"Exclusive: Biden administration to accuse Russia of sustained effort to influence 2024 election"

On the one hand, sure, this is pretty great, and it's good that the Biden administration is doing it (or going to be doing it, whatever). And I'm certainly not going to say that they shouldn't be doing this.

On the other hand... well, I have criticisms. Two things.

First, this should have been a drum that the Biden administration was pounding on, very loudly and incessantly, from day fucking one. Because Russia demonstrably has been influencing American elections at the very least since 2015. (It's a giant part of why we ended up with SCROTUS IMPOTUS Trump I, after all.) As such, this here feels sorely like a case of far too little, far too late, and I'm not sure how effective, if at all, this effort will be, with just two months to go.

Second, this is kind of like the Biden administration coming out and accusing the sky of a sustained effort of being blue. Everyone knows that Russia is trying to influence the election. The only ones who pretend that they don't are the ones directly benefiting from it, i.e. basically all Trumpanzee voters, Trumpublican politicians, and Trump-mushroom-sucking RWNJ "news" "media" windbags. Expect to hear lots more "RuSsIa rUsSiA RuSSia" bawwing from the usual suspects, of course.

Also, I appreciate the appropriate use of the word "disinformation" in the above linked article.

"The first Minecraft movie trailer is here"

Full headline, which won't fit up there, obviously, but which completely changes the tone of the thing: "The first Minecraft movie trailer is here, and now I'm thinking the Borderlands film might not be the worst thing to happen to cinema in 2024"

"A Minecraft Movie won't actually be out until 2025, but the misery has already begun."

Here is the trailer, if you care:

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So, uh, yeah, I'd almost completely, blessedly forgotten about that shit. Based on the trailer... it's not something I have even a little bit of interest in seeing, but I guess the kiddies will eat it up. *shrug* I don't hate it outright, but I don't love it either.

Not sure why it needs to have live actors, since everything else in it is CG, but that's just me. Also not sure why it needs to be an isekai, either. *shrug again*

"How Ronald Reagan Gave Us Donald Trump – SOME MORE NEWS"

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"Hi. In Part 2 of our Reagan series, we're looking at how Ronald Reagan's presidency altered how both parties think about politics, why it pushed Democrats to the right, and how Reagan's tactics and racist dog whistling paved the way for the rise of Donald Trump."

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Follow up to this one.

Wow... Reagan's campaign slogan really was "Let's Make America Great Again." Holy fuck. Well shit, that just makes MAGA even worse, since it's just a blatant, banal ripoff. So... completely par for the course for Dumbshit Jackass Trump, in other words. (If nothing else, it's so nice to be able to say, for the first time in a while, that I'm too young to remember that shit. Still... it feels like that should have been something I would've heard about before now, even so. Huh...)

Oh, and a whole bunch of other really terrible, shitty things were discussed in the above video, too.