@bsky.app @support.bsky.team @safety.bsky.app Please rethink your ban on Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social He's one of the best accounts here. Frankly, the fact you've banned him makes me question being on this site—I've followed him for years here & on Twitter & never seen him post anything banworthy.

After spending $14 million in taxpayer funds, Trump's renovations to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool are peeling off and floating to the surface

My neighborhood made the NY Times. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/r...

Oh and this guy

Trump compared to Obama

It’s hard to read the New Testament without getting the sense that the worst people in the world have the most wealth. But try telling that to MAGA-fied Christians. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/t...

ROTFLMFAO!

Thunderstorms are currently forecasted for Trump’s birthday in Washington, DC this Sunday when the UFC fight is set to take place on the White House lawn.

THE GAME WAS CLEARLY RIGGED THE SPURS WERE WAY AHEAD AND WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE THAT SUDDENLY THE KNICKS GOT ALL THOSE POINTS AND WON?

My dog and his friends.

So this is their plan to combat rising egg prices?

Face Eating Leopard Eats Faces.

Fyi, comments are only open until June 15th. If you would like to tell the National Park Service what you think of this monstrosity, do it now.

Share this three minute video of @hollybfletcher.bsky.social before the National Capital Planning Commission hearing today on the Trumpal Arch if it speaks for you too. youtu.be/TP4v40ax_uw?...

Just spent some time looking for flights to visit my 89-year mother on the opposite coast. I checked dates in July, August, September, and October, and the prices are much higher than I want to pay.

The number is way bigger than you think: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

NEW: A stunning new project from @lawfaremedia.org's @katherinepomps.bsky.social finds that 97 Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the Capitol riot then got arrested, charged, and/or convicted with subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported.

Stealling a bit from @gelbach.bsky.social: wow

NEWS: A @lawfaremedia.org report finds that *97* Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the attack were arrested, charged, or convicted of subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported. Incredible work by @katherinepomps.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Listened this morning, for the first time in perhaps 15 years, to Stravinsky’s late 1940s recording of The Rite of Spring. Some impressions: 1) The performance noticeably quicker than many that you’d hear today (or, for that matter, over the past 60 years or so).

David Costello is also there! He seems nice. www.costelloforsenate.com

And so what we're ending up with is an array of people on the left who are effectively speedrunning what happened on the right: they've found a guy whose (claimed) policy preferences they like and who they think is likely a winner, and they'll engage in whatever cognitive contortions they need to in

Graham Platner is your reminder that the big advantage Republicans have going into the mid-term elections is that they’ll be running against Democrats.

Breathtaking levels of idiocy from an administration whose head routinely derides his adversaries as stupid.

If Crockett voters need to be “swayed” he’s lost already

Tonight at the Justice Department—an op with the Great Americans at @justiceconnection.bsky.social. An honor and a pleasure to work with them.

The economic crisis is at the door…. Holding onto things has become the monopoly of a few powerful people who, God knows, are no more human than the many; for the most part, they are more barbaric, but not in the good way. - Walter Benjamin, December 1933

Good trouble

NEW: Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security & Government Affairs Committee blocked an amendment to prevent Trump's new $1.8b fund—created after dropping his IRS suit—from making payouts to five Jan. 6 rioters convicted of sexually abusing children after Trump's pardon.

Problem is, the 2026 GOP electorate is not the 1990s GOP electorate, who at least gave lip service to the importance of character. Today the consensus has shifted toward the brazen acquisition of power in order to impose a chimerical, hierarchal theological order.

Wait, this is joke, right? Please let it be a joke! Please! PLEASE! theonion.com/trump-reques...

Jared Polis reveals himself to be the John Fetterman of governors.

Can’t believe that everybody seems to have forgotten when Obama did the same thing and Biden repeated the action.

Trump & MAGA think this a flex. They might not care what the rest of the world thinks, but the rest of the world includes our adversaries (whom Trump, fool that he is, mistakes for friends), who think the US is beclowning itself. (1/2)

We have to call it the “shadow docket” because “ the ‘interim-“my-ass!”-docket’” is just too long.

The Supreme Court explains its thinking on the Purcell Principle

I’ve known for a long time that the Roberts court is awful. What I never expected it’s that they could get so much worse so quickly.

Other than discovering that I’m apparently John Oliver’s son, @lastweektonight.com’s deep dive into the shadow docket is really quite good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKeq...

TFW you realize that the caricatures of Marx & Marxism that neoliberals put forth are even more ludicrous than the caricatures of Christianity that hostile non-believers attempt to propagate.

@benburgis.bsky.social and I critique Steven Pinker's very bad reading of Marx for @currentaffairs.bsky.social www.currentaffairs.org/news/steven-...

Why does everyone hate the Democrats?

Generosity is a win, right? Right?

I think I'd say ... Don't run universities like a business; run them like universities. Not everything is assimilable to some other market-based category. Universities have their origins, and in many ways find their deepest purposes, in a medieval world very different from our own.

BREAKING: DOJ to exhume Abraham Lincoln's body in mortgage fraud investigation.

I take Lexapro. I have taken Lexapro for over two decades. The times that I have discontinued taking Lexapro have ended very badly for me. RFKJ is trying to kill millions of Americans like me. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...

Some publications have closed their Kyiv bureaus. We haven't. You're looking at her. Please help us sustain this important work.

Shostakovich's 11th Symphony is enormously overrated. The 12th *might* be underrated.

Slightly diminish a book Mademoiselle Bovary

Slightly diminish a book Mister Faustus