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Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.

They gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue.

The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.

They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.

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

Defector is spittin with this one

Dan Laustsen on Shooting Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’: ‘It’s About Love and Forgiveness’ Oscar-nominated DP Dan Laustsen breaks down how he and Guillermo del Toro shot Frankenstein with Alexa 65, tungsten light, and practical effects.

i saw it in 35mm and thought it looked great. Apparently, it was not shot on film, though. variety.com/2025/film/gl...

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king shit

You have to wonder what a Yasujirō Ozu might have done with The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift

ARSENAL FOOTBALL CLUB

Macrohard.

What a stupid fucking time to be alive.

i need it

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Ban hamstrings

lmao

HE HAS ARRIVED. GYOK TUAH!

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ever y time i see like 200 fireworks going off I imagine that theyre being shot at an aliens ufo just rocking the shit out of his stupid ass

stupid sexy calafiori on a cloud

CALAFRIORI SCORES!

Set Piece FC

Gavin Newsom is a ghoul who can suck my ass, and if he gets nominated for POTUS the Dems will either

a) suffer a humiliating defeat, wonder where they went wrong and then tilt even further right

or

b) squeak out a win, decide that tilting right is a winning strategy and tilt even further right

We’ve already seen one major tech-driven culture shift from the pre-internet era to a swipe-and-stream generation hooked on instant gratification and app convenience.

When AI is always-on and omnipresent, what behavioral rewiring comes next? What happens when thinking itself feels too hard?

absolute unit

You may like the FotMob app. Has all these details without the stupid feed.

and hope that west ham go down

A Poorly Drawn 25-26 Season Preview Here we go again

Looking for an Arsenal season preview that won’t provide you any tactical or general knowledge about the upcoming season? This is the one for you.

Every day I'm reminded we live in hell. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/a...

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its legitimately the worst streaming service on earth

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