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· Mar 1
The 10 Best Movies of 2024
On the back of industry-wide strikes, I had low expectations for 2024. Surprisingly, the movies delivered. The year wasn’t rife with five-star bangers, but there was a lot to like. I wholeheartedly…
amixedreview.com
Ahead of the Oscars, I once again wrote about my favorite movies of the year. If you were as pleasantly surprised as I was by 2024, just wait. 2025 is going to be a doozy. amixedreview.com/2025/03/01/t...
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Holy crap
Also, why aren’t regional airlines getting into regional HSR? If I saw those numbers I’d be like we need to diversify our portfolio
Also, why aren’t regional airlines getting into regional HSR? If I saw those numbers I’d be like we need to diversify our portfolio
I read this morning that Penn Station serves more than 2x passengers per day as Atlanta Hartfield, the country’s busiest airport. So I had to map them at the same scale. 🤯
December 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Holy crap
Also, why aren’t regional airlines getting into regional HSR? If I saw those numbers I’d be like we need to diversify our portfolio
Also, why aren’t regional airlines getting into regional HSR? If I saw those numbers I’d be like we need to diversify our portfolio
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This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
Makes you wonder what the extreme position is. (It's camps.)
pretty wild seeing just how far right the average conservative has gotten now that they all say that a standard nazi germany era policy is “moderate” in their bubbles
December 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Makes you wonder what the extreme position is. (It's camps.)
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One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
Everything else aside, the idea that this is a model for many men of *masculinity* is so wild. This? This is "manly"? This is how people think it's cool to act?
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Dave Portnoy Demands NFL Investigate Pete Carroll & Raiders For Rigging
YouTube video by Clasher Sports
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December 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
If a VAR review takes five full minutes, it is not, by definition, a clear and obvious error.
December 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
If a VAR review takes five full minutes, it is not, by definition, a clear and obvious error.
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This is buying everything now.
December 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
This is buying everything now.
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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“When the Court has exercised sole power to interpret the Constitution, with rare exceptions it has used that power to obliterate Americans’ constitutional rights, uphold white supremacy, and protect abusive corporations from unions and the regulatory state.” prospect.org/2022/07/11/t...
The Case Against Judicial Review - The American Prospect
If Democrats don’t bring the Supreme Court to heel, Americans will live under judicial despotism for the foreseeable future.
prospect.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
“When the Court has exercised sole power to interpret the Constitution, with rare exceptions it has used that power to obliterate Americans’ constitutional rights, uphold white supremacy, and protect abusive corporations from unions and the regulatory state.” prospect.org/2022/07/11/t...
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Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
I've had about enough of Ibrahima Konate.
December 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I've had about enough of Ibrahima Konate.
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it is legitimately difficult to imagine anyone making a positive case for this in literally any sense
Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones. One recent Kalshi betting market that allowed people to bet on whether Palestinians in Gaza would suffer mass starvation.
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
buff.ly
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
it is legitimately difficult to imagine anyone making a positive case for this in literally any sense
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without fail the most disgusting, entitled, criminal shitheads in the country, the people who hate the place they live in the most, the people who shirk work and complain nonstop every word out of their mouths, are white conservatives like Donald Trump
December 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
without fail the most disgusting, entitled, criminal shitheads in the country, the people who hate the place they live in the most, the people who shirk work and complain nonstop every word out of their mouths, are white conservatives like Donald Trump
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decent chance we might lose the republic because one (1) elderly woman refused to retire 5 years after being diagnosed with terminal cancer
December 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
decent chance we might lose the republic because one (1) elderly woman refused to retire 5 years after being diagnosed with terminal cancer
The IP will continue until morale improves.
Universal confirms more movies set in the ‘Wicked’ universe are in early development:
"Because of Wicked’s success but also the fanship, we have almost a responsibility to figure out how we can continue in this universe.”
"Because of Wicked’s success but also the fanship, we have almost a responsibility to figure out how we can continue in this universe.”
December 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The IP will continue until morale improves.
I wonder how the "fire Ryan Day" crew is feeling today.
November 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I wonder how the "fire Ryan Day" crew is feeling today.
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Last season: Liverpool replace a beloved manager, squad doesn't change, team stays good
This season: Liverpool replace key players while others age into their mid-thirties, manager doesn't change, team gets worse
Clearly the manager is the issue here
This season: Liverpool replace key players while others age into their mid-thirties, manager doesn't change, team gets worse
Clearly the manager is the issue here
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Last season: Liverpool replace a beloved manager, squad doesn't change, team stays good
This season: Liverpool replace key players while others age into their mid-thirties, manager doesn't change, team gets worse
Clearly the manager is the issue here
This season: Liverpool replace key players while others age into their mid-thirties, manager doesn't change, team gets worse
Clearly the manager is the issue here
Martin Tyler on commentary? Time to catch up on some podcasts.
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Martin Tyler on commentary? Time to catch up on some podcasts.
We should've had charismatic celebrities in and out of the White House every day during Trump's terms instead of letting freakish little sycophants whisper in his ear all day.
November 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
We should've had charismatic celebrities in and out of the White House every day during Trump's terms instead of letting freakish little sycophants whisper in his ear all day.
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man we need a way to say "the moral rot and depravity of this country's elite must be burned out of it with cleansing fire" that isn't wildly reactionary-coded
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
man we need a way to say "the moral rot and depravity of this country's elite must be burned out of it with cleansing fire" that isn't wildly reactionary-coded
Of course Manchester City has an official cryptocurrency. Scam sponsor for a sham club. When are we gonna get a verdict on those 115 charges?
November 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Of course Manchester City has an official cryptocurrency. Scam sponsor for a sham club. When are we gonna get a verdict on those 115 charges?
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the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates
November 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates
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Schumer is plainly just a massive bigot. he will not support a Muslim for elected office
Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
November 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Schumer is plainly just a massive bigot. he will not support a Muslim for elected office
The behavior you'd expect from a rapist.
Brett Kavanaugh's behavior during today's second oral arguments has been incredibly obnoxious and rude. He is so eager to kill a service member's lawsuit against a negligent government contractor that he keeps interrupting other justices, raising his voice, and getting emotional. Weird and erratic.
November 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The behavior you'd expect from a rapist.
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that's Trump II: his staff of groyper neo-Nazis working harder and more aggressively than 99% of past administration officials to make everything worse for everyone in the world, saving like 5 oligarchs (and that only maybe)
November 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
that's Trump II: his staff of groyper neo-Nazis working harder and more aggressively than 99% of past administration officials to make everything worse for everyone in the world, saving like 5 oligarchs (and that only maybe)
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It is the press’s job to inform people of news like ”what policies the government implements.” Like, that’s just objectively what the news *is.*
Missing from every conversation like this about this IRA is that absolutely nobody knew what was in it because the President was incapable of selling policy to the public. It's really not the job of the press to do this.
This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
November 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It is the press’s job to inform people of news like ”what policies the government implements.” Like, that’s just objectively what the news *is.*