Gary Snyder

Two months ago Trump said it was "imperative" that CNN get new owners.

But Netflix boss Ted Sarandos says Trump's statement (or anything else he said in public) had nothing to do with Netflix backing away from its Warners bid.

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When one by one they surrender to 'the charms' of Donald Trump, this Jeff Bezos quote comes to mind. "Rather than capitulate to extortion & blackmail, I've decided to publish exactly what they sent me, despite the personal cost & embarrassment they threaten." Ted Sarandos, what do they have on you?

End of day scorecard:
National average: $3.236/gal
+25.1c/gal from week ago
Diesel average: $4.102/gal
+35.4c/gal from week ago
WTI crude oil: $77.22/bbl
+$11.80/bbl from week ago

The press faces a Pentagon ‘black box’ on the Iran war | CNN Business As Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the US is “accelerating” its Iran strikes, Pentagon beat reporters say they’re not getting answers to key questions about the ongoing military operations.

"Nearly $1 trillion in taxpayer money flows into the department, and decisions being made by the secretary are literally life and death decisions about putting American troops in harm’s way — the public deserves to know what their military is doing, especially in times of war."

Trying to talk like Patton while you look like the business cad on a soap opera just doesn't play.

This is a guy who gets alerts when his son looks at porn. Because Jesus or something. Right.

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the kind of thing that gets played at a war crimes trial

I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.

The worst outcome of this war is if Trump shuts down global shipping, setting off a financial crash.

Or something like that. That Trump still thinks he's in control here, after botching Hormuz and evacs, IS the news: He has no fucking clue how bad this COULD get and he's not mitigating for that.

WBD closed at $28.20 today.

It was as low as $7.69 last April before the split to unravel the Warner Bros. Discovery merger was announced.

Zaslav sold at nearly 4x that — a near-market high brought on not by the company's performance, but by dealmaking.

Wasn’t this supposed to be over in three days?

It was not his father but his grandfather, who had to leave Bavaria because he dodged military service.

AI "actress Tilly Norwood smiling and holding a cup of coffee. Her face is a digital glitch.

Beloved Actress Tilly Norwood Is Dead At 404.
The Star of 'Numb & Number', 'She's The One (And The Zero)', 'Crash Site', 'The Seven Year Glitch', and 'Das Reboot' Was Never Backed Up. Services Will Be Private At A Site Not Found.

I don't necessarily disagree. But am surprised by how many people say, 3.

I think there's a decent chance he'll do 1 or 2.

Surveillance, especially all-encompassing and most especially of public figures, is quite an inducer of servitude disguised as loyalty. Peter Thiel and others are not holding data as an exploitable asset waiting for the right moment. They have it, and they are using it. This is that. Today. Now.

“The Nightmare Iran Energy Scenario is Becoming Reality”

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See, the thing is we haven’t been—not because past presidents were perfect angels or thrilled with Iran, but because they didn’t want to close the Strait of Hormuz, evacuate American civilians from the whole region, and set the world economy on fire.

NYTimes headline: Trump Says Strikes Killed Iranians U.S. Saw as New Leaders

This has to be the most Onionesque moment ever that doesn’t actually involve the Onion.

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All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

[This is America. Who needs 'experts'...?]

a man with a mustache is standing in front of a microphone with the words bustin ' makes me in green letters . ALT: a man with a mustache is standing in front of a microphone with the words bustin ' makes me in green letters .

Pretty sure this is Trump’s war rationale.

"Do not rely on the U.S. government."

[Edited for brevity and accuracy.]

[We call this "telegraphing"...While the cult will claim a Jesus-like prescience, it is kind of just how America's war machine has operated for several generations now.]

So billions will be spent and lives will be lost for nothing?

WOW

This will mean a lot to some US Capitol Police families

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) just now at hearing: "All those thugs have actually been pardoned, yet we haven't thanked the Capitol Police officers"

Man, just straight up theft.

A oil prices have conveniently skyrocketed and no one can trace the money because its in a Qatari bank account.

You can see the smile creeping on his face as he's talking because he's so proud that he's getting away with something so corrupt.

Worth watching the whole ten minutes of Tillis laying into Noem. He’s a still dick and he starts out with tired lies about Biden but then …yowza.

youtu.be/Jijg5z0r6k8