What a strange turn of events, Matt wrote a blogpost in which he begs WP Engine to stop the judicial war he started himself. He claims WPE (Silver Lake) is trying to dissolve the WordPress Foundations and wants to control and take over WordPress. https://wordpress.org/news/2026/05/wp23/ […]

Here's part of a motion to dismiss with prejudice in MN case of Nasra Ahmed, who was one of the people Pam Bondi turned into a trophy. As has happened in at least one other of those, Judge ordered disclosures, DOJ moved to dismiss to avoid disclosures storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

JUST IN: Judge blocks Trump admin policy limiting public speech & perhaps on-campus speech by West Point faculty. Judge Cathy Seibel (GWBush/SDNY): 'West Point cadets..are not snowflakes who will somehow be harmed by learning about controversial issues.' www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

This is evil collective punishment.

Trump is cashing in on the presidency like no president ever has www.axios.com/2026/05/22/t...

It is not much of an exaggeration to call Trump a murderer. Shuttering USAID still sticks in my head as absolute madness. The U.S. government has been turned into the President’s person bank account, legal team, and weapons cache.

"Trump has, in other words, used the excuse of a lawsuit to create a slush fund of US taxpayer money to compensate his allies, supporters and – should he wish – even his own family and businesses, almost entirely at his own discretion." inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

Important: Dems will seek to force Republicans to vote on a bill blocking Trump's illegal $1.8 billion slush fund, Rep Jamie Raskin tells me. Dems will use discharge petition. Hakeem Jeffries is supportive of Raskin's efforts, I'm told. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/2106...

2/ "The president who promised in his second inaugural address that U.S. success would be measured “by the wars that we end — and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into” has gotten into a whole mess of them."

Oh Jared... ...Microsoft's CMO for AI thinks we are not redesigning work fast enough. Frankly, I think we should be quite a bit more cautious about how we do so. But hey, I’m just a girl who was designing enterprise software back when ‘the Cloud’ was called ASP.net 😛

Whenever someone prominent accidentally shares an AI hallucination, people are like “this is why you have to double-check the output!” Which is absolutely true, but remember that AI proponents market it as a faster way to work. Which is not really true if you have to double check everything it does.

The NY Times ruined my weekend because I couldn't stop feeling sorry for the hard-working Republicans in Congress who just happened to miss their chance to stop the illegal war with Iran.

"I argue here that this three-pronged assault constitutes the most antidemocratic and morally reactionary series of judicial acts in the Court's history." https://harrylitman.substack.com/p/callais-caps-the-roberts-courts-comprehensive

I will never get over how much Roxy Music-era Brian Eno looks like Riff Raff from the Rocky Horror Picture Show

Step 1 for Toastmasters recruiting: make your club awesome. Step 2: share the awesome on digital, to get people in the door and (Step 3) in person when you get them in the door. Bonus: Step 4, online application and payment to streamline getting them onboard.

Re-posting. This is the clip of the day, and it's everywhere. Trump did this to himself.

'why is Iran so effectively using AI for propaganda and the US failing dramatically at it' is a genuinely interesting question

Toastmasters club members and leaders can use this mobile app to sign up for roles and assign them to others. It works with the Toastmost website hosting service for #Toastmasters, which is based on #WordPress. I'll be hosting a series of tutorial workshops in the coming weeks, links in comments

4. Then there's the fact that the president speaks in terms of peace and war in the same breath. The peerless Aaron Rupar vividly put it this way: "It’s completely incoherent batshit lunacy." bsky.app/profile/atru...

I wrote about everything I've felt, feared, and experienced about using AI for code over the last few years, and my opinions on where we stand. It's the most personal thing I've ever written. And I'm putting it out there to share with all of you. blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2026/05/ai-t...

I’m thinking the Administration must use AI to determine the most awful and stupid things to do in every situation. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/c...

At this point, I think he is just trolling us.

Slowly but surely getting somewhere with creating a WordPress site. Its not intuitive to start, but Im slowly picking up the logic and staging things for release.

Toastmasters club members and leaders can use this mobile app to sign up for roles and assign them to others. It works with the Toastmost website hosting service for #Toastmasters, which is based on #WordPress. I'll be hosting a series of tutorial workshops in the coming weeks, links in comments

I’ve spent nearly 8 years engaging and mobilizing young voters. What the left is doing isn’t working. We’ve been trying something new at VOT — building a community that people want to return to first, and focusing on the politics second. Read more 👇 santiagomayer.substack.com/p/campus-org...

There are very few of those questions. Local weirdo with a gun shot at a presidential candidate. Arthur Bremer, Sara Jane Moore, Oswald... history is full of them. Crooks almost got lucky, but instead killed some poor guy in the stands.

People need to accept he is the President and becoming a conspiracy theorist just makes your brain more smooth. He won the popular vote. He won the electoral vote. His ear was cut in PA not shot. Things aren’t 3D chess. Vote. Protest. Advocate.

It just defies comprehension that the world's richest man is literally a hitlerian figure, got to illegally commandeer the US govt for months and condemn millions to excruciating death, and then just fucked off to make jokes about "show orphans" on podcasts with zero consequences. The mind recoils

Weird rules of mainstream media: you can't say he's *lying*, and you can't call a particular thing he says *false*, but you can say that the things he says *contradict one another*. That's the objectivity sweet spot. 🙄

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

it's insane that we live in a world where the impulsive actions of one thin-skinned imbecile can fuck shit up for the entire planet. big, strong readers with tears in their eyes are saying to me, "sir! sir! thank you for your angry post about it, sir!" link is here: bit.ly/3QkGa5v

Forbes is gamifying news about the horrific mass shooting in Shreveport, LA this weekend, encouraging readers to bet on the likelihood of gun regulation with fake money via its "ForbesPredict" feature. Eight children were murdered in the shooting. futurism.com/future-socie...

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

Kash Patel sues The Atlantic for defamation F.B.I. director is seeking $250 million in damages substack.com/pub/anntelnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social

I will die on the hill that U.S. culture suffered a grievous and potentially mortal injury when we retired the concept of "selling out"

that is a bold editorial choice calling this "fashion"

WordPress is powerful but can also be confusing. In this video, Toastmost creator David F. Carr, DTM, covers the things new users often find confusing and how to navigate past them. The video starts with tips on navigating the WordPress dashboard. Key moments farther in: Originally published at…

This NYT article provided a permission structure for other news organizations to write about concerns that Trump is insane. But other than @msnownews.bsky.social and @radiofreetom.bsky.social l ain't seen much. (Have you?) Sickening moral cowardice.

On this Tax Day, I have a joke about trickle-down economics, but 99% of you will never get it.

"Autocracy runs on fear—on the assumption that enough people, confronted with sufficient consequences, will decide that compliance is safer than truth. What dismantled Orbán’s operation was the accumulation of individual decisions to the contrary."

Cook Political moved Trump from Lean Antichrist to Solid Antichrist.

The Pope didn’t “push back.” He’s refusing to engage. He said he’s going to keep doing his job. DJT’s words don’t matter. This isn’t a debate. Don’t let DJT create one.

Bold to assume that the neater handwriting is the teacher’s

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

I don't think I've ever seen BlueSky this happy. What a great feeling. #Hungary

NEW: Democrats have enlisted the help of JD Vance for the midterms.

Not sure I'm convinced, but interesting Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/b...