If we catch him at the right moment, we might get him to RT the Sid Vicious version.

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2026: 50th Anniversary of the Bicentennial and Altman's"Nashville" It don't worry me.

A nice essay on the NASHVILLE soundtrack, which I have a weird relationship to—my parents bought it when I was 5, they played it a lot, and it became part of that corpus of music that ends up being formative just by osmosis...meaning some of my core country-music canon is parody.

This big tech firm wants to reinstate the draft A look at Palantir’s bootlicking new manifesto.

"Merely making products that people like and find useful is decadent, Palantir suggests. What tech companies should really be doing is delivering 'security.' And by security, we seem to be talking about robot weapons and a domestic police state."

How Cybercrime Became a Leading Industry in ‘Scambodia’ Crime syndicates based in Cambodia corrupt officials, enslave workers and fleece victims worldwide.

The cyberscam state of Cambodia: "It has fast internet, the economy runs mostly on the dollar, and top government posts often pass within families from one generation to the next."

Let us salute the rogue genius of Desmond Morris, ape-watcher and last of the Surrealists, gone at 98. Here he is, less than 2 years ago, with his Man Ray tribute work - the photographic lips are those of Diana Dors, whom he dated in the 40s when she was still Diana Fluck.

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Trump signs executive order urging more research into ibogaine and other psychedelics | CNN Politics President Donald Trump on Saturday signed an executive order aimed at encouraging expanded research into ibogaine and other psychedelic drugs, part of a broader push to explore emerging mental health ...

Inviting Joe Rogan was one thing, but what would've really been hilarious is if they'd brought in Dana Beal. (Hey—Roger Stone knows him, right?)

‘A Place Both Wonderful and Strange’ Review: A Town Called Twin Peaks David Lynch and Mark Frost’s surreal mystery series aired for only two seasons in its initial run. It proved a forerunner of a television revolution.

"A decade before the notion of 'prestige television' entered the lexicon, Twin Peaks was a stalking horse, one whose sui generis mixture of psychological horror and whimsical camp drew equally from the experimental cinema of Luis Buñuel and the high-intensity soap operatics of Peyton Place..."

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A ★★★★ review of Hoppers (2026) This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.

Additional commentary, somewhat spoilerific.

Surprisingly good. Probably the best Pixar picture since SOUL—though I don't even make an effort to see them all anymore, so who knows? (If ELIO or LIGHTYEAR or ELEMENTAL is secretly a masterpiece, you'll have to let me know.) And my daughter liked it too.

MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged Conspiracy theories about the Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting have ramped up in recent weeks as once steadfast Trump supporters turn on the president.

Interesting to see these speculations spread from certain segments of the left to certain elements of the right. (N.B.: I'm not crazy about some of the ways this article frames the story.)

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Top 20 Movies of the 1980s One of my kids told me I should do the top 20 movies of the '20s, the top 30 movies of the '30s, the top 40 movies of the '40s, etc. The problem with this plan becomes clear when you ask yourself, "Ar...

Take a break from trying to figure out whether the Strait of Hormuz is open & check out my list of the top 20 movies of the 1980s.

‘Blue Power’ and the rise of police union politics Stuart Schrader's new book details how police unions became a dominant force in U.S. politics.

"In Baltimore, Commissioner Donald Pomerlau had an intelligence unit that kept tabs on officers and civilians who were of interest to him. Asked by a reporter if his intelligence unit spied on elected officials, Pomerleau responded, 'Just the blacks.'"

We all have days like this

I'm old enough to remember seeing the song on The Muppet Show, hearing it on the radio all the time, and getting my mom a copy of the album for her birthday. But it's still one of those songs that feels like it's been around forever.

BREAKING: Hall Of Fame Songwriter Don Schlitz Passes At 73 Don Schlitz, the architect behind many of country music's most enduring songs, passed away on [...]

"The Gambler" may feel like a primordial American ballad that's been around as long as the railroads, but it was in fact written 50 years ago by a Nashville songwriter, and that fellow just died. Don Schlitz, RIP.

Growing Up as the Child of Radical Revolutionaries Most kids play hide-and-seek. Zayd Ayers Dohrn, whose parents became fugitives after founding the Weather Underground, learned how to lose a tail.

Newz u can uze: "Finding a new name... A Weatherman would drive out to a rural graveyard and look around until he found the headstone of a person who would have been about his age but had died as an infant. Then he'd head over to the county courthouse and ask for a replacement birth certificate."

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Nancy Guthrie and the gamification of crime Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapping in Tucson, Arizona, has seen true crime fans trying to solve the case in a strange, gamified way.

"Matheny has since said of QAnon that they're using his methods 'and I don't like that,' which is about as concise a summary of the problem as I've come across."

Patrick Henry's Made-Up Speech For some reason, references to Patrick Henry’s famous “Give me liberty or give me death” speech have been crossing my screen recently, even though there’s no semiquincentennial hook, since the speech ...

I always thought of William Wirt as the Freemason who somehow became the Antimasonic presidential candidate, but apparently he also had a side hustle putting words in Patrick Henry's mouth.

NPR receives $113 million in charitable gifts "My hope is that this commitment provides the stability and the spark NPR needs to innovate boldly and strengthen its national network," says Connie Ballmer, who gave $80 million of the $113 million.

NPR—which last I heard hadn't touched the principal on the endowment it started with all that Kroc money 20+ years ago—gets another couple of huge gifts.

Redshift, by Elena Saavedra Buckley Rehearsing for humanity’s future on Mars

"Steinhour radioed in from his trailer: 'Are you guys ready to go back to Earth?' We drove the Chevy back into town."

Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship ser...

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RFK Jr. once chopped off a dead raccoon’s penis to ‘study later’ while on a family road trip The bizarre account was unearthed in the new book “RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise,” authored by The Post’s own Isabel Vincent, who drew upon a wide range of sources including private …

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Can YouTube Save Independent Documentaries? As federal defunding dismantles public media, PBS’s independent partners are betting on YouTube’s reach—though some filmmakers aren’t convinced the platform serves them

If YouTube's structure & ownership make it "imperialist media," then surely the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which spent decades attaching strings to its subsidies for community radio stations & indie video producers, deserved that label even more.

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Threatens to Fire Fed Chief if He Does Not Resign

Trump ❤️ mass surveillance