screworm outbreak is another good opportunity to remind americans that government is what protects us from things like this and not the magical free market. want safe food? government, bitch.

Remember when calling a reporter stupid merited a headline and an apology?

If the president throws a tantrum when he's pressed about his lies about election fraud and walks away from the interview, your response should be to remind your viewers of all the ways in which those lies were dismissed by the courts. Not promise to give him a do over after he's had nap time.

Democrats are the only brand in the world that avoids claiming responsibility for the production of value, instead saying that their chief rivals were also responsible--even when, almost always, they barely were. Crowing about bipartisanship is saying "it doesn't matter who you vote for." It's dumb

the 2024 vibe shift -- in conjunction with the disinhibition and insulation from consequences provided by obscene wealth -- has destroyed many US elites' ability to think down the game tree

Scott Pelley hits back at CBS News for firing him, accusing management of "incompetence and unprofessionalism" and alleging he was instructed "to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story." www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/...

We all complain about headlines on here, so we should be ready to praise this one, which gets it exactly right (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...

A failed op-ed writer bankrolled by billionaires purging a universally liked and credible straight news journalist from 60 Minutes really has to be the height of the complete slide of American news media into a complete death spiral.

Welp there’s no unseeing this

As President, I would read 10 letters a day sent to me by ordinary Americans. At the Obama Presidential Center, we’ll have some of the letters I read — and responded to — every night. I still get emotional reading them, and it’s one of my favorite exhibits.

There likely will be a time in the not too distant future when Zohran Mamdani, who struggled to get endorsements from prominent Democrats even after winning the nomination, will be one of the most sought after endorsements for Dem candidates across the country.

There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.

There will be no Jizz at America's 250th

the columbine shooters were neonazis and nobody was allowed to tell anyone that for like thirty years, and as a result instead of a public backlash to and government crackdown on neonazi internet groups, we have neonazi interns running the government

ken paxton let one child abuser go free, imagine what he’ll do in washington with jeffrey epstein’s best friend — cue photos of epstein and trump with photos of paxton flashed in as well

Samuel Alito hit by new scandal as son found secretly working for Trump's Treasury: report

yeah you gotta willie horton ken paxton. have the party committees and super pacs run ads explicitly accusing paxton of covering up for a child abuser. “you love your children and would do anything to protect them. so why would you vote for a man who lets child abusers run free”

Does E. Jean Carroll need any assistance in filing her slam-dunk claim against her rapist's $1.8 billion slush fund for being a victim of the weaponization of the judiciary? I'd be glad to help!

Dear @cnn.com :: small correction :: I’m seeking $8.647 million.

I hate all the retconning of that moment. We all knew the vote was a vote for war and many of us knew *at the time* the vote was wrong. It was as cut and dry as it gets.

Hard for me to take “experience” as a presidential qualifier seriously because the most experienced presidential candidates Dems have had over the last 20 years - Kerry, Biden, Clinton - all used their experience to vote for Bush to go to war, which was the dumbest thing America has done in decades.

BREAKING: Votes on the Republican ICE/ballroom funding bill are CANCELLED. Thune sending everyone home for 10 days. Why? Republicans don’t want to vote against an amendment to stop Trump’s new $1.7B slush fund. The problem? That amendment doesn’t go away for them in 10 days.

SWIFT OPPOSITION: There are now House *and* Senate bills to impose 100% tax on payouts from Trump’s $1.8 billion fund for convicted crooks Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) & Ron Wyden (D-OR) have just introduced their version Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA) already has bill in House

Have you been injured? #slushfund

lets find out where democrats stand on these as well jon!

There is not a single insurrectionists MFer who beat a cop that should get a penny of our money. Not one. And the people making this decision will all be appointed by Blanche and will meet in secret. This is an impeachable offense by Blanche.

NEW: I've filed a claim with Todd Blanche for compensation from the $1.776B slush fund for the unlawful investigation by the government into my podcast in August 2019. I'm seeking $8.647 million in compensation for weaponized lawfare - the equivalent of punitive damages, lost pay and retirement.

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

Jeffries slams the Virginia redistricting ruling: "We're still going to win two seats minimum in Virginia. And then we're going to work as hard as we can in advance of 2028 to restore that 10-1 map, because that's what the voters decided would be appropriate moving forward."

. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, at CAP event, on how House Democrats see this moment: “Either MAGA extremists are going to break the country, or we’re going to break them. And our goal is to break them. We will defeat them. We have to beat them electorally and then we have to break their spirit.”

Not enough news coverage of how the insurrectionist reparations fund is a clear violation of the 14th Amendment. We need to enforce the Constitution in its original meaning and plain text. You can't imagine away parts of the Constitution just because it is politically inconvenient.

The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

This six paragraph story is the only article about “one of the most single corrupt acts in American history” that I can find on the New York Times home page this morning. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/b...

BREAKING: Melanie Stansbury says that the prison guard keeping watch on the night of the death of Jeffrey Epstein testified under oath that she believes it was a homicide.

I will just add to this that, during the Biden presidency, I made a point of regularly calling out the good things the administration was doing -- which were continuous &, in aggregate, enormously consequential -- and ... none of that went viral. Very, very little engagement or amplification.

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

the president of the united states sued his own government for ten billion dollars and “settled” it by directing that government to use taxpayer money for a nearly two billion dollar slush fund to distribute to his political allies at will typing it out barely feels real

What’s this I hear of the Oxford comma now being categorized as evidence of using AI? I find such suggestions to be presumptuous, inappropriate, and offensive.

Yep. This is the best way to understand the events of the past couple weeks. They have to dispense with the artifice of principle, because the risks of Dems winning and coming to power bent on accountability are simply too great. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

One reason FDR's court-packing plan failed to catch on is that the Supreme Court was perceived by many Americans as apolitical and therefore a victim of unwarranted aggression from the president. This court, however, is nakedly partisan. And any Democrat in power should be saying so early and often

Supreme Court Holds, 6-3, That Black People Voting Violates Rights Of White Voters

america's reactionaries would love nothing more to nullify the reconstruction amendments and render them a dead letter of the constitution. this was as true in 1873 as it is today.

It's a coup against the people of the United States and always has been. Their ultimate goal is to enslave us

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has allowed Alabama to select a different map for this year’s congressional elections in a stunning, last-minute move to interfere with another state primary election that has already begun. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Interesting piece, but I resent how Peter Thiel is represented in the Gawker saga. Thiel didn't "emerge from the shadows" to magnanimously tell the NYT he funded Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker. He did it because my colleague and I exposed his involvement. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

I am “New Yorker cartoons are mood” years old

What do you call camps where people keep disappearing and dying

The greatest trick the devil ever played was to convince people to hard boil eggs, cut them in half, scoop out the yolk, whip it with some mayo and mustard, spoon it back in, and sprinkle a little paprika on top