amazing stat per @the-downballot.com: bill cassidy would be the first incumbent senator to finish outside the top two in a primary since 1944

good for Bulgaria

you can think of it as a LIRR strike, I'm thinking of it as a long-awaited blockade of Long Island

throwing it out there that we should have an event at the Manny's in Chicago too

did david ellison personally move Celtic vs. Hearts off of Paramount to fuck with us? who can say for sure

She's just a kid who made a mistake www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...

not unrecognizable but he does look like if Belgium had a dictator

wrote about knights, knaves, fools, concern trolls, bridges, jurisprudence, and Scam Altman www.theringer.com/2026/05/15/t...

so cool to see the Trump meme coin crew talk about the World Cup final with the same off-brand terminology that your local supermarket uses to advertise Super Bowl deals www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

look, you've got a cruise ship outbreak you get a cruise ship doctor

very funny to fill your timeline complaining about christopher nolan casting decisions. he can't hear you. he doesn't even recognize linear time.

FIFA finally got the market it always wanted and now the games are going to have four quarters and a concert in the middle. kind of the monkey's paw world cup.

lotta ppl sayin wild things rn

pretty clear from this that he thinks the etymology of "vegan" has to do with Las Vegas

okay but if I'm ever hit by a bus I want people to spread the word that it's because my truth was too powerful www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

no idea what this guy's deal is but I don't think you can just tell people "There’s no cameras where Tom is" and move along www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/n...

sorry I'm reposting it every year, the double shot to the Colts is the funniest thing anybody in the NFL has ever done www.youtube.com/shorts/R8SlG...

missed that, as of last week, MechaHitler's bunker now has a new tenant x.ai/news/anthrop...

"I am leaving this trial thinking all these fucking liars deserve each other, but in fairness to Brockman and Sutskever, they were absolutely right about this" www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

The relevant portion of the Jason Collins discussion

would simply not have occurred to me that "snorkeling" was something you could do at a mass grave

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it takes bravery, actually, to start a "To be sure" graf with the words "To be sure"

"Fun" fact, this is the same Boston gorilla that prompted the infamous racist rant from sports talk shit heads Dennis & Callahan that got them in trouble 20+ years ago.

a Kennedy coasting on his name while privately checked out? sounds like he's already revived it www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/n...

"O’Leary said that those opposing his data center were actually Chinese plants" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

gets at something that many of the people relitigating 2024 seem to either not get or willfully ignore for cynical purposes, which is that if the proposition is "She’s focused on crazy liberal stuff, not you," you only have to change the second part www.thebulwark.com/p/heres-what...

Wrote about the importance of adhering to an effective, disciplined nonviolence in fighting the Trump regime, especially given a growing obsession with “heroic” violence online (gift link). www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Ferdinand was done in a single sitting, what a day that must have been carlemuseum.org/explore-art/...

these spots are both great and it's a reminder that when people disparage mexican food in new york you should laugh at them and get everyone to join in until they repent and acknowledge the error of their ways! www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

a complete caricature of what a layperson might think corruption looks like—tobacco executives and their lobbyists golfing and dining with the president, talking his ear off about vapes, until he literally calls the FDA www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...

this should be done more like political issue-advocacy polling. 62 percent of New Yorkers say they bleed some version of blue, showing that the color has broad support across the bleeding spectrum.

who is the worst player to ever have been called "the GOAT"

so funny to be doing these stories in 2026, as like your entire job. what happened, did the kids strip his funding, launch a harassing investigation, and engineer a series of mergers to silence him?

This would make it so Jim Clyburn would be the only Black Democrat to ever represent South Carolina in the House of Representatives. One guy ever.

my favorite smoker thing is when smokers on our block smoke in front of our building so they don't have to smoke in front of their own homes. that's because it's liberating.

it's called "going radio mode" and more and more people are doing it

"He then began to complain about Lawler’s push to raise the SALT cap in last year’s reconciliation bill." www.notus.org/congress/wil...

sorry do your family road trips not have receptions and networking events? what do you do, just look at rocks together?

Motion carries, congratulations to today's recipient.

every time i have the opportunity to deal with Ticketmaster i'm just thankful for the experience and grateful for the level of service they provide. i'm not plotting a tower heist to get back all the money i've forked over in fees. i haven't hired a guy from London to "do a job."

Oh my god the photo of Southampton's intern spying on Boro is incredible

Alex Murdaugh's gonna find a way to get in on that Trump 2.0 rehab train

being rich sounds so cool but these people all seem so miserable. a land of contrasts www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/n...

they've got to find a guy who's bigger than Wemby, who they can roll out in the third quarter as a surprise

hate to see my cause get co-opted like this

hustle never sleeps

the phrase "leak prevention coating project" is so good tho www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u...

Good morning.

fun convo!