Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

"I’m sorry I mouthed 'That’s my sister!' and made a face like 'yuck' while jerking my thumb at you, my loving wife of 31 years. I’m sorry I doubled down and began talking loudly about our shared childhood, even though there is no audio on the kiss cam."

cavs not playing particularly well at the half, but at least Max Strus made me remember this

“Unfortunately for the vice president, there’s video” will be an increasingly common sentence.

its crazy how literally everything is worse than it was two years ago

I can't say this for certain, but if I had to wager, I'd guess that $10 billion is more than the combined total of all jury awards and settlements for constitutional violations to individuals ever in the U.S.

The largest ever settlement or jury award for government violations of constitutional rights to a single person is $100 million, or 1 percent of what Trump demanding for the leak of his tax returns. That case -- a killing by police -- was reduced to $1 million on appeal.

1. A network of prominent news outlets, including The Oregonian, The Plain Dealer, The Star-Ledger, have quietly published more than 17,000 articles since 2022 pushing promo codes for sports books and prediction markets Advance Local, which owns these outlets, claims this is journalism.

The US House is scheduled to vote today on a bill to allow year-round sales of E15 (15% ethanol blend in gasoline). Our US program director writes below about why E15 would be bad for American food & fuel consumers, and bad for our environment & climate - and not even very good for working farmers.

Luckily for Amsterdam, climate change is making the hamburger unaffordable.

"Goodyear plant in Fayetteville closing, 1,700 jobs lost" 🤔 www.wral.com/business/goo...

The amazing part is that inflation was coming under control when Trump came back into office, and his idiotic policies brought it back to life.

Typical Republican policy.

High oil prices are leading governments to scramble to get hold of biofuel feedstocks. This is a dangerous game. Food prices are already high, and vegetable oil prices have reached their highest level since July 2022. Governments around the world must avoid trading a fuel crisis for a food crisis.

Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation

IRAN REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS LEADER: The fierce U.S. bombardment is too much for us to bear. Maybe we should surrender… MULLAH: But the infidel New York Times says we’re resilient! IRGC: Screw it, we’re digging in!!! May Allah bless the Gray Lady!

give DC statehood combine the dakotas save money on not having to change the flag

Here's a lesson, kids. Don't promise what you can't deliver.

A stupid person starts a war they don't know how to win.

Tired of winning

“.. OpenAI is Coke, Anthropic is Pepsi and Grok is RC Cola. .. I never really saw people drinking it.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

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No, it won't be, because it will be killed as soon as he is out of power. It never should have survived beyond his first mention of it.

Western states are heading into the summer with a desperately low balance of snowpack that usually covers the Rockies. That low balance is now threatening wildfires, drinking water, crops, electricity, and more. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/05/11/r...

Yeehaw

Seems bad

* SAUDI ARAMCO CEO NASSER: ENERGY SUPPLY SHOCK THAT BEGAN IN Q1 IS THE LARGEST THE WORLD HAS EVER EXPERIENCED * SAUDI ARAMCO CEO NASSER: IF HORMUZ DISRUPTION CONTINUES FOR A FEW MORE WEEKS, NORMALIZATION WON'T HAPPEN UNTIL INTO 2027 @reuters.com

Dinner for Threshers https://www.wikiart.org/en/grant-wood/dinner-for-threshers-1934

It is amazing how many different ways Trump fucked us with his idiotic, half-assed war in Iran.

It's important to understand Trump does this not because he actually gives a shit. It's because pitting them against each other means they will compete to debase themselves begging for his endorsement. If he's still alive in 2028, my guess is he doesn't endorse. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/u...

Having prior experience with sheep, I think that animals who can't figure out how to quit getting their heads stuck in a gate probably aren't going to solve many crimes.

If only Indiana could find something else to produce other than Hoosiers.

“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

JFC

The Tidy Cat skit on SNL is awesome.

Backing the explosives into position.

Backing the explosives into position.

I appreciate when the usher at the ballgame notices that I have been standing behind their section all game and offers to let me sit in an empty seats in their section.

No job will ever love you back. Higher education faculty have been slow to learn this.

The absolute motivated reasoning & delusional beliefs around Bibi & his coalition & their objectives, Israeli politics, what the US could get Israel to do, how to get a ceasefire in place, & what that would mean coming from senior people in DC was off the charts. 9/

This untied Ukraine's hands & we're seeing the positive for Ukraine results of that build & build over the past 6 to 8 months. It's why Putin had to ask Trump to ask Zelenskyy for a ceasefire for Victory Day parades despite there being no way the Ukrainians would've targeted those parades. 7/

One of the reasons you see President Zelenskyy, his team, & the Ukrainians doing what they're doing now is they're basically free of the US. Trump & his Team Clown Shoes, who are so bad they make Biden's team look reasonable, stopped sending support to Ukraine over a year ago. 6/

In between innings they had a game of musical chairs. It was down to a bigger boy and a tiny girl. When the music stopped, the girl was right in front of the chair. Before she could move towards the chair, the boy, like a true Hoosier Republican, grabbed the chair, moved and spun it, and sat down.

it’s pretty wild how american evangelical christianity has abandoned even the pretense of the christianity part

Untitled (county fair, central Ohio) https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/300409