man nyc is such a fun place right now. on my way to a mets game (lol) and everyone’s in knicks gear or brazil gear or mets gear or argentina gear. everyone’s on their way to a watch party or a block party. the whole country could be like this if it wasn’t run by miserable pudding brained freaks

first 2028 presidential debate in the dem primary, first FP question from CNN moderator Bari Weiss be like: do you condemn ms rachel?

Imagine you had so much food in your house that, no matter have hard they tried, your family couldn't possibly eat it. Then, imagine what would happen if you continued to buy and hoard more food, filling cupboard after cupboard. You'd be considered mentally ill Why is this never applied to money?

A lot of people on this very site are annoying; somehow, I persist.

Anti-fash counter-protests outnumber fash marches all the time and it would be cool if the press made a big deal about it.

Oklahoma City, Heaven’s Gate, things of that nature

I want to emphasize this because it’s trans history. In the 80s and 90s a lot of trucking companies paid well and covered transition care. There were a lot of trans women that took jobs as truckers, transitioned, and quietly disappeared into their lives. Nothing white collar about it.

Guy at the pyramids called after me “sir!” No response “maam!” No response, after a few seconds he tries again “cousin!” I think we’ve cracked it. There is a gender neutral honorific.

My column from Monday. To wipe out a near-majority Black congressional district in Alabama, the Supreme Court had to ignore the evidence, the Constitution and their own Callais ruling. So they did. And the six conservative justices had the chutzpah to blame a lower court for “interposition.”

Republican attorneys general from 14 states and 19 GOP members of Congress are asking U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin to classify and regulate the abortion medication mifepristone as a water contaminant.

It's funny that Israel could have had normalized with Saudi and Indonesia if either Tel Aviv or Washington was even 25% more capable of rational behavior about Palestine or about anything. These countries were eager to normalize before 2023 but needed symbolic concessions and Israel still said no.

One board member said the FBI approached some without warrants. “They had agents all across the state going to civil rights leaders and community leaders’ doors intimidating them, coming and demanding that they talk about literally anything they would ask.” “Just straight-up intimidation tactics.”

Delaney Hall was really rough again last night. Don’t take your eyes off this place.

having high-attention-getting, well-attended events where people bid money to destroy trump shit would also build consensus in the public that trump sucked ass and everyone hated him

80 Texas residents are suing SpaceX, saying rocket launches are literally destroying their homes

and most folks have pretty modest aspirations. buy a comfortable place to live, maybe sock a little away, take a vacation now and again. it's not a lot to ask. i do wonder if making all that a fucking pipe dream for most while parading "trillionaires" in front of us is gonna break something else

Peak male performance etc

This is just brilliant. There’s probably no greater single threat to democracy posed by the MAGA phenomenon than the epistemological crisis inherent in the completely groundless claims of election fraud. In no small part because it provides them cover for engaging in such fraud themselves.

12 million dollar no bid contract. Everything is about stripping the copper wire out of the walls of the country. Every deal is about the kickback. That $1.8M number from before was probably the actual estimate and Trump took 10 for himself and used 2 for the work. Paid with your tax dollars

I just saw this weirdo make Mel Blanc do his voices

watching scaffolding get built is the new watching paint dry

That's me

It's funny how nobody has to debate about whether Miss Rachel is a secret Republican. Of course she's not, because she has a soul. Meanwhile, your Sydneys and Taylors are all in their "Republicans buy sneakers, too" eras.

if you repost me, i'll live forever

"the trans community must boycott monster energy," a sentence I never thought I would type for a number of reasons

If you over-regulate capitalism you get totalitarian communism. If you under-regulate capitalism you get a ruling caste of insane monopolists. Please ignore the fact that one of these things has never happened and the other keeps happening over and over

“If this kind of austerity can happen at The News School, it can happen everywhere. Faculty all over the country need to be on guard. We need strong labor unions.” — Jeremy Varon, New School AAUP President on @democracynow.org today. 👊🏾👊🏿👊🏼 @newschoolaaup.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social

🤬 You do not "fill the gap" in archives. You ask *why* the gap is there in the first place. That is where the real information resides. Also: LLMs train on digitized materials. Do you have any idea how little has been digitized? LLMs train on a *sliver* of the human past and human knowledge.

Old meme is still valid. Just change some names around.

The natural endpoint of elite impunity is kleptocracy.

Opinion: You might have thought the world’s richest man had enough on his plate teeing up history’s biggest IPO. Yet he has been devoting many of his waking hours to stoking up racial hatred in Britain on his social media site. ft.trib.al/B4elnzv

Elon Musk’s Grok AI violated Canada’s privacy laws and, at one point, was generating more than 6,000 sexual deepfake images every hour, according to Canada’s privacy commissioner. www.reuters.com/business/med...

“Our protected public lands are being gifted for the benefit of the world’s richest man, who could trash them while playing with his exploding rockets,” said Laiken Jordahl, national public lands advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity.

When you get AI to write your paper for you:

Trying to take a shit in peace while my bathroom criticizes my skin condition and posture

Go fund me for the family www.gofundme.com/f/a-family-t...

I've reported on Musk for around 8 years. I've co-authored a book on him. I don't think folks understand the rate of his wealth accumulation. Shortly after he helped elect Donald Trump in Nov 2024, his net worth was around $350 billion. That net worth has nearly tripled in less than two years.

The AAUP chapters at Vanderbilt & Wash U have issued a joint statement denouncing the “State of Scholarship” report commissioned by their chancellors. Please, let’s make this as widely read as the gaslighting to which it responds.

NEW: After ProPublica contacted leading vaccine skeptic Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The data is clear: vitamin K saves lives,” he wrote.

Some of the efforts being made in Belfast right now to protect people, because the government can't or won't, will be familiar to Minnesotans.

In upsetting news you may have missed - ~40 detainees in a California concentration camp have been on a hunger strike since *mid-May* Their demands? Basic rights: access to clean food and water and adequate medical care This is happening in our country. We should all be ashamed.

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

Here’s what Ceceila Vega was working on when she was fired. trib.al/TWJAKzg

This ICE flight believed to be carrying Afghan, Syrian and Iranian asylum seekers to the Central African Republic is underway. Omni Air International, may you rot in infamy and shame.

Exciting to see the eleven library workers who were laid off from Western Illinois University (WIU) last year reinstated to their jobs! Yet another higher ed union win. 📚 www.ift-aft.org/post/arbitra...

*rock concert* Rock singer: You know where you are? Me: Please don't say the Jungle. Please don't say the jungle. Please don't say the jungle. Rock singer: You're in the Jungle, baby. And you're gonna die. Me: Oh shit. Oh fuc. Oh God, please no.

2 days ago, the borough council of Phoenixville, west of Philly, passed an ordinance amendment to halt immigration raids on borough property Today, ICE agents swarmed Phoenixville's Acme, Wawa, and other busy sites, arresting 6 people Like the fascist cops they are www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...

Not lost on me that we never see any articles about how a Mamdani or a Hamawy or an El Sayed represent a kind of positive reinforcement of masculinity and masculine presence