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It's coming right after his healthcare plan, infrastructure week, the border wall, the $5000 DOGE checks, Obama's "real birth certificate," the reversal of inflation, the end of all trade deficits, and the Iranian peace deal.
Your deadbeat president is never giving you $5,000
But the pledge reveals an increasingly frantic midterms strategy.
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"Lake America" means the H.O.M.E.S acronym for the Great Lakes is obsolete. You know what works perfectly though? S.H.A.M.E.
Google then: "Don't be evil." Google now: "I can have a little evil, as a treat."
Google Maps Faces Fury for Caving to Trump
Google Maps has renamed Lake Ontario to reflect Trump’s preferences.
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Once again, our media ignores war, minors being assaulted in ICE custody, record debt, trade war w Canada... Because they can get salacious bigot-clicks fearmongering about girlpeen. Meghan Hall is just #trashy. As are the editors at USA Today who allowed space to be taken on this polyester hate.
Meghan L. Hall@itsmeghanlhall.bsky.social · 3w agoI flew out to New York to talk to people on the ongoing debate around the WNBA and transgender athletes and people. Here’s video from today’s protests outside Barclays, including perspectives from both side of the conversation. Story to come.
1. American Bar Association announces intent to investigate John Roberts for misconduct. 2. John Roberts approves ballroom construction. 3. Trump admin moves to strip ABA of power. They're not even trying to hide it.
Conspiracy theory that's going to turn out 100% correct in short time: The WNBA discourse about Sophie Cunningham is a culture war distraction for right wing bigots to avoid talking about Pussolini.
I love that social media is mad at this. As if anyone going to see this movie hasn't already seen the vast majority of the list to begin with. But that's life in the bullshit hot-take economy: Culture war tribalism that requires little critical thought.
IGN@ign.com · 4w agoReady for your Avengers Doomsday homework? Marvel has released a watchlist of 15 movies and TV shows you should watch before December 18 rolls around. https://bit.ly/3UmhwmS
Science: "Human kidneys can't survive very long in space." This guy: "LOL humans go brrrrrrrrrrrr"
David Burbach 🇺🇸@dburbach.bsky.social · 4w agoActual CEO of a space company people actually invest in says "by the early 2030s" -- just 5 to 7 years from now -- there will be mines and factories and large human workforce on the Moon, such that we'll be able to see lights of the lunar city from our front porches fortune.com/2026/08/17/b...
The MCU's approach to Hulk annoys me: He learned to control the Hulk offscreen. He had a romantic arc begin and end with Black Widow offscreen. He became an alien gladiator offscreen. He became a professor offscreen. Can we actually SEE his major decisions for once? "Show, don't tell" etc?
The king is dead. Long live the king!
King Charles' Death Accidentally Announced On Radio, Erring Staff Leaves 16 Minutes Of Dead Air In Panic
Radio Caroline mistakenly announced King Charles's death due to a staff error during maintenance, prompting Ofcom to rule a breach of broadcasting rules..
fashiontimes.co.uk
I just overheard somebody mockingly suggest that the internet is the only source for information "because there is no Wikipedia building." Libraries, y'all. Libraries are "The Wikipedia Building."
People will keep using Google search that they know includes AI, keep using Google Maps that they know includes AI, keep buying iPhones they know contain AI, stay on social media they know is being used to spy on us, and then condemn Hank Green for using that tech to read cancer research papers.
I was bummed they announced Blade in the first place. It robbed us of any chance we'd see Ali play Cottonmouth on Luke Cage again. Marvel had one in the hand and went for two in the bush.
Going through Letterboxd and just wanted to address a common complaint:
Hey Bernie Moreno: Save this energy for Max Miller for throwing boiling water on your daughter. Y'know instead of endorsing him.
Hegseth isn't even trying to justify the money anymore. He's interviewing to keep his current job.
Doomsday looks like 'Last Days' with a lil 'AvX.' The multiverse (meh) is physically crashing together, and now it's the XMCU and the MCU finally crashing. Each planet's supers either problemsolve or try to destroy the other. Doom finds a solution: Merge them into Battleworld. Now, Secret Wars.
If you have a hot take on Avengers, it's probably best to look at the graveyard of commenters who thought The Odyssey would bomb. Internet communities are echo chambers.
To everyone posting O Brother as some kind of protest: The Coen Bros don't want any part of your weird anti-Black Odyssey thing. They don't like you either.
The Odyssey was excellent. It more clearly connects hubris and war than the translation you might have read. It's also maybe the best action choreography of any Nolan film, and the plot didn't drag despite a 3-hour run time. Could've used a little more emotion during homecoming, but overall? 9/10.
People will complain about "inaccuracy" in The Odyssey, then happily watch Clash of the Titans... Featuring The Kraken from Norse mythology.
Hot (unimportant) Take: Making MMO games is why Bethesda declined so much as a developer. Elder Scrolls Online and Fallout '76 charge ~$15/mo, plus the game itself. There was no financial incentive left to make another single-player Fallout or Elder Scrolls. It all goes back to "Horse Armor."
Mitch McConnell is both dead and alive at the same time. Like Schrodinger's Traitor.
"You got sick? It's probably Taco Bell" is something a lazy comedian says. Not health officials.
Say what you will about Lindsey Graham... That's it. That's the post.
