NYT confirms — with new details: Last year, Navy SEALs used two boats to escort Kash Patel and nine others on what a Pentagon email called a 'VIP Snorkel' next to one of the military's most sacred sites, the underwater tomb of the U.S.S. Arizona. One Navy vet called the swim "horrifying."

U.S. consumer prices climbed sharply again last month to a three-year high as the 10-week war with Iran pushed energy prices higher.

they don't even WANT my vote anymore. they're straight up telling me to kick rocks every fucking day lately.

a ray of sunshine during these dark times

FBI Director Kash Patel is drawing renewed criticism after the New York Times reported he used a government jet to fly to Philadelphia for a country music concert at the Linc.

Texas Children's Hospital will open the first "detransition clinic" as part of major settlement with DOJ and Texas AG. Texas began investigating TCH after Christopher Rufo published a story about a "whistleblower" doctor. Then the state banned trans care for kids www.huffpost.com/entry/hospit...

How do Americans feel about the war? We asked ten big city homosexuals to share their thoughts.

Last month, I reported on the National Abortion Hotline Union—whose members staff the nation’s largest abortion helpline—and their struggle to secure AI protections. The union has now filed an unfair labor practice charge against management for calling off bargaining & refusing to return.

Tina Peters is still saying it is her life's work to expose the fraudulent voter machines.

Scott MacFarlane reports on growing momentum in Congress for Supreme Court term limits. Several bipartisan proposals would impose 18- or 20-year limits on Supreme Court justices. Rep. Olszewski says the issue goes beyond any single ruling and reflects a broader crisis of confidence in the Court.

This is indeed a really fascinating element of all this, and I’d argue that journalists are often even worse dupes for this kind of marketing than the average person, bc so many are pushed to be the *first* to identify a new star, name a new phenomenon, etc.

One really fascinating point here (among many) is that a peril of organic-looking PR is less that people will be tricked into liking a band, and more that some journalists can be suckered into treating people/phenomena as massively influential when they probably are not!

A lot of racist holocaust denial does say that ok fine some deaths happened but the number isn’t that high, which is a perversely funny way of saying ok it’s a forgivable number like 500,000

On the left is an Onion headline from March. On the right is Reuters, today.

Cuba has run out of diesel and fuel oil and is enduring some of the worst blackouts in decades because of the US’s cruel oil blockade. This failed policy needs to end immediately. Every day, we are contributing to immense suffering in Cuba and a worsening humanitarian crisis.

Thomas and Alito dissent in strident terms, with Thomas calling the drugmakers' business a "criminal enterprise"

BREAKING: Supreme Court has issued a stay that means abortion pill mifepristone remains available by mail: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

alito is bitching about the shadow docket? ALITO?! I know the man has never met the concept of shame but come on

Attorneys for Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman took turns painting the other’s client as untrustworthy Thursday, wrapping a blockbuster trial in their closing arguments Thursday. on.wsj.com/42zDhkg

The good taxpayers of New York have given me a pair of Meta glasses because I am low vision disabled, and I seem to have used them more than a lot of people on here, so let me say a little about my experiences:

As someone who is low-vision now, but not as disabled as this person, with vision probably to worsen for the rest of my life, this was an interesting thread!

It’s 2026, in Oklahoma has finally made child marriage illegal. Congratulations? Also WTF.

Stoller's post is more than two hours old and this is the massive amount of engagement it has gotten on X, The Everything App Where You Absolutely Have to Be If You Want to Make A Difference™

*Music Historian Voice* However Fred Durst wasn’t the first one to do it all for the Nookie…

I have always hated how news outlets force themselves to write ludicrous headlines like “Elon Musk sparks racism allegations” instead of just calling a spade a spade

Alabama jailed a woman for endangering her fetus. Then jail staff forced her to give birth in a cell with only other incarcerated women coming to aid her and her baby, according to a lawsuit.

President Trump is kicking off the busiest portion of his three-day visit to China. It's a trip that may end up yielding more pageantry and symbolism than major bilateral breakthroughs.

Powell is a centrist who was backed by big money.

gestured towards this in my column today but republicans seem to have adopted this idea that the partisan lean of a state represents some mystical General Will such that the south isn't just a place with republican voters It Is Republican and no democrat has a right to serve within its borders

The realist shit to ever appear in a gov memo.

Georgia residents seethe over 30M gallons of missing water

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Greek authorities conduct controlled blast of mystery naval drone explosives

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

God just imagine it. She's in her mold castle, alternating between squirming angrily while trying to drink some tea and pacing out of sheer frustrated rage. I bet she's got a headache and her stomach is all messed up. Just beautiful.

Greens are conflicted about embracing MAHA. But it’s starting to pay off.

Weekend reading: I wrote about why Reconstruction is such a key historical reference - and about the lessons from the way America’s first attempt at biracial democracy was drowned in ostensibly “race-neutral” laws and white supremacist violence. This week’s piece:

Two stories on weaponization of DOJ yesterday. From CNN, report that Brennan prosecutor said the case was too weak to charge (and also describing how Quinones overpromised). edition.cnn.com/2026/05/08/p...

absurdly funny thing to say because i'm pretty sure even John Brown would define himself essentially in these terms, an emissary of a higher power carrying out extrajudicial, ontologically justified Violence Of The People. like that was kind of his whole thing as a theocratic evangelical Christian

Putin started his evening press appearance. He said the military will brief him later about "possible Ukrainian provocations" on May 9.

The idea of "overturning" or "repealing" the 14th Amendment was a pretty fringe proposition until recently, but it wasn't unheard of. Obviously the former Confederates wanted to do that. But it was also a white nationalist talking point in the Cold War era. This is 1988.

Scientists analyzed over 900 marriages within the ’Ndrangheta, one of the most infamous mafia syndicates, to understand how “matrimonial ties relate to power and cohesion within the organization.”

Courts keep striking down tariffs. Why aren't prices dropping too?

Giving billionaires and corporations the green light to buy our elections. Making it easier for polluters to destroy the planet. Stripping millions of reproductive freedom. Granting presidents immunity. Gutting the protections of the Voting Rights Act. The shame of the John Roberts court.

Blavity Media Group, the digital media group geared toward Black millennials, is shuttering its 21Ninety and Home & Texture brands, according to an internal memo I reviewed

As food, fuel and everyday necessities grow more expensive, how are Chicagoans making ends meet?

After the recent court rulings, who's favored to win the House? Via Nate Cohn. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...

I love when people say this stuff because I picture a world where Elon Musk is the hardest worker and no one else can live up to his work ethic.

There is not enough discussion of the EEOC's lawsuit against @nytimes.com for discriminating against a white man. Here's a gift link. Let's get into it.🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/b...