JUST IN: #SCOTUS sets Mon. 4pm deadline for civil rights attys to respond to Alabama bid to use map likely to lead to 6-1 R-D delegation & lose 1 majority Black district www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Trump in his Cabinet meeting: "I don't care about the midterms."

EN DIRECT, canicule : 17 départements en alerte orange, 39 en vigilance jaune pour jeudi

🚨💣 BREAKING: Anthony Gordon to Barcelona, here we go! Official bid accepted now by Newcastle board and Saudi owners. €70m fixed fee plus add-ons to bring final package over €80m for #NUFC Gordon set to travel this week for medical and contract signing at FCB. 🔵🔴✈️

Valve just raised Steam Deck prices in the US 🎮 • 1TB OLED $649 ➡️ $949 • 512GB OLED $549 ➡️ $789 "these new prices reflect the current state of component costs and other global logistical challenges across the industry as a whole"

Reporter: Ken Paxton has taken to calling you ‘Talafreako’ @JamesTalarico: If Ken Paxton is worried about freaks, he should stop giving Epstein-style sweetheart deals to pedophiles. This is the guy who just released Adam Hoffman from jail, an admitted child rapist.

Bond game has a song from Fallout in it #007FirstLight #JamesBond

JENKINS: “.. Trump was going to be impeached next year anyway. He thinks, perhaps rightly, that installing one or two toadies might be the difference between conviction and acquittal .. when more independent-minded GOP members start eyeing the post-Trump vista.” www.wsj.com/opinion/in-a...

NEW: Thousands of people have signed a petition calling for a 700-year-old letter asking the Pope to support William Wallace to stay in Scotland rather than be sent back to England 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

Happy Birthday Lenny Kravitz! album.ink/LKravitzHBD

No bread though. Inflation being what it is.

The U.S. will need years to replenish stockpiles of key weapons used in the Iran war, potentially limiting firepower in any other conflict, a new analysis says.

What happened to being the most transparent administration in history? Donald Trump is using our government to silence witnesses, steal billions, and jail his opponents.

This entire administration is an exercise in discovering why you need government and then scrambling to assemble an arm while cutting off another leg.

Stellantis va investir 1 milliard d’euros à Mulhouse et Belchamp pour produire une « nouvelle génération de véhicules électriques »

BREAKING Reuters: President Biden has sued the Trump Justice Department — seeking to bar the release of audio recordings and transcripts of private conversations with ‌his biographer in 2016 and 2017.

"He's a menace ... I WANT SPIDER-MAN!" J.K. Simmons is at the Mets game tonight and ran into a familiar face 😂

Recipe cards are making a comeback in today's kitchen as home cooks ditch screens for handwritten family recipes, convenience, and nostalgia.

🚨URGENT need for more people to join the protesters outside Delaney Hall as ICE escalates their violence, per people on the ground. show up if you can.🚨

Seems to be a trend techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/d...

Well, when you surrender twice a week for 12 weeks, it can get burdensome to keep coming up with something original.

Hmm. A “6 month physical” followed by cancelling a trip to Camp David because of… *checks notes* scattered thunderstorms. Sure, sure.

A $40 billion selloff in a 141-year-old Japanese cable firm has served as a reality check on the fragility of the global AI-driven stock rally. 👉 ebx.sh/NQzsQh

my firm take is that any man loudly worried about fertility rates is a fucking creep

JUST IN: Judge blocks Trump admin policy limiting public speech & perhaps on-campus speech by West Point faculty. Judge Cathy Seibel (GWBush/SDNY): 'West Point cadets..are not snowflakes who will somehow be harmed by learning about controversial issues.' www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

@jjdianem.bsky.social Happy World Redhead Day!!!

Canada is set to announce a deal to sell LNG to Germany's SEFE from the planned Ksi Lisims export facility on BC's coast Helped @brianplatt.bsky.social with this scoop

I wrote about Elon Musk's attack on Lupita Nyong'o, and how it is important to put that in the context of the fact that Musk launched an actual ongoing genocide against non-white people which has already killed hundreds of thousands. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/musk-attac...

Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion. It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make. (Published May 2025)

For those asking: Yes, designing this as a MANDATORY WORKPLACE TRAINING MODULE is satirical. At @wired.com we love to have fun. (Please do send me your compliance certificate, though.)

BREAKING: COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Senate rejects President Trump's push to redraw US House districts to try to get Republicans extra seat.

FIFA is too chickenshit to say anything, but this should absolutely be disqualifying for the US.

Just over here thinking about the number of editors who told me 15 years ago that my idea for a book about the UFC and the direction of American culture was stupid and no one would read it.

BREAKING: BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) - Federal court temporarily blocks Alabama plan for new congressional districts that could help Republicans.

Yep. More from me on this on Wed. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

A remarkable encyclical from Pope Leo with wise words about AI. While AI can be useful it must be disarmed. Whether in teaching, learning, or anything else, we have to maintain our shared humanity. More from me on AI and Education this Wednesday. www.npr.org/2026/05/25/n...

This is more relevant than any Vance speeches or National Security Strategies. This is Europe home alone. www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

We are going to win! This stuff can and will be brought to a halt. None of it is inevitable. Anthropic cannot afford to slow down. It has to grow to at least $100bn a year in revenue or it doesn’t have a hope in hell of paying its compute bills. Same for clammy little Altman.

Beef prices are rising so fast some famed Texas BBQ joints are closing: ‘Everybody’s at risk these days’

".. People feel that they might be forced to pick a side,” he said. "And then there is really only one side to pick.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/w...

States Flex Muscle on Antitrust Enforcement as Trump Administration Pulls Back www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

En Bretagne, le tourisme haut de gamme colonise le littoral

This Australian bloke pulled a reverse-Fetterman on 'em. Crikey! 🌏 www.news.com.au/finance/cult...

Sonny Rollins, géant du saxophone et du jazz, est mort à 95 ans

KNICKS IN FOUR GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD LETS FUCKING GO

The son of a prominent Texas Republican is alleged to be an agent of China. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

On NBC News, Thomas Massie says he’s going to start publicly naming billionaires implicated in the Epstein files because Trump’s DOJ refuses to convict.

Imagine that