Mitchell Horton

100mil endowment exclusively for Venture Brothers to continue until they feel like they're done

A children's hospital is renamed for Dolly Parton and hopes to transform pediatric care in Tennessee Dolly Parton’s name might inspire full-throated sing-a-longs to her working woman’s anthem “9 to 5,” or evoke memories of thrilling days spent at her Dollywood theme park.

“Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure ‘every child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.’”

GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTON

the incentives here are so obscenely terrible that the entire thing should be illegal by default

“I am sabotaging negotiations because I stand to make piles of money on Polymarket” is absolutely in play, what a horrifying clusterfuck

I mean sure but also I don't think the DoW or Israel are trying to "have an out"

Both are just like "yeah we did that what about it"

I mean I agree in principle but honestly the whole AI thing just doesn't have much bearing on this specific instance

Also entirely possible that Israel inputs schools as valid targets into their AI's so it's kind of both

But I don't really believe the Department of War or the IDF give one shit about bombing schools

I mean it doesn't

Russia bombs schools all the time both on purpose and through incompetence

Israel bombs schools on purpose all the time

Considering Israel's involvement I'm inclined to say it's the IDF influence more than AI

American taxpayers are paying this ICE-hole to walk up and down a residential street in Santa Ana, CA, spraying pepper spray for no reason whatsoever.

#ProudBlue #FuckICE #SantaAna

You would have thought there would be consequences for an insurrection too right

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

also it's just occurring to me that Jay Sherman would have killed it on Youtube lol

wrong

Where the anime left off on a pretty lengthy hiatus is literally the pivot point between those two things so only like

the last 10 minutes of the last episode have some HINTS of what's going on

So to anime-only viewers it's literally just exactly what it pretends to be lol

The most insane thing about Solo Leveling is that there is some pretty interesting stuff going on in the story, and it's intentionally written to mislead you into thinking it's a really shallow power-fantasy when it's really a kind of religious-philosophical moral power fantasy

BUT

Epstein had dinners with a top Florida prosecutor on his case, docs show Matthew Menchel, who spearheaded Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 criminal prosecution, left the DOJ in 2007 to take a job as a trial lawyer at Kobre & Kim. Epstein’s calendars show Menchel met with Epstein in ...

Epstein had dinners with a top Florida prosecutor on his case | Miami Herald share.google/5l80KTHCwcf1...

the words "issued so quickly" followed by all caps, highlighted "BECAUSE REASONS"

omg I literally was in the process of converting this brief into a pdf and filing it when I caught this.

still need to track that down it appears

“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me

‘Someone loved them’: As the ICE surge continues in Minnesota, pets suffer As Minnesotans are detained and deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, volunteers and pet shelters are led to provide housing and care for the animals that are often the family members ...

The Pets of ICE
As the ICE surge continues, the fate of the pets affected remains uncertain. Organizations like Pet Haven, the Bond Between and ICE Hurts Animals, Too have mobilized overnight as hundreds have reached out for help with pets in the last several months.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

If this is true, it’s very clear that we want to destroy the possibility of a genuinely democratic opposition taking power, because we want to install that dog Reza Pahlavi as Shah

I'm not going to quote post because I don't want to dog pile.

But when people say, "don't heckle the staff," this isn't 2010.

We're not talking about normal people choosing normal govt staffing jobs.

This is 2026 where we're kidnapping foreign officials and building concentration camps.

Melissa Hortman was known for reaching across the aisle in the MN House. Mike Lee (R UT) said she deserved to be assassinated by a wannabe SA dude. There is no amount of nice that will save you or your neighbors from fascist violence. Do not be nice.

someone transported here from 1995 with a layman's understanding of the Republican Party - "they like low taxes for the rich and aggressive use of the military" - would be more correct in their assessment of the party than many ostensibly savvy pundits working right now

If you've grown up having to deal with the weirdest and most unsettling of church goers (often white and republican, lets not mince words) you know how true this is. Christian Nationalism is just that mind bending and dangerous. Its basically no different from a turbo cult but now they have power

"I can go long and take over the whole thing, or end it in two or three days and tell the Iranians: 'See you again in a few years if you start rebuilding [your nuclear and missile programs]," Trump said in a five-minute phone interview from Mar-a-Lago.

“All I want is freedom for the people,” Trump said in a brief phone interview shortly after 4 a.m., when asked what he hopes his legacy will be as a result of the military action and a push for regime change in Iran.

On the left:

Trump tells Axios U.S. military action could end quickly and then resume if Iran starts rebuilding it nuclear and missile programs

On the right:

Trump tells Washington Post, U.S. military action is about freedom for the Iranian people/regime change

It's endlessly fascinating to me that a lot of centrist guys I know acted during the Biden admin as if the country was deep on a war footing bc we were supplying anti-tank rockets to Ukraine and have had really nothing to say about strikes on Iran - they certainly don't think the US is at war.

Holy shit, looks at those payment numbers! Imagine the societal change possible if we had election reform that removed PACs and Corporate money then taxed these corporations and billionaires to pay for infrastructure and social programs that lifted every American out of poverty.

Compare the vendors for "Chicago Progressive Partnership" and "Affordable Chicago Now." Both PACs are paying the same firms: MiQ Digital and Tom King Communications.

A new Super PAC, "Chicago Progressive Partnership," just jumped into #IL09, opposing Kat Abughazaleh. Filings show they’re using the same vendors as AIPAC.

seems to be confirmation that we did in fact hit a school

Trump’s Reckless Decision to Pursue Regime Change in Iran And the risks Democrats face if they fail to strongly oppose his war.

"It seems like Israel’s regional security doctrine, now backed by the United States, is not just that Israel has the right to defend itself but that only Israel has the right to defend itself in the region," says @mattduss.bsky.social. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...