if you want a picture of capitalist anti-intellectualism it would be hard to do better than this leader. no arguments, no opponents. it's a perfect distillation of the underread elite outlook, where six unrelated things you hate are evidence the great unwashed is rising dangerously above its station

I do not want to be that guy, but signing up for pre-launch is genuinely a big deal, even if you can't back until later on in the campaign. Its an algorithm thing. So I am humbly asking for you to click through this link, sign up for pre-launch, then back it when you can! bit.ly/CivilDiso

not just prominent figures but absolute gutter racists

MLB got this machine that’s been spitting out implausible names like Orel Hershiser and Daryl Strawberry for decades now and expecting us to believe these are natural names

neither of these names can be real. major league baseball created them in a lab designed to make perfect baseball names that otherwise cannot exist in nature

Donald Trump has turned America's 250th anniversary into a trash fascist spectacle, but my liberal neighbor keeps calling it the nation's "semiquincentennial". I have never felt so politically homeless.

Detainees say they’re given ‘rotten’ water and denied meals for not signing papers in English that they don’t understand

mall on a family vacation to Niagara Falls. Chef Leo is someone we Jerseyites are proud to have in our community. Leo deserves to be back with his family and the people of NJ deserve our just desserts. #FreeChefLeo

You’re looking at a creation by Leo Argoti, Montclair New Jersey’s most accomplished, beloved pastry chef. Leo, who is from Ecuador, has a valid work permit, a pending asylum case, and no criminal charges. Yet on Monday, he was sent to An ICE detention camp in Buffalo. He’d been picked up at a

When someone says that Star Trek is woke "now"

Please enjoy this graph from a FT article explaining that AI hasn’t added any value (no, debt and circular investment isn’t value) It has produced More Stuff, it’s just the Stuff isn’t useable or fixable. Welcome to the age of everyone making apps no one uses

every time I say this, someone didn't know: you can get the NYRB, the New Yorker, the LRB, Paris Review, The Spectator (weirdly not New Statesman), The Week, both French & Italian Vogue & New Scientist among many many other magazines FREE via the Libby app from your local library?

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Grief is just keeping a dead person's half-empty bottle of generic mouthwash in the cabinet for six years because throwing it away feels like a second, smaller murder.

"Major Win for Trump's Revenge Campaign" says it all.

George Santos is irrelevant except as an example of the kind of person today's Republican Party is willing to excuse and protect to stay in power.

NEW: These Republican Lawmakers Challenged Abortion Bans. Then They Faced Backlash. by @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social

"The legal right to defend oneself has always proved far more fragile when exercised by the very people who most need protection."

A Shocking Betrayal of Black Americans www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/o...

There are almost no crustaceans in the deep ocean. Not because they would get crushed, but because they would DISSOLVE. The cold & high pressure cause changes to water that make it very corrosive to calcium carbonate shells. But there's one crustacean who solves this problem with ALUMINUM ARMOR.

I am SO sick of headlines like this. The public sees "AI" as being LLMs/ChatGPT, not an ML algorithm - and articles like this mislead the public into thinking that LLMs are discovering novel things. It's a cool thing! I'm excited! But it is lazy reporting to suddenly use "AI" as such a broad term

So cutting through the bullshit, the company is basically saying that they know this shit is running out of road and everyone should expect a slowdown but packaging it up like "the fancy autocorrect is really too brilliant for all of us honestly" and everyone takes it at face value. We got it.

has any man ever been more vindicated? x.com/stuartbuck1/...

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

exactly the right response

This is fantastic news.

This has gone more viral than anything I have ever written or recorded, the "AI has no ROI" story has fully caught on and there's an anxiety in the AI industry that nobody can seem to calm down. Things are going to get interesting in the next few weeks!

Decided to pull out an important part of the interview. Generative AI is often justified with comparisons to the cost of Amazon Web Services ($57bn) or Uber's ($32bn) in losses, when its costs and losses are hundreds of billions of dollars worse. And there's no post-bubble redemption story.

Amazon sets the routes, the quotas, the uniforms, the cameras — and then tells workers they don't actually work for Amazon. Every delivery worker in this city should be able to afford to live here and have their rights respected. Workers deserve better.

“It has come to our attention that the public airwaves have been used to transmit indecent images of female characters who have both children and jobs—and in some cases are even a family’s breadwinner,” said FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr

Today I was joined by Governor Hochul and City leaders to make clear: from the first kickoff to the final whistle and long after, our job is to keep residents and visiting fans safe, moving, and supported during every moment of this busy summer.

Trump administration moves to rip out 900 deep-ocean sensors used to track coastal threats, including hurricanes. There has never been a more stupid administration. And it's putting us in danger. abc7ny.com/post/hurrica...

the original “outside agitators” were abolitionists. the concept is rooted in the racist idea that black people aren’t smart enough to want their own freedom, they were just getting tricked into misbehaving by outsiders stirring up trouble.

A photog covering Delaney Hall had to ditch her camera bag with $10K of gear an injury. The bag was gone when a friend went to get it, but an airtag showed the bag was at the house of a sergeant in the Essex County Prosecutors office, prosecutors now say: www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/04/o...

Multiple journalists have been assaulted, arrested or had their equipment damaged while reporting on ICE protests outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, since May 22.

Deletion of the bureau’s website content is just the most recent part of a larger plan to ‘undermine an agency that’s helped people’

It matters a lot that Greg Bovino - warped heart of Trump's deportation machine - now openly embraces his inner Nazi MAGA is desperate to cling to power and no one from Hegseth to a broken Supreme Court cares that you see how fascist they've become My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/greg...

Jump scare in the mail!

My city ❤️

Actively humiliating how goddamn literary the NYC subway is. My siblings in transit are reading Calvino and Adichie while I’m simply poasting.

With Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court has intensified the national gerrymandering war. But Congress could end it now by passing a national ban on partisan gerrymandering. bit.ly/4u6nYuJ

Man, California elections are wild. 5 million people running in every race. 80% are evil, 15% are, like, mimes or something. Ballots are counted once a fortnight. If you don't read the initiatives correctly you accidentally legalize The Americana at Brand owning your children.

Wrote a little thing about why expanding the number of justices is a time honored tradition* that used to facilitate the Supreme Court’s legitimacy for @inquirer.com (gift link!) *not sure about this headline, though—folks often used “court packing” as an epithet even in the 19th c.

during the network/cable era there were seasons and advertisers: shows HAD to be made for the fall season and episodes HAD to come on a schedule because the company’s revenue depended on having real estate to be filled with advertising. (2/14)

among the biggest problems with television today, the lack of economic or logistical pressure to actually make shows is among the greatest. (1/14)

The USPS's newly proposed mail-in ballot rule would disrupt ballot delivery, create uncertainty, and open the door for frivolous post-election challenges. Here’s how USPS's role in elections is supposed to work and why its independence from political control is crucial to free and fair elections.

“Trump, Musk and Rubio slashed aid and scoffed that it was woke nonsense. Now they're seeing that it not only saved one life every 10 seconds but also protected us from diseases like Ebola. Their actions constituted a security failure as well as a moral one.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

Under 2 years of Trump, this 48-year-old American is uninsured for the first time in her life. Meanwhile Mexico just passed universal healthcare for 130M people by 2028, and Canada has had it for years. We are the wealthiest nation on Earth & we can’t cover our own people. That should enrage you!