'we've been looking for a project to do together for a while' twitter.com/alexnpress/sta…

So beautiful that a movie deemed 'unmarketable' by American distributors just dropped the best teaser in a very long time, Coppola back in lunatic mode, might actually pull this off

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Poll of the week: 'E.T. go home? 1 in 8 Americans terrified of allegedly beloved character.' (N.B.: The survey also says that only 11% of the people polled hadn't seen the movie, which is setting off my B.S. detector.) talker.news/2024/05/03/e-t…

Oh my God, the Babylon Bee managed to make a joke that’s both self-aware and that cooked the Onion???

Court is in session.

'Just as experimentation with state control during foreign interventions does not remain confined to the realm of foreign policy, experimentation with state control at the border does not remain confined to border regions.'

You can watch the whole ridiculous clip here: newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/col… He announces that the kids were 'extremely prepared,' and then the first thing he pulls out to demonstrate that is this academic text. 'A book on terrorism,' he says gravely.

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'Gun owners haven't been on shakier ground in years, and their marquee organization—the National Rifle Association—is poorly positioned to steady things this time around.' thedispatch.com/article/donald…

You know how Washington's weapons keep slipping into its enemies' hands? Well, now that's happening to its *bases*.

Don't believe the #fakenews media. Cricket wasn't a dog, it killed all of my Norwegian seismologist colleagues at our Antarctica station by imitating them somehow. We never should have excavated that saucer from the ice.

'the WASP saga began with an attempt to 'Americanize' the south, and ended with an attempt to Americanize the world' threadreaderapp.com/thread/1786024…

This is supposed to be a negative review, but from 'President John F. Kennedy (Bill Burr)' to 'For no reason whatsoever, we occasionally cut to clips of Walter Cronkite [as] a bumbling, booze-soaked fool,' it sounds like it might be kinda great. chicago.suntimes.com/movies-and-tv/…

This isn't just an 'outside agitator' narrative; they're in 'outside Svengali' territory.

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