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You know what we need is beyond anything I presume to imagine. So I hope for every one reading this and I hope for the ones you hold dear.

People has named Sexiest Man Alive, so it’s time for vintage nerds to name their Sexiest Man Dead! In past contests, Toshiro Mifune and Paul Newman have taken top honors. Who are your picks?

"The Brazilian people are officially the Avengers of the world" x.com/clasicalcrin...

related, i've been really leaning into asking my students how they're doing. noting if they've been out for a bit, checking in on them. they're universally grateful someone care. 10/10 no notes. recommend.

Sorry, the first sentence of the article is something to the effect of, "Musk must be relieved the 4-hour Alex Gibney documentary about him *flopped at the box office* & has been pulled from theaters" & is this an attempt by Hwood-Repo to mitigate fall out for the bad review???

Fascinating point in here: If Dems can win this district, it'll be the ultimate repudiation of "21st century Jim Crow politics." Read @aselrod.bsky.social

The FTC and 20 states are suing Dollar General, accusing the giant chain of overcharging customers in their more than 20,000 stores. The suit alleges Dollar General has a pattern of deceptively and illegally overcharging customers. Millions of purchases may have been affected.

it's an entire season of "TREE Law & Order" straight from hell

jfc

Chat: is it legal to enter the US without a valid passport?

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

I've been an MBP user since 2006. When my laptop was stolen over a year ago, I got a new one on student discount. The new "Liquid Screen" was a $400 upgrade & I didn't get it. 6 months later, the MBP screen failed. Never had that happen on a new MBP. Everything is getting worse....

Please don't be that reader who skips the poems and songs in Tolkien! #BookSky

Some little indie rag wrote about #iHunt? NBD but you should check this out.

On this auspicious day, I want to note that, a million years ago, Chuck Wendig gave me my first writing gig. I literally would not be here without him.

. @katiecannon.bsky.social notes: bsky.app/profile/kati...

greetings skyverse, i has had teh #coffee. & most importantly, no ibuprofen! yay! now, i needs teh #MoreCoffee

I don’t think this is exactly what’s going on, or all that’s going on. It’s not that Republicans are constructing an elaborate psychological defense against evidence that Trump is a rapist. It’s that they like that he’s a rapist, and they like rape: it enacts the power of the strong over the weak.

i like that the big divide on this post is whether people read it, correctly, as "*run explicitly* on banning online gambling" or whether they ignored the modifying verb and adverb and read it as "i don't think anyone should ban online gambling"

Daily Office

Disability Works *also* received Honorable Mention for the Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies! This is especially delightful because I came in #2 to ND colleague/pal Tarryn Chun's must-read "Revolutionary Stagecraft" www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

King & Bay Henge.

It’s been awhile since I watched an actual speech and not just clips (ty @atrupar.com!) but Trump seems markedly worse than usual. Voice is hoarse, he’s vaguely slurring, sweating up a storm. Obv content is completely unhinged but that per ush.

So honestly he seems kind of drunk?

it feels truly insane that it’s not

I'll have to work tgat in somewhere. Maybe someday. The “bars of regurgitated Jonah” remark is definitely entering the rep, tho. (thanks, kids)

My McSweeney's article is still trending, holy crap.

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

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“We live for the exchange of energy between brands and audiences, you should too, and we’ve made it our mission to expand every brand’s market share and heart share.” Heartshare. <puke>

Oh shit I'm crying at my desk. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

R. I. P. Walter Koenig www.startrek.com/news/best-of...

"We didn't win so DEMOCRACY IS CANCELLED!"

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I for one would like to see the Catholic Church legally pursue the Trump administration for misrepresentation 

I really recommend that you check out @pregnancyjust.bsky.social's report with the latest data— there’s so much there. Read more: jessica.substack.com/p/report-ove...

stoopid fuggin' day 2 hate this shit it sucks

I urge you to watch naomi klein calmly slicing piers morgan into spam

good lord, things in brazil rn, with lula lodging allegations of serious voter suppression folha.com/h1vgnw6l

Thank you, WGA. This is such 💩

The Wrap: Writers Guild Warns of Billionaire Media Control as ‘Musk’ Documentary Faces Alleged Censorship Campaign. #WGA claimed the documentarywas restricted from advertising on social media, including TikTok.