Stefon: “It’s the hottest place in DC right now. It has everything. Water like curdled pea soup. Bigger paint chips than a 1960s tenement. An angry orange man yelling, ‘Find the vandals!’ Fish and birds floating upside-down from hydrogen peroxide poisoning. And the smell of a mossy urinal.”

Of course Angela Merkel showed up at Obama’s presidential center opening. That’s her bestie. Merkel was the last head of government that Obama called as president.

Your daily reminder this should be the biggest scandal in American politics right now but nobody seems to care. Ken Paxton freed a man who raped a boy for 3 years. He also doesnt have to register as a sex offender. www.texastribune.org/2026/05/19/k...

You can't make this up: House Republicans just snuck a provision to help private jet owners avoid state and local taxes into a major AIR SAFETY bill! Instead of working to prevent another mid-air collision, the GOP is more concerned with making their wealthy donors even richer.

(racks shotgun)

You probably think you can't hate Target more than you already do but ....

Meanwhile, the typical American will pay a federal income tax rate of 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like. [Via @itep.org]

The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way.

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #UrbanTruth in @fastcompany.com

I got a great look at my first Hermit Thrush of the year in Central Park! Posed beautifully for me for just a moment. ❤️❤️❤️🐿️ #Thrush #centralpark #birding

A longtime pal of former Mayor Eric Adams who ran one of the nightlife mayor’s favorite haunts was indicted Wednesday in an alleged scheme to submit tens of millions of dollars of bogus no-fault car insurance claims.

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The Borowitz Report: Iran Drops Unredacted Epstein Files Over U.S. open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

A navy torpedo detonates under the target, lifts it out of the water and cracks the hull. The people who aren’t thrown overboard by the blast are knocked unconscious and buried alive in their compartments when the ship sinks. We did that to 141 people today for no reason.

Her job is to fabricate 2020 foreign election interference to justify trump seizing voting machines in upcoming elections, and justify the nationalization of elections so he can control them.

Home. And after a long day, I’m not watching or thinking about for one second as ugly angry children in tight suits run their mouth about hard work. The state of my union is the state of my neighbors. Stop electing dolts and frauds. Stop wasting your lives. There. Saved you a few hours.

The power of artificial intelligence is changing the world

The national news media has moved on. But Minnesota is still under siege. By Jonathan V. Last www.thebulwark.com/p/what-i-saw...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) revealed that DOGE staffers engaged in unauthorized communications with a political advocacy group on election denial efforts, and admitted the agreement bypassed internal safeguards preventing the misuse of government data.

MAGA = Make America Go Away

it would have to be screening, hiring AND training. Never gonna happen. Shut it down.

I always return to: Why in god’s name would you, a wonderfully intelligent, curious, beautiful human being with an infinite capacity for learning and a fathomless depth of interiority give up a single iota of your creativity to a chatbot that can neither think, nor feel, nor create? Have some pride

“Lifeless… foam around his mouth. Nobody wants to see their kids like that.” ICE attacked a family trying to LEAVE the besieged neighborhood and hospitalized a 6 month old baby that couldn’t breathe.

i’ll say it again, jennings is a contemptible liar and it is a disgrace that CNN puts him on television every night to spread bullshit

A man was shot in the leg during a foot chase amid a federal immigration enforcement operation on the north side of Minneapolis, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation. bit.ly/3MMvefi

FYI, I am STILL on “investigative leave” from my government employer—for months now because racist Charlie Kirk fans flooded my office with complaints after I posted about him after he died. Stay tuned.

Pay to play…👇 In. Broad. Daylight. 😎✨

“What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today. Not in the sense of being charming rogues or alluring antiheroes. We are the bad guys.”

Some have suggested not doing anything, while others push to do nothing. thehill.com/homenews/sen...

Correct spelling eludes a New York Times headline.

Vanity Fair made her an *editor*

We are so far off the playing field here we can't even see the stadium.

6. Meanwhile, free the major drug kingpins that share your far right ideology.

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

So gruelingly awful. This is how these bans kill.

So you mistakenly dismembered a journalist?

at the very least, it was the beginning of 25 years of “because I said so” jurisprudence that has completely trashed SCOTUS’ aura of nonpartisanship, which will not be recovered in my lifetime

The Trump regime just killed a rule protecting millions of acres of western Arctic lands from fossil fuel drilling. It’s yet another giveaway to Big Oil — which spent $450 million backing Trump and Republicans and lobbying Congress last year. Watch: https://youtu.be/aDQXiNlM5iM?si=nZag1nV9sKC_JStQ

what a photo. what has happened to this country

Note: The pastor being thrown to the ground and arrested here while protesting outside an ICE facility here — who police single out — appears to be Rev. Michael Woolf, a Baptist pastor (he’s ordained by both American Baptist Churches USA and Alliance of Baptists).

"Donald Trump owes his entire political career to defamation. Nevertheless, he routinely demands 10-figure settlements from media outlets who criticize him. And now his shakedown tour has gone international."

Missing you #PeteButtigieg The skies were safer. ✈️

One of two things is true: 1. Chuck Schumer genuinely felt this is a bad deal, so he voted against it, but he couldn't keep Senate Dems in line because he's a lackluster leader. OR 2. Chuck Schumer orchestrated the shutdown deal w/ retiring Dems because he's a bad strategist and got rattled.

The surrender caucus secured yes votes from Democrats who aren't facing re-election this cycle, but four of them have Democratic governors who can pick their replacement. If you live in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine or Virginia this is an easy and effective way to make your anger clear.

I double dog dare ANYONE to give me one legitimate reason why we need health insurance companies. Besides making money for themselves and frustrating the shit out of needy people, what actual necessary service do they provide?

Never forget who sold us out: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Go volunteer for a progressive launching a “hopeless” campaign against an extremely entrenched incumbent currently squatting in a safe Blue seat. The worst thing that happens, is that you drag the incumbent to the Left. Best case? Zohran Mamdani, who was polling at 6% in January.