"Tilly’s creation is equal parts Cyrano de Bergerac and Tootsie. And it may end up as Fight Club — or worse, Oppenheimer — but it started as A Star Is Born.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/m...

Developer of bunker HOA said he chose Igloo, S.D., bc it was far from "known nuclear targets." But seems like it's on the eastern edge of the triangle of ICBM fields; & what about westerlies? Good or bad placement, @nukestrat.bsky.social, @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social? www.wsj.com/us-news/a-lu...

"'The leader knows that people are going to be more likely to be loyal if they don’t have many other career options, so when I say losers, I kind of mean it literally.'" www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

Vanilla Ice to TMZ: “I don’t even vote, so I don’t even care." Hooray for America at 250. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/a...

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

We’re at “a cultural & technological moment in which humans are sliding into a more passive role in many activities … a massive societal experiment foisted on us by Silicon Valley, the animating question of which is: What is a human for?” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

"The 10,500 generators attached to data centers in Virginia produce enough pollution to harm public health even if used rarely ... That’s enough to worsen lung & cardiovascular conditions for people in the region & cause at least 3 premature deaths each year." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

“The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” the person said.  About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company. @robert-faturechi.bsky.social

“That dark blue, if it is that dark, oh man, that’s going to look very, very dismal,” says a professional color consultant. It’s “going to very likely be a more sharp & accurate reflection versus the original gray color,” says Swimming Pool Steve. wapo.st/3PqlRnd

From the May 1892 issue of The Atlantic, exactly 134 years ago: Gerrymandering antics "may serve temporary party ends, but, if persisted in, they will surely bring disaster upon the country which tolerates them." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

This NYT interview with Nicolas Cage is fascinating and funny. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The U. of Florida reviewed more than 1,200 general education classes and stripped nearly 500 active courses from the list, records show. That included every class offered by the Women’s Studies and African American Studies departments and most history and literature offerings. wapo.st/4tYfVzS

“I Love Boosters” is about the treachery of think tanks, I s--- you not.

Since October, 6,069 refugees have been admitted to the United States. All but three are South Africans. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

David Sacks put the WH seal on crypto & kept its hands off A.I., selling a world where "wealth accumulates to insider elites tainted by grift, & ordinary people find that they’re losing the last power they have left, over their own minds." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The Department of Justice is now an active participant in multiple conspiracy theories, and doing profound damage to the government's credibility. From @qjurecic.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The New York Times editorial board: “Americans should be cleareyed about what the president is doing. He is taking their money and showering it on criminals.”

"Tech workers, it is becoming clear, have been creating their own A.I. replacements." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/t...

"South Africa created its commission to document crimes under its apartheid regime. Rather than uncovering truth to facilitate the transformation from authoritarianism into democracy, Trump is doing the reverse, inscribing his lies into the historical record..." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“‘This is one of the single most corrupt acts in American history.’” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

“'Choupette is not a diva. She’s a cat, and we want to see the diva in her.' I point out that a lot of people fixate on Choupette’s character, and on what she’s thinking. I ask him whether he does that too. "'No,' he says. 'No, no, no. I accept her as a cat. She’s a cat.'”

“I was recently driving around on an interstate and all I would see was these rental places where you store your stuff. And I just thought these didn’t used to exist. You used to have to be responsible for your own stuff.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/a...

“This is a war grave with the same legal status as Arlington National Cemetery. Snorkeling around Arizona is as disrespectful as playing kickball on top of the graves at Arlington.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...

The U.S. is sending planeloads of deportees to Honduras every day—many without their children, some into the arms of gangs. Caitlin Dickerson in La Lima: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

"So many people are pressing debunked and unsubstantiated election theories from within the government that their presence has become a feature of the system. They range from those with immense power—including the president—all the way down to local officials." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

“I’m a doctor. You make a decision, you move on. You don’t sit around and say, ‘Oh my gosh, that was a great decision. Oh my gosh, that was a bad decision.’ No, you just move on.” www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

In the 1990s, Wang Huning traveled the U.S. and was "shocked" by its "homelessness, drug addiction, racial violence, social divisions, and low education standards." He "concluded that America contained the seeds of its own destruction." www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

1970: A sleepless Nixon meets with Vietnam War protestors at the Lincoln Memorial in the middle of the night 2026:

The Koch brothers were there at the beginning. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

Iran has damaged or destroyed at least 228 structures or pieces of equipment at U.S. military sites, hitting hangars, barracks, fuel depots, aircraft and key air defense equipment … The destruction is far larger than what the U.S. government has acknowledged. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

A bottle of bourbon went missing, causing Patel to “lose his mind,” according to clients of Kurt Siuzdak, who has assisted FBI agents w/legal issues. Multiple agents contacted him after Patel threatened to polygraph & prosecute his staff over the missing bottle. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

“Villages are now blurred into ash, with the white of rubble marking town after town.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Temporarily returned from writing retirement to do The Atlantic's culture survey, and guess who I wanted to talk about? www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Brad voted Trump bc he promised to be “the most pro-farmer president you’ve ever had.” Instead, tariffs cut Brad’s export market; the war surged fertilizer prices by 70%. So Brad arranged his family’s final sale. “Farm is going dry,” said the ad. “Every cow must go.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/u...

“Only half-joking, she adds that just having a nun in the room can result in better behaviour from executives.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

What a graphic. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

“The Roberts Court is creating a world in which the federal government does not interfere with the right of white Americans to dominate those they see as their lessers.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A clear majority of Americans are against the ballroom and the arch. 61% of independents oppose the ballroom. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“We are all Cheryl Hines. Unprepared for the scenario in which we will be forced to run for our lives. Watching the important people be whisked away while we wonder whether we should try to follow them, or duck under a table, or grab the good wine.” www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

The value of private venture capital deals involving defense technology nearly doubled from 2024 to 2025—to $48.5 billion. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

The 85-year-old widow “was chained by her wrists and ankles to other inmates and loaded onto buses and a plane ‘like a potato sack.’ After two weeks in detention in Alabama and Louisiana, she said, she feared she might die.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...

Her partner died in the Baltimore bridge collapse. The Biden administration offered her a way to stay in the U.S. Their 7-year-old is a U.S. citizen. The Trump admin is deporting her. www.npr.org/2026/04/23/n...

“Fallon acts as the high priest of a terrified optimism, his rictus grin serving as a shield against the encroaching silence of the real. Here, in the sanitized, over-lit heart of the American culture industry, there is an inescapable horror.” www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...

NEW: The Trump administration has cut more than 4,000 employees from some of the nation’s top law-enforcement agencies, even as it vowed to crack down on crime, according to ​records obtained by Reuters. www.reuters.com/world/trumps...

Last year, Elon Musk fed these humanitarian workers "into the wood chipper." Now: "We were running these large programs looking for vulnerable populations, trying to help support them, and then you find yourself a user of the system." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

“With so many lawyers and litigants using chatbots to speed up their work, judges have been inundated with fictitious arguments spun out by A.I. tools.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...

What would I do if I caught a ball? I have nowhere to put it I’d certainly never throw it back.. A John Waters poem in The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

John Roberts and the other conservative justices “have repeatedly empowered the president through their shadow docket rulings. By contrast, the papers reveal a court wielding those same powers to block Mr. Obama.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

"...briefings had to be rescheduled for later in the day as a result of his alcohol-fueled nights ... On multiple occasions in the past year, members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated..." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

“I hear people talk about this beautiful relationship with Jesus. Mine is not like that. It is a little more questioning and mystery. That is why it is called faith.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...