Watching yet another bullshit legacy media plagiarism scandal unfold and I am just hopping mad about all the incredibly talented writers, reporters, photographers, and editors out there who love their work and have integrity and are scrabbling for a dwindling number of freelance assignments.

this post has the energy of a mall ninja kicking over a folding chair because the cinnabon employee looked at him with “disrespect”

French prosecutors say 10 new suspected victims have come forward in the country’s Jeffrey Epstein probe after authorities reopened trafficking and financial investigations linked to his network. Paris is now revisiting old evidence and seeking more testimony.

Hey new and new-ish followers! It’s been about a year since I started writing full-time for Salon, where I cover consumer culture, books, gender politics, and how we spend our time online and off. This week, I found out that “joy jars” might be the perfect encapsulation of the dead internet 🤗

Cate Blanchett says that the #MeToo movement "got killed very quickly" in remarks at the Cannes Film Festival.

unfurling a "white replacement" banner should get you permabanned from MLB stadiums

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

Once day a major outlet will manage to write about the rise of misogyny as a unifying ideological project in the American right without a viscous little aside about how it’s actually all women’s fault for buying “male tears” mugs in 2015.

Wow: Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, one of the biggest children's hospitals in the nation, will be forced to create the nation's first ever "detransition clinic" as part of a $10 million settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Trump hearing "cisgender" and thinking its "six genders" then getting all mad about it, thus forcing other Republicans to agree that the libs are now demanding there be six genders, is a perfect encapsulation of our Golden Age of Dickishness and Stupidity.

As someone who also had a weird reaction to the shingles vaccine (sudden preoccupation with gardening), I feel seen www.reddit.com/r/GenX/s/DK8...

No, it’s not ‘normal’ for humans to be in competition all the time. It’s not normal to work for most of your waking hours of the day. It’s not normal to be stressed 24/7. Stop taking a few hundred years of capitalism and pretending that’s just how being human is. It’s not.

Has anyone seen good media coverage of this? One of the survivors testified that she was abused during Epstein’s year under house arrest. That deserves full airing.

okay but concept: new funniest way for Trump to die

the pitch deck to sponsor sec. of transportation sean duffy's family road trip reality show (obtained by POLITICO) is as stupid and corrupt as you'd expect: static.politico.com/74/6e/5da7a1...

Marjorie Taylor Green isn’t a known antisemite because she criticizes Israel, she’s a known antisemite because of all the talk about secret cabals, Jewish space lasers, Great Replacement theory, and Jews killing Jesus. Hope this helps some leftists who are mad at AOC for being right about her today

The recent Supreme Court decision, which effectively killed the last remaining provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, represents the life’s work of John Roberts. The Roberts Court has now gutted the VRA on three different occasions, and Roberts wrote or joined all those opinions.

More than anything, Republicans want Democrats to start to believe that it's hopeless so they won't bother to turn out. But the truth is that even the Virginia decision is not enough to prevent Democrats from taking the House if we have a wave election. But we have to have a wave election.

I have several questions but they are all "what the fuck?" I have several followup statements but they are all "yo dog this feels antihuman and racist"

Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable

There is not enough discussion of the EEOC's lawsuit against @nytimes.com for discriminating against a white man. Here's a gift link. Let's get into it.🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/b...

sweet vaping Jesus, what the hell did I just read

Fotomat Drive Thru photo developing kiosks. At its 1980s peak there were around 4000 spread throughout the US. rarehistoricalphotos.com/fotomat-old-... Many now lie abandoned or converted into alternative sales points.

Philadelphia is America's Greatest City

make the Darwin Awards satire again

Those of us who know what Critical Race Theory is were appalled when reactionaries glommed on to the phrase to ply their agenda. It never stopped being a useful school of thought, and its authors never stopped being a hundred times more brilliant than their latter-day critics.

Here’s how the AI Boom, such as it is, has impacted my life: it has been used as an excuse to lay off my friends for bot equivalents that never came. It has made mass culture and art immeasurably worse. I have a stalker with AI psychosis. So, no, I don’t more data centers. I want less of all that.

"If you ask almost any Amazon worker, they'll know someone who died because of Amazon greed. So I have the names of all our fallen coworkers whose deaths could have been prevented if Amazon acted responsibly." -Mitch 26, former Amazon warehouse worker

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

Do you like dogs? Of course you do. And what's another thing everybody loves? Subscription models! So we bring you: subscription model dogs. No, they aren't real, and if you stop paying us, they break. Isn't that wonderful? I love being a rich oligarch tech bro living in the future!!

Among the first agencies President Donald Trump gutted after taking office for his second term was a Department of Homeland Security team that had repeatedly disproved his stolen election claims.

Rudy Giuliani is in stable condition and resting comfortably

Would love to see a Venn diagram of people who watched “Poop Cruise” on Netflix and would still pay actual money to be set adrift on a gigantic floating gas-station bathroom that’s dumping tons of literal shit into the ocean I just think it might be illuminating

I have wondered whether this is related to the fact that people feel very helpless about what they see in the world—they feel ineffectual. And I wonder whether sometimes people just pick a target they think will actually be forced to react to them. Something to affect, to prove you exist.

Not an expert in bird body language but I’d guess the bird will not use the term “rescue” when it tells the other birds about this

Rudy Giuliani in critical condition, you know what to do

RESULT out of Texas. The Lake Travis school district in the Austin area become a focal point for book bans (see this story from 2024: www.kut.org/education/20...) Two conservatives school board members who were integral to that push just lost their reelection bids tonight, and are ousted.

i've been getting more folks telling me about this and it's not anything i agreed to. it's been stolen like AI steals. please vandalize it if and when you see it.

Craig Long, MAGA extremist and a staunch lover of Donald Trump has been arrested for sex trafficking. www.themirror.com/news/us-news...

Drop your prediction for the next headline about how living paycheck to paycheck is actually good: Forget cribs: The trendiest parents are putting their babies to sleep in dresser drawers!

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

It took me three decades to become emotionally available enough to appreciate Tori Amos, please clap

look i was a bernie supporter so i've had to reconcile the fact that a lot of his online supporters were dumb as rocks but certain platner enthusiasts are really not doing their candidate any favors by advancing the "all american men have a nazi phase" argument

I was reminded this morning of something IBM noted in 1978: "A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore, a computer must never make a management decision."

More on this ballot measure which isn't getting near enough attention due to *gestures at world on fire* @autonomynews.co

WaPo reports Louisiana’s governor will announce on Friday that he is suspending the House primaries where people have already started voting and redraw the map; I’d expect them to go for an all-Republican map and eliminate both majority-Black districts, not just one.

If you want a picture of the Republican future, imagine a bench full of white men— & men who wish they were white— declaring in law that only They know what the Real racism is, & it's when they, personally, have to acknowledge any systemic inequalities which have disproportionately benefited them.

What The Guardian Got right. www.therebooting.com/p/the-guardi... The key: "A voluntary contribution model that has attracted 700,000 supporters, 500,000 of them recurring. Reader revenue has grown 35% a year for the past two years." And now they have a bigger audience than the Washington Post.