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RIP Walter❤️

Few things as titillating as book review snark: “If you are seeking a Christmas present for someone you really don’t like, give them a copy.”

That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

One way that I remain deeply pessimistic: We didn't get here purely because of xenophobia. In part we got here because everyone thinks that achieving border security is possible, and it isn't. When it fails, it looks like a failure, and the electorate says, "Wow, maybe we need something harsher."

LeCarre: I wrote my book “The Looking Glass War” as a cautionary tale DoD: At long last, we have created Operation Looking Glass from classic espionage novel Don't Create a Looking Glass War

Remarkable story here from @mtredden.bsky.social and others at @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/nava...

1/ The Musk-Trump decision to degrade Ukraine's Starlink access as a pressure tactic is a disaster not just for the United States' reputation but for the entire US defence industry. Musk's action may end up burning the whole industry. ⬇️

0.636363 (repeating of course) LEEEEERRRRRRRROOOOOOOOYYYYYYY

The last time the Milwaukee Brewers were in the World Series you could get 12 8-track tapes for only a dollar through The Gorman Thomas Tape Club®.

every culture eventually invents its own dumpling and its own bluegrass

they're bringing back my girls?

Recommend: Colin From Accounts Very funny, well-written little comedy series from Australia. Terrific comic acting. Likable characters. Dog-forward.

ICE has detained more than 500 U.S. citizens.

"The Grand Inquisitor is old and tired, for the knowledge he possesses is bitter. He knows that men are lazy rather than cowardly and that they prefer peace and death to the liberty of discerning between good and evil." The Rebel, Camus

[everything is gender meme]

Every week, the Muppets have to put on a show to salvage a new institution: the Kennedy Center, the Supreme Court, the No-Mask Lesbian Bar, the Wonka Experience, Kozmo Dot Com (this has a time travel dimension, à la Quantum Leap), Cafe Loup in the West Village, democracy, the third season of GLOW

you know who ended Mad Men absolutely on top?

So the British left the EU just before the EU started reconstructing the British Empire?

this--THIS--is the truest recession indicator

"60 Minutes. More like 60 viewers!"

True story.

After much confusion, this strikes me as the best possible explanation I’ve heard so far.

Here's a gift link to my 9/11 essay in the NYT. Civil libertarians long warned that before giving government new powers, we should consider how an administration with authoritarian ambition might abuse them. We were told that America was too exceptional to elect such a person. Well here we are.

CC from my post there: the problem is deeper than trying to do too much with too little. Our fundamental theory about how military force is both generated and used is obsolete. The funding doesn’t matter; you can’t fund yourself out of an inaccurate assumption. The bill comes due anyway.

A whole section where Odysseus says he thought Inception was overrated

I would like ask JD Vance about Pierre Damas Bel.

I never thought the leopards would eat MY face

Video is also 9:25 long...

The CNO walks through the brig at Chesapeake, flanked by two MPs. He stops at a cell. “Fat Leonard,” he says. “We’re busting you out for one last job.”

someday perhaps, but there's always a lucrative market for somebody to halfheartedly pose as a disinterested party in order to smuggle in advocacy for wealthy racist bullies

Okay seriously what didn't Dolly Parton do screenrant.com/dolly-parton...

the famous line about how michael caine treated the muppets as fellow actors and tim curry treated himself as a fellow muppet keeps running through my head we have a lot of brilliant actors, but how many of them can really pull off 'unhinged muppet' the way curry could? what a tremendous loss

Literally nobody, including MAGA, had any ideological commitment or pre-existing policy goal of picking a fight with Canada. This is all happening solely because the crazy old man randomly blurted it out. And that makes it worse. There's nothing to negotiate, no aim to satisfy. He's just insane.

Was there a greater TV show? No. No, there wasn’t. You can keep your Wires and Sopranos and Breaking Bads - this was peak TV.

"A children's entertainer? She has a master's degree in music education from NYU is what she has. In this household Rachel Accurso is a children's educator. End of story!"

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"But the translation of strategic direction into tactics is logistics, not a level of war." -"On Operations," Friedman

60 Minutes should be her, Chotiner and the menswear guy.