Apparently for 15 minutes. Then they went home.

Fuck all these guys. "Photos show hundreds of masked Patriot Front white nationalists marching in DC." www.reuters.com/pictures/pho...

Peak wholesale electricity prices have soared to as much as *$2 a kilowatt hour* in data center-heavy Northern Virginia with the heat wave setting records up and down the East Coast. This is about *100X* the cheapest off-peak price. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEWS: Two people have climbed to the top of the Empire State Building antenna. They are holding a banner that reads: “When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace”

How to Corrupt an Institution: A Short Primer. >Be elected President. >Identify the line of points of control between you, and any Institution. >Corrupt the point of control closest to the institution, to do your bidding. >If that fails, try the next highest point, until successful. >Repeat.

The best part of the United States is the open immigration, and the resulting immigrants. Prove me wrong.

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This happens in every country. Domestic violence calls increase by ~36% (if they lose) or ~25% (if they WIN), about 10 hours after a match. Women should know that they are in greater danger during the FIFA World Cup. by @monaeltahawy.bsky.social www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-when...

The SWIFT Telescope. "NASA is racing to save an aging telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission." apnews.com/article/nasa...

Alex Hai is an out trans man, and gondolier of Venice, Italy. Today is publication day of "The Gondolier", his novel. Unfortunately, his US book tour is cancelled; US CBP at JFK denied him entry into the US, and deported him to Italy. www.facebook.com/reel/1433132...

NASA: NASA’s Next Generation Telescope Arrives in Florida Ahead of Launch science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman/...

Would a DC reporter please perform a FOIA request for all memos about the decision to block off all access to Dupont Circle Park - a community gathering space in the center of Gay DC? Photo Credit: Jill Dougherty (on Facebook)

Alex Hai - a trans man and a famous gondolier from Venice - was apparently arrested at JFK by US Customs and Border Patrol for failing to use his deadname on entry. He was sent to detention at Elizabeth, NJ. An Italian man, imprisoned by the US. www.facebook.com/story.php?st...

i think the reflecting pool has gone from “haha what a dumb ass” to “appointing a horse to the senate” level of story here

I'm going to buckle up for a period of persistent wage stagnation

Israel murdered yet another journalist in #Gaza: Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed Wishah. In April it had already killed his brother. Israel is the biggest killer of journalists in recorded history, killing at least 260 media workers in the past 3 yrs, including 12 from AJ aje.news/4xz5ga

Reflecting Pool bursts into flames.

There’s a saying passed down from earlier generations of Black Texans who were there for the first Juneteenth: “It was not a piece of paper that freed the slaves, but the men with the guns.”

Major League Sports administration are trying. There are Pride Night Celebrations in MLB, and the World Cup. Yet there is not a single out queer player in MLB, nor playing in the World Cup. Serious question: Why do you think that is? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Wordlebot tells me, after my second guess, that I had 12 possible choices left. Among their rankings for possible choices left, the actual correct answer was #46. Meaning, there were 33 excluded guesses that Wordlebot thought were better guesses than the correct answer. Which is not true.

maybe taking misogynist glee in mocking women isn't a good strategy

WOW taupe erasure. The suit was taupe.

OH on WNYC just now: "The US will advance to the knockout stage of World Cup soccer after a win today against Australia." Uh - the USA-AUS match starts at 3pm ET (in 8 hours). Unless WNYC is engaging in future-casting, they should consider re-phrasing.

WOW Germany erasure.

Sen. Michael Bennet D-CO, who is running for Governor in Colorado, has not voted since May 20. He has now missed 46 straight votes.

INSTANT REPARATIONS? After a 100+ day Iran War, the administration oks $300 billion in reparations. After a 4 year Civil War—with 750,000 dead & 4 million enslaved emancipated—161 years later this administration opposes a dime for reparations to Black Americans.

>renames it to the Department of War >names himself the Secretary of War >fights one war >loses

There are going to be a few bloody fights in the streets of Dallas tonight, I'm guessing.

"It's okay because I made the Iranian World Cup team sleep outside the USA." -- Trump, in defense of his capitulation to the Iranian government, probably.

What’s even the deal here? What does Trump get out of this that the United States did not have before Trump started this war? Seriously.

Jesus christ Tony Danza looks terrible.

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BUY your Pre-Sale Copy NOW! “FEMINISM VS FASCISM”, by Mona Eltahawy! Like and Share! www.feministgiant.com/p/book-annou...

A few years ago, I wrote a poem "Kill the Trillionaires". It expresses my opposition to the gross distortion of all of our lives resulting from the massing of wealth. At the time, there were no trillionaires. But I won't be posting it anymore. www.reuters.com/business/med...

This ICE flight believed to be carrying Afghan, Syrian and Iranian asylum seekers to the Central African Republic is underway. Omni Air International, may you rot in infamy and shame.

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Gen Z, it’s time we talk. Please stop replacing the mid-word “t” in “important” with a glottal stop. No, I’m not telling you it’s wrong. I’m telling you it’s unmusical. Thank you.

I don't know exactly what's going on here - but this has the smell of a major scandal. Because I'm guessing the CIA doesn't just parcel out $40M in gold bars to any old agent "for work related expenses" without cabinet-level approval. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...

The “And you wouldn’t have done a gottam thing to stop me” is silent.

The perfect experiential learning opportunity for outbreak investigation

FLASH: GOP SENATORS LEAVING FOR RECESS WITHOUT VOTE ON BUDGET BILL AMID FUROR OVER $1776 MILLION DOJ FUND, BALLROOM

The Congress will go home without voting on the GOP reconciliation bill. Both the House and Senate are out next week - lawmakers not due back until the week of June 1. Why? Troubles over ballroom funding and the Trump weaponization fund.

NESTERAK: President Trump has granted clemency to numerous individuals who have stolen hundreds of millions in Medicaid funds. Can we expect any of these folks to be shown the same mercy? McDONALD: I'll take a different question

The New York Times editorial board: “Americans should be cleareyed about what the president is doing. He is taking their money and showering it on criminals.”

NEW: The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters. Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events. 90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.

If you want to read something in which you stop every 3 minutes and shout "HOLY SHIT", then I recommend "The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922-1945". www.amazon.com/Nazi-Seizure...

Cost of extending ACA subsidies: $30B/year Cost of Trump's Iran War: $29B and counting It's not a question of what we can afford. It's a question of priorities.

"White womanhood is privilege sweetened with an innocence and fragility that white women--liberal or conservative, Trump-voting or not--are adept at weaponizing." -- @monaeltahawy.bsky.social, "The Demise of the Fascist Beauty Queen" www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-...

This was Obama's position.