I’m sorry, no. This is not the guy who did the reflecting pool. No. Come on. We’re just putting a hat on a hat here. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

It’s been five years since Alex Jones lost InfoWars to the Sandy Hook families. As the verdict came down, he asked: “Do these people actually believe they’re getting any money?” He hasn't paid them a penny. Well, The Onion is going pay them anyway. The new InfoWars begins July 2nd at 8 p.m. ET.

The claim that "Israel wants to kill its way out of every problem" is the sort of thing that tends to draw a DOJ investigation and the blocking of federal funds when made by campus actors.

"The unpredictable nature of Trump turning on you is what makes it so sad." Half the reason people do so poorly in Chotiner interviews is that they don't stop for a second to consider whether there might be a wee bit of subtext going on.

This piece is another example of how evidentiary standards for covering young people basically don't exist. It's a take on the supposedly widespread and normal use of this language anchored around guesstimates from two (2) people about behavior at a single high school.

there needs to be a coordinated global effort among democracies to destroy this man's financial and social media empires and leave him impoverished and powerless

Kennedy is upset that an anti-vaxx paper has been retracted. Here is the author of that paper.

fully funded in four minutes you all are INCREDIBLE!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!

If Trump actually ends his War on Iran it will be the single best decision he's made in the conflict, regardless of concessions. He disproved a core belief of the Iran Deal critics, that a better outcome existed through threats and force. Catastrophic failure, bombs cannot secure what diplomacy did.

This is why you <all together now> Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

“.. Claims about Hormuz reopening are exactly why we built this: If ships start moving through the Strait with AIS transponders on, you’ll see it in the index — updated every 30 minutes ..” @bloomberg.com

"Let's circle back," they said, ending a meeting on suspending Americans' constitutional rights like any other group of indecisive middle managers www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...

Russian groups are commissioning hate crimes

The mifespristone case shows that the abortion federalism promised by Dobbs was a lie—the goal is to ban abortion everywhere, even if that means forcing pro choice states like New York to enforce abortion bans passed by anti-choice states. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Some of the efforts being made in Belfast right now to protect people, because the government can't or won't, will be familiar to Minnesotans.

Ohio Organizing Collective, the target of the FBI’s intimidation above, was one of the groups that tried to pass a far-reaching constitutional amendment in 2024 to protect voting access. Ohio Republicans illegally blocked the measure from the ballot, and Republican judges let them get away with it

One board member said the FBI approached some without warrants. “They had agents all across the state going to civil rights leaders and community leaders’ doors intimidating them, coming and demanding that they talk about literally anything they would ask.” “Just straight-up intimidation tactics.”

i dont think the us government should be legitimizing and promoting racist pogroms in foreign countries

"Hey, boss, looks like all that child raping isn't too popular?"

The global far right led by highly online white nationalists like Elon Musk has had its Kristallnacht moment, producing images that shock the conscience. How will the world respond?

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

I know we're all used to hearing the quiet part out loud these days but "especially in the minority communities," jeeeezus

The raw milk thing is proof that you can trick conservatives into literally eating shit and liking it bsky.app/profile/prop...

wonderful piece from @clintsmithiii.bsky.social that, among other things, makes abundantly clear that pete hegseth and the trump administration are engaged in a racist purge of black officers under the belief that being black and having "merit" are mutually exclusive.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (remake) announced, coming 2026

I find it curious that Mike Lee is now taking the position that the government should not be weighing in on matters of religious doctrine, despite joining an amicus brief in the Fifth Circuit that urged the court to uphold the Ten Commandments in public schools, now that he's on the receiving end.

*when someone denies legal rights to a group I don’t belong to* Suck it up buttercup, free speech bitch, MURICA *when someone denies legal rights to a group I belong to* This is wrong. This is discrimination. How can you so this bsky.app/profile/andy...

97% of Chicagoans that ICE fascists arrested last year had no criminal record. ICE then said they’re leaving. They lied. They’ve remained and MAGA is growing even more bold. open.substack.com/pub/letsaddr...

Difficult really, to think of a single, more disgusting act a journalist can commit than lying to the public to justify someone being murdered by their government for activism. But this is who these people always were.

Bari Weiss not beating the bootlicking propagandist allegations here:

This story has been consistently reported, but seems not to have really broken though - it’s ASTONISHING. An asylum policy that caters specifically and essentially exclusively to white people from a country in which they’re safe.

sam alito in callais: it is just a coincidence that partisan gerrymandering looks like racial gerrymandering. it doesn’t mean anything tennessee republicans post-callais: yee haw boys we are gettin’ the negras outta government

With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The thing about the left needing a positive vision for masculinity to counter the right is … they don’t have one either. Their whole thing is “don’t be a woman” as arbitrarily defined by whatever they consider feminine. Apparently some people find this admirable and wish to imitate it

I just want a plastic free deodorant package. I don’t need it to also follow every bizarre health trend that has zero scientific backing. It doesn’t need to be “aluminum free” or “clean all natural.” I just want to reduce my plastic waste while not smelling like armpit.

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

If for whatever reason you used to be a real piece of shit, and now you look back on that period of your life with regrets, that is good and laudable, and also, there might be some jobs that you shouldn't have. I do not find this to be especially complicated.

I’ve been writing a lot of long deep dives recently and wanted to step back and write a quick rant about why I’m consistently landing so hard in the skeptic corner in the data center debate blog.andymasley.com/p/why-i-thin...

Ok but can we get Brendan Fraser for this sequel because I don’t think Tom Cruise was a good fit for this particular franchise.

crazy that under the precedent set by callais, a lily-white congressional delegation formed by "partisan" gerrymandering in a plurality black state passes constitutional muster, while any majority-minority district is constitutionally suspect

black people electing black people to congress in districts where they form a plurality or majority? potentially invidious racial discrimination. the only way to escape constitutional scrutiny is to elect a white conservative, then we know dr. king's dream of colorblindness has been achieved

To be clear: the lower court said the map intentionally discriminates against black people in violation of the *constitution* (not just the VRA) and the MAGA Majority of SCOTUS is saying "that's ok now."

EXCLUSIVE: Before Trump dismantled USAID, Mozambique had been battling trachoma, an eye disease that causes blindness, especially among children. Now, a lack of stable funding and clean water — made worse by climate-induced cyclones and flooding — threatens to reverse the country’s modest progress.

Ok but will he stay true to the original by filming it in St. Louis?

“Anti diversity stance” there’s a shorter way to say that www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

"In an interview with a far-right website ahead of the summit, Bovino — referenced Nazi Germany’s lead general Erwin Rommel as an inspirational figure and offered his help to end what he described as a “creeping horror,” echoing racist terms used by far-right extremists to describe migrants."

once again i am asking democrats to repeat calling these fucking weirdos weird

It’s telling that when Hassett was asked about the spike in delinquent credit card balances, he talked about the potential harm to credit card companies, not people.

Alex Jones’ oft-told origin story is that he discovered a conspiracy in the local police and had to change schools. @jonronson.bsky.social discovered the truth- he was a violent bully, and eventually his victims beat him up, so he had to move. www.thisamericanlife.org/670/beware-t...

To believe in right-wing gender ideology, you have to believe that gender is so completely synonymous with innate biology that trans identities cannot exist, and also that gender is so performative and tenuous that a man can lose manhood for just not being enough of a boorish jerk.