Does the Secret Service need remedial firearms training? They shot a bystander yesterday and put him in critical condition. They shot a teenage bystander in early May as they exchanged gunfire with a perp near JD Vance's motorcade, and the officer shot at the WHCD may have been hit by friendly fire.

The most extraordinary thing about this is that *not one* major media source mentions that Trump sexually assaulted the mother of the son whose wedding it is. Can one fathom any other circumstance where that fact would be omitted?

Imagine missing your own son’s wedding so you could go surrender to Iran

It's bad the government is targeting anyone. Government is supposed to target CRIMES, not people. Bad enough in itself. Worst, it leads to targeting anyone who objects. Defending those you disagree with from tyranny is the only effective way to stop tyranny from dividing & conquering all.

I think it's time we bring back wearing black armbands to signify grief.

@mayorwu.boston.gov has released a schedule for this year's Open Streets series, which will include four car-free street festivals this summer and fall: mass.streetsblog.org/2026/05/22/m...

“.. The Iranian officials said the deal Tehran had agreed to would reopen the Strait of Hormuz without any tolls; lift the U.S. naval blockade on Iran; stop the fighting on all fronts ..and release $25 billion in Iranian assets frozen overseas.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

At least in Succession when Logan missed his son's wedding he had the good taste to die in his private jet.

DeTrumpification is as necessary a project to the US as DeNazification was to Germany. Everything removed from everywhere, including every person in the Trump party from every elected and appointed position of public trust, with all appropriate investigations, charges, and trials.

Related: If every conservative crank were thrown out of govt & into an already-terrible job market, Republicans would make it a national scandal But Trump did it to govt experts & Dems & our media have totally ignored it We have former heads of intl relief applying for our local organizing jobs

Meth futures rise on anticipation of payouts to January 6th felons.

They do this for the women too by the way, as women do the same manual labor as the men in sex-specific prisons but they ESPECIALLY bemoan the loss of the women due to losing their caregiver population. Who do you think does hospice/palliative care in prison?

Actually it was conceived as a streamlined way for Republicans to send federal dollars to donors while creating a surveillance state. The name *always* seemed like a Nazi reference—and it likely was. The GWBush admin couldn't even explain why they used it. www.nytimes.com/2002/08/31/u...

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

Trump has managed to alienate the "moderate" senate Republicans with the slush fund for white supremacist pedophiles and the right with the pay Iran to Charge Tolls Forever Plan. All in the same week!

The people yearn for trains! Give the people more and better trains!

Colbert FaceTimed him while hosting this delightful show bsky.app/profile/dave...

Old shelties are one of life’s most beautiful gifts

“.. an unusually large contribution for a sitting cabinet secretary.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

Billionaire Jeff Bezos said doubling his taxes wouldn’t help regular, working people. So we did the math, and the results are staggering.

Crossover happens! Solar and wind provide more power than gas. Fossil fuel corruption won’t stop progress. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

No words.

It’s an amazing thing to make one thing that everyone knows

Rob Base, one-half of Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock, who was best known for the hit “It Takes Two,” has died. He was 59

“So, uh, Isaac Newton spent 20 years looking for this key to what he called ‘alchemy.’ Uhm, and the idea of alchemy was to transmute something that was very common into something that was very rare.” ALCHEMY?? You’re using alchemy as a way to pitch AI??

This is fucking insanity www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

I used city hall as my address and so can y'all

Not nostalgic at all, but they used to at least pretend to be giving you what you want and now it’s just “this is inevitable,” which among other things, is the language of abusers.

DAT (Digital Audio Tape) is here to stay. We need to stop fearmongering about DAT and start finding ways that DAT can be used ethically and to support our causes. Naysayers need to…um what? The music industry and Congress did what?

CueCats are here to stay. We need to stop fearmongering about CueCats and start finding the ways that CueCats can be used ethically and to support our causes. Naysayers need to realize that this technology is inevitable.

3D TVs are here to stay. We need to stop fearmongering about 3D TVs and start finding the ways that 3D TVs can be used ethically and to support our causes. Naysayers need to realize that this technology is inevitable.

24. The more likely solution is breaking the consensus that permits them to believe they can have it both ways. That doesn't call for exposing the "fairy tale" of supply-side economics. It calls for exposing the "fairy tale" of whiteness.

23. But "low-information swing voters" don't mind destruction. That's what they have voted for since 2000.² That's what they got. What they minded was the destruction *reaching them*. So the solution is not pounding "the truth" into the heads of low-info swing voters, because *they already know*.

12. White majorities punish Democrats for the crime of helping everyone, because "everyone" includes the "undeserving." Then they punish Republicans for the crime of hurting them, because their pain was not supposed to happen.¹

8. Policies that expand the economy for the benefit of everyone include the "undeserving," a label that always includes Black people. That's the wrong that must be righted. Eventually, a Republican is elected to restore "justice."

6. The problem is that this story does not make room for an alternative view: that "the people" elect Republicans not in spite of the Democrat's success but *because of* it.

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"Grandpa, why was 2026 considered such a suck hole of misery?" "The phrase 'deputized by Amazon' was supposed to be part of a feel good story."

If Congress disbands every time there's a possibility it might disagree with the president, then you can cut out a lot of words by just saying "Congress has disbanded."

This is a story about the Admin preparing to give a gift to the Health Insurers: “The US Preventive Services Task Force, created in 1984, determines which preventive services, including mammograms and prostate cancer screenings, insurers must cover fully, at no cost to patients.”

This is a person who tells the Grand Jury “…yeah the evidence we presented wasn’t good, but trust me I’ve got the good stuff” Mecklenburg must be fired immediately @judiciarydems.senate.gov

Again the lead prosecutor on this case when it was presented to the grand jury currently works for Dick Durbin as counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats.

/26 But I digress. This gets worse and worse. And even when we get a different administration, DoJ will be permanently crippled by this. You can’t get that trust back. There need to be severe consequences. Personally I think a lot of this is less truth-and-reconciliation and more pock-marked wall.

/22 Heads should roll. Careers should end. If DoJ won’t do it, the legal community should do it for them. This is appalling and unacceptable behavior throughout, at all levels of this office. The lower attorneys committed misconduct. Boutros was complicit in hiding it from the court.

/7 This encapsulates how Trumpism and Trumpist prosecutors have destroyed, probably for a generation at least, the reputation of DoJ and federal prosecutors.

"we fired everyone who knows how to staunch bleeding and we're not training anyone new, oh and btw it's because fuel costs are too high thanks to our stupid war of choice" is a bit on the nose for a dying empire

A piece @rickperlstein.bsky.social would love: “In other words, the smiley marks the introduction of the broad new social contract we still live under. A radiant yellow reminder of the ongoing humiliation.” Read it for the article.

Strong El Niño years can be very catastrophic for societies around the world. Couple this El Niño with the effects from the closure of Hormuz and the results may be horrific

Every so often the head of a do-gooder nonprofit or journalist reaches out, wanting to hear my thoughts on [farm topic] And they're always floored & taken aback that I say "mean" things about farmers. Like "They're adults, they chose this, & they should live with the consequences of their actions."

Hondurasgate looks worse than Watergate and Iran-Contra combined, but the US Media is ignoring it. Featuring @billscher.bsky.social, politics editor of the Washington Monthly. soundcloud.com/user-8304426...