Jared Lipof

I was going to say it's odd to drive to work with an open-top ceramic mug of coffee but it seems he lives right at the factory (even though he's walking the other way).

As a little treat before we get to see what a Ben Shapiro screenplay looks like, here's the opening page of True Allegiance, Ben's only work of fiction, in which Jennifer sighs twice in the first three paragraphs.

The real accomplishment here is making Vacant look like James Baldwin.

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A new trailer for Alex Gibney's documentary about Elon Musk was just released. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-do...

"Actors look at me the way vampires look at Count Chocula" made me spit water on my breakfast.

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Coming soon: “Franklin Hart is a happily married middle manager, manipulated into compromising positions by power hungry feminists.”

Modern American Conservatism will scream bloody murder when an old text is reexamined through a new lens UNLESS OF COURSE it is done so to their exact specifications.

They're calling this look Bananas Foster Wallace.

Live your life so the former dean of a fraudulent university publicly says to you, "We didn't even have to speak too much, which is sort of good."

Ah, yes. The English language, which is known for having words with one, and only one, incredibly specific definition.

This guy called it. youtu.be/8tCC9yxUIdw

Stole this from the comments because this shit shouldn't be behind a paywall.

Modern American conservatism is a perpetual high-decibel burlesque of doing one thing in real life and its exact opposite on X, the everything app.

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Wow the new host of The Charlie Kirk Show is really making a name for himself.

Never has the expression "all hat and no cattle" been so elegantly rendered.

In this case, the "adversary" is calling from inside the house.

In 2001, Walter Cronkite appeared on the David Letterman show and shared his thoughts.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit to obtain an unredacted copy of New York's statewide voter registration list. A big victory for Elias Law Group and our Client the NAACP. DOJ is now 0-12 in these cases. ELG is undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/new-yo...

Marsha Blackburn's new ad is so racist that it makes me wonder if mainstream Republicans could have gotten away with something like this back in the 1980s or 90s.

What were the broad strokes of the Hunter Biden laptop controversy again?

So he's gonna advocate for all people with depression to get four months off for rehabilitation, right? And he's gonna tell RFK jr to fuck off with his quest to limit the medication that Kean is very clearly taking to be functional?

Yes.

i’m a jewish NY-10 resident and i’m damn proud of the message we sent.

Is the pool the most important story? Of course not. Is it something low-info voters can wrap their heads around? Is it emblematic of how Trump handles everything (corruption, incompetence, lies)? Is Trump making it worse with his own implausible lies? IMHO, yes. So, yeah, worth discussing.

"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10% productivity gain. Ben fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000% productivity gain..."

HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN: A FITTER HAPPIER MYSTERY

Okay that's it, time to blast the opener www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep54...

New Yorkers singing Empire State of Mind

This post = this website at its best

Is "free thinking" the one where everybody delivers* the same talking point? *or, in Ted's case, attempts

"Why would he need to do that, if Trump's done nothing wrong?"

Believe the @jordanharper.bsky.social hype. I’m <20 pages from the end, in that magic sweet spot of needing to know what happens next and not wanting it to end.

this is such a good example of someone asserting that incivility lives in actions that hurt people, not in questioning those actions

Scott Pelley rules.

Push comes to shove this is my favorite Acetone record, possibly because it was my entry point. It's a Lie is a banger and Vibrato and Vaccination are some of Lightcap's finest work.

Commence countdown to, "We really need that ballroom/bunker!" in 3...2...

To be fair, I also would've accepted "I have to renew my gym membership" or "I need to return some videotapes."

This one goes out to the sound mixers.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.