the single biggest takeaway i have from this interview is that on top of being profoundly incompetent, bari weiss and her flunkies at CBS are genuinely terrible human beings. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

For decades, mangroves were a cautionary tale. Cleared for shrimp ponds. Bulldozed for palm oil. Lost to coastal development. A new study in Science just changed the headline. 🧵 The economics of one of nature’s biggest quiet comebacks: 📷 David Gross / Ocean Image Bank

Widow’s Bay started great and just gets better with every episode.

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.

i think a certain "i dislike putin but" type of not-even-necessarily-outright-communist person basically thinks that it is value neutral whether or not vilnius is run from moscow. i not only disagree, i think you will find my entire people are willing to /die/ to disagree

"The collapse of the USSR led to a cratering of life expectancy and set the conditions of the rise of Putin" Okay, but do you want to take the next logical step, which is that the USSR very existance set the conditions of its own collapse?

Here's the second and final trailer for our upcoming epic docuseries For the Record: An Incomplete History of Music. First episode out June 25th, free on our YouTube channel. Check out the full release schedule on our Substack.

People are now debating what the proper earring placement is.

Oliver Darcy got the audio of the heated 60 Minutes meeting where Scott Pelley dressed Nick Bilton down! "You know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock." www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

Labour seems to have internalised the Supreme Court judgment as though it was a damning referendum loss that saw the public reject its position, rather than a plainly incorrect reading of a single point of law

We set immigration policy trying to reflect the views of people who understand the least about what's actually going on www.economist.com/britain/2026... It's the opposite of leadership! And not what representative democracy should be about

a lot (most?) people understand racism as “being a meanie” and if you aren’t a meanie then you can’t be racist, even if you believe in, say, the biological inferiority of entire groups of people based on phenotype

Like shooting fish in a barrel

A common feature im noticing is rather than left wing populism being about a belief that the govt can produce material wealth via centralization its just about the idea that market constraints arent real

Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

So, the people claiming the crime rate is going up and that immigrants increase crime are right and the data is wrong?

🚨Elon Musk has boosted the public profile of Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe on X, pulling Britain’s political discourse towards extreme content and amplifying his influence ahead of a knife-edge election in Makerfield More @FT: as.ft.com/r/80f4639f-0...

Absolutely every election autopsy I have seen has the baseline assumption that perceived Democratic failures forced voters into the arms of Trump, which of course just assumes that most people are Democrats in their hearts and there aren't people who would actually like Trump.

The worst* thing is that Labour MPs are paralyzed with the conviction that the UK Labour Party has committed some terrible UK-specific crime to be afflicted ... ... by something experienced in *every liberal democracy in the world*. Including ****ing Japan! Japan!

Obviously the EHRC guidance is unworkable nonsense. It delivers nothing but further confusion and places the onus on organisations to police access without any legal framework to conduct investigations or enforce compliance. It's just a permission slip to be a TERF.

Labour has lost its god damn mind

There we have it - you have to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces (so maybe avoid having them if you can). A bathroom ban from people who recognise that they’re doing a bathroom ban, and feel guilty about it. Shameful. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Whatever your thoughts about The Boys' finale, it made Elon Musk mad, which the show's creator and cast think is hilarious.

New post: Why Labour's current disarray is ultimately the consequence of Osborne’s austerity mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/05/why-... The media's belief that 2010 austerity was necessary led to Corbyn's victory, which then led to Starmer's Blue Labour and their subsequent polling disaster.

Walking very normal today sir. Looking very sober.

It’s kind of insane that in a culture that’s increasingly vocal about pedophiles (as we should be!), the “Michael” movie has a 97% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

tag yourself which are you

Oozing back and just kind of being accepted is a longstanding and highly successful tactic for awful men. This is your friendly reminder that it only works if we let it. Block that waste of space.

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

How dare you imply that people who decided a group of people are more important than the world or that voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil may be ethically at fault in a general sense for where we are today.

Wrote about the importance of adhering to an effective, disciplined nonviolence in fighting the Trump regime, especially given a growing obsession with “heroic” violence online (gift link). www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Same energy.

a proud day at London "2.5 journalists in a trenchcoat" Centric towers! www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-f...

Important announcement: a staycation is where you have time off and stay at home. It is not a holiday away from home in the UK. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

A lot of AI criticism makes me feel like someone says “the automobile has been disastrous for society” and I’m nodding along like “yeah I actually really agree, I think that car centric urban design has-“ and then they add “also it’s a scam, cars break down after more than ten miles anyway”

a critical difference between woke 1 and woke 2 is the understanding that woo is something to be fought tooth and nail

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Certified “actually rural voters are an untapped well of socialists in waiting who love big progressive policy proposals that would help them, if only mean urban liberal elites would stop leaving them behind” moment

A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children. That is his legacy in this world.

Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵

I personally love to read shit like "U.S. Pauses 'Project Freedom'" in headlines. Not all good jokes need to be complicated.

Regret to announce "Project Unstoppable Fury of Incandescent Steel: Inevitable Death on Wings of Fiery Oblivion" has been paused in light of how scary the enemy is. To our foes I have just one message: "uWu, I am but smol."

When Rudy Giuliani dies, remember that he won't be able to see the mean things you post about him. But the rapidly decomposing president who sees him as a political partner and who's worried about his own impending death absolutely will.

elon musk spends two-thirds of his time spreading racist pseudoscience and hating trans people and here is Ezra Klein in 2026 saying Musk is relentlessly focused on the only things that matter to him: EVs and going to Mars. I'm sorry but the guy's just very very dim

So there are crazy headlines, and then there are "I'm sorry WTAF now?" headlines...😳 Yes, the Telegraph have deduced that Ed Miliband hates mothers because of some new legislation making tumble dryers more efficient and cheaper to run! 🧵 1/24

The same people who see Will Stancil as some sort of evil, existential threat to marginal communities also freak out if you say anything bad about one of their emotional support dictators. So I’m just saying maybe they aren’t reliable judges of character

In today’s Vatnik Soup, we introduce Hasan Piker, a Turkish-American streamer and millionaire. He’s best known for his champagne socialism, rabid criticism of the US and Israel, support for the Soviet Union and for Chinese and Russian invasions, and for mistreating his dog. 1/20