The Good Reading Comprehension Website (tm) is pissed off in the QTs because they assumed from the headline that this was an article about how cattle ranching is good, instead of instantly clocking it as the NYT’s 8163rd hagiography of Deep Springs, a college with more articles about it than alumni.

The Colorado Democratic Party censured Gov. Jared Polis for his commutation of Tina Peters in a vote of ~200 state committee members tonight. A resolution declaring Polis "materially harmed" the party and barring him from formal participation in party events was adopted with 89.8% support.

eventually we’re going to acknowledge that Burrito Taxi discourse is not a subspecies of Treats Discourse but instead belongs to the Gambling On Your Phone clade

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://bit.ly/44aNdkq

No better way to protest our Entertainment President than by ensuring his events are busts. And the best part is, by driving jet fuel prices through the roof, no one's done more to make that bust happen than the big man himself

A perennial Q (for Biden and Trump recently) has been: Why don't voters care about the stock market going up? And the obv reason for me is that half of DJIA stories are "Widgetco stock jumps after company feeds 2000 employees to wild boars"

Unaccounted for in all of this is the "women's work" that few sources took notice of at all.

Peasants, when they weren't working for the lord, were doing subsistence farming. When they weren't doing subsistence farming, they were engaged in domestic maintenance that could take days, where today such a problem could be resolved in minutes.

Feast days were not leisure days. Your goat needs milking as a matter of health and safety, and the goat does not particularly care if it's the feast day of St. Boniface

The person who originated this claim (Gregory Clark, 1986) walked it back when it was revealed that he came to this conclusion was because he was uncritically reading 13th century manorial records What those record actually reflected was labor *owed to the lord*, not the peasant's total labor

"We could confiscate 90% of your wealth and you would not experience a material change in your life."

Interesting that the Trump administration is laying down a marker that a military attack on an unarmed craft can be the basis for prosecuting senior government officials who supervised the attack in home countries of the vehicles' occupants.

Legitimately crying at how funny this is. I am EXTREMELY excited about the possibility that Shaq and Chuck are about to learn about I Think You Should Leave. I would pay $1,000 dollars to watch them watch "Coffin Flop" live.

Fucking terrible idea, we need to do everything we can to undermine the idea that people shouldn't pay taxes. Taxes are not a punishment, taxes are how we contribute to the collective welfare of society.

Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito

I feel like I hated this style even before ChatGPT saturated it. It was the style of salesman and hucksters. It is summarizing facts in the tone that a fitness influencer would use to sell you branded supplements.

I love it when media people are so busy kissing trump’s ass they accidentally say something they’re not supposed to bsky.app/profile/lemi...

Not only is Trump the most corrupt president in U.S. history, you could make a persuasive case that about a dozen things he has done this term would earn him that title even if he’d done nothing else. And we’ve learned about two of those things just in the past week.

Cryptocurrency’s mere existence makes this kind of crime way more viable. Every new data center is poisoning us to enable this.

NEW: Months before the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund was announced, Ed Martin predicted Capitol rioters would get millions, even if it took until 2028, two people told NBC News.

The failure of Trump’s 2020 election subversion plot turned in part on the willingness of a small group of Republican officials to defy him — almost all of whom have since been purged from power.

when you're depressed, you feel better about the state of the world being bad. the outside environment around you looks and feels like you do inside. it makes you feel less exceptional when other people "don't have it together." there's something really seductive about that, too seductive

All of you who breathlessly warn people that once It Happens fascism will take it’s terrifying final form under the brilliant and blisteringly competent JD Vance, take a look and listen to the actual JD Vance just once, ever, please.

One instance of a broader problem that style markers that used to mean something now mean nothing. A citation used to suggest that the author read the cited work. A number used to imply that some measurement was carried out. Headers and sections and highlights used to indicate some level of planning

Arguably the most slam-dunk, lights-out, game over case against Trump was his attempt to steal the 2020 election in Georgia. The Republican most responsible for standing up to Trump to stop the steal just got crushed in the GOP primary for governor.

we remain shackled to the corpse of progressive era reform where to counter corrupt spoils we made everything elected but now all the mediating institutions that kept those offices bound together in something like order are dead or dying and we're just left with the rot

the bargain where you get sane governance on local shit in blue cities with cultural amenities and low housing prices and taxes, while in exchange you mostly ignore the hooting morons who think algebra is woke in state politics was always unstable, and it's going to fall apart real fast.

Rest in peace Erykah Caldwell Another trans sister of ours who was fatally stabbed and taken before she was supposed to leave this world The tragedies keep happening and it’s really hard to witness nothing changing www.them.us/story/trans-...

Exquisite

69 Love Songs “will remain underrated until it’s consistently mentioned in the same breaths as Pet Sounds and The White Album” www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

This is peak mid 20th century CIA-style work www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

man these people are such whiny babies

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate advances bill aimed at ending Iran war after GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy, defeated in primary, switches to support it.

They're going to make it so expensive to use the no-AI versions of stuff aren't they

Just incredible. Any theoretical charges—there’s no indication there were any—would fall outside the scope of presidential immunity for official acts. Fascinating that Trump felt the need to pursue this. He seems to have found a way around the likely legal rule that a president can’t pardon himself.

incidentally, a problem I have not yet seen covered - free to a good home! - is that AP plays a pillar role in election calling in the United States and their financial condition is such that they will be stretched to do this this November and may not exist in anything like today's form by 2028

shoutout to jared polis

I was noodling on the idea earlier of LLMs being a bit like Aristotle in post-Roman europe, a resource regarded as dispositive and infallable that is a product of a frozen moment in the past and which structurally hinders the creation of new knowledge of the world

He wants the ballroom for vanity (and because he enjoys breaking things), but his core interest is a bunker from which he cannot be dislodged in January 2029 without inflicting substantial casualties on government forces that continue to honor their oath to the U.S. Constitution.

They left out admin keys for govcloud accounts for 6 months in a public github repo in a file called importantAWStokens. Any script kiddie could have compromised critical government systems with that. Who knows how many state actors did so. gizmodo.com/the-worst-le...

And there we were all making fun of that Bourne film where Julia Stiles is all "double click on the folder that says CIA BLACK SITE" gizmodo.com/the-worst-le...

I mean TN state leaders are all insane Republicans who hate Memphis so

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In November I broke this story about Andrew Paul Johnson, a pardoned J6er who molested children and used the promise of reparations to bribe his victims silence.

Fuhrman was a dirty, racist cop. But people can surprise you. In the early 2000s he went to Oklahoma to interview cops and prosecutors for a book celebrating the death penalty. He was so appalled at what he saw that he changed his mind. He wrote a book condemning the death penalty instead.

NIXON: That Grogu is a real shifty [expletive], but goddamnit does he get results. EHRLICHMAN: Scared the hell out of the Cambodians, too. NIXON: That’s what we needed over there. Someone with some [expletive] guts. HALDEMAN: [inaudible] NIXON: He’s one of the good ones, Bob.

It should be said loud and clear that this isn’t just illegal in all the usual ways. It is “illegal and void” by Section 4 of the 14th Amendment. We’re going to take the money back. And any financial institution that touches it should be on notice that will be treated as conscious money laundering.

We should start accepting resumes now for all the prosecutors we'll need to hire in 2029