He was an old man, who, at the age of nearly sixty, had postponedly encountered that thing in sorrow’s technicals called ruin.

They’re trying to normalize the idea of a national sales tax to end progressive taxation, and I’m already sick about the number of people who are going to fall for it because they hate the idea of other people enjoying anything.

Every GOP primary story is like “syphilis loses to pancreatic cancer”

Just gonna go ahead and post this again, 'cause it's still fuckin' relevant.

the fuck it will

The top lawyer at the Treasury Department stepped down in the wake of the creation of that $1.8 billion 'slush fund' that could soon be making payments to Trump's political allies — and reportedly even Jan. 6 insurrectionists, according to three people familiar with the move.

I am not remotely a lawyer, but I think if you agree to review a manuscript for a press and then feed that manuscript into AI without the permission of the author, the author should be allowed to sue you into poverty.

FTFNYT: Gender-affirming medications and procedures are ONLY good if they're used by cis people.

Your tax dollars paid for this event freedom250.org/celebration/...

When you can’t control the image.

I feel like everyone who’s used it as a therapist needs to see this “By using it, Client waived confidentiality”

Imagine a world in which no one has a job and 8 guys own 100% of the wealth. Doesn't that sound amazing, Class of 2026?

(sad trombone noise)

daaaamn london

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

Just laughing at how it’s possible for a black woman to be so beautiful and talented that she sends a racist into a six day public stroke

Pop, Six, squish, uh-oh, Cicero, Lipshitz

saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)

Good news, everyone www.cnn.com/2026/05/14/h...

gwen does fantastic work as usual on some of the 401,000 trans people who’ve had to flee hostile territory in their own country in the past 18 months.

“Unfortunately for the vice president, there’s video” will be an increasingly common sentence.

Rawbraining it

cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment

Voting rights

industry built on unpunished mass-scale theft continues to perform mass scale theft

From what I understand Hantavirus is not very communicable and the risk is mostly where people are in overcrowded, poorly maintained, unsanitary surroundings like America’s VA facilities, prisons, detention centers, and schools.

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

we undressed and went to bed, at peace with our own consciences and all the world

Disgusting. Foul as the Calláis decision is, SCOTUS took great pains to distinguish Milligan from its decision in Calláis. Alabama just can’t stand to see the rest of the Confederacy having fun without it.

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

Clearly the only way to protect voters and defend democracy is to reject anything that was decided democratically by the voters themselves

Nothing to see here, just an average size Kingdom of Kent oak tree, and an average size citizen 🫡🌳

Just a reminder that all of this was set in motion by our supposedly moderate chief justice declaring in 2013 that southern states were so unracist that federal oversight was no longer necessary. This is his life’s mission, and he was never moderate.

Reminder that they’re going to desecrate the most sacred space in our nation’s capital, the Lincoln Memorial, by holding weigh-ins on its steps like it’s a goddamn New Orleans slave market.

he's literally a thin skinned old man who alternates between watching TV and napping. You don't even have to throw a punch. You just wait til he falls asleep and tie his shoelaces together!

Wow, nationalist chauvinism and high ass fuel prices are a turnoff, who knew?

And we wonder why they want to close public libraries and defund public schools, but build ballrooms.

And now for our second story of the *very first* day at @weareravenous.com, I wrote about the decline of the American sports bar, and how two very disparate forces — women's sports, and gambling — are shaping its future. www.weareravenous.com/women-sports...

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

I knew when Trump was re-elected that corporate accountability would be out the window, but it still appalls me.

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There are only about 30 women's colleges left in the U.S.. Just like other anti-trans laws, this will hurt all women.

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

fundamentally the court believes it is above recourse and that it is impossible its actions will negatively polarize a congressional majority against itself

The Klandalorian

A message from Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina projected onto Jeff Bezos’s $120 million penthouse before tonight’s #MetGala, chaired by Bezos.

Met Gala VIP toilet, installed outside the Met Museum in New York. A $100,000 ticket gets you fashion, glamour, and apparently the full Amazon worker experience. 💋

Timeline cleanse alert!! Watch to the end; pro tip: don’t have anything in your mouth..