Remembering Prince today on what would have been his 68th birthday (born June 7, 1958) album.ink/PrinceHBD

Spencer Pratt is finished. He was never going to be mayor of Los Angeles. And he isn’t making it to the general ballot. So just one question: Spencer, when are you leaving?

Semi Finale of the Baltic Cup between Lithuania and Latvia. Beautiful anti-Putin message from both sides! Slava Ukraini!

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Prince in mid air, London, 1986 Photo by Michael Putland

Multi-modal transport Budapest, Hungary. I need to make an album of these throughout central Europe.

Last night, the Supreme Court ruled that the VRA cannot protect even against *intentionally* discriminatory voting policies When we say there is no federal statute remaining the enforce the 15th Amendment, this is what we mean

Spencer Pratt advancing with Karen Bass is not surprising to me at all. This is the new political reality of America. We truly live in hell.

He's a master of distracting us from crimes he's already committed by continuously committing new crimes. 5 months until the Midterms. #AccountabilityIsComing

Ted Lieu on the resignation of the federal prosecutor leading the James Comey case: “I expect this federal prosecutor who resigned to be one of the witnesses when Todd Blanche gets disbarred— November is coming”

Had to share - MSM seems to be ignoring it.

New York is not terrible www.threepennyreview.com/krugman-on-n...

BREAKING: I'm suing Todd Blanche and the DOJ to STOP the $1.8B slush fund. The Justice Department violated the Administrative Procedures Act when it established the fund, and it must be set aside. You can read my complaint here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-i...

Senate Candidate Ken Paxton Used "Good 'Ol Boy Justice", Giving Hoffman Only 29 Days In Jail,In A Texas Sweetheart Deal. Paxton Has Been Attorney General Since 2015,And Is Still AG Today.....

THIS

Words of wisdom> "The moral of the story if that we're here on Earth to fart around." - K. Vonnegut

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Iran's national soccer team will sleep in Mexico and travel to the United States on the days of its three World Cup matches after Washington declined to host the squad for the tournament, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said. https://cnn.it/4u06RKO

“It’s just burning. I just wanted to try to keep people safe.” ICE fired pepper spray at Senator Andy Kim and protesters outside a detention facility in New Jersey. Not another penny should go to these out-of-control agencies — and when we regain power, we will hold all of these thugs accountable.

I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4

A good copy editor is worth their weight in gold. Mine is the freaking best. I just wrote something that is incredibly well known in my field and got back: "Got a source for this?" I do... but boy is it superb to be held to account every single time. #copyeditorsareprobablygods #katyaespecially

Anti-bike haters having a normal one, adopting ultra right wing white supremacist talking points.

These don't sound like counterarguments: "It will suppress luxury real estate, prices will fall, billionaires will sell. Perhaps. Or perhaps the market is artificially inflated because the carrying cost for a second home here has been artificially low. Real markets price real costs."

Joseph E. Shepherd, a professor at Caltech who studies chemical explosions, said the 7,000 gallons of methyl methacrylate could produce a very large fire that would have to be extinguished with special foam, or perhaps even launch a large fireball into the air. “It’s not a good thing,” he said.

Hell Yeah Science☄️💥⚡️💯

This is utterly sickening. NYT gives the thumbs-up to massive war crimes. “There is no shortage of targets,” five oh-so-savvy white men report: “power plants, desalination stations, oil wells, roads, bridges and other infrastructure.” 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

"Amid a dizzying deluge of series and animated sidebars, has Disney diluted its biggest brand? As its return to the IMAX, I mean, silver, screen, the saga could do worse than this movie. With their main guy’s face behind metal, that’s a more than respectable showing." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/m...

Damn, but this is the Aztecs basketball I am here for, "We’re still going to have him here, we’re going to help him get through his rehab, file an (NCAA medical) appeal to see if we can get him an extra year but be there for him to support him." www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/05/22/s...

SIGN OF THE DAY…

Gov Jared Polis told a Colorado Sun event that his decision to give clemency to Tina Peters "will be remembered fondly." He was later interrupted by protesters carrying an enormous banner reading EAT SHIT POLIS coloradosun.com/2026/05/19/j...

In case you need any more motivation to hold the most corrupt "president" in U.S. history accountable. #Register&VOTE 🌊

Senator Jon Ossoff wins the Georgia Democratic primary for US Senate.

Hero. RIP. "‘He was my protector’: Daughter of security guard at San Diego mosque remembers her dad as her hero" www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/05/19/h...

"Americans are rightly frustrated about the high cost of housing. Fortunately, the country has decades of evidence about how to bring those down: We need to build more homes." (Gift) www.nytimes.com/interactive/... San Diego, start w racist heritage 'hoods> timesofsandiego.com/politics/202...

Corrupt AF. That's you, rumpers. “Never in the history of the United States has a sitting president sought a monetary settlement from the government he leads — let alone sought many billions of dollars in taxpayer funds,” lawyers for the lawmakers wrote.

Jared Polis is so completely full of shit. His commutation of Tina Peters' sentence has nothing to do with freedom of speech. What a joke. What an insult to the law-abiding citizens of Colorado. What an assault on free and fair elections. An embarrassing profile in cowardice.

Was obvious on 1/6/21 & 1/20/21 & every day before/after: if you can attempt insurrection that would yield king-like power & $10's of billions if you succeed AND there's no cost if you fail THEN you are going to keep trying until you succeed. Accountability was about deterrence as much as punishment

Recently, for *obvious reasons*, I've been thinking about what it means when anxiety and sadness are caused not by individual predispositions, but by the state of the world itself. This led me to early 19th-c. France and the notion of "mal du siècle" (sickness of the century) aeon.co/essays/young...

Spike Lee's concert film of David Byrne's 'American Utopia' returning to cinemas for one night only in 4K www.nme.com/news/music/s...

welp

Loser-in-Chief. Too bad its all of us who lose.

"With control of the strait, Iran emerges as the key player in the region and one of the key players in the world. The roles of China and Russia, as Iran’s allies, are strengthened; the role of the United States, substantially diminished. ...

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It’s time. Meet in Selma. Saturday, May 16th. blackpowerwarroom.com/dayofaction/

www.ucs.org/resources/fr... Freedom to Move

Especially that AI WPA. UBI? > "Risk pricing needs to be honest and reckon with reality, insurance in case A.I. doesn’t deliver: Legislation which would separate model makers from data center owners; a digital Works Progress Administration for workers who lose their jobs; public equity stakes."

"Risk pricing needs to be honest and reckon with reality, insurance in case A.I. doesn’t deliver: Legislation which would separate model makers from data center owners; a digital Works Progress Administration for workers who lose their jobs; public equity stakes." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/o...

In Dutch we trust! GO AZTECS ⚫️🔴! “I’ve dealt with a lot of eras of basketball. I’ve adapted to whatever this is going to be. … I’m embracing it, I’m good at it, I always have been. I will put a team together next year that Aztec fans will be proud of.” www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/05/09/d...