new William Gibson book opening line dropped

Imagine if Kamala Harris had done even one thing Trump has done. The media would be in nonstop hysteria, and Republicans would be demanding impeachment. 1/2 #USDemocracy #Pinks l.smartnews.com/p-7RLPLV1C/Y...

We wanted to understand what’s happening with the Strait of Hormuz. So we talked to five raw milk drinkers at an emergency room in Idaho.

Wow 😧 “Members of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) were escorted by police out of the convention center in New Orleans during the organization's annual meeting on Friday as they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research.”

The Teapot Dome scandal involved $400,000 in 1923 dollars. Huge scandal, taught in every HS history book, almost the synonym for "corruption." In 2026 dollars, Teapot Dome was a hair under $8 *M*illion. With an M. Not a B. M. The scope of corruption under Trump 2--plus its nakedness--is epochal.

The Purcell principle now officially just means “Republicans win.” For the reasons Sotomayor lays out here, SCOTUS’s eleventh hour intervention for Alabama Republicans is indefensible. It’s going to unleash massive chaos on the ground for both voters and election administrators. What a disaster.

A new op-ed in the Washington Times finally says the quiet part out loud: Fascism demands sexual repression. "Pornography corrodes the exact social foundation that supports national strength... A society marked by loneliness, weakened families and diminished social trust becomes brittle."

Stephen Colbert had Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen during the final week of his show. Trump can't even get Milli Vanilli.

They Promised to Stop Paying the Men Who Tried to Kill Me. The Promise Lasted Six Hours. open.substack.com/pub/michaelf...

"The florsheims fit fine" should be engraved on his tombstone.

I've interviewed FBI agents in on the raid of the Epstein house who found the cameras and the recordings. He's lying.

Trump attacking Kaitlan Collins: CNN's a very corrupt organization, with a corrupt reporter standing right there, never smiles. Young, beautiful woman, never smiles. I never see a smile on her face. I see her standing with such hatred in her eyes.

It's kind of a problem for the capitalist model when the leadership of a public company whose ostensible job is to maximize shareholder value can take an extremely valuable property like CBS and run it into the ground without any sort of consequence

- story leaks - White House calls it fake news - Trump confirms the initial story - White House pretends they never denied it - repeat

Nick Bilton is both a hack and a thin-skinned little punk, nothing more. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/b...

Lol the fucking balls on these guys. You're the ones changing the rules in the middle of the election! The people trying to stop this are just asking to keep the current map!

The president took your money illegally and he won’t give it back

some good comparisons in the latest IEA report on server racks. These numbers are just fundamentally bonkers iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/3179f...

This was always obviously the trajectory. 1. It's not happening 2. It's happening but nothing to do with us. 3. OK, we did it, but it's too late to stop it.

My only regret of ‘Spiderman-Noir’ was watching the first 3 episodes in color. And by the time I switched to black and white? The series was even better and it was brilliant w/ the color scheme. Just amazing, scene chewing crime noir, start to finish in each episode. Love the technique 🤘

The correct answer to "do you love trans kids" is: "Of course I do. Why is your entire response to me about how much you hate children?"

Must read op-ed regarding Lik Marco. I may be out of gift links but will post the text for anyone who want to read it. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/o...

Ok. I just want to underline and re-emphasize. The level of stupidity of this statement is completely beyond all sense. If you uttered this you should lose your job immediately. You should have rotten fruit thrown at you whenever you are seen in public.

Gifting this article 🎁 I don’t understand. Who can defend this? How stupid is this country? How stupid are our Senators? Are we really thinking that simply shorting ourselves in the face is going to make us better off? Why isn’t this a complete outrage? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

The US is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure

i used to think rfk jr. was a crank. now i think he’s possibly the most actively evil and murderous member of the trump admin, even more so than stephen miller, and my revulsion towards and hatred of him grows with each new horror.

It's difficult to wrap one's head around the level of megalomania, delusions of grandeur, and zero-empathy encompassed in this response – and yet we see Trump display it multiple times per day.

I've met Nick Bilton a couple times and he's a friend of friends, so I'm going to be diplomatic here: he's a vichy collaborator who took on the job of destroying a load-bearing beacon of journalistic truth on behalf of a right-wing billionaire bc Pres DJT got his wittle feewings hert. Shame!

As President, I would read 10 letters a day sent to me by ordinary Americans. At the Obama Presidential Center, we’ll have some of the letters I read — and responded to — every night. I still get emotional reading them, and it’s one of my favorite exhibits.

Pride was born as a riot, and has always been an act of defiance. During my life, I survived an internment camp. I came out at 68. I've watched rights get won and now watch them being rolled back. Yet I'm still here, still proud, and still holding Brad's hand.

It’s important to take a beat & say it out loud. This is the president of the United States. How undignified. How diminishing of our country. You wouldn’t let your kids talk like this, so why are you willing to tolerate it from the leader of your country?

I'm old enough to remember when Obama put up a basketball hoop at one end of the White House tennis court and conservatives absofuckinglutely lost their shit, saying he was "defiling the people's house." Those people are silent how because conservatism is just hypocrisy spelled differently.

It’s just stunning. The White House trailer park.

I believe Xi made a deal with Trump: Look the other way on Taiwan, and in exchange Beijing will purchase enough Trump meme coins to make him wealthier than the CEOs who accompanied him at the summit.

It's 'Deal-A-Day' Donald.

Gov. Mikie Sherrill's mishandling of protests outside the Newark ICE detention center, with violent state troopers running amok, is a national embarrassment To make it worse, Sherrill invoked the vile "outside agitator" trope of 1960s segregationists My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/miki...

Greg Bovino and the head of New York's Young Republicans were in Portugal this weekend for a neo-fascist summit on ethnic cleansing. So why didn't the press cover it? My latest for @theredoubt.net, on extremism, antisemitism and media double standards: www.theredoubt.net/why-did-the-...

What an absolute mess and a complete disgrace!

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

Last one.

Wemby so big, he uses a trophy as a rostrum😂🤘

Like maybe this should be a major topic of debate in this country, but nah let's bitch about cracker barrel or some shit.

@jaketapper.bsky.social Taking this nonsense at face value? I mean, you were plenty skeptical of Brandon’s rosy prognosis from his medical team but Trump - the 80 year old pushing 240 lbs - is in ‘excellent’ health? Okay…… www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/u...

If you want the perfect vignette for the Trump years? Actual medical professionals have no problem lying about Trump’s physical condition. ‘Excellent health’? The 80 year old who gorges on McDonalds daily and never exercises? Sure….

Since they tried to bury it, you know what to do. Video: xcancel.com/patriottakes...

One reason Republicans have had lots of political success in recent years (i.e., control of all three branches of government, the majority of governors and most state legislatures) is because their movement is underpinned by the threat of state and state-sponsored violence.

Greg Bovino will speak at a white nationalist conference in Portugal tomorrow. He will share the stage with no fewer than five people who idolize Hitler, including one who joined a group created by two Nazi SS members. Another guy is a self-described racist who refers to women as "cockroaches."🧵

Putin's cabal must be brought to trial for crimes in Ukraine. With this plan, the world can do that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The most conservative dudes out there want the most socialist policies in MLB.

Ben Meiselas reports on Pam Bondi’s deposition today where she refused to take the oath, refused to filmed, and refused to answer questions on Trump as her deposition instantly went sideways. youtu.be/hvItWHe0dqc?...