Charles Willeford's favorite movie

AOC is all sensible Americans right now, Americans who have completely lost patience with the wildly incompetent, lying loons currently running things who undermine our sanity, wealth, and wellbeing.

Great to see them putting women right at the front of sport …

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When you have $100 million that may or may not have been given to Jeffrey Epstein, who can say really.

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Trump 'tried to access nuclear codes but was stopped by military chief' Retired CIA analyst Larry Johnson claims that during an emergency White House meeting, U.S. President Donald Trump attempted to access the nuclear codes but was allegedly blocked by General Dan Caine

Very, very, very bad if true

Of course sovereign citizens would be at the center of this bullshit.

I'm switching it up on how I tackle this newsletter/blog stuff. Don't worry - it's nothing frighteningly original or anything, just a shift.

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Peace Talks Day is off to a great start.

Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.

He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions).

Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom.

And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ.

Remember this.

This dog rescue had a slumber party night where volunteers got to sleep with a dog up for adoption!

This is the kind of place I’d donate my time and money to.

Slumber Pawty! 🐾

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:

Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%

Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Jake Mangum spots kid in the crowd, tosses the ball, and her brother catches it and gives it to her. Dudes rock.

Tom Cruise hasn’t seen his daughter for 13 years over bizarre reason The girl hasn't seen her father for at least 13 years because he suddenly decided to disappear from her life.

is it because he's in a cult

george soros is gonna go broke

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dude, try to have some fun, will ya?

“The Strait of Hormuz is still closed. We will open it by the order of our leader Imam Khamenei, not by the tweets of some idiot.”

moneycontrol.com/world/not-by-the-tweets-of-some-idiot-iran-says-strait-of-hormuz-still-closed-will-reopen-only-on-khamenei-s-order-article-13893112.html

LA Times Book Awards ...lost to the great Megan Abbott had a blast tho !

What song did they use in the book for the preparation montage?

Read The Last Good Heist: The Inside Story of the Biggest Single Payday in the Criminal History of the Northeast

Good stuff. Non fiction heist book about the 1975 bonded vault heist

Like a good 70s crime flick in book form

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Disney's new CEO, whose pay package is worth nearly $45M, just announced 1,000 layoffs.

Reminder that Disney paid an effective federal income tax rate of ZERO in 2025 and aims to buy back $7B of its own stock in 2026.

This is what corporate greed looks like.