Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

Just to be clear...

Trump is bragging again about acing a cognitive test. Fortunately for him, they removed the Armenia v Albania screen

Nancy Mace just discovered MAGA is misogynistic. Next people who are not White might also notice another conspicuous pattern. Who knows where this leads?

The drive to strip birthright citizenship is much more than one of Trump's anti-immigrant antics--its an attack on the Constitution and all of its protections

Smells like Lame Duck Flambé for Thanksgiving!

Trump: the Other White Meat

Watch out, everyone—a narcissist is never so dangerous than when he faces rejection

Who are you going to believe: Kristi Noem, puppy killer, or your own eyes

Rarely does photojournalism capture the realities of the front lines in urban warfare so vividly! This has Pulitzer written all over it!

Reminder that most of our political rules & institutions are purely extra-constitutional norms, held together by shared beliefs in democracy & a lot of duct tape, & we’re all out of shared norms & have shredded our last rolls of tape. “Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections”

Batman on METV: Egghead, played by Vincent Price, takes over Gotham City and fires everyone competent, and bans the dynamic duo—prophetic?

Jane Goodall was actually the only one keeping the apes in control. Now there's a power vacuum

A beautiful person has left us--we were elevated as a species for having her as a member www.lemonde.fr/en/obituarie...

AP: “On Sunday, federal agents marched along Michigan Avenue and the Chicago River, attracting attention from shoppers and families dining at sidewalk cafes. Many pulled out cameras to record.” If it weren’t tragic, it would be hilarious

I smell a plot. Prison populations have been dropping for a decade GEO and CoreCivic have unused capacity in their private prisons If we start putting people in prison for lying to Congress the cells will be full fast Trump’s entire first administration would be eligible

Eat, drink and be merry For tomorrow will bring More chaos and cruelty Let loose on the World

Trump before the UN: “I’m really good at this stuff,” Mr. Trump said. “Your countries are going to hell.” Which Roman Emperor does Trump most resemble? A. Caligula B. Commodus C. Nero D. Elagabalus

The lack of a healthy public sphere means most of the public has little idea how the US economy is structured--and that to pull the leg out of this part of the labor market can break the stool

The word of the day is ‘dystopia’

The EvanMiya Blog blog.evanmiya.com?r=1yiun3&utm...

apnews.com/live/donald-... Must be the trans kids fault

Star Trek is about anti-vaxers—here is the RFK Jr character

“Thy hand great Dulness! lets the curtain fall,
And universal Darkness covers all."

“Thy hand great Dulness! lets the curtain fall,
And universal Darkness covers all.

Judge rules Trump illegally deployed National Guard to L.A. A simple flaw in the Courts as a practical way to keep the Constitution intact is the pace at which damage can be done compared to the glacial tempo of the Courts

America: a Fox “security expert” says Mass “creates safety challenges rarely seen in public schools” and must be altered Land of the free, home of the brave

Disasters and the Gulf Coast, 20 Years after Hurricane Katrina www.urban.org/stories/disa... What are we doing to improve this situation? We need action, and we are getting disinvestment in our collective capacity to respond to collective challenges

Justice should be a practice, not an application of theory

A considerable source of populist anger came as backlash to authorities policing speech to advance an ideological agenda The Trump Administration is announcing that it is the official policy of the US that the word ‘gender’ should not be used in international documents #gender

Basic human decency shouldn't be "political."

The sociopath really has no concern for the consequences of actions--who cares if the little girls didn't get a warning in time? He scored political points in the budget process!

Putin's spokesperson says Trump is all hat and no cowboy

The dismantling and politicization of the administrative state in the US is a foolish error with mounting costs overtime

The Sun Dog

Suspect: Sprout Wanted on suspicion of getting on the kitchen table and eating an entire loaf of fresh, homemade bread

www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/05... I would seriously like to know if RFK, the Lessor, or anyone in his orbit, really understands what meta-analysis is, how it works methodologically, and why dozens of consistent such studies make for really strong evidence for a conclusion

Black Box Warning: Beware any sentence that begins with the proper noun "The Democrats." What follows is almost always based on a figurative position that there is some central entity with a unified will that makes univocal decisions. That is the authoritarian model.

Long Live Pope Leo XIV!

NYT gets it dead wrong in the lede: the President of Harvard acknowledges real problems, and takes responsibility to change—the right response when an institution loses its way—honest and responsible action are the antithesis of Trump, not agreement with him

wapo.st/3EM3SCa “Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal Darkness buries all” Alexander Pope

For the record, I’m a 30 dolls Christmas kind of guy

POTUS is using its powers to jawbone vendors away from sharing information with consumers about how much the administration’s policy cost—used to be these powers were used to help consumers get information, not to supress it

There is a sense in which the Trump Administration puts the US back on the moral plane it was in under Dred Scott--some persons born here are stateless, and may be repatriated to a place they have never visited

Breaking: The conclave to pick the next Pope is scheduled to begin May 7. On the delay a Vatican spokesperson noted: “We couldn’t sequester them before the running of the Kentucky Derby, the Cardinals love to play the ponies.”

U.S.-citizen pediatric cancer patients are getting deported, 401k's have plummeted, Head Start/school lunches/anti-lead-poisoning programs are getting defunded, global allies hate us, Pentagon chief is leaking war plans But at least Trump is pumping up a fake holiday that comes in October

Weak Donald Trump, who was going to end the Ukraine War immediately, is pouting because is buddy Putin continues to bomb civilian targets, as if Putin listens to Trump instead of the other way around. Weak, Weak, weak

"Trump says the U.S. and China are 'actively' discussing tariffs. Beijing says that's false" Trump is weak and now must resort to fiction to pretend his incompetence isn't real