NEW: The DOJ was criminally investigating the companies of W. Va.'s MAGA Senator Jim Justice. Until then-DAG Todd Blanche's office shut it down. @mtredden.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Periodic reminder that Ro Khanna is a big phony and opportunist (and not even very good at hiding it) who speaks out of both sides of his mouth whenever it suits him.

Election riggers just love to tease the losers by letting them think they are ahead for a while before pulling the rug out at the very end.

I am guessing that there is a massive asymmetry between the number of people excited to fob off the answering of questions to an AI agent and the number of people who don't mind their questions being answered by an AI agent.

This is the second time this has happened. CBS News's Investigative unit got a retired ICE agent to break down the Good shooting frame-by-frame. On the record, he said the agents were entirely out of line. The piece was only posted online and never broadcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ywL...

Will read the column later, but off the top of my head: the anti-AI backlash will look very different from the anti-immigrant backlash. Even making the comparison sounds bizarre.

Scott Pelley with @lulugn.bsky.social on being told the President had commented on his firing. (I’m not crying, you’re crying etc)

I think we are all underestimating how central insider stock trading has become to MAGA and Congressional Republicans. Trump is sending a bat signal here to his corrupt allies that he has their back, keep going, we are all in this together, looting and pillaging and stealing.......

In any other rational world, these montages would be leading the front page of every newspaper in the country.

This is just one of the many acts of corruption that pile up and overwhelm our capacity to remember. They stay in the news cycle for a few days, if that, and quickly fade from public notice.

I think the most likely explanation is that Platner got the Nazi tattoo because he wanted to be edgy and cool and badass. It's sort of like the way punk bands in the 70s tried to shock people by wearing swastikas and other Nazi imagery. This was a millennial military dude trying to shock people.

I’ve taught both composition and literature courses at Stanford for three decades, published six books. Struggling to find the right words improves both writing and the ideas. Writing is thinking.

They “let children die from malaria for want of $2 mosquito bed nets or from starvation because [they] couldn’t be bothered to provide 50-cent packets of peanut paste. A BU researcher estimates that the aid cuts have already cost more than 750,000 lives worldwide” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

New Businessweek feature: A landmark case was unearthing new revelations about Amazon's intimate, intensive regulation of drivers it claims aren't its employees. Then Trump put Amazon's former lawyer in charge www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... Based on 1000s of pages of records and 50+ interviews

Hatred of data centers is the only bipartisan political issue in America. Incredible work by tech CEOs in uniting the country.

This article is not good for my germaphobia. But I will save it for the next time someone in my family wants me to swim in a public pool.

New York City rules for AI in schools spark fury. Parents - who voiced anger at a public meeting that lasted seven hours - want to pump the brakes, saying the AI rules fail to address major concerns, including the technology's impact on child mental health and cognitive development u.afp.com/SDLT

I think the plain meaning of what Talarico said is that he wants to free such people from their bigotry and hatred, not to appeal to their hateful ideas in order to win their vote. It's not very realistic, but I don't see how you can reasonably interpret it any other way.

In addition to all the stuff that has been steadily flowing out about Platner, as well as his complete lack of qualifications, a big reason not to vote for him in the primary is that a person with any kind of moral center or any sense of shame would have withdrawn by now.

"Trump seems far more interested in padding his own and his cronies’ pockets than in boosting the fate of humanity. And so, he has given Vought free rein to destroy key engines of progress—including universities, research institutes and professional associations." www.ms.now/opinion/russ...

If you're a Maine primary voter (D or unenrolled) who doesn't want Platner the RCV strategy is simple Rank Mills, Costello & the write-in LaFlamme but not Platner The order doesn't matter If there's 51% for someone besides Platner, that candidate will rise to the top

No, see, worrying about the harmful effects of social media is just a "moral panic."

The Nazi tattoo was the proverbial tip of the iceberg. Underneath the water is a whole lifetime of impulsivity, disordered behavior, and amoral thinking. What a stinking mess of a candidate.

This is the view of the Roman Catholic Church. Catechism #239: "God transcends the human distinction between the sexes. He is neither man nor woman: he is God."

Vought holds one of the most powerful jobs in D.C., and he’s used his position to wage a quiet war to change the shape of the entire U.S. government. Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president. (Published Oct. 2025)

The Mearsheimer worldview is that there are 194 rational, prudent, non-ideological countries in the world, and also America.

The people who led the negotiating of Trump's slush fund were all Trump's personal lawyers, who had worked with one another. There was no-one there representing the public interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/u...

I want to believe there is a public policy fix to the reading crisis, but it seems too much like wishful thinking to me. Small-bore changes might make a difference at the margins. But the heart of the problem is what people are doing with their free time, mostly inside their homes.

Op-Ed: Every time I cheat on my taxes, I worry that I will get caught. Guest writer, John A. Taxcheat.

Stephen Miller’s pathological hatred of immigrants has made stupidity and cruelty official policy across every department of the federal government. “Only American citizens and green card holders can be airport janitors” is ridiculous. This man legally worked there for almost 30 years!

This is what Trump's done to the people's house: A third of it is rubble. Another third is a cage match. What a metaphor.

I am starting to suspect that Platner's background and life history weren't very carefully scrutinized before his people began pushing him as the next working class messiah.

“Residents described entire communities abandoning fishing because the small ‘lanchas,’ or speedboats, used by traffickers and fishers are often indistinguishable.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...

This optimism about physical books in public libraries is in jarring contrast to university libraries, which are ditching real books and going all-in on digital. A sign of funding troubles, but also that universities are no longer leading cultural trends but lagging them, or simply out of touch.

"As part of NPR's Idiot Voter project checking in with some of the most ignorant and least informed voters, these Americans have very little understanding of what is happening in the world and are quite confused about how government policies affect their lives."

Please clean up the place before you leave.

JUST IN: Judge Williams is pressing Trump's lawyers to answer for allegations that they committed a fraud on the court and filed the president's lawsuit against the IRS as a "collusive" effort to create the $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Vought's daughter takes Trikafta for cystic fibrosis. The CFTR gene was isolated in 1989 with NIH dollars. Every step of the 30-year pipeline was federally funded academic research. His OMB is now strangling the exact work that produced the drug keeping her alive.

If your takeaway from the Maine Senate primary is "the Democratic Party is a highly centralized top-down operation in which a small committee can unilaterally choose its preferred candidates" I'm not sure what to tell you

If Biden's team did this, Jake Tapper would be halfway through writing another book by now

Trump bought stock in the UFC’s parent company while promoting fights set to take place at the White House on his birthday, HuffPost has learned

Democratic candidate: "Sorry lib, you have to earn my vote!" Non-Democratic candidate: "LOL, whatever, as long as you own the libs!"

Let’s ask this guy about the security of people’s data 🙄

Trump takes 3 hits in the courts: 1. A judge in VA temporarily blocks Trump's $1.8B insurrectionist slush fund. 2. A judge in FL reopens the IRS suit that Trump used as an excuse for the slush fund. 3. A judge in DC takes Trump’s name off the Kennedy Center. (Here’s a gift link to action No. 2)

Russ Vought is an enemy of human flourishing.

A network of research centers that was well-positioned to respond to the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo had its funding canceled last year by the Trump administration. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/us-res...

Here are the 2025 property tax bills for the famous Painted Ladies houses *and* the 36 unit apartment building next to them in San Francisco. If the numbers look crazy ass to you, welcome to wonderful world of California Prop 13 (1978)!