Both these headlines are from Texas this month. Texas sentenced anti-ICE protestors to 100 years in prison, but a serial pedophile to only 30 days. This is MAGA exemplified.

It’s like driving in a car with someone who insists on removing every single part if the car until they personally experience the consequences of what happens without that one part.

So you not only stole other people's food to run your restaurant, you opened up an 8,000 square foot specialty joint on an expensive corner, with no savings. Not even *good* thieves.

Zines are now a federal crime in the United States. They are setting precedent to go after anyone they want for writing or reading anything they don't like.

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Of course. Hasn't made anything new in decades, just been buying up/stealing/adapting what's popular. In between facilitating genocides. An utterly bankrupt company.

Elon Musk is apparently going with "the Lancet study that proved I am responsible for the deaths of millions of children was concocted by the evil Jewish puppet master." Because Elon Musk is ideologically a neo-Nazi.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

That big purple spike in 2022 is what made the owner class turn violently against Biden

Somehow China is able to threaten Europe's tech sovereignty AND run 1/3 of the world's solar power capacity, at the same time

“But the obituaries aren’t on the front page,” the shop owner said.

Dammit Beutler. It’s too early to reckon with the idea that every conversation I’ve had with people who like Trump boils down to “an idiot cannot be a swindler/a swindler cannot be an idiot, therefore…”

A few times a year we all gather around the computer to find out which of our constitutional rights we no longer have.

this week on catfished

A great example of how to hack a game system and a banger of a horror game.

"Pulte has begun to follow in the footsteps of what Hegseth has been doing at the Pentagon, Blanche at Justice, and Patel at the FBI. Looking at their purges along with the mass hirings at ICE, one sees that we’re entering a period of maximum authoritarian threat." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

If you've been thinking about sheriffs lately, my book is on sale at Bookstop DOT org bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

You know, I've been on a tear lately about "men's weird private psychological shit destroying society" but let's give it up to Tulsi Gabbard for balancing out the gender scales a little.

Yet again the price society at large pays for dudes having unresolved psychological issues getting into power.

Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.” (Published Oct. 2025)

Piece by me this week - looking at the surging number of killings by police in the United States: www.economist.com/united-state...

When people get arrested not because they did anything wrong but because their arrest is politically useful to the regime, that means you’re living in a dictatorship.

Interesting: a new project from @wattcarbon.com called "GridSolver" attempts to answer the question, what distributed energy resources (DERs) are valuable to what grids, in what specific places? (You'd think the utilities themselves would have answers to this already, but you'd be wrong.)

"And yet, faced with the plainly and painfully disastrous results of America’s addiction to hitherto cheap fracked oil and gas, so-called moderates are wringing their handkerchiefs and suggesting maybe we should build more fossil pipelines." prospect.org/2026/06/22/a...

It really is fucking wild that Trump is having people arrested for putting a finger in a pool when he pardoned the people who full out trashed the US Capitol

The theory that “electable” means “work to appease right-wing bigots under the assumption that majorities agree with them, at least partially, and they prioritize it when voting” has been tried. It has failed. Try something else.

Yes! Pride & Prejudice is an epic saga of Fuck These People In Particular

I got to sit in the room with these delightful people and I can think of few better options for an evening’s eccentric entertainment.

It sure looks like a Scientologist convicted of a multi-billion-dollar fraud committed multi-million-dollar bribery to get Trump to commute his sentence. Federal prosecutors opened a new investigation into the commutation. The Trump administration shut it down.

It feels like we’re kind of blowing past Trump mentioning that the US economy would crash in four weeks if the Strait stayed closed in front of a hardline religious government that’s held on for 47 years. They could do four weeks standing on their head. That was … unwise.

The Secret Life of Data, go flock yourself edition

I've often said that I felt like I understood most things in American politics but I never could figure out why Tulsi Gabbard in particular did things and "all her decisions were being controlled by a reclusive cult leader" turns out to be the reason

$6.2 billion for a company that serves no purpose whatsoever. That entire $6.2 billion is simply cost added onto our healthcare system with no benefit provided. When critics say a single payer system would be too expensive, how do they justify THIS?!

Your brain was never designed to doomscroll this much.

Yet again, blaming outside algae-tators.

My new theory paper (early draft) A new reason why concentrated wealth destroys democracy: common ownership A standalone media owner maximizes profit. A common owner like Musk (who owns X + SpaceX) will run the media firm at a loss to increase the $ of his total portfolio tinyurl.com/mcekr7cd

"Two solar facilities built on rehabilitated agricultural land were restored with native plants. Argonne researchers observed pollinators thrive." Solar power, when smartly built, can improve agriculture *and* provide clean, pollution-free, low-cost energy. www.anl.gov/article/inse...

this guy was apparently detained and issued a citation for just putting his hand in the new Trump memorial swamp

they're arresting people around the reflecting pool because they're mad those people are noticing they fucked up the pool, we are not a serious place

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to show up in full combat gear on a hot summer day to the pool he filled with algae because he gave a paint job to one of his cigar puffing cronies. you are ordered to stop tourists from touching the green water. good luck soldier

If a billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, a trillionaire is the equivalent of a rogue state, and other nations should work together to constrain it in the same way.

“With SpaceX’s IPO, you could argue that Musk has either won or broken capitalism. His wealth, in our current system, makes him a chaos agent with no real comparison. He is virtually impervious to fines. His money…has…drastically influence[d] the outcome of elections.”

Glad they found something for them to do beyond hanging around metro stations and coffeeshops.

Research confirms that the more skilled professionals like doctors and software engineers rely on AI, the more their skills degrade. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

By combining two late 70s/early 80s aesthetic elements—Jaws-era Spielberg and a whole lot of Stephen King vibes—Widow’s Bay is a much more successful evocation of that era than Stranger Things could ever dream of being

President Trump put all flights at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on hold for his birthday celebration, as “the air traffic controllers were not warned, nor were the airport staff or travelers.” trib.al/8v2z5OP

L to R: Chris Richards: biracial kid from Alabama who speaks about black history and has tattoos of MLK, Ali, and Obama Sergiño Dest: Dutch-Surinamese, emigrated to Brooklyn as a kid, naturalized Fola Balogun: born in Brooklyn to vacationing parents, raised in UK but CHOOSES to play for USA

hey the world, here’s more of me opining about the state of the biz! thanks @ninametz.bsky.social!

The near-term goal of crypto, AI and venture capital is to use their massive fraudulent wealth to buy our political system—both sides It’s not happenstance, it’s strategy. If you want to know more, have I got a book for you! Coming 8/18: