Blackstone is restricting withdrawals from its flagship Blackstone Private Credit fund following a spike in investor redemption requests, per CNBC

When Ted Lieu cornered Rubio with video of Trump sleeping, it forced Rubio to choose, says @brianbeutler.bsky.social: "I either have to lie and debase myself, or tell the truth and lose my job." On the pod Brian is good on why Dems should use such tactics more often: newrepublic.com/article/2113...

Gold has overtaken US government bonds as the world’s top reserve asset, per FT

Good lord, really at late stage maga here

The past was erased, the erasure won’t be forgotten, the Big Lie won’t become the truth. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

5 NE Centerville [Lincoln Co, SD] Storm Chaser reports Tornado at 31 May, 8:54 PM CDT -- Tornado observed from chaser live feed. at Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:59:09 +0000 via IEMbot Additional Details Here.

@dramypsyd.rmh-therapy.com Hey, tornado warning for Sioux Falls.

🚨 Tornado Warning issued May 31 at 7:42PM CDT until May 31 at 8:30PM CDT by NWS Sioux Falls SD 🚨 Additional Details Here.

#SiouxFalls tornado warning

I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.

GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert: “I think Ken Paxton is the most corrupt Attorney General we've had in my lifetime.”

so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

If you're experiencing unusually hot days and nights, here's how you can cool off and stay hydrated.

Never change Nebraska. What kinda dog do you think it was? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Grilling in a thunderstorm. Is there anything more Midwesterner?

Canada to buy Swedish early warning planes rather than US model reut.rs/4aclHXo

This screenshot that came up in my FB memories today is based on a real peer reviewed study! Published in the BMJ, which is an extremely reputable journal! What the AI Overview misses (because it cannot think!) is the study, itself, was satirical: a demonstration of the limits of randomized trials.

JFK completes mostly successful Dallas parade.

GUNFIRE NEAR THE WHITE HOUSE TONIGHT: NBC reports "the White House was briefly locked down on Saturday evening after gunfire erupted nearby, injuring at least two people, according to four law enforcement officials briefed on the matter"

The sequence of DNA that expresses my eyebrows is bolded, underlined, and italicized.

Do not fit on a 737. That's the plane a door and a window just fell off of mid flight!

ICYMI: A hearing on "court packing" centered on Republican warnings that adding Supreme Court justices would create a slippery slope. Democrats countered that the court is placing democracy at risk. @jonshorman.bsky.social for @statesnewsroom.com DC www.newsfromthestates.com/article/us-h...

A Florida-based company is seeking approval from South Dakota regulators to build a $174 million battery energy storage system that would capture excess energy from the electrical grid and release it at times of increased demand.

CEO of Ben Shapiro’s company just resigned

Oh my God.

Boom. Vulnerable House GOPer says he's going to try to kill Trump's slush fund via a legislative option. This confirms what I argue below, that this is an impossible thing for vulnerable Rs to defend.

More of this please.

Everything is falling into place for Bay of Pigs 2: It Will Go Even Worse This Time

"On May 18, that U.S. attorney ... was slipped into the big en bloc list for confirmation without anyone in the Senate being told about that May 15th order regarding his professional misconduct," Whitehouse says. "I don't think thats the way this committee should operate."

"A German court in December 1926 awarded...the military leader of the Kapp putsch, back payment of his pension to cover the period when he was a rebel against the government and also the five years that he was a fugitive from justice." - William Shirer. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. p. 109

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is privately sounding alarm about November, telling donors to be prepared to lose key races -- including maybe a statewide seat.

"Australia has surpassed 400,000 home battery storage installations under the federal government’s Cheaper Home Batteries Program, reaching 11.2GWh of cumulative storage capacity in less than a year since the scheme launched." www.energy-storage.news/australia-hi... via George Heynes 🔌💡

I just realized I have gone the entire day with my shirt on inside-out and it made me reflect on how important cultivating low expectations is to living a happy life

All the people in the comments: she means salvo AOC, in my head: I said what I said

Trump confused the word circumscribed with the word circumcised, but they’re not the same, there’s a vas deferens.

Raskin said that if this fund hands money to the Jan. 6 rioters, Trump will be “using federal taxpayer dollars to compensate people who participated in insurrection.” Trump & his lawyers “are figuring out a way to refund the Jan. 6 militia, presumably to get them ready for the next round of battle.”

Peruvian Foreign Minister Carlos Pareja said that he was concerned about fellow citizens whose families say they have been promised well-paid work in Russia but are instead being sent to fight in the war in Ukraine.

There has been a lot of anger on the right recently that DOJ isn’t doing enough to help J6 defendants, fwiw. I wonder whether this might be a way to placate some of those voices

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Resources for buying a used EV

Watch China backout of all these deals they're making with Trump just to piss him off. Make it so #1...

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

New Kids on the Block had a bunch of hits.

annnnd it was approved unanimously. Onto the full Senate.

Flecks of minerals captured in diamonds show hidden connections between Earth’s surface and its deep interior

interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case

Tennessee’s Republican House speaker has barred all 24 House Democrats from standing committees and subcommittees as punishment for decorum violations, including locking arms on the floor in protest of a redrawn congressional map, writes Sam Stockard: tennesseelookout.com/2026/05/13/t...

Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

A general, a historian, and an economist are discussing Iran: General: Overwhelming military force is the only way to break the stalemate! Historian: Iran is extremely unlikely to relinquish the leverage which this threat gives them. Economist: Let us assume that the Strait of Hormuz is open...