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Newspaper and illustrations at Politico. Founder of TheOmnicosm.com, home of the Popculturology, Deep SNL Thoughts and Snackology newsletters. Rochester, N.Y., native. Was once featured on Late Night. https://www.theomnicosm.com/signup/
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Whatever one thinks of the strikes, Trump says this is a war — and moved forward with it without authorization from Congress. But no Congressional leader, Republican or Democrat, has so far objected (a few members have pushed for new Congressional action to assert its role).

If Indiana Jones named himself after the family dog, and “Raiders” exists in the Bluey universe, who/what did Indiana Jones name himself after in that universe?

“I love. I get scared. But that is being human. And that’s my greatest strength.” youtu.be/edONI3oR8CM?...

Well, didn’t see this one coming. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Pope Leo XIV warns of the dangers of AI on youth www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Hey, it’s this week’s newsletter. ‘Always Sunny’ gangs up on ‘Abbott Elementary’ and ‘The Golden Bachelor’ in new trailer www.theomnicosm.com/always-sunny...

The “pitched/are pitching” qualifier is doing a ton of work here. I don’t doubt at all that Amazon MGM would love to have Nolan direct their Bond movie — but on their terms.

The term “unprovoked bites” is ridiculous. You’re in the ocean. That’s where sharks live. It’s their home. It’s not like they’re randomly showing up in your living room and biting you. What would a “provoked bite” even be? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Wouldn’t know.

Snackology Review: It turns out I can get enough of the Selena Gomez Oreos www.theomnicosm.com/it-turns-out...

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Major Anomaly.

A SpaceX Starship rocket exploded in a huge fireball on a test stand during preparations for its next launch at the Elon Musk-led company’s base in South Texas. https://trib.al/UM4fCXL

Snackology Review: Strips! Tacos! Burritos! Taco Bell goes all in on Crispy Chicken www.theomnicosm.com/strips-tacos...

The editorial board of a publication in Sen. Mike Lee's home state of Utah called on him to apologize for his posts about the Minnesota shootings, writing that they “were unacceptable for anyone, let alone from a member of the Senate.”

Bad Company from @greenwell.bsky.social is your key to understanding why the businesses of your childhood are pretty much all gone now.

"When Bruce was little, he had a hole in the floor of his bedroom ..." These musical biopics will never not be Walk Hard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQXd...

How much God-Emperor concept art do we think they showed Momoa’s kid? deadline.com/2025/06/dune...

Naturally, these will be presented in mid-November and not on the Oscars telecast. I mean, who would want to watch [checks notes] Tom Cruise and Dolly Parton get honorary Oscars? variety.com/2025/film/aw...

This is what all mainstream coverage of A.I. sounds like, to me

This idea is Not Great, Bob. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

As always …

as someone prone to directly confronting people for stuff they say online, that from lee is the face of someone who did not expect to be confronted for something he said online

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

Mike Lee confronted by Minnesota colleague over shooting comments www.politico.com/live-updates...

This is an (unsurprisingly) excellent @anamariecox.bsky.social piece on the adoption of ANDOR by No Kings protesters newrepublic.com/article/1967...

In the spirit of @latenightseth.bsky.social's "Corrections," I gotta point out that it was a *Bird Bane* mask, not a Bane mask. www.thewrap.com/seth-meyers-...

Yup.

So it's clear that while no one is interested in live-action remakes of old movies like Snow White, there's a market — built-in nostalgia? — for remakes of newer movies like How to Train Your Dragon and Lilo & Stitch. Maddeningly, those are the films that definitely don't need to be updated.

The Box Office Report: ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ redo reheats box office with an $83.7M opening weekend www.theomnicosm.com/how-to-train...

Meanwhile, huge crowds flooded the streets of cities from coast to coast protesting Trump as part of the "No Kings" demonstrations. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

MOMENTS AGO: NBC News' @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social reports from L.A., as law enforcement on horses disperse crowds.