Lucy, Little Lucie, and Desi Jr www.tumblr.com/retropopc…

🤖 Mitch’s newsletter 5.22.2026: https://newsletter.mitchwagner.com/2026/05/22/mitchs-newsletter.html

Heather Cox Richardson. ”Congress left for the holiday weekend a day early today after a number of Republican members of Congress appear to have mutinied against President Donald J. Trump and his loyalists.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-21-2026

The Iran war draws to a close with the US weakened, Iran much stronger, and Israel screwed. Iran, rather than the US, will be the leading power in the region and a bi-partisan anti-Israel consensus is growing and hardening in the US, among both Republicans and Democrats.

Gentleman unintentionally crashes a beach fashion show and usurps the spot of lead model. “I wouldn’t have had double dessert the night before — or the lunch before that — if I was going to be baring my belly to the world,” he said. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/w...

Women won’t date men with cats. It’s science!

The Trump FCC is using false claims of immigrant fraud to drive up the cost of broadband for everyone. By Karl Bode at Techdirt.

The Qanon Shaman is now anti-Trump: https://mitchwagner.com/2026/05/21/the-qanon-shaman-is-now.html

The Democrats finally released the 2024 election autopsy: https://mitchwagner.com/2026/05/21/the-democrats-finally-released-the.html

Picton Reading Room, Liverpool Central Library. #bibliophile www.tumblr.com/cleverlys…

Confederates Weren’t Punished Enough And Now We’re Here. “The trick to understanding the necrotic pageantry of modern American, Christian, Southern conservatism is realizing that the Civil War never actually ended in any meaningful moral sense.” By David Gate.

🤖 Mitch’s newsletter 5.17.2026: https://newsletter.mitchwagner.com/2026/05/17/mitchs-newsletter.html

You are the author of the 13-year-old post.

Umm, okay.

Finished reading: The Winds of Gath by E.C. Tubb 📚1967 space opera about an interstellar drifter searching for the lost world he was born on, a mythical planet called “Earth.” A light, easy read with clever gimmicks. I guess I’ll read the next book in the series one day.

Here’s something I saw while walking the dog one afternoon in February 2019.

🤖 Mitch’s newsletter 5.11.2026: https://newsletter.mitchwagner.com/2026/05/11/mitchs-newsletter.html

Watched: R.J. Decker S1E1, Pilot. This is the perfect tv show for me. Carl Hiaasen meets the Rockford Files. 12/10 no notes. 🍿

I don't use dictation on my desktop. I have spent a lot of time typing every day for my entire adult life and much of my teens. I am as comfortable typing as I am speaking — maybe more comfortable.

Typing Is Being Replaced by Whispering—and It’s Way More Annoying. Workspaces are starting to resemble high-end call centers, only these employees are talking to AI. “It’s just a little awkward.” By Kate Clark at the Wall Street Journal.

An explanation of why the buns are askew on Japanese McDonald’s ads. This takes a turn at the end.

My colleague Steve Saunders interviews Blair Levin, policy analyst with New Street Research and chief architect of the 2010 National Broadband Plan on AI, infrastructure and why the U.S. is falling behind. www.fierce-network.com/broadband/a...

The Iran war is reducing demand for fossil fuels and driving the world toward renewables for everybody but the US, writes @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.meditationsinanemergency.com/truth-conse...

The Other Reasons Why Podcasting is Hot — Doc Searls

We shouldn’t use AI to replace doctors. We should use it to replace patients

🔥 AOC on whether she'll run for Senate or President in 2028: "They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go... But single payer healthcare is forever. A living wage, worker's rights are forever. ✊🏼

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...