Washington Nat'l Opera sues the Kennedy Center alleging that the Center STOLE the opera's endowment. WNO had a longterm agreement where KC ran the opera's development back office, and in 2025 KC just ... stopped doing it and seized the funds. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Just three years after conservative activists swore off Bud Light over a high-profile marketing controversy, the beer brand's logo is front and center inside the massive UFC stadium erected on the South Lawn.

Just ran across the most cursed AI feature. I'm trying to focus and work and tune out my 9 year old being loud behind me and so I'm listening to Elliot Smith and after 1 song an AI DJ pops up to talk about the music.

NEW: Our visual analysis suggests the U.S. hit two drinking-water facilities overnight in southern Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. w/ @ckoettl.bsky.social @johnismay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...

And it is not his fucking house.

his brain is leaking out of his ears on live national television

losing an election so bad you start farting around everywhere

it's hard to know if the US hit civilian water facilities on purpose. I'?m sure Plantir targeted something right next these water plants. oh wait. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...

We need a new US foreign policy that promotes peace and solidarity Mu conversation with @ezraklein.bsky.social @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/o...

lol

The US is hosting the World Cup and just turned away Africa’s top referee at the airport 3 days before kickoff because of where he was born. Omar Artan had a valid visa. He had a historic assignment. They didn’t care. Disgraceful. #USDemocracy #Pinks newrepublic.com/post/211508/...

tired: blaming the end of the Knicks’ playoff win streak on Donald Trump wired: blaming the end of the Knicks’ playoff win streak on Rahm Emanuel

This will go down as a major stain on FIFA and its World Cup before a ball has even been kicked. Infantino has been banging on about the most inclusive World Cup and Africa’s top referee can’t even get into the country. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/w...

As Usual he doesn’t know what he is Talking About!

This is another example of the X/Twitter extremism bubble leaving these people detached from reality.

Politico wrote a 10K word piece on Ric Grenell's effort to influence Venezuela that doesn't mention Chris Kise is Trump's former criminal defense attorney and Harry Sargeant funded much of Rudy's effort to frame Joe Biden in 2019. Aaron Schock plays a part. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

this is basically correct. I'll add that theatrical box office is one of the only "objective" measurements of a movie's popularity — stuff can be a "hit" or "bomb" on Netflix and the company will never share their internal metrics with anyone (except some implausible bragging about watch time)

ICE just reported the 19th death in immigration detention. Staff at Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana found 43-year-old Mamuka Artmeladze unresponsive the night of June 4. He died less than an hour later.

What an odd thing to say

OK! So my suspicion here is that the role of AI in this fiasco is overexaggerated because the company is trying to find a scapegoat that isn't "Korean Starbucks is run by conservatives and Korean conservatives' brains have rotted from the inside out."

LinkedIn, you've outdone yourself with this nightmare.

A Koch-connected school choice contractor could get $2 million from Florida taxpayers open.substack.com/pub/jasongar...

I sat down with @rweingarten.bsky.social to talk about AI and whether US schools need a major tech detox. slate.com/podcasts/wha...

I feel like we’re in for many years of “haha, they were spending taxpayer money on bug condoms—DOGE to the rescue!” turning out to be something important Elon’s Tween Team didn’t understand.

SCOTUS is allowing Alabama to reinstate a racially discriminatory map ahead of this year's midterm elections, despite past precedent establishing that legislative districts can't be drawn to disadvantage voters based on race. This is disgusting & wrong. (1/2) www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

there have to be better ways to word this

we live in amazing times

U.S. House votes to adopt a war powers resolution to effectively end the War in Iran, 215 to 208. Four Republicans voted for it: Tom Barrett (MI-07), Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01), Warren Davidson (OH-08) and Thomas Massie (KY-04). 1/2

For all those who keep insisting that Bluesky is dead or dying... Bluesky is where you can get actual engagement with real humans.

Read this. Izzy Aly is dying of kidney disease because he is in a U.S. concentration camp. www.inquirer.com/opinion/izzy...

As I said, "it was a political hire." We know that because Bari Weiss had no experience in broadcast news, and none as a reporter. That by itself is astounding. Now the people from CBS still fighting have to make sure that the "political hire" story comes out. Variety: variety.com/2026/tv/news...

In a statement to @benmullin.bsky.social, Scott Pelley disputes what Bari Weiss said in this morning's editorial meeting, claiming he was never offered "a way back" as she claimed. "These executives cannot gain the trust of the staff with lies. This is antithetical to everything we stand for..."

It's the first day of the general election, and what are we doing? We're sharing our full 100 town hall tour schedule – well in advance – so you know when I'll be in your neighborhood this year. Democrats, Republicans, and independents are all welcome.

This is truly one of the worst things the court has done — both in terms of legitimacy and in terms of the law — since I have been covering the court.

"Stonewall means fight back!"

The race to undermine freedom of the press 250 years after our country’s founding. Voting has become so much more important..

lmao of course. by the standards alito has set out, there is effectively no such thing as intentional discrimination in voting. also, so much for the purcell principle!

sorry this should be legal

voting for @zachwahls.bsky.social and @robsandia.bsky.social - yes, it's true the two year old inherited my hair.

After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Minnesota GOP convention has moment of silence for Derek Chauvin www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Happy Strait of Hormuz Opening Anchored for Simplicity Day to those who celebrate.

* IRAN'S TASNIM NEWS AGENCY: THERE WILL BE NO TALKS UNTIL IRAN'S DEMANDS ON CESSATION OF ISRAELI OPERATIONS IN LEBANON AND GAZA ARE MET @reuters.com

it's so refreshing to see communities coming together to preserve a part of their local ancestry for all the world to enjoy for years to come. share.google/XVb6uqZEcRcG...

Iowa! Zach is the real deal, come out and support him.

subtle.

The person organizing this conference that Greg Bovino is speaking at is Martin Sellner, a neo-Nazi activist. Sellner, among other things, corresponded and agreed to meet with the man who went on to murder 51 worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, NZ in 2019 www.theguardian.com/world/2019/m...

we could have a safety net but that would be communism -