Paul didn't get the final_FINAL2.jpg where we rectified the Shklar omission

PRELIM Earthquake: M3, 23.1 km SSW from Bremerton, WA at 2026/05/27 15:48 PDT http://www.pnsn.org/event/62251617 Did You Feel It?: https://zpr.io/EG2bmNmc6VBi

“Food is going to become less affordable, and consumers should be prepared for it.” free version of the piece: finance.yahoo.com/economy/arti...

It’s useful to remember that the cognitive tests he’s taking are aimed at detecting illness the way an STI test might look for venereal disease.

This amuses me.

University of Colorado’s famous lagoon turtles practicing for Fall cheer squad tryouts.

Happy 40th anniversary to the grandfather of console RPGs, Japanese RPGs, and Japanese console RPGs: Dragon Quest arrived on this day in 1986 for the Nintendo Famicom.

It's so easy to forget that people, even elected officials, can at any moment simply choose to do the right thing.

We had a discussion in here a couple of weeks ago about the question "why on earth are elite powerful Republicans not willing to assert themselves" and my answer was "because they think the choice is between being senators for life or being John Cornyn." www.liberalcurrents.com/to-what-leng...

"They used to call us latte-sipping liberals; now it's soy boys, wine moms, cat ladies, cucks. What's being said here?" youtube.com/shorts/WN1Lq...

absolutely the best post I've ever seen

This is the Bluesky content I crave.

cc #iosdev #indiedev #buildinpublic ;)

one might also just call this "effective communication," which is an increasingly lost art. turns out that being able to clearly articulate a point and anticipate/respond to counterpoints is a distinctly valuable skill! doesn't matter how much you know about something if you can't communicate it

i think the actual first step in making higher education more accessible is building more universities www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...

feels like the actual taboo in democratic policy making circles is to say that sometimes the problem is actually supply-side

"When Charleston fell, one of the first things those emancipated men and women did was to give the fallen Union [POW's] a proper burial. They exhumed the mass grave and reinterred the bodies in a new cemetery with a tall whitewashed fence inscribed with the words: “Martyrs of the Race Course.” 1/

Can’t believe that Andy Kim is in two of the most haunting pictures of the last few years.

You may not like it but this is what peak ceasefire compliance looks like

I regret to inform you that Leftist Currents has dissolved before its first issue due to infighting

That’s put rather succinctly

Top five states for renewables, by percentage: South Dakota, Iowa, Wyoming, Kansas, & New Mexico. 32 states now get 10% or more of their power from renewables. Also fun: "America had 77 times as much utility-scale battery storage in 2025 as it did in 2016, with a 58% increase in 2025."

I wonder if the administration remembers the market is closed today.

The Virtual OS Museum opens its doors

I’ve had dreams that start like this.

If it’s one thing that brings Americans together, it’s mocking Scott Jennings.

Reminder that formerly enslaved Black people started Memorial Day. It was initially called Decoration Day as they decorated the graves of Union troops. “As He died to make men holy let us die to make men free”

This is why I’ve always taken a page out of Marx (Groucho in specific) and distrusted anything or anyone who agrees with me.

I like “American Awokening” over the 2.0 language, but I’m not generally allowed to name things based on alliteration.

A flash policy to address the pain at the pump would be point of sale rebates for e-bikes and rapid bike lane and infrastructure build out.

The Pope, in addressing the moral imperatives of AI development, quotes Gandalf. If nothing else, I applaud the attempt to take back Middle Earth iconology from Silicon Valley techbros

Just got an email accusing us of being captured by the “Big Pharma-funded Trans lobby,” and let me just say, if you are a pharma exec reading this, we would love to have our trans content subsidized, here’s a relevant link www.liberalcurrents.com/support-us/

Iran says ‘many issues’ resolved but warns peace deal with US not imminent ft.trib.al/BraGPyI

There’s a little about it on his estate’s website: michaelende.de/en/author/bi...

And Sam Wang is running in NJ!!

This week on the blog! We're closing our discussion of the structure of Carthaginian armies by taking a closer look at Carthaginian tactics in the third century: how were these complex armies, a mix of allies, vassals, conscripts and mercenaries, wielded? acoup.blog/2026/05/22/c...

We are very much the baddies here.

Setting a passcode for your lockscreen is an important step, but it's not the end of the story for securing your phone. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

this is laughably bad trees in seattle do not reduce tire pollution runoff especially trees in back yards. there are more cars today in seattle than there have ever been. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/the-...

i think one of the problems is what I might call, in the US, 'Naderism,' which limits the ambition of the left to a slow judicial brake on government permission

The White Stripes star started making art in his teens. He’s finally ready to show it: ft.trib.al/4gJpis3

remember when you used to learn this information quietly and at the age of roughly eleven

Donald Trump promised the war in Iran would end with unconditional surrender. But he never said which country would do the surrendering.

I actually think the consumer sentiment index that’s plumbing new depths IS the pervasive feeling of instability.

I guess it's this time again

Minor edits to AI skills can make agents go rogue