The Arlington National Cemetery Memorial apparently has deleted references and information on everyone interred there who wasn’t a white straight man from their database - attempting to sweep their existence under the rug. My thoughts on this obscenity cannot legally be shared on this platform.

NSF is closing down most of the Ocean Observatory oceanobservatories.org/2026/05/anno...

How are you bringing in the weekend? The president of the United States is posting about building a messianic golden defensive force field around the White House and annexing Greenland

Bets: Cuba or Iran

Worlds Greatest Negotiator™️is so fucking desperate now that he's working on giving away the store to Iran. Again, hard to read the fact that we are even discussing something like this now as anything other than a total, unambiguous defeat for Trump in his war with Iran.

Memorial Day weekend for a 72 hour special nuclear dust extraction operation so it can be concluded before markets open

We are going to savor this one. Our client, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is freed of these outrageous, vindictive charges. It’s a good day.

SCOTUS is just out here like “when we said get as many Black people as possible out of the government, did we stutter?”

Tulsi Gabbard losing her position as director of national intelligence is the second harshest loss of her political career, harsher than losing her seat in Congress and getting creamed in the Democratic presidential primary, but not quite as bad as when Bashar al Assad lost power in Syria.

Note this doesn't say who she was a "top spy" for. I imagine there are many possibilities.

This lady was quietly one of the most malign influences in the 2024 election, along with RFK, giving Trump a patina of bipartisan cooperation.

Our goal is to simply survive this administration and all of the damage they are doing to our country, the present and future of science. I publish with "foreign scientists" all the time. This is going to be a problem if I cannot cite those papers in my progress reports.

There we have it?

I’ve said it before and will say it a few more times. When Trump 2.0 came for accreditation I knew we had crossed into a different era of white reclamation. Precise, focused, stealth. Anyway, you probably don’t want these reforms.

Mississippi GOP was forced to redraw their legislative gerrymanders last year, resulting in Democratic gains & an end to GOP's supermajority. After Callais, that all looked on thin ice. Indeed courts have confirmed MS can go back to gerrymanders that'll reduce Black representation:

"They remember learning that their relatives died, they remember death threats against them and other loved ones in the aftermath, they remember how the fear and bloodshed prompted President Lyndon B. Johnson to decide that the time had come to send a Voting Rights Act to Congress."

"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...

“Understand right now, history has reached a turning point again. Not just Jim Crow 2.0—it’s freedom forever,” said Reena Evers-Everette. Her father, voting rights leader Medgar Evers, was assassinated by a white supremacist in the family's driveway in 1963.

The way Ron DeSantis has turned Florida’s previously top-notch university system into a lavish slush fund for his friends and co-segregationists needs to be the subject of a withering political campaign. Everyone who touched this process should be made radioactive in polite society.

See, the thing is that whether USAID was a cynical op to expand imperial influence or a sincere act of goodwill from the United States, all those Africans are still dead.

First vaccines, now mammograms? RFK Jr.’s latest firings have doctors outraged. arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

Chaotic, unplanned cuts to US programs eroded the infrastructure that was keeping the world safe. Now, An American father is fighting for his life. The whole article is just damning. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/h... @apoorvanyt.bsky.social

There are like 250 people (give or take) in the world who have the actual legal authority to curb this nonsense and they all act like they are just randos at a midwestern diner getting interviewed by the New York Times

its funny both left wing reporters like chad loder and far right terrorists like tarrio agree that the slush fund is designed to buy arms for right wing terror orgs. the media is still framing the objections as "rewarding people who assaulted our beloved cops." like its actually much worse!

it is just very funny how all it takes for a billionaire to be beloved by the people whose whole thing is ostensibly hating billionaires and the power money has over media and politics is to make some platitude-y mouth words in the right direction,

Democrats just defeated this bill, then Republicans pulled the War Powers Resolution vote on Iran because they didn't have the votes to defeat it. The measure is privileged in a way that requires it be brought up within a certain number of days, I *think* that will mean it comes back in early June.

Rep. Jamie Raskin is introducing legislation to block the Trump slush fund. The bill would bar the use of any federal funds to back the settlement and would also create new restrictions on payouts generally — including barring anyone convicted of rioting at the Capitol from receiving funds.

So the sticking points are the same underlying impetuses for this conflict. Good good.

CLIENT: These federal charges seem serious. What kind of sentence could I get? LAWYER: Depending on the next presidential election, you're looking at somewhere between life imprisonment and becoming a millionaire.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

If I went back in time and told my younger self there were Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and Star Trek properties coming out and I was not excited about them, past-me would have had no choice to try to kill future-me for being an obvious imposter.

Every single policy reads like it was written by a greenhouse gas

With the news about the case against ICE protestors in Chicago being dropped, just a reminder that the federal government is still trying to bankrupt Rep. McIver via malicious prosecution for trying to exercise oversight of the Delaney Hall facility.

Totally unrelated, but insofar as the Silmarillion works, it works because it is so sparse. The few details allow you to conjure up in your mind a world that is far more epic than anything that could be actually depicted. Now to take a big sip of coffee and check on Peter Jackson's new projects.

The next Dem President needs to just wipe this absurdity away. "Some random district court judge in Texas gets to act like a tyrannical king" is neither how the actual Constitution works nor a sensible common-sense adaptation of the Constitution's failings.

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/."

Holy shit lmao

i was asked recently if i thought clarence thomas saw himself as a villain. i said yes and this is a good example. he is totally bloodthirsty and loves the idea of the government executing people.

Correct

Stay tuned for next week's op-ed from a EdTech startup founder about how his computer program will allow the proles to imbibe the educational experiences that the elites have decided is the new secret for success (the program will be Oregon Trail with an LLM stapled on).

Oh, today's Discourse is going to be *cursed* cursed.

The developing plan to maduro Castro because the plan to iraq Iran didn’t work out www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

We invented luxury space communism, but only for cats.

“Everyone, especially in South Sudan, wanted to know if the US really had cut off aid. It was easier for them to believe that the aid organizations were lying to them than to think that the United States would do this.”

Coming to the disturbing conclusion that quite a lot of people have memed themselves into thinking that luxury gay space communism is going to repeal the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.

Rosemary in Widow's Bay is out there being an icon of supportive and open-minded friendship.

If this was African and African Diaspora Studies being mandated we’d see entire issues of prestige magazines pondering the disastrous implications.

“A world-class Ebola lab in Frederick, Maryland, with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was designed for exactly this scenario…But that lab was shuttered last year, with staff laid off abruptly and their work …ended with no notice.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

The idea that Americans pay more taxes than Europeans is catastrophically false, verging on delusional. This is what people on this site mean when we talk about populism killing the future. People just believe shit which is not remotely true, because it makes them feel better?