Enjoying some speed toast. (A slice of bread with butter on it.)

Our June issue is here, featuring @joanwalsh.bsky.social on Peggy Flanagan, @brycecovert.bsky.social on pregnant workers at Amazon, @davidfutrelle.bsky.social on the prediction marketfication of everything, Corey Robin on capitalism's long revolution, and more!

Listening to "Remain in Light" by the Talking Heads right now and, yeah, it's a great album, but they really come up short in the fact-checking. I mean, "drowning cannot hurt a man?" WTF!? I can't believe no one caught that obvious error.

They put one of yours in the hospital, you put out a statement about how disappointed you are. That’s the centrist way.

Huh. Well, it's not as if anyone could have foreseen that we might want to know more about viruses that jump from animals to people in (checks notes) 2025.

The random baby talk that I say to my cats when I'm petting them makes more sense than this

First of all, that's way too deep. And second of all, that is too many legs. It's not even using all of them. I don't know what these Echinoderms are thinking.

This is all we fucking need

Every journalist on earth is just a foot soldier in a weird psychosexual argument between six rich people at an orgy.

This is a damning chart. Gonna have to dismantle these prediction markets posthaste. We need leaders who will do that

RFK jr, you'll have to pry my antidepressants from my cold dead hands

Ben has also been forced to fire one of his eyebrows

I'm glad Kraftwerk did that "we are the robots" song because it's good to know when someone is a robot

My cats are pivoting to AI

i was told by john roberts and sam alito that racism is over so i won't worry about white republicans in the south jumping over themselves to end black political representation wherever they can

This is honestly better than the Nirvana version. Though it's a little weird she's wearing that Melania hat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyFA...

The Smiths. What the fuck was their deal anyway?

Some of these NYT voter profiles are hard to believe

Okay but what if the ballroom turns out to be really cool?

I'm a gut health influencer, in that the shit I eat has a very bad influence on my gut.

a ballroom has a core strategic weakness: the man in the back saying “everyone attack”

Panicked posters: Trump is going to use this as a pretext to crack down on anyone to his left! Trump: I simply must be able to build the gaudiest ballroom anyone has ever seen. It is now a matter of national security.

I didn't fall down. I was asked to get closer to the ground

Dude forgot to take the sticker off his pants

Pretty sure whoever wrote the Wikipedia entry for "Human Cannibalism" wants to eat people. Or at least certain parts of them.

New talking point has emerged

I have microlooted the lemons that were in the whole foods and which you probably think I should have just paid for Forgive me I was just practicing for the revolution

The state of American politics in 2026

My latest Brotopians post, weighing in on Palantir's little manifesto, of which I am decidedly not a fan. www.brotopians.com/a-memo-from-...

I feel such a connection to this octopus because my home is also a broken toilet

Priceless post from the official White House social media

ghoulish

So hungry I could eat one of those slimy gray slabs they feed the Navy

SLUGGO’S CATSATURDAY

Going to the "corner store" to buy some "groceries." Anyone need anything?

Sometimes I wish I could be an anticompetitive monopoly

Thinking of becoming Catholic and then telling the Pope that he ain't popin right

My latest in The Nation, on "high agency," a New York Times oopsie, and William Graham Sumner, for some reason. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

My cats are also weak on crime

Big week for JD Vance!

Same

When Congress gets back from vacation in 6 weeks it is ON!!!!

We still need to get the fucker out of office and into a jail cell

Come on then, and remove him.

The matter-of-fact way she asks what investors should do if Trump destroys Iran. Absolutely wild. "Let's talk about tonight, this deadline that President Trump has set 8 p.m., has threatened to destroy a civilization. How does an investor process that? Is it a bigger upside risk or downside risk?"

Happy last day of the world everyone

My latest in The Nation, on OpenAI spending a couple of hundred million bucks on a podcast, and what that portends www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I'm not usually a fan of Trump, but that was a great speech!

It’s arguably less a war than it is just a string of war crimes

I'm thinking of having some serious discussions with some dudes in Iran, I haven't decided which dudes yet