Folks, looks like we’re setting up for a Cape Fear Season 2 - Even More Fear.
Conan O'Brien Crying 'WHYYYYY'
ALT: Conan O'Brien Crying 'WHYYYYY'
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Cue further insane incitement on XAi and (fingers crossed) massive margin calls.
This Wilson / Nolan dust up is gonna be like those battles the poet sang of long ago, in which Athena, daughter of Zeus, she of the bright eyes and dark mien, swoops down from Olympus to pluck a combatant from the field because he or she is dear to her and then, later on
Scorcese: “ You know, in retrospect my original take on Cape Fear was too restrained. And didn’t go far enough in giving Max Cady a backstory. I’m gonna make another, but this one’s going to be 6 times as long and ten times crazier! No - let’s make it twenty times crazier for good measure!”
I’m starting to think that nobody’s going to come out of this Max Cady situation looking good.
Ace diplomacy from Mister President Businessman and his Yale Law School VP.
Guy who just lost a war thinks stalling the nomination of not even remotely qualified yes man with no clear support to a position of immense power somehow gives him leverage in gaining support for his effort to undermine the election, which has even less support. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Delays Nomination to Pressure Congress on Voting Bill
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While we’re on the topic of the Odyssey, if Hollywood is determined to release Homeric epics featuring each member of the Ocean’s Eleven cast, I’m waiting for the Iliad featuring Elliot Gould as Achilles, Bert as Patrouklos and Grover as Hector.
One would think overseeing the 21st century’s biggest supply chain crisis in his first term might have taught the President something about global supply chains… www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
‘Get your own oil’: Trump launches tirade against Europe for not joining Iran war
Many countries in Europe have called the conflict illegal, with some blocking Israeli and US planes from moving weapons through their airspace
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Unfortunately, as we’ve seen, far too many attorneys and compliance professionals view their roles this way, which has done so much in contributing to the erosion of the rule of law and our constitutional system of government in the US. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
The secretive, destructive work of an ICE attorney: ‘My job is to do what I’m told’
ICE lawyers in New York City earn more than $100,000 a year, enjoy generous benefits and post about rich social lives. Their work is vital to Trump’s deportation agenda
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Converting the factory which makes your primary product into one that will make an imaginary product with no proven market is quite a strategy. stocks.apple.com/A6MkCkT7rT5O...
Tesla is killing off the Model S and Model X — TechCrunch
The company will stop making the pioneering EVs in the second quarter of 2026, CEO Elon Musk announced Wednesday.
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The problem with bending the knee to authoritarians is that once you do, they know nothing prevents you from doing so they next time they come calling. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’
Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rights
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A development that was both expected and completely unnecessary. A consequence of the administration’s contempt for experience and any viewpoint that contradicts its destructive, poorly thought-out objectives. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
US urges its citizens to flee Venezuela amid reports of paramilitaries
State department says armed ‘colectivos’ appear to be setting up roadblocks and searching vehicles for Americans
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Only one thing here looks weak and decaying, Mr President. And the photo says it all. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump lambasts ‘weak’ and ‘decaying’ Europe and hints at walking away from Ukraine
US president recycles far-right tropes on European immigration and presses Zelenskyy to accept his peace plan
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The revolution may not be televised. But it will be led by frogs wielding subway sandwiches for those following on social media.
Sandwich guy may have been acquitted of assaulting ICE, but it looks like he’s guilty of crashing Blue Sky.
This is the surest sign yet that this company will soon be the Pets.com of the AI bubble era. finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-...
OpenAI seeks US government backing to fund $1tn expansion
OpenAI has said it might need government backing to fund a trillion-dollar spending plan amid concerns that the AI boom is being funded by enormous levels of debt.
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Exhibit A on “Why Acting Does (and Should) Not Translate to Having a Role In Politics” www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
George Clooney says replacing Joe Biden with Kamala Harris ‘was a mistake’
Actor says Harris ‘was given a very tough task’ because ‘she had to run against her own record’, and extends an olive branch to Hunter Biden
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Vile. This is what our country has become under Trump, the Republican Party and their enablers. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump’s immigration raids continue through Halloween in Chicago and Los Angeles
In Chicago suburb, protesters confronted ICE agents, whom Evanston mayor said ‘assaulted’ residents
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Best article I’ve seen on Trump’s destruction of the East Wing. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Why Trump Tore Down the East Wing
The act of destruction is precisely the point: a kind of performance piece meant to display Trump’s arbitrary power over the Presidency, including its physical seat.
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Important story - the firms that capitulated in the early days of the administration set the tone and precedent of institutional collaboration that we are living under today. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
What if the Big Law Firms Hadn’t Caved to Trump?
It’s not inconceivable that, had the firms resisted the President’s executive orders, his momentum for lawlessness might have been curbed.
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“Aren’t you a little short for a …clone trooper?” May we all find a reason and the strength for a New Hope this Halloween. @markhamillofficial.bsky.social
“C’mon guys, we really ought to forgive the Red Skull his youthful indiscretions and nominate him for higher office so we don’t alienate all his Hydra supporters and so he can bring his extraordinary Hydra charisma and ideology to the US Senate”
a cartoon man is looking through binoculars .
ALT: a cartoon man is looking through binoculars .
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The President of the United States, Secretary of Defense, & world’s richest man (who helped get the President elected & served as a key advisor) all regularly engage in behavior that would get them escorted from the building by HR of any employer, government agency or nonprofit. Let that sink in.
Bush 41 vomited on a Japanese diplomat and it was more dignified than that
Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 10mo agoas far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility