I"m confused, shouldn't people lose trust in those intentionally endangering them? I feel like someone is confused @ fight or flight, unless this is what journalistic flight looks like for wingless reporters

just posted: The Tragedy of the Commons has proven to be not that individuals are too short-sighted to manage communal assets, but that the rich will ply their economic advantage without shame or compunction because status is much more important to them than the collective health of their society.

It looks like we found the Reflecting Pool vandal.

I remember an ex dev for blizzard used to cite that they made more money off of a pay for mount skin for WoW then they did for all of StarCraft 2

It is indeed lottery behavior, but that is what the current system incentivizes. After the last decade of frothy asset markets, if you can’t offer even the chance of a 50x return, the money goes elsewhere. Live service is just this industry’s version of the infinite money glitch everyone is chasing.

Beluga Whale Escapes Research Facility And Swims Hundreds Of Miles Back To Her Baby. It is wrong and immoral to hold beings of self awareness captive if they have committed no crimes.

It's only socialism when the Democrats suggest it. The mainstream media is complicit and must be fired like the GOP

SPACE X: Your Home for Nuclear Grade Dildos

#PeakMinneapolis - one of the most amazing things you can do is see the Twin Cities River Rats #Waterskiing show on the #MississippiRiver

I told my parents that everything after Can't Buy a Thrill was a waste of time

today's piece is on Erikson's stages of life

This has long been proven to be a bad idea -- but the promise of some fast cash leads cities to do it.

New paper from me and @jaredb-econ.bsky.social on the debt and our fiscal outlook! Before we dig into the paper, I think we should be frank about how we got here. At the beginning of the century, debt was on track to be stable indefinitely. Then Congress enacted enormous tax cuts. Now it's not.

Democratic party leaders, myself include, fail to understand the full gravity of our failures. Losing abortion rights was treated as an electoral opportunity instead of a wake up call. Bush v Gore, citizens united, Garland, RBG. We won enough elections; while continually regressing.

yesterday we talked about how travel sports and paid leagues are hallowing out rec league baseball, another of our commons being eroded by gatekeeper/enclosure behavior

I like seeing demanding Trump personally pay things back because seizing all assets of Trump, his family, his organization, is a key part of fixing this country.

This is the second part of a new investigative series on solitary confinement in Colorado, an editorial collaboration between Boulder Reporting Lab and Bolts.

NEW in Bolts: Colorado’s dysfunctional mental health care system has left people with severe mental illness cycling in and out of jail, where harsh conditions can further erode their health. In partnership with Boulder Reporting Lab:

This is a fight between the volunteers of the Democratic Party and the consultant/billionaire class of the Democratic Party. That's what it is.

Dem and Independent senators voting in favor: Coons, Cortez Masto, Fetterman, Gallego, Gillibrand, Hassan, Heinrich, Hickenlooper, Kaine, King (I), Klobuchar, Rosen, Schiff, Shaheen, Warner, Welch, & Whitehouse. Senators not voting: Graham, McConnell, & McCormick.

We probably don't talk enough about how the 1920's Klan was a progenitor of later multi-level marketing scams and the connection to far-right politics in that

Were we out of VX? that would've been the truly compassionate thing

In Feb 2025 House Oversight voted 19-to-20 not to subpoena Musk; Ro Khanna was conveniently absent despite ample and repeated notice to his staff. He was full of excuses for his absence and claimed that he was unaware and would have subpoena'd him. Many people including this reporter were skeptical.

Watching the last season of Fargo, and the white supremacist baddies are without a doubt the least sympathetic baddies since the movie, really loving Juno Temple's character and seeing JJL do her femme fatale '40s style dame

If Popehat is permanently banned because of this post, I’m genuinely concerned about the viability of this platform. Hopefully, someone like @masnick.com knows more about what’s happening and whether this is just a temporary suspension

every time you see a headline that begins with “we have to,” replace the “we” with “you” and you’ll immediately understand the purpose of the piece and the power dynamics at play

(Reuters) - Iran's missiles were not in the Memorandum of Understanding signed with the U.S. and "will never be", Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said at a joint news conference with Pakistan's prime minister in Islamabad on Tuesday. @reuters.com

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“.. Since the end of the Great Recession in 2009, only the top 0.1% of U.S. households have seen their wealth increase--from about $5.8 trillion to $25.1 trillion in the first quarter of 2026.” - Schwab

Imagining the Day

I stopped going to Steak & Shake when I realized I could make my own burgers and eat them quicker than I could get them from the nearby "fast food" place Having a similar experience on Reddit Feel like i should just start my own social media platform, could have my first million subscribers....

Dumb people speaking truth without realizing it

So like, is it usual for Reddit to just decide you're a fucking bot and not let you post, or respond to your requests for customer service for a couple weeks? Is #Reddit already down the #Comcast Customer Service hole, never to return?

So you're telling me when you made the settlement to give him $16M for his library, that wasn't the end of it? That once he had you on the hook he was going work you over endlessly? Maybe capitulating right off was a really stupid idea, like most Dems TOLD YOU??? www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

“Nah, Trump has done that to me several times.. I have thick skin, like a couch… “

"When they go low, we triangulate" centrism is dead And the people who can't read a room were the people who invented it, so....

Also not mentioned in Ezra Klein’s statement, but something Cory Doctorow revealed this week about when he was invited (and quickly, REPEATEDLY declined): You had to pay a minimum of $16,000 to go! I would like to know how much Klein paid to casually check it out. pluralistic.net/2026/06/20/a...

“Some of the best minds of our time,” Duckman cracks, “are wasting their lives making it easier for people to shop?” The title references Bill Hicks' famed screed @ how marketing is the devil’s work and the source of unending unhappiness. His solution for marketers: Kill Yourself.

Serious answer- Their masculinity is a performance and when you're constantly performing instead of just *being* you get paranoid you'll be found out, so you shift the focus on to someone you perceive to be a weaker and more socially acceptable target

Roughly 500 concessions workers at Target Field are set to walk off the job Monday after contract negotiations stalled. It's happening during the Twins' high-profile series against the defending World Series champs, the L.A. Dodgers.

"The president’s MAGA base is splintering over an agreement compared to ‘appeasing the Nazis’" which side are the nazis

Who doesn’t like some pomp? It makes this moment feel special, and we should really try to value these moments, at the same time is feels like a lie, a delusion to make us sleep easier. To create meaning by exalting a ladder to nowhere. A chase without end.

Ten years ago I was in Golden State when what many thought was impossible happened. The Cavs turned around a 3-1 deficit with two wins in Golden State for the Chip that eluded the City in any form for 52 years.

NEW: The attorney general, Richard Hermer, has told his office to no longer post on X, making it the first UK government department to stop using the Elon Musk-owned platform amid increasing worries about its use to incite violence and racism. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Fucking what? By who???

JUSTICE AGAINST ICE TX Rangers arrested ICE agent Christian Castro in Texas. Castro was wanted on felony charges by Minnesota prosecutors for allegedly shooting a Venezuelan migrant and falsely reporting the incident during an immigration operation in Minneapolis www.npr.org/2026/05/29/g...

This is bombshell stuff.

Seeing Jared Polis on this list makes the Tina Peters commutation make a little more sense.