Rural Virginians are pushing back against a proposed 115-mile high-voltage transmission line tied to the state’s exploding data center growth, warning it could reshape farmland, forests and small communities across Central Virginia. virginiamercury.com/2026/05/27/r...

Funny story: 13 is the same number of service members who died in the pullout from Afghanistan, for which Biden received brutal bipartisan media coverage for months

The Republican Party quietly deleted their own ad attacking Ken Paxton's record on crime... because Paxton is now the Republican Party's nominee to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate. Figured if the ad is important enough to delete, it's important enough to see...

Ford Motor’s stock price has surged to its highest level in nearly three years, and the reason has little to do with cars or trucks. Its foray into batteries represents an opportunity to capitalize on the AI boom www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

The psychological war is the only one Russia can win. And the softest target as ever is the White House.

New York Fed on the K-shaped economy: “We find a remarkable increase in food insecurity, particularly among lower-educated and lower-income households and households with young children."

I am part of this campaign; please join in; you can save lives.

Hereby drawing attention to the decency, integrity, and dignity of Andy Kim

American politics is bananas. I can’t believe there is a whole generation growing up to think that it’s normal for known criminals to win party nominations and public office.

Was just going to say this. All kinds of things are possible for these people. It’s like they’ve been fired with months’ notice and no one has taken away their access to the company info and vault. Whether or not they want to caucus with Dem there is plenty of damage to be done - for those willing.

i think a lot of the backlash to "the male loneliness epidemic" narratives is that they're often disingenuous, they don't offer a solution and in the absence of that it's clear that the only thing they can mean is "women need to take responsibility for it by being less people"

Dictators Become Obsessed With This One Thing "They are obsessed with bunkers, with palaces..." Author and historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat explains a classic symptom of the autocrat's decline: the "bunker stage." @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social

Bread & circuses Emperor

Truly low turnout in some counties in South Texas. In Starr County, Trump got roughly 9,500 votes in 2024. 90 votes counted in the GOP runoff today. In Webb County, Trump got roughly 33,300 votes in 2024. Roughly 2,300 voters today.

Shuttling kidnapped people around & increasing the load of greenhouse gases in the process

this side effect of the war is not even part of the US conversation

A new investigation by Bellingcat has identified 115 villages in Rakhine State as partially or completely destroyed since the February 2021 military coup that overthrew Myanmar’s democratically elected government. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/05...

Corruption Trump 2.0

"More than 93% of the people grabbed off area streets who filed suit were from Latin American countries, although Latinos make up only 66% of immigrants without legal status in the region." Really important journalism, and the visuals are superb.

I really think Trump II is going to rock up 20th century dictator bodycount when all is said and done and all accounted for, Leopold in the Congo kinda stuff here. Just wildly evil.

🚨URGENT need for more people to join the protesters outside Delaney Hall as ICE escalates their violence, per people on the ground. show up if you can.🚨

Uhoh

Redefining words

Please read all of this thread

‼️UPDATE: I just got out of “Alligator Alcatraz.” Here’s what I learned about the facility closing:

Lawfare and weaponization like you've never seen before lnk.thebulwark.com/4tXKwxo

How much does AI make sense to some people because some people take literally the idea that the brain is a computer?

Saving the Country Game, You Can Play at Home talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/savin...

It almost goes without saying that the Democrats will try to do the centrist thing in 2026 and 2028. Whether the party can steer a furious and increasingly radicalized electorate toward the imaginary politics we call centrism is ... uncertain. badfaithtimes.com/there-is-no-...

Preserve the historical record!

“It’s not good enough to have a bicycle chasing a Ferrari. You’ve got to deflate the bicycle’s tires to cripple it,” a source told political scientist Jeffrey Winters for his excellent new book. The oligarchs have made sure the IRS lacks the funding—and the will—to pursue wealthy tax cheats.

How to disseminate this broadly?

Speaker Mike Johnson must be relieved to know Kean's capable of doing a congressman's most important work.

The pope understands AI better than many in Silicon Valley seem to (the latter having a financial incentive to pretend it is something other than what it is)

🧵 This is a BOMBSHELL story—and one that makes my blood boil. To encourage forest regrowth, the USFS is opting for the cheapest solution: Spraying Roundup—a weedkiller that contains glyphosate, which has been linked to harmful health impacts—on anything that could compete with conifers. (1/3)

The front page of the newspaper in ........... Enterprise, Alabama =====>

Compare with Courtney Milan's pointing out the problems of culture of civility (someone pls correct my misphrasing)

In case you have forgotten who Andy Kim is, he’s the rep who came into the Capitol building after Trump’s J6 goons had trashed it, got down in his hands and knees, and cleaned it up. And ICE have gassed him. They have peppersprayed the true patriot who thinks American ideals are worth defending.

Again, straight from Delaney Hall in Newark NJ: ICE just tear gassed Senator Andy Kim.

Teargassing a US Senator!

An NBC News investigation finds dozens of examples of criminals imitating ICE to rob and attack people www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Today is a good day to remember that wars are almost never started, managed, or concluded by the people who die in them.

p.s. If you missed this:

What non-winning looks like

Developers are trying to buy whole suburban communities as sites for data centers, promising to bring jobs, infrastructure, and municipal revenue. Here’s the gag, though: The jobs are temporary, the infrastructure is useless, and the revenue is diminishing and offset by monster tax breaks.

Governor Mikie Sherrill has shown up to the hunger strike occurring in Newark. Eye witnesses update the governor as to what they witnessed. The governor was then denied entry into the facility similar to what we’ve seen from ICE before. Credits: @hereswhykevin

ICE oversteps authority

While Netanyahu lobbied for the war, he has lost control of it. His ally, President Donald Trump, has sidelined Netanyahu from peace negotiations and tries to humiliate the proud prime minister by saying, “He’ll do whatever I want him to do.” wapo.st/3Pngx41

If you’d told me 15 years ago that in 2026 Donald Trump would be the Republican president and that I would be reading papal encyclicals muttering “fuck yeah, this Pope really gets it,” I would have laughed in your face. And yet here we are.

May 24, 2026