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These short, buzzy vertical shows are designed to build "mobile daily habits at scale" by "recalibrating consumption behavior" as audiences get used to watching Paramount+ on the go and during the day, according to a screenshot of the town hall presentation viewed by Business Insider.
"Tolkien himself was influenced a lot by Norse mythology, there's a lot of that feeling," Serkis explained about the lack of the diversity. "The Shire feels very, very much like a very, a very white, you know... They're not very concerned about what goes on beyond the borders of The Shire, but they know they don't want people coming in.”
Some in the broader political text messaging industry say generative AI's ability to answer voter's questions and gather data about their concerns is going to be revolutionary for campaigns; others say political text messages are a limited — and annoying — tool and using AI won't improve it. While it's difficult to ascertain how many campaigns are using generative AI to text voters this election cycle, experts say Republicans have been adapting to AI faster than Democrats.
He also framed his plight as one shared with his base of supporters. "We live in a political system that is not built for normal people. It is built structurally so that movements like ours cannot flourish, that if they begin to succeed they can be crushed," he said. "What we have accomplished here you made possible ... and I have all the faith in the world that we could win if we continue to harness that. But the brutal political reality is that they're going to take everything away from us."
"We firmly believe that the supporters and volunteers who built this movement deserve to have a real role in any nomination process," Chin wrote. "If the Maine Democratic Party hopes to harness our movement, and avoid disillusioning the hundreds of thousands of supporters who came into the fray because of our movement's policies, it must consult the feedback and proposals of the people who built and sustained this."
But other mainstream Democratic concerns seem to be moral. Something in the liberal heart recoils in the face of righteous ruthlessness. Everyone remembers the careers that were destroyed and the voices that were silenced by hardcore progressives in the peak woke era. When the left is opposing Donald Trump, viciously vehement rhetoric it uses can be thrilling. But there is also something terrifying about the fact that these voters also use this rhetoric against anybody even slightly to their right.
Trump says Iran ceasefire is 'over,' U.S. will 'hit them hard tonight' PUBLISHED WED, JUL 8 2026 5:34 AM EDT UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO Chloe Taylor @CHLOETAYLOR141 Kevin Breuninger @KEVINWILLIAMB WATCH LIVE KEY POINTS U.S. President Donald Trump said that America's ceasefire with Iran was over, telling the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey: "I don't want to deal with them anymore." Later, Trump said the U.S. will "very probably" attack Iran "hard again tonight."
As for me, my apology is as follows: [This space left intentionally blank] I stand by my previous defense of Platner. Drunk tattoos and sexting-out-of-wedlock struck me as the most Marine shit ever. I literally know Marines who've done both but later grew up and became decent guys. (Hi if you're reading this!) I still believe in my bones that people like that deserve to have a shot at public office and that our country would be better for it. But the Marines I'm describing were never accused of more serious things like sexual assault.
I go down the street to Rhodora for my friend Tembe’s intimate Pride kickoff event. This is a calmer, queer-POC-focused soirée. The point seemed to be: We’re lesbians who are hot and mostly Black and in our 30s now, so before we descend into hell, let’s stretch, have drinks, giggle, gossip, play mancala, and look at each other. There is one exceptionally attractive lesbian there who’s making me want to end my no-dating rule. I drink a mezcal negroni and snack on olives I stole off someone else’s plate. The big dinner is at Moss, a new membership club in midtown. I’m not a member; I just like free food. I’m in a complicated shoe, so I call a car there. The Caesar salad slaps. There’s a big-ass shrimp cocktail and oysters, but the shrimp is alarmingly large in a way that felt very inviting at first and then incredibly challenging. Then roast chicken breast and a vanilla dot cake. I’m not a big cake person, and I don’t like things that feel like sprinkles, but my friend Sarah Burke really loves it, and I’m an ally to her experience. I’m not a yuck-your-yum kind of girl — I’ll never yuck a yum; I’ll only judge it from afar. From there, I go to Boom Boom Room, where JoJo — the O.G., not Siwa — performs two of her hit songs with a purse on. People laugh at the accessory glued to her underarm, but I understand; I don’t trust drunk gay guys either! I see y’all spilling your tequila sodas and doing bumps of ketamine; you’re not touching my shit. She does her numbers on the bar and immediately walks off. I order an Uber in the middle of “Get Out” so it’s waiting for me when she’s done. I drink a mezcal with ginger beer.
Part of this subversive effort was a lyrical resistance to a domestic life of marriage and children, often juxtaposed with the scope of her career ambitions, her unfeminine longing for fame, money and creative achievement. As she sang to her 15-year-old self on her second album, "Fearless," "In your life, you'll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team." But I think there's something deeper that's been bugging me about a Swift-Kelce wedding. It's not just that she is finally settling down with the boy on the football team, but that such a highflying spectacle of "having it all" appears to be the culmination of the singer's three-year career victory lap, ever since she pulled off the record-breaking Eras Tour, which helped make her a billionaire.
Maybe Ms. Swift was just doing the thing where you say you're against marriage because you don't want to marry the person you're with. (Now that's relatable!) It's not like I'm going to stage a "Speak Now" stunt, lying in wait in a corner of the arena for the officiant to ask if anyone objects. But I can't help but see her matrimonial about-face in the context of the sexual politics of this decade, as tradwives and men's rights activists have attempted to undo second-wave feminism altogether, encouraging young men to see themselves as domineering domestic leaders and young women to aspire only to marriage and motherhood. Perhaps my depression is simply because she caved to gendered expectations after bucking them for so long.
Steven 1 day ago Think Summer stinks with garbage outside in the morning 3 days a week? Wait until we have dirty garbage bins on the street 24 hours a day! Even if the garbage gets emptied, no one is going to clean these things frequently enough.
ninth president of the united states william henry harrison, who famously died after giving a two-hour inaugural address in the pouring rain and developing pneumonia
"To be shouting 'you're next' — a majority white audience to a Black man — just harkens back to some dark times in history," said Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, who did not back any of the congressional candidates. Shabazz Stuart, a Brooklyn resident who supported Valdez's rival Antonio Reynoso, said he heard the chant of "you're next" as not targeted only at Jeffries but as a way of putting the establishment "on notice." "It can come across as 'we're all next, right?'" he said. "And it can come across as we're losing the city that we grew up in, and that's what people fear." "It feels existential," he added.
The leaked registration list also names senior figures absent from the public directory of 113: Randy Kroszner, a former governor of the Federal Reserve who now serves on the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee; Hallie Hoffman, a former general counsel and acting chief of staff of the Drus Enforcement Administration; (HIGHIGHTED) Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League; (END HIGHLIGHT) Peter Goettler, the president of the Cato Institute; Ryan Stowers, the executive director of the Charles Koch Foundation; and Roger Myerson, a Nobel laureate economist at the University of Chicago.
The whole point of Romeo and Juliet is that the feuding Capulets and Montagues are equally to blame for their rootless “ancient grudge.” “A plague o’ both your houses,” curses a dying Mercutio (Caleb Joshua Eberhardt), now a leading anti-ICE protester, suggesting (incomprehensibly given the character’s newfound politics) that there are good (or equally bad) people on both sides. But that’s not the case, this production otherwise argues, making it clear that the Capulets are the villains, driven by xenophobic hatred, while the Montagues merely defend themselves from state-sanctioned violence. That imbalance also collapses the play’s hopeful ending since a resolution between one immigrant border community and one racist family cannot topple a systemic threat. It’s nice that Montague (Jason Manuel Olazábal) and Capulet (Glenn Fleshler) hug it out, but that feels like a hollow resolution. Won’t DHS just send new agents who don’t care about suicidal teens? In the face of a major humanitarian crisis, skimming the surface like this isn’t the sort of response to ICE the real world can afford.
Alan Shepherd • Follow PC Gamer • Updated 9y A few reasons. 1. A Pikachu in the room marked "NO ENTRY, SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED" does most definitely not validate entry. 2. A Pikachu across the firing line at the firing range definitely does not validate a reason to run across the safety line. Think about it. Your life, or the Pokemon? Which is more valuable 3. Officer walks by enlisted man who has buried his face in a game. Officer: HALT! Enlisted man stops suddenly, looks up. Officer: Why don't you salute, numnutz? Reader, how would you answer this question? You just screwed up big time... 4. For the same reason above, if you don't pay attention to your surroundings you might bump into someone. And if its an officer, they might interpret that as assaulting an officer. And you get NJPed and probably dishonorably discharged for that.