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Finished BETTER CALL SAUL this morning. That is the GODFATHER II of tv shows: a deeper, richer, subtler, more tragic and more heartbreaking recontextualization of an already moving story. It transforms a pulp thriller into a meditation on inexorability. Stupendous writing, directing, acting. Unreal.

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

submitted 13 days ago • 150 comments

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

submitted 19 days ago • 164 comments

political journalists obsess over the public’s lack of trust in our profession but strangely see that as downstream of things like “we didn’t talk enough about how biden was old” and not “many of us appear to be indifferent to a nihilistic attack on the constitution”

submitted 22 days ago • 168 comments

i am endlessly amused by the ongoing story of David Zaslav: America’s Worst CEO www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

submitted 22 days ago • 413 comments

This isn't right even as a matter of literal definitions. Bribery requires quid pro quo. "Corruption" is not limited to bribery. It is corrupt to personally profit off your public office even if it's not direct bribery. Don't finger-wag about "terms matter" if you're going to misdefine said terms.

submitted 24 days ago • 88 comments

this is not true either legally or in a colloquial sense, but an NYT reporter says it like he's telling you the weather.

submitted 24 days ago • 235 comments

“is my calculator horny?“ our tech columnist asks. “i entered 5318008 into it and turned it upside down. what i saw surprised me”

submitted 42 days ago • 168 comments

NYT actually published this sentence, which asks us to take baseless moral panic bullshit seriously as a reasonable position. Supporters of the Holocaust considered Jews to be subhuman saboteurs of German society, too. So fucking what??

submitted 47 days ago • 69 comments

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submitted 49 days ago • 59 comments

Just remembering how Joe Biden forgiving some student loans was taking the power of the presidency too far.

submitted 60 days ago • 47 comments

pure speculative fiction in NYT here - no pretense even that there is a source for this “what if” paragraph other than the writers’ desperate desire to explain away inexplicably reckless insanity

submitted 77 days ago • 37 comments

i never want to hear about economic anxiety again

submitted 86 days ago • 5 comments

"We are deeply appreciative of all you do in the care of our students and community. Also we will be using your engineering class as a trap for students who protested a genocide before they're shipped off to a Trump blacksite, and it's not optional."

submitted 87 days ago • 54 comments

my take is that your willingness to accept this gulf of america nonsense is an indicator of your willingness to accept much worse things coming from this administrator

submitted 110 days ago • 1138 comments

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

submitted 112 days ago • 1730 comments

The #2 official at the United States Department of Justice literally gave the Stringer Bell "is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?" warning to the Manhattan prosecutors pursuing the Eric Adams case.

submitted 112 days ago • 44 comments

Is there a word for when random people show up at a government building and announce that they're in charge

submitted 122 days ago • 107 comments

Just spitballing, but things that could happen today: Court injunction protecting USAID Dems demand hearings on Musk's role Someone introduce articles of impeachment Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers *Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved

submitted 123 days ago • 357 comments

okay but you aren’t again, you could be shutting down all senate business by denying every single unanimous consent request, you could be down at Treasury with cameras, you could be doing something other than issuing strongly worded statements your actions have to match what’s happening

submitted 123 days ago • 50 comments

I’m just going to say that AOC is the acting leader of the Democratic Party until someone proves otherwise. At least insofar as she is responding to the moment with leadership.

submitted 136 days ago • 613 comments

i recall a time when using a private email server was the single greatest scandal in american history. i guess today’s it’s just tuesday www.politico.com/news/2024/12...

submitted 168 days ago • 625 comments

I have lost the ability to tell if news organizations are actually this out of touch, this uncaring about fact-checking or context, or if this is an editorial agenda to terrify the people who would benefit most from universal healthcare, the elderly.

submitted 177 days ago • 98 comments

the lesson of the election isn’t “we should give up on trans rights,” it’s that the GOP took an issue that negatively impacted almost no one and made it a headliner. why would it help to surrender on an issue if they can create a grievance from thin air?

submitted 198 days ago • 124 comments

weird how no one is saying we shouldn't prosecute Eric Adams and should instead let voters decide

submitted 252 days ago • 39 comments

If you’re a white teenage boy who travels across state lines to gun down two BLM protesters in Kenosha, that’s justifiable homicide and you get to walk free If you’re a black teenage girl who finally kills the man who’s been sex trafficking you in Kenosha, you’ll get sent to jail for 11 years.

submitted 290 days ago • 65 comments

Kennedy has said that, as a child, he had difficulty concentrating in school. “I broke thermometers and rolled balls of mercury down my desk” Welp that answers like 90% of my questions about RFK

submitted 304 days ago • 16 comments

Race is still factored in. White applicants get to keep the advantages they've accrued through systemic racism without any countervailing forces.

submitted 342 days ago • 20 comments