Georgia's governor signs a comically transparent law. It makes local elections in 5 big blue counties nonpartisan, to give GOP candidates a chance to win without a party label in places like Atlanta. And it doesn't change anything in the rest of the state, for red counties to know who's GOP.

The rest of them at least pretend they're enjoying all this. Rubio can't even manage that.

Been asking current and former senior administration officials: *what was Makary’s signature initiative at FDA?* Some replies: “The commissioner priority voucher program” “Food dye” “Podcast appearances” “Vinay Prasad”

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...

Republican county judicial candidate in Texas sent a cease-and-desist to a resident who created a meme highlighting his alleged history of domestic violence and nonpayment of child support. www.ksat.com/news/ksat-in...

I asked DHS about this, and a spokesperson took the interesting position that this guy was NOT detained, despite being handcuffed and shackled at the ankles. Rather, he was released after a "routine vehicle stop." I had to ask the follow-up, "How can you release someone who is not detained?"

Latest: A U.S. citizen is suing DJS after he was detaining twice during raids on private construction sites. He just got detained again for a third time reason.com/2026/05/12/a...

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Time for all the real wage think pieces.

After a speakeasy bar in Omaha changed its name to "The Barber Shop" in honor of the owners' father, a barber, the Nebraska Board of Barber Examiners threatened them with criminal penalties. ij.org/case/nebrask...

"The condition coincides with a 300 percent increased risk of dementia and a 200 percent increased risk of death. For many people the condition is debilitating, with 85 percent of patients reporting 'functional disability' in daily life tasks like eating and drinking."

NEW: Mike Collins, a congressman from Georgia, wants to take away commercial driver’s licenses from noncitizens. Over the past 25 years, truckers for his businesses have been involved in crashes that killed five people and injured more than 50 people.

the severe misread of youth by ai prophets is that at 22 you’re starving for agency. all your life you’ve waited to call your own shots. the idea that what you get instead is “tell the machine to draw a horse” is inherently offensive

i got kicked out of the Future Crimes Unit after i dropped my ice cream cone into the precog tank and it killed the weird little guy in it

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting would get more attention from media if it involved several children, according to a new lawsuit against OpenAI www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Minnesota is likely the best chance Dems have for gaining full control of a state in 2026. A 6-2 map like this could turn two red seats securely blue for 2028 (link below). 7-1 may even be possible with the level of gerrymandering the GOP has done elsewhere davesredistricting.org/join/260c430...

There’s a weird bird in the swamp today and the fellas are on it

Imagine being on the "well at least we didn't get hantavirus" cruise

I fought this boss in Elden Ring

Today in the Red Lake County Sheriff's report: ouch

“Trump has pulled off an improbable feat: the oilman’s president has made fossil fuels both expensive and unreliable."

I go on about this occasionally, but state legislatures are the most insane U.S. example of this.

I’m very excited to announce my new podcast! I'll be telling true stories of survival, starting with the story of Ada Blackjack, who was stranded for two years in the high Arctic. If you subscribe now to What to Carry, What to Burn on your fav podcast app, you’ll get the first episodes on May 12!

There’s an upside to all this: Republicans are going to turn a number of solid red districts purple. In other words, “vote harder” just might work

I miss when there were things you didn’t need to legally prohibit because they were so obviously trashy and embarrassing that nobody would think to try.

Gotta start pushing back on the notion that farmland is a thing of value that should be conserved for it's own sake. A crop field is a biological desert, drenched in pesticides designed to kill every living thing except the commodity they're growing. It's a factory floor stretching for miles.

BIG SCOOP: Energy industry reps tell me the Trump administration is now extrajudicially blocking all new wind projects in the United States Apparently the Pentagon is refusing to sign off on once routine FAA airspace clearances even when military assets aren’t around My latest for @heatmap.news

"Officers from the Oswego County Sheriff’s Office called Border Patrol at least a dozen times while holding drivers at traffic stops — potential violations of state law — body-worn camera footage obtained by New York Focus through a public records request shows."

Sean McElwee was simply ahead of his time

Exclusive: FBI Director Kash Patel has distributed “Ka$h”-branded bottles of bourbon to bureau staff and civilians, multiple people in Patel’s orbit tell Sarah Fitzpatrick. theatln.tc/n62c70PM

Reuters documents the way that Trump's immigration surge has helped criminals in MN. 1) Drug & gun prosecutions stalled (& one was dismissed) 2) Partnering w/Feds has fallen off 3) Prosecutors have been stuck dealing w/Trump's witch hunts www.reuters.com/world/how-tr...

Big fan of the woodstoving reddit because periodically someone will post something like "my stovepipe is glowing and there's smoke coming through the walls upstairs, is this normal?" and every single commenter will be screaming at them to call 911

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

John Roberts reads your posts and they make him sad

A truly visionary director would have made them all do Minnesota accents

Like the vast majority of spiders (certain Australian psychopaths excepted) the Brown Recluse does not seek confrontation and will only bite if threatened or trapped. To use words Kyle Rittenhouse will understand, Brown Recluses have a Castle Doctrine and abide by strict Stand Your Ground laws.

Looks like the feds gave a heads-up to their favorite ride-along buddy Bill Melugin, always a sign that's something's being done with noble intent

Crazy to think there are people clamoring to put their tweens in tanning beds, and yet

This is because administration officials didn't get to see the "the First Amendment is OK actually" pocket squares.

"This post focuses on the ridiculous ways we use land in America, which (like most of our water issues) is downstream of farmers being shielded from popular criticism by political alliances and folk intuitions about the honest toil of growing food." 👍👍👍

"The release of the complaint narrowed the speculation to Bryant Rousseau, a senior editor and producer on the Times’s international desk who has been with the paper for more than a decade. Rousseau’s LinkedIn résumé is identical to that of the charging party." nymag.com/intelligence...

I understand why news editors feel like they have to couch their meaning in contorted phrases like "turning to rhetorical leaps," but I wish more of them understood how much the quality of reporting suffers from it.

20 years ago, small town police departments were getting military surplus armored vehicles justified partly because they were free. Now, those vehicles are breaking down and PDs are asking taxpayers to spend hundreds of thousands to replace them. www.illinoistimes.com/news/sending...

Billionaire real estate investor Steven Roth says he considers the phrase "tax the rich" to be "just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/n...

The U.S. Department of Justice appears to be preparing to drop a nearly two-year criminal investigation of Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles, agreeing to return or destroy evidence seized from the diehard MAGA Republican before the FBI got a chance to review it. www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

ICE shackled a U.S. citizen while they checked his papers -- again

You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,