"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." H.L. Mencken

I think about this a lot.

WE COULD’VE HAD A TACO TRUCK ON EVERY CORNER

JUST NOW from @statuscoupnews.bsky.social livestream — ICE agents outside Delaney Hall in Newark, NJ pushed a protester into an 18-wheeler causing the truck to run over his leg. They then pinned him on the ground and carried him away.

The cognitive load of “am I guy-ing hard enough?” must be staggering.

I have to ask as a 59 year old straight guy who’s been married 34 years, worked on a pipeline, tagged a lot of markers for traditional masculinity — isn’t doing this gender thing all the fucking time *exhausting*? How do these people get through the day running “gender performance” code constantly?

Daily bunny no.3332 is eating some fresh greens

reporter still on the ground >>>

🚨 ICE MOVES IN WITH BATONS 🚨 Outside Delaney Hall on Day 6 of the hunger strike, ICE agents push protesters off the public sidewalk and toward the street. WATCH @jordanchariton.bsky.social LIVE ⬇️

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This is a really important piece from @joyurcaba.bsky.social. Most people think that the government's restrictions on health care for trans people was limited to minors (which has been the government's messaging). It's not, and people need to know about it.

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Coming in for a landing…#birds

From my Larchives for you :)

(Alt text: the White House is tweeting about Harambe)

For folks blessedly disconnected from the meme/story, it was especially popular in white supremacist circles. Which liked to argue that zoo officials should have just let the Black toddler that had entered the animal's enclosure die

NEW: DOJ's fight against trans medical care in prison is a fight to erase trans people in the law. "The pendulum has swung," DOJ's Jared Littman said in a court hearing Wednesday, arguing that all transgender people — at all ages — can be denied needed medical care. Today, at Law Dork:

I feel guilty about not staying but this was my first time in a situation quite as intense as this and there’s definitely a learning curve. Fuck ICE and solidarity with everyone still out there.

I left right before this started. Could tell things were turning bad.

That is the question.

fun update: the case against the woman pulled over for holding a phone in her missing right hand was dismissed for … lack of evidence

congrats to this guy on joining the prestigious brady list (he should be fired)

That's not warming relations, that's she's currently Trump's "our bastard" in Caracas. That status will last until such time as she does something inconvenient for Trump & then she'll get the Saddam Hussein treatment.

Here's a 🧵 of new reporting from my friends at the @arkvalleyvoice.bsky.social 👇!!!!!

love that we keep just test-piloting the thing that works again and again and again. did you know that giving people money directly results in good outcomes? WHOA IF TRUE

A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.

Yeah, the Embargo Act of 1807 worked out just awesome for the US.

Blockades are so hot right now we’re going to blockade ourselves

War for Ukraine Day 1,553 update has posted.

The cost.

🧵!!!!!

🇬🇪🇬🇧 UK just sanctioned 18 entities in Russia's sanctions evasion machinery. 3 are Georgian companies! More than any other country outside Russia. Alongside Russian oligarchs and the Kyrgyz infrastructure behind the A7 network. Georgia remains a haven for sanctions evasion. 1/12

The cost.

This is one of many super common ways that stats are misreported and you should watch out for it.

Hoffman “was first arrested and charged in 2022 for repeated instances of sexual abuse with a 10-year-old boy, a first-degree felony, and was facing life without parole.” Corrupt Ken Paxton is endangering children.

It’s worth saying this over and over again so we don’t make mistakes like we’ve made in the past — everyone in the DOJ involved in this must be fired, prosecuted, and if relevant disbarred. You could just quit. People have quit.

she isn't an accuser. she won her case in court. he was held liable for sexually assaulting her. she is a survivor of being sexually assaulted by the president of the united states.

I think a central distinction between Dems who are successful going forward and Dems who flounder will be whether or not they have the moral clarity to point squarely at what Trump and MAGA are doing and loudly say "this evil must end".

This needs more attention & focus. GOP accounts got ahead of the fact that Paxton does favors for pedophiles by seasoning the information environment (IE) before the primary election w/the lie that Talarico is a pedophile. 1/

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Katie Miller is beefing with my fiancée on twitter and it has backfired badly for Miller because — and this might not be popular to say on here, but — my fiancée is way hotter

This truly makes me sick

"Little wonder, then, that after California passed a “unilateral” divorce bill in 1969, allowing individuals to leave an unhappy marriage even if their partner objected, states that followed suit saw women’s suicide rates decline by 20% over the next five years."

I'll take care of it in my war update in just a bit. Go get the road grime off and get some rest.

@marisakabas.bsky.social 🧵👇!!!!!

Not NSF, but our DARPA-funded grant (involving CWRU, UMD and others) for an amazing project to try to develop artificial blood - a biosynthetic whole blood analog intended for use by military medics and in mass casualty incidents - got a stop work order in March and now has been cancelled. 😔

Oh, GTFOH. Even if Carroll *had* perjured herself — which she didn't — the DOJ absolutely never prosecutes anyone for perjury in a civil case. www.cnn.com/2026/05/27/p...

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as much as i appreciate the democrats responding with vigor for once, the fact that republicans are using "transgender" as a slur for a political candidate is fucking horrifying and dems need to quickly figure out a way to address it head on. calling stephen miller ugly isn't a long-term fix.

Peak Rasputin performance. Depressed and dead. Everyone else stand aside. The situation is under control