People will do literally anything in order to avoid funding excellent public higher education

NEW: Thiel's Dialog society privately told members their data was stolen in a cyberattack. But WIRED found it was just readable to anyone on a misconfigured web page. Its lawyers sent us a legal demand to hand over the data. We passed.

Actually Iran will not be charging a service fee, they will be offering a luxury customized strait of Hormuz experience for VIP clients.

Oman and Iran will form a team to reach an agreement on "administration of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz" and associated costs and services, the two countries said in a joint statement on Tuesday.

Congrats to the caddies at Pebble Beach on voting to form a union with @unitehere.org! Caddies helped make Pebble Beach a globally renowned experience. It’s time they got the dignity and respect they deserve and a stronger voice on the job.

I wrote optimistically this evening. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/american-s...

Mark Esper calls “Lebanon” the spoiler in Iran negotiations — Lebanon, not Israel, the country currently bombing, marauding and occupying Lebanon, killing thousands and displacing a million people. And the Meet the Press guy doesn’t correct him.

Happy Father’s Day to the dads out there but especially to @swin24.bsky.social AKA Swin Diesel AKA My Cousin Swinny

Wow who could have predicted this would happen

Why the Right Hates Juneteenth Wrote this three years ago - but worth reiterating now, as America is ruled by a regime seeking to restore complete white male dominance in all spheres of life: Today’s MAGA GOP stands in the political, ideological, and spiritual tradition of the (neo-) Confederacy.

Meanwhile, UAE is unfreezing $10B in exchange for Iran knocking off the drones so the influencers feel safe in Dubai. Iran’s now-more-hardline government is gonna get rich.

Marco -

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cops get busted all the time for querying law enforcement databases for creep purposes. So naturally we gave them a better creep tool.

Albania has seen days of massive protests over two corrupt real estate projects that Jared Kushner is trying to pull off in the country, one of which is in a protected wetland area. If you missed this news, it’s because the US press has for the most part ignored it.

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“Their mandate is to use violence against the American people.” Outside Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark on Day 4 of the hunger strike, a protester tells Status Coup why he doesn’t trust ICE — after agents pepper sprayed and shoved protesters earlier today WATCH @jordanchariton.bsky.social LIVE ⬇️

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ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.

For @nybooks.com I wrote about why the US effort to use economic warfare has backfired, leaving it ever more isolated. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Erdogan is not immortal, so the damage being done to the Turkish state and economy to keep him in power now risk severely weakening Turkey after he is gone. Comparisons with Russia's trajectory towards an unstable post-Putin era look more plausible than a few years ago

Um…

Hegseth is that sociopathic Hauptmann that joins the Freikorps because Reichswehr officers thought he was too batshit to serve in a disciplined army

Legal pressure, platform restrictions, and limits on tools like the Wayback Machine are already affecting what can be preserved and accessed. This new book from the Internet Archive explores what's at stake. #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #Books

<<taps sign>> This an illegal and unconstitutional impoundment, it's what got Trump impeached the first time around, and in any sane world he'd be impeached and removed for it before noon tomorrow.

I made a really really long chart -- longer than a CVS receipt -- but I did it for a reason. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Nigel Farage insisting "I cannot be bought," after being exposed for secretly trousering £5 million from a crypto billionaire, buying a house with the money, and then immediately launching a lobbying campaign for the crypto industry, is quite something

There is something absurd in fevered speculation around these summits, not just among the dwindling band of MAGA fans but also among those who hate Trump and as a consequence overcorrect by claiming Chinese triumph in ways that skip over China's structural vulnerabilities

Baffled over the hype around it tbh. Trump is too erratic to assume any outcome from consultations with Xi in Beijing will stick.

Unless there has been some quiet dealmaking on geopolitical crises whose outcomes emerge later, right now Trump's summit with Xi looks like a big nothing

Today In 1967: New York #Yankees legend Mickey Mantle hits career HR #500 on Mother's Day at Yankee Stadium! #MLB #Baseball #RepBX

Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Enten: "It's not just one poll. The five worst polls ever for any president on inflation, they all belong to Donald Trump and they have all occurred in the last month. What we're talking about here is the worst numbers ever. Joe Biden isn't in there. Jimmy Carter isn't in there."

Don't look away: If you've missed this haunting report by @nickkristof.bsky.social, please don't now, shattering as the details are, to get a sense of the horrors Palestinians are enduring. For those who prefer to wear blinders, please find courage to take them off. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Nobody’s answering the phone so let’s just ask our calculators what they think about stuff.

We’re two months away from Operation Morning Wood.

Robert Kagan, famously pro Iran

Good reporting from the FT. Opus Dei’s opaque influence on US campus politics www.ft.com/content/6175...

Useful simulations here about effects of gerrymandering

quote this shit and say that you're using the maps anyway

There are still very serious people telling us that Germany and Europe need to ingratiate themselves with this very serious leader of a very serious country bsky.app/profile/noth...

As long as a substantial swathe of the US system on Right and Left is willing to empower figures who are either isolationist or exude contempt for Europe, or both, then Europeans can not treat Americans as a reliable partner. Anything else is just living in strategic la la land

Trump has launched wildly irresponsible wars, threatened several EU states over Greenland and has implmented destabilising domestic policies, yet a certain kind of European Atlanticist still obsesses over what European leaders can do to cater to Trump's whims

I’m here in Ladson, South Carolina covering a May Day picket against an Israeli weapons factory that makes the Howitzers Israel is using in Lebanon. “We want unions, not wars,” protesters chant.

Strong turnout for the first of several May Day events in Charlotte.