The Coffeepot
@thecoffeepot.bsky.social
Recovering lawyer, struggling screenwriter, proud Korean-American, and Bay Area sports fan (Warriors, 49ers, Giants) living in LA – the percolations are imminent
Caitlin Clark at the center of another controversy 😭
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm-bomb
Neither Bass nor Raman would get a reception like this. Where's our Mamdani?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoKimmel to Mamdani: "I live in Los Angeles and that is not the reception our mayor would get"
Using kids' art in lieu of AI slop is one of the greatest ideas I've ever heard www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinte...
From the mildlyinteresting community on Reddit: In an effort to stop using AI images, my kid's school started using kid art for their fundraisers and events.
Explore this post and more from the mildlyinteresting community
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Gas prices hit $9/gal for regular in San Diego! If you are shopping for a new or used car this weekend, remember to look into an EV. And before you vote this November ask yourself if life was better 2 years ago…
Straight from the Hall of Never Be Presidents
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d agoJared Kushner's face looks more and more like something you'd see in a wax museum (Ryan Murphy/Getty)
Heckuva job Bonta variety.com/2026/film/ne...
David Ellison Mulls Tapping Elon Musk for Paramount Investment While Closing in on Warner Bros. Takeover: Report
David Ellison, seeking fresh capital for a merged Paramount-Warner Bros., is considering reaching out to tech mogul Elon Musk -- the world's richest person -- to "become part of a syndicate of equity ...
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If this doesn't finally kill Collins's Senate career, I dare say nothing will
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · last wk.NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.
ProPublica@propublica.org · last wk.6/ Weeks later, Kao tells his team Collins committed to getting the company $32M in naval contracts.
Have the people proposing a kill switch ever watched any science fiction movies about rogue AI? Because I feel like there's a beat in every single one where someone tries to shut down the AI but it's already bypassed the switch. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/s...
Creating a Kill Switch to Shut Down a Rogue A.I. Is Harder Than It Sounds
A bipartisan group in Congress and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California have floated ideas for building a mechanism that would instantly power down an A.I. system. Only no one really knows how.
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Trying to conceive of a piece of entertainment I would less like to view. "Birth of a Nation" starring Tilly Norwood?
The A.V. Club@avclub.com · 2w agoThe director noted "very powerful, very wealthy" interest in Rand's novel during an appearance on Josh Horowitz's Happy Sad Confused podcast. www.avclub.com/zack-snyder-...
People keep glossing over the fact Kavanaugh seems open to siding with Trump on the merits. That's three votes for this insanity. Expand. The. Court. Now.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2w agoThe Supreme Court on Monday blocked President Trump’s executive order to restrict mail ballots. But that was just one piece of a broader effort involving the full power of the federal government to take more control of state-run elections.
What a great question. I'm gonna go with curb whiskers.
Kol Castle || VerifyCarCarrier.com@thekol.bsky.social · 4w agoWhat’s one car feature you miss from older cars? Not everything new is better — some old-school features just hit different. Maybe it’s crank windows, pop-up headlights, or the satisfying click of an old turn signal. What’s one feature from older cars you wish modern ones still had? 👇
It's a simple metaphor for what the country needs right now. Yes we'll have to tear down the ballroom to do it, but that's a means to the more positive end of reconstructing what Trump himself destroyed.
The Coffeepot@thecoffeepot.bsky.social · 4w agoThe next Dem president should just run on a simple pledge to rebuild the East Wing
Working through my fundraiser paintings and the request here was “paint my two dogs looking happy sitting behind Ben Roethlisberger after he threw an interception”
Stern has always wanted to be Letterman, and just like Dave has a Netflix show, Howard now has one on HBO Max deadline.com/2026/08/howa...
'Howard Stern Show' Inks Deal For Weekly Series At HBO Max
HBO Max has teamed with Stern's production company and SiriusXM to release weekly filmed episodes of The Howard Stern Show.
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Tolkien gave up on writing a sequel to the Lord of the Rings because he imagined the youth of Gondor forming 'orc-cults' who would imitate Mordor and found it too depressing; a remarkable feat of imagination when it came to predicting people who still worship the Soviet or Nazi empires today.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · last mo.Exciting news everybody: so long as you change the name on the tin of your empire, it is suddenly not imperialism for you to violently reconquer the people you used to control, it's just sparkling anti-secessionism. Tankies, man, wow.
I love this signing for the T-Wolves! I'm sure Kuminga would've liked more $$$, but this is a great place for him to land. He'll get some serious minutes at the 4, and Ant and LaMelo will create opportunities for him to attack while providing the space required to do so.
Shams Charania Tweets@shamsbot.bsky.social · last mo.BREAKING: Jonathan Kuminga has agreed to a two-year, $13 million deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves, plus a player option, agent Aaron Turner tells ESPN. Kuminga will be a starter alongside Anthony Edwards, LaMelo Ball, Jaden McDaniels and Rudy Gobert on the West contender.
The gut punches are coming fast and furious this week
Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social · last mo.RIP Tim Curry. One of my all time favourite actors. The versatility required to play both Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show and deliver the greatest-ever portrayal of Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island was magnificent. A truly great performer and entertainer. Thank you, Tim.
She is doing a thing and I am here for all of it!
Emma Fraser@frazbelina.bsky.social · last mo.Quincy Tyler Bernstine is giving one of the performances of the year in Furious and so it was a real pleasure to talk to her about the series and the big moments in the penultimate episode www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/qui...
