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Imagining the lawyers on this fighting like it’s Michael Clayton

the washington generals may have lost the game, but at least they played clean, honorable basketball all the way to the end

"as a cold war kid, i'm happy that Ronald Reagan was in office" - Elissa Slotkin, the official Democratic response to Trump oh hell yeah baby that's the winning message!!! my god we are cooked

COVID truly did a number on my memory and it’s legitimately hard to grasp the weight of pre-pandemic scandals because it truly feels like we went “lol nothing matters” to every damn thing

Guess Trump didn’t get the memo that you’re supposed the crash the economy at the end of the presidency not at the beginning

First account I checked, and did not disappoint

There are lot of good comedians, but Conan is *essentially* funny.

The songs in Wicked are bad enough to give me retrograde amusia

Let's be crystal fucking clear about what Rahm tried to hide from the public. He would've succeeded if it wasn't for an independent journalist getting a tip and questioning the official narrative.

This is why I look to The Economist to know the state of the world.

You know what’s annoying, when you’re alone and totally lock into an impression knowing that you’ll never quite get it right again.

On a purely managerial level… no it’s not.

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The Firm is not very good, but every time Gene Hackman shows up it’s like an actual real person just walked in to the movie.

Time to start workshopping my “Young Pacino to old Pacino” vocal exercise.

Somehow this makes me want to eat a bullet

we're gonna rrrrrrroll it

President’s Day..? More like residents pray! (My apartment building’s on fire)

Some guy at the CIA reading the this Doge report

can't decide if they are knowingly trying to reduce US influence abroad or if they're just so averse to academic language that they can't read between the lines of the program titles. are they confused that they don't see programs titled like "spies" & "bribes" & so on lol

Watching the news anchors these days feeling like

Albuquerque

You know who’s suddenly flocking to old movies in Chicago? Young audiences. More from @mrmichaelphillips.bsky.social

Built a bonfire in a sandbox using a magnifying glass

As others have said, the greatest transfer of wealth in US history will not be from the Boomers to their children but from them to the US healthcare system. The US is designed to make people insolvent and to keep them poor once they're there.

If they re-institute the draft they’re gonna get a whole lotta men showing up to the draft board in what I will call “the reverse Mulan.”

Trains are the greatest invention of the modern era because they’re still around, still doing a great job, they’re beautiful, and when you hear train sounds in the distance late at night you can choose from a variety of ambient mindscapes which one you’re presently inhabiting

THEY’RE CLIMBING THE POLES IN TOKYO GO BIRDS🦅🦅🦅

Everybody involved in that “Thanks for training us” Google ad deserves to be shot

you're panicking about the news, i'm in the lab brewing up whole new kinds of perceived slights and discourses. did you know it's actually rude to not own a blu ray player so your criterion friends can loan you blu rays? well i'm a maladjusted shut in here to tell you it is

If Fetterman shows up at the Eagles victory parade I call upon all Philadelphians to descend upon him Lilliput style and secure him to the ground then run in and out of his ears and throw glitter around inside his giant head

You ever step out of your and apartment, smell something weird, and step back in to your apartment to make sure it’s not you?

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Underappreciated thing about Taxi Driver is that Travis at some level know what’s been happening to him, but can’t stop it.

Ripping cigs in the Criterion Closet muttering, “All is vanity.”

God bless

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do any americans go overseas, ride a bullet train, and think: nah, we don't need this?