Disney crosses the $6B milestone at the box office for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic; no other studio has managed to reach $6B since 2015 (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/disney-box-office-milest…
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Miles Davis:
🎵 Spanish Key
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Thirteen years ago, a Brooklyn man’s child molestation conviction pierced a veil of silence in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community,
where many people who dared to report sexual abuse were shunned, expelled from schools and had businesses ruined.
Now the man, Nechemya Weberman, an unlicensed therapist who was sentenced to 103 years in prison, could be on a path to freedom.
Mr. Weberman, 67, is scheduled to appear in court next month, with a judge set to decide whether to comm…
Text of the Epstein/Nassar letter (Nassar was the creep who molested gymnasts):
"Dear L.N. as you know by now, I have taken the “short route” home. Good Luck! We share one thing … our love & caring for young ladies at the hope they’d reach their full potential. **Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to “grab snatch**,” whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair. Yours, J. Epstein."
Series D, Episode 08 - Games
DAYNA: Well no, but Soolin's right though, Servalan will be more worried about the mining, the stuff they're digging up now, won't she?
GERREN: Unfortunately, they're not digging up anything much. There's virtually no feldon left. Belkov's milked this planet for twelve good years, now he knows the game's up, he wants to use the crystals to buy survival.
Like... really. Whoa. What the actual...?! This is so bizarre, and ... good?! Maybe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlgqYdPPhN0 So turns out Trump succumbs to Mamdani's charm.
Eli Lilly, the maker of hugely popular weight loss drugs, has reached $1 trillion in value, becoming the first publicly traded company in health care to hit the milestone.
The second-most valuable health care company, Johnson & Johnson, is worth about half a trillion dollars.
Lilly’s stock has surged in large part because of the company’s success in seizing the biggest potential market in the history of the drug industry:
the class of weight loss medicines known as GLP-1…
YouTube says it paid out $8B to the music industry in the 12 months to June 2025, up from $6B in 2022 and $4B in 2021 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/23/youtube-paid-out-8b-to-the-music-industry-in-12-months/
Pardoned Rioter To Be Tried On Molestation Charges - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/01/pardoned-rioter-to-be-tried-on-molestation-charges/