“dogs in large cities are essentially settler-colonial”

Dua Lipa stuns as congressional gerrymander

The much-hyped right-wing overthrow of Kevin McCarthy because he was supposedly insufficiently America First (or something) resulted in... a massive bipartisan foreign aid package!

'Llama 3, generate a video of Mark Zuckerberg wearing a chain'

BREAKING: Dicky Betts, co-founding member of Allman Brothers Band who was responsible for the band's biggest hit 'Ramblin' Man,' has died at the age of 80 → cos.lv/bYex50RjabV

Don’t remember seeing lot of tweets about WNBA salaries when Brittney Griner was arrested in Russia — playing over there just to pick up an extra paycheck!

New for Puck:

Our new poll from Echelon Insights

- 61% of likely voters described their mood about 2024 as “frustrated,” “anxious,” “disenchanted” or “indifferent”

- 70% say it’s inappropriate for Trump to use campaign donations for legal fees

- And everyone hates campaign

NEW: For years, competitive business information from top U.S. advertisers was widely available to TikTok and ByteDance staff most anywhere, including in China.

Inside TikTok's chaotic ads division and employees' concerns over how it's handled client data:forbes.com/sites/alexandr…

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Can Silicon Valley convince Nicole Shanahan to drop off the RFK ticket?

If not, then Democrats are privately exploring whether it’s time for her friends to drop an avalanche of oppo research on her.

Inside the Dems’ plans, just posted Puck:

puck.news/nicole-shanaha…

New for Puck:

Our new poll from Echelon Insights

- 61% of likely voters described their mood about 2024 as “frustrated,” “anxious,” “disenchanted” or “indifferent”

- 70% say it’s inappropriate for Trump to use campaign donations for legal fees

- And everyone hates campaign

Norby's defenestration was the lead topic on Peter Hamby's excellent The Powers The Be pod today.

I also talk about the future of the regional sports network business, of course...

puck.news/podcast_episod…

.William D. Cohan joins Peter Hamby to dig into Bill’s interview with former Apollo chief Leon Black concerning his association with Jeffrey Epstein.

Listen to the full podcast: puck.news/podcast_episod…

Just *reading* about L.A. in the early '90s is enough to make you tense. mary mcnamara writes about how that era of apocalyptic L.A. shaped the O.J. Simpson case and the circus around it, for Los Angeles Times: latimes.com/entertainment-…

.Dylan Byers joins Peter Hamby to discuss the lingering executive tensions inside 30 Rock following the McDaniel micro scandal. Then they weigh into whether the rebooted CBS News streamer is just more of the same.

Listen: puck.news/podcast_episod…

Counterpoint: This isn’t as fun as going to Coachella. At all.

latimes.com/entertainment-…

“It was a silly, expensive enterprise that defied political logic and was always doomed to fail, but that didn’t stop Washington from giving it far more attention than it deserved.”

Peter Hamby delivers a eulogy for No Labels. puck.news/no-more-no-lab…

Kato Kaelin now looks like Mike Myers in a Kato Kaelin mask

Drudge still got it

CNN should just do OJ time machine coverage all day.

Ratings bonanza.