Editor Brian Lyman writes that Alabama Democrats' May 19 primary performance gives the party reason for hope, with a few important caveats.

Paris 💙⚽️❤️

Meanwhile www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Farmers in northern Vietnam are dismantling a decades-old cemetery to make way for a $1.5bn golf course and luxury residential development by the Trump Organization and its local partners, a project seen as crucial for ties between Hanoi and Washington. ft.trib.al/YCZl74S

Another deep deep NYC politics dive from @michaellangenyc.bsky.social, most welcome on the day the Mayor has endorsed Darializa Avila Chevalier, who is challenging Espaillat. www.michaellange.nyc/p/the-death-...

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France has today gotten around to repealing the 1685 Code noir, which classed enslaved humans as property. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

By @hakimbishara.bsky.social at @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/centuries-of...

The Eel (dir. Shōhei Imamura, 1997)

Update:

it is nice to live in a city where a Shin Ramyun streetcar makes sense

Wait. Morris Day and The Time ????

Not every day the same dark suit

It was Thatcher’s Britain that went hog wild on breaking up and privatizing public services in the 1980s.

www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u... Deft job. Great unknown to me pix of Paradise Now at & Motherfucker takeover at the Fillmore East. Everything is Now pp316-22. Might have mentioned Ben's work with Aldo Tambellini & involved in the Stonewall fracas as well.

Nobody: Nobody at all: Tony MFING Blair:

Now we’re talking ! Cursed World Cup but at least we can get our eat on

"Weigh-ins will take place at Lincoln Memorial, officials have said." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...

Mélenchon on the move. Early days, but he's already leaving the other Left candidates in the dust. The conventional wisdom is that he can't beat the fascists in a runoff, therefore everyone needs to vote for a centrist instead, but he's out to prove that wrong www.publicsenat.fr/actualites/p...

The grotesque.

Meanwhile in Cursed World Cup preparations Iran's three group-stage matches are on the US West Coast (two in LA, one in Seattle) but they'll be commuting from Tijuana

SONNY ROLLINS

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White Mississippi hates Jackson.

Williams pen save and brilliant Mokoena goal win the CAF Champions League final for South Africa’s Mamelodi Sundowns! Sundowns far more composed playing away from home in a partisan Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium. AS FAR seemed tense and unable to take several decent chances.

Meanwhile

Like Sisyphus but instead of pushing a rock it's showing his whole ass in public

It’s like tantalus but he’s yearning for a single insight

Chatterton himself, who seems cursed by the gods to repeat in the public square, as a blandishment to the powerful, the one same idiocy for all his life, is kind of a mythic figure at this point.

Are you fucking kidding me Further evidence of the collapse of @npr.org -- but also, reminder that all these MFs really believe this nonsense they're spouting (as is apparent when you read the whole piece)

It's @keys-wallet-phone.bsky.social with a nice meaty piece of big-picture art tendency analysis. One to grow on!

RC Lens, representing a small northern city with its identity deeply tied to coal mining and industrial labor, and who have just won the French Cup after finishing 2nd in the League, are the sentimental Other Favorite Club of every French supporter

Great episode of The Kid Mero's show with @chiosse.bsky.social on deed theft, freelancer payments and other policy concerns, Black and municipal socialism, Haiti and the DR, and much more www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxQ3...

Gainsbarre, clairement www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFa7...

Also the correct Miller is High Life

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Louisiana has decided to cede the entire parole decision-making process to an algorithm that will decide if you die in prison or not. There will be no human input or nuance allowed. Even our parole board is sickened by this. LINK: veritenews.org/2025/04/10/t...

I just received Steven W. Thrasher's new book The Overseer Class: A Manifesto. It focuses on social and political networks of power. I'd love to see this discussion directed at the arts too.

An outcome for a really awful thing. hyperallergic.com/husband-foun...

wow.

I really can't wait to see "Clarissa", an adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway set in Lagos, Nigeria. It's directed by filmmaker brothers Chuko Esiri and Arie Esiri, and stars Sophie Okonedo 🎂, David Oyelowo, Nikki Amuka-Bird, and Ayo Edebiri. #FilmSky #Lit #Cannes

This seems like it was inevitable/necessary but things could get quite hectic now

The grotesque.

oh great www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/t...

“Madam speaka, mi git up dis afta noon fi mek mi fuss sectoral speech, pan me portfolio …” “Hold on, hold on, hold on! Standing orders, and I think you are fully aware” www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

Audioblogs. Circa 2005 there were audioblogs and they were interesting, nerdy and cool

oh so the "cattle ranch" is deep springs? lololol

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