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[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Gillian Anderson returns as Scully in a promo for the new LEGO X-Files set.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Christopher Nolan majored in English literature and I never want to hear another word about how humanities degrees are useless.

[Andrew Guenther @codebrewed]

I love how TSA rules are different at every airport and they look at you like you're a fucking idiot when you don't speak their regional dialect of security theater.

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

One of the best solo runs you will see at this FIFA World Cup, courtesy of Jude Bellingham 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

If Democrats rig elections, how did Trump become president twice?

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

In capitalist America, Taco Bell is our CDC and Waffle House is our weather alert system.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

America already made daylight saving time permanent once. In December 1973, 79% of Americans supported it and Nixon signed it into law. By February 1974, eight weeks into the experiment, support had collapsed to 42%. The policy never changed. Winter arrived.

Sunrise in Washington DC came at 8:27am. Kids left for school in total darkness, carrying flashlights and wearing reflective tape. When Congress moved to repeal, members cited the deaths of eight Florida schoolchildren in the first weeks of the change.

The energy case collapsed too. The whole point was the oil embargo, and the Department of Transportation concluded the fuel savings were too small to matter. Ten months after signing it, Congress repealed it and Ford put the country back on standard time.

There's a mechanism that makes this cycle repeat: permanent DST is only ever voted on when the sun is up. Polls run in the abstract, votes happen in warm months, and the benefit, a free hour of evening light, is easy to imagine year-round. The cost is concentrated in about 10 weeks of dark winter mornings and only becomes real after implementation. So the policy polls beautifully right up until January.

Today's vote happened in July. The 1974 law passed in December, right before the exact winter that killed it. If this clears the Senate, the first real test arrives in January 2027, when sunrise in Indianapolis comes after 9am.

Sleep researchers have watched this loop for 50 years, which is why the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the AMA, and the National Sleep Foundation all back the opposite reform, permanent standard time. Congress just picked the one version of clock reform America has already tried, hated, and repealed.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

Yes. He has already paid this $5M sum into a deposit account held by the United States District Court. She will receive her money shortly, after the SCOTUS clerk's office issues that Court's final judgment.

[rodrigosworld81 @rodrigosworld81]

Is Z John Oliver?!?!? 🤯

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

THE KNOCKOUT STAGE IS SET 🍿

[𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗻𝘀 @TeamBrittW]

another thing: stop judging real people for loving and/or defending a morally grey fictional character.

Loving characters like Britt doesn’t make her fans horrible people. i’m gonna need all these Soap karens to stop being ridiculous and get off their high horse 🥴 #GH

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

It was such a joy getting to spend time with Joe and Jill, George and Laura, and Bill and Hillary last week. Barack and I will always be grateful for your constant friendship and support of our family over the years. 

(And George, thanks for the mints!)

[B.W. Carlin @BaileyCarlin]

Good lord this edit. Insane.

[Jenni @hashjenni]

It seems like Mamdani doesn’t even have an office he just works the streets like a smiling genie granting common wishes

[Covie @covie_93]

Can't believe there would be a flu outbreak at an air force base after hegseth said vaccinations against flu are no longer required.....it's like flu vaccines protect against the flu.

[Mike Lowry’s Sport Coat @CrazyLexxiCool]

Rocco has zero survival skills. Lucky need to come pick his ass up for the summer or something #GH

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Hillary Clinton laughing so hard the mic picked it up when Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize came up was the petty we all needed today.

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Alicia Keys performing “Empire State of Mind” at City Hall during the New York Knicks’ Parade of Champions.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Christina Aguilera performed President Obama's favorite song at the Obama Presidential Center opening.

She said she'd never sung it publicly before and created a new arrangement specifically for the occasion.

Some invitations are hard to turn down.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Dear Joe,
I wish I could sit down with you face to face and explain why so many of us were offended by the UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House.
For me, it had nothing to do with the UFC or who showed up for the fights. The brand you and Dana have built is a bona fide American success story. More power to you. As for the fighters, in my book, anyone brave enough to put it all on the line in the arena is remarkable to witness. Their dedication and discipline inspire me. I don’t understand anyone who can’t admire that.
And as for the people who attended, I, for one, love Shane Gillis. I think he’s hilarious and brilliant. It was a show. A once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. I can’t blame anyone for wanting to witness it firsthand.
My problem is that I believe some of our public spaces are sacred. And unlike many of the great powers that came before us, these American monuments belong to all of us. Not to whoever happens to hold power at the moment.
The White House does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not belong to any President. It belongs to the people. To treat it as Caesar treated the Colosseum is antithetical to everything our founding fathers fought for.
This is not Rome. Presidents are not emperors doling out bread and circuses for the peasants. The White House is the People’s House. This “celebration” could have happened in any stadium within a stone’s throw of the South Lawn. No one would have had an issue with it.
But that was obviously Donald Trump’s whole point. By holding the event on the South Lawn, what he was saying to the rest of us is:
“This is my house. I own it. I will do with it what I please. I’ll build a colosseum and have the gladiators fight under my gaze. I’ll tear down the East Wing. I’ll pave over the Rose Garden. I’ll cover everything in gold and marble. I’ll erase the names of all the men who came before me.”
The fights were an exhibition of imperial domination, not a celebration of our 250th anniversary as a democracy.
The White House is not Buckingham Palace. It is not the Palace of Versailles. It is not the Forbidden City of Beijing. It does not belong to an emperor, or a king, or a commissar.
The White House belongs to us. All of us. The person who sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is nothing more than an honored guest. A temporary caretaker.
The President is our servant. Not our Caesar.
Respectfully, Hunter

P.S. Cage match between me and Don Jr.? Your call on the venue. Anywhere but the South Lawn.