The Once-ler

This lawsuit was doomed regardless, but the state of Alaska coming out against it is important because there will be tremendous pressure from the administration on Governor Mike Dunleavy not to certify a Peltola win.

Truly remarkable that after 11+ years of this, Bill Maher - a professional TV host and comedian - didn't understand that Trump was just humiliating him.

Wildwood absolutely lives up to the hype. It took 16 years to make and you can see it in every frame. It deserves a best picture nomination.

It's hard for most people to wrap their minds around, but 90% of child sexual abuse victims are abused by someone they know, and the mothers very, very often side with the abusive boyfriend/husband.

Simonetta Stefanelli,who played Michael's first wife Apollonia in The Godfather, was just 16 at the time of filming. She has a topless nude scene on their wedding night.

Hedy Lamarr, one of the most famous actresses in the world in the 1940s, invented a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes that could defeat radio jamming by the Germans, the technology from which became an early precursor to WiFi.

Michael Massee was expressly told not to point the gun directly at Brandon Lee on the set of the Crow. He did it anyway because his character, Funboy, was a junkie, and he thought it would look more real if he waved the gun around.

There's an urban legend that Michael Cimino blew up a horse while filming Heaven's Gate, and if you read Final Cut, the book about the making of that movie written by the head of production at United Artists at the time, he does not deny that it happened.

This is laying the groundwork for U.S. airstrikes against Ukraine.

Scammers like Elizabeth Holmes are not deep, or nuanced, or complicated. They're just greedy narcissists, and this country's absolutely bottomless fascination with them is a big part of why are where we are.

I need to be clear: I have not seen YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING. But I would caution people against thinking that liars are secretly deep or misunderstood, or that there is something to be gained from the experience of being lied to. Money, sex, power; everything boils down to very simple motivations.

Elizabeth Holmes is only interesting to the degree that it's interesting that some people will lie to get what they want. This is one of the oldest known human truths. It's sad, but it's also sadly common. People make choices. Choices have consequences. Most inmates don't get an A24 movie.

Saturday Night Live, hosted by Shane Gillis! Featuring: Shine Gillis! And Shane Gillis! A cartoon by Shane Gillis! And, musical guest, Shane Gillis!

Ruin a book by adding a word. A Probate Court of Thorns and Roses

Twitter is in federal court in the Northern District of Texas right now trying to bankrupt Media Matters by forcing them to defend against a frivolous lawsuit Twitter knows they can't win. If you are still on Twitter, you are helping fund that effort.

The Majority Report crew's entire rationale for supporting Graham Platner was that it was important to be a big tent party and win converts. You can't say that while also insisting that Tim Miller working on Jeb Bush's campaign 10 years ago is disqualifying.

States that use lethal injection defend it in court by saying that the firing squad is not a viable alternative under Baze v. Rees, so the U.S. Army livestreaming an execution by firing squad would completely undermine that defense.

SCOTUS declines to hear the appeal of Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, former president and CEO of Theranos and codefendant of Elizabeth Holmes. Interesting that Justice Thomas recused. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

This article doesn't really describe a "scheme" as much as it just says "who's gonna stop him?"

Virtually every single South American country (except good old Uruguay) has lurched hard to the right in the last few years. Venezuela we can say was U.S. hard power interference, but Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil... they all just chose this.

Imagine being a professional journalist, getting an answer from Justice Alito like this, and just accepting it. These words don't mean anything! It's like he was asked about Roe v. Wade and responded, "A setback of the heart bathes in sunlight" or "The body of mind sees the mountain top."

Field of Dreams. And it's even scarier as an adult.

I didn't know the extent to which David Ellison had already turned Paramount into a slop factory until I looked at their top grossing releases for 2026: Scream 7 Scary Movie PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie Heart of the Beast Primate The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants Jackass: Best and Last

MAGA influencer Craig Long, who was arrested in a human trafficking sting in Florida on April 22, was quietly given 12 months of probation in a hearing on August 19 that received no coverage whatsoever.

"Look, I know that John Wayne Gacy may have murdered 20 children, but have you seen his tight five clown bit?"

Every hour that every DOJ employee wastes whitewashing Watergate is an hour they are not prosecuting child molesters, fentanyl dealers, billion dollar fraudsters, hate crimes, and voter suppression.

Dan Sullivan supports ICE executing innocent people in the streets, buuuuut on the other hand, Mary Peltola is sometimes rude to staff and uses curse words in text messages.

Horror movie villains: 60s: psycho killers 70s: ghosts 80s: slashers 90s: slashers (self-aware) 00s: diseases 10s: trauma 20s: hallways

"Aircrew members were more likely to die of radiation-related cancers than people with any other occupation."

Both things are true: Andrew Boutros set Sheri Mecklenburg up to fail by ordering her to bring charges he knew the law did not support, and she committed egregious misconduct before the grand jury. No good guys here except the grand jurors who said no.

Minnesota state senator Justin Eichorn, a Republican, sentenced to just 16 months in prison today after messaging an undercover police officer posing as a 17-year-old girl asking for nude pics and "rates" for sex acts. Prosecutors had asked for 5 years.

Oscar voters who chose Shakespeare in Love as Best Picture remain unpunished.

Update: the 9th Circuit rejects an appeal by Alexander Smirnov, the GOP-promoted informant who pleaded guilty in 2024 to providing the FBI false information about the Bidens and Ukraine.

1. Mary Peltola is and always has been terrible and will be the 2nd worst Democratic Senator after Fetterman. 2. She will be another vote against James Ho's SCOTUS nomination and that's all that matters.

Heard Zach Cregger's Resident Evil described as "horror After Hours" and while that is perfect, I kinda thought Scorcese's After Hours was already a horror movie.

"This... cannot be real" I think to myself about the movie in which Jim Caviezel plays Jair Bolsonaro.

Resident Evil is awesome. I cannot remember the last movie with this much propulsive energy. Absolutely melted my face off. If he wasn't already, Zach Cregger is a made man. 9/10

Destiny was 1000% in support of Kyle Rittenhouse bringing an AR-15 to a protest in Kenosha and shooting three people, and strawmanned any criticism of Rittenhouse as a belief that he had a moral obligation to submit himself to mob justice.

Right, you cannot define genocide by mathematical equations, which is why absolutely no organization that defines the term does so. A genocide of just 1% of China's population would be 14 million people, more than were killed in the Holocaust.