Any Madison, Wisconsin peeps? I'll be speaking tomorrow at two public libraries, the Verona Library at 10:00 am and the Meadowridge Library at 2:00. I've never been here before. What a lovely place. And the people are definitely nice. www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/spaces/event...

I guess @marcacaputo.bsky.social was so rushed to vomit up his scoop he had not time to ask what "for now" means. www.axios.com/2026/06/01/t...

“Today I stand before you as a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s horrendous abuses,” said the commander-in-chief, who paused to collect himself as he stressed that he was only a young, innocent 41-year-old when Epstein began grooming him in Palm Beach, FL.

Kyiv alone has already been hit with 17 ballistic missiles. Seventeen! Let that sink in.

Last night Russia attacked seventy-seven places in Ukraine with more than six hundred drones and missiles. You can help protect Ukrainian life by donating here. u24.gov.ua/news/timothy...

DHS was a post-9/11 power grab and most anyone critical of it was saying it would be used as a secret police and that using the word “Homeland” was just raw nativism

Millions of acres of national forests are set to open up for more logging www.npr.org/2026/05/24/n...

Why do standards created in the 1970s continue to power the modern internet? According to @terrygodier.com, it’s because they’re “too useful to disappear, too uncool to hype, too federated to acquire, and too awkward to turn cleanly into a platform.” www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-i...

This.

The $1.8B Trump-Blanche slush fund is EVEN MORE corrupt than we knew. Todd Blanche is offering to cut Republican senators in on the payout to win their support. PLEASE watch, share, and call your senators to shut this down. youtube.com/shorts/yDuDI...

With no extended discussion, the DC Circuit has VACATED and remanded the seditious conspiracy convictions in the top Oath Keeper cases (Rhodes, Meggs, Watkins, Harrelson) for "consideration of the govt's forthcoming motion to dismiss the indictment." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🔥 SPRINGSTEEN: "I’m here to support Stephen Colbert, the first guy who lost his show because a president can't take a joke - and the Ellisons feel they need to kiss his ass… small-minded people with no idea what freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about." 🇺🇸

One of the arguments against AI is that the people & institutions trying to sell it to us have done so much harm in so many ways with so little conscience on so many other fronts. This AP piece is among the group netting the team including @garanceburke.bsky.social the Pulitzer.

ICYMI: We obtained the grand jury testimony of Rudy Giuliani, Lindsey Graham, Brian Kemp, Brad Ratffensperger, Cassidy Hutchinson, Marc Short, Greg Jacob, Boris Epshteyn, Michael Flynn, Chris Carr, Lin Wood, Mark Meadows, Cleta Mitchell, and more. You can read & search the transcripts on our site👇

1/ Ahead of Russia's Victory Day celebrations tomorrow, Russian nationalists are engaged in their traditional pastime of rewriting history to erase the Hitler-Stalin alliance. It was all the fault of the "main bastards", the perfidious British, according to one warblogger. ⬇️

Yesterday a judge voided cuts to NEH, noting DOGE's classification of 'DEI' was incoherent One example: DOGE flagged a grant to a whaling museum, which wanted $$ to house a full whale skeleton DOGE called this DEI bc it'd “create an inclusive and impactful experience, which is aligned with DEI”

This reader did not know democracyproject.org/posts/pass-t...

If you’ve relied on Lawfare’s reporting of the litigation over the Trump administration's executive orders, now’s a good time to give back. Even $10/month helps sustain it: lawfaremedia.org/support

AFT is asking the SEC to scrutinize Elon's bullshit to avoid members being forced to buy SpaceX via Index funds.

Interrupting my vacation to remind folks that they once claimed they would denaturalize 200 citizens per month in 2026. Reality intervened. www.npr.org/2025/12/24/n...

Kicked in a little to CalMatters and Vote411 for their help in making my voting choices give.calmatters.org/campaign/796...

81 years ago, Western Europe was liberated. But for millions of Europeans, the end of Nazi occupation was followed by decades of Soviet oppression. Ukraine’s defense today is the continuation of Europe’s unfinished fight for freedom. Honor #VEDay. Hasten #VUDay.

The devastating attacks continue killing and injuring civilians. 🆘 The 122nd BRIGADE URGENTLY NEEDS VANS for their mobile interceptor groups to stop incoming drones before they take innocent lives. 🆘 💳: donorbox.org/122nd-separa... 💰: www.paypal.com/donate/?host...

“The country is suffering defeat on all fronts, so what are they celebrating?” Muscovites were asked what they think about the Victory Day parade without military equipment this year. Some of their answers might surprise you! Others will make you laugh! Video: SOTAvision

🔥 The fall of Putin is a matter of “when,” not “if.” However, it will likely unfold differently than you think. 👉 Set high expectations for the show & watch for THESE signs. Great discussion with my friend Jonathan Fink of Silicon Curtain. youtu.be/8V7fknHRRJo

The further Putinisation of America. For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law.

Russia just made basic military training a required school subject for fifth-graders in occupied Donbas. Ukraine's ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets asked the ICC to call it a crime against humanity. "Silence is complicity in a crime against children," he wrote. 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/06/r...

1/ The acting US Ambassador to Ukraine is to resign over differences with the Trump Administration, becoming the second ambassador to do so in just over a year, and the third to resign under Donald Trump. She is said to be frustrated at Trump's lack of support for Ukraine. ⬇️

Thiel flies under the radar as an Epstein class supervillain. He appears in the Epstein files close to 3,000 times, including in hundreds of emails exchanged with Epstein.

If your friends on Substack don't want to read any of the long essays and articles about The Substack Problem, send them this @anildash.com explainer video. (From his @pastduepodcast.com interview.) It's not just Nazis, it really isn't. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWdS...

David Morens should not have evaded public records laws. There were no records destroyed & all the messages in question were colleagues blowing off steam & talking shit. The “conspiracy” is made up. This is political persecution, not legitimate prosecution for an actual crime.

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

There are myriad ways that law enforcement can access the content or other metadata of push notifications. Let’s fix that. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

“Exclusive: Trump administration blocking appointments to key panel overseeing voting machines, officials say” electionlawblog.org?p=155512

Let me help those who don’t understand this. The Pharisees were Jews. He is blaming the Jews who “control the media.” He’s an antisemite. Fire him.

The Supreme Court needs to be dramatically reformed. This is the origin story for how SCOTUS began to create entirely different sets of rules for administrations depending on whether they are Democratic or Republican.

Two nights ago, Russia sent nearly 700 drones and dozens of missiles at Ukrainian civilians. In the fifth year of the war, aerial attacks on Ukrainian civilians have become even more intense and more frequent. Please join me in this campaign for air defense equipment. You can help protect lives.

My latest column in a short thread. 🔴 on raging mediocrity named POO-tihn 🔴 on remote control killers 🔴 and on banality of evil ⤵️

I instructed the relevant channels to warn the de facto leadership of Belarus about Ukraine's readiness to defend its land and independence. The nature and consequences of recent events in Venezuela should deter the leadership of Belarus from making mistakes.

"What our pre-WWI British authors are trying to tell us, as explicitly as the Edwardian censors would allow, is that, to paraphrase Dorothy Parker, the Baal worshipers were very fucking busy and vice versa."

Spoke to the SEIU union leaders heading up the push for a billionaire tax in California. They say it is a pretty clear choice: A small tax on 200 of the richest people on earth, or millions of Californians losing access to health care. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/in-califor...

House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin Opens Sweeping Investigation into “U.S. Special Envoy for Peace” Jared Kushner’s Foreign Entanglements and Staggering Conflicts of Interest democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

The federal government – ICE, FBI, and more – is spying on you without a warrant. This week, Congress will decide whether Kash Patel, Stephen Miller and Trump can keep spying on Americans. If that scares you (it should) this thread is for you.

Gisèle Pelicot is not as much of an outlier as we'd like to think. Forums where men discuss how to drug and rape their wives and others abound. As this week has already shown: www.cnn.com/interactive/...

Last week, a worker one of Amazon's Portland area facilities died on the warehouse floor. Employees were told to look away and keep working. A new story by @ryanjhaas.bsky.social for @thewesternedge.bsky.social - reporting this news first. www.thewesternedge.media/p/everyone-i...

Doublespeed uses a phone farm to flood social media with AI-generated influencers. A hacker managed to get into a backend system of the company.