I was told today by a 17-year-old that there was no way people were writing 10 page papers without Al. Dude, I was writing 10 page papers without having read the book.

> save $15M a year by cutting a screwworm monitoring program > screwworm outbreak almost immediately > $1B to combat it Government efficiency

This is roughly my take. Remaking CASINO ROYALE is probably not the right move, but take the "Blofeld Trilogy" of THUNDERBALL, ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE, and YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE. Adapt them as a trilogy. Set them from 1961-64. Run back the Ken Adam production design where appropriate, but dial up the fidelity to the more R-Rated Bond novels.

Paramount/Warner Bros. merger hits a major hurdle as nearly a dozen state AGs, led by California, prepare to sue to block the deal, just days after the DOJ approved it. (Via Deadline)

Most embarrassing moment for an American pro sports league in quite some time. Don't forget it just because the people involved will never understand it

Trump said he demanded unconditional surrender, we just didn’t know he meant America’s.

JFK once invited to dinner 49 Nobel laureates, Robert Frost, William Styron, Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin, Katherine Anne Porter, John Dos Passos, James Farrell and Lionel and Diana Trilling, and others. His line on the occasion became famous: “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House—with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Some of you were alive when that happened.

“Championship Playoffs”

Trump's Iran "Deal" Is a Giant Bag of Dog Shit. It's not a deal. It's a memo of understanding in advance of a surrender of the American-led world order. thebulwark.com/p/trumps-iran…

Polls show that only 15% of Americans approve of yesterday’s UFC spectacle on the White House grounds. But in this Palo Alto brothel/ketamine bar, that percentage feels much higher.

Timothée Chalamet reveals how he became a Knicks fan “I was 12 or 13 years old, I booked a Disney commercial because I was a child actor so I made a couple thousand and I bought the cheapest season tickets I could find thinking LeBron was coming to the Knicks” “I thought okay I’m going to flip these for double or three times then he didn’t come but Amar’e came so I was basically able to sell them at face value” “I grew up on 43rd and 9th so I’d run down to the Garden. I would scalp to the scalpers and they were $25 a ticket but I would go to as many games as possible and my grandma was a huge Knicks fan so that’s what turned me on to them” “If you’re a Nets fan, you should be on like a list or something. There’s something wrong with you”

RT @JessicaBRiedl: A generation or two ago, it was common for presidents to refuse to enter the oval office without a suit coat (except rar…

NYC is not happy with Elmo😭

they were parading elmo's head around on a pike last night

I know a lot of people really wanted this weekend's box office story to be "Ha ha, the old boomer icon is washed compared the new kids" but a 44 million dollar opening weekend for an original science fiction film anchored by Emily Blunt is actually...pretty respectable?

NEW: Trump’s approval rating hits 28%. The lowest for any president in U.S. history.

I've always wanted a journalist to ask Trump this question: "what were the terms of the JCPOA"? Huge indictment of journalism in the U.S. that no one has done that and his criticisms of the Iran Deal were treated as genuine positions.

So, this loser just sold out the entire country and gave Iran everything they wanted just so he could announce a peace deal on his birthday. We have allowed one man’s fragile ego to destroy our republic.

The United States has been defeated by Iran, and Sunday evening found Trump out on the lawn waiting for the rain to clear so he could begin his party. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…