“There’s no safe place, and I want New York to be a safe place,” Ms. Gabriel said. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/n...

Don't you love it when the trash takes itself out? Too bad about their victims, though. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...

Fascinating, troubling, and a GREAT presentation about hoovering the deep seabed for mineral nodules: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

When you've lost the WSJ: "Does he want his remaining legacy to be a ballroom, an Arc de Trump, and payoffs for his friends from a fund that Republicans would denounce if a Democratic President tried it? Mr. Trump needs a second-year reset, or he is headed toward a second-term failure."

The hubris of Bari Weiss stands as a cautionary tale that childhood self-esteem classes might not have been a great thing. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/b...

It’s very funny that Bari Weiss did everything she could to get fired from the NYT and they just ignored her so she had to quit and play pretend victim

Scott Pelley was ousted from CBS News in the exact manner Bari Weiss *thinks* she was ousted from NYT

Bigots can’t be happy unless they’re trying to make other people miserable. www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/03/c...

Dead bread from a mummy? Yummy! www.cbsnews.com/news/oetzi-t...

guys, your robes are the wrong color www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Fired for telling the truth: “I have been in combat in Afghanistan,” Mr. Pelley said. “I have been in combat in Iraq. I have been in the war zone in Ukraine multiple times, risking my life and the happiness of my family because of my devotion to the broadcast.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/b...

so... rehab? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/n...

WHAT THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH ALL THIS POPCORN, CONSARN IT?! www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...

Bravo. Don’t knuckle under to the censors. “I’m ethically bound by my discipline to teach history to the best of my ability, and that includes not censoring particular texts because of someone’s political preferences,” Barenberg said. www.texastribune.org/2026/05/29/t...

So many big promises: Elon Musk is the vaporware CEO. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"I'll take 'Bad Ideas' for $400, Alex" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Scummy and dangerous intertwinigs among the anti-science plutocrats www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/b...

Trump appoints yet another clueless, vengeful rich goober to weaponize the government. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...

“This reflects the further lack of understanding that the current administration has of scientific value and scientific merit,” Dr. McLean said. “By dismantling such a system, we push the United States back yet again into a rear seat in global scientific leadership.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

“We’re kind of in a doom loop,” Kenney said. “The soul of higher education is at stake, and the classroom has become a site of struggle.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...

I wonder if J6ers will sue him now for breach of promise www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...

This sweet little EV is now all mine. Just got back from buying out the lease.

More ratf#&@ing from the Trump/Hegseth crew. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

They know they're not good enough to get all of these jobs on their own merit, so they make sure super-qualified women and people of color can't get them. Affirmative action, flipped. Racism affirmed. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

It's Pride Month, so I'll be wearing this t shirt to the gym a lot. But who am I kidding? I wear this a lot anyway.

The anti-solar BS just gets dumber and dumberer www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

Ossoff: He’s trying to put his face on the money. He's building a monument to himself . But see, Atlanta, he's doing these things now because no one will honor him when he’s gone… because he's a failed president and a national disgrace.

Apparently they raided his house because he was cheating on his time sheets. Kids, if you’re going to pull off an eye-popping work heist, keep your paperwork clean. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...

Quite aglow

Wonders of your own backyard

Perfect pairing of terribles. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/u...

First Amendment? What’s that? www.al.com/news/2026/05...

This lawsuit is idiotically flimsy. He does not care. Being a vexatious litigant is supposed to carry consequences . www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/b...

The down-ballot races in Texas are so important this cycle. We have a chance to elect Sarah Eckhardt as comptroller over MAGA nutbird Don Huffines, and Jon Rosenthal over the overtly racist scary islamophobe clown Bo French. Let’s go, people!

Just like his newspaper www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/s...

He’s very good at this.

First time in Yosemite!

It's wild seeing some people getting angry at this post from James Talarico (he posted it to Twitter). This is such a normal thing for a candidate to say. It's fine.

Hit the beach! (I have a small part in this issue. Thanks, @hoinski.bsky.social !) texashighways.com/outdoors/the...

Whew. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...

“When I started, nobody had heard of the problem. Nobody was active,” he said. “We started at zero. Well, look at us now. Everybody in the world knows about climate change. So is that progress? Let’s hope.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/s...

“President Trump only acts in the best interests of the American public,” said Davis Ingle, a White House spokesman. “There are no conflicts of interest.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/u...

Magic and mortality and skateboarding; @conordougherty.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/b...

A very sad little story from @catrineinhorn.bsky.social, the NYT critter queen. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/c...

"Fossil fascist": “For Bo French to come in and talk about deregulating this industry … it really raises a lot of questions.... What does he even want? Why even go through the process of deregulating when the rules are so weak, and they’re already not being enforced, and they don’t mean anything?”

Okay Austin American-Statesman, I'm going to have to ask why you chose this photo to go with a story on whether you can make money by downsizing your home, with the caption "According to EveryTown Research.org, alcohol use increases the likelihood of violent behavior and leads to impaired judgment."

There's a Fjord in your future. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/m...

We have always been at war with Eastasia. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Justice is acknowledging it has removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, calling the information about the prosecutions “partisan propaganda.”

"But saying Americans at large are “underbabied,” however silly the term sounds, has a deeper purpose — cute-washing the racially coded idea of natalism, which has become so popular among American conservatives." Great essay from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/o...

“Reporting isn’t treason. It’s foundational to a free press and the work that America’s founders wrote the First Amendment to protect. That includes making clear when the claims of government officials and the reality of their actions don’t line up.” ca.news.yahoo.com/york-times-j...