The Once-ler
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Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
Nicaragua is a cautionary tale. Ortega was elected with a plurality of the vote in 2006 after losing three straight elections. 20 years later, he is still there, the elections are gone, and Nicaragua is now one of the most repressive regimes in the world.
The Odyssey absolutely rocks. Explicitly anti-war, anti-imperialism, takes the piss out of the "west is best" great bronze age mythology, elevates black and trans actors, and crams a truly unbelievable amount of storytelling spectacle into less than 3 hours. Chuds everywhere hardest hit.
This is the part of Jack Smith's testimony when he was deposed behind closed doors in Dec. 2025 that has Republicans so up in arms. He's very clearly saying that he did not receive text messages in response to subpoenas for "the toll records from the Member of Congress," which is correct.
And oh yeah - we almost got Sam Neill as James Bond after Roger Moore stepped down in 1986, except he didn't want it.
"I'm not sure if you're aware, Matt, but the devil's generally agreed to be a bad egg."
The entire time he was running for office, Graham Platner knew there were multiple women out there he had victimized who might come forward to tell their stories, yet we still had to endure headlines like this.
One of the many ways T2 was ahead of its time was that the cops give Arnold multiple warnings to surrender after he opens fire on them with a minigun but immediately shoot an unarmed Dyson as soon as they breach the door.
Absolutely psychotic in a country where federal law enforcement priorities look like this for Michael Tracey to complain about too many resources being devoted to stopping sex trafficking.
No, no it can't Michael. Because if "trafficking" just meant "anything and everything," you would see a series of cases getting dismissed, defendants being acquitted, or convictions being thrown out on appeal. None of that is happening.
The politics of The Outlaw Josey Wales are fascinating because Clint fights alongside the confederates, but he isn't one, then the revenge story is done about 20 minutes in and Clint spends the next almost two hours running away to be left alone.
7:15 Imax showing of Supergirl, opening weekend, 5 minutes before showtime.
Was not at all prepared for how gloriously, flamboyantly, scene-stealingly gay Skeletor would be in Masters of the Universe.
Any ethnostate inevitably requires reliance upon reactionary policies to preserve itself. Eventually, some minority group or other moves in and starts increasing their share of the population. The state has to put a stop to it or it will no be longer be an ethnostate.
95% of sexual assault perpetrators are U.S. citizens and the 12% that are Latinos is well below their overall share of the population (~20%). Thom Homan is just covering for who the actual rapists are. www.ussc.gov/sites/defaul...
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine commutes death row inmate Gregory Lott's sentence to life without parole. Lott had been found intellectually disabled, and the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office agreed to clemency. www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/pdf_viewer/p...
Polis's commutation letter says that he commuted Tina Peters's sentence because she took responsibility for her crimes. So now he's going to admit that he was duped, right?
One of the greatest final shots in movie history. The hype is real. Run, don't walk, to go see this.
Transparently 5 episodes of television stitched together into a movie, The Mandalorian & Grogu is an okay popcorn movie but nothing you'll remember the next day. Got a pretty decent round of applause in my theater when the credits rolled.
And they correlated very strongly in 2021-22. Literally the exact month that the inflation spike started in April 2021, consumer confidence started falling, and as soon as inflation started to fall in July 2022, CC started increasing again. You almost could not come up with a worse example.
The prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia was so flagrantly, obviously corrupt that the Criminal Chief of the U.S. Attorney's Office resigned when Donald Trump's handpicked, unconfirmed U.S. Attorney indicted the case over his objection.
DOJ policy under the Trump administration prohibits federal prosecutors from dismissing charges to facilitate a plea agreement, so the deal given to Justin Eichorn deviates significantly from their policy.
Dr. Ted Landsmark, professor at Northeastern University and the young man being assaulted with an American flag in The Soiling of Old Glory, is 80 years old today. History is more recent than you think.
Inde Navarrette absolutely carries Obsession on her back. A star making performance in a twisted, dark fantasy that will haunt you long after the credits roll.
Polis's commutation letter to Tina Peters claimed that she was "taking responsibility for [her] crimes" and showed a "commitment to follow the law going forward." Didn't even last the afternoon before her attorney was spiking the football. drive.google.com/file/d/1VFOC...