We are in a land far beyond supposed to

In a nutshell.

Sharing this poem again because I think the world needs these words now more than ever.

First the NYer Andrew Tate story, now this NYT deep fake story by Eli Saslow: Two features--both beautifully reported and written--this week that even for a doom-n-gloom type like me are so much worse than I thought. We must attend and contend: Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/u...

genuinely speechless here.

Just a little piece of advice. The correct response or “messaging,” or whatever the flacks want to call it, to the UFC event is to call it pathetic. Because it is. All this bullshit is performative and reveals a bunch of fatally insecure men. You don’t need to counter it with more performative bs.

After the revolution the national anthem is This Land Is Your Land. I don’t make the rules.

[ICE announces purchase of $1 billion of John Deere bulldozers, body bags, respirators, and Tyvek suits.]

Trump's emergency plea to the DC Circuit to stop removal of his name from the Kennedy Center included this odd reference to a bylaw that had never been mentioned before in the litigation. It's looking increasingly like it was passed last week—and maybe on Thursday, the day before the petition.

The richest part of this is that Trump was famously goaded into running by Obama’s WHCA speech which imagined a garish Trump-branded White House with a bunch of tacky additions, and that’s exactly what he did.

Tough cookies.

Epstein survivors eviscerate Blanche. “We are deeply disturbed to learn that so many senior members of the administration gathered in the Situation Room to discuss the release of the Epstein files as a reputational problem… We are especially concerned that Todd Blanche… was at that table.”

Lee Raymond, 311 ppm – 421 ppm heatmap.news/daily/lee-ra...

a candidate explicitly running on sewer socialism in not only a major US city but its capital. what an era

Always fun when the mask slips and they say the quiet part out loud.

I am so constantly, ceaselessly, and quite genuinely angry about how AI slop has started to ruin fun animal videos on the Internet.

Hey DOGE and NEWSMAX, can we get an update here?   Turns out preventing a flesh-eating parasite from invading U.S. livestock wasn’t government waste…

Readers, they did not spare me the fawning fanboy shit. Always nice to meet new people to block.

This is bullshit.

There is unquestionably a stain on the World Cup thanks to the policies of the current admin and FIFA’s greed. Players, coaches, referees, fans… everyone should be welcome to enjoy the beautiful game in the US & detaining or refusing entry won’t be something the world will forget.

Trump has truly returned America to a golden age, when we had measles epidemics and screwworm problems and who knows what else?

Nervously watching what's unfolding in Belfast as racist bigots use a stabbing as an excuse to wreck havoc and mayhem, burning cars & buses, homes, and businesses of ethnic minority residents Meanwhile, Elon Musk is doing his best to escalate the violence. This is a good 🧵 of his efforts on Twitter

Good, clear coverage: "Those playing a pivotal role in the spread of the footage on Elon Musk’s X included the far-right activist known as Tommy Robinson, fresh from a meeting this week at a sumptuous Moscow hotel with the billionaire’s father" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

xenophobic mass violence against black residents in Belfast www.bbc.com/news/live/cr...

A 40% pay increase, the right to walk off the job if federal agents (i.e. CBP/ICE) pose a threat to them *and* the contract expires in April 2028 so they can demand more ahead of the Olympics. Shoutout Local 11, shoutout unions.

“We don’t care if there is actual fraud or not, we’re just trying to undermine trust in the integrity of the voting process.”

Is…is the bisexual lighting here in the room with us, JT?

Trump should show up here at the L.A. County ballot processing center because he’d learn within five minutes this is democracy in action, not some conspiracy.

We all think this was great: A reporter finally pushing back. Trump flailing and quitting. A clear picture of a corrupt and weak leader for all to see. But if you watch to the end, it's clear Welker viewed it as a failure because she angered her subject, may lose access and embarrassed the network.

This is what INSANITY looks like: Bullying buffoon Trump loses his fucking mind and walks out of a softball interview with Meet the Press host Kristen Welker. Because he's so insecure and psychologically fragile, the sick fuck thinks every election he loses must be "rigged."

The transcript of the final minutes of Trump’s Meet The Press interview with Kristen Welker (posted by Brian Stelter) is quite a journey.

Measles If you were born between 1957-1968, your MMR vax was less effective than what came later & you may need boosting. If you were born before ~1984, there's a small chance it may no longer be protecting you & you may need boosting. I just messaged my doc to ask re: a "titer test" to find out.

AMLO and Claudia Sheinbaum have lifted 13.5 million people out of poverty in the last 8 years, but NYT wants us to know that Mexico “can’t go on this way.”

Dude’s own front lawn is literally covered in Porta Potties.

They’re right to worry. Hegseth is clearly resegregating the military by race and sex.

A reminder that when Trump attended the US Open final back in September, they had to move back the start time multiple times and at one point paused secret service screening, causing ticket holders to miss a significant portion of the match. Imagine the mutiny if Knicks fans miss tip-off.

What in the actual fuck?

This is cool (and terrifying) as hell!

Does Hegseth think that the *Axis* forces stormed the beaches at Normandy on D-Day?

Good god this is addictive www.theguardian.com/football/ng-...

It sounds crazy, but I guess when somebody tells you their only mistake was a Nazi tattoo, its possible they actually made a series of other mistakes that did not happen to produce a Nazi tattoo.

“We’re going to bomb the village to save the village?” @karaswisher.bsky.social and @profgalloway.com unpack CBS leadership shaking up 60 Minutes in the name of fixing it.

What the hell is this jersey combo? Also, indeed, Ole Miss, wyd bb?

whenever people get into arguments about bluesky versus twitter I just come back to the fact that I don’t want to spend time on a platform where the biggest voices are the worst people on the planet

Just cartoonishly evil bullshit from the Missouri GOP.

sam alito in callais: it is just a coincidence that partisan gerrymandering looks like racial gerrymandering. it doesn’t mean anything tennessee republicans post-callais: yee haw boys we are gettin’ the negras outta government

Concerning

My Trade Secrets today. Every year, the dilemma of nativist politics vs the demographic case for immigration sharpens. With the odd courageous exception (Pedro Sanchez), countries fudge and trim (Germany, Italy) or punch themselves squarely in the face on the issue (the UK, possibly Switzerland).