A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Singer/songwriter Prateek Kuhad's 2022 ballad "Co2" was a hit for him (despite his spelling it with a lowercase "o" instead of the chemically correct CO₂—sorry, it's hard to turn off editor-brain). This was the acoustic version he put out in 2023. See you around.

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Singer/songwriter Prateek Kuhad's 2022 ballad "Co2" was a hit for him (despite his spelling it with a lowercase "o" instead of the chemically correct CO₂—sorry, it's hard to turn off editor-brain). This was the acoustic version he put out in 2023. See you around.

everybody knew of course that "Tuesday" is a contraction of "Tuna's Day," but the others may surprise you

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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Glenn Gould and Mason Jones play Paul Hindemith's "Sonata for French Horn and Piano." This second movement feels plodding and bleak at first, but then there's a sprightly, sparkly, dancey bit, after which the return of the slow pacing feels stately. See you around.

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Glenn Gould and Mason Jones play Paul Hindemith's "Sonata for French Horn and Piano." This second movement feels plodding and bleak at first, but then there's a sprightly, sparkly, dancey bit, after which the return of the slow pacing feels stately. See you around.

Unlikely, but a lovely daydream: "If the timing works out just right I did see that the next No Kings rallies are scheduled for June 14, which is Trump's birthday…so you could have people at the Kennedy Center for No Kings Day on Trump's birthday when they're taking his name off the Kennedy Center"👇

In case you missed them, two bits of good news out of the courts today: (1) A federal judge has reopened Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the government. The preemptive ending of that suit was what allowed Trump to plan out his Slush Fund from Hell. This may kill it.

Candidates for top government jobs have to to submit an essay about how much they want to "help advance" Trump's priorities. Existing govt employees have to install a janky new Trump propaganda app on their phones. Data series unflattering to Trump policies are being discontinued. And now this:

"Bari Weiss is murdering '60 Minutes.' She is doing so not out of incompetence or foolishness, but...at the behest of her corporate patron, because while she may cause CBS News to lose millions of dollars, her stroking of Trump will gain David Ellison *billions* of dollars."

"There’s no way to stop all of Trump’s indignities.…But we do have reason to be increasingly confident that Trump won’t succeed in using our 250th birthday to corrupt our civic traditions. We have increasing reason to think that the American people aren’t being seduced by his vision of the country."

"A stinging indictment of the impulse to move beyond—or, more bluntly, to ignore—power politics. Instead of a new order based on int'l law and economic cooperation, we have entered a period of 'peer competition' among the most powerful states in the global order." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-holida...

The Southern Poverty Law Center has been accused of breaking laws to infiltrate extremist groups. Here, historian Matt Dallek tells the largely unknown story of the important work the Anti-Defamation League did a half-century ago in infiltrating extremist groups such as the John Birch Society:

"I can't help but feel as though we’re in another hinge moment after years of suggestions that streaming was sure to kill theaters....As a lover of film and a believer in the theatrical experience, it’s undeniably exciting to see Gen Z embrace the big-screen experience." – @sonnybunch.bsky.social 👇

THREE movies in theaters this season made by YouTube creators: •'Iron Lung,' directed by Markiplier (age 36). (U.S. box office: $41m; budget: $4m) •'Obsession,' dir. Curry Barker (age 26). (U.S. box office: $78m; budget: $1m) •'Backrooms,' dir. Kane Parsons (age 20!). (New today; budget ca. $10m)

TRUMP vs. THE BULWARK www.thebulwark.com/p/lis-smith-...

How is it that in the year of our Lord 2026 there is no freely available, excellent, Donald Duck voice generator? The ones I've found are universally horrible. (This question brought to you by tonight's bedtime story for my 4-year-old.... I'm good with voices but can't do that one.)

If Trump won't, it I bet a bunch of us would volunteer to go to DC and take care of it.

Reuters: US JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO REMOVE PRESIDENT TRUMP'S NAME FROM KENNEDY CENTER BUILDING - ORDER

NEW: "In an authoritarian age, the corporate ownership of media is dangerous because corporations are financially incentivized to turn their media outlets into fleshlights for the Dear Leader." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-murder...

If the stream of scandal stories about this administration eventually dries up, it won't be because the corruption and incompetence have stopped, but because they've managed to muzzle the federal workers who would have tipped the rest of us off.

NEW: "'Nine swing-state Democrats gave permission for mass deportation,' Khanna told me. 'No one who voted for the Laken Riley Act should have any role in the future leadership of the Democratic party.…It's disqualifying, just like the Iraq War vote.'" www.thebulwark.com/p/ro-khanna-...

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: "Orbiter," released as one of four tracks on an expanded version of the new album Noah Kahan released last month. See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFcK...

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: "Orbiter," released as one of four tracks on an expanded version of the new album Noah Kahan released last month. See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFcK...

The thin-skinned jackasses in the White House, lacking any understanding of the First Amendment, have gone after my Bulwark colleague @timmiller.bsky.social. "Frankly," Tim replies, "the only surprise is that this hasn't happened earlier": www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bai_...

Who would be crazy enough to marry a racist groyper running for governor of Florida? This woman: www.thebulwark.com/p/james-fish...

"Perhaps Mullin realizes his honeymoon period is coming to an end. Which might explain why...Mullin has been elbowing back into [the headlines] lately to float a truly preposterous policy: refusing to process international flights into cities run by 'radical-left Democrats.'"

"NDAs have something of a checkered record in the private sector, as is evident from how Trump himself has used them—including gag orders for his ex-political campaign staff, ex-wives, and porn-star ex-paramours."👇

While fact-checking overnight, I googled "Jean-Michel Trogneux" (no quotes). Google's AI Overview—above the conventional results—responded: "Jean-Michel Trogneux is the birth name of Brigitte Macron." Today I got a different—true—response when I repeated the search. (Screenshots below.)

"This administration's efforts to make us all waste all our time on stupid Big Brother shit is enraging." –a career civil servant quoted here👇

"In all but name it would be a loyalty oath to Trump.…The problem isn’t merely that government-wide gag orders might make it less likely that we learn about abuses of the public trust; it’s that such gag orders are likely to encourage MORE such abuses, by changing would-be lawbreakers’ incentives."👇

NEW: Trump wants all federal employees to sign a nondisclosure agreement. A must-read from @crampell.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-nond...

Very Low-IQ Trump Too Stoopid to Win War:

95% of politicians pretending to have any interest in sports are faking it and that absolutely includes Republican politicians.

Kind of hilarious way to announce you're getting married (read to the end): newrepublic.com/post/211034/...

The latest Trump-on-U.S.-currency news: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

NEW: A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: James Taylor explains the "Secret O' Life." See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0si...

NEW: A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: James Taylor explains the "Secret O' Life." See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0si...

"Creative crimes call for creative lawyering." www.thebulwark.com/p/retired-ju...

"For all his supposed devotion to Western civilization, Saad seems completely unaware that this civilization has a millennia-old tradition of treating charity—even charity at personal risk—as one of the highest virtues." www.thebulwark.com/p/suicidal-e...

NEW: A group of retired federal judges has asked a federal court to un-dismiss Trump's case against himself. Trump had asked for its dismissal just as its fundamental corruption was about to be exposed, and instead "settled" for the creation of his slush fund. The retired judges want it reopened.

Clever idea for a populist policy plank: "Americans are losing enormous amounts of time, money, and patience to the small, daily hassles corporations deliberately design into modern life....The hassle isn’t a bug; it’s the business model...."👇

have been reading mixed reactions so far to “Backrooms” but this @sonnybunch.bsky.social piece has me excited to see it

NEW: A first look at "Project 2029." www.thebulwark.com/p/exclusive-...

Read @sonnybunch.bsky.social's review of 'Backrooms,' the new A24 movie directed by YouTube creator who is 20 years old. www.thebulwark.com/p/backrooms-...

Holy cow:

More: "Democrats cannot cede that much ground before a race starts and still have a reasonable chance to win....So how can Democrats appeal to these deplorable voters?" The answer is ugly. 👇

"In 2016, Hillary Clinton said that half of Republican voters were 'deplorables,' but that the other half were normal people whom Democrats could preach to. Maybe that was true then; it’s not true now. In Texas, at least,...at least two-thirds of Republican voters are deplorable."

"This was...a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting, and it sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom....Today, CBS management is...choosing access journalism over accountability and protecting power rather than scrutinizing it."

“AI can enhance our lives in many ways - from improving food production to bolstering resilience against natural disasters - but without effective governance, it risks creating new inequalities and amplifying existing ones.” marianamazzucato.substack.com/p/ai-for-what