So ... if Trumpworld people are insider trading ... but the Dow crash isn't as big as they expected ... is it going to turn out that this is a *failed* attempt to manipulate the markets? They never fail to find a way to make things even worse than it looks, do they?
www.cnbc.com/2026/04/21/t...
So ... it's 'fossil fuel industry', not just coal industry, *but* it's also *direct* *federal* funding. If a state picks up the cost of cleaning pollution, or builds a road to a mine then that's also a handout.
There's a great they-know-what-they-just-did exchange in the Brett version of The Golden Pince-Nez about the victim:
Hopkins: I gathered that he was fond of a drink or two.
Mycroft: Well, nothing wrong with that.
Hopkins: He also had a bit of an eye for the ladies.
Mycroft: Each to his own.
You ever notice how in the Superman the Movie poster, he's got one fist out, and on Superman II he's got two fists out? Well BUCKLE UP, I gave him three and four fists for Superman III and Superman IV, respectively. Hilarious!
They're cowards for not doing this.
The Travelling Whale-burys #WhaleSupergroups
The fossil fuel industry gets $34Bn in direct federal subsidy every year.
The total *revenue* of the US coal industry is $30Bn a year. The total wage bill for coal miners is about $3Bn.
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WARREN: That's not my question. Are you refusing to tell us if you have investments in vehicles set up by Jeffrey Epstein?
KEVIN WARSH: Those assets will be sold if I'm confirmed
President urges Iran to start peace negotiations by releasing non-existent, AI-generated women some rando posted about on X
“The MAGA crowd is made of dumb people — like, SUPER dumb people. And they fall for it.”
For my @wired.com feature debut, I talked to Sam, a guy who made thousands of dollars on Instagram by scamming MAGA men with Emily Hart, an AI generated, Trump-loving influencer. www.wired.com/story/ai-gen...
Yeah. Deathstroke: he knows he can't beat the Titans by himself; Constantine: Swamp Thing's dodgy spirit guide; Harley Quinn: the Joker's dodgy Robin he's banging. (NB: these *are* new characters, they're not all forty years old. That's the smell of new ink, not old piss. Get off my lawn).
Readers are always resistant to the idea that a new guy deserves to be in the same room as the established players. When eight new characters show up and we're told it's actually been their room all along, that resistance can easily turn into hostility.
American foreign policy of the last fifty years has basically just been a Boomer therapy session about them losing the Vietnam War.
the UAE's threat wasn't subtle (give us swap lines or we're going to Beijing) but hassett is dodging here ("should that be necessary") and between this and the Abdulkhaleq post the other day I have to wonder if there was a massive rupture between the US and UAE at the end of last week
But *which* podcaster?
Was that real, though, or was it just nonsense Faragist propaganda that Nigel Farage was a particular favourite of Trump, and should get the job?
The 'Starmer appointed Mandelson because he needed someone to manage Trump' - not true. What happened was:
1) From the general election there was a desire in Downing Street for a political appointee
2) There was no question that the US embassy had good Trumpworld links as it was
You'll get it when you realise he's saying 'stop fucking around with that stick and tell him *you're* Yoda'.
George Lucas said Threepio and Artoo are the protagonists, and if you start from the assumption R2D2 is the main character all the 'plotholes' magical resolve. In the first six movies, he's getting Skywalkers where they need to be, with the right back up.
Anakin's Naboo starfighter isn't on autopilot, R2 flies it there as part of his pathological urge to get Skywalkers into fights to impress Jedi masters.
😂😂😂😂😂
It's easy for everyone to say that in hindsight, indeed it's so easy that no one has to change a word of what they said at the time.
Karoline Leavitt @PressSec Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump is Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness
we've noticed and i'm glad he's getting help
I don't know how to even begin discussing the 'rape academy' story, how it can be discussed in a twitterlike forum, or that anything I'd say would be a useful contribution in any event.
It's important, but so hard to talk about.
So ... I want to listen.
Who's doing good work on this story?
Finally UK voters will get a chance to choose Ed Miliband at a general election. It's all been leading to this. All that pent up demand for Ed Miliband will get an outlet.
So it's time to find an answer to the most pressing question of recent UK politics:
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Going on Bartiromo's show to assert you're not a drunk is like going on The Smurfs to prove you're really tall.
Even Titanic or Forrest Gump are 'special effects movies' as much as they're anything else.
Versions of Trump, explicitly meant to be parodies of him, have been villains in pop culture for over forty years.
As have 'Silicon Valley geniuses who are actually dumb Nazis'.
I think there *might* be a case that some of these guys watched View to a Kill and wanted to grow up to be Zorin.
There was nothing like the same dominance of superhero movies, but look down this list, and these are action movies about aliens, robots, and ghosts, many of them based on comics or riffing on SF nostalgia.
www.imdb.com/list/ls02606...
