We're all mocking the sweaty "Talarico is transgender" stuff from the right but it's notable that the actual campaign seems laser-focused on "Paxton is one of the most corrupt politicians in world history" They're just not going to play this stupid game. Good.

Wow, I wonder why the faculty at top universities -- which are currently under siege by Republicans at both the state and national level, with savage assaults on federal funding, course content, academic freedom, and student expression -- would be shifting their donations *away* from that party?

Apart from anything else, Vanilla Ice has got a max 10 minutes of recognizable material, and that's counting the theme from a ninja turtles movie

So what's the over/under on Mike Love and the remains of The Beach Boys volunteering to perform at the America 250 celebration?

This looks more like a Doonesbury cartoon than real life

Working in a florist aged 19 & terribly bored, a colleague & I would make the ugliest bouquet imaginable at the beginning of the day - lopsided, clashing colours, one random orange rose hanging off the side - and wait to see if it sold. It always did. To a desperate husband.

If the Earth was flat and fish swam over the edge, where would they go? Trouter space.

Yeah but too bad it is Putin and the oligarchs making the decisions about war and not the Russian people. The ordinary Russians should get off their collective asses and do something about that. Just like we Americans need to get off our own kiesters and do something about our own oligarchy.

When I was a youth, the Argentinian Mirage jets with Exocet missiles were all the rage. Now, its subsonic drone swarms that are taking down all small naval vessels. Your Ukrainian drone probably costs centimes on the 1980s Franc to build compared with the Exocet missile.

"Increasing" is an interesting word choice.

I'd like to propose that we drain all of Sam Altman's blood and then offer to sell it back to him at cost.

Well when you put it that way, he sounds old! BTW Francis Bean Cobain has married twice, divorced once, and popped out a sprog. Kurt Cobain missed out on raising his own kid and meeting his grand children. What a waste, but drugs can mess you up like That.

Russia has the world's largest amount of oil, gas, nukes and land. We acquired all 4 by entirely peaceful & anti imperialistic means. Russia is an entirely reactive country that has no agency despite these massive advantages.

was going house shopping for someone else and we ran across a house in Ottawa that had four (at least) rifle cases in the basement storage area. I would have been surprised to see one or two, but four? Not so much, gun fans always have more than one could possibly "need"

Ukraine's MFA responds to new Russian threats.

ah, if only there was a extremely skilled international system backed by US funding that could address this

🇺🇦🇷🇺 So you're telling me that the road from occupied Crimea through occupied Melitopol and Mariupol to Russia has at any given time UA drones scanning for targets, UA drones hitting the targets, and UA drones doing BDA of these targets. Yeah, I know what this leads to.

AI is another run at creating a monopoly shakedown by current Tech Monopolists. It’s rent seeking at best and sabotaging alternatives at worst

“it just assissts you in becoming less capable as a human. They brag about being useless without a computer holding their hands.” YES

Kaja Kallas Russia hit a dead-end on the battlefield, so it terrorizes Ukraine with deliberate strikes on city centres. These are abhorrent acts of terror meant to kill as many civilians as possible. (1/2)

Lots of science-related news stories lately. Particularly thinking of the broad spectrum between Artemis II, Ebola, and the Garden Grove chemical plant crisis. It’s almost as if science is important and we should be producing more scientists. (And related social scientists and humanists)

Oh look a horsey faced Brit. With DJT hair. Very on brand for Reform.

Girkin is self serving here, but even a blind squirrel can find a nut once in a while.

"Nice to meet you. Name's Elbridge Colby." "Ah, comme le fromage ?"

"seething mass of personal grudges and inferiority complexes" is the skeleton key to half the Trump admin

LOL!

I'd turn this around a bit and point out that, for all Trump's obvious idiocy, this war marks the moment when Americans whether Dem or GOP are coming to terms with how the age of limited warfare where great powers can quickly roll over an even half-functional adversary is coming to an end

This confirms my categorization of Israel as a pro-Russian state. Russia is the icon of a state that violates all international laws, rules, morals and ethics. Israel are bragging about their own authoritarian behavior, knowing that Trump loves this, just as he loves Putin.

The San Diego shooting is a reminder that underage mass shooters typically get their guns from parents. But there's only been two cases where the parents were charged with homicide. I think prosecutors should charge more. Here's why. www.salon.com/2026/05/22/w...

"We have to recognise the plain fact that the vast number of cats who purchase our newspaper are based in the capital and from a fairly affluent background. Accuracy is important, I grant you, but if we print the more working class, provincial 'meow' we risk alienating our core cat demographic."

The next Dem President needs to just wipe this absurdity away. "Some random district court judge in Texas gets to act like a tyrannical king" is neither how the actual Constitution works nor a sensible common-sense adaptation of the Constitution's failings.

Guys I'm not an illegal stock manipulator and don't know if this would actually work. I suspect if it actually worked it would require enormous amounts of deployable capital and be super risky which would possibly explain why Musk acts like he's financially precarious despite being super rich!

this did not work out well for him, as you might guess from that death date.

Chris Rufo is working to create a higher education system purged of African Americans. Worthless white solidarity keeps people from seeing this.

Now more than ever, check out a physical novel from your public library and read it in long, big gulps. It's like meditating. It's like putting your bare feet on the grass. It will help heal you.

LOL —

Knock me over with a feather. It turns out that you can learn a lot from history. This is the umpteenth time the USAF and American politicians have failed to learn from the Strategic bombing survey of WWII

Saw someone respond to the idea of DC statehood with “so should every major city be its own state?” and yeah don’t threaten me with a good time.

Trump and Musk’s profoundly evil decision to cut off U.S. aid is now making an Ebola outbreak in the DRC much worse. The world will live to regret the cruelty and stupidity of Trump, Musk, their flunkies, and the scumbags and fools in the U.S. who voted them in.

ok what’s the sequel tagline for BAY OF PIGS II:

Wow, I feel this.

The fact that there’s an entire genre of news around “when will Trump’s base leave him” despite the fact he’s historically unpopular only demonstrates how much more that particular base is considered vs everyone else.

People will point out that Trump is doing this with a fraction of the GOP which is a fraction of the electorate but it’s also the fraction we privilege above all others in our politics by design and culture.

look trump can have his government sign any docs he wants; either the next democratic government throws all the corrupt motherfuckers in jail and seizes all their assets, or it's pointless anyway.

👇🎯 Obviously not the most important thing given <gestures at the lawless authoritarianism>, but it’s sad & true & even many of us who live & breathe ⚽️ are not remotely excited the way we were in 1994, let alone the way we usually are before World Cups.

LOL! I know right? Labor is an input too! You can’t just run Capitalism with only Capital. You also need materials and people who can both make & buy stuff

*Minnesota intensifies*

Very probably the best photo I've ever taken of a 16th Century dovecote with a cow standing in front of it, surrounded by buttercups, looking like she has just dropped a debut album she is thoroughly proud of.

We are a shithole country.