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"

Open an email to a friend. Describe to them as colloquially as possible the thing you’ve been trying to write, but can’t. (You do not have to send this email.)

in a world of lauren bezoses, be a connie ballmer

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

I don’t understand your point.

This is incredible

Goddam it. Heartbreaking! Real people are devastated while Ford flies around in a fucking Gravy Plane! Here’s a letter from an OShow viewer tonight 🤬🤬✈️ Watch 👀 youtu.be/zCwGyJmml_o?si…

Is this instead of punitive damages? I would want to sue just to punish someone for doing this, completely aside from the replacement value.

When I needed a US ER, insurance paid everything on time. But ER Dr. kept billing me & threatening to send me to collections, despite proof they’d cashed insurance cheque ages ago. Their threats continued for NINE MONTHS until I threatened legal action. US health care system is such a scam.

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Thou shalt not commit blasphemy against Samuel L. Jackson’s monologue in Pulp Fiction, motherfucker.

Quite the 🧵

To bring to bear my favorite verse of the good book, Ezekiel 27:67: "Yeah, verily, he that wantonly mixeth his love of state violence with public and sanctimonious professions of faith shall be brought to the Temple Mount and thereby made to consume a full sackcloth of stale, unspiced foreskins.

Not even salt?

[Me trying to interact with real-world humans when Bluesky is down]: how are the real live persons you are related to and ha ha how about that sexual predator

Cognitive Assessment Test: Question: Please Identify The Doctor showing pictures of a doctor and Jesus.

This made me LOL… 😂

And. Choking. Her. That can kill. As far as I’m concerned, a rapist who drugs and chokes people is working his way up to murder.

EXCERPTS FROM KAFKA'S DIARIES 281 JANUARY 20. The end of writing. When will it take me up again? JANUARY 29. Again tried to write, virtually useless. JANUARY 30. The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you. FEBRUARY 7. Complete standstill. Unending torments. MARCH 11. How time flies; another ten days and I have chieved nothing. It doesn't come off. A page now anc hen is successful, but I can't keep it up, the next day m powerless. MARCH 13. [.] Lack of appetite, fear of getting ba te in the evening; but above all the thought that I wr

The writing life, courtesy of Franz Kafka.

I see your timeline cleanser and raise you this, the ultimate post.

Not real but also perfection

There’s cheering ’cross the world tonight
As Viktor Orban takes the L
But louder still the cheers will rise
When Donald Trump heads down to Hell

A+++++ post

Dr. Ian Garner: Sitcom pitch: Viktor Orban and Bashar al Assad forced to share a Moscow apartment. Who’s in?

He’s announced that Hungary will join the European Prosecution Office so anyone in the country can be charged.

Magyar’s speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: “He’s basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired.”

/3 in short, as a career criminal defense attorney who strongly supports due process and the presumption of innocence, I say: stop with your bullshit

/2 3. People describing something that happened to them is a form of evidence by any measure.

4. I may not be allowed to argue to a jury "someone who preys on staffers is more likely to disdain consent" but I can absolutely form beliefs based on it.

1. People are not entitled to due process before I decide whether or not I like or dislike them or will vote for them.

2. My process of deciding whether I believe an allegation is not subject to the Federal Rules of Evidence.

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This is really worth listening to