The president: "I totally won't get bored with the war in Iran." Also the president: "I'm already totally bored with war in Iran."

Guess we can add "death by ceasefire" to the lexicon of the New World Disorder.

Trying to think of where to spend a $250 bill. Can't. This is a post about socioeconomic class.

As someone who comes from a Christian faith tradition that was persecuted by Catholics, Lutherans, and random Cossacks, I reckon the fight between which flavor of Christian nationalism wins out is going to be much worse than the fight to establish Christian nationalism itself.

CEOs be all, like, "AI is gonna take your job! Bwahaha! Eat unemployment, peons!" And then they wonder why everyone hates them.

Or maybe they could just make an AI model with a brake pedal? I swear, these people are utterly incapable of basic ethical reasoning. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Overheard on the couch: His side: "But if we did buy it, how would we display Cameo's red codpiece from the 'Word Up' video?" Her side: "Easy, shadowbox." His side: "I am NOT looking up 'shadowboxing the codpiece' on Urban Dictionary."

On the other hand, New World Screwworm was a great ragecore album.

This makes me very sad. www.npr.org/2026/06/04/n...

There is generally a point at which ideology usurps natural curiosity and rational thought. Crossing this threshold killed millions by starvation in China and the USSR. For us, MAGA marks that moment.

When was the last time you listened to Al Stewart's "The Year of the Cat?" Bet it's been a minute, huh?

Some stuff resists analysis, and it's interesting in that way. Some stuff stands up to analysis, giving more and more the deeper you go, and it's interesting in that other way.

With the caveat that searching for the Hemingwayesque perfect sentence might lead to a Hemingwayesque life trajectory, there is something nice about finding just the right words to fit just the right situation, to express it with absolute clarity.

You suppose there was some joker in the cave at Lascaux sitting back and snarking that the painters were too busy pursuing their unique artistic visions to accurately reflect the hunt?

Trump gives his "American carnage" speech and then spends the following decade guaranteeing perpetual chaos to justify his authoritarian dream. He's always been upfront about the evil he wishes to be in the world.

Maybe we need a Profiles in Carnage award for, well, all the stuff that's going on now.

People, really: businessmen don't become politicians because it's good politics; they do it because it's good for business.

If rightwing arguments against DEI, CRT, LGBTQI+ rights, and so forth were cogent and convincing, they wouldn't need to erase these things from the public consciousness.

Turns out religion is real easy once you take out all that annoying "be a good person" stuff! #whoknew?

Given their devotion to the ownership collective that is a corporation and the way they treat their employees as their serfs, I don't think rich libertarians hate the government because it regulates them but because it's the competition in a zero-sum game for power and control.

TL;DR: every lunch is a pricey lunch these days. My solution? Bring a chicken to work, and when she lays an egg, make an omelette on a hotplate. I'm sure your coworkers will have no objections.

You may be from around here if you understand that "Sgweet" is an indication that it's time for a lunch break.

Crazy idea: how about we work toward a world in which a man can't start a war just because he feels like it?

Me reading the first 300-some-odd pages of DH Lawrence's The Rainbow: "I can't believe they banned this, even in 1915. It's about as spicy as an episode of DuckTales!" Me getting to the lesbian part: "Oh, yeah, well, I guess that'd do it back then."

So, Blew Origin, then?

So, trying to prove they know a thing or two about weaponizing the DOJ, is that it? www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

How about we don't let the tech bros have their AI fantasyland until they tell the politicians they own to give us a universal basic income, keyed to a living wage +?

Snap!

Newsflash: churches, retail, restaurants, the like aren't dying because of pandemics, supply chain issues, or rising gas prices but by an economy engineered by the megarich and the politicians they own to funnel the money you used to spend on these things into their own pockets.

So, with Paxton winning the TX Senate primary, are we free to say that open corruption is a prerequisite for a MAGA-backed candidate? #askingformyself

For a supposedly term-limited president, Trump seems to act like he's going to be around indefinitely. So maybe the situation is less Orbán and more Erdoğan?

100% this.

Wait, Americans have commercialized a holiday? I'm shocked--shocked, I tell you!

RFK, Jr.'s supposed concern with psych med over-prescription and withdrawal and with shared decision-making smack of co-optation, especially given his overtly racist statements about the mental health of Black children and his utterly repulsive views on autism.

Looks like our little "excursion" taught the Iranians an important lesson: they can bring the global economy to its knees any time they want.

So, what do you suppose "fiber-maxxing" will do to global methane emissions? #askingforafart

Just saw a Beeb graphic that read "DR CONGO," and I immediately read it as "Doctor Congo," and thought, yeah, I've seen that movie: lots of white guys in pith helmets on jungle sound stages, screaming damsels, casual racism, stock footage . . .

Overheard in the booth: Her side: "How's the sandwich?" His side: "Meh." Her side: "This place is run by a cult, so don't expect anything too spicy."

Unpopular opinion, but maybe we should end our current pointless war before we pointlessly bumble into the next one?

I'm not looking up "Valentine's Meat Juice" on Urban Dictionary, tho'.

Not particularly interested in filling out PBS's form, but it doesn't help matters that conspiracy theories occasionally turn out to be true, like COINTELPRO.

Yes! But I'd probably just get a kick out of dive-bombing tourists for their hot dogs and pooping on their cars, tbh.

A lot of great Go-Go's deep cuts here and good coverage of their early days as a punk band. Worth a listen. the1a.org/segments/sou...

For your consideration: William was the better writer, Henry the better psychologist. Discuss:

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Jargon has a purpose, but beware the sort of sophistry that offers cover for a predetermined outcome or occludes clarity of thought. (See also Plato, Orwell, etc.)

What could possibly go wrong?

So, let's see if I've got this right: the president sues himself for $10 billion and then in order to resolve the case that he never had against himself, developed a $1.7 billion slush fund with taxpayer money for his past, current, and future irregular shock troops?

Trump claims he stopped reading the last peace proposal from Iran after the first point. Horse manure. He didn't even start reading it.

I'm not convinced that Trump thought about the Strait of Hormuz at all before pulling the trigger--or even knew of its existence.