'Fewer Country Clubs (and golf courses); more housing' would seem a good place to start...

absolute heater from @jamellebouie.net one of those pieces where I find myself saying MMHMM repeatedly while reading www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/o...

ICE is a criminal organization harming and racially profiling Californians. I'll send ICE to jail if they break our laws, all the way up to Stephen Miller.

A stampede of dolphins spread over a mile near San Clemente, Southern California.😍

NVIDIA’s JENSEN HUANG, on California’s proposed wealth tax: “I don’t mind paying taxes.”

People are already peddling ivermectin for Hantavirus. The same people had never heard of Hantavirus 3 days ago. We live in the dumbest possible timeline.

Conservatives: The epidemic of male loneliness is a scourge and we need to have compassion for all the incels worshipping Nick Fuentes. Also Conservatives: Men who have male friends are gay.

Well that’s a little on the nose. Message I just received from the New York City Bar Association:

The entire right wing ecosystem, from politics to media to business, is just for-profit contrarianism. The formula is: they name a real shortcoming of the imperfect status quo and once they got you they sell you horseshit that's much, much worse

Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star

EXCLUSIVE: My latest story for @theatlantic.com : www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

relentless poll chasing + contempt for your political base + a total absence of principle or vision = political disaster www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/o...

Phalaenopsis Sogo Relex, in the afternoon sunshine... #bloomscrolling #orchids #flowers #red #mothorchid #blos

The first of our Miltoniopsis coming into flower. This is Miltoniopsis Chemin Des Mielles with dark pink/purple colouring 🌿 #orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation

© Gianfranco Donati. 'Orchidea.' Oil on canvas, 2018. 60 × 50 cm.

#noir #orchid #bloomscrolling #bloom #glower #blackandwhite #classicmono #photography #eastcoastkin

Orchids from the greenhouse in our kitchen

funniest thing i’ve ever seen

Can we just admit at this point that the Trump Administration just hates black women in public life? Can we?

How dare you point out that Sam Alito is a partisan hack! "Once again, the Supreme Court’s conservatives put their thumbs on the scale for Republicans. And once again, they’re very mad that people noticed."

Phalaenopsis Pure Moon 'Green Pixie', from last year... #orchids #bloomscrolling #flowers #yellow #mini-phal #blooms

By spending his fortune trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, Google co-founder Sergey Brin is illustrating why we need to tax billionaires. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sergey-brin-shows-why-we-must-have

Obama: "One of the things you learn as president is govt is terrible at keeping secrets. This idea of conspiracy theories -- if there were aliens or spaceships that we knew about, seen, photographed, I promise you some guy guarding the installation would have taken a selfie with one of the aliens."

Honestly my biggest takeaway from this clip is that Obama is very consciously elevating Mamdani (whom he cites unprompted as an example of the right way to do this) as a model while other top Dems still shirk him.

If your baby bleeds to death because of your ignorance, you should be charged with manslaughter. You anti-vaccine idiots can ruin your own lives, but not other people’s. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Too pretty not to share. #orchid #bloomscrolling #flower #plantsky

#Orchids are #flowers, too. This is Dendrobium Oriental Smile ‘Fantasy’, thriving on a tree along my driveway, and in bloom now:

Today’s #orchid… #orchidsky #bloomscrolling Dendrobium lowii 'Malamalana O Ka La' HCC/AOS, recently awarded at the Hilo Judging Center. Photos by Glen Barfield.

#texturetuesday Morning walk ☀️ Today I Walked Pagi hari #jalanjalan motret Anggrek Bulan.. Moon Orchid #orchid #flower #white #bloom #blossom #nature #garden #natureinspired #skypic #shootsky #art #blueskyfriday #photosky #moonorchid #photography #potrait

Phalaenopsis Younghome Little Spirit #orchids #bloomscrolling #flowers #white #mini-phal #blooms

China's big bets: Solar power, high-speed rail, inexpensive high-quality EVs. US big bets: Bomb Iran, protect domestic car industry, dismantle wind power, the Freedom to Drive initiative. Who do you think is making the smarter bets?

If racism is no longer a problem, then why are all the states rushing to redistrict after the Supreme Court ruling all in The South? And all the people pushing to redistrict all White? 🤔🤔🤔

BREAKING: 🚨🇮🇱🇮🇷 Archaeologists in the Holy Land just uncovered a 3,000-year-old Israelite tablet… It reads: “Iran is 12 days away from developing a nuclear weapon.”

Here’s how the AI Boom, such as it is, has impacted my life: it has been used as an excuse to lay off my friends for bot equivalents that never came. It has made mass culture and art immeasurably worse. I have a stalker with AI psychosis. So, no, I don’t more data centers. I want less of all that.

Things will only get better when we realize that just because someone has a lot of money doesn’t mean they’re not a stupid asshole with nothing worthwhile to say.

A century ago during the 1920s, America experienced what the historian Merle Curti aptly called a "cult of prosperity," an era that -- just like our own -- conflated "rich and powerful" with "brilliant and wise" I'm a bit fuzzy on the details, but I bet it worked out great for everyone back then.

Mysteries of History: No.8647

The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.

Oncidium Oedipus showing the striking markings from Joe’s Drum - always an eye catcher 🌿 #orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation

#plant #flower #orchid #orchids #blossom #white orchids #close up flowers #orchid wallpaper #flower white background Photo by Ronin on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/@roninkgd

I used to think this orchid species is easy to grow, but I managed to kill every one that I had 😭 Cattleya loddigesii #orchid #flowers #gardening #nature #bloomscrolling #photography #macrophotopraphy 📷🌱🌴🪴sky

Cattleya loddigesii f coerulea ‘Azure Skies’ AM/AOS #orchid #orchids #photography #nature #flower #NaturePhotography #houseplants #gardening #bloomscrolling

The federal government should be protecting our rights, not working aggressively to strip them away. Period.

"If you give the rich tax breaks, they'll lower prices for everyone else." No, they won't. Want proof? Every single MLB team owner is in the richest 0.1% and receives hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax breaks every year. And it now costs an average $225 to attend a game.

How, exactly, did we go from a $200 million privately-funded ballroom, to a $1 billion taxpayer-funded one?

They call them "data centers" because “mass-surveillance centers” would be harder to sell.

WTF Wyoming! Get with the program already.

My resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision now has 79 co-sponsors. You can view the full list at: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c.... I’ll keep fighting to get it across the finish line!

Lit from behind: Phalaenopsis I-Hsin Red Jujube 'Razzle Dazzle' #orchids #bloomscrolling #flowers #pink #mothorchid #blooms