El Presidente

divided politics social media has its downsides

but it was nice to have (almost) all of the inevitable, insane, unpleasant anti-trans responses to these articles over on the other place

Trump: On it! Scott Adams O @ScottAdamsSays On Monday, I will ask President Trump, via X, to help save my life. He offered to help me if I needed it. I need it. As many of you know, I have metastasized prostate cancer. My healthcare provider, Kaiser of Northern California, has approved my application to receive a newly FDA-approved drug called Pluvicto. But they have dropped the ball in scheduling the brief IV to administer it and I can't seem to fix that. I am declining fast. I will ask President Trump if he can get Kaiser of Northern California to respond and schedule it for Monday. That will give me a fighting chance to stick around on this planet a little bit longer. It is not a cure, but it does give good results to manv people.

Trump posts that he’s going to help Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams, who made an appeal to the president on Twitter because his insurer has been too slow to schedule a drug treatment for his cancer.

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The implicit assumption that white rural voters are the *real* voice of the masses, while the people who live around the major population centers (ie the majority of the country) are out of touch degenerates remains an unshakable feature of punditry. Truly nasty work

I found this piece sad too, but mostly because it is part of a years-long effort by progressives to understand what "really" animates Trump voters.

We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.

Vacanza e anche andare dal dottore e dal barbiere.

One of the classics from the other place

"Democrats should post on a social media site run by a Nazi billionaire who explicitly rigged the algorithm to promote Nazi content" is a take you are legally allowed to have, but it's about as leftist as Milton Friedman.

E sopratutto possiamo cercare con calma sul mercato invece di doverci andare con la pistola alle testa.

Ben svegliato @flaviopintarelli.it

Sucic deve giocare sempre, non me ne frega un cazzo di chi deve andare in panca.

Bisseck centrale potrebbe risolvere un sacco di problemi

E si gode

Scandaloso che non ci siano questo rigore

Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for 'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results People

This is probably the funniest headline of the year.

Aspe, che stasera gioca l’inter

New icon, who this.

When the FBI arrested Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups, the basketball-watching public turned to sports media to help make sense of the story. What explanations were on offer? Before disclosing its own BetMGM partnership, The Athletic called “all of sports” complicit in the scandal. Bill Simmons dismissed the episode as ”a couple bad apples,” growing pains typical of a growth industry. Zach Lowe had ESPN's betting guy on his podcast; together they concluded that these issues can be tinkered out of existence by limiting prop bets and changing how teams report injuries. Lowe's podcast, like Simmons's, began with a FanDuel ad. The takeover of sports media by gambling companies imposes hard boundaries on the domain of these conversations. Most importantly, these captured discussions always obscure the social and political choices that enable the gambling industry to entrench itself. Allowing people to gamble on their phones and allowing sports gambling companies to spend untold sums on lobbying and advertising are choices. These choices, not some law of nature, are why millions of people have started gambling in recent years. Likewise, other sports media companies have chosen to offer up their audiences as prey to gambling outfits. Defector has chosen something else: We never have and never will take money from gambling companies. Subscribers fund our operations, which allows us to remain independent, critical, and uncompromised. Consider making that choice.

NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products

Quando ci arriviamo avremo altri problemi tipo una recessione in doppia cifra

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We already knew this a year ago, about all the economic things, too. It is the central problem of 🇺🇸 politics, for which absolutely none of the pundits or consultants has an answer. So they blame Democrats & invent a party & candidates that never existed: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

one of the reasons voters believe the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans is because the democratic party itself believes in the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans

How would you describe that worldview? My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: “Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody’s worth less.” It is an egalitarian view that I’ve carried around in my life. That’s why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it. In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people.

stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude

I can do it for half that

This is straight up bible shit.
Guy in a whale? Check
Unnatural swarm of insects? Check
Guy flying to the sky? Check
Anything on floods or someone getting crucified?

“They’ve got money for ICE and golden ballrooms but not for hungry families” is so easy it’s almost funny

YouTube video by Corridor Crew VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 146

m.youtube.com/watch?v=hr4Z...

11-year-old was watching the movie Honey I Shrunk the Kids, and it's amazing how well the old practical effects show up. Really seems like effects artists had it down by the 80s, just as CGI ate their lunch.