Tomorrow, U.S. distillate inventories will likely fall under 100 million barrels for the first time in over 20 years, exacerbated by high exports due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz- this is a powder keg waiting to go off if a deal to reopen the Strait doesn't happen soon

NEW Economist/YouGov May 29-Jun 1 % who approve | disapprove of Donald Trump U.S. adult citizens 35% | 61% (-26: tied for Trump low) Last week 34% | 59% (-26) Start of term 49% | 43% (+6) Dem 4% | 96% Ind 21% | 71% Rep 83% | 16% 18-29: 30% | 65% 65+: 40% | 58% yougov.com/en-us/articl...

Welp there’s no unseeing this

WaPo poll finds: 56% oppose ballroom 52% oppose triumphal arch 68% oppose his signature on money Among independents those numbers are even worse. Now imagine if voters understood Trump's IRS immunity scam. Absolutely lethal for Rs. Make them own it: newrepublic.com/article/2112...

Are you f**king kidding me. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

“What a headline.” - @scottlincicome.bsky.social

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

As @mattyglesias.bsky.social has pointed out, this performative leaking to Axios is cute but "Barack Obama and Joe Biden both also had to deal with Israel’s desire to get a war with Iran going and managed to actually avoid this situation rather than just yelling on the phone."

there really is a trump quote for everything lol

Look, I loathe literally everything about Susan Collins, AIPAC, & Bibi, & still you simply cannot go to the Nazi Bar & say stuff like “an American Senator is bought & paid for by The Jewish International” when you already are facing questions about the SS Totenkopf tattoo on your chest.

“The president brings an odd combination of authoritarianism and hypersensitivity to the job.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

"Over time, it will get harder to do even the routine cases if judges don’t trust you." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

"As I see it, Prince has badly misread an author whose understanding of business (at least in the book he cites; I haven’t read everything by Drucker) provides a radically different alternative to the standard Silicon Valley CEO narrative." www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-isnt-ma...

We have evidence more harm is sometimes done by _intimidating people out of applying for green cards by telling them it will be harder_ than by people actually getting denied under the raised standard. So I'm pinning this post. Please make sure people know. documentedny.com/2026/05/29/u...

It’s possible to explain why any particular administration might choose to retrench in East Asia. It’s a little harder to explain why this administration is doing so given what it’s previously said about China. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

Every time the new ayatollah is about to sign a deal, Chuck Schumer holds a press conference in Utica, and then the whole thing falls apart.

When a journal’s instructions for submissions have 10,000 words of text but no information about length

"Post-Duda Poland has confronted a series of “institutional traps,” following a familiar pattern where illiberal movements design systems specifically to force successors into legitimacy crises, creating a situation in which every attempted repair can itself be portrayed as anti-democratic."

Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, has said China’s military doesn’t rely on chips from his California-based company. But an analysis of six years of Chinese records shows that China’s military has been openly seeking Nvidia’s A.I. chips since 2019.

With respect, ANDOR isn’t about the rise of fascism. It’s about the rise of the resistance to fascism. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

Ossoff: This is what small men like Donald Trump and JD Vance and Stephen Miller will never understand—that our national greatness flows not through our blood or our genes, but through our ideas.

Axios is going to report a deal is 48 hours away at least once a week for the next 3 years

Must report that I have been in MAGA country for four days now and drove 2 hours deep into Tennessee and I have not seen a single Trump sign, bumper sticker or MAGA hat.

Anchor: Americans keep getting hit in the head with baseball bats. Your response? White House: We’re in frequent communication with the executives at companies that make baseball bats, and rest assured, they’re totally fine.

people spend enormous amounts of time fighting online about whether to talk about epstein and corruption or affordability and, look, it’s really not that hard to do both at once

it's actually very good that the average federal prosecutor is now a recent graduate of a barely accredited law school, we did this on purpose and we couldn't be happier with our decision. checkmate, libs.

The effects of this bullshit on education and public knowledge, on civic life, and on the workings of our political system could be disastrous. You would think *someone* at Google and Meta et al. understands the risks, but their actions show no evidence of it. They're in a race to hell.

I know Springsteen & Morello are already doing things, but for maximal trolling there should be a “Real America 250” concert series in DC with massively bigger artists than the washed up D-listers who dropped out of MAGA Woodstock.

A good news story. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/social-med...

Maybe. My point is that i saw maybe one or two ticky-tack fouls called at most — and none of those came from flops.

And simon writes for the guardian

One reason people would be surprised to hear that Trump has left Iran’s “military alone” is that earlier this month Trump said he had “completely destroyed Iran’s army,” and that “every single ship they had is resting underwater at the bottom of the sea.”

“Trump’s upheaval of the federal government has led to an exodus of more than 10,000 lawyers since the beginning of 2025, a striking loss of legal talent… roughly one in five lawyers who worked in the government at the end of 2024 had left by March of this year…” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/u...

I just got back from a month back home in Maine and the damn thing about Platner is that he seems uniquely suited for the moment. He's sneaky articulate and gives voice to anger and frustration in ways a lot of pols haven't been able to. He's almost a Downeast AOC. And he had a Nazi tattoo.

Luke Kornet blocked that Hartenstein shot like it was a Magic City promotion

A great game by SGA despite the Thunder losing; 35 points shooting 12/21. Only 30+ player on the court. “They were just the better team tonight. Start to finish. And then every time we tried to like cut into it, and take control of the game, it felt like they had an answer.”

We could have had nice things

One of the best things about this Game Seven: no flopping. Both SGA and Wemby just flat-out played. youtu.be/wxN2brhGACA?...

In the same way they say “momentum in baseball is just tomorrow’s starting pitcher” momentum in sports ratings is just who your next big star is.

The inauguration is at the Capitol because the legitimacy of the government is anchored in Congress, not the executive.

Ha ha ha it’s not like the Spurs have a generational talent at the center position this time aro— oh damn.

To repeat:

Can't pretend to get fouled when you're that open

Spurs-Knicks in the NBA Finals? What is this? 1999?

wembyyyyy!!!!

Luke Kornet with the block of the series.

Game seven. Fourth quarter. Three-point lead. Let’s see how this goes….

How many days ago was it that he claimed they had completely destroyed the Iranian military?

new top 10 fear just dropped www.westernmassnews.com/2026/05/29/n...