National Security and Ballroom Dancing 🎶 “Two great things that go great together” 🎶

In a lab in Wuhan?

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BREAKING: On the 39th anniversary of the founding of ACT UP, protestors have shut down traffic outside Grand Central demanding “Money for AIDS and healthcare, not for ICE and warfare.”

This line from Ketanji Brown Jackson—that the Court's "objective is protecting guns"—is clearly right, but it's pretty unusual for justices to put sentiments like this in writing ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...

I’ve been wondering how American will rebuild its reputation with our allies who Trump has mistreated and I’ve hit on a plan. We will restore our international relationships by giving Waffle House and Popeye’s to our friends. It will be like a new Marshall Plan, except for fast food franchises.

Dude’s wife is the federal judge who struck down the COVID-era masks-on-planes mandate because it ”exceeds the CDC's statutory authority and violates the procedures required for agency rulemaking under the APA.“ reason.com/wp-content/u...

Bad news: The Kennedy tarp is still up. Good news: It doubles as an incredible projector screen for showing films of Trump and Epstein.

Just pour the reflecting pool water on the ellipse — problem solved.

She arrived on a boat. Lady Liberty is an immigrant.

This is the perfect example of one photo being worth a thousand words.

"Idaho's law represents a truly dangerous escalation of the war on trans people and is the most extreme we have ever seen on the subject of bathrooms," said @lambdalegalceo.bsky.social. "So it is an enormous relief to have a judge who saw the light and who agreed with us and issued today's ruling."

jesus christ NO! NO!!! FUCK

So, in exchange for guaranteeing passage through the Straits of Hormuz is toll free, Trump wants to charge a toll.

Trump has completely destroyed any the dignity of the White House and the office of President of the United States.

Love the new look at the Kennedy Center....

Since the Kennedy Center and the Reflecting Pool have been in the news, I offer this Simpsons clip which features both. Lisa’s patriotic essay won the family a trip to DC, but when she sees all the corruption in gov’t, she starts to lose faith in democracy. youtu.be/EUJYXaS7J-Q?...

Trump used the Armed Forces Full Honor Cordon — soldiers who escort fallen heroes and heads of state — to usher UFC fighters past Abraham Lincoln’s statue like they’re celebrities on a red carpet. I am LIVID.

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

What kind of journalist writes “The U.S. and Iran are expected to finalize a deal within the next 24 hours” followed by “Tehran cast doubt on the prospect.” If Tehran cast doubt then it cannot be said it is “expected“ to happen. Did Bezos fire everyone with any sense?

There's a lot of Pride history held at the Library, including this footage of some of the first NYC pride events in 1970, from the Lilli M. Vincenz Collection. The full 12 minutes of footage and other Pride resources from the Library are linked below. 🧵

Today marks 10 years since the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, FL. We continue to hold those 49 queer and trans lives lost in our hearts and continue to fight in their names. ❤️ #PulseRemembranceDay

RIP David Hockney. I really like his painting of Whitman's "We Two Boys Together Clinging." Both the poem and the painting are wonderful artistic and political statements. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK9u...

David Hockney had died. NYT gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/a...

June 11, 1926: The police raid a lesbian-friendly cafe in New York City’s Greenwich Village and arrest its owner, Eva Kotchever. Eve’s Hangout is a discreet hole in the wall where avant-garde poetry is read, sexual topics are freely discussed and a sign reads: “Men are admitted but not welcome.” 1/3

The U.S. Postal Service has proposed a new rule that would allow it to refuse to deliver mail ballots in states that don’t turn over voter rolls to the federal government.

EXCLUSIVE: Top Pentagon Official Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Victims of Human Trafficking If this boat was running drugs, why was it loaded with so many people? theintercept.com/2026/06/10/t...

Craven Cruz Follow my cartoons and accompanying written commentary on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com For @contrariannews.org

The Civil Rights Division says hey, we sure did make some factually incorrect statements in a warrant application in the Cities Church case, but pobody's nerfect! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump claims the LA election is rigged because it’s taking days to process and tabulate the paper mail-in ballots. Of course, last year he issued an E.O. that said voting machines were rigged and paper ballots counted by hand in public (like in LA) is the best voting method. It’s all nonsense.

Down at the Grebe Factory interviewing the new apprentices for the Western Grebe Taxi Service, I'll thread in stills/video as I process them As a primer, here's THE BEST WESTERN GREBE MATING RITUAL FOOTAGE OF MY LIFE Warning on this thread: too cute for doom Skip to :41 for just rushing. 🪶 🐣

President Trump, a native New Yorker, was greeted by thunderous boos as he appeared in a suite at Madison Square Garden for Game 3 of the NBA Finals. https://wapo.st/4e9ZcUb

WATCH: New footage from a home security camera in shows National Guard soldiers tackle a woman to the ground, put her in handcuffs, and detain her seemingly without any justification or provocation🧵

Gotta be Hitchcock. But still hard to choose. Foreign Correspondent Saboteur North by Northwest

Hey @darthbluesky.bsky.social The Wishbone documentary is showing on PBS this week. Available on streaming platforms next week. www.whatsthestorywishbone.com

This is wonderful because it’s a cute event for both kids and the city’s sports fans, and at the same time is a subtle jab at Trump who keeps signing Exec Orders that he has no authority to issue and that have no real legal effect.

Happy Birthday Norma Jean.

A little sanity on Friday afternoon. Kennedy Center Must Remove Trump’s Name From Building, Judge Orders. The U.S. district judge also ruled that the institution’s board had not done its due diligence when voting to close for renovations. NYT gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/a...

Field of Flowers - Gustav Klimt

Anybody else having problems with LiveAuctioneers this morning. Kicked me out. To log in again, have to do 2FA but LA won’t send the code. Finally got a code but it is invalid. liveAuctioneers seems to have lots and lots of tech problems lately. An auction platform needs to be reliable.

I unfortunately had to get on the old site for a minute this morning and I was served an ad for online IQ tests (seriously). The ad has an obvious and stupid math error in it. I think we found the people behind the claim Trump lowered drug prices 600%. P.S. Are you more musical or existential?

"No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another" U.S. Const. Art 1, s. 9, cl. 6

Just a reminder that the Fox reporter in this exchange is Alexis McAdams, who erroneously reported that fiery Niagara Falls car crash was a terrorist plot. Despite that embarrassing screwup, she kept her job -- and is now doing this. www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-for...

Dorothea Lange was born on this day in 1895. "Migrant Mother," widely considered one of the most famous photographs of the 20th century, is the most recognizable shot of a series taken by Lange in March 1936 of the same family of "destitute pea pickers" in Nipomo, California. 🧵

As Trump Politicizes Justice Dept., Prosecutors Struggle With Grand Juries Judges and grand juries have increasingly lost faith in the Justice Department as the president uses it to reward his friends and go after his opponents. NYT gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...

Accounts are contradictory as to how the mob kills Blazes, but he is swiftly hanged—either from the rafters of the warehouse or from a tree. “The mob was very orderly, and…after the negro was disposed of…came back home and went to bed,” says Sheriff J.A. Bass, whose deputies don’t fight back. 4/5

Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis

NYT documents massive corruption under the Trump administration at the federal regulator overseeing crypto and prediction markets. It’s worse than you thought. How Prediction Markets and Crypto Firms Steamrolled a Watchdog Agency NYT Gift Link www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/u...