(Bloomberg) - Only one person has been approved so far for Donald Trump’s “Gold Card” Visa program granting foreigners US residency for a $1 million fee, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Thursday.

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Restored Smithsonian carousel returns to the National Mall Discover the fascinating history behind the Smithsonian carousel as it returns to the National Mall after three years of restoration.

Historic carousel on the Mall reopening tomorrow! www.si.edu/stories/roun...

Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders are about to vote on the Paramount mega-deal | CNN Business Paramount’s blockbuster acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN’s parent company, is poised to clear a pivotal hurdle later this week.

WBD shareholders are expected to approve Paramount's takeover bid tomorrow morning. Then attention will turn to the state AG antitrust watchdogs and European regulatory bodies that are taking a close look at the deal. Here's my latest for CNN: www.cnn.com/2026/04/22/m...

It would have been nice if the media had paid attention when Paramount was criminally handed over to Larry Ellison. But no one did.

Absolutely shambolic

Why is anyone on X anymore????

Located in the town of Caviahue, Argentina, Salto del Agrio is a 60 meter high waterfall, which drops to a small green pool surrounded by yellow and red basaltic rocks

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Why I'm going... My POV on the dinner is summed up well by Eric Deggans on Substack. "Yes, the optics of such an event can be terrible," he writes. But the gatherings themselves are "extremely useful" for reporters: "It's not often, when covering a beat expansive as media or politics, that you get to attend an event which brings together loads of people from your coverage area in one spot on one night. I always view such events as opportunities for source-building, vetting of coverage ideas and networking." That's why I will be there this weekend. (Thank you, CNN, for the invite.)

I'm disappointed that @brianstelter.bsky.social is going to the appalling WHCD dinner. It is *not* at all useful for anything journalistically defensible. It's a celebration of smug clubbiness and, this year, of submission to disinformation and fascism. view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/177...

"I always view such events as opportunities for source-building, vetting of coverage ideas and networking."

Perhaps not the writer's intent, but the above sentence is a rather troubling admission -- confession -- in conflict with his actual role, no?

You can pre-order my Rod Serling book now! My biography of 'The Twilight Zone' creator has a title, a cover and a publication date

I wrote more about the book in a free What’s Alan Watching? post:

Rod Serling stands in a glowing doorway, surrounded by the title Serling: A Journey Into The Twilight Zone with TV's First Visionary, by Alan Sepinwall

Very excited to reveal the cover for my next book, Serling: A Journey Into The Twilight Zone with TV’s First Visionary. The book will be published by Grand Central on October 13 of this year, and pre-orders are open now: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alan-...

Study suggests prenatal exposure to medications increases autism risk Study suggests prenatal exposure to medications increased autism risk.

When you live in a country led by the most unserious among us who look to the nomads, the traveling show performers, the carnies, the grifters, the wanderers, and the fortune tellers, this is what you get...

Also tonight: a small plane crashed somewhere and it looks like everyone is ok.

The Tech Journalist Banned from Twitter for Criticizing Fascism, Palantir, & the Broligarchy

Palantir published a 22-part manifesto outlining its authoritarian agenda. The masks are off. It's time to purge America of these broligarchs.

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As do I, Aaron. As do I.

...Oh, wait. You were talking about the game.

There's somethin' wrong with them there boys...

[Oh, and they're also major beneficiaries -- Palantir is a major beneficiary -- of the Walt Disney Company. See, specifically, their presence at Walt Disney World's Team Disney and in the community of Golden Oak.]

Happy 77th Jessica Lange

Also last month. Also next month.

What's that saying...Oh, yeah. It takes money to make money.

[Back in the day, like waaay back in the 90s, you could get a Dr. Raj nose for less than this fella spent on that...that...THAT.]

Florida tattoo artist arrested after alleged threats to burn down home, extort money A Palm Beach County tattoo artist is accused of unleashing a barrage of threats to burn down a woman’s home, destroy her car, and share explicit images of her.

He sure doesn’t look like someone who would ever be in trouble with the law cbs12.com/news/local/f...

Is it a “madman theory” if the guy behind it all is actually a madman?

Say what you will about the dotcom bubble, at least the CEO of Pets dot com didn’t glaze the Third Reich.

Are they ALL on drugs?

It is likely that Trump's Iran catastrophe will lead to some kind of compensation for all the countries the US has screwed (which is all of them). We would do well now to lay groundwork for seizing assets of the Palantirs and Musk fortune that enabled Trump's rise and invasion.

Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"

Sam Esmail: If I name the corporation in Mr. Robot “Evil Corp,” is that too on the nose?

Palantir: It depends, what are you naming the villain?

I have a delicate question and I’ll delete if inappropriate, but I’m curious why they haven’t trotted out the two airmen shot down in Iran and rescued two weeks ago. Isn’t it standard operating procedure to do a victory lap with the president? Are they CIA and have to be kept anonymous?

Star Trek: Enterprise "Flyby" music by Sol Kaplan and Alexander Courage This is the first appearance of this music cue, from the episode "The Enemy Within" (1966)

Film and TV composer Sol Kaplan, BOTD (1919-1990) scored just two "Star Trek" episodes in the 60s, but his music was some of the best for the original series.
His "flyby" cue from Season 1 is one of the most recognizable and iconic gems in the entire Star Trek sound world.
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Behind Trump’s Public Bravado on the War, He Grapples With His Own Fears The president’s impulsive style has never been tested in a sustained military conflict, and he’s been ruminating on Jimmy Carter’s failure in Iran.

“The president’s impulsive style has never before been tested during a sustained military conflict.”

We’re running out of euphemisms.

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