Somewhere Pauline Kael tryna send those folks a message

Go ahead, White House Correspondents Association. Invite this guy to your dinner next month. The one honoring the press and the First Amendment. See how far that gets you.

Remember when calling a reporter stupid merited a headline and an apology?

This is not supposed to be a journalism account

The “pro-life” party, a continuing series

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

A functional Congress would have him out of office. (Of course, a functional Congress would have removed him last time and averted this whole thing, but, here we are.)

for reference and comparison: conservatively, the United States spent two-thirds of that figure in the *first week* of the war on Iran. it's genuinely difficult to overstate how many world-historical own goals US politics has accumulated over the past few decades

If there was any doubt before, there can be none after this week: The Supreme Court is going to give states free rein to discriminate against minority voters — even in some of the most egregious cases. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Can't recall a recent video that better captures Trump's essence. Misogynist goon sweatily belches out egregious lies to a woman reporter, insults and berates her when she asks for evidence, then storms off in anger, all while his spray-tan slowly slides down his face.

Remember that time a governor was running for president and he yelled at a campaign rally, which was then broadcast more than 600 times over the next 4 days?

Bari Weiss not beating the bootlicking propagandist allegations here:

Super cool that the grandfather I grew up in a house with,who wouldn't even talk about his time in France during WWII because of the horrors, fought for a country whose defense secretary is now IRL Hitlerposting from Normandy on the anniversary of D-Day.

Also, if you're complaining about the spread of disinformation and misinformation and your government still insists on having a presence on a platform that is pretty much designed to reward the spread of disinformation and misinformation, your solutions might not be terribly well thought out.

Congrats, John Roberts! You ended the three-branch method of governance!

Hegseth aligning himself rather directly with the soldiers *defending* the beaches at Normandy, who were, and you might find this surprising, not the Americans or Canadians or British, but rather, and this is interesting, the

The right's vision of masculinity is a domination contest in which participants have to perform greater and greater acts of cruelty and vulgarity and deny themselves more and more pleasure and comfort in order to meet ever more outlandish demands for strength.

"Kill the filibuster...then pass big things. Pass that anti-corruption agenda. Let Trump veto it. Then spend weeks bashing him for his veto...Make Trump veto, veto, veto. Make him the face of the corrupt status quo." From @ericschmeltzer.bsky.social on D's future: open.substack.com/pub/betterdo...

When you're so fascist you even torture your metaphors

This is repulsive and confused, unless you're a Nazi... The beach-stormers are the good guys on D-Day. But Hegseth wants to make the liberators of Europe into a metaphor for economic migration. Probably because he hates both.

Compelling essay by sci-fi writer Ted Chiang on why LLMs are nowhere near consciousness, but why it serves the interests of LLM companies to constantly suggest that they might be. I've pulled one quote below, but the whole article is worth reading.

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

Yeah, Wemby got the yips and he only improved toward the end but made a series of unforced errors. And Castle messed up that last moment. Mitch needed to make a time out.

I mean, what a catastrophic unforced error to let Jalen make the winning point. Knicks have basically locked Wemby up so far and I don’t see how he gets better at the Garden?

The “pro-life” party

sam alito in callais: it is just a coincidence that partisan gerrymandering looks like racial gerrymandering. it doesn’t mean anything tennessee republicans post-callais: yee haw boys we are gettin’ the negras outta government

Keep waiting for Wemby to take over the game and he’s… just not

Lot more basketball yet to be played but the Knicks are actually as good as this unprecedented stretch of dominant basketball suggested they were.

Yaakov Roth was a Harvard Law School grad, SCOTUS clerk, and longtime BigLaw partner. His resume, law students were always told, was a sign that he was among those at the top of the legal profession. Today, he said Trump could tear down the Statue of Liberty tonight and no one could stop him.

I miss the days when adding an “e” to “potato” is disqualifying.

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...

People are making fun of this as a bad lawyer answer, but… this actually seems like an accurate description of the Trump argument. Like… the only way for this ballroom to work is if you accept that he can tear down every monument

With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The 14th Amendment, one of the crowning successes of the Second Founding, was a thoroughly partisan achievement. "It had been carried from first to last as a party measure" and it "failed to attract the vote of a single Democratic member in any State Legislature in the whole Union."

JUST IN: Judge Mary McElroy (Trump/RI) refers DOJ attorneys to the court discipline committee over handling of fight over trans medical care subpoenas to RI Hospital. Earlier she agreed that presumption of regularity for govt 'no longer holds.' storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"I can't breathe. I have my ID right here. My name is Elijah McClain. That's my house. I was just going home. I'm an introvert. I'm just different. That's all. I'm so sorry. I have no gun. I don't do that stuff. I don't do any fighting. Why are you attacking me?" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing...

"The study found that resettled refugees contribute $6 billion more to the U.S. economy than they take out. Per year. The Trump administration did exactly what you’d expect: They suppressed the study, and then they lied about it."

A police sergeant was caught after a photojournalist on assignment for the AP used an Airtag to trace her missing gear to his home and a subsequent review of his body-cam footage showed him “interacting” with the bag at Delaney Hall, the state’s attorney general said.

This is the way

The Teapot Dome scandal involved $400,000 in 1923 dollars. Huge scandal, taught in every HS history book, almost the synonym for "corruption." In 2026 dollars, Teapot Dome was a hair under $8 *M*illion. With an M. Not a B. M. The scope of corruption under Trump 2--plus its nakedness--is epochal.

NEW: The DC Food Policy Council was established a decade ago to focus on creating a more equitable and sustainable local food system. This year, however, may be the council’s last due to budget cuts. @samdelgado.bsky.social reports on what that could mean for food access in D.C.:

They did this because the fund is not dead. It is on pause, and they will 100% try to bring it back. thehill.com/homenews/sen...

Probably the defining framework of the next 5-10 years in this country

"Democrats need a theory of constitutional power: a sense of what the Constitution is and how it both authorizes and legitimizes the kind of government they hope to build." great stuff from @jamellebouie.net

I would believe that Bari wants to hire Rogan at CBS, but what on earth can they offer him? He makes twice as much money as the biggest hosts in cable just by repeatedly saying “that’s crazy” to guys who tell him that ancient aliens taught the Inca the art of weightlifting

Looks like Trump pardoned a heroin dealer to get help undermining democratically elected governments in Latin America washingtonmonthly.com/2026/05/12/h...

Trump’s illegal war in Iran has descended our world and our global economy into chaos. Yesterday, the House finally met the threshold to pass a War Powers Resolution. The Senate must work quickly to advance this resolution and end this war.

Surely holding my breath for Hans von Spakovsky to weigh in won’t result in my expiration

It's nuts that we need an explicit ban on presidents cutting immunity and cash deals with their own administrations. @macfarlanenews.bsky.social on @raskin.house.gov's BLANCHE Act (Block Lawless Agreements and Nullify Corrupt Handouts and Emoluments). macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/alert-demo...