3 actual quotes from this piece: “Can I afford the tax? Yes. Is it going to deter me? No. But I think it’s shameful. I provide a lot of money to people who are blue-collar workers who work for me, servers in restaurants." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The internet was stunned on Monday after Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) told comedian Bill Maher that he commended President Donald Trump's "quiet piggy" insult directed at a female reporter.

The cost to repaint the Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC blue is now estimated to be over $13 million. Trump initially promised it would cost only $1.8 million. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u...

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

BREAKING: SCOTUS acts immediately on Alabama redistricting, vacating earlier decisions blocking the 2023 map and sending cases back to the district court — over the objection of Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

French woman was told by doctors hantavirus symptoms were just anxiety

Credit where it's due! The @nygroove.nyc and @vksmith.bsky.social are ahead of the curve with this one! nygroove.nyc/sex-and-the-...

Sure seems like lots of people want to vote for Democrats in PA's upcoming primary 👀

About 1/4 of the total net Dem gain is coming out of Philly, w/its contested Dem congressional primary, but the bigger picture is the bigger deal. This is just a very, very, very blue map.

BREAKING: Two out of three Americans think President Trump hasn't clearly explained why the US has gone to war with Iran, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that also showed his approval rating ticking up from the lowest level of his term reut.rs/4uHsW1B

No it’s obviously not. No college would have a test like the APUSH test. The APUSH test is not difficult, it’s hard. It rewards quick-thinkers and quick readers. It rewards speed, over quality. This is what you get when you try to make something very subjective very objective.

should responding to this question qualify a high school student for college credit

"For a second I thought I was dead, but when I heard all the noise, I knew they were cops. Only cops talk that way. If they had been wiseguys, I wouldn't have heard a thing. I would have been dead."

A ProPublica investigation last year found that the unit had often sidestepped oversight as it went after so-called quality-of-life issues, such as unlicensed motorbikes and ATVs:

“What a heartfelt story, this person we were gonna brutalize got to say goodbye to their kid!”

hold up is he going on a crazy long plane trip because you know i’m rooting for

A breath of fresh air: The International Hantavirus Society's statement on the cruise outbreak. -Pandemic risk extremely low -Hanta can have close-contact transmission, therefore they recommend targeted contact tracing & quarantine NOT general restrictions for the public. -Close contact = cruise

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.

This is today

This essay is extraordinary. By a 93-year-old who remembers what life was like before modern vaccines.

The way the world works is to steal clerk labor for middle age women, and what the article notes is how AI wants to shift that labor even more to women.

The rage of the American Mom starts with the receipts she has to upload for her to for her FSA/HSA accounts, or the 15 Wufoos to sign to get her kid to the Zoo, or 17 emails that needed to refill a prescription. I work for Tech Lords as their clerk, www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o....

abject corruption. I am ashamed. moneywise.com/news/investi...

another all-time tweet I am constantly thinking about

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

#OtD 11 May 1894 the Pullman railroad strike began in Chicago after the firing of 3 workers. The biggest strike in US history to date, it was only eventually broken by federal government troops and the killing of at least 24 strikers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8336...

Here's where Louis Mosley, the black-shirt wearing grandson of the black-shirt wearing fascist Oswald Mosley, who runs Palantir in the UK, says how and when they might use your medical data for "immigration enforcement" and, by logical extension, whatever other purposes became convenient.

NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting would get more attention from media if it involved several children, according to a new lawsuit against OpenAI www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

i don’t really understand generators anymore b/c this feels genx to me!

Please admire Pepper’s new booties - helping her feet recover from injury in style.

Sam Wang: “we have to reform the court by enlarging it. This is within Congress‘s power and does not require a constitutional amendment. There used to be 9 circuits and 9 justices. Now we have 13 circuits. The justification is simple.”

if you need a hug from a mom today, here i am giving you one. you are an incredible and wonderful person and i am so glad you’re here and im so proud of you! look at you!! ❤️

my potential

Income tax brackets in 1980

Some of you know I have a big thing about Terminator 2: "no fate but what we make." So here's the commando madonna from that epic.

i had two glasses of wine for dinner ama

A n attempted shoe bomber was caught and everyone had to take their shoes off to get on a plane for years. ChatGPT aids and abets a mass shooting and higher ed/business is still trying to unquestioningly shove AI down our throat whether we want it or not. What the fuck are we doing?

just a friendly fuck you to all the dads that couldn’t be bothered today. we see you!!

Is the cure to male loneliness just wearing slutty shorts? We may find out

I went to see my GP for a physical last week with a list of seven Qs to ask. . Of those, to six, the answer was, "Yeah, that's probably #Perimenopause." Including whole ass minutes of every inch of my skin itching. 🫪🫠 #GenX #NobodyWarnedMe

Hot moms in your area just want you to APPRECIATE THAT THEY CARRIED YOU FOR 9 MONTHS

very annoying but also pretty funny that a manager is reviewing security cameras to try and catch out who is talking to a union steward and for how long

And at the time, most white people called them terrorists and demanded that they be executed or imprisoned forever. Just something to remember.

Omg prothonotary warbler what are you DOING 😩

happy mother's day to the mother possum who broke into my aunt's kitchen to have her babies under the stove last night ONLY

On this Mother’s Day, we’d like to honor women for contributing an immeasurable amount of unpaid labor. Check out @jessicacalarco.com’s book, “Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net”. spotlightonpoverty.org/spotlight-ex...

"Trauma"

Possum Mom Doing her Best!