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I’ve had multiple conversations with men my age, self identified liberal and moderate, who talk about the massive crime wave and we eventually get around to the fact that they’re anxious all the time, and if it’s not because of crime, what could it be? it’s not like they’re *irrational*.
THIS WEEK ON POKER FACE! Our season finale, a wild ride to “The End Of The Road” written by Laura Deeley and directed by my partner in crime Natasha Lyonne. Lots of love to the brilliant Patti Harrison who is terrific in these last few eps. Thanks for watching folks. All eps now live on Peacock!
Why platform this? Who gives a shit what Dean Cain thinks about anything? Sometimes actors become so closely identified with a character that it feels like you can't separate them, but sometimes, it's just some asshole who wears a suit for a little while and learns absolutely nothing.
"Putting aside the serious privacy concerns, we've also seen what happens when DOGE gets its hands on federal assistance programs," said @wyden.senate.gov. "Letting DOGE staff... call the shots on who gets a financial lifeline is an outright attack on rural America." www.npr.org/2025/07/10/n...
If you convinced any pro-Palestine voter to sit on their hands or worse, vote for Trump, congrats, you win a Special Purity participation trophy in helping the current full-on abandonment of any two-state solution, peace process or Palestinian national aspiration prevail. Yours is in the mail.
Maybe, bear with me now, just maybe an event centered on moving as much useless junk as possible is less appealing in a time of economic uncertainty. I just took a look. They're offering me a "deal" on a $100 tote bag, a rice cooker that is just now the Costco price, protein shakes in bulk...
Audiences first saw Charlie Chaplin's Tramp character in KID AUTO RACES AT VENICE. Ostensibly an actuality covering the soapbox derby, the Tramp wanders into the shot and then refuses to leave the limelight. It's a witty sendup of the inevitable gawkers seen in straight films of this type.
The problem with having done so many different things under so many different identities/pseudonyms over the yrs is that many people don't know they've been reading, watching, or listening to me for a quarter of a century now. Yep - this was me on Spill.com back in the day as the "character" Carlyle
Christopher Reeve as Richard Collier in Somewhere in Time is a masterclass in screen acting. You totally believe that this man falls in love with a photograph of a woman that was taken 62 years earlier, so deeply that he wills himself to travel into the past to be with her.
A DOGE staffer recently got high-level access to view and change the contents of a payments system that controls tens of billions of dollars in government payments and loans to farmers and ranchers across the United States, @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social scoops www.npr.org/2025/07/10/n...
NPR continues to focus on government restructuring and DOGE's access to sensitive data. Sometimes, it happens without much fanfare or notice, even inside the agency. Have a tip for us? Search for my username on Signal (JennaMcLaughlin.54) and send me a message.
I saw access logs revealing that a DOGE staffer can now see/modify entries in an internal system at the Farm Service Agency, the National Payment Service system. It keeps track of billions of dollars in subsidies and loans to farmers and ranchers across the U.S.: www.npr.org/2025/07/10/n...
The old line used to be "Republicans fall in line; Democrats fall in love," but increasingly it feels like "Republicans push people off cliffs; most Democrats still fall in love; centrist Democrats continue to question their compatriots' romantic decisions long after the wedding."
NEW: We've uncovered a new AI tactic being deployed on TikTok: A creator's verbatim words stolen and recited by an AI influencer. Experts told us this kind of trickery has overlap with the methods of state-backed influence operations. W/ @shannonbond.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/07/10/n...
keep getting asked why love island usa is so popular right now and i truly believe the biggest reason is very, very, very simple it's on 5 nights a week. streaming seasons are short now, and they come back roughly every 18 months. and attention spans are short - monday feels like a year ago
Watching Time After Time again at the suggestion of @mzspress.bsky.social. Ingenious story, strong characterizations, and lots of still-valid observations about "contemporary" life, including the systematic degradations of capitalism. Beautiful love story, too. You totally believe in it.
Reorganization of my Rosa Gallery watercolors. This is a Ukrainian brand that has a bit of a Gansai texture. Very affordable, very fun to work with. Their strong point is their greens, their blues and purples are also great. Their ochres are a bit weak, though
Overcast day in Brooklyn makes it hard to get out of bed. Lana Turner and friend understand. (Ok, I confess—this is Lana and co-star Cleo on the set of CASS TIMBERLANE (1947). Even Lana didn't sleep in full makeup, lipstick and false eyelashes. At least I hope not.)