News: ARTIFICIAL, the hot-potato Sam Altman movie that was dropped by Amazon, has been sold to NEON, the independent theatrical distributor behind Oscar best picture winner ANORA. Barring last minute complication, announcement is coming this week.
The framing undersells it. This isn't officials drifting back into a bad habit out of convenience. Caine administered a Signal chat with an eight hour delete timer alongside Hegseth and Rubio, the same Caine who sat before the Senate weeks earlier and swore under oath that he always communicated through proper channels.
Rubio's own State Department told a federal judge last July that he doesn't use auto-delete functions on messages that might qualify as federal records. The FOIA release contradicts that on at least three separate group chats, one with seventeen participants including the vice president and the commerce secretary.
The White House's answer to all of it was to call the story old news. Not a denial. Not a defense. Just a shrug aimed at the calendar instead of the facts.
A huge weekend for Victorian storytelling. 🎬✨
Victoria showed up in full force for the Castlemaine Documentary Festival, celebrating powerful stories from local filmmakers and voices from across Australia and beyond. 🎥⭐
Yesterday, for Mel Brooks' 100th birthday, 7,000 fans gathered in the main square of Bologna, Italy, to sing “Happy Birthday” to him. Mel himself replied with a video message, and then the crowd watched Young Frankenstein together.
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Justice Sotomayor read her dissent from the bench.
It reads in part: "Today, this Court undoes centuries of political practice and concludes that all three branches of Government have been acting in open defiance of the Constitution all this time. Its conclusion is wrong."
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"In holding otherwise, the Court gives the President a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted, elevating him above his once-coequal branches by transforming a duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed into a license to act in defiance of those very laws."
What this means is that the jury verdict that determined that @realDonaldTrump had sexually abused my friend E. Jean Carroll by penetrating her vagina with his fingers, and therefore had defamed her by denying that he had done so, will stand as a final and conclusive judgment.
The highly respected district judge who tried the case, the Hon. Lewis A. Kaplan, correctly stated multiple times that the jury's finding of sexual abuse under New York law meant that, in common parlance and under the law of most jurisdictions, Donald Trump was found to have raped E. Jean.
So henceforth and forever more, it will be completely accurate—and utterly inactionable under the common and constitutional law of defamation—to state the following fact:
DONALD J. TRUMP IS AN ADJUDICATED RAPIST.
Harrison Ford as Deckard in Blade Runner (1982) realizes Rachel is an exceptional replicant. From rippling light created with a bucket of water to a bronze medal reflecting light into Sean Young’s eyes, it’s the little filmmaking details that make this scene unforgettable✨🎬
Oh dear god.
Marc Andreessen is a Curtis Yarvin-marinated psychopath who says introspection is dangerous and wants to install a technofascist feudalist dictatorship. This billionaire cult must be destroyed at all costs.
Mel Brooks is 100 years old today! Many people think that Mel is my father. He isn’t. But what he is is one of the great comic minds of the last 100 years. Happy birthday Mel, from your fake son.
The rivalry in The Prestige (2006) begins as professional competition and slowly turns into mutual self-destruction. By the end, it's difficult to argue that either man truly wins.