I wrote this! Hooray seniors! defector.com/wow-americas...

I love when he decides to riff in the middle of the teleprompter recitation, only making it clear he's not even processing the words as they go from his dead eyes to anus-mouth "Nothing great was ever built -- think of that. Nothing great was ever built without the word momentum at your side."

quote with a fictional band that is not spinal tap

🔵 Brand new comic now up on @boingboing.net - The Supreme Court's Shadow Docket steps out of the shadows, and REVEAL THEIR TRUE IDENTITIES! - boingboing.net/2026/05/20/t...

Barney Frank did more good than harm in his life. I'm sorry he spent his last weeks making a stupid, ill-considered argument that will soon be forgotten. He was an important leader for a long stretch of the gay rights movement, and after that he wasn't. That's what much of our history looks like.

At this point ABC not greenlighting "The Muppet Show" would only make sense of Kermit was openly groping other puppets on set and he's too much of a liability.

The open criminality of what is happening right now in our government is terrifying. Every day, Trump becomes less and less popular more and more nakedly self-interested, all dissent is purged from the party... how does this end? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

Repression no longer stops at borders. AI is helping states surveil, intimidate and silence dissidents, exiled journalists and diaspora communities worldwide—often invisibly. In a new piece in Tech Policy Press, Ana Sofia Harrison and Marlena Wisniak map the tools, the harms and the policy gaps.

¡Viva!

Warren G. Harding, in Hell: “He did WHAT?”

Nothing would better illustrate the problems with corporate media than them seeing a president who's so unpopular he has to hold events in a bunker ballroom and deciding, yes, we should take our place alongside him in the bunker, maybe throw a little black tie party while we're hiding with him?

Trump backed Ken Paxton, a political cartoon of "Corruption" come to life, and now he's shrewdly trying to make the contest about the personal character and behavior of the candidates.

When the history of this sordid second Gilded Age is written, the list of neo robber barons will be long. But one greedy, public-be-damned oligarch stands out even above Musk, Trump, and the rest. His name: Jeff Bezos. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-worst-...

Conservatives won re-election to Georgia’s supreme court, extending a 104-year streak of incumbent victories. Tonight’s victors voted to ban abortion at six weeks and to effectively kill the Georgia prosecution of Trump for his 2020 “find 11,780 votes” interference. boltsmag.org/georgia-supr...

The tent is too big.

Students booed AI hucksters at University of Arizona, University of Central Florida and now Middle Tennessee State University too. For all the media obsession over Fair Harvard, these schools are much more typical of the college experience, so maybe we could get a Big NYT Thinkpiece on this?

Republican voters don't want conservatives anymore. They want cult members.

He's said this a few times, so apparently he actually thinks this is a clever gotcha. It's like saying Democrats weren't protesting Burger King or The Lion King.

this article does a great job calling out rubio for his bullshit. he knows he's more responsible for this than everyone he's trying to blame

KILL YR DOCENT (i am the docent) sluggish.ghost.io/action-looki...

For anyone wondering why the title of that new RuPaul movie sounds so familiar: #filmsky 📽️

Brand-new Peanuts special coming in July, and if you've been sleeping on the new Apple TV specials that have been produced over the past few years, you're missing some of the greatest offshoots from the beloved comic strip.

The insurrectionist pedophile in question is Andrew Paul Johnson and it is public record that he tried to silence his victim(s) with promises of Trump millions for J6.

One of the themes of the final season of THE BOYS are people selling their soul to please the power-made man-child tyrant in the show and him always casting them aside as soon as someone more depraved comes by.

you ever read something so french that you need to go flirt with someone who is not your spouse

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Christy @christylemire.bsky.social and Alonso @aduralde.bsky.social don their battle helmets for a spoiler-free review of The Mandalorian and Grogu #filmsky 📽

Christy @christylemire.bsky.social and Alonso @aduralde.bsky.social face the tough (trivia) questions of the Reactorverse. #filmsky 📽 @thereactorverse.com

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

"One of the things I was most interested in that became quite organic in this film…is the relationship between reality and fiction. I’m endlessly fascinated by that relationship…so that becomes the principle theme in this film." -Pedro Almodóvar on BITTER CHRISTMAS deadline.com/2026/05/pedr...

WARNING: My chapter on what passed for "scandal" during the Carter administration may induce hysterical laughter.

My review of The Mandalorian and Grogu for The Film Verdict #filmsky 📽️

Boss Hijack

Christy @christylemire.bsky.social and Alonso @aduralde.bsky.social break a few twigs over the horror hit Obsession. #filmsky 📽

In November I broke this story about Andrew Paul Johnson, a pardoned J6er who molested children and used the promise of reparations to bribe his victims silence.

The fish rots from the hand up

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUQi... hey check this out.

Jesus Christ, what is going on here.

"Bad cop, bad cop" is a famously effective approach.

“Look, Quibi is here, and it’s inevitable, so you better get on board.” - some investor in February 2020, probably.

Please sign this petition and demand that Comic-Con and the Eisners ban AI from the awards, this year and every year

Pointless to point it out but this DOJ 1.7 billion slush fund is literal Nazi shit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bribery...

Every Democrat needs to hit a microphone right now to say this is gross corruption, we're paying attention to who gets paid off here and we'll do everything we can to claw it back.

Republicans want to spend our tax money rewarding the goons who assaulted Capitol police officers and tried to overthrow an election.

They told him the orange line was approval.

The "resolution" here is a $1.7 billion slush fund that would be used to pay off Trump allies who were prosecuted for their role in a coup against the United States government, which is almost as outrageous as the president arranging a payoff to himself.