Nice Gawker look back here by @frankdigiacomo.bsky.social www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

the absolute size of the national debt gets overstated in importance, but it changes the dynamic when (a) the underlying spending *isn't* being invested in infrastructure, science, and the long-term health and well-being of people and (b) the US is internationally viewed as unstable and unreliable

we have to rebuild, demand consequences, and reform everything

When democracy is restored, all the people engaged in this sort of corrupt war profiteering need to be put in jail: www.marketwatch.com/story/trader...

I can totally see the argument for the Supreme Court as a conservative institution that modulates and slows abrupt changes. But the court’s majority conserves nothing. They are radical extremists without ideological or theoretical consistency, pushing the interests and plans of a political party.

I just want to add, since this is breaking containment, that this can't be made right. these people, each one a whole universe, are gone. there can only be justice for the perpetrators; public remorse & restitution; & reform to ensure future aid systems are more just and less prone to imperial whims

If racism is no longer a problem, then why are all the states rushing to redistrict after the Supreme Court ruling all in The South? And all the people pushing to redistrict all White? 🤔🤔🤔

BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them

Good to see: Hakeem Jeffries announces new initiative for New York to redistrict in retaliation for ongoing GOP abuses. As I've reported (see below), getting NY to do this is a key piece in neutralizing the GOP advantage.

Today, we honor the workers who keep our communities moving, our economy running, and our future growing. Happy International Workers’ Day. Solidarity with workers everywhere.

“[I]t all comes back to Court reform. The toxins and bacteria of the Court’s corruption spread into every tissue of American life. The source of the corruption has to be addressed at its source for America to have any kind of democratic rebirth or for civic democracy to have any chance at survival.”

and this is why they’re trying SO HARD to prevent us from voting

This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.

Alito authoring opinion saying fixing a racial gerrymander is also racist and then musing, 2 hours later, during oral argument about Trump's racist effort to end humanitarian protections against deportation for Haitians, about how he doesn't like dividing up people by race I loathe this man so much

The only way we unfuck our country is through a puritanical anti-corruption drive. We need to rip out a vast substrate of corrupt elites and marginalize an even larger contingent of mere incompetents and cowards. Ppl need to be terrified of the white-collar criminal laws of the United States again.

Orban made grand appeals to “Christianity” and “Western Civilization,” but his “illiberal democracy” was just a scam, a way to make him and his buddies rich while subjecting Hungarians to stagnation and robbing them of their freedom. Sound familiar? (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

This mf might get excommunicated by the end of summer lol

“The pope should be careful before talking theology” is just extraordinary stuff. Top-shelf. You write one book that gets turned into a Ron Howard movie and suddenly you’re nailing your manifesto to the cathedral doors.

isn’t jd vance the guy who said he lies to get a point across?

my god man

THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.

I'm gonna get this out of my system so I don't go insane: What Trump said about the pope is easily the most genuinely anti-Catholic thing any American politician has ever said in my entire lifetime, and if Obama or Biden had said it, there would literally be calls to disband the Democratic Party.

Best meme of the moment

This is a 99.99999th% outcome for what this really was. Delightful! www.si.com/nba/pacers/v...

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We have entered the “you can’t kill me if I commit suicide” phase of American Decline

Mayor Secretary Pete should go on this show more often

"While a majority of women under the age of 29 voted for Kamala Harris, young men (under 29) swung wildly for Donald Trump... We were told those young men loved the virility and coolness projected by a decrepit draft-dodger with bone spurs. Well, congrats to all of the MAGA voters..."

🎶 accountability project 2029, babyyyyy 🎶

OMG FUCK YES, IT BETTER BE THE OFFICIAL POSITION

still valid, 9 years later

Weird that having a set of negotiations in which there are no proper diplomats leads to a situation in which no one has a clue what's actually been agreed.

lol so they follow his lead into the war (per the nyt article) because they trust his vision but then lie to him later because they need him to agree this administration is filled with idiots and cowards

I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine

Imagine being a moderate Republican and getting outflanked on decency, morality, and basic humanity by these four nutters

It is a total failure of every individual and institution of government and society that this diseased man is not stopped from speaking, much less acting, this way in the capacity of president of the united states — trash-talking us all to the brink of genocidal nuclear annihilation.

looks like the revolutionary war crimes will be televised. doesn’t this sound like a commercial to you?

I talked to The Times for a little profile of yours truly. Check it out:

Absolute cinema watching that jar of Nutella escape contain behind the backs of the astronauts after packing other things away

this is a war crime.

we need an accountability project 2029

I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.

department of war crimes, folks

posting “praise be to allah” on easter sunday is legitimately hilarious and also legitimately terrifying

Throwback to this classic from Jeff Bezos' Washington Post Editorial Board.

Trump is committing war crimes in Iran and is threatening more and worse ones. His entire war strategy at this point is war crimes. A functional Congress would be far down the road of impeachment and removal.