You know what would be really fucking transformative in 2026? Electing statehouses in Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania that will join the Interstate Popular Vote Compact, and designate their EC to the outright winner of the popular vote. That’s a better use of resources than navel gazing at 2028

A massive undercover prostitution sting in Florida, brilliantly named "Polk Around and Find Out," arrested 266 people. Among them? Prominent MAGA influencers and a pardoned January 6 insurrectionist. You can't make this up. Full story: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/we-investi...

My two wolves:

Motherfucker can’t even keep straight what he wants throughout that stream-of-consciousness rant: “your answers can and should be provocative, aggressive, argumentative, and pointed” “Your tone of voice is precise, but not strident or PEDANTIC.” (1/2)

Yes, this is the important thing here; Rahm has rapidly recalibrated expectations for Democratic candidates’ positions on 🇮🇱, which needed to be done, and couldn’t have been done more efficiently.

I'm just so happy he's cratering HARD. "Ben Shapiro DESTROYS woke students" was the obnoxious start to a stupid boy's career, where conservatives would just run whole episodes of their garbage on YouTube ads, point at inflated view counts, and screech about winning "the culture war"

I get a lot of AI slop book marketing emails, but this is the first time I have ever been . . . mistaken for Jane Austen.

Good evening, my Lord Doechii How may I serve you Please, though I may be unworthy Walk on my back to keep your feet clean

What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

@davidgerard.co.uk pleased to note that Smiling Friends, whimsical Adult Swim show taking place in 🇺🇸 and 🇦🇺’s dank combined id, has improbably expressed your philosophy on #GenAI and #AGI through a story about an extremely cartoony wish-granting robot.

Just mentioned it the other day, 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984).

Oh, you mean the thing we've been expecting since his immediate Heel-Turn after getting elected? What he's been broadcasting by acting like Manchin/Sinema 2.0? What a fucking surprise.

ZERO 👇 BULLSHIT DETECTED.....

Good morning from San Diego. 🤙🏻✌🏻

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I just want to echo this, that my high school-age kid and his peers DO NOT want AI. They hate it, think it's gross and ignorant, and agree that it's ruining their lives.

We constructed poverty as we know it. Poverty is a legal status imposed on those excluded from legal access to the needs of life. It is economic injustice. It is a weapon built to fear. Poverty is a Death Star. Happy Star Wars Day and May the 4th be with UBI! www.scottsantens.com/may-the-forc...

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I wish hadn't seen this gif...now you must suffer with me... #maythe4thbewithyou

I’ve been thinking you could argue, with no shade, that George Lucas’s two most brilliant creative decisions were the Opening Crawl, and hiring John Williams to write the overture for the Opening Crawl. The essence of the SW vibe distilled into the first minute, and the audience is locked in.

Qu’ils mangent des tokens.

Mothman needs to harbinge its doom, stat

Clarence Thomas is known for his silence and secrets. But the Third Trumpet refers to his little-discussed proclivity for farting loudly during oral arguments.

“Josh Shapiro believes in nothing but his own ambition” theory stays winning

So many ironies to point out: another is that atheist thought on evolution depends on rejecting the watchmaker argument as a non sequitur because biological organisms and artificial devices have radically different mechanisms of formation. But here he is making the same basic category error!

Slightly diminish a book The Incidents of Tom Sawyer

The real answer isn’t that students decided to shut up. It’s that universities, and a hostile federal government, have expended massive resources trying to ensure they do.

Something people don’t like to talk about is that Bin Laden achieved his goal with 9/11. 🇺🇸 got bogged down in military adventures across the world, draining resources and credibility,and pushing us towards economic and political decline post-90s. It didn’t necessarily have to go that direction.

This is one of the most quietly revolutionary things any city can do to improve kids' lives & outcomes. If you genuinely care about kids having access to education or safe after school spaces & activities, then fund your libraries, staff your libraries, & make every public school ID a library card.

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

One of the all-time greats.

God, Sal Mineo truly was one of the most beautiful men who ever lived.

I saw Sarah Michelle Gellar on a podcast recently, and she looks like a 49-year-old woman who is aging great and hasn't succumbed to Hollywood's mania for plastic surgery. Refreshing.

Nice work, @insidehighered.com This is a perfect headline & lede.

Make 7 Up Yours

I've decided there is one more Omelas take I would read and it's one in the form of an Isaac Chotiner interview.

“Saturn Devouring His Son” (A “Black Painting” by Francisco Goya)

Yet there are still people who think Starmer's Tories are left of centre (they're right of centre to extremist right) and hence smear all the left because of their stolen 'Labour' brand. The labour movement is in the Greens. So vote Green. 💚

Israel has now killed 2618 people in Lebanon. Please spread the word.

LAPD pushing into May Day crowd in front of city hall. An immediate escalation by the pigs. EYES ON LA!

I've joked about the possibility of human experts ending up being the better *and* the cheaper option to LLMs, but I also kind of meant it.

Please share.

If Dems can flip a few state legislative chambers in places like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota this cycle, suddently a path opens to redrawing up to 22 additional House seats in time for 2028, the analysis finds. If Dems have a good midterm, that's doable. newrepublic.com/article/2098...

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

art should disturb the jagoffs and jack off the disturbed

What’s disappointing is their refusal to listen to the other candidates in the race before making a decision. In fact, it goes against the foundational language of Indivisible groups. I reached out to all the local groups and only two allowed me to visit with them.

Name your Top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only: Person of Interest Atlanta Twin Peaks Community Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Doctor Who Farscape Babylon 5 X Files Futurama The Wire Deadwood Freaks and Geeks Reservation Dogs Columbo