Cursed images... each and every one.

I thought this was an octopus doing sets of tentacle reps at the gym

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I think I'd go with Tilda Swinton or Kat Dennings

Samarkand or Tashkent? And how well do they understand Turkish?

I still have this comic... Great story

This show was like a movie-making version of Face Off, with amazing insights into prop design, set work, lighting, and all kinds of neatly-packaged insights to the film industry...

...it only got 6 episodes

Live-action Ranma 1/2 finna be lit!

Trump Erupts in Fury Over His War Failures—and Exposes a Big Weakness His rage at NATO is actually an admission that he needs our allies’ help—and that he wants somebody to blame as his war goes from bad to worse.

Trump just raged at our NATO allies for refusing to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz and bail him out of the fiasco he created. He threatened to withdraw from NATO with childish insults.

This is best seen as an admission of serious political weakness. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2080...

Idk if I want to see SMG back in her original role, though.

Now do a legit reboot of the original, with Sadie Sink, and you'd have my attention: saw her in stage in John Proctor Is the Villain, and she killed it.

Sink could 100% carry a show like Buffy.

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Iran will use mines, anti-ship missiles, fast boats w/ rockets, and submarines to shut down the Strait of Hormuz.

They will hit some civilian ships, and maybe a couple military ones.

The U.S. will respond with overwhelming force. It will not be clean, and it will not be glorious for anyone.

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...

Gift Link: wapo.st/4bAFCQZ

Eyeing Voting Rights, Liberals Aim to Secure Wisconsin’s Supreme Court through 2030 In the April election, Wisconsin liberals are hoping to expand their majority on a body that could be a critical backstop for voting rights during the next presidential race.

The upcoming Wisconsin Supreme Court election could be critical for voting rights, but it has had a lower profile compared to previous races. A recent poll found that 93 percent of voters in the state have heard “little” or “nothing” about it.

Bodycam video contradicts ICE claims in fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas Video of last year's fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez obtained by CBS News appears to contradict claims that Martinez was shot by an ICE agent because he "accelerated" and "intentionally ran over"...

DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent."

But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."

Survivor SPEAKS OUT and REVEALS Epstein’s DARK SECRETS YouTube video by Katie Phang

Dani Bensky was a 17 year old ballerina when she met Jeffrey Epstein. His horrific abuse scarred her for life. And yet, she continues to publicly share her experience so that the “secrets are brought out of the shadows.”

Please listen & share this incredible conversation.

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DOJ's recent 6th Circuit filing misspelled:

Voters as “Votors”
Emergency as "Emeregency"
United States as "United Staes"

And, it included a non-party in the caption.

These are the people who want access to your sensitive voting records and who my team fights in court every day.

Given "not well-known" parameter, I'm going with this:

1. Somewhere In Time

2. Hon. mention (and it's a quibble, because #reasons #spoilers): When Marnie Was There

Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries.

This is such a well done piece that reports out, with hard data and interviews, something profound about what's gone wrong in this country.

www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

Trump’s Epstein Scandal Takes Damning Turn as Dem Drops New Bombshell As new revelations in the Jeffrey Epstein saga threaten the president, a legal expert decodes what we just learned—and lays out a roadmap to what will happen now.

"We are dealing now with an allegation that the president of the US raped and sexually assaulted a child and is now using his DOJ to try to cover that up."

If you want to understand latest Epstein revelations, @leahlitman.bsky.social explains them clearly on our pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2070...

Fwiw, Disney's Alice really does capture the batshit crazy fever dream energy of the original; and Muppet Treasure Island does the same imo for the adventure ride of that story - right up to fin details like the Muppet pirates handing Tim Curry the black spot on a page of the bible!

Similar experience: I read two classics recently - Alice in Wonderland, and Treasure Island.

In both cases, I had the weird sense going in that I may not actually have read them previously. The stories are so well known - that I may have convinced myself that I had read the original work.

CJ Cherryh's Chronicles of Morgaine fits the bill, and it's outstanding.

In an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration A change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.

“Any mail that’s getting dropped into a blue box is not getting postmarked on the same day, and likely not on the day after either,” says the leader of a postal workers’ union.

This could have tremendous implications for voting:

Kash Patel in 2023: “I’m just saying Chris Wray doesn’t need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.”

Five women authors I've read at least 5 books by:

Anne Rice
Ann Leckie
Elizabeth Moon
Edith Pargeter (aka Ellis Peters)
George Eliot

Prince Andrew's Arrest Across the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
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What is the TX primary early vote data telling us?

Renee Good memorial site in south Minneapolis doused in gasoline Damage was minimal but police are investigating.

Someone doused Renee Good’s Minneapolis memorial and a nearby pile of wood with gasoline and started a fire at about 9 p.m. Tuesday.