lmao oh man things might be about to go really off the rails

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social *Pressure* is worth seeing in the theater

With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"the screwworm is a lesson about the reality of good governance. State capacity is not so different from managing the electricity system or, for that matter, cutting carbon emissions, in that there is little political reward for getting it right." heatmap.news/daily/screww...

We have to end his power in November. It is life or death.

Ballet pic of the day Luisa Lisbôa

HMS Ulysses

This is utterly antithetical to what the Founders believed necessary for civic virtue

The US hard left want to point to a 19 year old Azov soldier with a neo-Nazi patch on his uniform and condemn an entire country to destruction in response, then look at a 41 year old ex-Blackwater mercenary with a Totenkopf tattooed on his chest and elect him into high office.

this is an extremely textbook scumlord developer move — initiate construction quickly because the courts move slowly, then claim it’s too late to stop because you’ve already started. the court should tell them to eat shit.

DOJ lawyers just argued that if Trump wanted to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty, nobody would have standing to stop him. Apparently “checks and balances” has been replaced with “because Dear Leader said so.” What could possibly go wrong? newrepublic.com/post/211422/...

I assume he's soliciting OLC opinions to make everything "legal" via corrupt advice as a shield to hide behind

Pressure is very, very good. It also does no favors for Field Marshall Montgomery

I think this is right

Again, every single person involved in DOGE, including Elon Musk, needs to be sent to jail for the rest of their lives for these unprecedented crimes & constitutional violations.

IRL LOL

Platner very much is a discernible type, but it’s not “flawed but basically decent working class joe.” It’s “prep school creep with a sadistic streak and an ironclad confidence that it will never catch up to him.“

Holy fuck, they not only cut the whistleblower's break line, they disabled his airbag and other safety features.

We are not angry enough--a whistleblower provided evidence a DOGE brat stole social sec data & sold it to a Palantir contractor. Our data is used to sell services back to the govt at taxpayer expense for big profits. That is OUR data. Instead of investigating the whisteblower is threatened 😠

“State prosecutors in Paxton’s office agreed to a plea deal in which Hoffman pleaded guilty to misdemeanors that did not require him to register as a sex offender.”

the plan, of course, then failed as a result of the DOGE chaos and the screwworm jumped ~350mi by July, and so, here we are. will take a 1960s style program to eradicate it again, and lol you know this admin ain't gonna be effective at that. www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...

so, re the questions about Why, the screwworm had actually broken containment at the end of 2024 and an emergency plan was in place to halt spread (www.aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-...) but then the agency, APHIS, running it got DOGE'd (www.npr.org/2025/05/03/n...)

Ballet pic of the day Photo: Daria Chenikova

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

Put each and every one of these people away for public corruption. Throw the book at them.

Just thinking how Bill Clinton's meeting with Loretta Lynch on a tarmac was a tsunami-level political scandal in 2016, and now we have the president literally nominating his personal lawyer to be the nation's attorney general -- and it's greeted with a shrug. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...

The regulatory state is more important to the smooth operation of society to which we’ve become accustomed than anyone in this administration realizes, and in a lot of ways, we’ve already run off the cliff and are just starting to look down

"There have always been trans kids. This is nothing new. Letting them live their truth will save their lives. To all the trans kids and families who love them, in Texas and around the world: Stay strong and keep fighting for your freedom." —Lynda Carter 🌱📷

A New York paramedic tells what they see in Trump’s health. Hint: it’s not good. For Trump. An informed view from someone at the sharp end.

Accountability is a thing that happens in other countries

Pleased to post my draft article, “Discovering the Historical Anglo-American Constitution.” I study the history of birthright citizenship from the 1100s to the 1700s. The English common-law rule of natural-born subjects was always tied to territory and jurisdiction. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I waited a while to write this one. The time finally felt right.

Insightful

A detail that has really stuck with me about Tony Judt‘s ‘Postwar’ was the section about how hundreds of thousands of ex-Nazis went on to become East German communist apparatchiks Flunkies like Flanagan remind me of these characters—not truly attached to an ideology so much as place in the in-group

This article isn't about Wurman, Barnett, or Epstein. It is not for the Supreme Court. This is for the preservation of knowledge and better public education. With that mission in mind, I hope y'all share this and download it. And that said, when you read my piece, here's what their work does wrong:

The story of this era isn't merely that powerful men demand obedience. History is full of powerful men demanding obedience. The story of this era is whether enough Americans still possess the courage to refuse. Scott Pelley did. ~ Steve Schmidt

Don Lemon with a message to the media after the firing of Scott Pelley.

RIP Marjane Satrapi

Persepolis is an important, life changing work, not merely of the most significant graphic novels but also one of the best animated films ever made. Marjane Satrapi’s passing is a huge shock and loss.

From the graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi #RIPMarjaneSatrapi

Just heard that the great John Blanche passed on. No illustrator had more of an impact on my childhood. Blanche is probably the single person who most influenced the aesthetic of Warhammer 40,000 and a lot of modern fantasy / sci-fi as a result

Ballet pic of the day Anastasya Denisova in “Emeralds” from “Jewels” Bolshoi Ballet 📸Damir Yusupov

really cannot be emphasized enough that every democratic policy goal must run through breaking the power of this corrupt court

Hunter Biden is still going after Jake Tapper 🍿😂

You have not smoked enough crack to dunk on Hunter Biden

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They will be trying so hard to get people fired for having a great time

The next time someone writes some dishonest bullshit about "left wing political violence" send them this