“Emotional abuse of children can lead, in adulthood, to addiction, rage, a severely damaged sense of self and an inability to truly bond with others. But—if it happened to you—there is a way out.” -Andrew Vachss 💙📚

"Rolex is a negotiable currency in any country in the world, plus you can wrap it around your fist in a fight." Andrew Vachss

Common Moorhen with bb #birds

Wales and Scotland favour independence parties ft.trib.al/tWoPLUS

Traders placed bets totalling more than $7 billion right before major US announcements relating to the Iran war, prompting accusations of rampant corruption in Washington. www.semafor.com/article/05/0...

People talk a lot of nonsense about Korean unification I tell you what. The idea of the NK regime willingly dissolving itself is stupid on its face during the 90s but even more so now. They are quite satisfied with the current arrangement because they have all the money they need despite sanctions

Bear in mind that this is the same administration that unsanctioned a drug-trafficking Hezbollah financier in Paraguay, pardoned a Chinese-Canadian terrorist financier and drug cartel money launderer, dissolved OCDETF, and dropped 1000s of federal drug cases on week 1. apnews.com/article/trum...

"Rocha’s post-government career included time as a special adviser to the commander of the U.S. Southern Command and, more recently, as a tough-talking Donald Trump supporter and Cuba hardliner" apnews.com/article/manu...

This guy was a friend of a friend of mine. There are far too many armed people who are ready to kill at the drop of a hat on the streets of this country.

Three more arrests were made in the October 2025 mass shooting during Lincoln University's homecoming, and prosecutors say the suspects came to campus with the intention of robbing students.

Everyone always looks for some puppet master or mastermind in the shadows to pin this on but the answer is the obvious. The rich and/or fascist are openly talking about being a transnational network to enable corruption, do violence against dissidents and prevent accountability. Stringer Bell, etc.

There is absolutely no reason for Philadelphia to have a sheriff office when the PPD already exists. It is an archaic office that is a relic of when Philadelphia was first founded. It exists as a slush fund of tax payer money filched for corrupt civil servants. Abolish the office and indict everyone

Thought other politicians just hated Mamdami's guts so much because of racism, but he seems to be setting the kind of standards they Really don't want to meet so maybe he scares the shit out of them because he's showing everyone how easy it would be to actually do their damn jobs

Globalization is a trip because what the fuck do you mean that the biggest cocaine seizure in the history of the world just happened and a Dutch man living in Sierra Leone married to the president's daughter masterminded it?

Yessir

Josh Shapiro gives off “dickhead D.A. in a James Ellroy novel whose political ambition is only matched by his appreciation for thugs who bust heads vibes” 110%.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

Good morning. One of the funnest facts there is. www.businessinsider.com/george-const...

Sophocles’ Theban plays have dominated New York theater lately, but many other ancient dramas are crying out to be shared with the modern world. on.wsj.com/4nbUDNo

Walking a mall turns me into Cayce Pollard in my old age.

Not even mafia loan sharks charged a vig like that

“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” Revisit this story from our series “The End of Aid,” a 2026 Pulitzer finalist.

“ Tanaka was tackling that half a century ago,” Konaga laments. “If the Lockheed scandal hadn’t happened and his vision was realized, the current state of regional decline, and perhaps even Japan’s declining birthrate and aging population, might be completely different today."

@jordanharper.bsky.social This was astoundingly good. Far and away the best thing you have written and one of the best novels I have read in the last five years. Immaculately written up to the second neo noir that captures exactly what American life feels like now is inspirational frankly.

It's pretty insane that American culture as we know it would not exist without Prohibition and it was purely unintended. Jazz was popularized and the first real sexual revolution happened in the speakeasies. The bones of urban poltical machines were formed and the modern police state.

Extreme heat is killing American workers.

I take Lexapro. I have taken Lexapro for over two decades. The times that I have discontinued taking Lexapro have ended very badly for me. RFKJ is trying to kill millions of Americans like me. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...

Canada: The Lawrence Bishnoi gang claimed responsibility for a night-time shooting at the Chai Sutta Bar in Surrey, British Columbia, situated next to comedian Kapil Sharma's Kaps Cafe. 1/3

Spain: Over 30 to 45 tons of cocaine were seized aboard the Comoros-flagged cargo vessel Arconian, intercepted at night around 200 miles off Tenerife by a joint Guardia Civil [Civil Guard] operation involving maritime patrols, semirigid boats, and elite intervention units. 1/3

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Generations of Philadelphians worked in the Naval Yard. It supported entire neighborhoods and provided power to the city. It is trippy that a South Korean chaebol is one to revive it. Some things can't be predicted or planned.