Arches National Park by Elliot McGucken

I still can’t believe this Great Blue Heron let me witness this tonight. Those wild feathers are breeding plumes, and seeing them lit softly in the evening shadows felt almost unreal.

DOJ Launches Criminal Investigation Into All Women

There are no adults in the White House.

At the time I posted this, I searched the websites of six major legacy media organizations in the US—not a one reported it. However, it's front page news around the world outside the US.

I predict not long after Trump leaves office, the NYT and others will write articles rehabilitating the reputations of Rubio, Vance et al and how really behind the scenes they stood up to Trump and spoke truth to power, but had to keep it secret until now.

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

Started watching old episodes of Perry Mason, and looked up a phrase he uses in his objections: irrelevant, incompetent and immaterial. Up popped TV critic Mitchell Hadley's funny piece on the most incompetent TV characters. www.itsabouttv.com/2023/04/inco...

Puddle portal, New Orleans

May 23, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Like most of you, I've felt a freaky connection to Colbert since he spitroasted W. at the Correspondents Dinner. People forget that after Bush won in 2004, there was a pall that was nowhere as bad as the elite cowardice of 2025, but the closest thing of my lifetime. He took a sledgehammer to that.

Tagging @emptywheel.bsky.social, whose been following similar cases, to make sure she knows about this one.

🔥 SPRINGSTEEN: "I’m here to support Stephen Colbert, the first guy who lost his show because a president can't take a joke - and the Ellisons feel they need to kiss his ass… small-minded people with no idea what freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about." 🇺🇸

GIFT LINK NYT 5/11/24: www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/u...

A secretive reputation management firm was tasked with downplaying a client’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein. It didn’t work.

“The two Republican delegates spent 13 minutes accusing Wu, who is originally from China, of being a spy for the Chinese Communist Party, pointing out things like his use of a Mac computer instead of a PC like most delegates. They also played a clip of his voice and mocked his accent.”

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

Imagine that. The lawless criminal and pathological liar was lying.

This is excellent. www.google.com/search?q=the...

Former FBI agent Dan Brunner: From what we saw, the suspect wasn’t even close to breaching security. He still would have had to go down two flights of stairs and get through additional secured doors. He didn’t even reach the magnetometers before being stopped.

Here they are: our two top Iran negotiators. No diplomatic experience. In way over their head. Both with massive financial conflicts of interest, their fortunes tied to the Middle East dictators that make them rich. What a disaster.

Zero. Sympathy. They did this to themselves. Oh, and also? There definitely is an easy answer.

Warsh hearing so far has been kind of frustrating. No one has asked the questions that seem most relevant to me: 1) is Trump's criminal investigation into Powell appropriate? 2) what would you do if Trump threatened retribution against you if he didn't like your actions/Fed policy decisions?

Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

Aladdin parks like an idiot.

amazing bird!

Near the end of Fairyland Loop Trail yesterday, a window in the rock on the rim yielded a view of where we had hiked earlier in the canyon below. Bryce Canyon National Park #nationalparks #hiking #trails #canyons #utah #brycecanyon #hoodoos #windows

Picture of the century. 😍 📷 credit: Science Tube

Not once in this story does @politico.com mention that US factories employ ~89,000 fewer employees than a year ago. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Scotland temporarily ran entirely on wind power as turbines generated over 200 percent of national electricity demand.

Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something. For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.

Our country’s news organizations can no longer afford to beat around the bush about this. An entire civilization lies in the balance. presswatchers.org/2026/04/ackn...

The White House Correspondents Association is planning to "honor" Trump at its dinner three weeks from now. No way. It was egregious before. Now it's obscene.

Not enough people get this. Gerry Baker does. The civilization that Trump is threatening is our own.

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com

In an age of creeping relativism, a universal moral law still exists. Threatening to end an entire civilization of 90 million people in order to bend a nation’s conduct to your will is grossly morally wrong. It is evil. And we should say this loudly.

Today's as good a day as any to start reforming the US nuclear launch protocols so a US president can't launch a first-strike. For 80 years, the president has been a *check* on the desire of the military to use a nuke. Today, the president is the problem. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/is-trump-a...

Really happy to see that Mayor Mamdani has taken his team's social media skills and used it to publicize what good government looks like. This is good politics and good policy at once.

Kim: Three weeks of the war in Iran could have funded vision, hearing, and dental coverage for every senior in America on Medicare. I mean, it just gives you a sense of the trade-off.

At this point, you don’t even have to look at a calendar. You can tell the day of the week by following the news. Once a fake story about Trump being “close to a deal” drops, you know it’s Sunday and the futures markets are opening soon. When Iran responds and says it’s BS, you know it’s Monday.

This man is still serving in Congress with the support of Mike Johnson.

Jim Acosta on media's reaction to Trump's post: A few courageous news anchors solemnly read the words “Fuckin’ Strait'“ aloud - gasp - in their entirety! So brave! Like Murrow on the rooftops of London. Yeah, no.

Infuriating and disgraceful. Trump and Markwayne Mullin, and for that matter the United States Congress, could stop this at any moment. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...

This is why means testing Social Security is a bad idea. People are not going to support the program if they have to pay into it during their careers, but won't receive any benefits if their decades of outside savings and investing provides them with a healthy income.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

The NYT is becoming a parody of itself.

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes: