Oh come on www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Christopher Nolan has desecrated The Odyssey by not making it a 27 hour long movie of almost nothing but speeches and feasts with occasional 5 minute flashbacks to Odysseus's men fucking up encounters with mythical creatures and getting smushed.

if there aren't 10 scenes of odysseus slathering himself in olive oil and ranting about disloyal slaves, christopher nolan is officially cancelled

my feeling about this is that Third Way is basically just three guys in an office and should be ignored

In further developments in doing GWOT on the narcos. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/w...

In the USA today corruption is not just a widely accepted part of the system, it is the point of the system. Go ahead Americans, shrug your shoulders as the President turns the office into a vehicle for illegal enrichment. www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

Wow: Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, one of the biggest children's hospitals in the nation, will be forced to create the nation's first ever "detransition clinic" as part of a $10 million settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Some of the identified individuals the US killed in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific showed "no indication of involvement with drug trafficking." And even if they were traffickers, they'd be low level. Killing them would make virtually no impact on the cartels or drug trafficking into the US.

Time to make Section 4 of the 14th Amendment famous, which explicitly bars the U.S. government from paying out or owing anything to insurrectionists. The text instructs that “all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.” constitution.congress.gov/browse/amend...

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

It's becoming hard to distinguish DAG Blanche's prose from Trump's. Trump's reply brief over his "Militarily Top Secret Ballroom" stresses that the suit is motivated by TDS & brought by Greg Craig, WH counsel to "Barack Hussein Obama." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Thanks to my brilliant colleagues, a way to visualize and better understand the American situation. "The Trump Administration’s Use of State Power Against Media: Keeping Track of the Big Picture" By Professor @bechamilton.bsky.social www.justsecurity.org/112792/trump...

Trump to NYT's David Sanger: "I had a total military victory. But the fake news, guys like you, write incorrectly. You're a fake guy. We had a total military victory. I actually think it's sort of treasonous what you write. You should be ashamed of yourself. I actually think it's treason."

Pleased to speak with @theguardian.com about the US boat strikes and this important investigation into the identities of the victims. “I think this was in part a military spectacle to give the illusion of the administration doing something ‘macho’ about drugs.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Here’s how you can hack together a radio transmitter and receiver out of stuff you have at home—and explore the weirdness of wireless. www.wired.com/story/build-...

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Californians get free diapers. But at what cost?

Fine. Mayor Pete for President. Dude has fucking unnatural political abilities. And not at all in a bad way.

With trial nearing for the remaining members of the Broadview 6, a new filing tonight offers insight into how the feds view the case after dropping the conspiracy charge: "All the actions by all the members of the mob were clearly foreseeable to each of them. They are all therefore responsible …"

“‘Roots’ is a … story following the descendants of a man sold into slavery in the United States. It won the Pulitzer Prize & was adapted into a mini-series. … The Children’s Defense Fund Alex Haley Farm is in Clinton. Haley grew up in Henning, Tennessee.”

In his bid to get the charges against him dismissed bc Bill Essayli, while he was acting unlawfully as USA, persisted w/case after it became clear first affidavit was full of lies, Adrian Martinez cites Aileen Cannon dismissing the charges against Trump. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We all have occassion to say this a lot in this era, but seriously this is the craziest goddamn thing I've read in a very very long time abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

Alito: mailing abortion medication violates The Fugitive Womb Act bsky.app/profile/stev...

Justice Thomas is wrong: Federal law doesn't make it illegal to mail mifepristone to a woman w/o knowledge that she plans to use it unlawfully. www.justice.gov/olc/opinion/... Note, also, how Thomas & Alito would rule for LA regardless of whether the state has standing or is right on the merits.

This means every American will have to pay $5 tax to pay Trump's terrorists, ON TOP OF the money those terrorists ultimately did not pay to fix the damage they did to the Capitol.

BREAKING: SCOTUS keeps mifepristone available on current terms, including mailing of the abortion drug. Thomas and Alito each authored a separate dissent. New, at Law Dork:

Trump is poised to effectively steal $1.7 BILLION in taxpayer funds to pay off January 6ers and other political allies, without any oversight by Congress and despite the fact that the people who’ll be handed cash straight from our paychecks don’t have viable legal claims.

MESSENGER: sire, a peasant named humpty dumpty fell off a wall KING: send all my horses and men to put him back together QUEEN: should we not just send a doctor KING: no send all the horses and men ADVISOR: my liege, the castle will be defenseless KING: all of them i said

Q: Do you think the DOJ ought to settle the president's $10b lawsuit? Is there a conflict of interest? MIKE JOHNSON: Um. One of the things that is not in my purview is the DOJ, ok? I haven't thought about that or read into it. I got enough to say grace over every day. Go ask the executive branch.

Oop not so secret anymore www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/w...

Nazi stuff

DHS says: “Activist Biden judge releases ... illegal alien wanted for murder.” But leaves out 3 facts. 1. Judge never knew of existence of homicide warrant ... 2. because AUSA never told her ... 3. *because ICE instructed AUSA not to tell her.* My deep dive: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/dhs-...

On the 22 schools point: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I'm sorry, but this is a ridiculous take. Purcell is ABSOLUTELY a principle: "My side wins"

This is the first two paragraphs!!!

Yet another dark day in the demise of the Department of Justice. The DOJ no longer acts "without fear or favor". In fact, the best way to get a favor from the DOJ is to hire one of Trump's defense counsel. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/n...

"There are certain things that the unitary executive can't do." - Paul Clement

DOJ is suing the DC Court of Appeals for regulating the profession of law, like some kind of Sovereign Citizen crank. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🚨👀 @kamalaharris.com calls for expanding and rebalancing Roberts MAGA #SCOTUS "Let’s invite ideas, for example, that are about Supreme Court reform, including the notion of expanding the court." h/t @paulblumenthal.bsky.social

OMG the DOJ lawyer just said presidential power has never been "circumcised." He was trying to say "circumscribed."

The largest ever settlement or jury award for government violations of constitutional rights to a single person is $100 million, or 1 percent of what Trump demanding for the leak of his tax returns. That case -- a killing by police -- was reduced to $1 million on appeal.

Black people saw the largest decline in financial stability for nearly every category compared to all other racial and ethnic groups, according to a new Federal Reserve survey.

NEW: U.S. House Rep. Bennie Thompson's "reign of terror" in Mississippi "is over," Gov. Tate Reeves says, urging the ousting of the state's only Black member of Congress through redistricting before the end of 2027. He made that pronouncement even as he canceled a special session on redistricting.

🚨During lunch at his golf course with tobacco executives on May 2, Pres. Trump called Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Oz, furious. He wanted action on flavored vapes. And he soon got it, prompting the FDA commissioner to resign. w/ the amazing @kenvogel.bsky.social --> 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...

One phone call. Eight minutes. ICE went home empty-handed. Meanwhile 36 doctors just declared Trump unfit and Epstein survivors testified in his own backyard. The regime is getting absolutely torched this week.

the perfect disguise

Curious headline. Surely it leaves them with the same alliances they always had, and their real enemies exposed more clearly? When a rally "against antisemitism" boos Jewish speakers and cheers fascist ones, that's just mask-off time.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Holy shit this piece will melt some eyeballs. Writer argues Dems need to take drastic, even once-unimaginable tactics in response to Voting Rights Act being gutted. He writes: "Patience is the enemy now" and we have to stop asking people for it. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...