Thanks to this thread I'm watching this right now and it's the best thing I've ever seen

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

Confirming with my own eyes and pics what several fellow Washingtonians have said about this post with hundreds of shares and earnest comments: straight up misinformation

We quite literally have a whites only refugee program and somehow the media won’t call the Administration white supremacists.

After consulting with my attorney I’ve been advised that what I actually want to say about this would be ill-advised so I’ll just say that he couldn’t possibly be clearer about which side of D-Day he’s identifying with

It’s funny because people pretend feminists hate men but the people who actually hate men are those who think that normal male behavior is being out of control and aggressive.

I think we could use a timeline cleanse.

Abortion bans are putting women's lives in danger, and it's not by accident.   This is a situation Republicans explicitly manufactured simply because they believe they should decide what a woman does with her body, no matter the consequences.   We've got to keep fighting back.

Well, I find myself in total agreement with the advice columnist here.

How a Starbucks marketing stunt spiralled into mass boycotts in South Korea

Yaakov Roth was a Harvard Law School grad, SCOTUS clerk, and longtime BigLaw partner. His resume, law students were always told, was a sign that he was among those at the top of the legal profession. Today, he said Trump could tear down the Statue of Liberty tonight and no one could stop him.

After winning a SLAPP suit, Last Week Tonight celebrated in style.

needed: romance, romantasy, science fiction romance audiobook recs!

I don't really talk about this, because I'm actually quite private about my personal life, but many many years ago Tony Head took me under his wing and showed me the kind of person I could be. It's not an exaggeration to say that I'm the person I am today because of the kindness he showed me.

If you’re not the one who was harmed, then you aren’t forgiving, you’re just excusing.

$100 received but stalled out, please help

If you use the word “smoothgroins” you don’t have valid political opinions anymore.

I will say from now until eternity that sexual violence is *core* to the fascist project. Scratch a Totenkamf tattoo, find a guy who's okay hitting and raping women

Those who deflect blame for Russia's invasion of Ukraine by arguing that NATO "provoked" Putin and he was driven by legitimate security concerns, always faced the problem that Russia's initial aggression was sparked by Ukraine's approach to the EU, not NATO. Now, Putin again literally admits this:

"I basically feel nothing. Not even when my nephew Grady gets framed for murder, which happens constantly. Seriously, I have a criminal defense attorney on perpetual retainer who specializes in homicide for this sort of thing."

A game of NO EXIT, anyone? Or how about a round of BEING & TIMER?

This is straightforwardly domestic violence.

Finally an actual written story from a professional about the viral Lego story www.techdirt.com/2026/06/02/e...

This dude had domestic abuser and dudebro shitbag written *all* over him, and we had *incredibly* early confirmation that he was a liar when he offered an excuse for that tattoo weaker than "my dog ate my homework". Vote LaFlamme. Or Costello. Or Mills. Rank somebody else.

Platner is a terrible choice for Maine. We can do better. I know this because I'm writing in @andrealaflamme.bsky.social. We don't have to settle for the mass of walking red flags.

Probably wants to spend more time with his wife now that she's graduated from high school.

I cynically and full heartedly believe that the Republicans in office would have viewed it as a win if they had driven him to suicide during the Biden administration. They used him to torment Biden any chance they got. Hunter isn't running for office and good for him for talking back.

DMV area folk: due to a variety of factors i've missed out on medieval/ren fairs the last several years we've lived here. what are the ones worth going to?

Supreme Court rulings today at 10. One of the remaining cases yet to be decided in the current term is this one 👇

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

💭 🎬 L'artiste franco-iranienne Marjane Satrapi, qui s'est fait mondialement connaître avec la bande dessinée et le film "Persepolis", est décédée à l'âge de 56 ans, a annoncé son entourage jeudi à l'AFP.

sometimes it does hit me how incredible and surreal it is that he’s the literal president, clothed in immense power, and all he really wants to do is build gaudy tourist attractions.

In fact, the only way to win a constitutional claim against racial gerrymandering is if the the state was doing it to comply with the Voting Rights Act.

Livin' La Vida Cloaca

Oh boy. 9th Cir. sanctions two attorneys for briefs containing multiple nonexistent cases, misattributed quotations, and gross misrepresentations of real cases as a result of undisclosed AI usage who then doubled down and lied when caught. Sanctions in next. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

This is an important observation. It seems obvious, but in a world of pollyanna politics, it's worth sitting with.

I’m starting to wonder if these hires are an elaborate form of constructive dismissal for the rest of the agency. As in: they want 80% of the staff to quit so they give them a completely shit agency head because the otherwise dedicated staff thinks “I can’t work for this idiot”.

This may be @jamellebouie.net 's best column ever, which is really saying something. Here's a gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

it's genuinely difficult for me to understand that there are people who will bet on these things with honest money, as compared to using it to launder money.

just because words have meaning: your subordinate cannot, definitionally, create a hostile work environment if you are the person empowered to take remedial action also, more broadly, that’s not what hostile work environment means and also, she’s an idiot and a loser

7th Cir. sanctioned another attorney for AI hallucinations in a brief ($5,000 fine) and referred the case to the Illinois bar discipline authority. FN 5 seems like a smart practice. "To avoid memorializing errors, we have chosen not to include . . ." etc. media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/Opin...

a you-can't-make-it-up @bobbyallyn.bsky.social scoop: George Santos told X followers he was going to the State of the Union. Then he didn't show - and placed bets on Kalshi that netted him tens of thousands of dollars. Now he's under federal investigation by DOJ and CFTC www.npr.org/2026/06/02/n...

a reminder that the USPS has new rules that make it very important to not put your mail ballot in a normal mailbox in the final days: boltsmag.org/usps-postmar...

<grabs microphone> the bedbugs are a metaphor! The bedbugs are <security tackles me, drags me offstage>

Until proven otherwise, the JCPOA is the high water mark of American diplomacy and it's emblematic of everything since that the US was unable to honor it (thanks to sabotage by Trump) and unwilling to restore it (thanks to sabotage by hardliners within the Democratic caucus and Biden's indifference)

It's Pride Month, so once again here's Sappho's Reply, one of the most powerful queer poems ever. Written by Rita Mae Brown at the height of the post-Stonewall struggles, it's the origin of "an army of lovers shall not fail/cannot lose." Y'all, we are going to win.

We are increasingly seeing National Guard soldiers detain community members and call MPD to arrest them. The three incidents pictured here have happened in just the last week alone.