This is a gruesome read. The central figure comes across like a cross between Walter Freeman — the guy who popularized the lobotomy in the mid-20th century — and Fred Leuchter, the guy Errol Morris interviewed for his terrifying documentary, MR. DEATH: THE RISE AND FALL OF FRED A. LEUCHTER, JR.

I am so fucking tired of courts allowing what is effectively experimental work stand up as real evidence. If it’s not consensus driven, it might as well be a complete fabrication.

This was the result of many months of fantastic reporting - a fascinating piece about how brain science that many believe to be bogus has infected the US legal system

Why is Hasan Piker ‘not conducive to the public good’? Because on Gaza we punish the witness not the crime

maybe the world finally ready for my Amol Rajan/Bradley Walsh slash fiction

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

an alternative headline @joolia.bsky.social suggested was I ram what I ram

think about this every day www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKuA...

I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.

mr goering some people say your behaviour is unbecoming but we’ve only seen you in clips

@joolia.bsky.social very good on the silly billies (derogatory) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I really have to pay attention in meetings to know if we're talking about shawn fain, sinn fein or shon faye

Thank god for the wonderful @jonathanliew.bsky.social and this reasoned riposte to some of the cretinous, fact-free, violence baiting, far-right embracing discourse that has emerged on this issue in the last few days including in Parliament www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

took a screengrab to show people just in case i ever make it into one of the better timelines

I spoke to parents who are letting their young kids play with generative AI and tried to sort through some of the questions they have about it. "I don’t know what this is doing to their brains," one dad told me. Meanwhile, Sam Altman says, "Kids love ChatGPT on voicemode."

After the Turning Point USA CEO’s killing, Candace Owens and other far-right stars are trying to persuade listeners of unfounded theories about Israel and federal involvement.

listened to Candace Owens for a week and it wasn't fun www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Who I am has been skewed so much..." incredible interview with Mahmoud Khalil www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

This is a smart essay about the ways supposedly liberal media outlets mindlessly reify rightwing gender norms through bargain bin cultural commentary and people are getting mad because.... they didn't read it

just filling in some forms with United Healthcare

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

my spam botfarm texts know me better than some of my closest friends

So so weird. "Chart analysts say that 2025 has produced the fewest new hit songs in US history...of the top 10 most listened to songs so far this year in the US, only one was released in 2025: Ordinary by Alex Warren. All the others are tracks from 2024 and 2023"

Here we go again, night of the long huggers www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/n...

The Israeli government has shown that it is not prepared to stop until every Palestinian in #Gaza is dead, disabled or displaced. Every day in which it is still armed and supported by Western states, our own included, is a stain on international law.

Luring starving people out into the open with the promise of food and then gunning them down in cold blood. We have a word for this and we should start using it. The word is "evil".

I said it before and I’ll say it again. We are in a fight for the integrity of our constitution and protection of our democracy. theguardian.com/us-n...

What Hadley means here is that she is aware the genocide is making her previous wingnut enthusiasm for it look very bad, and she’d like it to wind down now while she can still retain 99% of her crankery archive.ph/E1vxH

I wrote this

"He spent much of his career being mislabelled as ideologically rightwing or misogynistic when in fact he’s more of a simpleton who agrees with almost everyone who comes on his show...He has been a staunch believer “in just asking questions” but not so much in listening to or processing the answers"

An article that makes you sick to your stomach.

An insightful, somewhat devastating, and definitely worthwhile piece by Sam Wolfson. It provokes reflection on the difficulty in rendering the current Trump regime a collection of clowns (which they are) while simultaneously mourning the damage they cause. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

I wrote about the really horrid uncomfortable feeling of people laughing at something you think is cruel www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Bushwick, Brooklyn: Rising rents, all-nighters and ‘crazy-ass outfits’ in the US’s most exciting neighborhood

Two girls fell in love at a camp for ‘troubled teens’ and made an audacious escape. Their captors weren’t far behind

bad bad times (to the tune of red red wine)

Last week, a number of prominent UK feminists declared Donald Trump a "feminist hero" for banning trans women from playing sports. How did we get here? A new book by @reproutopia.bsky.social explores how reactionary tendencies have created Enemy Feminisms throughout the history of feminism

I love a lot of the comedians that have come through SNL, but never found the show to be that good, not even the “best bits”. Much of that is not living in the US and watching it live, but most of it is just that it is not good. They may have great writers & performers, but not their best work.

Insane how quickly the racist regression is happening in this country. Decades of progress being undone in weeks, without even any laws having to be passed. Just sheer intimidation from Trump and the right, and sheer cowardice from the corporations.

i wrote this!

Because Vichy France is kind of my Roman Empire, I wrote about its emergence as an insult in the era of Trump Deux and tried to think through our attraction to certain historical analogies.

vichy jimmy fallon yet to make a trump joke this week latenighter.com/features/jim...

i made another connections: connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-OHmnJ7...

I wrote about the LA wildfires, the GoFundMes of rich people, and the long history of disaster relief reproducing inequality.

I am still making my own Connections: connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-OGk1fQ...

I had no intention of seeing the Robbie Williams Monkey Movie, but the worse it’s doing, the more intrigued I’m becoming. I especially enjoyed this little detail.