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They want to apply the magic Trump Teflon for criminality to the whole caucus and they find it difficult!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoHoly shit! Jim Jordan is reduced to stammering when Kasie Hunt presses him on why he continues to support Max Miller despite credible allegations that he abused his ex-wife and toddler daughter
Former Trump advisor who realized he could do more advising if he was talking to Trump through the TV.
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6d agoLarry Kudlow: "Oil prices will come down a lot more soon enough. Now, I don’t know that and I’m not piecing together supply and demand I’m just saying generally speaking, a step up in the war will bring those prices down, not up."
In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...
Imagining an alternate history where Bleem didn't use PlayStation screenshots and Sony didn't have a legal angle to stop them
Phil Salvador@philsalv.bsky.social · 6d agoAn example of what Kendra means: In Sony v. Bleem, even though the Bleem emulation project was legal, Sony sued them for copyright infringement for using SCREENSHOTS of PlayStation games. lmao It was never about legal principles, it was just about stopping competition / behavior they didn't like
The fact that after receiving classified briefings about COVID, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue downplayed the virus to the public and invested in BODY BAGS should have been a bigger a story.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7d agoRunning out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
America is weird because we have a free press but also an authoritarian government and so we learn in pretty close to real time the shit that is not revealed in other authoritarian settings until decades later.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7d agoMS NOW EXCLUSIVE: The Secret Service felt pressure from the Trump admin to surveil James Comey. Documents detail worries about the legality of the directive to surveil Comey — including surreptitiously tracking Comey's phone without a warrant — in the wake of his 'seashells' photo.
i periodically mention this, but he’s got more than two years to go and you should think about what he could plausibly* do to even stop the bleeding, let alone turn this around *as in: is actually plausible that he would do
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d agoCNN: "The president's overall approval rating now stands at just 34%. That matches his career low following the January 6 insurrection."
Watching The Odyssey as Nolan intended: as an AI-upscaled camcorder recording with line-in audio from the theater seat, burned-in Spanish subtitles, and moving blurred patches to hide the forensic digital watermarks.
Minding my own business at the supermarket when the deli cheese starts laughing at me for my race and nationality
Ah the old Twitter Files move: Assert outlandish claims, say you have evidence, get press for that, then release something that shows the opposite, assuming that many don’t bother to look, fellow travelers will tout it regardless, and by the time critics highlight it, the news cycle has moved on.
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 3w agoone of the supposedly damning docs the White House released tonight says Russia tried to undermine BIDEN. Also says China "prefers that President Trump be defeated" but actually "Beijing did not intend to try to affect the election" (!)
Besides having the worst politics ever, this guy was married to a woman even Don Jr wouldn't give a ring. More skeletons in his closet than a Spirit Halloween. There is, literally, more oppo on this guy than anyone else in the history of the game. And they'll run one-source stories on the front page
Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio)@kleinman.bsky.social · last wk.Gavin Newsom would be great as the 2028 nominee if you want to spend the entire campaign defending his personal life www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...
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UFO 50 has so many weird little secrets in it... it's been almost 2 years and we're still discovering more!
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This Week in Videogames@thisweekinvideogames.com · 3w agoThis Week in Videogames has reached its first full year of operation. Thank you to our paid subscribers for helping us sustain an independent, commercial-free, AI-free, and no-nonsense approach to games coverage for everyone. Here's a brief rundown of what we've managed to achieve in Year One:
I probably own a dozen copies of the original Super Mario Bros in various forms
Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2w agoName physical media you purchased more than once.
This is true, and the critics/journalists that play 100 games a year have trouble really grokking that a whole lot of people just stick with a handful of games/series and keep going back to them, often for years
Mat Piscatella@matpiscatella.bsky.social · last wk."transforming Game Pass into a bustling indie library could work to both rapidly shrink the costs of running the service, as well as retain more subscribers" IMO the primary reason Game Pass failed to hit its subscriber targets is because the mass market simply does not care to play lots of games.
everything about america rn would be fine if it was just 15% off
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Jeffries: "They have nothing to run on. We're going to run on fighting for an affordable America."
The issues facing lit crit enumerated here feel oddly familiar!
New naming scheme: Laserdisc - Classic Laserdisc CD - Compact Laserdisc DVD - Digital Laserdisc Blu-ray: HD Laserdisc Blu-ray UHD: 4K Laserdisc
it feels shallow and reductive to say that trump is the cause of why things feel so terrible, but it isn’t, he really is that bad, he really has made everyone’s life worse, he is bad vibes personified and he’s been an uninvited part of our lives for ten fucking years
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 2w agoi think this is (mostly) true but that it varies wildly across age groups, but it’s *most* true for age groups who are most likely to be very active on social media sites
TFW the display technology gives you free speed lines
DOKI DOKI CRT PIXEL@crtpixel.bsky.social · 2w agoSUPER MARIO BROS. NINTENDO 1985 NES
The White House Correspondents Association is having a dinner for this man tonight.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoQ: You're talking about blowing up civilian power plants and bridges. Much of the civilized world would consider that a war crime. Do you? TRUMP: I won't respond to that question. Who are you with? Q: The New York Times TRUMP: I figured. The failing New York Times.
We shouldn't let Musk get away with this kind of rebranding, but also the fact that he feels the need to distance himself from Trump indicates which way the wind is blowing...
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago‘I got carried away’: Elon Musk expresses regret about Doge and wading into Trump’s orbit