"DOJ lawyers scrutinizing the merger were leaning toward recommending a lawsuit to block the deal, but had not made their final recommendation, were told that it had been approved on Friday."

Actually normal inside Texas, which seems really weird to those outside of Texas. Other areas have region specific litmus tests. BBQ is (one of) theirs.

'AI Deepfakes Are Getting Weirder and H̶a̶r̶d̶e̶r̶ Easier to Spot in the Midterms' www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

President Donald Trump's announcement on Sunday that the U.S. and Iran had reached a new agreement that provides a pathway to ending the more-than 100-day-old conflict was mocked by some political analysts as "insulting.

It's time to bring back "nothingburger" from the 2010s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing...

"Rain or shine"

More tarps

Republicans are about to inflict a rather strange vision of masculinity on America. trib.al/gTj1umz The political messaging to their audience is simple: Democratic men are all gay transgender tofu-eating double-Communist weenies, and you don’t want to be that, do you?

Role reversal doesn't justify the weird "this is progress" tone. Former belligerent aggressors Germany and Japan building up their military against current belligerent aggressors, China, Russia and the U.S. isn't progress. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w...

My wife just woke up and heard the cheering and said "Did Trump die?"

did you guys know they still allowed good news

Inside the whirlwind 24 hours that led the White House to slap export controls on Anthropic

People incapable of using a TV remote, but who are in charge of evaluating AI models, do a woke joke just before accusing Amodei of not taking the situation seriously.

WSJ has missed a big piece of the story in their reporting. Indian's parent company was in the "red mirage" echo chamber all Spencer Pratt and Randy Feenstra supporters were in. Now Carolwood LP has to build a new "Bikers for Trump" from scratch. www.newsweek.com/bikers-trump...

The tarp resembles both a protective skin and a shroud Is this a scene of repair, suggesting institutions must periodically undergo maintenance in order to survive? Or of concealment, in which cultural spaces serve to mask what is fragile or unresolved with the vulgar, but can only do so briefly?

In the real world, a weak and insecure Donald Trump is being humiliated by Iran. Ah, but Sunday night, he’ll be a manly man among manly men. trib.al/MmyaM5a

Absolutely. Gavin could open the strait at any time but he refuses to acknowledge he lost the war. Shameful.

Why are you still here, Spence? Do you need a ride to the Arizona state line? www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...

The Ingsoc rebranding is really abstract

Meanwhile... "It’s winter in Antarctica. But satellite observations show the west side of the Antarctic peninsular is almost completely ice free, missing about 250,000 sq miles of sea ice," www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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The existence of a trillionaire is a symptom of great concern not a milestone to be celebrated. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critici...

Now that's an obituary headline.

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

Incredible. Scotland puts a wind turbine near Trump’s golf course in Aberdeen 20 years ago. He sues and loses. Then his resulting hatred of wind turbines now ends up with the US Secretaries of Defense & Interior fabricating absurd lies to justify killing wind energy in the US.

And you thought installing a thirty foot tall statue in the middle of London without anyone noticing was difficult... www.bbc.com/news/article...

The crop circle pranksters have really upped their game. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/g...

Tentatively, a deal on the memorandum of understanding list of conditions, one of which is to hold further talks on an unspecified future date, an end to most hostilities, sorta. The strait remains closed.

Again, this is just a deal to hold further negotiations. Iran will not dismantle their nuclear program.

"The 'G' is silent. Not many people know that .."

President Donald Trump has been on a mad dash to slap gold all over the nation's capital to reflect his personal preferences, and an essayist unpacked the meaning behind that obsession.

"Do you miss me?"

cf. Jeff thinks Prometheus slop can replace human innovation. The Slopverse® just tells the same story over and over when prompted to innovate. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/t...

Meanwhile... futurism.com/science-ener...

Exxon and Chevron ghouls crawl out from the catacombs to meet with feckless, Mar A Lago face Trump aides to see who will be blamed for $10 a gallon at the pump 🍿 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The pastor has, unwittingly, given an excellent description of postmodernism which I fully endorse 👍 www.rawstory.com/obama-librar...

Vlad's 100+ medical specialists keeping him alive: Hold our beers....

NEW: Our visual analysis suggests the U.S. hit two drinking-water facilities overnight in southern Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. w/ @ckoettl.bsky.social @johnismay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...

That's a weird way of saying he can't make any public appearances because everybody hates him but ok #NoKings

'Solar Provide 90% of All New Power Added to the U.S. Grid in Q1, Despite Headwinds in Washington' 🤓 seia.org/news/solar-a...

Hoo boy, that is a whopper of a lie. I mean there's the normal diarrhea of the mouth constant spew of simple lies, then bigger lies that take more than one sentence to say. Then there's this.

Time Lord origin story that runs chronologically "backwards" with the series finale being the first episode aired. (this was also my pitch for a Tenet TV series)