To all you dickriding lames at the White House:

Round House Theatre's Sally & Tom blends backstage comedy and historical drama into a smart, provocative examination of Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and the stories we tell about America's past. Critic @here4andre gives it ★★★★☆.

Gene Shalit, Longtime 'Today Show' Film Critic, Dies at 100 variety.com/2026/tv/news/gen…

BREAKING: David Hockney, an icon of 20th-century art, has died at age 88, his publicist says. apnews.com/article/david-hoc…

Confirmed that Victoria Mboko is out of Queen's doubles with a knee injury. Terrible news for a very talented young player, and also means Serena Williams's comeback is over in London. She will now head to Berlin.

Barbra Streisand on Judy Garland

The WiFi is horrendous. That’s why.

Capstone, the company that financed ‘OBSESSION’, is estimated to make $45M - $50M from the film after its success. They will share this with the creative team, including director Curry Barker. (Source: thewrap.com/creative-content…)

The muse, the myth, the legend.

We do.

Hey DOGE and NEWSMAX, can we get an update here?   Turns out preventing a flesh-eating parasite from invading U.S. livestock wasn’t government waste…

Somali referee Omar Artan, the only World Cup referee from Somalia, won’t officiate in the World Cup after being denied entry into the United States. apnews.com/article/world-cup…

DONALD TRUMP HAS FALLEN ASLEEP AT THE NBA FINALS IN MADISON SQUARE GARDEN.

“Schmigadoon!,” an adaptation of an Apple TV series that gently mocks big, brassy Broadway shows, won the best new musical Tony Award on a night when actor John Lithgow and playwright Bess Wohl made history. apnews.com/article/tony-awar…

Republicans have been locked out of the Los Angeles, California Mayoral Election. It’ll be Incumbent Democrat Karen Bass taking on Progressive Democrat Nithya Raman.

buying this and then dying immediately and forcing my descendants to finish building it over the next 100 years

RT @therobmilton: - SAY IT AGAIN.

Yesterday Donald Trump tripled the size of his personal political army inside the government. Illegally. And almost no one noticed. Here's what happened: He signed an order converting ~8,000 of the most senior career officials in government into employees he can fire for any reason, or no reason at all. These aren't rando's. They're the directors, chiefs of staff, and the people who write the rules or decide who gets federal money, i.e. the lieutenants right below his political appointees. Until yesterday, they answered to the law. Now they answer to him. A president normally gets ~4,000 political appointees. People he can bring into government and fire at will. I was one of them at DHS. You serve at his pleasure, full stop -- so if you're gonna speak truth to power, you're prepared to quit (or get fired if he doesn't like it). The rest of the federal government is PROTECTED from firing if they tell the truth. But Trump just stripped those protections. Adding 8,000 more people to his personal army. Overnight. Without asking Congress. With the stroke of a pen, those people now serve at the pleasure of the president. They're "his" people, whether they like it or not. And the chilling effect is real. An official who can be fired this afternoon for "subversion of presidential directives" (the order's own words) doesn't need to be hand-picked to know what's expected of him or her. The threat does all the work. By the way, this order is illegal. The law only lets Trump reclassify jobs when "necessary" in exceptional circumstances. And this blows an 8,000-person hole in the merit hiring / firing system created by Congress. Without permission, Trump has created a whole new category of stormtroopers inside the Executive Branch. If this doesn't get challenged in court, you're going to see the U.S. government become a very different place. Here's the full story: bit.ly/4dQN5N2

The Kennedy Center ordered employees to remove President Trump’s name from the performing arts venue, strip all references from signs, brochures, the website and other materials — and to update email signatures and letterhead immediately. wapo.st/3QotniG

In a world of jake tappers be a Scott Pelley.