On this day in 1981, movie audiences were introduced to Snake Plissken, who "volunteered" to infiltrate the maximum security prison of New York City and retrieve the United States president, whose plane had gone down inside the prison and who, reasons known only to John Carpenter, was very, very British.

Digby's Hullabaloo: The Guns Of March.

emptywheel: How Much Will Crown Prince Bonesaw Tolerate?

First Draft: MAGA Is Being Defeated By Its Own Narcissism.

Attention space nerds! Are We About to Permanently Scar the Night Sky With One Million AI Satellite and 50,000 Space Mirrors?

Round Up by driftglass of the Professional Left Podcast and Science Fiction University

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