this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

As a guy with half a trillion dollars, I have lots of options: 1. Enjoy a 100% stress-free life doing whatever I please in unfathomable luxury all over the world with people of my choosing 2. Have 87 meltdowns a day on a website

just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top

This is an important thing to understand about the 1-2 step the Supreme Court engaged in to gut the VRA: they first said that partisan gerrymandering was bad, but there was nothing they could do about it in 2019. That paved the way for Callais. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/power-demo...

Once Frank dies, people are going to insist that you can't say bad things about him, which is why it's more important than ever that you say all the bad things about him right now. Time's running out!

The NFL has long felt too big to fail. Is a tipping point coming soon? On a football empire, scheduling and more: open.substack.com/pub/broadstr...

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...

The Democrats are in a war for the future of their country and refuse to acknowledge it

"As part of the settlement, Texas Children’s has also agreed to fire, permanently and irrevocably terminate all existing privileges, and never again hire or credential five woke doctors who performed harmful medical interventions on Texans"

Most of the people who say Bluesky is dead are really saying X The Everything App is dead, they miss us, they need us, it's not the same without us.

This is a form of psychosis. These people will burn the world if they have their way.

I really do think Trump misheard Talarico saying "cisgender" as "six genders," and that's just a thing he says now. The first person I saw make this observation deleted the post saying it, but yeah.

The relevant portion of the Jason Collins discussion

“We live in a homophobic society…if you think there are not more gay players in the NFL, Major League Baseball, and the NBA, you’re just stupid” - Charles Barkley saying the quiet part out loud. I fuckin cried. god bless him and Jason Collins.

One qualitative value of posting and reading posts over here versus other platforms for me is that when women are victimized and killed in horrific ways I can see human beings responding with grief and respect instead of the most vile misogynistic rhetoric that makes my soul curdle

I accidentally put the wooden lady on the back side of my ship and all the other captains laughed at me and said that’s the gay side

"that is Third Way’s only consistent belief: At all times, in all places, the left has always gone too far, the center is always doing what’s right, and rich people should be protected from taxation." prospect.org/2026/05/12/t...

Today marks four years since an Israeli soldier shot and killed US citizen and journalist Shireen Abu Akleh while she was wearing her press vest and covering the news. The IDF has continued to target journalists with impunity. No one has been held accountable for Shireen's killing.

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

ICE agents are walking around with a list of 20 million people to detain in their pockets because of this Palantir database: www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...

the white house is a full of terrorists

On Nazi propaganda and evangelical movies www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

Of all the enterprise software I've ever used, @workday.com is far and away the worst and most actively user-hostile. It seems intentionally designed to obscure features and options for users, even basic things such as looking at your paycheck. It's really strange!

dusting off a classic

“The feeling inside the program was that Netanyahu had effectively gone around Stahl and the “60 Minutes” team—and that Weiss had assisted him in doing so by finding an interviewer who was, for whatever reason, more agreeable to him.” www.status.news/p/60-minutes...

“At this turning point in history, what we hear is the heavy and haunting toll of an empire’s evening bell.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

It is pretty wild to see Zionists freak out about this article when, in 2024, there was a large "right to rape" protest in Israel. The protest succeeded in making the prosecution drop charges, and one of the perpetrators is now a star on Israeli reality TV.

this is why, when we win, we gotta win all the way.

Part 2 of the New Yorker series on higher ed is up; it’s an interview with someone who has even weirder and less good ideas than Jay Caspian King (the author / interviewer). For example: rhere’s no meaningful experience at the edge of chemistry without knowing some (and probably a lot of) chemistry.

Wagner Moura becoming a sex symbol, my time to shine

My friend who used to say the final stage of corporate greed was demanding to be loved is never, ever proved wrong.

Every line of this poster is more baffling than the last, it stopped me dead in my tracks

Why does the New Yorker think it needs the opposite of a Chotiner? This is so embarrassing. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

As the United States has pulled funding for research programs, Canada is pushing to attract scientists to come north of the border. 🇨🇦💪 www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

boss to a human employee when they make a mistake: you're fired boss to a computer when it makes a mistake: you are a delicate flower capable of love

Ploopy has launched the bean. Repeat. Ploopy has launched the bean. ploopy.co/bean/

He grabbed a 6’7” man by the back of the neck from a seated position Human Giant Victor Wembanyama

Interesting piece, but I resent how Peter Thiel is represented in the Gawker saga. Thiel didn't "emerge from the shadows" to magnanimously tell the NYT he funded Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker. He did it because my colleague and I exposed his involvement. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

sure gas is headed to $8/gallon but at least cornell got rid of their gender studies classes. or at least i think they did, i haven’t checked and if im being honest i wouldnt really know if they had or hadnt because it doesnt affect me but it makes $8/gallon gas all worth it

that one of Canada’s two national newspapers regularly publishes genocide apologia on the front page should probably be a bigger scandal

This weekend I am cozy

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

They put one of yours in the hospital, you put out a statement about how disappointed you are. That’s the centrist way.

Anyone posting about Cenk Da Young Turk in 2026 should have to go to the social media version of the responsible driving classes the state makes you take after a DWI.

[at the last judgment] JESUS: And the baby prisons? EVANGELICALS: to own the libs, right JESUS: And the libs, who are they EVANGELICALS: uh mostly illegal aliens. if we really hate a pretty girl we call her fatherless. some widows JESUS: Alien, fatherless, widow, got it. So you see these millstones