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They loved Marjorie Taylor Greene, now they hate her. They loved Thomas Massie, now they hate him. They loved Lauren Boebert, now they hate her. They made fun of Biden for nodding off ("Sleepy Joe), now they ignore Trump outright falling asleep. They put "I Did That" Biden stickers on high gas prices, now they ignore gas prices being even higher. They bragged about Trump being the no wars President, now they support war. They bashed Biden for sending money to Ukraine, now they ignore Trump sending money to both Ukraine and Israel. They demanded the Epstein files, now they bash anyone asking for the Epstein files. To be a MAGA is to be a slave. Not physically, but mentally. They stand for nothing. We're up against people who stand for nothing. And with the most misplaced confidence you've ever seen, they try to tell us whats-what. We shouldn't even acknowledge these people. The Trump supporters that remain are mentally too far gone. I don't even want to argue with them anymore.

“We need you, you’re gonna carry us home”- Jason Terry’s 2011 nba finals closeout game 6 halftime speech to Dirk Nowitzki

I covered Jason Kidd when he played for the Nets. I know one of his childhood friends. I've been to his house, met his kids, then-wife, and Pilates Instructor. And I have insight from many people who worked with him in his coaching years. This is a great firing.

Angels Appearing before the Shepherds, by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1910

The hobbits cheering for Gandalf after he sets off another round of fireworks:

Hang it in the Louvre

On this day in 2016, Rougned Odor landed a right hook on Jose Bautista in Texas.

His jersey needs to be in the rafters

This man was drafted at No. 9 so... 🐐 #MFFL

One of the defining hallmarks of our modern age is that people in charge of good things are willing to make them incrementally worse for a chance to make more money, knowing most people are powerless to stop it.

Therapy and becoming comfortable opening up to my friends and family changed my life. Same for many men I know. This is bad advice. You deserve to experience those improvements and so do the people around you.

Christopher Nolan asked IMAX to build him a new camera. They did. Then he and Matt Damon spent four months filming The Odyssey on the open ocean, on the largest modern Viking longship in the world, with no green screens at all. The shoot ran 91 days, from late February to August 2025. Seven countries: Morocco, Greece, Italy, Iceland, Scotland, Western Sahara, and Malta. Aside from one indoor studio in Los Angeles, every shot was filmed on real ground. In Italy, the cast and crew climbed 900 feet up a mountain every morning. Imagine walking up a 60-story building before breakfast. In Iceland, they filmed the underworld scenes by lantern light while rain came at them sideways. The four months at sea actually happened at sea. Damon and the actors playing his crew sailed on a real ship called the Draken Harald Hårfagre, used here as a Greek warship. Nolan called the experience "primal." He said the cast and crew were exhausted in a way he had never seen before. The cameras were the other big problem. IMAX cameras have always been too loud to record clean dialogue, which is why directors mostly save them for big action scenes. Nolan asked IMAX to fix this. They engineered a new soundproof case for the camera, a kind of quiet jacket, that lets the lens get within a foot of an actor's face while they whisper and still pick up clean audio. The new cameras also came out lighter and about 30% quieter than the old ones. To prove it worked, the lead cameraman Hoyte van Hoytema filmed a tight close-up of a child reciting a David Bowie song, "Sound and Vision." Nolan watched the test and called it "electrifying." Damon went all-in on the role. He dropped to 167 pounds on a strict no-gluten diet. He grew a real beard for a full year because Nolan refused to allow a fake one. The crew built a full-scale wooden Trojan Horse and shot the attack scene at an ancient walled town in Morocco called Aït Benhaddou. Nolan himself climbed inside the horse with the cast and his cameraman to get the shot. Across the whole shoot they used 2 million feet of film. That comes out to around 380 miles of it, longer than the drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco. At about $1.50 a foot, they spent roughly $3 million just on the film itself. The full budget was $250 million, the biggest of Nolan's career. They wrapped nine days ahead of schedule. Tickets went on sale on July 17, 2025, exactly one year before the movie's release. That had never been done before in cinema history. Half of the 22 US theaters offering IMAX 70mm sold out within 12 hours, bringing in around $1.5 million in a single morning. Nolan called the shoot "an absolute nightmare to film, but in all the right ways." He did not destroy a single IMAX camera. He has wrecked several over his career.

If I'm bro with the backwards hat this is getting framed in my house.

NiJaree Canady showed again today why Texas Tech is paying her more than $1M. A perfect game on national tv to win the Big 12 regular season championship. What’s the value to Texas Tech? Probably a lot more than what she’s being paid.

Study Head of an Old Man, after Rembrandt, 1635-40, 📸 of @BillSimmons via @knicks_tape99

Every morning the Sixers medical staff have to put Embiid’s body together like Frankenstein’s monster and the thing that really makes him come alive is hatred of the Celtics

Quick timeline of the takes surrounding Lakers-Rockets, with a prediction on tomorrow’s. April 17th: “The Lakers have NO chance. They’ll be lucky not to be swept.” April 20th: “If LeBron pulls this off I’ll call him the GOAT.” April 22nd: “The Rockets are frauds!” April 25th: “The Rockets are the dumbest team I’ve ever seen! Anyone would beat them!” April 30th: “The Lakers are cooked & LeBron is exhausted. Rockets in 7.” May 1st: “LeBron is going to blow a 3-0 lead & his GOAT case is over!” May 2nd: “Yeah, the Lakers won, but it’s actually not that impressive, the Rockets were pretenders.”

Imagining explaining to the Founding Fathers that the president imposed tariffs without an act of Congress and then removed them at the request of the King of England

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Gollum in the lava watching the ring melt