Damn crazy how when these guys know they aren’t gonna be in office anymore they suddenly notice all the bad stuff I guess they must finally have time to read about it

Massie voted straight GOP the vast majority of the time. His only real break with Trump was over the Epstein files. Kentucky voters rejected the guy who wanted to expose the truth about a sex offender because Trump told them to. Think about what that means.

Remember kids, no matter how expensive gasoline is, siphoning it from other cars is super dangerous. #WoodyWoodpecker

To anyone following the reporting around the Islamic Center attack perpetrators who is perplexed by young Latino men espousing blatant neo-Nazism, check out this excellent write up @transform6789.bsky.social put together back in 2023. spencersunshine.com/2023/07/12/n...

It's down to 0 tweets a day for those of us writing books about tech fascism lol

Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers. /1

A story about KY GOP Senate nominee Andy Barr: In 2019 he got mad at AOC and demanded she come to his district to visit a coal mine. She said yes, which he didn't expect, so he withdrew the invitation. Then it turned out there were no working coal mines in his district. Because he's an idiot. 1/3

OK, I'm crashing. Today was too long. Night, all, and let us try to be good to one another — and ourselves.

Day 135 #MusicVideoTime youtu.be/k7in-9E3ImQ?...

Yeah being pro-Israel is such good politics that it took $19,000,000; the sitting US president; the sitting leader of the US military; and several billionaires all to beat a critic of Israel in Kentucky by 10,000 votes

democrats vote to confirm trump judges on the day trump sets up a $1.7 billion pedophile slush fund with your tax dollars

want to read a novel that you're absolutely sure was not created with A.I.? read any book published before 2020 trust me, there's quite a few good ones

A dog handler of the Royal Engineers (Signals) reads the message that has just been brought to him by his messenger dog, which swam across the canal to deliver the message. The photograph was taken at an Army Veterinary Corps HQ Kennel near Nieppe Wood, 19 May 1918.

Funny how two+ years in and we're not hearing about all the massive success stories AI must be responsible for by now

This roundly sucks.

Reporter grills Vance on Trump's corrupt stock trading: Trump's financial disclosures showed stock trades in companies he has talked up at events and on his Truth Social account. How can you argue you're cleaning up corruption when Trump is talking up stocks that he owns and enriching himself?

No but like seriously everyone go pay for journalism. Pay NPR or if not us pay someone else. Just please pay someone or else seriously all these big ships are going to keep slowwwwwwly sinking.

It isn't "racial pride." The manifesto, which I'm reading right now, is a total slop-bucket of neo-Nazi accelerationism with misogynistic rants and multiple sections that are completely unfinished. It lionizes Brenton Tarrant, who murdered 51 people in a NZ mosque in 2019. nymag.com/intelligence...

The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”

Happy Election Day to those who celebrate!

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

it's not like the political media can't make a big issue of this stuff when it wants to. see the coverage they gave to Rev. Wright while Obama was running for President despite Wright being less close to Obama than Loomer is to Trump and Wright's comments being much less offensive than Loomer's.

This photo always gets me. A little grungy, squinting in the sun, taking notes, and grinning because it's just cool to be out in a geologically interesting place. This is what my friends look like in the field. What I look like in the field. What we all look like in the field. Then, it was over.

Millions of privileged Russians living in Moscow are now hearing, seeing, and feeling the war that Putin started for the first time.

BREAKING: The judge in the $1.7B slush fund suit has dismissed the case, but she says THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT OF RECORD. As I said earlier, the media must stop reporting that this slush fund is a settlement. It's just plain THEFT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: At least three people are dead following a shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, a mosque leader told MS NOW's @ayman.msnbc.com Police said the threat has been “neutralized” after responding to a reported active shooter situation. www.ms.now/news/san-die...

Wrote about this bullshit unconstitutional slush fund...

Judge Reed O’Connor has prohibited a party from seeking any help from real judges.

We are still a long way from a second civil war or breakup of our country. But, if it did happen, I think a breakdown in Full Faith and Credit and fights over long-arm statutes could be triggers. A nation of many sovereigns can't survive if they don't respect the laws of the others.

This brings me joy

This is a great thread and an excellent remembrance of the scientists and radio operators out there that day. If you have never been to Mt. St Helen's National Monument, go. It is a breathtaking place.

This brought me joy.

The Georgia agency that is charged with overseeing judges just said the two liberal candidates running for tomorrow's supreme court elections violated judicial rules, basically by stating their views too openly (e.g. that they support abortion rights). www.ajc.com/news/2026/05...

Indy and Chicago! We're coming to see you next month

I want to know the name of the judge who presided over this. I want that judge’s name and email address public. I want people to be able to ask that judge what the fuck was wrong with him or her. /1

Republicans want to spend our tax money rewarding the goons who assaulted Capitol police officers and tried to overthrow an election.

It’s VERY IMPORTANT that corporate media NOT frame this as a judicial settlement. Trump DROPPED the suit this morning. There is no lawsuit, and therefore, no settlement. you can’t settle a suit that doesn’t exist. This is just pure theft.

In 1952, Richard Nixon's career was nearly derailed by revelations that he had access to a slush fund of $18,000 -- less than a quarter million today." People used to give a shit about that kind of thing, you see.

Every Democrat needs to hit a microphone right now to say this is gross corruption, we're paying attention to who gets paid off here and we'll do everything we can to claw it back.

The largest federal reparations fund in US history goes not to indigenous tribes or descendants of formerly enslaved people or interned Japanese-Americans — but to J6ers who smeared shit on the walls of the US Capitol and attempted to hang the Vice President.

I don’t ever want to hear that there’s no money to fund a public option, loan forgiveness, or basically ANY OTHER social program ever again.

Three miles due west of the volcano, Robert Landsburg continues to fire as the blast bears down. In his final moments, he rewinds the film, seals his camera in his backpack, and braces for impact. Weeks later, his photos are developed—blurred, scorched, and unforgettable.

This is THEFT. There is no other word for it. They are stealing almost $1.8 BILLION dollars to pay Trump‘s allies, despite knowing that these people are not legally entitled to any money and be laughed out of court if they filed a lawsuit for money damages.

The two-year total program cost of the "free diapers" program in California that loser right-wing pundits are crying about is $19.9 million. A similar nationwide program at an equivalent per capita cost would run about $170 million.

There isn’t much left to say except that your children will be less well-rounded than you. Less well-read than you. Less intelligent than you. Less able to problem solve than you. Leas worldly than you. Less empathetic. Less equipped. And more helpless. For the first time in living history.

First, they taxed the private jets And I did not speak out. fortune.com/2026/05/16/n...

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

It's good they're quoting scholars here to dismiss the fiction that America was founded as a Christian nation, but you can just read the Constitution yourself. There are only three references to religion in it, all meant to keep it out of government, to avoid conflicts that had rocked Europe.

Oh my god, this is unbelievable: the striking LIRR worker complaining that Hochul “has money for everything except our salaries” LITERALLY MADE MORE MONEY THAN HOCHUL DID LAST YEAR

When a federal agency tasked with protecting all Americans decides to mandate a specific religious worldview, it ceases to protect democracy and begins to threaten it.