Pete Hegseth is now leading the U.S. Army Band. He appears to be playing a Breathalyzer

I really want to see a Josie and Pussycats double feature with KPop Demon Hunters. I know @russburlingame.com agrees.

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years. Pinochet was ousted with a referendum. And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists. Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

This is the one Labor Day graph that tells you the actual problem in America. The problem is not that America lacks abundance. The problem is that a handful of oligarchs are hoarding America’s abundance. www.levernews.com/the-labor-da...

Remembering Fred Hampton born Aug. 30, 1948, assassinated Dec. 4, 1969 by Chicago police and the FBI

Day two of being completely unable to think about anything other than Winnie Greco’s bag of chips

I like that people enjoy this one. Feels nice sometimes to drop the pretense and let out my genuine wish that everyone achieve some sort of security and ability to appreciate and find joy in their idiosyncracies.

it’s funny how big plans come and go and people still want writers, just for less and less money

as much as anything, Andrew Cuomo's campaign represents the bipartisan consensus at the top that consequences and standards are for other, lesser, working class plebes. destined to suffer what they must for the outcomes others merely would prefer. But No Kings should mean No Nobles either.

Again: the scandal isn’t anything Zohran did, it is the story itself @nytimes.com

They CHOSE a freelancer who is not even on this beat — forsaking all of the talent on their masthead, and in their newsroom — solely on the grounds that he was already deeply indoctrinated in the hateful eugenicist agenda of the criminal hacker they protected. They *never* address this choice.

Zohran: Imagine living in a city where you can afford your rent, your groceries and even a meal at a restaurant now and then without much stress Eric Adams: Imagine a platypus so powerful that it could destroy the city. We need more cops

The law is not made to protect you because the system is not designed for you. It's designed for them. And it's intolerable!

Demand an affidavit ballot and submit it. Your vote will count.

My dream job description is "guy who mostly runs the tech but sometimes pipes in with jokes," so I really, really want this to work out for us. I would love for this to be my real job.

This whole, "sexual assault and harassment is bad when Trump does it, but ok when our side does it," is sending a really clear message that the old guard of Democratic leadership only cares about women when it's politically advantageous. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

the thing with Mamdani is that he’s obviously an incredible political talent - the campaign he’s run has been extremely impressive even if you don’t like his policies the party should be delighted, and that they’re instead pulling out all the stops to beat him speaks volumes

"Don't die until you're dead" has been a genuinely useful thought

If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.

You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country

Answering some of the Qs about Cuomo's campaign, one by one... First: What about the sexual harassment charges? Aren't they in the past? (Spoiler: No, and especially not since he's shown no interest in change or repentance.) amandalitman.substack.com/p/the-case-a...

uncanny

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Happy pride to u pimps

"It just really comes as a shock that such accomplished intellectuals, who’ve spent their entire careers pushing the upper bounds of human achievement, could be judgy about a machine that runs the entirety of human imagination through a shredder and glues together what comes out."

The Metaverse is inevitable, said every exec in a suit and tie in 2021…

3D TVs are inevitable... nothing we can do, we have to buy them, we have to accept them... same with AI.

now with alt text, apologies for the oversight:

anyway here's the email I sent to jim bankoff last week. i'm still heartbroken. I have been insanely, destructively angry for weeks, and I think I will be for a long time.

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

There’s maybe no better demonstration of how centrism works than a guy tanking any kind of positive agenda and his own personal likability to move from -77 to -76 approval from the center-right party

that's the thing with "purity culture", it doesn't end where you find things comfy. you're riding a big fascist wave, buddy, and you're not going to like where it's going

*crab-walked

all this talk of the woke mind virus, but what of the much more insidious work mind virus

"Just change the party from inside"

this is not true either legally or in a colloquial sense, but an NYT reporter says it like he's telling you the weather.

cRPGs (Canadian Role-playing Games)

Damn, looks like this is another "after careful consideration, we've decided to move forward with another candidate for this position" situation

Heartwarming: The college freshman featured in the NYMag ChatGPT article who said she watched TikTok until her eyes hurt has since posted updates from her Reddit account (her username was included in the article). She said she is no longer using ChatGPT and finished her latest semester without it!

applying for jobs again

Pat has worked so hard and given so much to Polygon, and was instrumental in making it what it was for so long. He is so immensely talented and any team would be so lucky to have him as a part of it.

i am far too stupid to be weighing in on this but one thing i would stress is that gaming media’s collapse wasn’t an inevitable fact of life. it’s the result of very stupid people making decisions they could have just as easily not made

Kill and eat a venture capitalist today

Radio, of course, is instantly killed by anything with the Video subtype

Speedball Mike Bailey should wear boots on the weekly shows. No dogs for free.