...all the kids I know are SO into dinosaurs. I am going to have to order & read this to just keep my place in the conversation. 😂 🦕 🦖

What a sad loss to those who admire her work. There are so many.

The Justice Department removed information about the January 6 insurrectionists from its website. @lawfaremedia.org has preserved and posted it www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

“My mother did not give her life. Her life was taken and it shocked the nation enough that they passed the Voting Rights Act in 1965.” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/their-l...

Will read this by O'Toole later. For now, from Stanley Hoffmann's 1968 "Gulliver's Troubles" : "By itself, military might has ceased to guarantee diplomatic achievements. America’s frustrations...are increased by the nature of its political style and institutions." Sadly due for a general reread

Democrats have been introducing, and trying to strengthen, social safety nets for over 100 yrs, and every new generation expresses shock that the right wing blocks and tackles. T'was ever so. Forgive the interruption. Pray continue.

Read a chapter or two of Lena Dunham's new book and liked it. Her mother sounds amazing. It would be grand if all young artists had such mothers (and fathers). Being different is h.a.r.d.

I would love to have this kitchen. I dont find it fancy, I think it is an artistic and happy!

I had no idea the pattern originated in India. I just always thought of it as dated, boring patterning from the 1500s on. The book however made me long for the richness and beauty of the original colors and joyousness. *I have on this email list for ages and always learn something fabulous ❣️*

In other news re Spain: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/05/22/f...

Guess what? You don't have to read it, whiners. If Kamala Harris can write her book & make some cash the LegaL way, so can Dr Jill Biden. 🥂 to women who talk loudly even when it is uncomfortable to hear. If I gotta hear the decrepit 🍊 guy's evil drool, I say talk even louder Dr. Jill ❣️

“Progressive taxation is the most important policy lever for reducing the power of the rich—not because it raises revenue that can be redistributed, but because it imposes a de facto maximum on income or wealth, eliminating the incentive to hoard the economy’s resources.” @econmarshall.bsky.social

Interesting. People with guilty, or atrophied, consciences find virtue really annoying, especially those of *lapsed* faith. God forbid, pun intended, there be anyone actually sincere in their aspirations Vice signaling is what 7th graders of both sexes do until their parents actually parent them.

"...new research led by academics at Oxford ... it is driven largely by how women perceive the broader societal risks associated with the new technology." Some of us have used forms of AI for yrs. It ain't ignorance, my dudes.

With the GOP, everything old is old again.

Josh Marshall: It's critical for Democrats to demonstrate that they're just as able to use political power as Republicans, not just because it's critical that they do so but because it's the only real path back toward some kind of constitutional equilibrium.

Max Boot makes the point, which is my view, that Americans want to be entertained. We are addicted. I'd add that with the advent of the purely money seeking corporate media control on our content channels, people are sort of trapped. Been saying this awhile; glad to see Rosa Brooks make the point

Interesting exchange between Sanger & Luce. I remember reading Sanger during the run-up to the Iraq invasion & after, & found him of value. The podcast is marred by the last couple of sentences that, tho potentially sardonic, serve to re-enforce my own discomfort with todays *media-1st* world. ☹️

Time to really get off the grid if you aren't media.

Donald Trump is now responsible for 28% of the US national debt. That's $11 trillion. In 250 years of American history, no president has added more. That's not an opinion. It's math.

A federal appeals court ordered Alabama to use a “race-blind” voting map just two months before the state’s congressional primaries, a blow to state Republicans in the latest salvo over redistricting. on.wsj.com/4v4soD0

Putin and Trump don’t have the cards ft.trib.al/qdXs9Os

Pope Leo addresses the Synod Hall after presentation of his first encyclical Magnifica Humanitas: “Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed. The word is strong, I know, but deliberately chosen."

Weird to think of having an honorable, genuine president rather than a degenerate blowhard and crooked chancer.

"“In practice, however, technology is never neutral, because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise, finance, regulate and use it.” " Indeed.

This Memorial Day I feel like those of us who love our country need to take special care to respect the day honor the sacrifice of other Americans. It's really not about buying junk on sale. May you celebrate in health & safety.

Headline should be - older man wastes his valuable time left defending wasteful destruction, greed, & child death. Sounds like *prime* time for Jeff to start thinking about the camel and needle thingie.

When disrespectful clods desecrate, they also destroy the ability for pros to actually see little things they are trained to notice. Like Heinrich Schliemann who dug thru & tossed aside layers of history & potential learnings till he found gold, these amateurs are destroyers of worlds - literally!

The best thing about the library's "Libby" app is I can read a couple of chapters of something, and if I am enthralled, buy it & take my time. I love physical books but I just cant afford crummy ones, and yes, have bought books that weren't worth it. (no names!)

Massie did the right thing.

This is awesome ❣️

The thing that now works against us, our sense of time, also works in our & your favor - or did. In general, we don't really look back all that much at ourselves- we work hard & we shop. When we pause even one of these, the people who want to sell us stuff suffer. For good or ill, we still matter

Finally someone giving us insights into Charlotte Cordey's motivation in assassinating Marat. She was not a counter-revolution, but a moderate for change without widespread bloodshed. Sadly, her method helped lead to what she wanted to avoid. There's a lesson there for us today.

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

Basically every year the Ukraine or Moldova entry should win just to piss off Putin. This is Moldova’s year. #eurovision

NEW: On Memorial Day, Pope Leo XIV releases his first AI encyclical with an Anthropic co-founder. Trump blacklisted Anthropic over Pentagon access. It will lift up the primacy of the human person over technology in moral confrontation with Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Sam Altman’s Silicon Valley.

They are raising taxes on electric vehicles but not on gasoline vehicles. It’s bad policy during an energy crisis but also during any other time too.

This is so misleading. It isn’t the US that’s benefitting. It’s US based oil companies. Americans are suffering, not benefiting.

I love this from our Northern neighbor. It's similar to Ireland's initiative, though maybe not quite as robust. I am going to make more of an effort to seek out Canadian authors.

High-level discussions on global security, strategic competition, and Europe’s ability to shape its own future. 🔴 Join us live starting tomorrow! lmc.icds.ee/conference-2... Fortune Favours the Brave #LennartMeriConference

A very good afternoon to the absolute hero who organised and parked this beauty in the middle of little Tommy’s far-right hate march. ❤️

I first heard of him via Mary Beard's TV show - an actress read out part of his first book and I was entranced. Think I'll have to get this one, too.

Was lucky enough to see both of these men, separately, on Broadway in the past. This new venture sounds promising. I heard a recent interview with Fiennes on Youtube and it is clear his beauty is not merely physical.

Utter depravity. I feel so bad for the Palestinians & the decent Israelis who don't want this. Those of us here who saw, with horror & shame, the fat thugs shooting & beating people on Minnesota streets know how this feels. The ones who like it must have their toxic evil quarantined from society.

The GOP in Louisiana and TN hates our American Democracy. I am not surprised by Louisiana as have never been impressed by that place - but gosh, I really did think TN had turned a corner.

Answering the question of how Germans could watch their Jewish neighbors get their food rations cut, & then buy up their goods & business cheap at auction. Because people start to think: "what they heck, so & so is doing it I will, too. So what if children suffer from the theft." It escalates.

sing it with me folks - ...and...it's springtime. for criminals. in magaland! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvM_...

I am not anti-AI, I recognized the power a long time ago and have used it in various forms. BUT unrestrained wild west AI is dangerous to most of our people and if you think the fatties getting fatter off of it give a sht then you haven't met them.

South Carolina Sen. Majority Leader Shane Massey (R) spoke out against redistricting Tuesday, making an argument both on political and moral grounds. talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/sc...

Wow - following floor speech by SC Sen Majority Leader Massey (R) against the redistricting effort, the amendment fails with five Republican defections. First GOP resistance to Trump's pressure for maximalist redraws we've seen since Callais. Massey had spoken to Trump but still opposed redrawing