"the left has ceded all notions of patriotism to the right" is a real [citation needed] claim

I just can’t even

Here at the Reflecting Pool where a big chunk ofTrump's blue paint-apoxie has peeled off the bottom of the pool and is bobbling in the water.

Passengers 'Ride the D' — and other Metro lines — in droves as World Cup mania sweeps SoCal

Seattle elects a socialist mayor, wins the Super Bowl NYC elects a socialist mayor, wins the NBA finals Win your city a major sports title with this one neat trick

From the Bears fans I work with I gather they hate the current stadium, Indiana stadium site, Arlington Heights stadium site and everyone involved with the Bears stadium, especially the Bears themselves.

Following the California primaries is like when the most dramatic person in your group chat drip drops gossip instead of cutting to the point. Like buddy we don’t have all day.

Into my veins

Hahahahhaha fuck Arsenal

In China, the best selling car is actually not a Tesla. It’s this: the Chevy Sonic-sized Geely Xingyuan (EX2), which starts just under $10,000. I drove it around for a few mins, and it wasn’t hard to understand just why Geely sold nearly 500,000 units last year. insideevs.com/features/797...

Update: 100K people have now read this very good Drew Magary column and Google sent just 2.5K.

Spencer Pratt is the LA mayoral candidate for voters who own two restaurants and don't know that the city council has most of the power

The Economy being good means nothing to me because it's a measure of how confident assholes feel in their line going up, and everything they do to make the line go up hurts me and devastates everyone who's doing worse than me. This isn't fucking rocket surgery.

I approve of the Dems' response to this, though

More than a bit worrying that reality seems not to matter anymore. Like, whole political movements rise up out of disinformation campaigns pushed by algorithms and media narratives. www.latimes.com/california/s...

> @mikeisaac.bsky.social #$SPCX

It’s striking how differently people on here assess Steve Colbert & Jon Stewart’s careers (an assessment I agree with) - Stewart never fully seemed to rise to the occasion while Colbert understood much sooner & deeper what we faced

I do not regret to inform you that there are yet more additions to today's "we are going to win" pile h/t @r0wdy.sk33t.expert

///BREAKING/// The feds are DISMISSING all remaining counts in the politically charged "Broadview Six" case days before trial, marking the final collapse of what had been one of the marquee criminal cases to come out of Operation Midway Blitz. Background: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/07/b...

Saw someone respond to the idea of DC statehood with “so should every major city be its own state?” and yeah don’t threaten me with a good time.

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

Donald Trump is stealing your money: defector.com/donald-trump...

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

Spineless

contemplating how Steyer would be cruising to an easy victory in the governor's race right now if he had only ran for some rando mayorship or state senate seat instead of President in 2020

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?!

Really good blog

She in here getting to it!!!! open.substack.com/pub/pinkparl...

Good story on Gawker. TIL Tim Cook killed a show based on it. Boo. Best quote: "Gawker eventually became like Lennie from Of Mice and Men, where it didn’t understand its own power.” They Battled a Billionaire. 10 Years Later, the Scars Are Still Healing www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

LA hasn’t repaved a single street in almost a year, and we’re paying extra for it.

the basic logic of plessy — that the constitution has no bearing on social inequality — undergirds every roberts court ruling on the state’s ability to deal with the effects of racism from parents involved to calais.

“shame serves as a robustly liberal alternative to the political violence that Klein and company rightly abhor.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: Chelsea fans booing at half-time. Thousands are leaving before the final whistle. There are so many more things that are unacceptable about Chelsea under the current ownership. We list 15 of them.

important to point out the creator and showrunner of this is the babadook from the "adults drinking wine vibe" meme

Cannot wait to see who this is.

Brad and everyone like him are idiots and the sooner we treat them like idiots and not innocent hardworking decent people who were just confused the sooner we can get this country back on track.

EMERGENCY UPDATE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exu1...

Not only is this not happening, the Chinese dominance of EV’s is a terrifying development for US auto manufacturers.

In the past we had “Jim Crow“ laws. The next phase should be called “John Roberts” laws

The "reactionary colorblindess" of the right-wing justices has reached its logical conclusion in finding that it is racist NOT to let Louisiana—and any other state for that matter—discriminate on the basis of race in voting. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

American Black women now have fewer voting rights and reproductive rights than their mothers did at the same age. Progress isn’t a straight line, indeed.

Re the Voting Rights Act: I've used this graph a lot to illustrate how the VRA largely ended the historic pattern of blocking and burdening Black voters in the south. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

huge fan of the billionaire i'm rooting for's answer being sort of weird and intense and thus convincingly authentic

in limited defense of michelle she is taking the L squarely, on the chin. like just absolutely clotheslining herself with the L. if people took their L's like this more often we'd be doing much better. L-taking should be a sacred rite

Can anyone guess which country will dominate the global auto industry going forward?

ESPN unironically teases a segment on the 22 year old Texas Tech QB who is headed to rehab for his gambling addiction and then tosses it to 5 minutes of NHL prop bets for tonight. I don’t what to say other than sports betting is a scourge and an epidemic among young men and needs to go.

American auto companies are deliberately hastening their downfall.

It’s the age of electricity and America isn‘t ready. Virtually every goal Americans care about requires making big changes to the grid. I’m in @nytimes.com today writing about why power bills are going up, whether AI is to blame, and what we need to do to fix it: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...