Heard from a colleague in a different department that a candidate they were trying to promote got two identical outside letters because the letter writers both used the same AI prompt to generate them. 🙃

"The Court has the authority … to ensure that those responsible for this unique and sorry chapter—a chapter which has dramatically impacted the lives of multiple Defendants and enduringly sullied the reputation of the U.S. Attorney’s Office earned over decades— are held to account."

The knives are out for JD

Started/going (from Ha'aretz, one week ago & today)

From the bottom of my heart, fuck you, you horrible cretin.

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

Truth...

Here is a public service announcement filmed by the Dallas Cowboys in the 1980s, and I promise that you would not correctly guess who pops up at the end if I gave you 10,000 tries

Bunch of people in the gallery gonna be arrested as co-conspirators.

This is important — both as to the Haiti TPS case specifically and as to the larger questions about the irresponsible eagerness of the Roberts Court's conservative majority to grant cert before judgment.

Well, I'll be damned. Mike DeWine has had, in effect, an execution moratorium in place in Ohio, but this is such an important progression on his part.

Don’t crime. But if you do, make your alias ridiculous so the Us Attorneys sound like morons when they come after you.

Two immediate questions: 1. Did Israel agree to #1, because reporting I’ve seen says no. 2. What constitutes “surrounding areas” from which the US is withdrawing forces? Because Sixth Fleet HQ is in Bahrain.

BREAKING WSJ: The Trump Justice Department's senior leadership closed an investigation of Paramount's bid for Warner Bros. Discovery before career staffers who were concerned about the acquisition had an opportunity to object, according to people familiar with the matter.

This is really worrying.

EU, tech law CJEU: Member States can require age verification for porn, and ban rebroadcast of traffic cop information also ***a website that controls what viewers see via an algorithm is liable for the content*** curia.europa.eu/site/upload/...

Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.

detective: you're a sick son of a bitch, you know it? that bird was your friend of 10, 12 years and you drop a big fuckin boulder on him. wile e. coyote: i swear to god man i didn't think it was gonna work. it never works. oh god. detective: nevada's a death penalty state.

WELCOME TO WASHINGTON, SOCCER FANS. Get acquainted with our state via this highly accurate and mostly-to-scale map.

Taylor Swift concert

To be fair, Lucifer—canonically—is quite beautiful.

A Catholic hospital refused to treat an Illinois woman's ectopic pregnancy until her condition became more dangerous. She later lost her ability to get pregnant naturally. Then the doctor sued HER for talking about it. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/a-catholic...

To be clear, this is what this is: Miller: let’s dial the fascism up to 11 Scarf: respectfully, 7 is all we can get away with

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich insists Trump's “deal” does not bind Israel: “We are not a banana republic." 1/

Journalists have a duty to tell the public that the president and his aides are seriously considering suspending habeas corpus *when it is happening* rather than saving it for a book rollout over a year later

Trump just announced that the July 4 event on the National Mall celebrating America 250 will now be turned into a "TRUMP RALLY."

lmao

Please god let this close the portal to Hell the Cubs opened in 2016

This is going to be the biggest parade led by a New Yorker since Lisa McDowell married Prince Akeem Joffer of Zamunda.

Senior U.S. officials making audio recordings in the Situation Room and leaking them to the press. Totally normal stuff.

In this well-reported piece on the billionaire cabal to stop the California ballot measure to implement wealth tax on billionaires, I especially appreciated this detail: sfstandard.com/2026/06/13/b...

The last time the Knicks won the championship was the year DOJ sued Fred & Donald Trump for racial housing descrimination.

Remembering a multi-day conservative freakout because Lizzo briefly played a founding father’s flute

For @sailormoondamus.gobirds.online, a picture of Cal “Big Dumper” Raleigh.

I have never seen this. My rose bush is putting out two very different roses right now.

Pics or it didn’t happen.

NEW: officials inform the court that Trump’s name has been removed from the Kennedy Center.

2009 🤝 2026 Americans are frustrated and angry about tarp

Japanese dude goes to America for the World Cup and discovers bottomless chips and salsa

Representative Steve Cohen has introduced articles of impeachment. Not clear to me if there are even co-sponsors yet.

the first truthful thing that has ever come out of this guy’s mouth

For decades, immigrants who are legal permanent residents in the U.S. could get loans through the Small Business Administration, a core pillar of small-business lending. Not anymore.

Study Linking Vaccines to Autism Retracted www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...

I have to say, removing a usurper king's name from a building really is a great way to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding.

#tdih 1866, 14th Amendment to U.S. Constitution passed. This Reconstruction Amendment said that states can't deny any person “life, liberty, or property, without due process of law” or deny any person “equal protection of the laws.” #TeachReconstruction 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fo...

The first, but not the last, image like this. We will tear it all down.

Shaka, when the letters fell.

Just in case Dems wonder if they should include tearing down the ballroom and the arch

DC’s hottest club is the Kennedy Center. This place has everything: Scaffolding, TV cameras, more scaffolding, an ecstatic crowd, even more scaffolding.