America is for sale. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The next James Bond should be Gary Oldman in his Jackson Lamb persona.

The maker of jets that crashed and killed everyone onboard and the carmaker fined tens of millions for mishandled recalls have suddenly decided to sponsor their top regulator's reality show purely for the love of the open road www.wsj.com/business/boe...

Africa CDC is sounding the alarm over an Ebola outbreak in DRC, where 13 of 20 samples tested were positive for Ebola - likely a non-Zaire ebolavirus. So far, there are about 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths.

It’s weird to me how people clamor over President Obama any time he speaks now and say ‘I miss having a President who speaks in complete sentences’ and other related things but somehow dismiss that the choice was there for someone else just like that in VP Harris

Good news, everyone www.cnn.com/2026/05/14/h...

@nytimes.com games Strands is very.... Richard Ben Kramer this morning 🧩

The inevitable implication of this, and what's effectively their position, is that the president has all of the power to start a war whenever he wants and Congress has no say in the matter and can't do anything about it.

‘can i afford the tax? yes. is it going to deter me? no.’ cool well no further questions, thanks for answering the only relevant ones

🚨🚨🚨 DOJ sent a grand jury subpoena from the Northern District of Texas to NYU Langone for all patient records of trans youth. DOJ is engaged in forum and judge shopping in Texas in a blatantly unlawful bid to shut down gender affirming care in blue states. nyulangone.org/public-notic...

Genuinely funny that Alito just wrote a whole opinion making clear that the only thing Republicans have to do to gerrymander Black people out of electoral existence is say "this is about politics, not race," and then this genius is like CAN YOU BELIEVE HOW MANY BLACK PEOPLE ARE IN THAT DISTRICT??

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has allowed Alabama to select a different map for this year’s congressional elections in a stunning, last-minute move to interfere with another state primary election that has already begun. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I posted this right about the contrast between Virginia and Florida's supreme courts on Friday. Just as relevant now, with SCOTUS blocking the court order against the Texas gerrymander because it's too close, but now basically allowing Louisiana and Alabama to cancel next week's elections.

"Democratic governors and state legislators need to realize that this is no longer about fairness; it’s about fighting back so that they are not engineered out of the House forever. And I get that Dems don’t have the stomach for this kind of warfare--- find it."

I'm still sitting here thinking about how the UC system was free for California residents and had been for a century before Reagan was governor.

One does wonder just how much all that Hungarian filthy lucre running through Orban was subsidizing.

Jay finding out in real-time that there's a big difference between doing a podcast and sneering about Tony Fauci on Fox News, and actully being in charge during a potential outbreak.

if i were going to run a left campaign for the democratic nomination for president i would also spend a lot of my time in black churches, fwiw

this is a really great piece that gets at just how messy this problem is

Lotta people in tech underestimate how much we hate you and your works and everything you do

If we actually want to appreciate moms, we should be providing free childcare, healthcare, and guaranteed income for stay-at-home parents to put more money in families’ pockets and ensure no SAHP is reliant on a partner for their economic security. Idk I think that’s better than 15% off a vacuum.

Are you kidding me with this slop? A "slur"against the wealthy?

We would be a lot better off as a country at the moment if more of our institutions had said, "Fuck you, make me" over the past year and a half

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Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable

Trump hitting worst approval ratings ever for him --and worst for any President in decades. Yet corporate media still covers every little thing he says and does with no pushback. The corporate media oligarchs are desperate to help Trump. We are going to overwhelm them this November!

Soo…the guy who, in the last week, called 3 Black Americans he doesn’t agree with “low IQ,” insulted the Pope, insulted our allies around the world, and insulted leaders in the opposing party, is trying to lecture us on hate??

NEW: In a brief filed with SCOTUS, civil rights groups contend that under the court’s own history of applying “the Purcell principle,” it is too late into the election season to suspend it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

“You know we’re in a war,” President Trump said yesterday, as a White House letter to Congress asserted that the War Powers Act doesn’t apply because there’s no war. Utter contempt. Congress is cool with it. Because the GOP majority also has contempt for the law, Constitution, country, and people.

We went from "armed gunman mere seconds away from shooting the president is killed by Secret Service" to "guy with a shotgun falls down on a different floor well outside the entrance of the ballroom and we can't find the bullets because that just happens sometimes" awfully fast.

Tomorrow morning, we will be dropping a ~12,000 word story on Paul Pressler, the alleged sexual predator who remade the Southern Baptist Convention and helped ordain the marriage between the GOP and white evangelical voters. There is *a lot* in there and I hope you'll read it.

“The goal of ICE is not to make communities safer,” Stanley writes, “ICE’s mission is to reinforce a distinction between ‘us’ and ‘them.” www.arcurrent.com/editorials/2...

The US is an unreliable and deceitful ally now, and is doing its best to help Putin’s dictatorship commit unspeakable war crimes against a European democracy. It is a good thing if the US pulls out of Europe and stops pretending.

It should be leading news that the FBI has released a video they claim shows Cole Tomas Allen shooting at police, however the video shows zero shots fired by Allen. The FBI is lying and the media treats it like it’s normal.

“Sunlight has to travel 93 million miles to reach the Earth, but none of those miles go through the Strait of Hormuz,” says Bill McKibben.

Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power. The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever. But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.

This paper was retracted from the @nejm.org because the images of bronchial branching after smoke inhalation were obviously and transparently manipulated by generative AI. Look at the ruler. I don't even know what lesson to draw from this. www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

Not only is this not happening, the Chinese dominance of EV’s is a terrifying development for US auto manufacturers.

Alito’s Jim Crow racing into effect within hours of the decision

Why has our country fallen so far? Because a major political party built its brand on constant outrageous lying.

Today's Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana v. Callais is the culmination of John Roberts’ two-decade crusade to gut the Voting Rights Act. It is, simply put, a devastating blow to American democracy.

He's worse than Roger Taney now. He's the worst Chief Justice in history, I'd say.

There are people still living who fought — and watched their compatriots be murdered — for the passage of this act and to attempt to democratize America. To see it completed felled in the span of their OWN lifetime is just absolutely devastating.

people fucking died for the voting rights act. to wave it away with a magic wand is just so grotesque

It's so disheartening watching this court carry out the explicit project of white supremacy so blatantly while gaslighting the public to say it's trying to stop discrimination. They're dismantling every major legacy of the civil rights movement. We need to reform this court.

I keep saying: anyone who is nominated by Trump for any position is disqualified by virtue of having accepted the nomination there are no “good ones”, there are no guardrails, by definition taking the position is an indication that you will debase yourself and your department for Dear Leader