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It's only clownish if it doesn't work

Really dark. Nothing makes me less optimistic about American democracy than the rise in right-wing vigilantism and the near-silence from mainstream news sources about it.

Biden and Congressional leadership deciding that Democrats' message should be "Republicans are entirely correct about immigration, but they want to wait a few months longer than we do to put their ideas into action" is such classic behavior from them. Feels like it's 2014 again.

The front page of HuffPost reads: The Beltway Butcher: War Criminal Kissinger Dead at 100

front page of huffpost

San Francisco is not a real place

You should play Alan Wake

What's your take on the Scream movies?

(my dog pants a little bit) oh hey buddy you need some water? come here. get some water. you're thirsty, have some water

(i go for a walk in 90 degree weather, am dripping sweat and my vision is blurry) hmm im tired. think i need some coffee

ibm saying "we will not do business with this nazi sympathizer contracted by the united states government" must be a fun full circle moment for them

Yesterday's Reuters poll was some good news I genuinely wasn't expecting - wall-to-wall pro-IDF/anti-Palestinian news coverage hasn't been keeping support for Israel's assault on Palestinian civilians propped up. It's falling and voters, especially Democrats, are starting to oppose weapon transfers.

Most Pennsylvania county commission offices didn't change party hands in last week's election. The ones that did largely benefited Democrats.

The US has indeed released every hostage it took

A tweet from Asia Johnson: “It's so crazy to me how Bella & Gigi had to tiptoe around their statements and then Amy Schumer is like "Gazans are rapists" and will still have a career.”

A Twitter user dared to make an observation about Amy Schumer’s behavior lately, in contrast to Bella and Gigi Hadid, and woke up to a bunch of direct messages from the comedian. WOW.

Insider trading is the safe bet but I'm guessing something crypto related

This Halloween, I went on an extended rant about the scariest thing I could think about: the state of the Texas Democratic Party

Alan Wake II is good

Apparently he got specific instructions from the judge on how to testify even if his lawyers wouldn't allow it. I don't know if he had to invoke that or not but I like to imagine he did

It's amazing how he insisted on testifying

...put her on Family Feud

A perfect example of the GOP's freak show staffer class just not being interested in appealing to non-psychos: being unable to resist accosting voters to tell them that their neighbor is a WHORE who needs to GET WHAT'S COMING TO HER and using the official party letterhead to do so.

I can't describe how brutal the local news coverage of this was and is for her. She was probably going to lose before this, but the GOP is willing to risk this blowing up horribly in their faces to indulge their deep seated need to send revenge porn to voters in the mail.

A swing seat Democratic state house candidate in Virginia posted some raunchy videos online years ago, and Republicans, dissatisfied with merely convincing local and national news to run the story, are escalating by mailing naked photos of her to voters *from the official party address*

I actually feel pretty confident about the council blocking this

Look at this paragraph. Look at it. Tell me what’s going on here. I am at a loss. www.nationalreview.com/2023/10/tayl...

Primary School 10/20 Louisiana results, FEC Week, and Dean Phillips

This week's Primary School is a behemoth: Louisiana results, FEC Week, and a lot of news that suggests congressional primaries are finally heating up
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Review of ‘Saw 3D’ (2010) ★ After that fucking essay I wrote for Saw VI, I have surprisingly little to say about this one. Visuall Looks like shit. Not gross, just bland like only cheap 3D lighting can accomplish. Main trap…

Saw 3D is a boring mess

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Review of ‘Saw VI’ (2009) ★★ This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.

Too committed to its metaphor to make satisfying traps, but too dumb to actually do anything with that metaphor, Saw VI doesn't get points for having a good central premise when the execution botches it

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Review of ‘Saw V’ (2008) ★★ Saw V takes the series in a bold new direction by attempting to make something that looks like a real movie. I'm torn here. On one hand, making a Saw movie and trying to class up the joint is an…

Saw V is what would happen if you described the Saw concept to an unaware filmmaker "traps that teach moral lessons, and a generic detective thriller full of killer flashbacks" and asked them to make another. It's fine, just pointless.

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