Jason Concepcion

Jason Concepcion

@netw3rk.bsky.social

Writer, host. WAIT A SECOND POD, X-RAY VISION, THE OFFICIAL GAME OF THRONES HOTD, KOTSK POD https://www.youtube.com/@XRayVisionPod

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Second, it captures the essence of this observation from VS Naipaul's "A Bend in the River". The staying power of American style capitalism is an ability to commit atrocities then, through pop culture, to repudiate and continue to profit from them. This, to me, is why the Plemmons character is key.

So a nepo kid whose fortune comes directly from the dynamics that destroyed the world is able build his own statue ("Fossil Follies") which essentially says"Yeah I agree that was bad!" while never forfeiting a penny of his fortune or power. Devasating and real observations and imo a great movie.

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zohran giving an iconic speech that made dolan look like a small man in search of a balcony is going to have lasting and devastating crash out effects on james's brittle psyche

It's gotta be somehow illegal to hack your employees' emails

Bobby Silverman@robertsilverman.bsky.social

If you're a connoisseur of on-brand James Dolan pettiness, grudge-settling, and ham-fisted dumbassery, have I got the article for you www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

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I'm voting for the candidate who promises to bring every one of these political prisoners back, grant them full citizenship and give them a giant stipend to restart their lives, paid for by clawing back the graft that trump, musk et al have stolen.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com

Overnight this Talon Air ICE flight landed in Liberia, a known third-country removal “host,” though it is unclear if this was a TCR or a removal of Liberian nationals. Passengers onboard were shackled at the ankles and wrists attached to a waist chain for at least 14 hours.

ill be fucking their little tri-corn hat wearing asses up. founding fathers never saw brazilian jui jitsu. Never saw muy thai. im putting ben franklin in a kimura.

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Unconscionable to be on “X” at this point. Just a cesspit. Except for banking; I do my banking there & don’t see a problem.

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ironically, a program seemingly designed to just give money to the regime's friends and allies is textbook fraud

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.com

Incentivizing Trump voters to call in their suspicions about about black and brown people? What's the worst that could happen?

Definitely a good sign when you have to take this test multiple times a year

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The first one is they show you a lion, a bear, a snake, and a giraffe. And they say, 'Which one is the giraffe?' I got a perfect score."

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My boomer in laws used to complain they had to pay taxes for schools when they weren’t using the schools. Forgetting that someone was paying taxes for schools when they and their kids were in schools.

it should be like when someone stiffs a contractor -- tear down the electrical poles, shut down the streets around the house, no more garbage pickup, cops and fire dont respond there

Politico@politico.com

“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?” Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.

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People’s use of AI should not necessarily be equated with their “liking” or “accepting the technology. It’s like Saw: Jigsaw’s victims solve his puzzles to survive to the next room, not because they like doing it.

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NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. With @nancyayoussef.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

theatlantic.comHe Joined the Military. They Reported His Wife to ICE.When a soldier’s wife went to pick up her military ID at a base in Texas, ICE officers showed up.

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BREAKING: " Videos collected by local investigators make it “pretty obvious” that an ICE officer intentionally ran over Miguel Parra Hernandez during an immigration stop Saturday, which could lead to assault charges, the district attorney said Tuesday."

nbcnews.comTexas DA says ICE intentionally hit immigrant with a car and may have withheld evidenceHarris County DA Sean Teare told NBC News his office has collected multiple videos for its own investigation but isn’t getting cooperation from the federal government. ICE denied their agent intentio...

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Probably a bad thing that the right can come up with a totally nonsense conspiracy theory about James Talarico and journalists have to spend valuable time 3 weeks before the election debunking it instead of covering Paxton actually going to Dubai with his mistress on a trip paid for by a criminal

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Among the elite media, there is a consensus that Trump is committing illegal extrajudicial murders of random Latin American guys in boats all the time, but if you say he might have also committed an extrajudicial murder of Jeffrey Epstein, the idea is treated like saying he rode a unicorn.

the hitcher is on the criterion channel. it's great and quite creepy with one kill that has stuck with me for years and cinematography that's much better than it needed to be. anyway, here's a crazy fact about the screenwriter:

David Brooks is like Dead and Co. It's nice he's still doing it, and the stuff even sounds like it always did, but even his fans know he's irelevant.

driftglass@driftglass.bsky.social

"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this

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No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative.