GrumpyBen

Homepage of the @miamiherald.com with story by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social that mentions rape in the first paragraph. See, it's not so fucking hard. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Woody Harrelson has done an ad for Exxon. Written by Adam McKay. 👏

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

Repeat after me: Russia has no legitimate security concerns; only its neighbours do. Russia has been the only one invading others.

How it feels right now

Jennifer Hale's seminal performance deserves at least 2/3 of the credit for that, and the rest tbh is a sort of benign neglect.

The fact that billionaires can just buy an entire film distribution company that has been running and respected for over a decade to kill a documentary about their billionaire friend and nothing can be done about it is just Fuck man

We tried "everyone is entitled to an opinion" for three straight decades and all we have to show for it is four thousand cases of measles and a death cult running the government. It's time for people who don't know what they're talking about to shut the fuck up.

Dozens of blood alchemists in the Order of the Obsidian Skull have petitioned the shadowy cabal to stop the sale of its gorehounds to Lord Hellfang

A rare Story Intern OPPORTUNITY - Undergraduate at Insomniac Games Not affiliated, shares welcome! job-boards.greenhouse.io/insomniac/jo...

companies to employees a few months ago: you better use AI companies now: wait, wait, just $29 a month on claude pls www.404media.co/accenture-te...

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

while you port and emulate games, I ported Jira to my PSP

Activision Announces Call of Duty: Northern Aggression buff.ly/KmHHeCq

This article came out six weeks ago, there's enough public evidence that @foreignpolicy.com let me say "bribed" without caveat, and still, the new Kushner revelations show he was BRIBED. Directly bribed. Right into secret foreign accounts bribed. Massively corrupt, ultimately world-changing bribes.

The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

The Texas Republican Party is a wholly-owned subsidiary of two Midland oil businessmen, Tim Dunn and Farris Wilkes. These guys made billions off of the last oil price spike and are Dominionist pastors to boot. They are the money guys for the Texas GOP and everyone is beholden to them.

BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

'Time poverty' is one of modern capitalism’s least discussed forms of deprivation. When a person has no hours in a day to see friends, to recover, and to relax, life becomes something squeezed around work.

James Carville, Please Go Away, a column by me: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

facebook is the only platform many local govs + schools use regularly. this was meta's intent, and one of the main reasons why the company is a lot closer to a telecom providing critical infrastructure than a publisher.

AOC Tidies Up In Case Federal Agents Stop By For Raid https://theonion.com/aoc-tidies-up-in-case-federal-agents-stop-by-for-raid/

While U.S. President Donald Trump claimed Russia "has been fine on Ukraine," civilian casualties rose 85% in September 2026, with U.N. officials warning that October is among the deadliest periods in years.

I do think Acton should go as hard as possible on this. "Elon Musk is paying millions of dollars to bombard your TV with lies by a rapist pedophile and his insane enabler wife. Don't let him win."

I have been trying to think of what Trump’s hideous “ballroom” project reminds me of — and I finally have it — it is Nicolai Ceausescu’s infamous and unfinished House of the People in communist Romania, which also brought awfulness to a lovely downtown.

If you are wanting to learn about the Russian occupation of Ukrainian territory, this important film is a very good place to start. www.docnyc.net/film/traces/

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

Attention Scottish voice actors! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎤 We’re gearing up to cast an upcoming project, which will require an (almost) all Scottish cast! So watch this space, if it’s nae bother.

The thing about guys like Axelrod and Carville and the whole army of dillrod consultants like them is that if a real-life, genuinely effective leader shows up, their business model is shot

"I would rather have the Republicans keep the house." - James Carville

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

theres this idea in the media that if netanyahu loses his election that israel is going to become acceptable to support again, as he is singularly the problem. but if you look into the election you find out every single opposition party is casting him as "too weak on palestine"

a norwegian on Threads posted this and i just don’t know how much more clearly we can emphasize how much Americans are being ripped off by our system which is built to concentrate wealth at the top

If El-Sayed had gone “I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m not actually Muslim I’m fine with deporting them please vote for me” he would just look weak and convince no one. Anti-trans Dems are falling into the same trap.

Made a little video about my reporting on “Tommy” from the viral @abdulelsayed.bsky.social town hall

Practically speaking, that means that when you raise your price on Amazon, you *must* raise your prices *everywhere* by the same amount, which means that no matter where you shop (Target, Walmart, the corner store or direct from the factory), you pay the Amazon Tax.