Maintaining 22 christian denominations -- while collapsing every other religion to a single category -- sends a clear signal of religious favoritism.

Don't threaten me with a good time

Michael is right. My office is two blocks from the Capitol. I see multiple national guard patrols every single day. I sometimes talk to them out of curiosity and their response is always along the lines of "we don't know why we are here."

Imagine being another nuclear power trying to interpret American strategy and the briefing begins with OUR POOL IS BIGGER THAN SKYSCRAPERS

This doesn't feel... democratic.

Always a great idea to leave redistricting entirely at the hands of those celebrating Jefferson Davis's bday.

The art of the deal. aje.news/yvduu6

the supposedly "originalist" unitary executive theory has led us to a point where the president is claiming the sovereign authority to force all institutions, public or private, to bend to his will or suffer the consequences www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...

The US Dept. of Homeland Security used to publish quarterly data on green cards: lawful immigration. Routine. It goes dark immediately after January 2025. The datasets cease in Dec. 2024 (FY2025Q1). Someone ordered the agency to start concealing this information from the public, at that moment.

Fuck me, this is Bill Pulte. The guy who was using mortgage data to launch DOJ investigations against Lisa Cook, Letitia James and Adam Schiff. He is being put in charge of national intelligence because of his track record of being willing to manufacture false allegations to target Trump's enemies.

I cannot imagine the pain of this mother. What I can imagine is the pain I want to inflict on those responsible.

Public health does not fall into the realm of "personal liberties" or "individual freedoms." When your choice may result in the death or injury of others, the community should make that decision for you.

I always wanted to hear about aliens, Atlantis, and how 1x1=2 on 60 Minutes. youtu.be/ow5dfwA1vFg?...

Thoughts in my head when marking student essays: Wow this is good. Oh no what if it's AI? It's surely AI, l will check the reference list. Nope all looks good here. It's not AI, I should give it a first. But what if it is? Can AI write this way? How can I not tell? Am I an idiot?

NYT "interviewed" a math function.

This looks like junior high schoolers trying to do a music video for “it’s raining men”

Netanyahu just wants... lebensraum? aje.news/rwlju7

Honestly, this is good because it removes any plausible deniability about the type of people Trump put in charge of his domestic paramilitary operations

On the other hand, the Trump administration now offers federal grants to Jan6 insurrectionists.

Dem legislators often assaulted or arrested by ICE and other forces; Bsky reply guy: “there’s no difference between the parties”

Trump: We need a blast-proof ballroom! We need more security! Also Trump: Let's host a UFC event at my garden.

It's one thing to collect rocks. It's a whole other thing to be smoking them.

Greg Bovino will speak at a white nationalist conference in Portugal tomorrow. He will share the stage with no fewer than five people who idolize Hitler, including one who joined a group created by two Nazi SS members. Another guy is a self-described racist who refers to women as "cockroaches."🧵

One of my biggest beefs with America has always been the incremental normalization of police brutality. If this happened in Europe, I guarantee you, heads would have rolled. Here, the officers involved will take a slap on the wrist, if that. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It's OK if you don't want to be friends with people who voted for this.

An aspect of this story is that removing federal employees rights makes them less able to resist illegal actions. Its illegal to put living people on currency. But the Trump administration just pushed out the public employee. This is what they mean by "The Deep State."

America is officially a personalist regime. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...

He will feature in Jackass 6

In which Professor Wurman candidly admits why he sees the history of the common law differently than anyone who has honestly studied it, and why rather than doing scholarship he just wrote and op-ed and a (terrible, demonstrably wrong) article about the common law that should have been rejected.

Chart data is incorrect. -9 in 18-29. 0 in 30-44. +10 in 45-64. +5 in the 65+ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

And all these fantastic benefits came at almost zero cost*! *excluding the deaths and damage (infrastructure, status, economic etc)

Lots of terrible things happen in every war but I’m not going to soon forget the dozens of little girls killed in the opening salvoes of this war. The recourse to war—even “just” airstrikes—should be regretted by leaders and citizens because every war kills innocents.

Trump killed children, bombed schools and hospitals, spent a ton of $$, lost our standing, and disrupted the global supply of energy for... less than what he had before all this. Fart of the deal.

The push to cut funding from the National Academies of Science will involve illegally impounding funds on the claim that fringe Republican lawmakers understand what constitutes the “gold standard” for science better than the best scientists in America. www.aip.org/fyi/republic...

We need to adopt a scorched earth policy after we take power again.

Rofl, this sounds like a badly written parody. Yet, it's entirely true.

r/leopardsatemyface

To add to this: - It will destroy US universities. There is no incentive for foreign students to study here, get OPTs, and H1Bs. (Same for foreign faculty.) - It will decimate the ability of companies to attract talent. - All this effectively undermines the H1B status.

Abrego García should apply for the “Anti-Weaponization Fund.” How many other people have a district court ruling actually *finding* vindictive prosecution?

I swear to odin, everyone in the Trump admin is a dolt. Layers upon layers of stupidity in every decision. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

Congratulations, your taxes are subsidizing the next coup!

I went to grad school at UF. I used to be proud of it. Now I am regretting my choice. UF has turned into a cesspool of far-right ideologues and uses its standing to launder protofascism. I am glad to see it drop in the rankings. Didn't deserve the top-5 public school ranking since 2021.

We pay taxes so that the worst of the worst get richer.

Maybe we shouldn't have nominated a profound moron with questionable morals for the US Senate.

What a journey in this thread! (I hope Elin finds himself poor and in prison)

I really chuckled with the dig on Musk in the last episode of "The Boys."

Ahahahahahhahahha

The corruption is off the charts. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

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