Adam Smith

Go see The Naked Gun in a theater.

time do DM your crush!

Maryland Bookstore Donates Proceeds From GOP Senator’s Book Sales to Immigrant Charity - Washingtonian People's Book says it encourages Dave McCormick to "buy additional books from us so we can give more of his massive piles of wealth to other worthy causes."

Pretty funny that this Takoma bookstore publicly announced the lobbyists who just bought 500 copies of Sen. Dave McCormick's book. www.washingtonian.com/2025/08/01/d...

And Just Like That spinoff that's just Steve running Scout, a la The Bear

The filing, which is not public, was submitted to the inspector general’s office in electronic form on May 2, and a longer, printed version that included documentary evidence was delivered on May 5, according to people familiar with the filing. The inspector general appears to have done nothing with the information for more than two months, and many in that office did not realize they even had the material until a day or two before the full Senate voted on Mr. Bove’s nomination. He was confirmed Tuesday by a razor-thin margin, 50 to 49. Last Friday, when the whistle-blower group went public about the filing’s existence, the inspector general’s office told lawmakers that it had no such complaint, according to people familiar with the case, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations. The office only found the documents after lawyers for the whistle-blower presented electronic and FedEx delivery receipts for them. The implications of that inaction are potentially significant, given that Republicans have cast skepticism on another Justice Department whistle-blower, Erez Reuveni, describing his account as part of a politically timed effort by Democrats to scuttle a Trump nomination. That someone appears to have come forward about Mr. Bove’s conduct well before his nomination was known would undercut those claims. The complaint, according to people familiar with it, outlines a set of allegations that largely tracks with Mr. Reuveni’s account.

Oh boy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...

Corporate America has largely abandoned its post-January 6 promises on democracy - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Since the January 6 insurrection, over 2,000 corporate and industry group PACs have given over $174 million to members of the Sedition Caucus as well as Donald Trump and the new members of Congress wh...

Corporate America has largely abandoned its post-January 6 promises on democracy

President Trump is reportedly considering hosting the G20 summit at his Florida golf course.

We put the pressure on back in 2020 when he wanted to host the G7 there and he backed off—let’s do it again. 🧵

Well, everything. The death of art. [Laughs.] A thing that I’ve been struck by in the last year of tech development around art is that what makes us human is making art, even if you’re not a professional artist. This is kind of corny, but I think about cavemen, right? One of the first things we ever did as a species was put our handprints on a wall, and it’s just this drive that has always been there. It’ll always be there. And I think it’s preposterous that these people are suggesting that they develop this technology, and the first thing they want to eliminate is art, so you have more time to…what, email? I don’t know what they think I’m going to do with my fucking day. Most of the population is not artists, but a lot of the population has artistic hobbies, and if you replace that with a computer doing it for you or whatever, it’s just pointless. I think there’s a death drive in these people, almost, and an actual hatred of artists; they are jealous of people with imagination because they don’t have one, and they almost consciously want to eliminate it.

My wife is in Vogue shitting on your AI-generated "art" 💜 www.vogue.com/article/matt...

Ok I’ll be there in a few weeks and was trying to decide if I should go and I think you’ve answered it!

maybe they just needed to confirm for Trump officials that the school is named after a person and not a skin color

Former Biglaw Partner Publicly Fighting With A Computer Program Which Is Totally Not Crazy Person Behavior - Above the Law Cleta Mitchell is having a spat with Elon Musk's algorithm.

Top GOP election attorney Cleta Mitchell is in a feud with an AI chatbot. abovethelaw.com/2025/07/form...

Qualcomm gave $1 million to pro-Trump dark money group  - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Technology company Qualcomm gave $1 million to a nonprofit that supported Trump in the 2024 election and is spending to boost his agenda.

BREAKING: Qualcomm gave $1 million to Securing American Greatness, a nonprofit that does not disclose its donors and supported Trump in the 2024 election. That's the first known corporate donation to the dark money group.
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Popular spiked seltzer issues recall over labeling error involving Celsius beverages The recalled packs of vodka seltzer were sold at retailers in six states

people deserve a little treat, imo www.the-independent.com/life-style/h...

Trump Donor, Fatburger Franchisor Gets Case Dropped by DOJ (2) The Justice Department has moved to dismiss corporate fraud charges against Andrew Wiederhorn, a Trump donor who is founder and chairman of restaurant franchisor FAT Brands Inc.

Trump's DOJ is dismissing corporate fraud charges against a man who donated to his 2024 campaign. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

The Internet Loves Sydney Sweeney That’s not necessarily a good thing.

I wrote about the Sydney Sweeney jeans discourse and broken informations systems that make talking to each other impossible (in fact it's not even the goal). Context collapse is just how people (and brands!) communicate now. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

CREW requests DHS, DOJ and DOD records on high-ranking officials alleged to have intentionally defied court orders  - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington The public should know if government officials defied court orders by greenlighting unlawful deportation flights to El Salvador.

NEW: We requested records about allegations in a whistleblower complaint that members of the Trump administration intentionally defied court orders to speed up the deportations of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador.

Unexpectedly good politics from Thomas Kinkade's family! www.kinkadefamilyfoundation.org

Eve Jobs’s Wedding in the Cotswolds Is Peak Quiet Luxury

Just learning that Steve Jobs' daughter is named Eve Jobs. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/s...

Corporate America has largely abandoned its post-January 6 promises on democracy - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Since the January 6 insurrection, over 2,000 corporate and industry group PACs have given over $174 million to members of the Sedition Caucus as well as Donald Trump and the new members of Congress who ran on the Big Lie that Trump won the 2020 election.

BREAKING: After the Jan. 6 insurrection, nearly 250 companies pledged to no longer donate to lawmakers who voted against certifying the 2020 election.

But over 2,000 corporate and industry group PACs have donated over $174 million since then.

Everyone is so insane now.

can’t believe they’re going to make us all defend duke now

An important lesson for companies trying to buy policy outcomes from Trump - he also has to profit from your flattery. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

This construction project was on time and on budget. Then came ICE. Under a broiling Alabama sky a frustrated Robby Robertson, a construction site superintendent, surveys an 84,000 square foot, mostly built recreation center close to the Gulf coast port city of Mobile. The site is eerily quiet.

"Robertson said even Hispanic workers who are in the U.S. legally are scared of being detained by ICE, 'because of their skin color. They are scared because they look the part.'" www.reuters.com/world/us/thi...

Denver Pastor and Wife Face Charges in ‘God-Inspired’ Cryptocurrency Scheme

Yeah this checks out to me. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...

Convicted Murderer Released by Trump From Venezuelan Prison Is Free in U.S.

The America First geniuses managed to send hairdressers and soccer players into a gulag and *import* a triple murderer into the US. Nice work.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

mario is gay confirmed

Vermont school superintendent detained after trip to Nicaragua Wilmer Chavarria, the superintendent of the Winooski School District, was held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection while returning to the country after visiting family.

“You feel like you’ve been abducted by a gang of aggressive, violent people who are trying to manipulate you and who are lying to you. And while you are being abducted, you know that these people are capable of doing anything to you because they don’t care.”