Project 2025 in action

When all is said and done, someone needs to hand Pulitzers, or Nobels, or hell, Tony Awards, to @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @atrupar.com for "special services rendered." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Yesterday's CPI report found inflation is now wiping out wage gains. Today's PPI report confirms that wholesale inflation has seen its highest annual increase in four years. Food, gas, and shelter costs are skyrocketing, fueled by one man's unilateral decision to go to war.

“In the coming weeks, hantavirus is likely to fade from the media and the public eye. But the gaps this outbreak revealed in our ability to respond, and our immense susceptibility to a virus more capable and catastrophic, will remain.” www.statnews.com/2026/05/13/h... via @statnews.com

And the tech companies wonder why people hate them so much.

Today in downtown Williamsburg, VA today where a guy wearing militia-ish gear with a confederate flag on it spent a couple of hours with a microphone and a similarly clad entourage of photographers screamed about how we don’t have 2nd amendment rights and women are getting raped by Muslims.

The DOJ is reportedly considering dropping any audits of Trump, his family, or his businesses as part of a potential settlement of his bogus lawsuit against the IRS. That’s on top of the $10 billion in damages he wants. This is corruption on steroids — and taxpayers will pay the price.

I wish someone would corner these chuds on "only when the sun shines or the wind blows." It's spectacularly embarrassing that the ENERGY secretary doesn't know how storage batteries work.

This needs to happen. Otherwise it will become a forgotten blip among the other ridiculous things he says.

I saw these headlines and thought "oh well some jerk wrote a form letter to a kid's letter that's dumb" but no it appears that one of the worst people in Congress took time out of her day to talk shit to a 10 y/o and tell him he should be more worried about debt and school propaganda than climate

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.

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

Rest in peace to Jason Collins, an unthinkably brave person and incredible leader for the LGBT community. Over a decade later and his coming out column is still an astonishing piece of writing. Wish the sport had caught up more and that he could have lived to see it.

He is absolutely the biggest PoS

virgnia foxx is one of those low key members who has been abjectly horrible her entire time in office. a total degenerate.

This makes me so happy

Alabama asked the Supreme Court for permission to abandon court-ordered maps and go back to using ones the Court ruled were in violation of the Voting Rights Act, just three years ago, in the wake of Callais. Today, the Supreme Court said yes. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

I wish I didn’t know as much about the end of Reconstruction as I do. If you understood what is being unleashed now, how it will touch every aspect of our civic life, and how difficult it will be to undo it, you wouldn’t be able to think about anything else.

Hassett, translated: Now that we have fewer immigrants, we have fewer jobs. When we said that immigrants were taking your jobs, it's because we were lying that there's a fixed pool of jobs. You rubes fell for the lump of labor fallacy.

Nothing says “restoring trust in public health” more than having a right-wing economist who has never practiced medicine in charge of the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control. You can really tell he has literally never treated a single patient or a single infectious disease.

Meawhile, they're yanking it left and right

JFC.

Trump hired a company that had previously worked on his private golf club for this job repainting the Reflecting Pool in DC. The company was given a no-bid contract that, according to documents reviewed by the New York Times, included a 20 percent profit margin Remember DOGE?

The US or any other country that ends gasoline and diesel taxes won’t make much of a dent in the war-caused economic disruption, but will lose revenue and incentivize more fossil fuel use, then find it politically very difficult to reinstate those taxes after the Iran war and associated damage end.

1/ Hantavirus update as of 12pm PDT May 11: 18 passengers connected to the cruise outbreak safely arrived in the United States overnight after disembarking in Spain. Of those, 16 are now in Nebraska and 2 were transferred to Emory in Atlanta for specialized monitoring.

⚠️ HANTAVIRUS UPDATE: WHO changed its classification of high-risk contact to include EVERYONE on board the ship. Previously, it was limited to those with known “prolonged close contact” with an infected person. Additionally, more people from the ship have become symptomatic and/or tested positive.

I appreciated reading this. People are in motion, everywhere. open.substack.com/pub/workingc...

These two things are completely unrelated, so don’t even think of trying to make a connection between them

Another study characterizing viral shedding and viremia in 131 ANDV cases, 2008 to 2022, found "ANDV is present in the blood of infected individuals for up to two weeks before the onset of symptoms and during symptomatic disease" pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... ANDV-positive fluids as % pop:

So hunting season has begun for night shift nurses

As the United States has pulled funding for research programs, Canada is pushing to attract scientists to come north of the border. 🇨🇦💪 www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

“The economic policies we need for an economy centered on people’s needs, capabilities and dignity are pretty obvious, the question is power.” It’s unreal that it took until today for me to meet the one and only @darrickhamilton.bsky.social!

“.. most months it’s the No. 1 consumer of water in the county.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Second

Why did Trump pardon drug trafficker and Honduran president Juan Hernández? According to leaked audio tapes, it was an initial payment in part of a agreement between Trump, Bibi, and others to take down Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum. english.elpais.com/internationa...

A wonderful sentence from this story, describing the video of the man who threw a rock at a seal for no reason getting beat up by a local: "Meanwhile, an unidentified gentleman begins wailing on him."

My latest @nytimes.com oped shows that the White House is dramatically understating the cost of the war in Iran. By my calculations—and I show my work—this war will cost the typical American family thousands, and it could cost them tens of thousands. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/o...

So how is work going?

For anyone who's unfamiliar with The Breakthrough Institute, Michael Shellenberger was one of the two co-founders. You may recall him as one of the dipshits supporting Taibbi in the 'Twitter Files' nonsense.

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

“Despite Fukushima Trump hands nuclear regulation to Silicon Valley *** DOGE takes charge after AI data center cheerleaders *Thiel, Andreessen* lobbied for less caution in permitting new [nuclear] power plants” 3/21/26

I mean if this *is* hell I guess I should be happy because I imagined hell being much worse? 🤪 But this still sucks shit bsky.app/profile/luth...

Yeah, we don’t have hospitals, dentists, or physicians.

Not now, TB www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

“Sorry gas prices are sky high and you’ll never own a home — anyway check out these grainy UFO pics!” Cannot overstate how stupid these people think we are.

I don't wanna ruin anyone's Friday night, but I'd keep an eye on this and maybe refresh on precautions.

Zelensky's decree allowing the Red Square parade is important beyond its entertainment value. It shows Ukraine's military threat was credible enough to Pu that he had to beg Trump to beg Zelensky for a ceasefire. The proof that Ze's power goes beyond coms is in the 1000 POWs who'll go home tomorrow.

POS that he is.

We would be a lot better off as a country at the moment if more of our institutions had said, "Fuck you, make me" over the past year and a half

Tennessee NAACP goes to court to stop "late-decade Congressional redistricting," and the law sure looks to be on their side.