ANOTHER woman of color.

A remarkable piece from 93-year-old Fran Moreland Johns on what life was like before the measles vaccine. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

ah yes, the party of parents' rights,

WTF?? He's gonna RENAME the war? Like it's a TV series or a video game? He thinks the problem is BRANDING?? The guy with the nuclear codes is insane.

Their logic to win the war on drugs is quite simple: if they're still dealing you haven't killed enough of them. That we didn't wholly embrace that approach in Iraq & Afghanistan is in their eyes why we didn't win those wars either. It's all they really know

The administration does appear to be doing a Sicario in Mexico. www.cnn.com/2026/05/12/p...

Is that gyre wider than the last time we looked? Hard to say, we should it probably put a gauge on it or something. Anywho, that's me done. I'm on the mobile if you need me, thought I'd take some sandwiches and a folding chair down to the abyss, for a bit of quiet time like.

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Future scholars of the British constitution are going to explain that it's a noble and ancient convention that if a British PM is under threat of being removed from the leadership of their party then a lettuce needs to be be placed on live stream.

The Roberts Court previously treated the “Purcell Principle” (can’t change electoral rules close to an election) as important. But that was in instances doing so advantaged Republicans. Faced with a situation where Republicans want to change rules while voting is already underway, the Court says OK.

"Podcast viewers" is one of those things that still trips me up and maybe exposes my 20th-century shaped mindset. It's radio. Radio on demand, but still radio. I don't watch radio. "This audiobook has been viewed 1.5 million times." What? Why? What are you talking about?

Oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz is not like a fluid passing through a kinked hose It’s not going to just build pressure to the point of forcing itself open 🙄

Pretty funny Mullin would say this, since Trump LITERALLY did not write the book, "The Art of the Deal." www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

they sure spent a lot of money to make it clear they are a company thay should not be allowed to exist

This is false. Every other week was “you can have no border, a border in the Irish Sea, or a border on the island of Ireland. Please pick one”.

Teach your company-required LLM to play Doom. Tell manager it’s always busy. Show usage logs. Look super-productive. Get promoted. Become CTO. Fire everyone who thought the LLM was a good idea. WIN EVERYTHING.

broke: strategic goals woke: tactical goals bespoke: pick cool new name!

neat little factoid: the Third System of Forts (coastal defense) was projected to cost 10.4 milly over ten years in 1812. That amounts to a cool 1.2% of GDP. Widely seen as a failure and never going to meet the expectations of the lawmakers. This little boondoggle might cost about 3.1% of GDP.

Not only that, you need to be fun & engaging & persuasive... just like you needed to be on the campaign trail. For a couple decades we tried to keep up with GOP fundraising by recruiting people who could persuade big donors to give. No longer a winning tactic. So now we must clear some deadwood.

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

Any good resources on the job of Art Direction? IE what does an art director do, ideally in detail, and how does that differ from, say, someone simply doing art work and making art assets. GDC talks, blog posts, text books, youtube videos, what have you.

"this would be really bad and so, ipso facto, it can't happen" is the assumption underlying the entire Trump era and it's sort of bleakly funny to see people clinging to it even as the train is jumping the tracks

From Caribbean slaveholders to Victorian eugenicists to Nazi steel executives, the worst people imaginable have told us that love is meaningless, ethics are impossible, and community is a mirage. They've shaped the very language we use to talk about work and the economy. This book is a response.

a rare entry in the category of 'headlines that answer themselves' www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/w...

The WSJ employs a lot of actual journalists but if you are one of them it's important for you to know your bosses and your colleagues in the opinion section prefer you personally to go to prison for doing your job than for trump to lose

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I support trans representation in games and so am ok with this.

learning for the first time that some people use a male commander shepherd in Mass Effect, presumably through some kind of mod?

I know we keep saying it over and over again but Trump is an explicitly unique individual in American history because the media by and large abjectly refuses to cover him the way they would any other human being who has ever lived. Any other human being and this would be a gross outburst.

The gerrymandering in the South is clearly intended to limit black political power. I think it would be illegal to point this out in a political science class in many of the states engaging in it.

Just now, Trump: —Admitted he doesn't think about Americans' financial situation —Threatened to send ICE and the National Guard to polling locations —Called a reporter a "dumb person" for asking why the cost of his ballroom doubled —Said disenfranchising Black voters has been "a wonderful process"

Once again, they insisted Obama was a narcissist because he used the pronoun "I" in speeches too much. But this? This is fine.

It is probably worth pointing out to Britons that the immigration proposals now being made in the UK by parties like Reform are far more extreme than anything even Trump has suggested in the US, and Labour has not only miserably failed to oppose them but has actively egged them on.

Jesus Christ

I'm going to send this image to every video podcast producer I know whenever they annoy me.

The JP Morgan analyst did it! He did the joke!

A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet. which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.

me after I sow:

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It's not just that the FBI director is acting like a spoiled child; he keeps repeating the dumb lie that Van Hollen was "drinking margaritas with a felon" when he visited Kilmar Abrego Garcia. As a reminder, it was a stunt from the El Salvador regime, who put sugar-rimmed glasses on the table.

Bold statement from a white Virginian to an African American...

Sure are!

Oh BEEHIVE etc. I dunno where Kraken spawn/nest/do azimuth-indicative choreography but surely it's not a hive, let alone one by, for and with bees?

The central reason that trust in health professionals dropped during covid is that the president intentionally and explicitly used doctors as scapegoats for the economic damage the pandemic caused. What irritated overly online center-right pundits is a smaller factor.

My best airport bar interaction was recently after separating & I started talking to the 3 other women at the bar, we had a great chat, so much reassurance & uplifting all around. At the end, found out one of the women was an Olympic gold medalist who was the most open. Will cherish forever

i have learned so much weird stuff and heard so many funny stories on the basis of being willing to chat with completely random people in completely random places (and no, i am not judging you at all if YOU don't like doing this, you're valid)