Rep. Jamie Raskin introduced new anti-corruption legislation that aims to combat the kind of "self-enrichment" he and other Dems say is happening in the White House. @rieckhoff.bsky.social, @stuartpstevens.bsky.social and @ninaturner.bsky.social join Katy Tur to discuss. www.ms.now/katy-tur/wat...

"If she has her own house, what will she need me for?" I don't know, dude, maybe be cool and fun to be around and be happy for her success instead being whiny little sad-ass troll about it? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Don’t work for DOJ, kids

Jared & Ivanka vs. Kirk & Shahna Who wore it better? @gottalaff.bsky.social @salgentile.bsky.social @thefarce.org

Rawbraining it

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So unsurprising, I’d barely call it news. Kauffman is a racist cretin. indepthnh.org/2026/05/12/n...

Ooh this is extremely interesting

One time I had a hearing where a parole officer claimed my client was looking at “gang-related content,” but it was just juggalo videos on YouTube. It turned out the chairman of the parole board was an ICP fan, so he was sympathetic.

TOM BOMBADIL, TECH SUPPORTE: Hey dol, merry dol! Floweres and starres and rayne! Turne off your machyne and wayte, then turne it on agayne!

It is foolish to argue or act like fathers, parents, or the nuclear family are silver bullets we can use against child abuse, domestic violence, and other familial threats. Rather than silver bullets against abuse, they are most often the perpetrators.

9th Cir. spends 77 pages unravelling some jury shenanigans, if that's your thing. I will just leave you with this note from the juror that kicked off the whole thing. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

NYT reports DOJ is considering settling Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS. As I wrote in my Substack, this is a straightforward scam https://harrylitman.substack.com/p/a-judge-calls-out-trumps-self-dealing

it's going to be a tough negotiation between two of Trump's cronies over how many billions of tax payer dollars to give Trump.

Stumbled across this picture I took on my computer, reminded myself of the time we just pulled the ripcord, drove halfway across the country to Mountain Home, Arkansas, and saw a total eclipse. Absolutely worth it, highly recommend.

There’s no war here! Calling it a war is just a convenient way to pretend both sides carried the same weight! There is an imbalance. Period. You don’t heal imbalance by denying it ever existed! Call it what it is or nothing changes! #SheShed #SpeakTheTruth #WomensRightsMatter

Winding down after a really enjoyable Specification By Example workshop. The difference between corporate training and self-funding groups? I always offer to stick around for questions after. Self-funding: 9/13 stayed Corporate: "Yeah, bye then"

Let this radicalize you

Pay attention!

24 sources told The Atlantic that Kash Patel’s heavy drinking impeded his ability to do his job. He denied it. He also told provable lies during this hearing. And at the end, he refused to acknowledge that is a crime to lie to Congress. It is.

When you have a balcony and a curious cat.

Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation

Iran is, objectively, doing well in the war, considering that the US has a much more powerful military and bigger economy. That's true no matter what media says. Bullying them into lying won't fix it. "Reality," wrote Philip K. Dick, "is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."

Tony Schwartz wrote it. He regretted it.

Wow!

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.

Now THAT's a Good Boy! Or girl. Mooch and I need to visit Hollywood.

If @willbunch.bsky.social wrote it, you should read it.©

In both cases, it's the same playbook - we're the "good guys," they're uncivilized brutes, attacking the credibility of the messengers (in both cases, the "New York Times"!) And a studied refusal to admit that sexual violence is unfortunately common in conflict zones, and no community is above it.

DOJ has subpoenaed WSJ for its sources on the story about the warnings Dan Caine gave Trump before he ignored all those warnings and started a war anyway. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

The Trump admin keeps grifting. When will Americans push back? "President Trump said that his handpicked contractor would charge only $1.8 million to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and paint it blue. The actual cost is now more than seven times that." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u...

🇺🇸 A hotel owner in Gatlinburg, Tennessee called 911 to report someone locked in the bathroom… It was a black bear 😂

Now do Trump money laundering.

Every time Trump pushes his fascist loyalty schtick I think of this perfect Mark Twain quote:. Excerpt: “To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags--this is loyalty to unreason.” Indeed.

When people ask "If it was really rape, why didn't they report it to the police?" I reach into my file of stories like this one and I keep throwing them until that person stops. sfist.com/2026/05/11/s...

special shout out to my editor rory who was willing to drop what he was doing in a monday morning to edit an emergency minisode for me so i could be the first one to tell you about this very funny turn of events 🥰

Ouch: “Vivek Ramaswamy’s Republican primary opponent Casey Putsch surprisingly endorsed the Democratic nominee for OH Gov Amy Acton after losing the primary to Vivek last week: “She is garbage. But I’d rather have a pile of garbage than the hell that is Vivek.”

I’m not saying the person on the right deserves the same fate as the person on the left, but maybe you are?

It’s cool how the most powerful person in the country is a decomposing 79-year-old

My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com

It only takes an individual idiot To create problems That gangs of geniuses can’t fix

If it WERE possible to create intelligence by feeding giant piles of text into a linear algebra woodchipper (it's not) the decision to use, as a corpus, "the internet" would be frankly insane

@chrislhayes.bsky.social ICYMI, a piece that reminded me of Twilight Of The Elites, for obvious reasons. "a world with universal basic income is more meritocratic than a world without one" www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-d...

"There is a big difference between giving credit, taking credit and demanding gratitude..." www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com