Compare and contrast to how the (hard right!) Italian government reacted when Trump tried to get their country's team to replace Iran in the World Cup: the official ministerial response was that the request was "shameful", and they wanted nothing to do with it.

Hey, if you can't geoengineer the weather, why have a space laser at all?

Among other issues, this demonstrates as clearly as anything could, how unaware the leadership is that they are widely perceived by their own base as money grubbing grifters with no real commitment to anything other than raising cash.

If you've ever wondered what cops sound like talking about Spiderman in the Marvel Universe, it sounds like a bored guy in a police chopper having a slow day watching two geniuses climb to the top of the spire on the Empire State Building...

The most obvi- Oh for heaven's sake. Just stay away from lighthouses, okay?

It takes hearing World Cup announcers talking about "the Boston stadium" to make me feel even lukewarm about corporate naming rights. It's not in Boston. And it's named for Gillette.

Cory Booker, once again showing that, like Pelosi, he's so dedicated to the proposition that the country needs a "responsible Republican party" that if the real Republicans won't do the job, he'll do it himself.

This is, by the way, why I am so much less sanguine about birthright citizenship than a lot of court-watchers and legal analysts; the best way to predict what SCOTUS will do is to simply observe the consensus of conservative legal activists and assume that it will eventually follow their lead.

SCOTUS reaches rock bottom... and trucks in the drilling gear.

Dr. Oz thinks that people are "defrauding" ACA insurance providers by paying premiums and getting nothing back. Such is the intellectual caliber of the Trump administration. They're different from the rest of us.

Sadly, Yale's pursuit of a "Trump administration deal" may get this reaction from most alumni, but if it's anything like Columbia, it may be driven by the richest of the lot, who the administrators care most about personally ... www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...

That's ok, Jesse. I'm sure the feeling is mutual.

Our gulf allies who produce the oil that Trump is proposing to "take" will no doubt be thrilled with this proposal.

Accounts from contemporary Chinese observers must be dismissed as unreliable, a history written by the victors. There is no way that the United States, in the words of one Chinese scholar, “just handed it to us.”

Promise made, promise kept

Scottish soccer fans in town for the World Cup made a side-trip to Fenway on Sunday and brought actual magic with them. It was such a delight and honor to get to accompany their singing.

Sir, this is a great point. But the lying Fake News will tell people you can't do it, sir. So what you coukd do, sir, to show what liars they are, is try it. Just go do the walk. You'll never have to worry about what they're saying about you again.

Raw Story has a (thinly sourced) article saying that Rubio might lose his job for opposing Trump's Iran "deal", whatever it amounts to. Only one job, or all of them? Because if the latter, it might materially impact the Washington, DC unemployment rate...

It'll be interesting to see whether Blacksky gets similar attention, and if so, what they do about it.

People are calling this a barefaced lie. But the strait of Gibraltar has indeed been open all along...

My mayor Muslim. My bagel Jewish. My DHS Secretary's the dumbest man alive. Knicks in fiiiiiiive.

Seems like Trump is awfully slow to figure out that bombing Iran doesn't make the deal come any quicker, it just raises the price...

It's at least obvious now how October-November is going to go. Either: 1) Tr-mp *threatens* to confiscate mail-in ballots and take control of USPS. 2) He actually does it.

This video for World Cup visitors featuring Mamdani giving the "native New Yorker" discourse *all* the respect it deserves in the last five seconds: "... on behalf of everyone across the Big Apple: Welcome home, my friends."

Oh, uh... just one more thing. Since you say train service at Penn Station is unaffected once people with a ticket get through a checkpoint into the zone -- what security measures are applied to people taking trains *into* Penn Station, and getting out?

Trump: winning friends for MSG and New York by shutting down the NBA finals watch party, dragging fans who paid outrageous prices for seats through security lines they may not get through by starting time (many didn't when he visited the US Open), and, just for kicks... is he closing Penn Station?

Trump's White House: the Las Vegas plastic imitation of... itself.

The problem with this take is that excluding CSAM, hate speech, etc. from view *is* an algorithmic selection process. -And US liability exemptions for online forums were enacted *specifically* to allow online forums to do it without incurring liability for, say, libel that someone happened to post.

Take that, Vanilla Ice.

Spanberger being a Republican on policy matters only feeds people’s cynicism about the Dems. Zohran delivering over and over, while… being demonized by establishment Dems, only feeds people’s cynicism about the Dems.

Mikie Sherrill’s state police destroyed the mutual aid tent for families of the detained that had been in operation at Delaney Hall for more than a year, providing clothes, food, even stuffies for the kids. They just trashed it. I’m pretty speechless at the kind of person you have to be to do this

“She’s very friendly with Republicans. That’s an asset,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said of Gillibrand. www.semafor.com/article/06/0...

US Democrat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer marched alongside far-right Israeli Finance Minister and Criminal Bezalel Smotrich.

From a historian's thread about the exploitation of medieval peasants (who, generally, did not work less than us)...

If increasing credit card delinquency doesn't threaten the credit card companies... I guess there's no one else for the government to be concerned about. At least not Trump's government.

There's a reason people call them Nice Polite Republicans...

Usually when we say "Who do you protect? Who do you serve?" they simply don't respond.

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

What defense of Israel sounds like today. Sure, their military campaigns involve routine atrocities, but Israelis also spend a lot of time cleaning house and making lunch, so as a total "fraction of Israeli conduct", the war crimes dwindle to insignificance. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/o...

This headline misses the real news in the piece -- we now have a performer *confirming* an appearance at Trumpfest 250, or whatever they're calling it: Vanilla Ice. So, if your opinion of Vanilla Ice had room left to drop, you can shift him down a notch.

EXCLUSIVE: I just revealed that Rep. @tomsuozzi.bsky.social lives at C Street. That’s the DC townhouse run by The Family, the secretive Christian group that runs the National Prayer Breakfast. Suozzi pays $800/month. He's kept it secret for years. There’s more…

Ever wonder when some members of the Gulf Cooperation Council might start to wonder if all that bribe money was well spent?

I'm sure Knicks fans will give him the most New York welcome imaginable.

I’m bored of the “is bluesky an echo chamber” debate, we need a more exciting one: is bluesky an evil haunted carnival?

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

... in which Israel Defense Forces troops describe looting of civilian homes in territory they occupy as a "mitzvah" (religious commandment). I guess it's by following mitzvahs like this that the IDF makes itself, according to its own press, "the most moral army in the world."

Every interview with a tech CEO youtube.com/shorts/ZseOJ...

You can't refute this. You can't. Don't even try.

Old joke; Jewish woman sees her doctor reading Der Sturmer. "Doctor Liebowitz!" she cries. "How can you read such filth?" He answers, "You know Fräulein, I look outside these days, and it seems grim. But here--I learn that we control the media, the banks, and soon the world. Things are looking up!"

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