Tillis donned his Bolo of Truth this morning.

“It might have helped if you’d done something of purpose at some point in your life,” the article says in a direct address to Spencer Pratt.

NEW: The ‘greatest threat’ to rule of law in decades. That’s how lawyers, judges see Trump. A new survey finds deep concern about presidential overreach, persecution of enemies and other unchecked abuses of power. The poll shows the stakes in November. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Aaron probably is my number one source for upto date stuff. A modern day news ticker

Lest we forget: Obama secured the Iran deal without starting a war, shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, or losing a single American life. But please, tell me more about how “toughness” requires body bags.

We found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

"When someone offers you a seat on the rocket, don't ask questions." -Eric Schmidt.

This is one of the saddest things about my country I have ever read. It’s been true my entire adult life: we train our children for what to do when there is a school shooting. Because there are so many of them and we refuse to even consider stopping them. All such efforts are viewed as unAmerican.

I am not kidding about making a cabinet-level position for tearing Trump’s name off everything in this country you write this shit into a movie script before Trump came on the scene and you get laughed out of the room

As Putin again rains death and destruction down on Kyiv, we’re publishing an investigation, based on newly leaked documents, into Russia’s influence operations in Europe. 👇 www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

No you don’t understand, this $25 billion for the country we inexplicably attacked means we won super hard

New York Giants players, including linebacker Abdul Carter, (rightfully) seem pissed about Jaxson Dart palling around with the president. It’s the kind of thing a player should think about before backing an overtly white supremacist politician.

No truer words were ever spoken...

Archduke Franz Ferdinand Completes Mostly Successful Visit to Sarajevo

This remains a very funny hill to die on for me Like yes, you should confirm your citation says the thing you’re citing it for! It’s bad if your whole field is fucking up a common citation! I get yelled at by a judge and potentially sanctioned if I do this

As I just posted the other day, Republicans were appalled at the slush fund, not because it was , illegal, unconstitutional, and the epitome of greed, but because they hadn't yet figured out how to grift from it. Apparently they figured out a way to grift from it.

Russia calls them “retaliatory strikes.” I call them what they are. From the Children’s Cancer Hospital in Kyiv to Kramatorsk station, this article breaks down how Russia has spent years bombing civilians while hiding behind propaganda and diplomatic silence. open.substack.com/pub/shaunpin...

“My only regret,” Rhodes said in the days after Jan. 6, “is that they didn’t bring rifles.” “We could have fixed it right then and there.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/oath...

Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking". (Info in alt text.)

The sad thing about this is that those who support him gobble up this stupidity with no questions asked.

LLMs agree with the user’s position 49% more often than humans asked for advice—and humans prefer advice from LLMs that sycophantically affirm them. LLMs even affirmed intentionally *harmful* prompts 47% of the time. never ask for advice from something without a brain

Iran should insist that it be delivered on pallets.

Aw, man … this makes me feel bad for bearded dragons

Pathocracy: A system of government “wherein a small pathological minority takes control over a society of normal people.” www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

The World Health Organization says more than 170 deaths are thought to be linked to this Ebola outbreak, with nearly 750 suspected cases so far and the WHO is warning that they know that the scale of the epidemic is much larger. www.cnn.com/2026/05/22/a...

I submit to you that these are functionally equivalent.

Kushner and Witkoff: Just let him save face. Iran:

Ah well, nevertheless.

Congressman Ted Lieu said on the record that the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Since tRump's lawyer, err, the acting AG is deleting files, let's make sure this 👇🏾 stays it the forefront

When you put amateurs like a mediocre New York real-estate developer and a dilettante son-in-law in charge of diplomacy, this is what you get.

the antebellum south is as close to hell on earth as this country has ever gotten evil baked into every square inch of the place

This is approximately 15 times more than the $1.7 billion that Obama released to Iran in 2016 (which was owed to the country) that Trump hasn't shut up about and cited as a prime reason to scuttle the JCPOA.

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Meanwhile, two our former closest trade partners Mexico and the EU signed a landmark modernized free trade agreement to diversify their economies & reduce dependence on the U.S. market. The updated pact eliminates 99% of mutual tariffs—including those on EVs & batteries. | Reuters < smart ladies.

Antifascists were fighting with their far-right rivals. An anti-immigrant group with surging membership took to the streets and clashed with the police. And a member of the Trump family was at the center of it all. The year was 1927. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-fre...

We haven't solved the power issue. Or the cooling issue. Or the chip availability issue. Everyone's power bills are going up. We created a new mental illness called Ai psychosis responsible for actual suicides. And our model is just wrong 9% of the time. But you're just not evolved enough to get it

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It’s funny and it’s frustrating how journalists around the world are trying to make sense of a malignant narcissist with frontotemporal dementia, no education, and an obsessive criminal penchant to enrich himself.

Judges in Maine and Wisconsin dismiss Justice Department's attempts to force turnover of voter rolls

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

A striking, clarifying fact not noted here is that, per Reuters yesterday, all but 3 of the 6069 refugees admitted to the US under Trump have been white South Africans. Trump isn't focused on whether immigrants are "legal" but whether they're white. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/u...

an entire edifice of belief about medical opiates being non-addictive was built off a citation chain that led back to a four sentence letter to the editor about anecdotal observance. www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

Mike Johnson slapped with a community note

This is what the antivax movement does to kids. You are under no obligation to kowtow to these people when they try to impose their delusionals on your school districts or anywhere else.

How did I only just discover that Don Jr is marrying the daughter of a prominent Epstein enabler? Her late dad, a banker, wrote Epstein a reference letter calling him "a gentleman of the highest integrity" to help get him tax breaks &… his island. Can’t make this stuff up.

Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) revealed Friday that House Republicans on the Appropriations Committee voted to make themselves eligible to collect from President Donald Trump's $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund, triggering immediate outrage online.

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The Iranian take on the deal with Trump, posted by an official spokesman. It's a response in kind to Trump.