Cool, cool...he got bored so he's just mentally gone. I read this type of thing and get so angry. Surprise! This is *work.*

Every single refugee we've let in since December is supposedly fleeing white genocide.

This R2R training is starting to ask for some significant mileage.

Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation. This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome. That’s not a typo.

The president is admitting that it's a partisan event here, so it shouldn't be getting any more federal funding. He can pay for it himself.

“I’m Kid Rock.” “I’m Naomi Wolf.” “I’m Kanye West.” “I’m Matt Taibbi.” “I’m Catturd. Those stories, plus Rob Schneider, tonight on 60 Minutes.”

Trump suggests January 6 was an inside job: "The FBI said, 'Go in, Go in!'" (Trump in fact was president during January 6 and he hand-picked the leader of the FBI.)

especially re: 2, one must ask, in what way is this court majority actually opposed to Plessy v. Ferguson?

here's what i wrote

I still mourn the death of Twitter, where I could keep up on The Horrors, but it was tempered by a robust and hilarious Weird Twitter. Bluesky simply keeps me updated on The Horrors.

Bari doing what she was paid $150 million to do: “new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I've been told to include assertions that are unverified…Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc”

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

Oh my god, look at what I'm getting in the mail today. Couldn't even use the correct honorific. Try Dr. next time, Erika. Also, what the fuck did I do to get on this mailing list?

Another way of saying this is that states are not only permitted to engage in aggressive partisan gerrymandering, but have an unabridgeable constitutional right to do so, and therefore other forms of discrimination become constitutional as long as they can be expressed as partisan gerrymandering

#BREAKING: Over public dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants stay of district court injunction in Alabama redistricting cases, clearing the way for Alabama to use its 2023 map.

I have to write a newsletter for my job (nothing fancy) but someone just told me that they like reading it and that I'm a good writer. Being good at writing is, like, a load-bearing feature of my personality and I really thought I was losing it and it was freaking me out, so that felt nice.

the supposedly "originalist" unitary executive theory has led us to a point where the president is claiming the sovereign authority to force all institutions, public or private, to bend to his will or suffer the consequences www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...

This is Maple. She closes her eyes while enjoying ice cream in order to really savor the moment. Also believes it prevents brain freeze. Just can't prove it yet. 12/10 (TT: maplethechocolatesausage)

This and window screens. My friends my dears my siblings. I know you think we are "overcooled" in the US, and in some places we are. But in the southeast? There is a reason we're rocking on the porch with iced tea and a fan, being outside is like being slapped with a hot wet washcloth.

Moment a meteor creates sonic boom over Massachusetts. Loud it was. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

(This is why masculinity is always in crisis, because it's in a perennial state of needing to be 'proved' through ritualistic patriarchal violence against the abject and effeminised. What is 'manly' is often synonymous with what is reactionary.)

Gorilla Playing Saxophone with Balloons has dropped out of the White House concert

The past was erased, the erasure won’t be forgotten, the Big Lie won’t become the truth. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

It remains baffling to me that we have a clear constitutional requirement that the president can't enrich himself on the job, something we had no problem enforcing strictly for hundreds of years, and then this sweaty conman came by and the nation just sorta shrugged it off.

Democrats self-sabotaged in 2024 when they stopped talking about these guys as the weird perverts and assholes that they are. Most of the country sees people like Stephen Miller and think they're gross monsters. They will always respond well when leaders/institutions that affirm their gut vibes.

my favorite erick erickson moment is when he said that his family refused to eat asian food on the anniversary of pearl harbor to honor the tragedy. a reporter reached out to his mom to confirm whether this was true and she was like “i don’t know what the fuck he is talking about”

a time-honored tradition for key affiliates of disintegrating Nazi regimes

Republicans say this stuff all the time. Robin Vos says things like this in WI. But now it's not just "Democrats' votes shouldn't count." It's also "Democrats shouldn't even get to vote." And yet, somehow, our entire National Conversation™️ is always about how Democrats don't reach out to Real Folkz.

Reporters don't talk enough about how Republicans do not consider Democratic voters to be fully American.

has this story broken through at all? i can’t tell.

I am continually shocked how little Republicans seem to care about Trump’s megalomania. His obsessive need to slap his name and face on everything is so obviously dictatorial and profoundly un-American that you think it might shock a few to their senses - but no, they love it.

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It’s so far beside the point but they’re calling Talarico a vegan because he ate a potato egg and cheese taco, which is not remotely vegan lmao

"No matter what happens, the Texas GOP just shot themselves in the foot and gave away a ton of power because their Cult Daddy ordered it." Great explanation of how Cornyn accumulated that power over time in the Senate and how Paxton will have none of it going in as a junior Senator.

Last weekend I bought myself watercolor paper, watercolors, and a book to teach me how to paint in watercolors...and I haven't even had a chance to crack any of it open yet. Maybe this evening?

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

#1. This is a lie. #2. Lots of dollars don't go to people who are lawfully, correctly, eligible to receive them. This administration wants to increase that total. #3. This admin has gutted professional anti-fraud tools (e.g. Inspectors Generals) while fueling massive fraud by cronies.

I know it's out of the news cycle but this is a good write-up from @astrobites.bsky.social about what the National Science Board is (was) and why firing them is very bad. astrobites.org/2026/05/26/s...

"Milky Way" (c) constance lee menefee ... "pointing into infinitude seeing only our own infant hunger fulfilled."

After winning a huge settlement with opioid manufacturers, Cherokee Nation is spending that money on addiction treatment. A new treatment center will use traditional cultural practices to help citizens get into recovery. www.kosu.org/cherokee-nat...

I missed April because April was busy and horrible for a few reasons, but for May I wrote about the thing that happened in April that was not horrible. www.ad-astra-per-esquire.com/ad-astra-blo...

Every time I come back from a little trip I never think, “gosh I feel so refreshed.” Instead I think, “I need to find some way to MOVE AWAY from New York.”

gotta love those free markets

Now we're down to three. Brooke Rollins, Linda McMahon and Kelly Loeffler -- soon one of you Trump Cabinet lackeys will be the LAST WOMAN STANDING

“Oooh Rumpelsmoothskin” has to be one of the greatest lines in the history of verse, props to Sir Mix-a-Lot

Terry Pratchett bears witness at the American Visionary Art Museum.

I applied for a couple of jobs recently that I am very qualified for but didn‘t get an offer for either and…I’m sad about it 😞

Important question: If they tried US Taskmaster again and Jason Mantzoukas is the Taskmaster, who would his Alex be?