Sunrise in Patagonia, Chile Torres del Paine, Chile 🇨🇱

“.. the programme has not provided a single dollar of cover.” @financialtimes.com #Hormuz www.ft.com/content/eaba...

"Especially over the last 15 years, the Court's corrupt majority has more & more openly adopted the stance that you have a powerful presidency for Republicans & a weak one for Dems. They won’t allow Dems to enjoy the fruits of political power when they win it, & that’s just an untenable situation."

AOC: “It is time for the North to pull up to the South and let them know exactly what they have uncorked with this injustice. They think they can draw us out of power. They do not know the sleeping giant they just awakened. What they thought was the final blow is actually just the opening silo”

One of the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee called attention to a document displayed at a new hearing with Jeffrey Epstein's victims that could potentially reveal the names of his co-conspirators.

1500km charge in 6 minutes!! “The boundaries of electrochemistry are still far from being reached, and the possibilities of materials science are still far from being exhausted" - Robin Zeng, CATL founder Still think its all subsidies & copycat & no science or innovation? www.ft.com/content/1773...

Corruption should and likely will be a massive campaign theme for Democrats and these quotes should figure prominently.

LANDMAN is ripe for this because it routinely has Billy Bob Thornton go off on wholly-untrue pro-oil rants. His most famous one is about wind turbines not offsetting any carbon over their 20-year life cycle. In reality, they're fully offset within an average of 5.3 months.

Internal AutoZone memo: “.. We’re facing the largest supply shortage of lubricating fluids in the modern history of America. Realistic, middle-of-the-road estimates are for our average available supply in this product category to drop by 40%.” (via Costa Oil) #$AZO

Thomas Massie pushed for the release of the Epstein files, and the response has been tens of millions in outside spending, smear campaigns, and coordinated attacks. If this is what they do to a sitting member of Congress, imagine what Epstein survivors face when considering whether to come forward.

Finally, some good news. A guy bought 80 Pizza Hut franchises and redesigned them to their 1970s and 80s glory. I would drive miles to eat at one of these.

"The Trump administration has struck what some see as the final blow to PEPFAR, the vaunted US program that has saved the lives of 26 million people living with HIV. The State Dept now says that as of 30 September, CDC support for PEPFAR will end in most countries." www.science.org/content/arti...

i have been writing about the virginia supreme court decision with a certain amount of analytical detachment but if i’m being honest i’m also fucking furious i took the time to go vote and then my ballot got tossed out by these dipshits

Huh. They lose Hungary's right wing revenue stream and immediately try to implement an alternative scheme for funding. Hail Hydra, bitches.

Top: Trump with leader of democratic Ukraine. Bottom: Trump with leader of authoritarian China.

This tweet, for a Ross Barkan story that copied my lede and reporting, now has more than 10x the views of the original. Ross hasn't apologized or acknowledged it; maybe he's just waiting for me to shut up. Without any explanation, I'm left to wonder how many times he's done this

Alright, here's my contribution to the Is-Bluesky-Dying discourse: Bluesky is a record store davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/bluesky-is...

I can say this for Alito his ability to be pissy little bitch is unrivaled peerless in the little bitch field

This is pretty amazing.

I read this entire article and could not for the life of me figure out why it was news. They picked a speaker, some students wrote a letter saying they don’t like the speaker. This is the sum total of what happened. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...

He...snorkeled around a WWII war grave? Jesus fucking christ. apnews.com/article/fbi-...

"UNUSUAL OFFER"?? No, headline writers. "Charges Dropped Against Indian Billionaire Accused of Bribery, After Offering Trump A Bribe."

the US university system is one of the great wonders of the modern world and it should be celebrated rather than attacked at every turn by dipshits who don’t know what we have

Eric Trump joining Donald Trump on an official state visit to China is much more corrupt than anything involving Joe and Hunter Biden, yet New York Times coverage indicates the opposite. I show the contrast here, and challenge anyone to explain how it isn’t media bias in Trump’s favor.

one of those drop everything and just read it things …. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

When white supremacists described the first black politicians winning elections in the South during Reconstruction, they too called it a "reign of terror" that innocent white people had to suffer under. Black leaders! Elected to federal office! Can you imagine the indignity?!

Yes, the Fancy Lawyers Are the Problem — Across the Board talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/yes-t...

On this day in 1985, the city of Philadelphia went to war against its own citizens. I wrote about it for @teenvogue.com back in 2020: www.teenvogue.com/story/histor...

My daughter's pithy summation: "Covid reminded people they lived in a society; and they hated it."

President Adjudicated Rapist and his Large Adult Sons have arrived in Beijing for a series of high-stakes negotiations over who can return home with the largest bribe (legal caveat: bribery is now explicitly legal per SCOTUS when done under Republican supervision). www.cnbc.com/2026/05/13/t...

The Suncor refinery is a smokeshow. But perhaps we're being unfair to Colorado's biggest polluter just because it occasionally belches black and yellow smoke for our lungs to enjoy. So we looked at how Suncor's pollution compares to similar refineries.

Georgia's governor signs a comically transparent law. It makes local elections in 5 big blue counties nonpartisan, to give GOP candidates a chance to win without a party label in places like Atlanta. And it doesn't change anything in the rest of the state, for red counties to know who's GOP.

For his new book “How to Sell a Genocide: The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza,” @ahjohnson.bsky.social wanted to demonstrate that U.S. media coverage of the war on Gaza was one-sided, racist, dehumanizing, and often veered into outright incitement.

Pancreatic cancer is one of the hardest cancers to treat. After decades of dashed hopes, researchers can target an elusive driver of pancreatic cancer. Federal funding allows us to learn from failures & work towards better treatments. This triumph was not achieved overnight. 🧪 archive.today/hncCs

So not only did TN Republicans strip Memphis of representation, Speaker Sexton is also stripping Dems of committees for protesting it. Watch fascism work. www.wsmv.com/2026/05/12/m...

As others have noted, it's good that Trump is normalizing the idea of adding new states with these insane posts, as it'll just soften the ground for Democrats to make DC and PR states.

It's no exaggeration. Here's "Imperial Wizard" Hiram Evans in 1926, explaining the Klan's Tuberville-ism:

Straight up Klan talk from the 1920s. The reference to Islam is the only thing that would mark this as something from our own era.

You can have a “ceasefire” between Lebanon and Israel and Israel will still threaten 86 entire villages

A study suggests that many older adults who died of COVID-19 weren’t close to death before infection. In fact, 28% would likely have lived at least another 5 years if they hadn't contracted the virus. Read more: ow.ly/j4V150YXREy

Anyone with a passing familiarity with current events understands that Roberts’s argument — that the public is somehow mistaken about the Court’s function as the judicial arm of the Republican Party — is irreconcilable with reality.

Dems once again choosing Respect For Process over victory.

important thing to note here is dr oz cites a current american replacement rate of 1.5, which is not true. the american replacement level in 2025 was 1.79. interestingly, the white replacement rate is in fact at 1.5 though

Mother's Day can be bittersweet for those whose mothers suddenly fell down a high flight of stairs after her past allegations of rape surfaced while her ex-husband was facing a new rape trial. May those moms rest in peace on their ex-husbands' golf courses. by Ivanka, Eric, & Donald Trump, Jr.

"It's not about politics! It's more important than that! It's about making sure scary black people don't run things, see."

They're not going to stop with trans. They've realized that they can get away with just about anything if they claim to be protecting "the children." If they roll back gay marriage, they won't stop there either. There is no fucking accommodating these people, they must be defeated & marginalized.

Kennedy framed civil rights as a moral test of national character: do we apply the Golden Rule to our own people? And the Trump era answer has essentially been: No. Not if they’re poor, Black, immigrants, queer or trans., sick and not if they can be scapegoated for political gain.

Yet another example of the evils that Trump & Vance are doing on a daily basis in our names.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.