The light on this Snowy…

Grandpa who sideswiped nine cars last night insists he’s fine to drive to church.

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Always enjoy my morning rituals: make coffee, water the plants, delete emails from key scammers

Congress intended to leave small donors out of public disclosures, setting a threshold of $200 in 1980. Inflation has more than quadrupled since then, but the threshold has not changed. That and other rules have brought millions of small donors into public view. Congress should raise the threshold.

The internet has made it easier than ever to use campaign finance data to find people’s home addresses, creating privacy risks in a time of increasing political violence and threats. Congress should stop requiring street addresses in public disclosures.

Campaign finance disclosure rules were set decades ago and then torn up by Citizens United, leading to $1.9B in dark money in 2024. Meanwhile, inflation and the internet have changed how the rules affect small donors. It's time for an update. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Sucks that this 64 year old Rocky & Bullwinkle joke still hits now

[White House press conference next week] Have you directed the National Guard to investigate rumors of, I'm quoting, "shoggoths" emerging from the Reflecting Pool— which locals have taken to referring to as "The Bog of Eternal Despair"—and roaming the area between the Tidal Basin and Foggy Bottom?

☁️ Abbot House in Dunfermline This historic red building and graveyard looked incredible under the stormy sky ✨ #moody #urbanphotography #photography #dunfermline #scotland

eating in mexico as a european has gotta be like hearing music for the first time

Remember The Hobbit is about 15 guys conspiring to murder a billionaire because he stole too much money and then a sixteenth guy who was not even involved shot that billionaire because he just knew it was the right thing to. Class solidarity, you know? There also was a bear.

Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit

i'm anti-the whole "great man theory" of history but we really need to admit that there is, in fact, a great shitweasel theory of history that is proven by cold, hard facts

Along with these changes, rules should allow researchers to access full data about campaign $ under restrictions that prevent them from publishing identifiable information. Research, including on small donors, is important to understand the system & reforms. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Congress intended to leave small $ out of public disclosures, setting a $200 threshold in 1980. Inflation is more than 4X since then, but the threshold hasn't changed. That & other rules brought millions of small donors into public view. Congress should raise the threshold & pin it to inflation.

Campaign finance disclosure rules were set decades ago and then torn up by Citizens United, leading to $1.9B in dark money in 2024. Meanwhile, inflation and the internet have changed how the rules affect small donors. It's time for an update. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

god this app is gonna be insufferable next week when G’hzarxl the Rancorous plunges Earth into the aeon of Endless Night

The cheapest seats for the Knicks/Spurs game tomorrow night cost 11% of what the median American family makes in a year, and expensive seats cost about 90%

I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later"

A map of the Old City, showing the Processional Way from the Landward Gate to the Harbor.

The life cycle of a ballot... www.ocregister.com/2026/05/28/l...

This is just too heartwarming

Oh did you guys not enjoy Chud Stalingrad

"You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible weapons" Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky[a][b] (19 July [O.S. 7 July] 1893 – 14 April 1930) was a Russian poet, playwright, artist, and actor.

HOLY SHIT IT'S REAL

‘Whenever I'm alone with you You make me feel like I am home again Whenever I'm alone with you You make me feel like I am whole again’ Love Song The Cure 1989

I've decided to reframe my self-indulgent behavior as part of a vast and timeless battle against pain and human suffering. so when i sleep for eleven hours, I'm not being lazy and undisciplined, I'm striking a blow in the global struggle against injustice.

#patrickwyman you magnificent bastard!

the absolute size of the national debt gets overstated in importance, but it changes the dynamic when (a) the underlying spending *isn't* being invested in infrastructure, science, and the long-term health and well-being of people and (b) the US is internationally viewed as unstable and unreliable

There’s not a former E4 among us who wouldn’t rather work for Don Quixote than Odysseus.

I know the law

well maybe if you quit spending money on avocado toast and coffee you could actually afford to gamble online,

*The Russo-Ukraine War is taking an odd turn, and though I don't fancy myself as an armchair-general, I feel the need to speculate about developments. #longthread #BlueskyPundit

Praying for Rudy Giuliani. Complicated man, but he taught me that marriage and family don't mean anything. You can just do whatever you want. Humiliate and lie to everyone you're supposed to love whenever you want, or are bored. Honestly fuck them. Also he taught me everything else is like that too.

www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-f... ?

Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.

Cartoon by @mygumsarebleeding.bsky.social

Who could have imagined the reporters at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner would have wound up cringing in their knees on the ground

I mean, Rubio IS a White House insider. So true enough.

when will zohran mamdani bring back 22 episode television seasons

Secret $ for White House ballroom: "Provisions peppered throughout the agreement prevent the signatories from revealing the identities of anonymous donors, and a review process for detecting conflicts of interest ... makes no mention of ... the president...." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

An excellent piece about the total collapse of Florida oranges. If you've read John McPhee's Oranges you kind of have to read this to see how it turned out (extremely badly). slate.com/business/202...

I come from the Catholic side of the aisle (so even a few extra chapters and books to get in...Tobit is a great buddy road trip), and finishing the whole thing made me realize the most Christ-like thing I could do was abandon the Church but live well, caring for others.

Only the New York Times, run by a fourth-generation nepo baby for an imagined audience of other elites with Roman numerals after their names, could treat such a small-bore common-sense tax proposal as the peak sign of a class war. If this is the peak of the "anti-rich current," they'll be lucky.