This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

I posted this as a reply to something about the weird Christian nationalist obsession with UFOs and I'd like to double down on it as the Pentagon has begun bulk releasing some UFO/UAP files today. It's the same playbook as the Epstein files - flood the zone to exhaust the would-be audience.

Our government murdered more people this week. That should be the headline.

Trump cites Venezuela as a success. The old regime is in place. Nothing much has changed. Except...Trump's pals now are getting a little taste. It's mafia imperialism. It's a shakedown. And for the right $$$ he would've given the same deal to Iran's leaders. He just wants his cut. Gotti-ism at work.

"'Does a bear shit in the woods?' We all know they do, so let's take it further. Whole family of talking bears. We'll build out a narrative universe. And they're all obsessed with making sure that clumps of toilet paper don't stick to their bear asses when they do what they do."

Partially yes. They did really think that there was a massive left wing conspiracy to funnel government funding towards pro-Democratic propaganda because that's what they were doing.

Yes. The text of the 14th and 15th Amendments explicitly gives the power to decide how to enforce these amendments to Congress. The Civil Rights Movement was an attempt to enforce the Reconstruction amendments. By undoing the work of the movement, you are undoing the results of the Civil War.

Hey, uh, anyone else think it's absolutely bonkers that *health care* and *financial services* are considered both necessities AND consumer spending?

don't make me tap the 1920s-Klan-Shit sign again.

The fact that nobody will remember this shooting by Tuesday--a charitable account of our collective memory span--doesn't own Trump. It's Trumpism's culture of perpetual violence as meaningless spectacle eating our minds.

Clips of people at the dinner who have pulled out their phones to photo/video *themselves* is hilarious stuff.

Imagine a world where, if a company’s product contributed to someone’s death, there were consequences for the people running that company.

The Reichstag Correspondents Dinner

To be clear, the eight Iranian women who were allegedly political prisoners set for execution and saved by Trump are nonexistent and generated by AI. The 170 Iranian schoolgirls who were blown to smithereens by Trump's orders were all very real, and all are very dead.

I'll say it again, one of the worst things this rampant push to cram "generative AI" into everything has done is make people suspect bright kids of cheating when they're just nerdy or bookish or neurodivergent, sanding down their unique edges to fit into people's lowered, homogenized expectations.

i believe this is related to the rise in people who are utterly incurious about anything not directly beneficial to themselves

Just pure corruption. Any political ally of a President can now sue for any nonsensical reason and be cut a check in a "settlement" without any judge even approving the case as legitimate. And of course no checks for millions of people targeted by arbitrary stop & frisk across the nation.

They think you're stupid.

I will say about Clavicular that at least hes transparent that he uses steroids, TRT and weight loss drugs. That puts him above most Hollywood male muscle actors who also do this but lie about it (likely at the direction of studios). Hollywood is responsible for more body dysmorphia that that loser.

These results are only possible because Americans are paying more and getting less. I do not understand how this fundamental part of the equation just doesn't get addressed.

Crazy? Would a crazy guy do this?!?

This is as crazy as everyone is saying. Palantir is not a healthy company.

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

What the hell did these people think was going to happen? We've been saying it's socialism or barbarism for over a century. Now that it's all barbarism, they're surprised??

Every day of my life since getting a bad Pitchfork review has shown me that it was probably for the best.

lol of course the evangelical Baptist is taking the side against the Catholic Pope. Are we really this ignorant as to be treating this as news? www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

My hypothesis, re: 'sending shares soaring,' is that everyone who trades stocks is on so much cocaine that they think they're interstellar spice pirates.

It's almost as if building a political movement on platforms riddled with vile content guaranteed that movement would be absolutely lousy with abusers.

W H A T ? ? ? ?

anyone who doesn't understand the value of middle management has never actually been a manager. the problem with these VC bozos is that they didn't work their way up the ladder, they got someone to throw them a bunch of money to go straight to CEO and they have no clue how an organization works.

This is *exactly* right.

So, uh... how many *other* internationally wanted criminal fascists are we giving safe harbor here?

transphobia is a luxury belief, which is why it’s so prevalent among beltway types who don’t have real problems

It's wild that a bunch of folks obsessed with the concept of the antichrist wound up supporting someone who actually fits the bill.

Melania Trump: My “I was not friends with Jeffrey Epstein and had no knowledge of his crimes” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

Lots to say about fertility rates. Cost of birth is outrageous. Health insurance tricky and expensive. No paid family leave. No child benefits. Cost of daycare impossible. Cost to mothers career, social security, prohibitive. Culture not child or parent friendly. Having kids punishes mothers.

"JD... quick... Talk is ramping up about the 25th Amendment. Go out there and say the dumbest, most rancid crap you can think of to show everyone how bad the alternative is!"

Hey, is this one of those things where they Openly Do A Thing but the real objective is to give more money to rich people while everyone else suffers? Because it feels like one of those things.

I'm not getting too attached to this ceasefire. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

America: where you can come, go to a school that is falling apart and never get properly medicated, work your way up to signing up for our armed services so Donald Trump can send you to kill and die in the Middle East if he feels like it, and also he’ll kidnap your parents

This is the reason Peter Thiel and his buddies killed Gawker. Writing about open secrets was the entire point of the website.

A sad thing about all this is that I have gotten kind of tuned out of space stuff because so much of it now is at least partly billionaire propaganda. To be honest, I didn’t even fully understand that this launch wasn’t until today. Just another thing I’d love to feel better about someday.

Par for the course from Kunstler.

This is largely by design. If we stop thinking about AI as simply technology and instead as part of a political and economic program, its chief function become easier to see: namely to erode interpersonal trust so that ultimately we give up on forms of agreement & negotiation arbitrated by people.

yes

The way journalists cover traffic violence is seriously broken

Some of us have been saying UFO World was taken over by ultra right wing “Christian” fundamentalists who would tie it into their psychopathic end-times scenarios for a while now. Well, it finally appears to be out of the closet. #ufosky

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

Establishment Dems: "We need an answer to Joe Rogan!" Hasan Piker: <exists> Establishment Dems: "No, not like that!"