Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Consistently wrong since 2002

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Republicans do not trust women.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

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From The Wrap:

… Joseph Gordon-Levitt will star as the NSA contractor who leaked classified documents, while Shailene Woodley will co-star as his longtime girlfriend Lindsay Mills. Rising star Scott Eastwood is also part of the cast.

Tom Ortenberg‘s Open Road Films and James D. Stern’s Endgame Entertainment recently partnered on the U.S. release of the Edward Snowden film, which writer-director Stone based on the books “Time of the Octopus” by Snowden’s Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, and “The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man” by journalist Luke Harding…

Give Stone credit: These are accomplished actors, and not the sort who’ll sign up for any piece of crap just because they need the money / want the spotlight.

But I fully expect Glenn Greenwald will be insufferable about the whole project… just the same as you or I would be, m’dears.

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  2. 2.

    Geeno

    Nonsense! I will be perfectly humble when they make a movie about one of my escapades. I’m just waiting for the call. … over here …waiting.

    @Amir Khalid: Didn’t follow the link, but having food now makes you TV worthy in North Korea – good to know.

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    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Amir Khalid: My mom told me to always finish what was on my plate, cause there’s staving children in Korea. I mentioned that to my wife over dinner yesterday.

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    Amir Khalid

    @cokane:
    Yeah, but no one watches documentaries. But if you make a feature film, cast some hot movie stars who look better than the actual people could ever hope to, and jazz up the story a bit — or a lot, since after all you’re not in the movie business for your health — the thing could become a hit and make you some serious coin.

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    Mnemosyne

    The Benedict Cumberbatch movie where he played Julian Assange sank without a trace, so I doubt this one is going to do much better at the box office.

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    mclaren

    @Amir Khalid:

    Yeah, but you have to make a realistic movie about real events. You know, with Glenn Greenwald using a belt-fed mini-gun to battle radioactive yetis sent by the Pentagon during his escape to the Ecuadorian Embassy in his rocket-propelled Lamborghini along with his supermodel girlfriend who is also a secret ninja assassin able to fend off Joe Biden’s Five Finger Open Palm Death Grip.

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    Morzer

    Glenn Greenwald will be insufferable

    For our next brave prediction:

    Water will continue to be wet.

    Interesting little bit of science news:

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/common-cold-could-be-stopped-in-its-tracks-thanks-to-science-breakthrough-10024743.html

    The common cold could be a thing of the past, as scientists have found a way to “jam” the genetic code.

    The breakthrough means in the future, it could be possible to stop virus molecules replicating, by stopping them conveying the instructions needed to copy themselves.

    Researchers at the Universities of Leeds and York used computers to investigate the ribonucleic acid (RNA) structure of a virus molecule, and found a code hidden within its sequence.

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    Steeplejack

    @Mnemosyne:

    I was just about to say this. The Fifth Estate was actually pretty good (I saw it in the theater), it had hot star Cumberbatch, and it went exactly nowhere. I don’t see how making the story even more Hollywooden improves the prospects. Unless there are car chases.

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    Mike G

    @Geeno:

    Still more appealing than North Korean TV, with shows like “Let’s Cut Our Hair In Accordance With Socialist Lifestyle”

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    Arclite

    @mclaren:

    Yeah, but you have to make a realistic movie about real events. You know, with Glenn Greenwald using a belt-fed mini-gun to battle radioactive yetis sent by the Pentagon during his escape to the Ecuadorian Embassy in his rocket-propelled Lamborghini along with his supermodel girlfriend who is also a secret ninja assassin able to fend off Joe Biden’s Five Finger Open Palm Death Grip.

    I would pay money to see that.

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    NotMax

    Give Stone credit:

    For the scene with Snowden discovering a time machine in a secret Chinese lab under the Hong Kong airport and must travel back to assassinate JFK as a condition of being granted entree to Russia?

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    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    @srv:

    When it all falls apart- and it will- Jason Biggs will play Greenwald, James Van Der Beek will play Snowden…And Kevin Smith (who’ll also be directing) will play Cole. The role of constisnoochie-boochies mistermix will, of course, be played by Jason Mewes.

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    kindness

    I used to like Glenn Greenwald. That was 4 or 5 iterations ago. Now I find him to be insufferable on any topic.

  35. 35.

    FlipYrWhig

    Is Zachary Quinto going to do immersive research for his role by hanging out in comments here haranguing people who fail to acknowledge his great love of the Muslim people?

  36. 36.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Well if Hollywood has taught us anything, it’s the 2 hour black and white morality of movies is the best way to examine complex historical events.

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    The Ancient Randonneur

    Will the movie have 87 updates during the intro to make Greenwald’s participation more believable ?

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    C.V. Danes

    @cokane:

    why is this movie necessary? there’s a documentary about all of this already

    Exactly. And from what I hear it was pretty good, so not sure what this film will accomplish except for muddying the truth with ramped-up dramatic license.

  43. 43.

    different-church-lady

    @C.V. Danes:

    …not sure what this film will accomplish except for muddying the truth with ramped-up dramatic license.

    I know. If I wanted that kind of stuff I’d just read Greenwald.

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