Not a premier Democratic pollster accidentally personally emailing me last night — instead of someone with a similar email address? — about joining his scheme to defeat California’s proposed tax on the ultrawealthy…

This is, however, how the internet works.

quite a book about the gunners here

Rep. Ogles: "Muslims don’t belong in American society," Rep. Fine on "mainstream Muslims": "I think you should destroy them first" Sen. Tuberville: "The enemy is inside the gates". Rep. Roy posted "No more Muslims" on his social media. None of them censured by Democrats. No penalty.

The population distribution of this World Cup is crazy. The US has as many people as 25 other competing countries. The population of the US + Brazil is equal to 2/3rds of all the countries. And the top 6 countries make up over half of the total population represented at the cup.

drake has been thinking a lot about bitcoin

Which dead musician would you most want to see play a Tiny Desk concert? (alive, of course)

saw this offer of $1000 to self-deport posted at an airport and, yep, that works out just exactly as you’d imagine! english.elpais.com/usa/2026-05-...

quite a book about the gunners here

why would I want to make my emails Polish???

(1) hell yea (2) they should go sicko copenhagen mode on these (raised wide curb) www.amny.com/news/exclusi...

why don’t the gods want me to see the new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and experience the film in theaters 7 17 26

hear me out: The Mensch Gala

Time yet again for your monthly update on whether electing Zohran was a “danger to the New York Jewish community,” as many an influential community leaders promised and…2026 is now on pace to be *safer* than 2025.

say what you will about this place but I just opened twitter and here’s “Today’s News”:

imagine how much more affordable everything would be if we just treated land in cities like we treat air and water

folks…this is WILD ok

folks…this is WILD ok

republishing this essay from last year because it lives freely in my brain and I need it to move it move it into yours empty-brain.ghost.io/we-are-all-j...

I am both comforted and dismayed by the fact that every new day seems testament to the fact that Americans *would* prefer to vote for “anyone kind of normal that actually believes in something” over “deranged sociopaths” … if they were given that option.

ben folds but does he also put the clothes away

TIL Biden killed dancing??

“clean up my reflecting pool” has to be one of the saddest AI prompts thus far

NYPD refuses to issue permits to NY DOT for World Cup programming because they don’t like the mayor. If I were the “Business Community” close with the NYPD commissioner I would simply do something about the pettiness hurting their bottom line! nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/24/n...

Ah yes, the “big bucks” of … a $122 average donation. www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/24/m...

Texas tech now bans students from writing about LGBTQ issues in any form. Mentions of gender identity, orientation etc in textbooks must be skipped. Deafening silence so far from all the brave heterodox free speech absolutists www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

I am somewhat convinced that email read receipts could fundamentally alter the course of history.

You think “Israeli shooting” is just classic Times style avoiding attribution to specific actors… and then you find that this broadness is actually accidentally descriptive of the overwhelming societal embrace of violence!

I had tickets to group stage games at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa for ~$80 each. That price was also much higher than affordable tickets reserved for South African residents. But I guess we could do it this way:

labor secretary who?

personally if I were one of these “transformers robots in disguise” I would not choose car for disguise, choose more like a pile of mulch or a stained carpet

Sure they’ve proven over and over they don’t care about anything except licking Trump’s boots, but pretty incredible how all the Serious Republicans Senators lined up to confirm a drunk school shooter incel as the top military man.

“Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.” ~ Pope Leo

Heard of a horrendous phenomenon today where people are going to restaurants, declining to have their server say anything about the menu, asking AI what they should order, and then attempting to order dishes that AI told them to order but that do not exist.

$4,049 from the average taxpayer for weapons and war. That's... -32x the $124 paid for school lunches and other nutrition programs. -213x the $19 paid for the U.S. Postal Service. -119x the $34 paid toward public transit. -253x the $16 spent on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

Fascist regimes tend not to do too well when they appear to have lost and be losing. Pour it on.

Had a nightmare that America does the Olympics treatment for the World Cup broadcasts — consistent ad breaks x 37 human interest pieces per game. Truly horrifying.

I generally think Debate Me Bros have provable immeasurably hurt America but I also cannot imagine a purer devastation than absolutely crushed, say, JD Vance in a debate. He might disintegrate, that’s dealing in his life force.

I guess…if you put just one sentence between two other deeply contradictory sentences…you are then allowed to write whatever you want?

Ah, it’s that time again, time to send $4k to the federal government so I can pay for 0.1% of a missile that an LLM will shoot at a school (please *no* cancer research)

I don’t think enough people know that someone named “Péter Magyar” winning the Hungarian election is like someone named “Peter American” winning the American election.

who will pay Armando Ianucci enough to pull together an “In the Loop” short sequel where they come up with “blockade the strait to open the strait”

maybe you shouldn’t have to pay for a place to live any more than you have to pay for the air you breathe

Very good news. And a five-year timeline is pretty fast by municipal standards. Also: "The city has roughly three million parking spaces, and full trash containerization is expected to take about 150,000 spaces, or 5 percent."

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

I just insist on believing that Americans can not go on forever without finally overthrowing a tax system that picks on them while the richest people pay less or nothing because they bought the government.

damn it’s nice to pay extra money to the fascist scum government via the evil corporation platform

There’s just so much evidence that instead of unifiers or transcenders, Democrats really need to run brawlers who will square up against Trump, Vance, & co. and just call them losers right to their faces — because they really are losers and everyone can sense it!!

Oh wow, looks like Kalshi has the odds of any sentence like this being completely fucking stupid at 99%

today I was led to sacred epiphany