Jesus Christ. Only 9% of Americans approve of putting Trump's name on government buildings while he's in office. NINE PERCENT. But lucky for us, President Ozymandias is desperate to establish his legacy with vanity projects like that, even if it means destroying the GOP.

Pam Bondi testifying that Todd Blanche was to blame for Epstein files fiasco is big. If Dems win House they'll subpoena Blanche and Kash Patel to testify under oath about cover up. On the pod, historian Nicole Hemmer is so illuminating on the MAGA/Epstein crackup: newrepublic.com/article/2111...

The author of this column, Susanna Rustin,was described to me by Guardian staffers as a “militant and obsessive anti-trans activist" in 2021.

Shocked by the number of people who fall for this one. “Feminists and misogynists are the same because they are both dissatisfied with gender relations.”

The health gap between Republican and Democrats started in the 2010s and has been widening ever since. At first it was happening because college grads were moving Left and everyone else was moving Right. Education predicts health bc of better information and access as well as income. My latest.

Axios is going to report a deal is 48 hours away at least once a week for the next 3 years

Rootless billionaires can just wreck a place and move on to the next one.

After Emily Waldorf was denied care for a life-threatening miscarriage, her mother and stepfather were outraged: “If I took my dog to a vet and it had this problem, that dog would get better treatment.”

An illustration of why surveillance & early detection matters in outbreak containment “The reality today is that nobody knows the true scale and severity of this outbreak. New suspected cases are being reported daily, yet 100s of samples remain untested" healthpolicy-watch.news/congo-ebola-...

Comedy about a guy having to do housework is a tough sell these days, I will give you that.

a lot (most?) people understand racism as “being a meanie” and if you aren’t a meanie then you can’t be racist, even if you believe in, say, the biological inferiority of entire groups of people based on phenotype

"He's doing these things now because no one will honor him when he's gone" is a very good line of attack against Trump.

I mean, true?

Privatizing prisons and detention facilities is one of the worst public policy decisions this country has ever made. bsky.app/profile/atru...

It is part of a much longer list, of course, but yes. Everyone has just decided that domestic law, the Constitution, & a raft of signed, ratified international treaties simply do not matter for this One Special Boy.

Oh man, what happened to America after the great Coolidge presidency? Was it awesome? I bet it was awesome.

WHAT THE FUCK

DO NOT tell people their comments don’t or won’t matter. DO NOT tell people they have to be famous or a member of a fancy society to count. DO go submit a comment to condemn this. DO go talk to your friends, your family, your colleagues. They hope to do this in the dark. Remind them we are here.🧪

Rules are for the little people 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

They’re so deeply committed to their shitty, reactionary crime reporting at The New York Times, nothing else would be possible.

The Ebola outbreak “is a stress test, and it’s a stress test the world is not doing well at,” @drtomfrieden.bsky.social, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told @bloomberg.com this morning. “I would say so far we’re failing, and that bodes ill for the future.”

Hey kids want to see what narcissistic injury looks like? It's just great that he is in charge huh?

It's part of what infuriates me about the state of journalism. There are many brave, principled, hardworking journalists. Some of them are even at the major outlets, where their work is place alongside scribbles from paste-eating cretins and their supervisors are vying for private club invitations.

Disinformation is effective 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Now that America’s 250th is officially a Trump rally, someone should sue to stop it. He’s spending public money on this spectacle and the only fig leaf was that it was non political.

Herbert Hoover said the same thing during the Depression: "The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists. They're too damn greedy!"

There's also a legal reason to attack peer review of grants. 42 USC § 289a REQUIRES that all grants be peer reviewed. That’s statute. So Project 2025 wants to do an end run around it so they can have political hacks, not the scientific community, determine where the money goes.

Incredibly, this is the *second* time this year a judge has ruled against Trump in a case involving a presidential site on a day that commemorates that president. penncapital-star.com/justice-the-...

First "they" were eating the dogs. Now, "they" are raping the dogs. But if you kill the dogs, you get a cabinet position.

That's not how history works. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/u...

Watch Bowie watching Lennox. He's so fucking happy.

AND PROFOUNDLY UNETHICAL

Read this to understand why the current Ebola outbreak in a conflict zone with scarce resources, is likely to end up as the largest and most deadly in history www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/w...

the most surreal thing about this era of open yelling about masculinity is that, if you grew up anything like I did, you were exposed to several sets of standards of masculinity and would be hard pressed to identify which of them the Paxtons and Millers of the world are living up to

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

Delaney Hall is an absolute war zone right now, thanks to Mikie Sherrill sending in the state police to work with ICE. The feeds are really hard to watch. ICE is shooting pepper balls while the state police shoot gas and flash bangs.

Slipping in a Friday executive order directing the CDC to no longer recommend kids get vaccinated for: -hepatitis A & B -meningococcus -rotavirus -influenza -Covid-19 I’ve seen all those diseases. They can be devastating and fatal. The vaccines have miniscule risks. This will kill kids #WarOnKids

Why The Filibuster Absolutely Has to Go talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-t...

If I were in this administration, I would be a little cautious about establishing a precedent in which scores of people only tangentially related to decision-making find themselves the subjects of federal inquiries. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

One of my strongest takeaways from the Bee this week is that it was a showcase for why critical thinking matters more than ever. So much of what the kids do up there isn’t rote memorization—it’s using their insane prep to solve words like puzzles (using etymology, patterns) in real time.

yes!! prospect.org/2026/05/20/e...

After having seen STAR WARS 500 times as a kid, I remember having my mind blown learning that the entire "the death star is about to blow up the rebel base as its being attacked" beat of the ending was invented in the editing room using outtakes and ADR. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

On the bright side, this is a rare Republican scandal that doesn't involve pedophilia in some form.

ken paxton has john cornyn tweeting like a wide reciever who got suspended for crashing his car

I really cannot overstate how good employees - especially tech employees - are at optimizing for whatever metric you are paying attention to, performance-wise you had better make good and fucking sure you want a lot of something if you’re going to put up a damn leaderboard

Update: Greg Bovino is at a nazi conference in Portugal and is not in NJ supporting the American nazis. It appears he had a layover in Newark yesterday, hence the video that's been circulated.

I am quite tired of how every goddamn thing with Trump and Republicans is shocking and horrible at first glance and then is always, upon closer inspection, even worse than you thought.