Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)

The “we don’t have the votes” excuse for refusing to force a vote on impeachment is conceding the point and saying even the opposition party doesn’t think this high crime merits removal from office. It’s not being politically astute and pragmatic, it’s self-defeating in its cowardice.

Say what you want about how horrible certain people on the Hill are, there’s not a single elected rep who could get away with saying those same sentences, with the words “Israeli” or “Israeli Jews” swapped in. Gimme a break

…talk about Jews in America and how they talk about Muslims or others hard to make that claim when you can be an elected representative on the floor of the literal House and say there’s no such thing as a gazan civilian or that Gaza should be entirely wiped out off the map with the people in it

Yes, I want to see most or perhaps all of these scumbags in prison. But I gotta be honest: I look at the Democratic Party and I don't see more than a handful of people with the integrity and fortitude to make that happen.

I've been finding it hilarious for three decades now that the NAIRU is just Marx's theory of the reserve army of labour with different mood music.

More broadly, I think many people (not least market socialists) underestimate how much the normal functioning of a "market economy" depends on pervasive insecurity among working people.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

Audible gasps in courtroom as judge rules in favor of Luigi Mangione, suppresses evidence due to police tampering

No.

it's actually very funny thinking about briahna joy gray damaging her credibility by telling people to vote for AOC.

to not be silent at all on the actual merits of ai: both ai boosters and ai doomers are mostly wildly wrong and overstating the impacts of ai, precisely because it puffs them up personally

this guy being a fraud was just so amazingly predictable.

Ross Barkan's plagiarism mini scandal has barely been discussed on Bluesky. We should be taking note of it. Especially since, now that he has responded on Twitter, his explanations are ridiculous.

A great thing to have would be less flagrantly racist leadership in the Democratic Party

A reminder that Gottheimer said in a private meeting of Democratic caucus members in the House that Muslims should all "feel guilty" for October 7th. He was never formally reprimanded by party leaders or made to apologize.

Josh Gottheimer should be censured for what he said about Rashida Tlaib today, or at the very least condemned by party leadership, but he in all likelihood won't be.

I wrote a post about this recently. It is a central fact about industrial capitalism that real resources are allocated on the basis of hopes and dreams, rather than as a rational response to prices in existing markets. jwmason.org/slackwire/mo...

Denis Lavant

I think a lot of debates about “markets” vs “planning” in the abstract would benefit from thinking a bit more about how investment decisions are made in the economies in which we currently live. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

@jamsheed.bsky.social and I saw them perform these songs in a below-ground-level parking garage in either '01 or '02. The echoes made the most chaotic & dystopian music I've ever heard. Basement parties on a Mad Max mother ship

My guess is that the percentage of Americans who are aware that we are blockading and immiserating a neighboring country is in the single digits. Its not an invasion, but involves the use of American military force with the intent of collapsing the government.

watched the original GONE IN 60 SECONDS for the 1st time: First half of the movie: 1/10, borderline unwatchable, made by someone who had possibly never seen a movie before. Second half of the movie: 10/10, the greatest, funniest movie ever made. buster keaton meets bullitt.

people have absolutely insane views about parenting and honestly need to chill the fuck out.

Bernie being temperamentally skeptical of structural reform to the legislative and overarching constitutional structure is one of his biggest flaws honestly.

my favorite jarmusch. and for me that is high praise — jarmusch is probably one of my top 3 working directors.

sometimes I wonder if this is simply the greatest song ever.

this from @davekarpf.bsky.social is the most compelling pithy summation of the era we live in. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/a-story-of...

I am not a huge chris nolan fan but it's genuinely great that he's making the worst people on earth sputter with rage.

thread. I'm not convinced but it's certainly something to pay attention to (as always with @himself.bsky.social).

This is one reason why Republican justices make the decisions they do -- they expect Dems to obey the rules while they unilaterally change them.

Vote for Chris Rabb. www.axios.com/2026/05/10/a...

there is already enough sadness in the world, why do we need IPAs

none of the nouns in this sentence make any sense to me.

Yes. I’d go all in on this. Honestly I think if we win the house or senate I’d shut down the government in 2027 until there’s a ban on partisan gerrymandering attached to a funding bill.

absolutely horrible idea.

if this is how elected democrats act after voters put them in office, telling us to vote harder is completely useless and frankly disingenuous.

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

but, you know, vote harder.

As this site's unofficial eeyore, I can tell you: Rs see the grey hair at No Kings rallies, and the collapse of BLM, and are confident that any liberal protests will be ineffective (waving signs around) or will backfire (violence against Rs)

Jesus. Did that sergeant at arms walk there directly from the Pettus Bridge? The hair, the whole look, everything. Make the photo B&W, and you wouldn't know if it was 2026 or 1965. And the reasons are the same. And the fight's the same. Confederacy and Jim Crow lost before. They'll lose again.

still thinking about that Goldman Sachs “analysis” that predicted we would be at 120% of normal traffic in the strait of Hormuz by now

good thread.

We’re rolling out full day, full year, free child care for City workers at the Little Apple.

well it's good that farm products are a niche luxury good most of us can do without.

you don't need to tell argentina football fans.

this by @karlbode.com is very good. karlbode.com/your-softwar...

Deborah Lipstadt appears to be completely off her rocker now if she wasn't already, here she is sharing an absurd white nationalist account's racist screed about Somali Americans. This woman was Biden's special envoy on antisemitism..