The Republican-led DOJ is handing out checks to Trump's MAGA Republican terrorists and investigating his rape victims. Bravo, America. We're a Banana Republic. www.cnn.com/2026/05/27/p...

If I’m sitting at 35% approval the thing I definitely want to do is to cause apocalyptic levels of chaos at all of America’s largest airports

I just did a quick catch-up on the Billy McFarland saga, beginning with his release from prison, and have decided he's the perfect successor to Trump as the standard-bearer of the GOP.

Here's a good explanation of why oil production can't just easily be shut down then restarted: www.aljazeera.com#flips-639643...

Former Communist Party USA leader Earl Browder reportedly said, "I have no interest in microbiology," some years after his expulsion from the party. If the CPUSA's tiny remnants were microbial, then the post-SDS wing of the fringe left I was in during the 1970s could be described as nanobiology.

As much pseudoscientific and cult-ready nonsense as neurolinguistic programming (NLP) represents, it's easy to see the appeal. Flipping a switch and turning fear into hope, or a mindset of failure into one of success, is obviously attractive.

Can Donald Trump conjure grifts so immense and appalling that even Republican Senators can no longer swallow them? This revolt would be a lot easier if those dissenting were vertebrates, but to paraphrase Rumsfeld, you go into battle with the legislature you have.

Even with the prospect of the Trump ass-kissing GOP being punished in the midterms, I'm still pessimistic that the U.S. can get on a track toward sanity, compassion, and progress. I wish I had the same idealism and optimism I had 50 years ago, but I don't.

Just endured all of that interview with Jeff Bezos. Too much money contorts any human being. And what was once a man is now, for the rest of the world, a fully metastasized cancer.

Fuck it. Let's try.

EXCELLENT news this morning: Officers Dunn and Hodges sue to dissolve the "Anti-Weaponization Fund" that will most certainly be used to fund further insurrectionist activity www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

i think it is a solid sign of how fundamentally checked out bezos is from the actual state of american politics that he is mouthing the cliches of 20 years ago as if they are novel insights

Senator Bill Cassidy compromised all his values to confirm RFK Jr and he still lost his senate seat in a primary.

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

the trump administration assertion that it is “unlawful” for private organizations to pursue diversity is nonsense. what this is, once again, is an effort to roll back desegregation that the ABA has surrendered to.

A "whistleblower" claimed the CIA raided Tulsi's office and Fox News ran it as breaking news even though Gabbard's own office said it never happened. Unfortunately, Fox viewers live in an alternate reality and will never actually fact-check this.

Here's further evidence that shooting down multi-thousand-dollar drones with multi-million-dollar missiles can deplete a stockpile pretty quickly. OTOH, Lockheed Martin seems pretty onboard with that strategy.

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

We are now assured that ICE will not be at World Cup games. From the same administration that assured us that it would release the Epstein files, get prices under control, and would not start any wars.

virgnia foxx is one of those low key members who has been abjectly horrible her entire time in office. a total degenerate.

Every mook who ever sat at the Algonquin Roundtable is now spinning in their holes, thinking, fuck, I made everything way too complicated.

This presumes something false: That social media platforms are actually a digital marketplace of ideas wherein robust debate occurs that changes the minds of those so engaged. Horseshit. Shards of rhetoric turn no one. This platform can gather, rally and encourage the sentient and sane. That's it.

Perfect campaign ad for the upcoming Midterms. 👌

This bill signed into law by Gov. Kemp, intended to undercut Black political power, is stunningly racist, period, and should be remembered as a cornerstone of his legacy.

WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."

In my angrier moods, I want to stop calling the current SCOTUS the Roberts Court and begin calling it the Taney Court. It's the same freakin' court for a different century.

This installment of "Ingredient Combinations to Horrify my Wife" features this morning's breakfast: Steel cut oats, blueberries, walnuts, chopped red and yellow sweet peppers, olive oil and chili powder.

As part of my editorial tasks, I have to read every DOJ public information release, and that department has become a horrifying enforcement arm of the most extreme racist and culture war backlash. Whoever cleans up this astonishing mess will have to oust anyone on board with it.

funniest thing i’ve ever seen

A Baltimore bakery truck was struck by a United Airlines plane coming in for a landing at Newark Airport. If this were under Mayor Pete’s watch, Fox would be running it until Christmas.

striking that wurman is basically unable to grapple with the real world and turns instead to a shallow formalism that leads him to positions such as "interpretation of congressional statutes in furtherance of rights is exactly the same executive orders meant to strip rights away."

For most of my older years (I'm about to turn 75), I've been opposed to abrupt radical change and favored incremental reforms. The Trump administration and its enablers have changed that.

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

In the event the Iranian negotiators are all 11-year-old boys who have supped heavily on Nintendo, we are going to quickly resolve this heedless, disastrous war. Otherwise, no. This is not going to impress any grown-ups engaged.

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

The amusement park should rebrand the roller coaster from "Superman: the Ride" to "Lex Luthor's walk of terror"

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

The John Roberts Court has done more to reduce the political power of poor people and Black people while enlarging the voting rights of rich people and corporations than has any court since Roger Taney was Chief Justice in the 1800s. I opposed his nomination in 2005, and I stand by that.

if only Louis XVI had had a ballroom he might be alive today

Hearing from Trumpists and their fellow travelers today, I've come to realize that if we build a huge, gilded ballroom at every elementary and secondary school in America, our schoolchildren will be so much safer from the scourge of constant gun violence.

WaPo reports the Trump administration ousted National Science Board members. I predict they'll be replaced by a snake handler, an Ascended Masters loon, a Scientologist, and a guy wearing an aluminum foil hat who just waves his arms around screaming "They're in my head! They're in my head!"

Correct.

I'm feeling burnt out this morning. Usually, Mondays are my optimistic days. It's the beginning of the week, and there's not enough time for things to start going terribly wrong 😀 But this week I'm six hours into my schedule, and have the sense of dread usually reserved for my Wednesdays.

If you love American music, this is monumental. The clarity on this discovered test pressing reveals Johnson's genius to an even greater degree than the '61 re-release of his 29 songs. You can hear the stabbing slide and delicate fingering on every string. Amazing.

The LDS is taking a break from continuing Jodi Hildebrandt's noble crusade against the evils of masturbation to sue John Dehlin for using the word "Mormon" in a podcast clearly intended to focus on stories of ex-Mormons.

Here we go again. Trump blathers about negotiations. The other party in potential negotiations says no negotiations are taking place. It's astonishing to me that one person, in collusion with a corrupted party, can do such lasting damage to U.S. standing.

Can’t wait to hear about the new “peace deal” Monday around 7:30 AM before the markets open.

Facts, according to Pete 😳😳😳😡