Out of all the things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the most.

One of the most psychotic legal proposals I've ever seen

This timeline needs an unbelievable amount of fixing.

This bill is very bad. Wtf is wrong with the 8 Dems who voted for it?

I believe that the Democrats' public position should be that if you use your presidency to steal money from the IRS and make it possible for you and your descendants never to pay taxes again, that you should not count on a world of "norms," including pardons or courts, to save or protect you.

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just voted to require teachers to forcibly out transgender youth against their will. Censoring "gender ideology" does nothing to advance the basic promise that every child deserves the same opportunity to thrive, and that includes transgender students.

MacFarlane: I'm filling a notebook with misinformation spreading about January 6th today. The idea that these cases were wrongful, no case was overturned, not a one on appeal. And lots of people appealed. They had a 100% success rate for juries at trial.

Real question: the fuck do you guys think the word meant before

"...all many young Americans have seen is profoundly terrible assholes doing increasingly vile things in a country too broken, stupid, corrupt, and racist to function or resist." Thank you, @karlbode.com. (And happy birthday!) karlbode.com/anger-at-ai-...

on my birthday I took to the newsletter to write about the AI commencement address backlash, and how growing anger at AI is now irreversibly tethered to justified rage at the extraction class -- whether AI boosters like it or not

Trump issues executive orders to promote the fusion industry, he creates an Office of Fusion, prepares to deregulate it, all while Trump Media announces a merger with … you will never guess … a fusion company.

I.e., the President's personal lawyer signed a document promising that the President and all his family members are totally allowed to steal from the American people forever and ever, and no one is allowed to complain or question it, for time and all eternity, amen.

Talk about the gang the couldn't shoot straight. The plan was regime change to put this guy back in power. But an Israeli strike at on his home that was meant to free him from house arrest injured him. He became disillusioned and disappeared. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

"It underscores how Mr. Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel went into the war not only misjudging how quickly they could achieve their objectives but also gambling to some degree on a risky plan for leadership change in Iran that even some of Mr. Trump’s aides found implausible."

why would anyone ever pay taxes again if they're immune from audits?

🚨BREAKING: Todd Blanche confirmed at a Senate panel Tuesday that top Department of Justice officials are working with other Trump administration agencies to implement President Donald Trump’s dangerous and restrictive executive order on mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

1. What I found in Trump's new 113-page financial disclosure report. It doesn't look good.

If you ranked the 1000 most corrupt things ever done by an executive branch official in the history of the United States something like 950 of them would have happened since Jan 20 2025.

that this was always where it was headed doesn’t make it any less scary now that it’s here

He's beyond the bounds of lawbreaking and is telling America to absolutely fuck off. If this isn't monarchical, dictator-like behavior, nothing is. Impeach, convict, remove.

can the WH tell me what crimes I need to do to get some of that $1.776 billion to cover my student loan debt

Lots of people are mad about Trump's $1.776 billion slush fund for his allies but maybe they didn't notice that the number is *patriotic* so being mad at it is being mad at AMERICA

It's the TAKE OUT THE TRASH cycle. We may not get this opportunity again. Put these fucks out of work, do everything in your power to ship their asses.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

The odds are better than normal that whoever's on the ballot as the Democrat in your district this November will win. So it's important this primary season to make sure that whoever that person is, they're committed to an aggressive agenda of reform and accountability once they take office.

taking tax dollars to pay insurrectionists. which (by the way) the 14th amendment is supposed to prohibit: "[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States...."

That’s what happens when you destroy the greatest research infrastructure in the world & promote pseudoscience. An unfun fact: The US now has no confirmed CDC director, no FDA commissioner, no Surgeon General. Our NIH director is a laptop MD. China is spending more on R&D than we are. 🧪

I think that’s a critical delineator. Failure to be embarassed by parading your laziness for all to see is what sets these (waves hand vaguely in the direction of X) ‘people’ apart from anyone actually interested in what they’re doing.

The only thing people hate more than AI are the sociopaths shoving it down our throats.

STOP USING AI FOR ANYTHING.

KASH PATEL WENT SNORKELING ON THE WRECK OF THE USS ARIZONA. I genuinely cannot contain my fury right now. The Arizona is a military cemetery we in Hawai’i are literally taught to respect in *Kindergarten.* www.civilbeat.org/2026/05/fbi-...

Chinese newspaper cartoon (Today... 😂 )

A guy we know pitched a story to a mag about former skateboarders going back to their old haunt in middle age. My BIL(52)went with him as part of the story. BIL is now back home with a broken ankle and the writer is home with a broken vertebrae. The only possible way the story could have gone.

There goes the neighborhood...

The damage from this presidency is generational. And that’s the best‑case scenario.

we put the worst people in charge of a country and you will absolutely believe what happened next

Despite having the lowest expectations for them: Trump’s Team keeps doing things that are so awful they still shock me.

If it is based on inside information used in violation of his fiduciary responsibilities, it is brazenly criminal conduct, and he would not be immune from prosecution for that criminal conduct even under the Supreme Court's 2024 decision in his favor in the Jan 6 case www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...

"In older posts, Platner wrote that combat was "a hell of an awesome experience" and "the most enjoyable experience of his life". He also stated in 2020 that he had originally joined the Marines for an adventure and "to kill some people".

AI doubles your productivity—go to the beach or make twice as much. As an economist, I love it.⁣ ⁣ But then I talked to my kids. They didn't ask for this. And honestly? I get that now too.

*looks directly at camera*

Katrina was the missed opportunity to have this conversation. It was obvious then. If we’d had it, the past 20 years might not have been wasted.

is public service a joke, i guess it is

Public goods, held in common, distributed to everyone is good.

This is a form of psychosis. These people will burn the world if they have their way.

A point that the great @donmoyn.bsky.social often makes is that the handing out of governing spoils is a signpost on the road to authoritarianism. I think this quote captures this very well, and it's an exclamation point on this madness. 6/6 newrepublic.com/article/2105...

It is absolutely MADDENING that every Dem from Katie Porter on down has not dropped out of this race LOUDLY. They can not win. They can only spoil for the Dems. And THAT is disqualifying hubris, in itself. www.kron4.com/news/politic...

fuckin crazy story. some Ukrainian kid probably saved his whole family from being killed by a Russian drone murder squad by spotting and cutting the fiber optic connection www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

When Trump told Hannity that he’s successfully lowered consumer prices “incredibly,” he wasn’t just lying. He was also making clear that he has nothing left to offer but ignorance and incoherence on the issue he was elected to address, but which he’s made vastly worse. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Hawaii is officially the FIRST IN THE NATION to effectively undo Citizens United. Corporations will no longer have the power to spend in the state's politics. Learn more about the historic legislation: https://ampr.gs/3QEambX