I realize there's a gulf between "what a president is explicitly permitted to do" and "what a president can get away with" but every single day is a damning indictment that the last administration did not see fit to pursue expansive power against Trump's return nor did it dare SCOTUS to stop it.

Even aside from the being the most fraudulent fraud Trump has ever frauded, a depressing thing about the slush fund is that it's gonna hard for it to break through the noise for ordinary people because he grifts so much all the time, at every opportunity.

The Supreme Court said Biden couldn't forgive student debt

That fish in barrel analogy is on par with the generally quality of writing in Hillbilly Elegy, but also this is a bit like complaining about mob activity while working for Al Capone

This is insane. The terms of DOJ's slush fund appear to transfer control of $1.8 billion beyond US government entirely. Unless I'm misreading this, that would circumvent Congress *entirely* and put the money outside of *any* constitutional and/or legal constraints ofany kind. Straight up theft.

1) the pathology that translates “let’s be sure to nominate effective democrats” to “bashing democrats” should be studied 2) how are you going to defeat fascists and oligarchs by electing people who do not want to defeat fascists and oligarchs, my good Mitch?

Here come the Trump phone. What features do you think it has? Annnnd.... go.

1. What I found in Trump's new 113-page financial disclosure report. It doesn't look good.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

This is some super insidery NYC internet brainrotted bullshit, but I think whatever used to be the Tumblr literary scene morphed into a Thought Catalog literary scene and now there's some kind of Substack scene that overlaps with Dimes Square?

Ah, this is nice. I wanted to go to Space Camp because of the movie. We didn't have the $ but it was in Alabama so I went to the space center for a day visit and managed not to vomit in the centrifugal simulator.

It's that kind of overconfidence that gets people in trouble, but you do you. I prefer to double check my work. I do agree that you can't remember a verbatim paragraph from someone else's work (which is apparently the Ross situation), but a not particularly unique turn of phrase? Come on.

Someone asked me what I thought was the difference between plagiarism due to sloppiness, laziness, etc vs plagiarism as intention, intent to deceive, and it's a good question. For readers, there is no difference, and consequences should be be the same, accordingly.

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

Sir, maybe your reading comprehension problems are why you don’t have a journalism job.

Why would your solution not be to download the software at home idiot www.businessinsider.com/gavin-newsom...

Until I was in my mid 20s I had a near photographic memory and as a student in high school I would study something a few hours before the test and regurgitate whole paragraphs verbatim. As a result I’m always very anxious about *unwittingly* lifting something I read. Because of that…

Mamdani's New York is coming to tax your private jet. Here's how to prepare: 1: get out your check book 2: write a big fat check to the government 3: be very, very grateful

Lucky California. I think the Kars 4 Kids ad should be banned under federal prohibitions against torture, but if misleading advertising does the trick, sure, let's go with that. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...

Alien: And how did you run out of water? Earthling: Machines drank it. Alien: Machines. Earthling: We had to feed machines the water. Aliens: So the machines were holding your planet hostage for water. Earthling: No, we made the thirsty machines. They worked for us. Alien: End communication.

How bad is the Colorado governor's commutation of Tina Peters' sentence? So bad that even the Republican DA who prosecuted here pushed back, and told Polis to talk to the county officials who have to deal with threats that followed Peters' felonies. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/u...

My take on the insider media discourse of the day is that I just think men should admit when they've fucked up and apologize and I don't know why it's so hard for so many of them.

The thing is that, however much money you have, you are going to have to confront the human reality that there are more things in life you can't control than things you can. my guess is, that this becomes more difficult to accept the more money you have. You can control small things...

Our entire government is comprised of the people who used to leave me Jack Chick tracts instead of a tip.

The fact that the same people doing this also oppose minimum wage increases reveals their preference for maintaining a permanent underclass.

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

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“It does not look like the manta ray likes it,” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/s...

President Trump confirms the existence of the sixth gender

The root of a social contagion.

The President is telling the IRS to give him $10 billion rn

How many hundreds of thousands of Africans does a man have to kill by yanking foreign aid to get called racist around here?

IANAL, but i wonder if this could be construed as a form of harassment at work, especially if you're any religion other than Christian.

Trapped here with our oligarchs and global warming. Good times. Gooooood fuckin' times. Don't get too attached to that night sky or your gps devices.

this fuckin guy

I encourage states to review the text of Fuck You v. Make Me

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

This is a great piece about what whiny fuckers billionaires are. They hate two things: paying humans wages and paying any kind of tax. Also, I hate myself for being a pedant, but it’s pieds-à-terre.

This is an accessible and affordable op-ed workshop opportunity from a top tier professional with a lot of experience on the writing and editing sides of op-eds.

RIP Rex Reed. Cranky, opinionated, never boring. The first time I met him we had lunch at Sardis and he explained to me that the Internet was a fad (his friend Liz Smith said so) and if we were all lucky it would just go away. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/m...

Democrats should ensure that voters hear this so much it haunts their dreams this fall.

Mayor Mamdani restores library funding after public outcry gothamist.com/news/mayor-m...

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I’ve heard whining from my former colleagues on Wall Street. You would think the world was coming to an end. The complete lack of perspective is embarrassing.

"Higher taxes on second homes already exist in conservative strongholds like South Carolina and Montana, but if Mamdani adopts them in New York, the ultrarich argue, we might as well be in Soviet Russia." Appreciate this reality check on the push to get zillionaires to pay their fair share:

I wrote about billionaires whining about Mamdani and the teeny tiny tax he wants them to pay on their multimillion dollar pied-a-terres. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

His obsession with Obama is motivated by his racism, but also his jealousy. Obama is both widely respected by elites and cool—two things that Trump has never been able to attain

"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."