Developing a tough on crime brand would impair the community partnerships that have been an important factor in his success fighting crime.

Reading The Grapes of Wrath for the first time. It hits.

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

Looking at my ballot and I’m ashamed and furious t he at I know more about Graham Platner than I do about any of the people I can actually vote for.

"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.

Actual leftism is vanishingly rare in this country, and most self-identified US "leftists" here on god's green internet are actually better described as demsoc with reactionary tendencies. Which is still to the left of center but not left

Love to be stuck between “the sneaky Jews are doing Woke to destroy our pure bloodlines” on the right and “the sneaky Jews are making up lies about our Manly Politicians to defend Israel” on the left. Fuck this whole shit.

Really sucks that only two people—Platner and Collins—live in Maine and one of them HAS to be Senator.

I think there should be a law that you can’t report on election results until all the votes are received and counted. Reporting before the vote is complete serves no good purpose that I can see, and it is repeatedly used by bad actors to cast doubt on elections.

Really not looking forward to another round of “listen up, eggheads, the real working class in this country thinks abusing women is no big deal” As if the working class doesn’t contain women. As if women aren’t doing the lion’s share of political work. As if discarding them costs the left nothing.

I’m just really sick of everything being broken and impossible to fix.

I thought this bit from @resnikoff.bsky.social in publiccomment.blog/p/hyperfascism was really insightful.

Oh how the turns have tabled

"AI is operating at a PhD level" oh, so it's replying 'sorry for the late response' to every email and complaining about its labor conditions?

This is the reality. Any politics or politician or movement that isn’t saying this plainly is a false god, inviting you to your own destruction. America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

If you ever wondered “What if Tarantino made good movies?” Or thought of the Formation video “I would watch a whole movie with this vibe” Or thought about how much we have to gain from letting first-time directors bring their vision to life. You owe it to yourself to see this movie.

Is God Is absolutely rules. Full of fascinating and inventive details, propulsive and furious and funny. I haven’t been this excited about a movie in a while!

I remember as a kid in the 80s coming across ephemera from the bicentennial or seeing clips of the celebrations and parades and thinking how lucky folks were to be living at such a special milestone, and how it must have been fun. Deeply disappointed to have the 250th trashed by assholes.

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

CRIME AGAINST PROPERTY IS RELATIVELY UNIMPORTANT

After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

"One thing that actually propelled actual US greatness after World War II was tying large scientific investments to a non-partisan, merit-based process. But that is not the way of Trump, who wants to extend tools of control and retribution over science." Trump is wrecking everything. Illuminating:

so one reason why we should never elect rich assholes anymore is they say shit like “the strait will open like magic” because they think they have better dna than us and thats why everything has always worked out for them and not people sucking up to them and the 8 figure trust fund

First of A, the “deal” that Trump keeps hyping, even in the most generous description, is a deal to have negotiations in the future. And second of B, Trump is asking Iran to give up all its leverage by opening the Straight before those future negotiations. Why would they ever agree to that?

Boots Reilly is a treasure and I Love Boosters is delightful.

This is particularly funny because it’s not like it’s called the Nobel Prize because Alfred Nobel deserved all the prizes. If Trump wants there to be a Trump Prize, he could just use some of his money to fund one. But Trump would never do that, because he’s a greedy narcissist.

I know this is exactly "my line" and not anything anyone wants to hear but it does seem important to not respond to a statement like "this woman is ugly and I judge her to have failed at heterosexuality and therefore she is not deserving of dignity and respect" with "she's hot actually."

I've been warning about this moment for two decades over at Techdirt The U.S. is too corrupt to regulate data brokers (and their exploitation and sale of location data) and the check has come due

Does he think Memorial Day is an international thing? Does he think other presidents couldn’t get our allies on the phone? j/k, he obviously does not think

AI: does not love, does not suffer Sums it up nicely!

if your opening gambit is an obviously false assertion — that there was an entire literature challenging the conventional view of birthright citizenship — and then you work your way backwards into an argument, you are a hack and a liar no matter how certain you are that you are right

Shower thought: p<.05 as the convention for determining significance was developed in a time where data collection and analysis were costly and difficult. It’s inappropriate for the digital age and WAY inappropriate for the AI age, and we’ve got to change it up.

NYT: "no one has ever thought of teaching ranching at university" Every ag school: um, would you like to meet our cows NYT: "No, not like that. More romantic. More dilletante. Ugh, we're not /farmers/."

Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito

In retrospect, the whole Theranos debacle was a bright flashing warning. So many people in positions of power—wealthy people, political and military leaders, real decision-makers—believing in magic beans.

Massie is a fool who I disagree with deeply and would never vote for. But it’s better to have enemies who believe in SOMETHING instead of enemies who believe in nothing but their own power.

He was my Senator and I called him once a week to beg him to stand up to Trump. And he did nothing of the sort. Weak sauce.

I’ve thought about it, and I just don’t think white southerners should be allowed to vote.

The felon's plan to pay off J6 thugs is not just corruption, it is buying their action to go to the mat for him during & after the Nov election. If Dems win, thugs lose their payday. This isn't to reward them for the past, it's to pay them in advance for future violence.

A surprising amount of what made the USA a functional country was put into place during the very brief period where white southerners didn't have the ability to veto it

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

The largest ever settlement or jury award for government violations of constitutional rights to a single person is $100 million, or 1 percent of what Trump demanding for the leak of his tax returns. That case -- a killing by police -- was reduced to $1 million on appeal.

I saw several posts recommending this article, saying it was long but worth the time. Honestly, I wished it was longer (complimentary)

“Paid protestors” for fucks sale. Nah, Cameron, plenty of people hate your good ol’ boy Jim Crow loving gun humping bigoted stupid ass for free.

I’m really concerned about the amount of people in politics, left and right, who have decided the answer to our problem is to promise everyone magic beans. No consideration at all for what it does to our culture when the beans aren’t magic!

These days, one has to have a pretty rigid moral commitment to the truth to resist just believing whatever facts are pleasurable to you. (And it’s hard to do even then) And exactly zero people with power have that commitment. Maybe some reporters, artists, or academics. But no one with power.

Let’s ban antidepressants, let the cost of living skyrocket, stymie all peaceful political processes, and keep this heavily-armed country hooked on propaganda that makes them furious and paranoid. If you want to make a million homegrown suicide bombers, it’s an excellent plan.

An old people dance party that starts at 5 and ends at 8, playing the hits of yesteryear. It exists and it’s just what these old bones needed!

We've reached the point where one party has so obliterated the rule of law that everyone else continuing to abide by it will only hasten the end of our democracy. That's a recipe for chaos and violence. It's terrifying, and I don't know what we do about it.

I remember before the 2016 election there was a lot of talk that the post-war liberal consensus was coming to an end, and whatever happened next would determine what would happen for the next fifty years. And I think that was unfortunately right.