YouTube has been serving me clips of scenes where bullies push the hero Too Far.
YouTube gets me.
Billy Jack is even worse than I remember it. So bad. I love it
This scene from “Nobody 2," starring Bob Odenkirk, actually looks pretty good.
The GOAT: “I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with me!"
The San Francisco Standard
• Natallie Rocha
Meet the AI — “Average Individual” — behind the viral ChatTJB billboard.
EV Grieve
• Unknown
A new Robert Charles Wilson time travel novel? Yes, please.
Cover looks great. Has a nice Saul Bass vibe.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
“The Democratic Senate primary in Michigan, the party’s most divisive and costly this year, headed for a consequential outcome Tuesday night in a race that will answer whether a progressive and socialist groundswell has reached a political battleground,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The fight between Abdul El-Sayed, a former local public health official, and […]
How One Woman’s Grandson Inspired Her to Get a College Degree in Prison
https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2026/08/04/how-one-womans-grandson-inspired-her-to-get-a-college-degree-in-prison/
Fluorescent Sea, 1933 #surrealism #mcescher
Angelic Landscape, 1977 #salvadordali #surrealism
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Doc Searls Weblog
• Doc Searls
Toward eliminating an irony The IEEE's cookie notice says, "This website utilizes technologies such as cookies to enable essential site functionality, as well as for analytics, personalization, and targeted advertising. Privacy Policy." Its privacy policy, at that last link, says it collects eighteen kinds of personal information, and says one of the purposes for collecting […]
Memex 1.1
• jjn1
Airstreamed surrealism This is a photograph of something that is both real and surreal. It’s of the reflections in the side of a beautiful Airstream food truck at Knepp, shot in bright sunshine with minimal post-processing. Quote of the Day … Continue reading →
TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Nicole LaFond
I break down some of the details in tonight’s edition of Where Things Stand here. It’s the third item in...
TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Nicole LaFond
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) and a handful of women’s rights and reproductive freedom groups are sounding the alarm over recent...
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Electrek
• Jameson Dow
Lucid’s upcoming “mid-size” Cosmos SUV, which it had said would come out later this year, will now not launch until at least 2027.
Well, this isn’t going to be good. We all know how this will likely go. The Supreme Court has announced that one of the first cases it will hear when its new term begins in October is a major climate change lawsuit. Boulder County, Colorado, is seeking millions of dollars from fossil fuel
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
“Maryland lawmakers took a first step toward redrawing their congressional map during a special session on Tuesday, passing a constitutional amendment that could open the door for Democrats to pick up the only Republican seat in the state’s nine-member congressional delegation ahead of 2028,” NOTUS reports. NBC News: Democrats put redistricting amendment on Maryland’s midterm […]
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
“Missouri’s Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins said Tuesday that he wouldn’t certify a referendum seeking to undo the state’s new GOP-drawn congressional map, arguing that the effort was unconstitutional,” NBC News reports. “The announcement is set to further fuel the legal battle over the new map Missouri lawmakers approved 11 months ago that carved […]
Racket
• Keith Harris
Pretty much all the music you can catch in the Twin Cities this week.
