most absurd sovereign state you’ve never heard of podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...

Dubai is an evil, evil place www.bbc.com/news/article...

Manchester United are so hopelessly bad, and I lived through the dark Emery early Arteta era

2/ In the article linked below, I wrote, “They have managed to mainstream the idea of Spiritual Warfare to the extent that it has become the new ‘rapture’ of American culture.” This idea is not going away, but it will intensify. www.illiberalism.org/spiritual-wa...

His flat-footedness drives me crazy but I’m starting to really love this big Swedish oaf

We are days away from someone suggesting a Nobel Prize for interior decorating

I was on CBC’s The National yesterday speaking about Charlie Kirk’s influence and legacy www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXsp...

the Nationalist International is still, blessedly, too weak across too many countries to see its obvious contradictions tear it apart I do think that the Trump - Modi tensions of the last month are a good example of what's coming if the Nationalist International consolidates and grows

Ray Hudson describing Saka’s shot for his goal as “soft as Gandhi stroking a kitten” will never leave me

I googled Get Him to the Greek to see if anyone had made the Ange/Forest/Marinakis meme yet, and it might have the most cancelled cast of all time (sorry Rose)

One of my favorite episodes we've done so far

Holy shit I guess this explains why Oliver North stopped replying to my emails www.spytalk.co/p/exclusive-...

One of my favorite episodes we've done so far

You gotta admire his total commitment to being a real estate guy nypost.com/2025/09/06/u...

Feels like this might have been the catalyst for the Bolton raid www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

A big PEP weekend for you all. First PEP 228 from Tuesday night with @ellehardy.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYgw... And now PEP 229 www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ay... Stay PEPpy!

My god I finally read the surrogate story and it’s as insane as described www.wired.com/story/the-ba...

Weird q, but do I know anyone here who has been to the National Archives of Taiwan?

UPS driver popped in to see how my boyfriend is doing because we have an Alabama flag out the front

Been re-listening to a tonne of old school Kanye lately and it really is brilliant

It absolutely rules that college football coaches — the highest earning public employees in all but one state — have a roughly 80% weird sexual perversion rate, only you never know when, where, why or how it will come to light

Dude’s finally gonna enact his Covid plan

Indiana Jonesing: Raiders of the Lost Artifacts In this episode, we dig into the bizarre saga of American evangelicals, stolen artifacts from Iraq, and a DIY biblical empire-building project gone very, very wrong. app.redcircle.com/shows/163ffc...

This is so grim www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...

“An interminable crisis of hiccups and vomiting” sound the @ellehardy.bsky.social klaxon

Jordan Peterson offered 12 rules for life; God gave us 10. To you, my friends, I suggest only two: never agree to an interview with Choitner, and never ever publish a personal essay in The Cut

FWIW The Guardian ran a piece about rampant guns in Australia a day before the Victoria police ambush

Fuck you Sam Altman for making me do an extra edit to justify every em dash now that it is considered a sign of AI text — I used to love the em dash

New episode: the almighty dollar — how church became a $1.42T grift We're joined by Nathan Apffel, filmmaker of the upcoming Amazon docuseries The Religion Business

Thoroughly obsessed with the court sketch art from the mushroom lunch trial, the latest has gone full Munch

That moment where it all sinks in for Eze and he waves his finger at the sky, I well up every single time

I love that the answer to the five-year question of who does Arteta really want as a left 8 is an Italian centreback

New from me: a podcaster who is a former pastor and current member of Pete Hegseth's church advocates for public executions, thinks abortion should be a capital crime, and thinks ICE raids are biblical. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Just listened to Hell to pays’s ‘fowl play’ episode and the Connor describes how sexless marvel is to @ellehardy.bsky.social and @ibnkulthum.bsky.social well do I have the essay for this - bloodknife.com/everyone-bea...

This week, the triumphant return of @comradesipho.bsky.social with an episode on the fascinating role of witchdoctors, sacrifices and sangomas in African football podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...

Loving Starmer’s commitment to alienate every last Labour constituency in order to appease people who already hate him

I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.

I swear Mikel Arteta is full Opus Dei, the man straps a spike to his hamstring each day and makes a handsome Italian defensive convert the most attacking player over a bunch of developing-world Pentecostals and Scandinavian Lutherans

A lovely Times obit for an absolute king

New Orleans might have lost the title of murder capital but you better believe that we can still indict Mayors like nobody else

RIP to a real one, it’s absolutely bonkers that a film review show on a tiny network could have such cultural influence www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...