on April 6, 2026, Trump Mobile updated its terms. Now the $100 deposit (already collected) is not actually a pre-order but “a conditional opportunity if Trump Mobile later elects, in its sole discretion, to offer the Device for sale.” And the deposit “does not lock in pricing, service plans,etc”

LET THIS SINK IN—the U.S. now has no confirmed CDC director, no FDA commissioner, no Surgeon General, an NIH director with no medical license, and the last Acting CDC Director was a George Bush speechwriter. In fact—the only doctor/scientist we have in the White House is… Dr Oz.

This is the best & most important article I've read yet about Gisele's memoir and its import on our understanding of victims. The last line is staggering. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/m...

Having bad thoughts am I. Like thinking of the classic joke of "so-and-so and so-and-so are on a lifeboat....who survives?" www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u...

DEAR RESTAURANTS: Your servers are not volunteers. If you can't afford to pay them more than 2.13% of what you charge, you can't afford to run a business. Thank you!

this AI slop has the Lincoln Memorial backwards and tripled the width of the reflecting pool

The U.S. secretary of transportation is supposed to oversee America’s transportation policy, but Sean Duffy has spent most of his tenure on vacation. trib.al/f5sqN5a

Do you think if they presented Trump with a golden casket, he’d just get into it? Do you think it’s at least worth a try?

Ceci n'est pas une golden calf.

“We moved 4.5 million people off SNAP” is a crazy way to say you took food away from 4.5 million people, mostly needy families. And also crazy to think this works for them politically!

The Art of Hoping for a Deal

While you can’t afford a trip for your family this summer, you just paid for Sean Duffy’s 7-month road trip at $4.55 per gallon of gas.

it’s pretty wild how american evangelical christianity has abandoned even the pretense of the christianity part

Wouldn’t it be stranger if there wasn’t?

Said 60 years ago & still true: "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best black man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." — President Lyndon B. Johnson

How it’s going How it’s going to go

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

So yesterday, the president's allies unveiled a 22-foot-tall golden statue of him that they prayed around, and then the president confused Iran and Iraq, seemed clueless about his FDA commissioner getting fired, and called a reporter a bitch? Cool. Cool cool cool.

Never give up hope. Positive change is possible.

This is an excellent overview on why this is unlikely to be a pandemic, but why the outbreak deserves watchful concern- hantavirus and other haemorrhagic fevers whose main reservoirs are in animals can threaten lives. open.substack.com/pub/alasdair...

Flossing is Déjà vu of dinner.

So Texas, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, and Tennessee can redraw districts without a referendum and that stands, but when Virginia lets voters decide directly at the ballot box, it gets overturned?

Happy birthday David Attenborough, whose lived his 100 years as Thoreau suggested "Nature is reported not by him who goes forth consciously as an observer, but in the fullness of life. To such a one she rushes to make her report. To the full heart she is all but a figure of speech" ~ H D Thoreau

do any religious texts mention golden idols anywhere

Youth is heedless. Age is cautious.

One must fully understand that the Virginia Supreme Court ruling is not simply overruling the voters based on a technicality--it is overruling the voters on a technicality THAT THEY LITERALLY JUST INVENTED FOR THIS PURPOSE AND EXISTS NOWHERE ELSE IN VIRGINIA OR FEDERAL LAW

The problem—which both the GOP and the milquetoast institutionalists seem to not be grappling with here—is that the more you close off avenues of political change through the democratic process, the more you push people to see extra-institutional mechanisms as their only option

Reality TV grifters all the way down

"The bottles bear the imprint of the Kentucky distillery Woodford Reserve, and are engraved with the words 'KASH PATEL FBI DIRECTOR,' as well as a rendering of an FBI shield. Surrounding the shield is a band of text … featuring his favored spelling of his first name: KA$H."

Most serious people already acknowledged that Iran could withstand a blockade for longer than we would be willing to maintain one. Anyone who thought this blockade was a good idea should be fired immediately due to lack of basic analytical ability.

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it? https://newrepublic.com/post/210013/fbi-investigation-atlantic-reporter-kash-patel-drinking

It happened again. The most corrupt administration in history.

This is exactly why language matters: “women were given the vote” frames equality as a gift from men, instead of hard won political power extracted through organized resistance. Nobody gave women anything. Women fought, marched, strategized, endured violence, went to prison and died for it.

What an absolute coup (complimentary) for the Washington Post to win a Pulitzer for its amazing coverage of the destruction of the federal government by a president its own owner thinks so highly of www.pulitzer.org/winners/wash...

The stock market is like crypto now: Untethered to reality and going up only because investors are sure that people will keep buying stocks. Buying stocks used to mean buying shares in a business but now "the stock market is buying the stock market" as an article I read recently put it. Beware.

Does this mean they took a piece of Trump’s heart with them?

2 cardinal principles of democracy: (1) It is wrong & illegal to suspend an ongoing election when voting is already underway. This causes immediate disenfranchisement and chaos. In fact, SCOTUS doesn't allow courts to change maps or election practices close to elections even before voting starts. /1

It’s so weird that every time SCOTUS declares racism to be no more than the Ghost of Voter Suppression Past, a bunch of states leap at the chance to do more racist voter suppression.

A majority of Americans say their financial situation is worse than it was during two recessions. Any more questions on why the GOP wants to keep people from voting?

trump literally broke the scale of this graph on my data portal www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data

Hillary was right about everything.

Trump: I’m not a king. Official White House account:

When the king says no kings

I feel like his skills could have been put to better use at that specific point in time

The New York Times apparently recommending stress eating:

Misery loves company but happiness assumes it already has it.