There is a slow-rolling coup against DNC leadership being attempted by the same failed centrist hacks at Future Forward, Third Way and Searchlight who got us into this mess. Matt Yglesias, Adam Jentleson, Anita Dunn and Jen O'Malley Dillon must not be allowed to take over.

On Reddit, Orange County residents are very justifiably angry that local authorities are posting vital evacuation information on X and Instagram…which both require accounts if you want to be able to view videos easily and completely. How many people use neither? This has got to stop.

The Swedish 🇸🇪 Parliament just approved a law that would create a tiered citizenship scheme, with a 1st class (mostly for the native born) that cannot be revoked and a 2nd class (mostly for the naturalized) that can: www.svt.se/nyheter/inri... Only two parties (Left and Green) voted against.

I just deleted my credit card app from my phone all my credit card debt is gone

Japanese researchers say they have identified how key proteins in nerve cells decline with age, a finding that could one day help lead to therapies to preserve brain function. 👉 ebx.sh/JF1Hyh

Eat shit and, for the monsters who did this to six innocent people, expect hard times.

The president of Cornell hit two students with his car, lied about what happened, and got away with it. The story illustrates an under-reported crisis in higher education: administrators and the trustees they answer to are increasingly hostile to the idea of college itself. I wrote about it here:

A federal judge in Alabama has suspended a lawyer from practicing in his court for six months after finding the attorney submitted a brief with false quotations and impeded a probe into whether an AI program was used to draft the filing.

Call Mark Zuckerberg before Congress and offer him a glass of water from the site, Erin Brockovich-style

Actually this goes beyond even pathological Ivy-coding: the NY Times seems unaware of the Ivy League ag school located in Tompkins County NY

As a Nashville and Shanghai guy I endorse this tweet

that's right. be like seth

I wonder what this internally logical change would do to the answers here www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/u...

villainizing the ultra-wealthy is like pickling a pickle; you don't need to do that, it's already been done for you

NEW: The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters. Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events. 90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.

Ossoff on his Republican opponents: "They're pro-war, they're pro-tariffs, they're pro-cutting healthcare. Let's find out where they stand on the crooked ballroom and the insurrectionist slush fund."

Yes, I'm suing Matt Taibbi.

Me: *picks up a copy of the NYT, opens paper to the Opinions section* The first headline I read:

In 2013, Donald Trump sued Bill Maher for $5 million after Maher challenged Donald to produce a birth certificate to prove he isn’t the "spawn of his mother having sex with an orangutan."

dogs doing things

I am shocked, shocked that Sigrid Rausing would be squander her credibility given her many many years of buying companies with her grandfather's money and then giving herself fake jobs at those companies, like she has as Editor of Granta

Another perfect moment from today’s shitshow is Sigrid Rausing of Granta saying that to determine if the Naipaulslop story was AI they … asked Claude

We are bowing down in front of the emperor, we are high-fiving him about his new clothes

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times

billionaire tribunals when

1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026: CBS: 0 CNN: 0 Fox News: 0 NPR: 0 PBS: 0 Politico: 0 Semafor: 0 Business Insider: 0

Arrogance beyond Oscar Wilde suing his lover's father for insinuating he was gay.

no one wants this

When nobody visits the web anymore, what incentive is there for people to populate it with information? That means AI search will be retrieving information from deteriorating, out-of-date sources and feeding it endlessly back to us. And that means even fewer people will populate the web. (2/3)

Monopolies are bad and our laws having to do with that fact should be enforced and we should make some new and stricter laws too

For those wondering, Kentucky has a "sore loser" law that would prevent Congressman Thomas Massie from running in the general election this fall as an independent after losing the GOP primary tonight. #ky4

To recap: @chrisrabb.com ran as an unapologetic progressive. •PA Gov Josh Shapiro supported his opponent •NJ Senator Cory Booker supported his opponent •AIPAC supported his opponent RABB STILL CLEANED HOUSE AND WON BY DOUBLE DIGITS. We need more of this. Let’s stop fascism in its tracks. ❤️✊🏽

I don’t feel the need to respect Massie’s principles which however sincerely held are mostly vile. but I did enjoy that he was a blister on the ass of people I hate

Trump doesn’t care about the ballroom. He cares about the bunker underneath. As we near the 2028 election, he’s going in & not coming out. He’ll have the nuclear “football” and his paid army to protect him. Tell me I’m wrong. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

TIRRC, a councilmember and several taxpayers are suing the Tennessee Highway Patrol, asking the court to enjoin the agency from joint operations with ICE like May 2025’s Operation Flood the Zone in South Nashville. nashvillebanner.com/2026/05/19/t...

I think I shared this before, but when I was trying to source an Elfriede Jelinek quote for my book, because the copy editor had said they couldn’t find it, I googled it. Here is what Google’s AI tried to tell me. Oh I know — “that’s cause you don’t pay for premium” lol buddy peddle that elsewhere

Democrats Shouldn’t Let Russell Vought Fly Under the Radar talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/democra...

⚡️ NATO's General Grynkewich: If Russians thought NATO is a threat to Russia, they wouldn’t have emptied the Leningrad Military District to go and invade Ukraine.

My university used some AI slop to generate a public "scholar profile" for me, and asked me to make any corrections, and approve it for publication. This is absolute kaka. Wrong bio info, wrong cites, absolutely weird description of scholarly interests. I'm just going to leave it unpublished.

This is why Congress must enact criminal penalties for government officials who violate the Constitution. No amending necessary. Simple majority.

Not enough news coverage of how the insurrectionist reparations fund is a clear violation of the 14th Amendment. We need to enforce the Constitution in its original meaning and plain text. You can't imagine away parts of the Constitution just because it is politically inconvenient.

Hotel housekeepers used to track their work on a clipboard. Now they work for an app that docks points if a room cleaning takes too long. “You have a device telling you, ‘move here, move there,’ like if you were a robot." The latest from @proofnews.bsky.social: www.proofnews.org/hotel-housek...

And as the longsuffering Duolingo user will have guessed immediately, these exercises contained not one conditional sentence. One sentence did have a dependent clause but

It has been said many times but I do not know how @atrupar.com maintains sanity while watching this stuff all day

this is a masterpiece

Many readers are unfamiliar with Todd Blanche, so on first mention it is good journalistic practice to write, "A rodent named Todd Blanche"

VAN HOLLEN: An individual who was pardoned by Trump went on to molest 2 children, & he tried to buy their silence by saying he would give them funds from your slush fund. Can you commit to not making that person eligible for a payout? BLANCHE: You're obviously lying V: I am reporting what he said