Pneumonia. RIP.

On Friday, the federal employees reportedly asked the Doge workers to deliver the memo to Doug Burgum, the interior secretary, for his signature, thereby assuming the legal responsibility for the associated risks.

However, Burgum reportedly never signed the memo. […]

Meanwhile, Tyler Hassan, the recently named interior department’s acting assistant secretary of policy, management and budget and a former Doge employee, reportedly placed two of the IT officials who had resisted the Doge employees on administrative leave and under investigation for their “workplace behavior”, according to the two sources.

Thank you to the IT workers that refused to cooperate with this order and pushed back repeatedly.

Get outta here with that negativity. It’s the first sign of life from Senate Democrats, and taking a moral stance against Trump is still important. We need more of this, not less.

Watch it live here.

He was just reading letter after letter after letter from American seniors who are scared about what the administration might do to Social Security. Really helps bring home that these are real people who are affected.

Edit: 15 hours now and he’s still going strong. He just gave a fiery speech about how his colleagues need to do more.

Edit: 25 hours. He beat the record. At least it won’t be held by a racist anymore.

There are some cool maker spaces in Portland, but I’m gonna level with you, I order all that stuff online like probably 99% of people.

Here’s a couple: https://www.pastlives.space/ https://hhacker.space/wiki/index.php/Equipment

So long as my local theater has reserved seating, I’ll continue to show up 20 minutes late, skip all the actual TV commercials, and be just in time for the movie.

Maybe they should start with “what do audiences want” versus “how can we make more money”?

I wasn’t crazy about The Day The Earth Blew Up, but I’ll check this out when it’s released here.

You wouldn’t do shit and you know it. But I tell you what, if you want to play Rambo, fly on over and give it a go.

Oh, right. It’s “not your fight.”

Open bribery for votes. In a society based on the rule of law, officers would be on hand at the rally to arrest him the moment he attempted to hand over the money. But of course they weren’t, because only the plebeians are held accountable for their actions.

Wisconsinites, you should demand accountability.

The company may attribute their bankruptcy filing to the legal fight with WB in order to make itself look like the victim and deflect blame from itself, but the actual culprit was just plain spending too much money, to the point where they weren’t paying screenwriters. Village Roadshow took on a bunch of debt to finance this debacle:

Former Sony executive Steve Mosko, who joined Village Roadshow in 2018 as chief executive, left this year. He had attempted to build Village Roadshow into an independent studio that produced its own movies and television shows.

But the Mosko-led campaign to remake the company into a full-service studio proved costly and untimely.

Village Roadshow put into development 99 feature films, 166 scripted television series and 67 unscripted series. Of those, six movies and seven television series went into production. “No film or television series that was produced was able to create a profit that could sustain the studio business,” Maib wrote.

So Mosko cratered the company with a half-baked plan and then danced away without consequences. Variety says:

Mosko, well-liked and deeply experienced, will have his pick of new corporate jobs. Some individuals close to his thinking said he may take a stab at producing on his own.

Also note:

Village Roadshow’s library assets generate about $50 million a year in revenue, according to Maib’s declaration.

They literally would be better off if they had just done nothing.

This has a 0% chance of passing, but I left a opposing comment anyway.

The framing is really gross as well. Facing a future without Social Security? Try saving for retirement with Moneywise…

They just don’t say the company directly in the calls to action because it’s likely intended mainly to boost their search engine rankings. Hence the number of links…

Moneywise. There are like 5 or 6 links to it in the text, starting from halfway down the “article,” and it starts to get really blatant when it starts talking directly to you, the reader. I wouldn’t be surprised if the entire thing was written by AI.

This is an ad.

Destroying a car hurts a company’s bottom line. The other stuff you suggested hurts workers and regular people.

It would take a 5-10 year depression for enough of them to reach the point that it would make a meaningful difference. Seriously.

Look at how it went last time. FDR and then his vice president created a 20-year presidential legacy following Hoover’s complete mismanagement of the Great Depression. After that came the 5-star general who defeated Hitler (who ran as a Republican in order to block an isolationist candidate farther on the right), then back to Democrats for another eight years—until giving black people equal rights was a bridge too far for Southern Democrats.

Basically, Trump would need to destroy this country economically, and have that ruination take hold for many years, before real charge can happen.

He still lives in the 1970s. Ford, Chevy, Cadillac, GMC, Buick… they’re some of the least American cars on the road.

I agree, but FWIW those crumbling roads are entirely due to state governments. There’s a reason Oklahoma’s roads are so terrible. You literally feel the difference in governmental priorities at the state line.

“I also struggle with loneliness a bit. I always felt quite alone in a crowded room, like I was just one of a kind, like nobody ever really understood me.”

On the other hand, she could struggle with this and not be rich. So it probably worked out pretty well for her.

I don’t think it really matters much. For example, Chloé Zhao doesn’t seem to be having trouble getting big names to line up to fund or star in her next project (a dramatized tragic moment in the life of William Shakespeare). I suspect most blame the failure of The Eternals on other factors (like the terrible script), not her. I further suspect that the house it probably paid for is more than enough to make up for any twinge of disappointment she has that it didn’t please the fans.