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[Dukes ☝🏾 @devinadukes]

@ThatsNoa 🤣🤣🤣

[DTVA News @DTVANews]

Have the widescreen version of the "HOUSE OF MOUSE" Theme Song via KirboTheKirb.

Still not on Disney+ beacuse their execs still prefer to only add Hulu titles every month.

#HouseOfMouse

[SEC Unfiltered @SECUnfiltered]

"You're the first team in f***ing 100 years to win in this b****. I got my first win up in this b****."

Kirby's postgame speech may be better than his pregame speech 😂🔥

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First trailer for ‘BATMAN KNIGHTFALL - PART 2: KNIGHTQUEST’.

Coming soon to Digital.

[Clip Insanity @ClipInsanity]

The difference between firecrackers and bombs

[Soze Faizon Blanco @TheHumanDurag]

The first song that used to automatically come on soon as you start the whip

[Dev @AReclusiveGod]

Off topic but Zoe being in the background listening to the whole story knowing she killed Abin Sur is actually crazy lol.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The mid-season trailer for ‘LANTERNS’ has been released.

Releasing Sundays on HBO.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the payments logistics officer at the United States Treasury Department who has personally touched every version of the free money this country has been promised since 2020, and I am the only person left in this building who remembers how the first one actually went, because the first one is the only one that was ever real.

Spring 2020. Economic Impact Payments, $1,200 a person, funded, appropriated, moving. Then Mnuchin's office ordered the president's name onto the memo line. Not a rubber stamp. A printed signature, the first time a president's name had ever gone on an IRS payment. Commissioner Rettig wasn't told until the request was already in motion. Our engineers had to reprogram the check-printing software and run it through testing before a single check could clear, because the system had never been built to hold a name that wasn't the Treasurer's. 70 million people waited an extra few days for their own emergency relief, during a pandemic, so a signature could finish QA. I sat in the room where someone asked if we could just skip the testing and was told no, we are not shipping the president's name with a rendering bug in it. The actual money moved slower so the branding could move faster. Every version since has been the branding moving faster and the money not moving at all.

Version one was the DOGE Dividend. It didn't come from this building. It came from a 30-year-old hedge fund manager named James Fishback, CEO of a firm called Azoria, who has said publicly that the number arrived to him in a dream. He posted it to Musk in February of 2025: take 20% of whatever DOGE saves and cut it into checks, math it out to roughly $5,000 a household if the savings hit $2 trillion. Musk replied that he'd check with the president. The president checked. Within days it was a line in a press briefing, no legislation, no appropriation, just a number that had been asleep in one man's head 12 hours earlier now sitting on the Resolute desk. By May, DOGE's own public savings tracker read $175 billion, not $2 trillion, which works out to $1,086.96 per taxpayer, not $5,000. Nobody issued a correction. The number just stopped being said out loud. And when Fishback later described himself as having advised DOGE, a former senior DOGE adviser went on the record to say, quote, you didn't advise DOGE. So the origin story of the $5,000 figure still being used today, 18 months and 2 rebrands later, is a dream, a tweet, and a denial. I have that DOGE savings tracker bookmarked. I check it the way other people check their portfolio.

Version two was the Tariff Dividend, announced that November. $2,000 a person this time, lower number, new funding source: tariff revenue instead of imaginary government savings. This one at least had a real number behind it: $195 billion collected in tariffs for the fiscal year. Economists ran the arithmetic before we did. Cato called it fiscal fantasy in print. A deputy chief economist at Oxford Economics warned that stacking a stimulus check on top of the existing tax cuts could overheat the economy. The math didn't work even before the legal problem showed up, and then the legal problem showed up: the Supreme Court struck down the IEEPA tariffs in February, the ones the dividend was supposed to be funded from, and by May we were issuing refunds to importers faster than customs was collecting anything. I watched the ledger cross from positive to negative in the same spreadsheet tab we'd built to track the dividend. We didn't rename the tab. We just stopped opening it.

Version three is the Trump Dividend, the one I'm actually being asked to price this week. Same number as version one, $5,000, announced Tuesday night from the stage of the midterm convention. Quote: if the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, both of them, because of our tremendous economic success, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States for $5,000. One condition attached, and it isn't a funding mechanism, it's a spending restriction: the money has to stay in the country, no Canada, no China, no Germany, his words. So the government has now, for the first time in three attempts, specified where the imaginary money is allowed to be imaginarily spent. Commentators started using the word bribe before the applause even finished. There's a real federal statute for this: 18 U.S.C. 597, expenditures to influence voting, a fine or up to 2 years if it's willful. Nobody in this building has said the statute's number out loud in a meeting, and I've listened for it, because there's a comfortable legal argument sitting right there in plain sight: you cannot criminally buy a vote with money that was never appropriated, never budgeted, and has no line item anywhere in the federal government. It isn't a bribe. A bribe requires a bribe.

I priced it anyway, because pricing a number has never once required the number to exist. 270 million adults, $5,000 each, $1.35 trillion, against a national debt that closed this week at $40.1 trillion. It costs 7 times what version two's tariffs brought in at their peak. I put the number in the deck. I did not put in a funding source, because there's a blank cell where that used to go, and I've started to think of that blank cell as the actual through-line of my career here.

Four checks. One real. One dreamed by a guy who isn't even employed by the government he says he advised. One that went negative by court order. One that costs a Senate seat instead of a tax dollar. And I'm still on the invite list for the pricing meeting, because I'm the only one left who was in the room in 2020 when we tested a signature before we tested the money.

[neo @uwaj3h]

The funniest part about Lanterns is Hal Jordan is competent af. Like he’s incredibly competent lmao

[Dukes ☝🏾 @devinadukes]

@_sarahnjeri Go mama go

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect.  Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.

This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public. 

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.

[Ayomaria @_paulodunayo]

I need a modern day artist to remix this song 🤲🏾 https://t.co/AMfbGwc2dM

[✋🏾 @fox5drak]

yo @MiamiDolphins take this ngga back

[Chris. @chefmade_92]

Shoutout to the North man. Some real hittas

#hotd #demdragons

[dev @freeallpenguins]

i rewatched life of pi after a decade and you're telling me this mf ATE HIS MOTHER AND MADE UP THE TIGER BS TO COPE????

[Everything Georgia @GAFollowers]

The HBCU Legacy Bowl is moving from New Orleans to Atlanta starting in 2027.

[680 The Fan @680TheFan]

Does Quin Snyder deserve to be FIRED after a historic 51-point playoff loss?

"I don't know how you defend what he did over the last 3 games... you can't fire the whole team, but you can fire the coach... aside from that run where they went 20–5 late in the season, Quin Snyder has not paid dividends... someone's got to pay the price." - @CelliniNick
#TrueToAtlanta
@chrisdimino