An awesome wedding with an even more awesome hike with a few challenges on the way 😂

Seems worth noting how no Democratic Congress member (as far as I can tell) has actively spoken out against the political persecution of the Prairieland anti-ICE protesters. It should go without saying that treating antifascism as terrorism is a serious threat to Democracy.

So far I've only seen Rashida Tlaib take a stand. Andy Ngo gave a snarky reply and his minions are following it up w a ratio. FOX News reported her statement in shocked tones.

I had a cancer that had a 5% survival rate in the 70s and has a 95% survival rate today, but do go on...

I've made the mistake of listening to a lot of Peter Thiel interviews recently to try to understand his worldview. The guy is an absolute third-rate thinker who contradicts himself every 30 seconds and nobody pushes him on it.

"We declared a War On Cancer in the 1970s and we have not made significant progress on treating cancer despite ever-increasing funding. It's a welfare program for academic labs" Bro what the FUCK are you talking about. The survival statistics do not bear this out even at first glance

Mamdani is close to going 3 for 3 in his Dem congressional primary endorsements, unseating two incumbents and one incumbent's chosen successor. This is a huge moment that confirms that progressive populism is not a fluke among the Democratic base, and Mamdani is the party's legit star and kingmaker.

Never has there been a more appropriate time to use this picture:

Daisy usually prefers to stalk deer but I guess she decided this one was close enough to go for it and I wasn't expecting it. Totally pulled me over sideways into some thorns. Credit to Ciaran for the unintentional action shot.

i (79M) made a work excuse to skip my son's (48M) wedding but i'm definitely going to an nba finals game later this week. AITA?

Pelley and 60 minutes really were the gold standard for Serious Journalism and that they already felt the need to “balance” a story about the murder of innocent civilians by federal goons by implying they deserved it is an indictment of the entire industry

It sounds crazy, but I guess when somebody tells you their only mistake was a Nazi tattoo, its possible they actually made a series of other mistakes that did not happen to produce a Nazi tattoo.

Obama doing a history podcast on US Reconstruction with a British-Canadian non-historian airport book guy really does capture his whole post-presidential vibe huh

Graham Platner trying to explain away his behavior as *living a regular life* really evokes *locker room talk* for me. The normalization of men’s abuse of women has to stop. Abusing women is not regular or normal or in any way okay. I hope this gets called out by lots and lots of people.

This guy has been a "progressive" for all of five minutes and hasn't held office. His "record" is: prep boy who wanted to kill people, became a mercenary to kill more, got a Nazi tattoo, spent time abusing women and posting misogyny, then ran for Senate. When did he "transform"? A week ago? A day?

bret stephens really is embedded in the trump administration i am trying to delete this

This is gaslighting propaganda from a state administration defending a concentration camp by arresting protestors and press.

Note to media: police arresting peaceful protesters singing “give peace a chance” is not protesters “clashing” with police. It’s the state violating the First Amendment rights of people upset that human beings who did nothing illegal are being held without due process and being fed maggots.

im a democratic governor and im against the concentration camp in my state but if the protesters could maybe just scootch over to the side here a little so we dont have to see or think about you that would really be great

It do be like that

Anti-tax Democrats are patsies. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/state-powe...

Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem

They murdered this girl, just like they hoped to. The people backing these laws have made it clear: they want the penalty for being trans to be death.

Also this is clearly someone who has never seriously drunk Miller Lite

I have no context for this but it is the best thing I've read in years.

Getting to sit outside on a perfect day in Somerville, eating bar pizza and a roast beef sandwich almost makes up for the annoyance of a bunch of people rooting for a Williams-Middlebury ultimate frisbee match on the television.

9 years was not an excessive punishment. Peters was a county official who used someone else’s security badge to let a fellow election denier access the whole county's voting data. That is an extreme breach of public trust for the purpose of undermining our democracy; harsh deterrence is vital.

These guys really could have sold AI as “this is going to make your lives better.” Instead they picked “this is going to take your job and ruin all the art you love and you better embrace it or get left behind.” And they expect applause at commencement speeches!

how much do you want to BET there will be an NYT opinion piece (money on bret stephens penning it) saying college grads booing AI evangelists are coddled brats who will never get jobs

We’re in the lead! A new poll found that after voters are read bios of each candidate, Beth leads the field. This include as a 5-point lead over Dan Koh, despite him raising $5 million Let’s reboot democracy! bethfordemocracy.com

People who think Democrats are too woke and radical now control all three branches of government, the institutional apparatus of the Democratic Party and all major media outlets. Stop fucking congratulating each other for saying it!

“he’s the kind of guy who would go snorkeling at Pearl Harbor” sounds like a hyperbolic insult you would use to convey that someone was particularly dead inside and the other person would laugh because the premise is obviously so ridiculous and yet!

It’s never gonna stop being funny/sad how absolutely *terrified* conservative men are of just like… cities.

This is it right here. This vote tells you all you need to know. Centrists are Republicans and the DNC is all about the centrists. We ain't getting Woke 2 until everyone who voted yes on this is thrown out of office and starting their new podcast. Simple as

i’ll own up to being a categorical hater of AI. i think the effort to create it is appalling and reprehensible and i want to see it defeated. i don’t give a fuck if it’s good at some stuff, and i regard giving a fuck about that as clown shit

ngl this would be the funniest possible signal that It Happened

"In my fantasy, if we lived in a city with money that didn't all go to the police department, the city would eminent domain that little lot and just turn it into a little bird sanctuary.” @nuala.bsky.social interviewed Meghan Long, the photographer behind the Night Herons of Oakland IG account.

The NYT ”anti-white discrimination“ lawsuit can’t be separated from the NYT’s commitment to transphobia, an unwillingness to discuss NYT’s past and present anti-Blackness, and an unwillingness to understand what it means for progressive Black people to hold positions of visibility and power at NYT

29 years ago today, Frank Grimes (or Grimey, as he liked to be called) first met the #TheSimpsons. “Homer's Enemy” first aired on May 4, 1997.

horseshoe theory is real. leftists almost got kat abughazaleh elected into congress and now it comes out that her boyfriend owns infowars…

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

/2 The grim hotel is because I wanted to be close to the courthouse in a town where that was a bad idea. The room looks like somewhere you go if you want to die but don’t want to cause too much inconvenience, like “they probably got a guy for that,” and because the new paralegal picked it.

I wish the people who believed Schumer was on our side still seemed adorable to me and not a series of other things

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.