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There was nowhere for Tomi Lahren to go after Krystal Ball absolutely bodied her on the controversial question of "is Puerto Rico in America?"

Also unclear why the play helps Agnes come to terms with her son's death. Hamlet's mother famously doesn't come across great in the play and the relationship between Gertrude and Hamlet is very strained, so... why was this cathartic for her to watch?

Kent was always a borderline case but the effect of creating a "Contemporary Era Committee" for everyone to elect their friends while excluding Bonds, Clemens, and ARod is that we have ended up with the dreaded Hall of the Very Good.

COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...

New study of nearly 30 million people in France finds that vaccinated subjects had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower overall mortality rate compared with unvaccinated subjects over a median follow-up of 45 months.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Recall that when they struck down the ATF's ban on bump stocks last year, Alito wrote that if the text is clear, you don't even get to original intent/understanding.

And because they were captured alive, you can interview them! Search their cellphones! Maybe find out where the drugs came from or something

Movie poster for Hamnet, dir. Chloé Zhao, starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal

Liked a lot about Hamnet, but it tries too hard for tears, and it doesn't quite get there. It's tear-adjacent. Cringed at the scene of Shakespeare standing on a dock debating whether to jump and spontaneously reciting the "to be or not to be" speech.

The average Republican voter is unfathomably evil. It's not that they're being lied to by right wing politicians and media (though they are), or that they've been left behind economically (though they have been), or distracted with culture war issues (again, yes). They're just cruel, stupid nazis.

We forget that when Ben Shapiro, Benny Johnson, etc. say horrible shit, those are the refined talking points that have been rehearsed and sanitized for large audiences. You talk to an average republican voter and it's "n-slur this, f-slur that, kill everyone who makes me uncomfortable."

We forget that when Ben Shapiro, Benny Johnson, etc. say horrible shit, those are the refined talking points that have been rehearsed and sanitized for large audiences. You talk to an average republican voter and it's "n-slur this, f-slur that, kill everyone who makes me uncomfortable."

Still upsetting honestly

That said, Pritzker, Newsom, Shapiro, et al. should announce now that they will instruct state authorities not to comply with any SCOTUS decision purporting to overrule the Birthright Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment. Put some pressure on the justices from the left for a change.

Understandable that people would freak out, but this basically had to happen. It's a nationwide executive order and the fact that the 1st and 9th Circuits have found it unconstitutional isn't going to be enough to kill it. There was never a chance that SCOTUS wasn't going to have the final say.

This is not an answer, it's an attempt to blow off the question. How would you even know who they were contacting? Did you tap their phones while the boat was sinking? The toughest question Dems can ask is just to invite Hegseth and his idiot thugs to try to actually explain how this would work.

When asked how history would view his and his troops' actions during the Rape of Belgium, German General Max von Hausen famously said, "We should write history ourselves." That's what this testimony is going to be. A gang of dumb brutes clumsily trying to impose their will at the end of a gun.

Republicans need the president to have pardon power much more than Democrats. It's the thing that guarantees they'll never be held responsible for anything they do. It's one of the few areas where Rs have greater investment in and need to preserve the institution.

Even this Supreme Court, as debased and sycophantic as it is, is not going to allow a president to revoke pardons issued by a former president. Not only would it be impossible to enforce (everyone who's been pardoned is just supposed to report to prison?), it would nullify the pardon power.

Yeah the sandwich thrower was indicted too. Oh no wait, he wasn't because these morons couldn't get the grand jury to indict.

Gen. Pickett weighing whether to reform and hit the Yankees again or just declare victory now.

The Venezuelan strikes are so flagrantly, flamboyantly illegal they don't even have talking points to defend them. It's literally just "yeah we talked to some people who said this was fine, don't worry about it, no further questions please."

Movie poster for Train Dreams, directed by Clint Bentley, starring Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Kerry Condon, and William H. Macy

Train Dreams is one of the best movies of the year. A story about masculinity that isn't toxic, selfish, entitled, or whiny, but rather loving, kind, loyal, and empathetic. And the pacific northwest is just goddamn beautiful. Spellbinding from beginning to end.

For the poor Venezuelan fisherman, death without a trial. For the rich authoritarian politician, a pardon. There must be people the law protects but does not bind, and others that the law binds but does not protect.

I was told "go woke, go broke" but the sequel to one of the most famously woke movies ever made just had the biggest opening ever for an animated film??

It wasn't that long ago that a bunch of conspiracy-brained white men in Michigan tried to kidnap the female governor to force her to confess her crimes, which is basically the plot of Bugonia, and holllly smokes maybe take another run at that script boys and think about what you're saying.

Movie posted for Bugonia (2025), dir. Yorgos Lanthimos, starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons

Loved 95% of Bugonia and then absolutely hated the ending, which felt like a troll job and a mindless provocation. Maybe this worked in the original 2003 Korean version, but it plays very, very differently in a post-COVID, post-Jan. 6 world.

Seems pretty logical that after four years and the emergency resettlement of 76,000 Afghan refugees, one of them would shoot somebody. Americans do it all the fucking time.

The inciting incident of Tomorrow Never Dies is that the murder of shipwrecked sailors is so heinously evil that it would push Britain and China to the brink of war.

College essay: The 1931 Frankenstein is right-coded because the monster is just born evil, Fritz stole the "abnormal brain," it was doomed from birth and there was never anything to do except burn it at the windmill, and that's how Republicans view every problem.

Movie poster for Frankenstein (2025), dir. Guillermo del Toro

The 1931 Boris Karloff Frankenstein works the best because the monster actually being a monster is more believable than any version that portrays him as a tragically misunderstood victim. The new version's a'ight but nothing here remotely approaches the tension of the girl with flowers scene.