The first thing the editor in chief of the Roosevelt school newspaper did when she got home was hug her father. Then she opened her computer and started to type. Her article went viral. Lila Dominguez said running the newspaper during the ICE surge showed her “the power of truth.”

It's honestly remarkable how striking the similarities are between Roberts and Taney, both are partisans of a dead faction (Taney the last Jacksonian Democrat, and Roberts the last Country Club Republican) who thought One Decisive Judicial Writ that would settle a fundamentally political question

He's right. The Right is hoping their tears and outrage are enough to keep anyone from stopping their madness. Do it anyway and fuck the bastards for bringing us to this point with their parasocial bullshit.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Men aren't lonely enough.

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

We need a European-style centre-right party to represent certain populations that can acknowledge a government that actually governs according to the will of the people, which means it won't always include them. Anything else can be relegated to the sidelines.

MAGA Catholics are sectarian idolators and apostates, but this goes beyond schism within the Catholic Church. Posner makes the essential observation that fascist ideologues like Bannon consider the Pope a “globalist”, by virtue of heading of a global religion beyond their tyrant’s grasp.

I wrote about how young and fragile multiracial democracy actually is, about why Reconstruction is such a crucial historical reference point especially now - and what lessons and implications its rise and fall offer as we are now facing the second “Redemption.”

The day has finally arrived. You can now *officially* watch puffins live from the Farne Islands, 24 hours a day: bit.ly/4tRz72T Please enjoy these puffins kissing in celebration of this momentous event.

We are living in Veep

Class in the US is entirely a matter of aesthetics now. Rich suburban kids are “country”. Beard Dudes who look like they love IPAs are “working class.” Teachers who make $32,000 a year but have to dress up sort of nice in JCPenney clothes are “elites“. None of these words mean anything anymore.

"No, no, great job, you disintegrated the first-ever pedestrian-only planet. You drove a million miles just to ruin a perfectly lovely living space."

Operation YOLO is going as predicted.

“We’ve had vicious kings, and we’ve had idiot kings. But I don’t think we’ve ever been cursed with a vicious idiot for a king.”

We are absolutely living in the dumbest fucking timeline

"AI is viewed not only as a normal technology, but an elite political project to be resisted … a thing manufactured by out-of-touch billionaires and pushed onto an unwilling public.” trib.al/Ol22Lho

It's interesting to be on the outside of the Right now looking in and see just how many policies boil down to, 'Why don't you want to die for us?'

That recession is here

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only: Chernobyl Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister The West Wing Justified Poirot 24 (family reasons) The Sopranos Luther Hannibal Mad Men Better Call Saul Severance The Terror Battlestar Galactica The Americans

Welcome to free markets. You take risks based on imperfect information, sometimes they work and you make $$$$, sometimes they don't and you get hosed.

“Like Hitler’s invasion of the USSR, Operation Epic Fury at first seemed to be successful. But just as Hitler’s dreams collapsed with the siege of his forces at Stalingrad, Trump’s dreams of conquest met its match when Iran used a few speedboats and some mines to lay siege to the Strait of Hormuz.”

As a marine, paratrooper, and engineer, the beaver can perform the roles of three different branches of the US military at once, making it the world's deadliest troop

For my generation, the 1965 Voting Rights Act wasn't just a law but a statement that we were never again going backwards on race. I saw Black political power thrive in the '80s, and never thought I'd live to see the VRA get crushed What do we do now? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/supr...

There it is. Any questions?

“We could see the largest drop in Black representation since the end of Reconstruction." Garrison Hayes, Ari Berman, and Pema Levy discuss the Supreme Court's death blow to the Voting Rights Act of 1965—the law that defeated Jim Crow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajPY...

"Let’s be real, there was no way to predict that sending a violent, untrained militia of legionaries into a volatile protest would lead to a fatal stabbing of a citizen. Nor could you predict it the second time either. I mean, come on."

trump literally broke the scale of this graph on my data portal www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data

I don’t think a lot of people are prepared to consider the creepy, abusive, and invasive implications of this. There is no camera that only sees what you want it to see.

US real GDP grew at an annualized q/q rate of +2.0% in 1Q2026, up from +0.5% in 4Q2025. This fell below market expectations of +2.2%.

-looks around the US- ...Gee I wonder why...

When the Court upheld legislaures' ability to do *partisan* gerrymanders in 2019, Roberts went on and on about how partisan gerrymandering was unfortunate, but not illegal. Today's decision turns partisan gerrymandering into a complete defense of racial gerrymandering. It's really gross.

The truth is, and yes, I'm tapping the sign once again, Ai was put out to market far before it was ready and too many people pumped money into it before it was time to. The result is a toddler of a technology expected to write its doctoral thesis next year. And if it doesn't, the economy collapses.

Capitalism didn't ban building dense housing. Homeowners did. Capitalism didn't ban taking in boarders in much of the country. Homeowners did. Capitalism didn't create legal causes of action to sue over housing developments. Anticapitalist environmentalists like Ralph Nader did.

A real banger from @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/o...

Living through The Masque of Red Death was not on my bingo card

I'm not the first to note this but AI psychosis just seems to be "experience what it's like to have yes men" and shows what has happened to any billionaire who has any kind of public profile

Seeing as the Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister is in Islamabad on orders from Iranian leadership, I think they know who is in charge.

“This is why Trump is stuck, he’s constantly thinking about one more tool of escalation that would eventually, magically, conjure the kind of victory he has in mind," said @alivaez.bsky.social. My piece on why Trump's threats to Iran aren't forcing talks in the @theobserveruk.bsky.social

Iran has plenty of people negotiating. They just have no reason to say Yes to anything the US proposes.

Clearly what MAGA proved is that they think someone will always be there to pull them away before they touch the hot stove. Im glad a plurality of the country is now on the side of ‘Hold the fucking thing there until it burns black’ since no other lesson will work.

"I was ABSOLUTELY told that the Democrats would be bringing knives to the gun fight. What the fuck are they doing bringing guns?" --a whole lot of Republicans looking at the results from Virginia right now

Somehow, Trump broke through his floor, which means the diehard MAGA wing is starting to check out. No reason to celebrate yet, because America’s most special boy still has a long way to fall.

The man who introduced obligatory vaccinations to the US Army was George Washington.

I'm so tired of this "false sense of victimization" these weak men feel. "Oh no, women don't worship. Women don't want me. Women are too independent. Women should be sex toys. Women shouldn't have rights." Like fuck that. Only weak men are screaming victimization.

I still have a copy of The Forgotten Man. The thing that struck me then, and frankly now, is if you read the entire that Shlaes proves New Dealers were correct and explains why every President since then have had some sort of major spending program as their top-line domestic priority.