Yeah, I don't think people understand the baroque lengths of cruelty dogpiles will go to once someone has been deemed a socially acceptable target. Individually, it's just one person venting their rage, but when it's dozens or hundreds of people, it takes a very real toll.

President Trump said he does not consider the economic impacts the war in Iran is having on Americans, remarks that quickly drew criticism from Democrats and appeared to undermine his campaign pledge of addressing voters’ cost of living concerns. https://wapo.st/3PdQX1c

and your dogs. please also remember to post pictures of your dogs. even if your dogs are cats.

Wrote about how the conservative majority on the Supreme Court have basically stopped to even pretending that they're not tilting the playing field for the GOP (no matter what John Roberts is saying).

Here’s the @democrats.org next campaign ad. But please don’t text it to me.

Gonna be interesting to see how the media manages to ignore when he starts dropping racial slurs on camera.

That second Malört shot is always death. And the first Malört shot? That's right, also death.

Whatever you expect to taste, you are wrong. Tragically, cosmically wrong, in a way that renders you psychically displaced for several moments. Malört tastes like waking up and not knowing where you are. It tastes like taking a sip of coffee only to realize the creamer had gone rancid.

Malört is disorientingly bad. It cannot be described with actual flavor referents. The closest I can get is to say that it reminds me alarmingly of that metallic, penny-sucking aftertaste from Paxlovid. It's more of an experiential sensation, like biting into a fork that's missing a tine.

I have given birth twice. Malört is worse.

your post quarterpounder couch nap sleep paralysis demon has arrived

I am "radically pro-transgender" in that I believe that every human being is entitled to autonomy, agency and self-determination in all aspects of their lives - legal, romantic, personal, medical, and aspirational.

Every year, I get together with my friends from college, and I then spend a week being forcibly reminded by my body that despite how I acted, I'm not actually 22 anymore

CourtListener is now available inside Claude as a new MCP Connector. Here's what that means and why it matters. 👇 free.law/2026/05/12/c...

If I have ever interacted with you positively on This Site, and you spot my writing in the wild, you are hereby allowed to claim me as your friend for the purposes of bragging rights.

this is an actual Bluesky Rule: if you have ever so much as exchanged a single like, you are required to hold up the book in the shop and say "hey my friend wrote this"

“White people can’t handle spicy food” only partially correct. There are two kinds of white people when it comes to spicy food, ones that can’t handle ketchup and ones that put hot sauce called like “insanity joe’s devilfucking sauce” on everything.

Hey if you're a young adult in the US pay very close attention to the moment because in shockingly few years the popular account of who did or said or supported what right now will be at times unrecognizable. Don't let that break your brain or just you, as a person.

I'm excited to be speaking Thursday in B'more at the 2nd AI x Journalism Summit, a "hacks" & hackers convening on the future of tech-enabled journalism. I'll be talking legal angles with @revealnews.org's @monikab.bsky.social & @publicknowledge.bsky.social's @mrose.ink. luma.com/hh-aijournal...

every now and then i feel the need to remind folks that The Daily doesn’t fact check

🚨🚨🚨 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...

Order: “the case is dismissed on ironic hilarity grounds.”

good update thread

My kids (9 & 5) just watched The Princess Bride (1987) for the first time this past weekend and loved it.

Other than discovering that I’m apparently John Oliver’s son, @lastweektonight.com’s deep dive into the shadow docket is really quite good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKeq...

All of (former) lawtwitter watching the show last night:

Crazy how being really shitty to everyone & loudly ruining everything is unpopular

This is actually even better than "the website for 38 year olds"

(my eyes glow with hellfire and horns sprout from my head at the term "copy-write")

the iran war is a really fascinating lesson in global supply chains did you know a key component of (insert thing here) travels through the strait of hormuz? now you do!

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

I had an acquaintance who was like this, and was a compulsive liar to boot. It's astonishing how long she had people believing that bad things just happened to her without warning. (Spoiler: there was always warning and they were always avoidable. But she always spun a tale.)

They have a story about how everyone in their life has wronged them.

NEW: Secret Handshake installed working arcade games called Operation Epic Furious: Strait to Hell at the DC War Memorial. The game features "furious tweet battles against Iranian schoolgirls, low-flow shower heads, and other threats to American freedom like DEI and The Pope..."

because ppl still think of it in terms of "ruling" and think getting to be a lord is its own reward

so does this take into account all the service workers who could not afford to take jobs in DC if not for public transit, or naah

This is a wildly misleading headline. Hawaii passed a law that purports to do this, but no court gas blessed it and furthermore it would not seem to affect entities incorporated in other states.

“The Odyssey is a very serious book, Odysseus is a very sympathetic, brilliant character and you should not make fun of it” - someone who has clearly never actually read the Odyssey.

after a devastating streak of two World Cups without official songs by Shakira, we are so back

A reminder that this is why we make fun of The Odyssey. The book would not exist if Odysseus was not such a complete chaos goblin who was busy causing problems for himself by arguing with Gods and being a shit navigator. There is no way to make an extremely serious movie out of this material.

The correct director for an Odyssey adaptation is Taika Watiti. I will not be explaining any further.

Running up and down the street as if I am Paul Revere to tell people that there is finally some great World Cup News: Shakira is doing the official World Cup Song

I'm literally writing about a set of Tennessee segregationists in the 1960s at the moment. I swear to God, they were not *this* comically and overtly racist.

Best I can do is this unhinged text from my husband in 2024

Has anyone gotten a truly bananas break-up text? And would be willing to share it with a stranger (me)?

Well well well looks like those art degrees aren't so useless after all

Remember how Sarah Fitzpatrick said the first story resulted in a flood of new sources wanting to talk about Kash's drinking?

I’m officially caught up. Bring it on.