I wrote a Substack about Pete Hegseth's offensive address at the D-Day ceremony in Normandy. He used what is a sacred occasion to attack allies and immigrants. bit.ly/4ockl4I

I remember being a kid and being told over and over that if you get lost or separated from your family, look for a man on his own to help you. Oh wait no, it was a woman with kids, always, every time, by every adult figure.

I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...

you could make a show that tells a few somewhat racist or sexist jokes, but that ultimately ends with a saccharine message reinforcing the value of the traditional nuclear family. and you know what you've made? The Simpsons like, early Simpsons, even. go watch it, call me a liar

Can conservatives make art? Yeah maybe, but not so long as one of the core identity markers for "conservative" is open contempt for art, the artists who make it, and the craft they employ to make it, nor as long as their interaction with art is reduced to a desire to either crush or commodify it.

NEW: Trump's gross Aliens.gov site claims to map where immigrants have been taken into custody, but it includes more 83 spots where Americans alone were arrested. Over 700 locations include citizen arrests. The counter is fake. The music was ripped. And Puerto Rico is listed as a foreign country.

Greg Bovino will speak at a white nationalist conference in Portugal tomorrow. He will share the stage with no fewer than five people who idolize Hitler, including one who joined a group created by two Nazi SS members. Another guy is a self-described racist who refers to women as "cockroaches."🧵

A Black teenager was accused of stealing a backpack and ended up dying by suicide because he was kept in solitary confinement at Rikers for years. His name is Kalief Browder. He spent over 700 days in solitary confinement AWAITING TRIAL. I guess in racist America that’s worse than this.

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

Trump pardoned more than 10 major fraudsters and wiped out $2.1 billion in restitution, fines and other court ordered payments. When Vance pretends fraud is rampant he's right. Problem is his boss is the biggest one. He knows and won't call it out.

If you read these two pieces side by side it's impossible to come to any conclusion other than that the Biden administration were complete chumps to release visitor logs. Press punished Biden for his transparency with erroneous speculation and reward Trump for his secrecy by repeating his lies

Rabbi Mike Rothbaum: "No, targeted groups don’t always agree. Sometimes we say things that make each other furious. That doesn’t change the fundamental truth: We are safest when all marginalized groups stand in solidarity with each other." www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/05/24/o...

Fascist-faced marionettes are not beautiful. Courage, attentiveness, enthusiasm, kindness? Beautiful. You are beautiful. You are! We're being pelted with hyper-gendered propaganda but can resist. lastwordonnothing.com/2026/05/15/w...

Nearly 600,000 Trump supporters paid $100 each towards a gold smartphone that, nearly a year on, does not exist www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/05/maga...

So the war was quite literally pointless. All around the world they're rationing energy, there are food shortages, people are suffering and dying, all for absolutely fucking nothing.

“In almost every case, the babies’ deaths could have been prevented with a long-standard vitamin K shot. But across the country, families — first in smatterings, now in droves — are declining the single, inexpensive injection given at birth” www.propublica.org/article/more...

We know that if and when Iran reopens the strait, Trump and every bad faith actor in his orbit will pretend to believe Trump is vindicated—and that really, only he could’ve triumphed so exquisitely. It’s thus very important to set the bar now: a humiliating, pointless, eternally discrediting defeat.

The face of someone who’s devoted their life to service, science and space exploration needing to listen to some draft-dodging, out-of-shape bozo brag that he easily could’ve been an astronaut.

“Who was president in 2020” still the defining political question of our time

see also: newrepublic.com/post/175343/...

This was, in all seriousness, the point of the Harper’s Letter

In a country of millions, there are invariably going to be some number of cases of “I was erroneously diagnosed with X,” and it is generally a terrible idea to draw any broad conclusions from the fact that these anecdotes will exist.

Saudi Arabian law says 5 men need to attest before 1 woman’s statement is considered true. In the west, it’s generally between 20 and 50.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

And by ‘traditional wives’ we mean women who are culturally or economically forced into submission and/or just straight up children. Just bros bein bros amirite

I wrote this is a furious fugue state after reading Owen's skeet this afternoon. How I learned I can't trust academic online resources anymore, and what happened when I asked ChatGPT for some sources... Academia is cooked. www.ancientalexandra.co.uk/p/ai-lies

incredible that the lifelong Catholic in this specific situation is The Pope

Wow, this video, put up by the always-disappointing World History Encyclopedia is impressive for how many egregious historical errors it manages to pack into just 40 seconds. Just an astounding master-class on being confidently wrong.

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

I hope this is driving home to folks that anti-DEI/anti-woke are functioning mostly as a way to make racism more palatable by framing it as a kind of defensive reaction to an imagined unfairness.

I did a thread over on a competing social media platform about Trump's recent election-related EO and mail-in voting. federate.social/@mattblaze/1...

Travel writer Rick Steves on Washington's newly signed "Millionaires Tax"

i think this is exactly right and it is part of what i was trying to get at last week when i wrote about the narcissism of the president and his allies. they fundamentally do not believe other people are real, and do not understand the decisions they make.

AG Bates in 1862 published an opinion trying to distill it to its most basic element, concluded "citizen" is simply a person who owes allegiance & gets full protection of the law All the other stuff that goes with it (voting, jury duty, service as an officer in the military) is treated as _policy_

We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that. We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs. Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.

Gutter racism. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

he can't remember which state he was in two days ago

Nvidia’s CEO can spout whatever technonsense he likes about regurgitative AI, I’m not going to dignify it by reading a fucking word. The conversation stops at the fact AI is toxic waste. Ethically, morally, financially, environmentally. You cannot rhetorically clear that checkpoint.

It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...

Here's the thing. People think that Trump hires only the worst people because they're loyal because they're ideologically aligned with him. The truth is more complicated. Nobody is ideologically aligned with Trump because he doesn't believe in anything. I've written on this a lot so I won't repeat.

My recent epiphany is that a lot of these “vocal minority” types have exactly zero community aside from “mutual disdain.” 4chan to gamer gate, “manosphere” to MAGA…the only thing that unites them is anger. Jealousy. Manufactured outrage. That’s probably why they target who they do, consistently.

Les bombes éteignent le ciel et les sourires, Les bombes brisent les os et les espoirs, Les bombes éparpillent les chairs et les familles, Les bombes dispersent le sang et le désespoir, Les bombes déchirent les ailes et les entrailles, Les bombes ne libèrent personne. #LesBombesNeLibèrentPas

I'm old enough that I watched a healthy girl in my kindergarten class catch polio and was in a wheelchair by 1st grade and she died at 36. She cried all the time because she was in pain. When you die I'm gonna piss on your grave, Del.

After riding in the car yesterday listening to sports talk and a theater major, I can verify this is very well done!

This didn't happen. The perception that it did is largely based on fictional shows that were about rich people. Much more common was a household where one person (theoretically Dad in a het household) was the higher earner and paid the housing costs and the other paid utilities & food

we are weeks away from 'Trump attempts to make horse a Senator' and the only thing stopping him is that he is too much of a sociopath to form an attachment to animals

To be fair, who among us hasn't made plans that snuck up on us unexpectedly, leaving hundreds of people entrusted to our care stranded overseas as bombs rain down on 10 countries, closing airports and sending energy prices soaring worldwide, and instantly destroying billions in market value?

Since Trump II has now memory holed regime change as an official goal of the US war, we can assume a few things about the postwar landscape: 1. An Iranian regime hellbent on preventing this from happening again. That means rebuilding missile stocks and probably militarizing the nuclear program.