The podcast bros said they were supporting Trump for two reasons: He wouldn’t start any wars, and he’d release the Epstein files. Massie lost tonight for two reasons: (a) forcing the release of the Epstein files, and (b) trying to restrain Trump’s war in Iran.

2 things, 1. Massie's "anti-Trump" stand was never moral, it was never about victims or "waking up" its that Massie believes that the Epstein Files are the Protocols and will reveal the Jewish conspiracy 2. Massie never broke with Trump he was running ads saying he was the real Trump candidate

Here is Elon Musk bragging about how he "accidentally" canceled all Ebola prevention efforts (DOGE never fully restored the canceled contracts)

I recently had to do several extensive tests and write up a 1000 word analysis to prove to my C suite that you can't have Claude take a survey 500 times while pretending to be people in lieu of actual human polling and market research They seriously thought it was omniscient and wouldn't believe me

Wow some terrible reporting about Google's latest horrible ideas about how to distort information access in the name of "convenience" (or something): techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/g... A short thread 🧵>>

Masterful timing, sir.

The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”

A true fact about Trump's stock trading- I ran the numbers and Trump traded up to ~$700 million in stock in Q1 of 2026. All 535 Members of Congress made a total of ~$635 million worth of trades in 2025. So Trump bought and sold more stock in 3 months than all of Congress put together did last year

Trump, who has entirely lost whatever message discipline he ever had, explicitly talking about how the "Ballroom" is actually a fortress for repelling attackers. One might ask who he thinks would siege the White House, but he'd just lie. We know who Trump's scared of. It's the American people.

And of course, what passes for Blanche's "knowledge" of the story is irrelevant. He appoints the board & the board has complete control over disbursement procedures (if there are any). So the question is just straight up whether child molestation is a thing he will pay for and the answer is yes.

Also people are not prepared for how little the Democratic Party in 2027-2031 resembles that Democratic Party under Biden or Obama. Massive generational turnover is happening. The future is AOC & Ossoff & Talarico & Mamdani.

Right-wing nationalist antisemitism is not just hatred of the Jew qua Jew, but a worldview in which the diasporic Jew stands for urban modernity and ideology seen as threats to the hard borders of the nation-state. This is why the Israeli right had to reinvent Judeobolshevism from first principles.

The crazy thing about Trumps stock trades is that the corrupt gains are still dwarfed by the billions being made in payola to bia sham crypto, AI and media cos. It’s just instinct. Late last year he just decided to “I can do this too. YOLO.”

Has Mike Johnson heard about Trump's $2B slush fund, yet?

This is THEFT. There is no other word for it. They are stealing almost $1.8 BILLION dollars to pay Trump‘s allies, despite knowing that these people are not legally entitled to any money and be laughed out of court if they filed a lawsuit for money damages.

A more worrying thing for the GOP could actually be that Cuban and Tejano latino types actually maintain their typically GOP voting behavior, which would mean that the overall group elsewhere absolutely completely flatlines and throws all sorts of districts into disarray.

“…says White House.” ??? Seriously, Reuters?

It is fascinating that the car dealer class and other regulation-propped middlemen have largely agreed that yes, Tesla and xAI CEO Elon Musk represents their interests.

I’m honestly unsure what Silicon Valley’s theory of victory is here. As far as I can tell, the plan is: 1.) Suck up to president who has annihilated the taboo on political violence 2.) Take everyone’s job 3.) Expose them to nonstop extremist propaganda And like... For fuck’s sake, why?

🤣LOL! They really did Eve Washington dirty with this one! Imagine being a highly skilled Black woman with a degree in CompSci from the top journalism university in the US. You write code to debunk the myth that the VRA gave Black people an unfair advantage.♥️👍🏿 And they frame it like this?🤡

Like I think it's important to realize that senior politicians are "conservative" in non-political ways. It's the nature of institutions and aging and power and all that. But that's very far from meaning anything like "they are OK with abortion going away"

No one should be allowed to criticize "Dem messaging" unless they acknowledge up front that prominent Republicans constantly say the stupidest things imaginable. Literally constantly. Every time they talk. Republican messaging discipline is objectively terrible. Doesn't matter for them.

My in laws live across the street from a children's hospital in a big city in China and there are always parents on the street corner begging for money with posters covered in pictures of their sick kids

Honestly idgaf if bluesky is "dying." Posting with pals is the point, getting lots if attention is for crazy people.

I have been lectured to my entire life that the greatest sin in politics is to look down on these cosmically ignorant fuckwits, or to hold them accountable for their decisions. We're just supposed to flatter their Illusions and dutifully repair all the shit they destroy.

As President, Trump doesn't travel. He doesn't work. Like many old white guys, he watches Fox News, gets infusions, posts on the internet, and rants incoherently to anyone willing to listen to him. He went to China w/o an agenda and accomplished nothing. Why did he go to China?

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

My worst interview, I walked out on at the halfway mark. It was so bad a year later the CEO saw me at a conference and apologized to me for it and invited me to come back and work for him because "no one else did as well as you did."

Floyd, Lips, Animal, Janice, Dr. Teeth, Zoot

An "of course" moment. Teslas are failing inspection after 3 years because the chassis is not strong enough to hold the weight of the car. Musk's been selling lemons.

ten years ago = 50 years ago, and also probably still not real

I mean, this is literally the same industries fighting the same fight, on different ground over a different new tech. It's just that the tech industry is now powerful enough to go toe to toe with big IP owners in a way it couldn't 20 years ago. And smalltime creators are still collateral damage.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

Are these guys going to SB8 medication abortion and just not act on the application before 5 PM ET???

we got rid of the president of unavoidable high grocery prices to elect the president of avoidable high grocery prices

this is an example of “who cares what the court says it is none of their business”

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

Interior secretary strongly suggesting that China can turn off the solar panels they sell to the United States. Big if true.

Keep coming back to one of the most important heuristics for a good life: Nothing only men like is cool.

"I would prefer sincere enemies to weak friends" is a thing I think a lot of people would agree with that is actually dumb as hell.

What they’re not saying in this quote (but I would be shocked if they didn’t say elsewhere in the piece) is that the price reaction will be extremely violent and *that* is the forcing mechanism, not the inventory draws themselves. People dunking on this don’t know what they’re talking about lol.

One reason to get the oligarchs to pay taxes isn't the revenue generated. It's psychological. Currently, the feeling is that nobody wants to pay taxes because the oligarchs don't. So it's wildly unfair. If you make oligarchs pay, it helps convince people that it's fair for them to pay as well.

As a CS PhD who had more programming experience than many fresh CS PhDs when I finished HS: - Much pain would be avoided if people would stop confusing CS with software engineering. - Programming languages are like natural languages: the only way to achieve fluency is immersion

the virginia situation sucks shit but, maybe unpopular opinion On Here: I think we are probably fine not going the 'force every court justice to retire' route the justice who wrote the opinion will be replaced next year, rerun the decision, get the maps for 2028 dems will win the 2026 house anyway

Man, two all-timers in the space of a month. Nice job, New Yorker cartoon editors. The idea of this one is brilliant, but the execution is maybe even more so—getting the figure in the coffin to read both ways like it’s supposed to is something.

I need AI to stop trying to write my emails for me. Or respond to texts for me. It's driving me bananas