the trump official — who led the siege & occupation of Minneapolis — admitting to having an ongoing dialogue/rapport with Martin Sellner, a straight-up Nazi who influenced the Christchurch shooter, while speaking at a conference about remigration (read: ethnic cleansing) is a pretty big deal!

Happy Sour Apple Tree Day!

The American flag on the Trump Phone only has 11 stripes because Trump hates the Carolinas. Both of them. Calls them “fake states.” “Change the flag,” he said. “No stripe for North Carolina and no stripe for South Carolina. Just have 11 stripes instead.” www.cnet.com/pictures/the...

Here is my full 30 minute interview with the Republican frontrunner for Colorado Governor: youtu.be/KywOV9EkNFg?...

Cmon Patrick!!! m.youtube.com/watch?v=KQLf...

Tomorrow is Trinity Sunday. Reminder: Trinitarian theology is a machine for the creation of heresies. It is a burning tightrope you cannot hope to walk safely. Anything you say can and will be used against you. Do not take the bait.

"There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun," Merton said. This is why I love Pope Bob's deliberate, precise, careful use of the word "magnificent." That's a Merton's epiphany word. It's a Fred Rogers word. Maybe even a Prior Walter word.

Neda Ulaby talks to Thomas Tweed about Parson Weems. So this piece gets high marks for euphonious, Dickensian names. But it loses points for not countering Weems's myth making with Oney Judge's eyewitness testimony., www.npr.org/2026/05/27/n...

"Algorithm" = payola.

That 2 percent would be an outie ... an outlier. Sorry. Outlier, not outie. Don't know why that word popped out at me like that.

Philly’s Skeletor is still cooler.

Google is moving from a Jeopardy! model (what is the correct answer?) to a Family Feud model (100 people surveyed, top six answers on the board). There's a reason nobody says, "Hey, you're very knowledgeable, you should go on Family Feud."

Google is moving from a Jeopardy! model (what is the correct answer?) to a Family Feud model (100 people surveyed, top six answers on the board). There's a reason nobody says, "Hey, you're very knowledgeable, you should go on Family Feud."

We erect one maypole for every invocation of Winthrop's "City on a Hill" speech.

"Rededicate 250" sounds like a milestone award handed out to evangelicals after they go forward at an altar-call for the 250th time. "Betsy Johnson joined the Rededicate 250 Club last Sunday evening when she came forward to re-re-re-re-dedicate her life to Jesus Christ yet again ..."

A few years back the freight team at the Big Box got T-shirts that say "Built to Bring It." I am still pondering the implied teleology of this. What is "it"? And, perhaps more importantly, built by whom? (Anyone else reminded of the first question of the Westminster Children's Catechism?)

"Podcast viewers" is one of those things that still trips me up and maybe exposes my 20th-century shaped mindset. It's radio. Radio on demand, but still radio. I don't watch radio. "This audiobook has been viewed 1.5 million times." What? Why? What are you talking about?

Do they really have this many active klaverns?

"Podcast viewers" is one of those things that still trips me up and maybe exposes my 20th-century shaped mindset. It's radio. Radio on demand, but still radio. I don't watch radio. "This audiobook has been viewed 1.5 million times." What? Why? What are you talking about?

I'm here because I need one fucking place in this online world that isn't dominated and run by corporate whores, white supremacists, sex pests, and sociopaths. And I will stay here until that is no longer the case.

Extra bonus points to Team Mamdani for not using those lousy automated subtitle generators. When the mayor says "We've been poring over" budget details I think it's the first time I've ever seen an online subtitle get that right.

The salmon swim farther, but they also become total assholes. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/c...

Like, just imagine it was Patrick Stewart. We find out that Patrick Stewart has commissioned a gold statue of himself and had it erected on the front lawn of his house. I mean, I love Patrick Stewart, but that would make me STOP loving Patrick Stewart. I don't think I could watch TNG ever again.

"What's the matter, Finch, did we get a new number?" "No, Mr. Reese. We have MILLIONS of new numbers. It seems the Machine has discovered America's private health care system."

"There's nothing that says ... Nephilim just disappeared." Not "disappeared," ma'am. "Drowned." The Nephilim are in Genesis 6. They don't hitch a ride on the ark in the following chapters. Y'all insist on a "literal" and universal Noahic flood. OK, then all the Nephilim drowned. Your own rules.

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

“Like something out of an Orson Welles book.” OK, then. baptistnews.com/article/end-...

"I can very vigorously argue about the humanitarian side of why this is wrong … but with some people, that argument has no sway,” said Angus. “So we have to focus on the issues that will speak to those people ..."

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

I was forced to the back of the bus. This ain't theoretical for me. I lived this shit.

It wasn't just the media. Republicans erased the distinction and rewrote it themselves. But yes, it's amazing that she said "half are good people, half are deplorable racists" and a lot of them said "for the record, I'm deplorable, I'm one of the racists"

Timeline cleanse alert!! Watch to the end; pro tip: don’t have anything in your mouth..

Jimmy Kimmel's "expectant widow" line harks back to a long tradition of Old Rich Guy With Much Younger Wife jokes dating at least to the Catskills era of comedy. It's in the same vein as the endless string of Anna Nicole Smith jokes Leno told. Carson told such jokes, sometimes about Ed McMahon.

Louisiana Republicans have eliminated a city clerk position in New Orleans days before a Black man was set to take office. “It’s a sad thing to see the state government repeating what happened to Black public officials during Reconstruction,” said Calvin Duncan, who was set to take office Monday.

Trump's new Navy Secretary is loony, but "The Witches of Lovers Point" still seems like a can't-miss book title.

I think far too many people think journalism is “stick a microphone in front of public figures and force them to come up with a thought-out answer on the spot” and not, you know, finding out if what they’re saying is true

Praise-god and Fear-god Barebone would have teased baby Joe so much around the school.

TIL that Increase Mather was so named because his parents saw "increase" as a literal translation of the Hebrew name Yosef. Can't help but wonder how the history of New England might have been different if he'd just been Joe Mather.

Writing prompt and/or betting pool on ways this goes predictably or unpredictably awry: www.ncronline.org/news/diocese...

The slow motion replay

It's a bit like telling someone to "calm down." The impulse is understandable. The statement "Hey, man, you really need to calm down" is quite often an impeccably true and accurate statement. But when someone needs to calm down, telling them to "calm down" usually just makes things worse.

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

Hey have you looked at the list of names in the "America Reads the Bible" event other than Trump? Cause. I recognize too many of them or their organizations, and given who I am, and what I study, it's not great, Bob!

"What if the most powerful man on Earth was kind" is such a banger concept. Jerry and Joe were really cooking in 1938.

"America Reads the Bible" continues today. They got to the part with the cattle and the creeping things Said "I'm pretty sure we've heard this one before" And don't it all end up in some revelation With four guys on horses and violent red visions Famine and death and pestilence and war?

Every time you see an athlete running like this it's a hamstring injury, 6-8 weeks minimum.

To be fair, Franklin Graham says this about everybody. And to everybody. Waiter: Our specials tonight include a prime ... Graham: You should be thanking Trump!

"God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men." -- Wislawa Szymborska

The GOP/Museum of the Bible "America Reads the Bible" event starts tomorrow. MAGA Christians watching this live Bible reading on Pure Flix will be STUNNED to learn that Isaiah 1:15 is actually from the Bible and not just some "woke" thing Pope Leo made up. www.museumofthebible.org/events/ameri...

Tennessee's "nuclear family" resolution was obviously written by someone who HATES his mother-in-law but lost the argument with his wife about her moving in with them.