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@Srirachachau Jeff Daniels also clears anyone else here bar Goodman.

John Goodman should be #1

@Emi_Kitten @daveweigel I just said the same in a quote tweet and remembered that Neil Young is Canadian, which I suppose is why Joni Mitchell didn't make the list as well. But Taylor and Waits in particular seem indefensible

@daveweigel Tom Waits? Neil Young? James Taylor? Billy Joel?

Very good argument prompt/list from NYT, because those lists need to start fights. Identifying a modern "American songbook" but leaving out un-hip megahit artists like Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ashley Gorley... I respect the game nytimes.com/interactive/20…

When Alma spreads butter too loudly in Phantom Thread

Look, wherever you stand on hunting, this is fair, right?

this film being a hit feels like one of the more morally repugnant cultural moments of my lifetime

@conor64 @JuanitaQPublic @daniel_dsj2110 It seems a salient critique either way, so what does it matter? If and when your counterfactual comes up, we can hit the author with the hypocrisy. Unless you know something about them that I don’t, in which case you should just say that.

@JuanitaQPublic @daniel_dsj2110 I'm asking if the original poster is against all such arrangements between governments and intellectuals or only those arrangements that run contrary to his political opinions

@CarlonCarpenter You’re still well in it but man…

Even when you don’t really care, soccer is not good for your health.

I don’t know a single person who has a more clear pathological obsession over being liked by everyone than Elon Musk

I would say I’m fairly knowledgeable about the corruption, violence, coercive authority, and brutal imperial power that pervades extractive sectors and yet I am still in shock at this Trump admin move to secure Zambian minerals

I want a major league club to release one of these instagram gimmick foods except the gimmick is that it’s a portable size hot dog that costs a normal amount of money.

@mattyglesias He’s lying about the possibility his company goes bankrupt before anything he could feasibly call “superintelligence” exists.

Study shows COVID vaccines decreased heart attacks and strokes. A sweeping analysis of nearly 46 million adult health records has delivered a clear verdict: COVID-19 vaccination sharply lowers the risk of heart attacks and strokes, directly refuting persistent claims to the contrary. Published in Nature Communications, the study followed people across England from December 2020 through January 2022. It documented a 10% drop in serious arterial blood clots (including heart attacks and strokes) after the first dose alone. Protection strengthened further with subsequent doses: a 20% reduction among those fully vaccinated with Pfizer/BioNTech and a striking 27% reduction for AstraZeneca recipients. The researchers were upfront about rare side effects—myocarditis and certain clotting disorders—that can occur shortly after vaccination, but stressed these remain exceptionally uncommon. By comparison, catching COVID-19 itself dramatically raised the odds of major cardiovascular events. Lead co-author Dr. Samantha Ip described the results as some of the strongest evidence yet that the vaccines do more than prevent severe infection: they also confer lasting protection against two of the world’s leading killers. [Ip, S., North, TL., Torabi, F. et al. Cohort study of cardiovascular safety of different COVID-19 vaccination doses among 46 million adults in England. Nat Commun 15, 6085 (2024). doi. org /10.1038/s41467-024-49634-x]

New: Trump pardoned nursing home owner Joseph Schwartz just 3 months into his sentence for a $39 million fraud scheme. Meanwhile, families who won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against Schwartz haven’t collected a cent. propub.li/4di7xXs

A lot is being said about this on my feed right now but not enough people are saying that his leather jacket he wears everywhere looks dumb as hell.

Salah was holding back real tears in that farewell message. Truly one of the modern greats, for the club and the league.

I’m not even gonna try to deal with this tonight. What a player.

I’m sure glad JJ Abrams, Bob Iger, Alan Bergman and co really stuck by her after that backlash and didn’t do something despicable like reduce her role in the next movie to a glorified cameo

EXC: .@GoodwinMJ’s new book “Suicide of a Nation: Immigration, Islam, Identity” is out now, and I’m only 5 chapters in and have found a huge amount of what appears to be false quotes and basic misinterpretations of data, that appear to be AI hallucinations. Matthew, can you explain the claims you made in the book that I’ve outlined in the below thread?