Trump's war has wiped out an entire year and a half of wage growth

NEW: Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.”

has any man ever been more vindicated? x.com/stuartbuck1/...

“There may be.” FFS. Forget the flags. I have a literal masters degree in public health, I’m an actual union leader (in my second term as chapter president,) I’m a college professor, and a reproductive health advocate. And people are quibbling over if he abused his exes enough to be disqualifying.

I never thought I’d be in politics either. And you know what I’ve been up to? Working in a local food bank, making art for nonprofit auctions, and volunteering on a board for homelessness relief.

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The consequences, they say, are already becoming clear.

Just watched Meet Me In St. Louis, and is that depiction of Halloween accurate? We have gotten soft. Those children were burning things in the street, completely feral. They created a fake dead body to try and derail the trolley! There was no treat, just maximum trick.

Saw a post about how doctors treat the pain of men and women differently, and it made me remember the time my brother and I went to the same oral surgeon for wisdom teeth removal but he got prescribed vicodin and I got double strength naproxen.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

When politicians say they can't hold corporations accountable, remember: they can. They just choose not to.

Y'all if you think that the reason we don't have universal healthcare is that it costs too much, I don't know what to say to you. We would get better healthcare for less money with universal healthcare. The cost is not the issue. There are many reasons we don't have universal healthcare.

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

turns out when you legitimate a taste for bigotry people gravitate to the parties that serve it as an entree rather than as a garnish

it's actually true that you cannot fund good government entirely by taxing the rich, which is why slopulist proposals to gut the tax base are a bad idea but taxing the rich at punitive levels is a goal in and of itself, billionaires are simply too dangerous to public policy to exist

In shocking news, Justice department begins prosecution of rich people crimes.

"“It’s possible that we’re starting to see the consequences of severe and sudden cuts to global health programs that have eroded surveillance and allowed deadly viruses to spread undetected...” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/w...

Sometimes you have one drink. And then you think, that was good, let's have another. But! You've been pregnant or nursing for most of the past 11 years and you are now, functionally, a light weight. This hangover is going to blow.

Moby Dick Pride & Prejudice The Count of Monte Cristo This is too constraining, I need more slots

Name a song with girl in the title but replace with squirrel: Squirrel all the bad guys want

🚨🚨🚨🎉🎉🎉🎉 Moth 🧵

Apparently "8647" is our Spartacus moment

[disco sounde] Make a litel tea Reade a litel Woolf Staye yn tonighte! Staye yn tonighte!

May they choke on their favorite food, the bastards

The ten episode season is bullshit, bring back the 30 incredibly-uneven-quality seasons of #StarTrek #TOS

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In the 24 hours since the Supreme Court's majority ruled to demolish the Voting Rights Act's remaining protections, Louisiana and Tennessee have already signaled that they'll redraw their congressional maps with the clear effect of shutting Black voters out.

Alina Habba went on The View yesterday & it did not go well for her HABBA: The DOJ brings real cases. We are not Jack Smith. We are not Letitia James. We bring real cases AUDIENCE: *laughs & groans* HOSTIN: You actually were sanctioned nearly $1 mil for filing a frivolous lawsuit against Comey

Strawberry Uterus On tour now!

Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

the thing with Trump is you really can blame most of the current inflation directly on him and his policies (tariffs, Iran war) in a way that is not true of other presidents who have had to deal with inflation

Here’s my piece on the “now-completed demolition” of the Voting Rights Act in @thenation.com The VRA is the most important piece of legislation in American history. It more than anything is what ended American-style apartheid. And now Republicans have killed it.

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

‘Disappointed’ ‘Surprised’ ‘Betrayed’: 12 Dogs Who Were Given a Bath After Being Embraced and Told ‘It’s Time for Your Bath’

Day 1526 of Russia's choice to invade and murder peaceful neighbours. They're still at it. But it's now 4,452 days since the start of Putin's plan to invade and illegally annex Crimea and all south-eastern regions of Ukraine. I've documented everything - here's the latest🧵

"If we wait for the hyperrich to finally realize that their fates are tied to ours—for their children to contract measles, or for them to get cabin fever in their apocalypse bunkers—it will be too late for many of the rest of us." - @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...

HARDER: What are the health harms of this repeal? ZELDIN: It could be 0 HARDER: You think doubling the amount of mercury pollution is going to result in 0 health harms?

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

Uranium glass ain't nothin'. They had...

Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

The new technology that is going to actually transform this century is being able to manufacture and deliver solid state batteries at scale. There are so many applications for this, all of which will replace fossil fuels at a scale not seen before and enable things we have not yet dreamed of.