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Joel Sommers
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Pretty sure I'm a genius.
High hopes for this movie, although nothing seems to dent its ongoing 97+% Rotten Tomatoes score. Could a Jim Crow-era ragtime horror movie really end up being among the best movies of the year? I will find out this after noon...
Sinners (2025) | Rotten Tomatoes
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www.rottentomatoes.com
April 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
There is literally a sad trombone playing as Mr. Secretary barely contains his delirium tremens and claims the media is responsible for another drunk text to family & friends, again spilling American's highly classified military tea.

Guess who won't win the White House hunger games.
Hegseth Melts Down in Front of Own Kids in Rant to Save Job
In a second embarrassing leak, the defense secretary discussed upcoming military strikes in a chat that included his wife and brother.
www.thedailybeast.com
April 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
By far the most compassionate, transformative, political pope of my lifetime. So beautiful that he lived to preside over one final Easter Sunday. We can hope that one of his very last visitors, Vice President Vance, regards the audience as a profound and morally instructive gift.
Pope Francis has died on Easter Monday aged 88 - Vatican News
Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta.
www.vaticannews.va
April 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I'd been looking for an effective and articulate roll-up of just how self-destructive it is to rip apart our interlocking complexes of science and medicine. They took centuries to build; we will be lucky if we manage to approach their restoration in decades.
In Defense of Science
YouTube video by Cool Worlds
www.youtube.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Now just stop with all the 'DeVoss was smarter', Trump steak fails, and suggestions that McMahon lacks the intellectual heft required for her position. I'm just saying if she'd earned a sliver of good will, someone would have quietly stopped her from repeatedly confusing intelligence with vinegar.
Ed Sec Calls Artificial Intelligence ‘A1’ Like the Steak Sauce
Linda McMahon made a bizarre mistake while discussing artificial intelligence in education on a panel in California.
www.thedailybeast.com
April 12, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I don't think it's too early to say that republicans have found their 2028 presidential front runner.
Andrew Tate Accused of Choking Woman Two Weeks After Trump Administration Reportedly Helped Him Return to the U.S.
Andrew Tate, who returned to the U.S. last month while under indictment on sex trafficking charges in Romania, has been accused by his girlfriend and choking and beating her.
www.mediaite.com
March 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Look for me in the crowd if you see coverage of tonight's Denver rally with Bernie & AOC on the STOP OLIGARCHS! tour.

I'm making a shirt just for the occasion:
March 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Mehdi's Aug 24 Predictions for Trump's 1st 100 days...

"...end all gender-affirming programs, blocking crucial treatment..."
"...revokes visas of international students supporting Palestine..."
"...CIA director Kash Patel prosecutes political enemies, journalists, lawyers..."

WOW... PRESCIENT AF~!
Think We Can Survive a Second Trump Term? Here's What His First 100 Days Could Look Like.
The former president's plan for the U.S. in 2025 is even more fascistic than the last time he was in office.
zeteo.com
March 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
A proposed Oklahoma public school social studies curriculum document (source: NYT) includes teaching 2020 stop-the-steal revisionism and asks students to elaborate on how awesome it was to kill Roe. Wish I was kidding.
March 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Great. I ate all that cialis for nothing. Thx, congresswoman.
March 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
God bless THE INTERCEPT. And yeah, the address seems to be legit.
We Found Elon Musk’s DOGE Email Address and We’re Fighting to Reveal His Messages
The Intercept is publishing Elon Musk’s government email address to aid those seeking information on DOGE in the public interest.
theintercept.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I'm not tired of winning. You're tired of winning.
One of these things is not like the other.
March 12, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I resisted posting this story for a couple of days because it just seemed too dumb. It HAD to be parody. But it wasn't.
Trump Admin Slammed As ‘Stupidest’ Ever After Linking WWII Plane ‘Enola Gay’ To DEI
Just to be clear, Enola Gay was the aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan, not... a member of the LGBTQ+ community.
www.huffpost.com
March 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The Harris campaign has been criticized from the left for its seeking the Liz Cheney soft republican vote. It's literally become conventional wisdom in record time. This is an incoherent complaint.
This is so profoundly strange from @slotkin.senate.gov. The Harris campaign ran one of the most aggressive outreach efforts to moderates, independents, and soft Republicans in recent memory!
March 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Kevin Carroll, a former undercover CIA officer who is now a lawyer at Fluet, said the failure to conduct final briefings for U.S. officials holding top-secret clearances was a "terrible counterintelligence risk."

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I mean, who could have ever guessed?
Exclusive: Fired US government workers with top security clearances were not given exit briefings, sources say
The lack of so-called "read outs" for workers with clearances dismissed by Musk's DOGE could raise security risks, experts say.
www.reuters.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Hot Take: RFK, Jr. is actually a colony of preventable childhood diseases in a trench coat being operated by a dead brain worm.
March 6, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Reposted by Joel Sommers
February 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
In such ghastly times, what better metaphor can there be?
San Francisco's hottest new DJ is a literal war machine
A San Francisco crowd danced to a DJ set by a humanoid robot. Its creators believe that the machine could be "critical to the future of warfare."
www.sfgate.com
February 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
'What a great time to be alive if you love the theater of the absurd!'

'Film exists because we can go and have experiences. We can go into a room and walk into a dream.'

'Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me.'
David Lynch Dies: ‘Twin Peaks’, ‘Blue Velvet’, ‘Elephant Man’ & ‘Eraserhead’ Visionary Was 78
David Lynch, the four-time Oscar-nominee behind ‘Blue Velvet,’ ‘Mulholland Drive’ and ‘The Elephant Man’ who also created TV's ‘Twin Peaks,’ has died at 78.
deadline.com
January 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Reposted by Joel Sommers
Twice now Trump has been gifted a strong economy. Luckiest man alive.
Strong job growth.

+256K jobs gained last month (mid-Nov to mid-Dec).
-8K jobs in revisions of prior 2 months

The big picture
January 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
HOT TAKE: Nearly all of Jesus' miracles were actually just very efficient catering hacks. Fish, loaves, wine, etc.
January 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The president-elect isn't even in office yet, and we have the death of perhaps our most beloved ex-president, the immolation of the entire west coast, and a capitulation to the post-factual social media landscape by almost all platforms.

Just me, or is this far worse than what we imagined?
January 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
No, Google Assistant, I don't need a bath. Not when I have so much work left to do. Important work.
December 27, 2024 at 11:27 AM
For anyone who missed the recap of America's penultimate season, MAGA swept the election and is consolidating power, installing loyalists antithetical to their positions, and oligarch-izing our commons. Hundreds of millions brace for corruption, cruelty and control. Our final season airs next month.
December 2, 2024 at 11:31 PM
Not a fully formed idea yet, but considering going this year as 'BOOTY GUILIANI' to Halloween functions.
October 4, 2024 at 11:17 PM