Mitch McConnell's hot dog suit has people asking a lot of questions already answered by his hot dog suit

This juxtaposition of headlines perfectly captures how MAGA oligarchic fascism really works. Trump loots our country to enrich himself, while persuading his paramilitary street thug wing that his corruption and self-dealing are in their interests, because they get a cut of the spoils.

We're seeing a bunch of small fires pop up here in Northern California already, pretty much always attributable to human idiocy. 1) don't use campfires, use a propane stove and keep flammable material clear 2) be sure your tow chains can't drag on the road 3) don't throw lit cigs out the car

Insane framing. It is not "blood libel" to write about the numerous NGO reports alleging sexual abuse of Palestinians in Israeli prisons.

Really important point here: our military aid to Egypt, the other half of the Camp David Accords, is also being used for bad purposes foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/20/e...

Republicans up for election in 6 months (crying): Sir please...we can only sell so much corruption to the rubes...our fragile majority sir... Trump: Shut up and put the money in the bag

NESTERAK: President Trump has granted clemency to numerous individuals who have stolen hundreds of millions in Medicaid funds. Can we expect any of these folks to be shown the same mercy? McDONALD: I'll take a different question

New poll of American Jews finds: -Substantial opposition to the Iran War -Majority support for a two-state solution, but more support for one binational state than one apartheid state. -More concern about right-wing than left-wing antisemitism. (jewishvoters.org/wp-content/u...)

For-profit enterprises aren’t charities and I don’t think it’s like inherently evil for a firm to remove a role or let someone go, but there should be enough vague stigma around it in the culture so that you know not to not go “Here’s why it was actually Bold and Brave Of Us To Fire People”

Recall: Dems hung tough on no funding for ICE & BP, Rs caved and passed rest of DHS and decided to do ICE and BP via reconciliation. Trump wanted ballroom then slush fund, couldn’t work it out, & here we are. Lesson for Dems: Hanging tough put pressure on Rs, -> Rs in disarray.

these guys are such exhausting dipshits, man.

The net is this: Trump can fill at most two more circuit court vacancies before the midterms if he gets them in the next two weeks, and a Democratic takeover of the Senate in November could put a stop to Trump’s judicial confirmations entirely.

LLMs are simply unusable for these factual questions until the hallucination rate comes way down (and/or they’re reprogrammed to admit they don’t know an answer rather than fabricating one)

this basically was my take today. SpaceX has a perfectly reasonable possible business model selling launches and Starlink for like $20 billion of yearly profit, stapled to the rotting corpse of Twitter plus the worst, most money losing AI company of the bunch

I think Democrats like Cory Booker should take a hard look in the mirror and consider why Jeff Bezos loves their tax cut proposals so much. Billionaires would love to see a weak state with a gutted fiscal capacity.

“The delay in confirming the outbreak was in part because samples were taken to the national lab in Kinshasa, Congo, at the wrong temperature. That task previously would have been managed by U.S.A.I.D.”

This headline is fuel for the right-wing anti-migrant reaction machine, but the article reveals the employer knowingly brought her to the UK under a visitor visa to employ her, then denied her a work permit—and most importantly!—refused to pay her any wages. This looks approximate to modern slavery

The entire political and media ecosystems are dedicated to reinforcing the public's mistaken views rather than correcting them, for reasons ranging from self-interest to strategic ineptitude (obviously this is not a uniquely British problem)

why did I just have the urge to put on Yeah Glo!

Labour, boy, I don't know

Yeah sure this is 100% about AI and 0% about the crushing failure of the “metaverse” which he LITERALLY RENAMED THE COMPANY AFTER.

This is an important lesson for universities and media outlets that nobody is going to learn; the affirmative action conservatives your institution hired have nothing but contempt for you, the second they take charge they will show you precisely none of the respect and deference they demand.

The idea that Americans pay more taxes than Europeans is catastrophically false, verging on delusional. This is what people on this site mean when we talk about populism killing the future. People just believe shit which is not remotely true, because it makes them feel better?

The very first thing that happens in the Odyssey is that Athena waits until Poseidon is visiting Ethiopia to convene an assembly of the Gods and convince them to overrule his curse on Odysseus, which demonstrates that 8th century BCE Greeks already understood parliamentary procedure.

two fairly useful heuristics: 1) if someone is talking about cutting income taxes it is not For You 2) if someone is talking about cutting payroll taxes they are trying to shred the safety net

NYT ed board asks NYT ownership and senior leadership to please read their own paper

IMO the Third Way crowd should spend less time complaining about six-year-old rhetoric from the left and more time complaining about this

Accidentally made Gemini roleplay as a fried egg when I googled a quote from Mixtape.

really can’t be overstated how much Polis was out on a limb with the Peters thing there are definitely issues on which “the Democrats” suck but on the topic of Tina Peters it was “Jared Polis sucks” the entire state party is furious, you don’t censure your own governor lightly

oh hey yet another race where the smart move to crowd out the fash is to rally behind the progressive polling third

The delta between how much you can touch Wendy without getting a foul called versus how much you can touch SGA is astonishingly large.

Hi, tax law professor here. Trump and sons are NOT exempt forever (or anytime) from tax audits. Writing these words on paper signed by Todd Blanche doesn't make it a thing. In fact, I'm absolutely certain they'll all be audited in the future.

I've mostly tried not to comment on the California gov primary, but man, I'm getting really tired of Becerra supporters arguing that Becerra is a better choice than Steyer simply because Steyer is a billionaire. Like come on, at least TRY to make a policy argument.

Do we have a spending problem? I argue no. Short 🧵 Here's a graph of all program spending EXCEPT Social Security and Medicare from 1950-present (with projections through 2056). It's already way below average, moving towards historic lows. So clearly that part of the govt isn't a "problem."

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IMO this is NPR misunderstanding both their unique value proposition and why people donated money

I keep on reading that the white house is moving to reign in rfk, jr, but he keeps on finding new and creative ways to destroy the health care system in this country. Not sure how to tell the media this, but the wh is lying and you should not believe a word they say

Interesting that the Trump administration is laying down a marker that a military attack on an unarmed craft can be the basis for prosecuting senior government officials who supervised the attack in home countries of the vehicles' occupants.

It's the tech industry is now going to become surviving wave after wave of layoffs until it's just you and the CEO left then you both can knife fight over who gets to prompt Claude to run the company. This will be the last I'll post about tech layoffs for a bit. It's like posting the sky is blue.

A criticism of the revisionist interpretation of Richard Nixon as a liberal; it was the product of Nixon having to placate a Democratic Congress during a time when government intervention was still credible and seeking to silence potential issues during re-election.

“Too corrupt for David Schweikert” is a hell of a flex

This is why the Democrats' current obsession with tax cuts is so dangerous. They're paving the way for more extreme proposals like ending progressive taxation altogether. Again, we don't need "Republican lite." We need a party that affirms that paying for the things government does is good.

It's time we get tough on private equity deadbeat billionaires and reform bankruptcy law cepr.net/publications...

it's actually true that you cannot fund good government entirely by taxing the rich, which is why slopulist proposals to gut the tax base are a bad idea but taxing the rich at punitive levels is a goal in and of itself, billionaires are simply too dangerous to public policy to exist

“Marshall in the early 90s was largely alone in calling out what he correctly saw as a coordinated, well-funded effort to stack the federal courts with judges trained in the ultimate bad-faith tradition: Constitutional originalism.” www.liberalcurrents.com/thurgood-mar...

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

Only Keir Starmer can match this ability to say nothing about nothing

These RCT results (via Swayable) get at the big problem. The right wing immigration ads Dems ran both built public support for the ICE nightmare we are living now, AND were politically disastrous, showing clear backfire on candidate choice questions. They made voters want to vote for Trump.

San Diego fell from 5th to 12th most expensive rental market by building more multifamily housing per capita than any other California city. This is what happens when you actually build. The lesson isn't complicated. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/05/13/s...