Paul McLeod
@pdmcleod
Reporter in Washington, DC covering antitrust for @Capitol_Forum. Tips: [email protected]
To recap: Firms have been making people jump through endless hoops just to cancel a subscription, trapping Americans in needless bureaucracy and wasting their time & money. @FTC began writing a “click-to-cancel” rule promoting efficient cancellation, a rulemaking process that…
would hate to be a winged creature flying into this room
Thanks for the music, Ozzy Osbourne - Rest easy
Last Thursday’s 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,' in which Colbert announced his own show’s cancellation, was the show’s highest-rated episode this calendar year. dlvr.it/TM3jpv
Last Thursday’s 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,' in which Colbert announced his own show’s cancellation, was the show’s highest-rated episode this calendar year. dlvr.it/TM3jpv
Well this is jarring. John Kennedy (R-LA) is midway through a quip he's delivered a thousand times ("Jesus loves him but everyone else thinks he's an idiot") and completely freezes up mid-sentence.
Finally got to watch Eephus and wow, that's got to be one of the best movie-watching experiences I'll have all year. How can you not be romantic about baseball?
Similar thing with the Raptors, who are viewed by the broader NBA community as on a tier with like the Bucks and meanwhile literally half of Canada is tuning in to watch them when they're in the finals.
Jays TV audiences are over 1 million per game To put that in context - SNY averaged 365,000 viewers for the Subway Series against the Yankees - which was 70% higher than the YES network for the same series amp.awfulannouncing.com/mlb/sny-domina… Jays have by far the biggest TV audience in MLB
Ito and Codenames are far better party games but also just take a half step up and play something light & interactive like Sheriff of Nottingham or Camel Up or Love Letter or Las Vegas or, if you want to cooperate, The Crew.
I need my fellow millennials to please find a party game other than Cards Against Humanity I can’t do this anymore
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Big WSJ story appears to have dropped. Trump allegedly wrote a bawdy letter to Epstein for the latter’s 50th birthday, featuring a hand-drawn picture of a naked woman and Donald’s signature as pubic hair. Then this:
Exciting innovation here, taking the star of action/comedy The Nice Guys and the star of action/comedy The Other Guys to star in action/comedy Tough Guys. The GCU continues to expand.
Ryan Gosling & Will Ferrell To Star In Action Comedy 'Tough Guys' For Amazon MGM Studios deadline.com/2025/07/ryan-g…
Incredible Alex Rodriguez moment on the Hoop Collective live pod where he wistfully talks about growing up in NYC with no money and sneaking down to the lower bowl at Yankees games and how his new app will make that impossible by auctioning those seats off for 100s of dollars.
What lobbyists tell lawmakers: Surveillance pricing empowers consumers. What CEOs tell Wall Street: We can skip price-matching, auction tickets at each person’s pain point, and turn basics into premium.
Twitter is so grim now the memory of this glorious day doesn't even feel real. One of the most annoying people mistakenly revealing his open tentacle porn tab then spending hours trying to tweet through it. It's like something from a fable, or a half-forgotten dream.
Eichenwald. I still think about Eichenwald maybe once every few months or so. It's the most amazing journalistic self-owning in Twitter history, a moral lesson to all.
Here's a link to the decision. caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ga-court….
Some democracy you’ve got there. Would be terrible if RealPage came along and sued it into oblivion.
Few people are more powerful than reporters shouting questions at trump, he never rules anything out, he will always take a look
*TRUMP, ASKED ABOUT DEPORTING MUSK, SAYS HAVE TO TAKE A LOOK
OBBBA borrowing is 5-8 times as high as the most extreme estimates of the federal cost of illegal immigration. x.com/grok/status/19…
The thing that will bankrupt this country more than any other policy is flooding the country with illegal immigration and then giving those migrants generous benefits. The OBBB fixes this problem. And therefore it must pass.
"Why should one federal judge—perhaps a very extreme judge, on either side—have the power to dictate government policy for the entire country? Good riddance" @nicholas_bagley writes in The Atlantic. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
I think of it as less libs vs cons than industry groups vs the administration of government. Was it "conservatives" who wanted to strike down the SEC rule requiring hedge fund execs to disclose side deals to their investors or was it the Association of Private Fund Managers?
First of all, Biden only faced 28 nationwide injunctions over four years. Second of all, so what? Conservatives didn’t like his policies, so we beat him at the ballot box. As it should be.
I asked CHatGPT to analyze that list of films, look for similarities, and rank the films by how "woke" they are. Here is part of the result: