Men are too emotional to be president.

Bari Weiss not beating the bootlicking propagandist allegations here:

University rankings are deeply problematic. But in an era where accreditors and AAUP don’t censure over lack of shared governance, a penalty by US News in their college rankings might be the only remaining stick. #AcademicSky

Adorable young kestrels surprised by a butterfly.

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

“If the government decides, very quickly, to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty... nothing can be done?” asked Judge Patricia Millett. “I think that’s right, yes,” responded DOJ attorney Yaakov Roth www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

Photos of newly arrived immigrants at Ellis Island. Augustus Sherman took the photos between 1902 and 1920 when he worked as the Chief Registry Clerk. Striking to me how the outfits all look good because they have a discernible silhouette (shape and drape).

Bribes. They're bribes.

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.

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

Meta's tax rate for the first quarter of this year was negative 23%. That's in large part because Zuckerberg's company received a tax benefit from the government of $8.03 billion.

Why do people refuse to help others in distress? Young kids are often willing to help. But eventually they start developing excuses to avoid action. Only when they are given permission do they return to high levels of helping behavior. www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/the-roots-...

#nba finals: who to root for? I'm a #Suns fan, and the Spurs have been our natural enemy for quite a while But... I live in #Spurs territory, and most of my friends are rooting for them. But... my daughter lives in NYC, so there's a family #Knicks connection. So... go #nba!

“… Ken Paxton released Adam Hoffman — a self-admitted child sex abuser — from jail after one of Paxton’s wealthy lawyer friends got involved in the case.” “Paxton even kept him off the sex offender registry. Now Hoffman is back on our streets because of Ken Paxton’s corruption.”

Uhhhh What the hell?? New Ohio poll shows Trump is underwater in Ohio by 15 POINTS! Sherrod Brown 53% Jon Husted 45% Either this is a blinking red light for Trump or Fox News's polling is on crack. www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...

The heart of our constitutional crisis in one exchange between me and Sec. Mullin. When asked a simple question - if he will obey court orders - he says he will not because some court orders are "politicized". That's not how democracy works. And that's why we are in a crisis.

Rep. Madeleine Dean: "What is true is that the president has lied about being on Epstein's plane, and the unredacted files prove that. There's a lot in here. It's all covered up."

L - GOP Rep and MI senate candidate Mike Rogers actual photo from the campaign trail. R - Photo put out by staffer.

the current director of national intelligence is a guy who two years ago received a trophy declaring he “Fucks Only The Young” at an (oddly dildo focused) event he organized dedicated to the conspiracy that Bed Bath and Beyond never actually went bankrupt

it is very simple folks. "unqualified DEI hire" is when you're not a white male, "merit-based promotion" is when you are a white male and also pete hegseth's personal assistant. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

“.. No female officers were included on the new one-star list, .. despite the fact that women make up about 21 percent of the active-duty Navy. The list appears to include only two nonwhite officers, even though .. minorities make up about 38 percent ..” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

BREAKING: Mayor Mamdani just signed an “executive order” to repeal bedtime so NYC kids can watch the Knicks play in the NBA Finals!

The debate about tariffs “has largely centered on two options: Either companies would pass on .. or ‘eat’ the tariffs .. Now we know that there was a third option: Pass on some of the costs and pay for the remainder by suppressing wages ..” @bobburgess.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Ossoff/AOC 2028

Watched a video of staff scraping Gloria anzaldua's name and the rest of the Mexican American and Latino Studies logo off the office door at UT

Listening to this… www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...

we don't have a masculinity crisis. we have a patriarchy crisis. patriarchy creates and sustains male unhappiness with its dogmatic, toxic, rigid definition of masculinity which says the worst and most undesirable thing a human can be is female which is how we get insults like "Low-T Talarico"

"Ken Paxton has a criminal record. I have a legislative record.” James Talarico

From the Congregatio de propaganda fide (“Congregation for propagating the faith”) — better known as the Inquisition. Which is an excuse to reup my favorite Emo Philips bit.

My Go Big or Go Home thoughts for this Saturday: I make the case for why we should consider amending the Constitution to create a fourth branch open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

in general I think popular discourse confuses "vices that were downplayed, excused, or ignored for men's benefit" with "traits that were upheld as masculine virtues" and this phenomenon is part of why: these particular men not only have few if any virtues but single out their vices for broadcasting

The neat thing about these big numbers is either it doesn't happen, & we still need to put in the work, or it does happen & the work was gravy. There is no world where we have any choice but to put in the work, & there is no world where we shouldn't be proud of the work we do to win this November.

An indisputable indicator of media bias is that for the last 11 years almost every story about Democrats in the mainstream media has been told from the POV of what Trump and Republicans say about them

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i saw this like an hour ago and am still laughing at this dramaticass little snake lil guy really went 'aaah i've been murdered!' tongue all flopping out of its mouth n shit like 'goodbye cruel world!' lmao

The Regime will now require all federal scientific research funding to undergo political review. Do you want your science to be fact-based or MAGA-based?

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Here's why so much election analysis is basically useless: A race decided by a point and a half can be blamed on almost anything. Most party autopsies don't stand the test of time, and the narratives that get pushed are mainly exercises in confirmation bias www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-29...

EPB: “.. Real personal income per capita is falling apart. .. It's now $3,842 below the 2009-2020 trend and accelerating lower.”

It's always been weird to me that cats are coded feminine when they exhibit the traits society demands of men (independence, defiance, moodiness) while dogs are coded masculine while exhibiting the traits society demands of women (loyalty, subservience, service/labor)

NEW: When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism. We found that the request came directly from the White House.

Ken Paxton just gave an Epstein-style deal to a pedophile. Paxton released Adam Hoffman — an admitted child rapist — back on our streets after Paxton’s rich lawyer friend got involved. The Epstein Class has no place in Texas. Ken Paxton has no place in the US Senate.

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

the challenge for talarico and dems will not just be repeating this accusation over and over again, but telling the story over and over again, so that voters understand the words "adam hoffman" as a synecdoche for the entire case against Paxton every time they are invoked.

"These five “myths” all point to the same meta-lesson: the most famous social psych findings are often right about the phenomenon (people conform, obey, ignore, rationalize harm), but wrong about the psychological process." open.substack.com/pub/powerofu...

all this stuff is just barely-veiled code for "talarico is a [f-slur] and you're one too if you vote for him"

Talarico puts out his first digital ad focusing on Ken Paxton's corruption. #TXSen www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpGB...

I apologize to those with strong feelings about flavor, but the reason Coke Zero is beating Diet Coke is that "diet" = "feminine," and the essence of modern "masculinity" is hatred of everything seen as feminine. This the same reason Donald Trump is popular From soda to politics, #it'sallgender.

Ok this is a truly great tweet

One of the least surprising insights of our survey is that non-tenured faculty are more afraid overall. I am non-tenured myself. I helped produce the report, and I'm willing to boost & talk about it. Some of us have to, however prudently, while the risk is mid. #yalereport aaupyale.org/report/