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politics and other stuff

[Aaron Fritschner @Fritschner]

This piece is such a dreadful indictment of Axios CEO Jim VandeHei (who wrote it), it’s honestly dumbfounding. He’s written some awful crap over the years but this one takes the prize. What can you even say

[100 @yh_me2]

they’re making a day when things can be better and they’re calling it tomorrow

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Jeremy Clarkson opened a pub in August 2024 with one rule: every single ingredient British. Here is what that rule immediately deleted from a perfectly ordinary pub.

- No coffee.
- No Coca-Cola.
- No gin and tonic. Quinine will not grow here.
- No lemons. No limes.
- No ketchup, for two years.
- No avocado. No pineapple.

His own line was that instead of a slice of lemon you would be offered a slice of turnip.

That list is not a gimmick. It is an audit of how much of a normal British menu now arrives by ship, and the answer turns out to be most of the small things nobody thinks about.

Then the figure underneath it all. A sausage made from his own pigs costs 74p. The same sausage made from imported pig meat costs 18p. He is absorbing that gap on every plate that leaves the kitchen, which is precisely the gap every British pig farmer is asked to compete across, without a television programme paying the difference.

And the ketchup has the best ending in the whole story. So many people asked for it that a sign went up telling them to stop. Then a producer in Chatham built one out of Isle of Wight passata, Hampshire cider vinegar and Essex salt, and it went on the menu.

The demand was always sat there. Nobody had bothered building the supply.

[C-Bo the Eggman @CBoTheEggman]

They tried to send an innocent man to prison for 10 years

And Republican Senators are like "aw shucks, maybe Trump was just spitballing"

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

MAGA is really the worst humiliation ritual of all time

[Wolf 🐺 @PsyGuy007]

🇫🇷 INSOLITE : Un interviewer demande à un monsieur qui habite là depuis 40 ans s’il peut visiter son appartement qui a une vue exceptionnelle sur la Tour Eiffel.

[Jane Altoids @staticbluebat]

This anecdote of Hitchcock’s feelings on Spielberg is very funny

[Colander 🩵 @colander20]

Me reading Jeremy Clarkson’s description of Concorde after it’s very last flight

[Digi @digiii]

people who've been grinding in silence for 3 years after reading the "let them" theory for the first time

[aka @akafaceUS]

It costs them $2.67 to make and they sell at $44.

[C-Bo the Eggman @CBoTheEggman]

Reminder, the only time Trump played a golf tournament where he couldn't cheat, the American Century celebrity tournament in 2006, he shot 52 over par in 3 rounds and finished in 62nd place out of 80 celebrities, then cheated on his wife with a pornstar

https://t.co/aycllp8kxq

[Sami Gold @souljagoyteller]

One of my favorite pastimes is to find a random movie from the early 1970s and discover something almost inevitably fascinating

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

It’s so funny how MAGA and the new right are basically just a giant scam for Trump to enrich himself and avoid accountability. That’s it. All these groups like Claremont and Heritage that try to read “principles” and philosophy into what’s happening do the equivalent of slamming pies into their own faces.

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

@MichaelLaRosaDC I run a program at a large progressive org. Sorry that I’m not lobbying for Trump-aligned corporations — we can’t all be massive, selfish, evil pieces of shit like you!

[melissa “cancelled student debt” byrne @mcbyrne]

@fred_guttenberg @MichaelLaRosaDC Michael works for a Trump side lobby firm fyi. He is profiting off of trump.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Ari’s an entire industry making money for so many people so for the sake of their profit the show must go on even as she becomes sicker and sicker. Logical outcome of a society that cares more about money than people.

[randomrandom77 @dren127]

@MichaelLaRosaDC @jeremymbarr @CNN He is a MAGA cultist. He is praying that Bari Weiss gets CNN under her control and offers him a spot as a token Democrat, who will attack the Dems and will praise Trump and the MAGA cult.

[Paul Anleitner @PaulAnleitner]

Chinese PhD student should win awards for this interview with Christopher Nolan.

She was fantastic.

“We turn greatness into privileges and demand apologies from it. That’s a fact of Hollywood.”

[A.J. Delgado @AJDelgado13]

I saw this circulating and thought this was AI.
OMG. But I already knew what this shows.