Ray Pride

I’m watching NOW YOU SEE ME and it’s by no means the worst movie I’ve ever seen but I did just have a thought I don’t think I’ve ever had while watching a movie which was “wait, what if I actually don’t like movies”

firing my gun in the air to create a general sense of unease

Can’t tax tips that don’t exist

Tax the rich

I love this bit.

Leavitt always gets a good laugh with this one.

Ballrooms, even the grand ones, don’t cost $200 million.

Bribes, kick-backs, money laundering. Clock it.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

losing my mind at this. apoplectic. want to punch a wall, or a human being

data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...

Oh. Should I have not posted this yet?

Wish I could get a New York Times opinion slot that could use as my own personal Yelp review page.

My late pal Jonathan Kaplan's classic Truck Turner is one of my all-time favorite not-so-guilty pleasures, as I discussed in May-June '83 issue of Film Comment:

www.filmcomment.com/article/guil...

YouTube is using AI to verify user age by browsing activity The video streaming platform will use AI to check if someone is under 18.

#YouTube is using #AI to verify user age by browsing activity - mashable.com/article/yout... definitely not going to be problematic...

Seth Meyers gives a brutal 14-minute summary of the Trump/Epstein scandal "It turns out they elected an elite who's covering up for other elites."

Seth Meyers gives a brutal 14-minute summary of the Trump/Epstein scandal - mashable.com/video/seth-m... keep hammering the #trump #epstein nexus...

Tariffs without Congressional approval are taxation without representation. Time to throw tea into the harbor.

Ledsen fisk.

Funny how they don't hear the worries of the people peacefully protesting a genocide.

Labour has a racist agenda and they know exactly what they're doing.

300,000 marchers??

Headline from Harvard Crimson: "Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump."

Text of story: Harvard prez Garber says report of a deal "was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials." NYT ran with it as a story.

Important details from this story:

1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."

3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

'Massive' Ukrainian drone strike targets Russian railway station in Volgograd Oblast, local official claims Russia's Defense Ministry claimed that a total of 61 Ukrainian drones were shot down over various regions of the country overnight.

⚡️'Massive' Ukrainian drone strike targets Russian railway station in Volgograd Oblast, local official claims.

Russia's Defense Ministry claimed that a total of 61 Ukrainian drones were shot down over various regions of the country overnight.

A businessman should know this is impossible in the real world. A 100 percent cut would make an item free. You can’t cut more than that.

“Albania’s leader pushes dream of first cashless society. The plan to ban cash by the end of the decade will be difficult to realize in a country distrustful of banks.”

What the fuck does this even mean? Did Bessent use ChatGPT to write this?
wapo.st/4lZVeAw

“On June 15, 1992, [Dan] Quayle altered 12-year-old student William Figueroa's correct spelling of "potato" to "potatoe" at the Muñoz Rivera Elementary School spelling bee in Trenton, New Jersey. He was the subject of widespread ridicule for his error.” — @wikipedia.org

It’s an entire party of people gradually realizing they were abused as children by the people who were supposed to keep them safe

Most racist government of my lifetime. More racist than May & Patel. They were merely the warm-up routine

World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet

“Plastics are a ‘grave, growing and under-recognised danger’ to human & planetary health, a new expert review has warned. The world is in a ‘plastics crisis’, which is causing disease and death from infancy to old age and is responsible for at least $1.5tn (£1.1tn) a year in health-related damages.”

These men never fail. We can only fail them.

Bobby Kennedy is an auto-eugenicist and raving loon.

how is pritzker the only one who seems to remember that he's the governor of a sovereign entity too