BREAKING WSJ: The Trump Justice Department's senior leadership closed an investigation of Paramount's bid for Warner Bros. Discovery before career staffers who were concerned about the acquisition had an opportunity to object, according to people familiar with the matter. wsj.com/business/media/justi…

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Tim Lincecum turns 42 today. Feels like a good time to look back at one of the best SportsCenter commercials of all-time.

Ok getting picked off a millisecond after completing the cycle is objectively hilarious

Is #BoycottParamount happening?

Pretty sweet nader

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Jerry Lee Lewis and Tom Jones. 1969?

Bob Dylan in the NYT today, in a piece where artists in their 80s were asked to describe the best and worst parts of being that age, and whether they had advice for the president on his reaching the milestone. (Dylan apparently passed on the final question, not surprisingly.)

Written after Neil Young purchased a ranch in Northern California, "Old Man" was inspired by a conversation with the property's elderly caretaker. Included on Harvest, the song paired Young's acoustic storytelling with one of the most personal and enduring recordings of his career.

🙏 Hallelujah 🙏

🇺🇸💪🧐Howard Buffett, the son of billionaire Warren Buffett, gave Ukraine 150 million of his personal money in 2022. In 2023, he bought a total of 360 million $ for Ukraine. At his own expense, he built kitchen factories in Bucha and Lozovaya, police stations in Borodyanka and Izyum, and a dog training center in Bucha. Buffett brings combine harvesters, tractors and seeds to Ukraine and gives them to farmers for free. Buys and brings mine clearance vehicles to Ukraine: in some areas, mine clearance is the main type of agricultural work... Buffett supports the Ukrainian police, brought dozens of DNA detection machines, bought service dogs of the highest level of training in the Netherlands and brought them to Ukraine. Buffett helps search for war criminals, created a separate organization in Ukraine. He financed the creation and operation of The Superhumans Center, an open prosthetics center near Lviv. I bought and brought 2,400 high-power generators... In September 2023, Buffett and Ukrzaliznytsia created the world's first kitchen train that can operate offline for 5-7 days during blackouts and produce 70 thousand servings of food during the week. How much money does Howard Buffett have? It's hard to say, because he spends them all the time, he has already spent half a billion on Ukraine. He fell in love with Ukraine, visited ten times during the war, and it feels like he spends more time in Ukraine than at home in the United States... He's the middle child of billionaire investor Warren Buffett. It was named after Howard Buffett, his grandfather, and Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett's favorite professor. As CEO and chairman of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation (HGBF), Buffett has traveled to more than 130 countries to document the challenges of preserving biodiversity and providing sufficient resources to meet people's needs. HGBF was one of five philanthropic groups that received вор 2.9 billion in Berkshire Hathaway Class B shares from Warren Buffett in July 2020. P.S. According to Forbes magazine, as of April 2023, Warren Buffett was ranked 5th in the ranking of the richest billionaires in the world with personal assets of 106 billion. $. In addition, Warren Buffett plans to donate most of his assets to charity.

Cocchiarella: There’s a 100% chance of bugs. That’s a real stat. So Trump’s acolyte, Dana White, has literally lined the cage with industrial fans to blow the gnats off the fighters. For this octogenarian’s birthday, the failing, aging king—decaying in real time—has decided to throw himself a giant blood-sport party on the palace lawn to prove that he is still strong. And heaven responds by sending a heat wave, a thunderstorm, and a literal plague of insects down on top of him.

The owner of UFC is a staunch Trump supporter. Trump owns stock in UFC's parent company. UFC is paying their fighters in Trump crypto. Trump is providing free advertising. American taxpayers are paying 7 federal agencies to support the fight. What part of this whole thing isn't corrupt?

The Southern Baptist Convention will disfellowship a church for ordaining a woman. They will not disfellowship a church for supporting and protecting a pedophile. And that tells you all you need to know about the SBC.

This is the funniest, most rewatchable five minutes in the history of recorded comedy It is perfection and never gets old

The Kinks — “Lola” on Top of the Pops, 1970 🎸 One of the most infectious riffs and sing-along choruses of all time. Ray Davies delivers it with that perfect mix of storytelling and swagger. A playful, quirky classic that became a massive hit and still gets crowds going decades later.

William Shatner spent YEARS having to apologize for this joke!

🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️ And just like that, Epstein / Trump completely VANISHED from the media. But a sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump RAPED and threatened to KILL children. Lets make this viral again & again 👇👇👇