Context for Belfast riots

Folks: Ben is awful — but he has tricked folks into making him matter more than he does. He is NOT a NYT reporter. He never wrote about trans issues for them. He has not freelanced for them at all since the Mamdani hit piece nearly a year ago. Even before that debacle, he wasn't writing a lot there.

this guy is quite obviously seething with hatred of trans people, particularly trans women. cant even do anodyne sports posts without him sneering at you. that’s *why* he gets hired by the New York Times to write about trans issues

You are not going to be able to escape the "I love inflation" clip if you live anywhere near a competitive district or Senate seat. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Oh dear, I sure hope she wasn’t using a private server.

We know that's exactly what they're intending to do.

Jesus Fucking Christ.

I do find it really, really funny, apropos of the Star Wars discussion, that Hayden Christenson’s most notable role besides Anakin Skywalker, hero of the Old Republic turned disgrace, is Stephen Glass, hero turned disgrace of the New Republic

What a coincidence.

Bari’s locked bunker is above ground.

Ted Lieu: “Dear Sec. Rollins, you keep getting fact checked for your lies. It’s your Administration that cut the Screwworm programs Also, the life cycle of a Screwworm is 14 to 54 days — the Trump Administration has been in office over 500 days. If you can’t stop lying, you need to resign”

It took all game but the Trump MSG exorcism and fumigation is complete.

Wasn't this mandatory back in the good old days before Trump decided the rules don't apply to him?

Trump is desecrating the Lincoln Memorial, turning it into a filming venue for the UFC.

This is a sitting district court judge empowered to make factual findings and he can’t even tell whether that was an “attack”?

Meet Bill Pulte. 2 years ago, Trump's new Director of National Intelligence accepted an award that says he "only f*cks the young." And currently, he's under investigation for potentially misusing his authority at the Federal Housing Finance Agency to go after Trump's “enemies.”

An ounce of gold is currently selling for about $4,110 per ounce.🙄

a VLCC is ~2m bbl, so that's 50 transits - not impossible for dark transits and/or iranian ships but, like, it's at the outer bound of how much has been slipping through also given prior flows were something like 21m bbl/day, uh, congrats, that's 5 days worth of normal flow

When people say how could they have done that?I like to say because they did it before and got away with it.

A decent rule or thumb is that when you happen upon really egregious misconduct, it’s unlikely that you just fortunately stumbled upon the first unique instance. More often it escalated to be that bad via a lot of lesser infractions for which there were no consequences.

Just seeing this, monstrous: "The family arrived at Dulles on May 19 and was supposed to board a connecting flight to Ohio, where Gyasi’s son, who was born with disabilities, had an appointment at Akron Children’s Hospital."

Donald is doing his best to be fiscally responsible with your tax dollars America. Rest assured, not a penny gets dispersed until the Trump family gets their cut. #Sheshed finance.yahoo.com/economy/poli...

Trump flew off to spoil the Knicks game after he found out that two helicopter pilots had gone down in the Strait of Hormuz. This would be a presidency-ending scandal for any other POTUS.

BREAKING: We’re suing multiple Florida police departments on behalf of our client, Robert Dillon, who was arrested for a crime he didn’t commit in a city he’s never been to because he was misidentified by facial recognition technology.

Here's an oldie-but-goodie thread I did about that raw milk farm that's in the news right now.

While two U.S. Army soldiers were fighting to survive after their Apache helicopter went down near the coast of Oman, President Donald Trump chose to board Marine One — headed to the NBA Finals.

Republicans say Democrats rig elections and cheat . Their evidence ? Because they say so lol . That’s literally their answer . Every time they are in Court they admit they have no evidence and even admit they made shit up .

Dr Oz: "You were not put on this planet to sit at home and watch television. The average person who's on Medicaid, who's able-bodied, watches 6.1 hours of television, or just hangs out, every day." Wait, didn't Oz make his fortune off people watching television?

This is aging like vintage milk, @newsmax.bsky.social

The new trump era is bringing out some of the best grand jurors in cities he attacks. Just constantly assembling grand jurors in dc, Chicago, et al who are just looking at pieces of paper, written in crayola, all of which read: CRIME IS LEGAL AGAIN, and just responding by not indicting anyone and…

“For the past year, FIFA has leased an office on the 17th floor of New York’s Trump Tower that has sat all but empty. The rent goes to President Trump’s family business, but soccer officials say the space sits largely idle.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...

there were already many reasons to do this but Elon Musk actively encouraging racist violence in Belfast should be the final straw for every UK government institution to stop doing business - including being on X - with him in any way, and for him to be barred from entry to the country.

ICYMI: John Oliver’s hilarious & thorough takedown of the dysfunctional “complete shit show” hostile takeover of New College of Florida that led to the most corrupt, financially inefficient public university in the state. 👀 ➡️ @newcollegeoffl.bsky.social youtu.be/jFMc07F1UUU?...

Polymarket offered me enough money to pay my rent for ten months for one post in my newsletter and I turned it down because I enjoy being able to sleep at night.

Someone sent this pic to a group text and it’s too good not to share…

The idea that this just happened to the Broadview 6 — forcing grand juries to indict by cajoling them in an elevator, vouching to the grand jury, and telling "no" votes to leave if they don't want to indict — is nuts. It's probably happening everywhere. And it means the law as we know it is dead.

Put another way, the idea is that the side that does not respect "we should wait until we count every vote" should get punished by having their votes counted last. Still counted! That's important. But if you're gonna lie and complain and yell STOP THE COUNT then fuck you, back of the line. Only fair

no one around the world will ever trust America again until we lock up the people responsible for this.

NYT opinion editors publish these types of things *because* progs will tweet angrily about it, which they interpret as, "this writer gets the right people angry, this writer is provocative, this writer gets talked about." Angry tweets only confirm/reward their initial instinct to publish this stuff.

Doing some unrelated research and was just reminded that Ed Martin was onstage with accused pedophile Ali Alexander at the Jericho March, the Christian nationalist "stop the steal" rally the preceded Jan. 6.

the slow count is not *spawning* conspiracy theories, conspiracy theories are being pushed by open opponents of democracy, the republican party. your dipshit friend did not think this up himself

It's impossible to imagine two more morally polar human beings than Donald Trump and Pope Leo.

Trump: I wish I looked just like Jaxson Dart. Is he a male model? He is a handsome guy, a beautiful guy. Conservative guy. He said, I love you, sir. When Jaxson gets harassed a little bit, he's also is loved more because we have more people than they do.

Trump yesterday claimed we were days away from deal -- now we're back to threatening to blow up Iran. The cycle of derp continues.

Safe to assume Trump will die before ever going to jail, but I hold out hope for Ivanka and Jared

The Big Lie can never be topped by unimpeachable reality

Why isn't the next question "Actually, by claiming normal vote counting is rigging isn't it you and your fellow Republicans undermining the integrity of the vote? Don't accept their deceitful framing!!

RAJU: The president keep saying the California election was rigged. What evidence have you seen? SCALISE: You had wide changes after election night in the results R: They're just counting the ballots SCALISE: Look, whether you can prove fraud or not, it does undermine voter integrity in the vote

WHEN THEY DON’T KNOW THE CAMERAS ARE ROLLING, THEY TELL THE TRUTH… RON JOHNSON YESTERDAY: There is so much evidence of irregularities in the 2020 election, but all you have to do is say 'there's no evidence, there’s no proof’. RON JOHNSON 2021: There’s nothing skewed about the results. Trump lost.