Last Night’s Guardian Sunset in Cleveland, Ohio

From 2023, based on actual textbooks:

"The fact that almost EVERY former confederate state is moving to completely eliminate Black representatives almost immediately after the SCOTUS decision should be more than enough proof that voting rights still need protection and racism is far from gone in this country." @blkprofcct.bsky.social

There is some irony in President Trump, our modern-day Narcissus, ordering the repainting of the bottom of the Reflecting Pool.

The recession indicator is here and its red (The New York Times and Bloomberg will ignore because their primary source - Doug Holtz Eakin, MAGA economist hasn't declared one yet)

IRAN AND THE US NOWHERE NEAR AGREEMENT ON EVEN THE BASICS The Americans are insisting on transfer of Iran’s HEU stockpile and they won’t agree. Russia has offered to take it (which is what happened last time). Iran’s refusing. The most Iran will concede is mutual reopening of the straits and

Union Canal, Edinburgh…

Am I the only one still left wondering where in the hell are the pilots that the MAGA regime supposedly rescued? Or was that staged too? Surely they would’ve paraded them around and sent them on Fox by now.

This guy nails it. 🎯

AI is the most broadly hated thing in the last century, polling supports this. Anyone who doesn't realize it, is in an echo chamber.

farmers bank by louis sullivan, west james street, columbus, wisconsin, 1977

Bari Weiss platforms a brutal murderer with international warrants for his arrest. What great judgment Ellison bought for $150 million.

So essentially a request for a complete surrender by Trump, which is in no way outside the realm of possibility because he can always just declare victory and the mouth breathers who watch Fox will believe it.

As an aspiration, it’s grotesque; as an actual take on US History, it could only be achieved by a midwit Ivy League student who knew they had a cushy job waiting for them after graduation.

“The biggest story in the country right now is the failing health of the President of the United States - not just his mental impairment, narcissistic personality and decades of substance abuse, but his rapidly deteriorating, physical health.” open.substack.com/pub/noelcasl...

And paying income taxes. Thats the entire game these assholes play - they want all the benefits of nyc without paying for the infrastructure, so they gamify their lives to declare themselves “nonresidents”. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

I'm not an economist but if these wealthy ppl do sell these 2nd homes due to their outrage over the tax, won't these homes become someone else's 1st homes, who will then be tipping servers, patronizing nail salons, and spending $ in the city year round?

I’m willing to compromise. The retirement age could be set at 70.

It’s an idea that I would normally be congenitally opposed to as a nakedly political intervention into the courts, but in this case it’s responding to a nakedly political intervention /by/ the courts, so there’s no presumption of legitimacy here.

lmao this is some grade a excellent ratfucking and they should 100% do it.

Let’s clarify this at the beginning. His remark are coming from position of distress and weakness. The humiliating May 9 parade and more importantly the reasons, which led to it, left a serious mark on him. You cannot overstate the importance the May 9 holds for Putin.

2000 Flushes-ass pool

When you see clips of people celebrating in Hungary after corrupt Orban is gone, realize that Trump, Vance and Rubio did everything they could to keep those celebrations from happening so Putin’s puppet could remain in power.

Banksy's latest statue is being referred to as "Blind Patriotism". I prefer "Sticking to our Red Lines".

———— “More than $3bn poured into global ETFs linked to renewable energy in April…the biggest monthly net inflows since January 2021. One analyst called it ‘an energy security trade — investors are pricing the cost of relying on imported fuels in a world that keeps springing geopolitical surprises.’”

Number of tankers that have made it through the Strait since Wednesday: Zero. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/w...

Alabama, from mineral deposits through agriculture and slavery to modern voting. Understanding how this sort of thing happens and why it matters is a basic test a lot of people are failing while they argue teaching history is unimportant

Hungary is having a blast; the quality of life has improved across the nation since Orban was cast away into the dark forest away from human civilization.

ME: what is an IV for ROMAN: yes

Trump thinks we were on the wrong side in both the Civil War and World War II.

This regime comes up with terrible things to do that I’d never even thought about.

When I first visited Café Calidá in Humboldt Park, I was immediately fascinated by the streetscape as seen through their glass block windows. I ended up taking a bunch of photos through the glass. I'm glad I wasn't the only one: I found this @yodiegoyo.bsky.social print at Buddy earlier this week.

The U.S. has spent billions to lose a war that enriches its oligarchs, impoverishes the citizenry, sabotages its alliances, and strengthens its enemies. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power. snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpo...

I loved seeing the kids start to smile when they see they're moving MPs to cry--that & min 0.21, when the camera zooms in on glasses guy weeping. Let us see that we have to fight for nothing less than a second Reconstruction, with the work, sacrifice and real risk required against our evils

WHITE kids should do it too.

They banned critical race theory so no one would have the vocabulary to discuss what’s currently happening in this country.

But I was self taught and had lousy technique. He asked me what kind of music I liked to play. I said ragtime. With disdain in his voice, he replied: "popular music." "Maybe in the 19th century," I answered. My mom was furious with me. I'm still not sorry. He was a pompous jackass.

Prime Minister Péter Magyar inaugural speech: "The psyche of the whole country was poisoned by politics that was artificially inciting hatred. The Hungarian state is not allowed to do anything like this ever again... This era is, once and for all, finished."

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

Abdul el-Sayed, if elected, would automatically be the best senator in the country foreign policy because he's on the record for cutting military assistance off to Israel, Egypt the UAE and India

This, the US Supreme Court has explained to us, is what it looks like to finally live in a land free of racial discrimination. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u... South Carolina is 26% black. Louisiana is 33%. Mississippi is 37%.

Also it’s just incredible that Rubio and his team sense an opening for them to take over after Trump and are playing corporate centrists for all their worth and these fucking assholes are lining up to take the bait and launder this fucking piece of shit. Detestable. Just detestable.

there's no marcomentum, stop trying to make marcomentum happen.

Right outside the kitchen door:

Today is Victory Day in Russia and Vladimir Putin is suffering from a bunch of problems that are all of his own making—including canceled or severely scaled-back Victory Day celebrations. deconstructingkremlinpropaganda.substack.com/p/russias-wo...

If nothing else, I'd like to see some changes for the Virginia Supreme Court justices this year. Cut their staffing budget, reallocate their parking spots, move them all to the aluminum health insurance plan. Appoint someone to do a thorough audit of their expense reports.

No, it's absolutely critical we hold the line on this. The symbolism of destroying the ballroom is enormous. It's will send a powerful visual symbol that the Trump era is over just like when we blew this up in 1945.

Yes… And while you’re at it, nationalize every Trump golf property and turn it into a windfarm.

Excellent analysis of the content of Trump’s feed. But this “Trump may therefore go to X to get material…” points to the real gap in our knowledge of this extremely important process. Who and how is this info getting to him and who and how posts all night, as his account regularly does?