it’s coming home

Even while denying the significance of Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the Trump family has cultivated friendships with the Tate brothers, and the Trump Administration has intervened on their behalf with Romanian authorities. A lot of the US far right is in bed with them, so to speak:

If you haven’t read this in full it’s a gutwrenching account of both the sickening serial rape allegations against them and how many friends they have in the Trump administration: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Remember why they are in the US in the first place: the Trump administration lobbying on their behalf to free them from Romania.

This piece is incredible. If you prefer audio, here’s an interview I did with the reporter walking through her reporting. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

This is tonight’s A block

Ah the old Twitter Files move: Assert outlandish claims, say you have evidence, get press for that, then release something that shows the opposite, assuming that many don’t bother to look, fellow travelers will tout it regardless, and by the time critics highlight it, the news cycle has moved on.

I’m a card carrying socialist & union member & all that and/but this book fucking torpedoed for me the myth that Democrats & Republicans are “the same.” The massive, fundamental differences btwn D & R administrations in regard to disabled ppl’s lives is INSANE.👩🏻‍🦼‍➡️❤️ judithheumann.com/being-heumann/

lol Susie Wiles gets him to cram in 5 minutes on everything else, and then he gets to his election mania.

"In Detroit, the air quality index reached a value of 728 late Wednesday, far worse than the peak of 465 in New York during the apocalyptic June 2023 fires." www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

I’ve watched the final Messi assist like 50 times and I still don’t understand how even saw Martinez, let alone put the ball exactly on his forehead through, over, and between seven defenders!

So far this year we've had: the warmest winter on record in the mountain west, a record-shattering heat wave in Europe, once in a thousand year rainfall and flooding texas and forest fire smoke blanketing the mid west and the north east. Feels like something's going on with the climate!

The typical voter almost never sees, and the media conveys only tiny and often sane-washed snippets, his rambling gibberish both on Truth and on camera. There is definitely something to the point that people are actually under-exposed to how constantly, manifestly batshit insane he is.

Unreal. Messi is inevitable. Unreal.

Chris Hayes: "There is no humane and orderly, under-the-radar way to do what they want to do. And so, cruelty and chaos will inevitably follow."

Tbh @chrislhayes.bsky.social and his team are doing the best job I’ve seen on tv covering this and putting it in the absolute correct perspective of what an emergency this is no matter how “quiet” team trump wants to keep it bsky.app/profile/alli...

Am I crazy or when we were kids, was *all* food safety energy focused on animal products - raw chicken, mayo, eggs, pork, etc - and zero on produce? I didn’t even know you could get food borne illness from lettuce until adult hood. Is that because things changed and we didn’t have produce outbreaks?

Best “remove glasses to look at something unbelievable” in cinema history.

Best part of my first road trip in an all electric car is the enthusiastic EV small talk with other EV Dads at the charging stations

Amazing how many people over the last few years have moved from person I sometimes disagree with, to person I disagree with who is also unpleasant online, to genuinely bad person whose soul has warped beyond recognition. the politics of our times are like a solvent for decency.

woof ≈80% of assignments this summer term have essentially been just raw chatgpt/claude output, including assignments that required designing stuff in illustrator/affinity/canva. The battle is lost for asynchronous online courses.

Caleb Wilson is SO FUN.

Yup. A real hinge of history.

LOL www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

I’ve avoided a lot of the Platner discourse because it’s a toxic tarpit, but I think the notion that the lesson here is primarily about either one political faction or something essential about “unvetted” newcomers, sits in some considerable tension with the entire Eric Swalwell experience.

YES

Guys, I had a 40 minute BATTLE with my new Hi-Sense TV last night to try turn off motion smoothing and I'm sharing here as a public service.

Solar's sharp rise continues. As of April 2026, global solar capacity now exceeds 3 terawatt. 1 gigawatt → 1 terawatt: 20+ years 1 terawatt → 2 terawatt: 33 months 2 terawatt → 3 terawatt: 19 months

@andykroll.bsky.social literally wrote the book on this: www.amazon.com/dp/154175114...

Same. HUGE gap between experts & everyone else. This was already expert consensus 2 years ago. Now? Trump's horrible & evil war have wrecked the perception of oil & gas as stable and cheap in the decade when solar, wind, batteries, EVs are SURGING worldwide www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...

I can’t help but note that the last version of this argument was a young @peterbeinart.bsky.social arguing that the progressive coalition has to defeat and marginalize the anti war faction that was opposing the Iraq war.

Sometimes you read an article in the Atlantic from, like, 1876 and it's just mind blowing how good and accessible and *alive* the prose is.

What we already know is horrific. Imagine how bad discovery would be if the government is willing to pay our fees (something the government doesn’t readily do) just to avoid it.

Great @chrislhayes.bsky.social convo here with @pablo.show and @edgeofsports.bsky.social on how this US team should be remembered, apart and aside from The Big Guy's meddling

On this subject, I highly recommend everyone listen to @chrislhayes.bsky.social's latest podcast on Andrew Tate. You might be vaguely aware of Tate, but hearing the full details is truly, truly appalling--not least because the right, inc. Vance, Don Jr., & T. Carlson, has consistently protected him.

And! We have to add: the most well-known, high profile Democratic pols in the state didn't want to take on Collins (or were convinced Mills would get in) and ran for gov instead.

i’d say also that his (correct) read is that the democratic center’s refusal to bend on israel is what has opened up space for left insurgents, in large part because “anti american support for israel” now codes as “anti establishment”

how I feel when there’s a lot of troubling things happening and I am morally conflicted but I also want to enjoy the game tonight

The very first thing I wrote for Splinter when I started there in early 2024 was about this chart of global sea surface temperatures. Back then I said it looked "off, malign, nefarious," "an abomination made mundane through math." It's hotter now. www.jezebel.com/the-climate-...

Good advice!

lol this game is insane.

Jude Bellingham: pretty handsome guy!

Here’s the segment: youtu.be/ykbVmZqfpZ0?...

I spoke with @chrislhayes.bsky.social about yesterday’s decision in the birthright citizenship case. That this was not a unanimous decision by the Court should mute any inclination to celebrate unreservedly.

Lot of commentary on yesterday’s SCOTUS decision on birthright citizenship, making similar points, but for clarity and plain speaking I recommend @chrislhayes.bsky.social’s opening A-block with @sifill.bsky.social from last night. www.ms.now/all

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

The Birthright citizenship ruling should be a wake up call to any Dem who is still on the fence about court reform. We are essentially one seat change away from the Court undoing Reconstruction by fiat.

really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*

Europe’s tilt-and-turn windows are better insulated, easier to clean, more ventilation-friendly, and altogether superior to the sash and casement windows we use in North America. Superior in all respects, that is — except one. heatmap.news/daily/europe...