Hi Bill, Mayor Mamdani isn’t on the ‘wrong side’ because the desk has drawers on both sides. You and Elon Musk may have billions that the rest of us don’t have, but you don’t ever seem to have any basic historical knowledge or even, y’know, access to Google.
"He murdered an entire family! That's not true, Uwe. You're lying... were they all criminals?"
I debated Uwe Boll, the director of the awful new anti-migrant movie, 'Citizen Vigilante, being amplified by Elon Musk.
Full show: https://t.co/kTKAGwZNjU
A reminder that government officials all over the world laugh at the president of the United States when they are on calls with him. He’s an embarrassment.
By David Abbruzzes:
This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
Very well stated.
Eddie Glaude: “Stephen Miller is a racist. He’s a white nationalist. White nationalists have seized the federal government. Great Replacement Theory motivates this immigration policy. We need to call them for what they are. This is a white nationalist agenda and Stephen Miller and all of these folk are just simply rabid racists”
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Justice Thomas’ dissent is hands down one of the MOST intellectually dishonest legal opinions I have EVER seen.
It should be clear to every American he is a compromised political actor - not a respectable member of this bench.
The US Supreme Court voted to uphold birthright citizenship in a 6-3 decision
Majority
🟥Amy Coney Barrett
🟥Brett Kavanaugh
🟥John Roberts
🟦Ketanji Brown Jackson
🟦Elena Kagan
🟦Sonia Sotomayor
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Dissent
🟥Samuel Alito
🟥Neil Gorsuch
🟥Clarence Thomas
A guy used a Kindle for 4 years before he realized he was using it wrong.
He read 60+ books on it. Highlighted hundreds of passages. Never adjusted a single setting beyond font size.
His sister-in-law a librarian who's read 800+ books on her Kindle sat next to him on a flight and watched him read for 20 minutes.
She finally said: "Can I show you something? You're missing the 9 features that make this thing actually useful. Amazon hides them 4 menus deep. Every Kindle owner I know reads way slower because of it."
She changed 9 settings in 6 minutes.
He finished his next book in half the usual time. Remembered twice as much. Looked up zero words on his phone.
Here's everything she showed him
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Yesterday would have been Tony Scott���s 82nd birthday & I never need an excuse to post about one of my favorite directors. Spy Game, which includes the late Robert Redford, is one of Scott’s best films. It gives Redford a chance to pass the torch down to Brad Pitt, who I’ve always felt resembles Redford physically in certain ways. Love this film- love this director.
In MINORITY REPORT (2002), Steven Spielberg named the three pre-cogs Agatha, Dashiell, and Arthur after Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett & Arthur Conan Doyle.
A clever detail for a film that’s really a murder mystery wrapped inside a sci-fi blockbuster.