Russia is knowingly and intentionally targeting the elderly with weaponized drones in Ukraine - a pattern that’s leapt out at me in the course of the last two weeks of data validation for my database of drone attacks on civilians. Read more here:

Star of a TV show run by a monster, at 1 point, heard EVERYTHING & more from credible & voluminous reporting on said monster (incldg some facts not published) He considered & said "we don't throw people overboard," illuminating that all the people *already* thrown overboard were invisible to him.

I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"

“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social on why we must defend public libraries: “There is a reason the culture warriors hate the library. It is the same reason that Americans should defend it with our rights. No political spin doctor can sell us what is freely given at one: the right to think for ourselves.”

beautiful piece by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu about why the language and ideas of our Constitution is what we celebrate on the 4th, not JDV's blood & soil, not Trump's raking in money www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

this is absolutely wild. where does roberts think these agencies come from?!? who invested them with authority to act? whose mandate are they designed to execute? the president is the chief EXECUTive. his job is executing the will of Congress as it spells out in its duly-passed laws!

historians of american decline will spend a lot more time talking about john roberts than donald trump imo

I would love Alito to explain to me how he thinks elections worked in the 1790s

IT ME YOU GUYS, come see it Austin, o my beloved ATX

these were nothing compared to a Bruce’s hand pie in Austin in the 70s and 80s, in their lovely wax paper? warmed up? so good

this @winterjessica.bsky.social piece is superb and has one of the deadliest, funniest final grafs & final sentences I've ever read. Anyone other than JDVance reading a takedown of their book like this would quietly dissolve into air, never to be seen again. www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

democrats who don’t take loud and firm stances in favor of the regulation if AI and prediction markets are leaving votes on the table. also easy ways to demonstrate your independence from SV billionaires www.semafor.com/article/06/2...

I'm just aghast at this

This show is selling out so hard we've added a matinee this Sunday--but that's the final performance. Grab a ticket while they're still available Austin, it's a delightful evening that might end with you taking home a nice piece of clothing

My neighbor told me a cat keeps eating his british prime minister so I asked how many PMs he has and he said he just goes to the commons and gets a new PM afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding PMs to a cat and then his daughter started crying.

The genius of Obama's big speech is this: He effectively stated that Trump/MAGA do not accept the Declaration of Independence's promise of equality. In the battle over our 250th anniversary, we need to put that basic truth squarely on the agenda. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2121...

OUR SOIL god almighty

sanctions good but we need to start trying, convicting, and sentencing cops who lie like this, and the same goes for prosecutors who lie about or knowingly conceal evidence

Black soldiers fought for their own freedom in the Civil War and played a pivotal role in freeing the enslaved people of Texas on Juneteenth. Learn more by reading this National Geographic article. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

STRANGER: *steps out of time machine* i come from the fewtch ME: the fewtch? STRANGER: yeah we call it the fewtch now

I am thinking of bringing this to DEAR DICKIES, which I got at a lovely little unattended free dress shop at Burning Man years ago . . . but let's be real am not going to wear in this lesser world. Will be there Saturday, join me Austin!

So don’t romanticise this shitty, back-breaking, lung-destroying, often fatal life. Don’t bolster your own credentials off the backs of the dead and destroyed, or seek power off the rose-tinted, dewey eyed votes of those who weren’t even there. 10/

This is the thing that’s so toxic. Not just “I don’t feel hope” but “I’m going to dedicate my life to beating hope out of everyone I see.” Those are Republican. We count those.

i think boarding school teenage masculinity is a part of masculinity but not of manhood. we have to get away from the concept of the opposite of "man" being "woman." the opposite of "man" is "boy"

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

what a shock this must be to those who assumed flamin’ hot cheetos were carefully harvested every fall

you will never convince me that social media isnt what drove these people batty. there are a great many people in the world who are simply not built for what happens to the psyche when random strangers start praising you for existing & you can block everyone else. billionaire brain for plebes

There’s a rainbow outside the Kennedy Center right now as a crowd awaits Trump’s name to be pulled off the arts venue

"The U.S. government has intentionally killed at least 205 people outside any lawful circumstances...We don’t know exactly where the strikes have occurred. We don’t know what intelligence was used...It doesn’t seem that anyone knows whom the government has killed." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

saw this again last night (that’s my husband in it) and it’s so funny and so gorgeous and such an antidote to Online, and only two more shows, Austin

They came here fleeing persecution; rather than give them refuge, Marco Rubio’s state department will send them to die in countries they’ve never been to. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...

If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

“One of the truly astonishing things about this moment is the fact that so many people are perfectly happy to know so little.” —Dan Chiasson

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

Once again observing that no one ever ran "President Biden's approval ratings have tumbled. But here in West Baltimore, these black lesbians say he delivered on key promises.

most relatable celebrity take

this so sad and also so funny and also captures a thing about our time, that we think abstractions pretty much convey reality. they do not! ask a writer!

the other thing in the email was that they needed to describe Renee Goode’s car as driving TOWARD the officer who shot her. jesus.

Anyway, here is a good rundown on how we eradicated the new world screwworm from much of Central America for decades, only for the Trump people to (of course) fuck it up

Scott Pelley was ousted from CBS News in the exact manner Bari Weiss *thinks* she was ousted from NYT

This answer alone should destroy this administration. This conversation is essentially: “people are hurting.” “ceos are fine.”

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/o...

As horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...

this whole thread is great

this is a great thread

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

ICE is targeting press outside Delaney Hall