As predicted: "Threats Against Politicians Skyrocketed After Meta Changed Its Speech Rules. New research finds that in the six mo. after Meta relaxed rules in the name of free speech, violent threats against lawmakers—incl. President Donald Trump—surged on Facebook." www.wired.com/story/threat...

All the rolls went my way and I wound up with an insane roster. In Diamond IQ mode no less. I just went 127-35 on @ChasinBase. Can you hit 116 wins and break the MLB record? #Chasin117 chasinbase.com/r/ywc24vzd

People like reading jokes and reactions about live events in real-time chronological order. It’s not rocket science.

Once Elon Musk did an apperance at a Dave Chapelle show in San Francisco and was booed so fiercly that colleagues called the cops for a wellness check and if New York doesn't out-do that tonight, then what are we even doing here.

I find it curious that Mike Lee is now taking the position that the government should not be weighing in on matters of religious doctrine, despite joining an amicus brief in the Fifth Circuit that urged the court to uphold the Ten Commandments in public schools, now that he's on the receiving end.

right now, if you scratch anyone on the right, election conspiracies pour out. literally everywhere. in the anti-abortion movement, in Christian nationalism, in the police, in constitutional sheriffs, in fight clubs, in southern racists. it's like the One Ring to bind them all.

The Trumpified Kennedy Center is getting its ass kicked in so many courts at once www.lawandchaospod.com/p/trump-kenn...

ISO teachers and administrators in the following Texas school districts: Beaumont, Connelly, Lake Worth, Fort Worth, and Houston. Considering putting together a SXSWEdu panel about the impact of state takeover on our schools

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

Don’t you kind of lose the right to boast that you’re not taking AIPAC money when you’ve got a Nazi tattoo?

One way I think it’s clear that CBS News is doubling down and en route to being cooked, is their written response to Lulu’s questions at the end. They’re firmly behind Bari Weiss and her “leadership.”

Free Speech Champion(tm) Bari Weiss demanding CBS News smear an American executed by her government for protesting bsky.app/profile/elio...

I don’t know what I expected from “Intolerable Cruelty,” but I didn't hear much about it when it came out, and it remains one of my favorites, both of Cohen brothers films and lawyer films

Confirming with my own eyes and pics what several fellow Washingtonians have said about this post with hundreds of shares and earnest comments: straight up misinformation

Just shared this in a @learnedleague.com message board post for yesterday’s question on horses under 4 foot 10

"911, what's your emergency?" "Hello, Police? Yeah, our highest award recipient is at our meeting handing out copies of an article that we published. And uh....we....well....shit, nevermind." (gift link)

“They physically grabbed us, forced us out of the conference center and now are telling us we can no longer attend this meeting. They’re taking our lanyards. It really has come to this in America. Censorship is real,” one of the ejected doctors said.

Yaakov Roth was a Harvard Law School grad, SCOTUS clerk, and longtime BigLaw partner. His resume, law students were always told, was a sign that he was among those at the top of the legal profession. Today, he said Trump could tear down the Statue of Liberty tonight and no one could stop him.

The Pentagon, too, it would seem Just like al qaeda.

once more

I just went 114-48 on CHASIN' 117. Can you break 117 wins? chasinbase.com/r/cxyfkx9w

Everyone knows that NIL isn't real, a cover to pay athletes directly. Even Nick Saban admitted yesterday! But no one has really ever proven it. Well, until now. Because we found an entry tucked away in a spreadsheet that couldn't make it any clearer. www.foiaball.com/p/spreadshee...

"While his bosses look (to varying degrees) like bumblers, cowards or corporate tools, Pelley will be remembered as a beacon of integrity & a symbol of righteous indignation–somebody willing to lose his job in order to speak truth to power." @sulliview.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I was hoping there would be a baseball version soon! This is my jam.

My latest for @texasobserver.org: Though MAGA believers call James Talarico “blasphemous,” he’s squarely within his Mainline Presbyterian tradition. And that’s a timely reminder of the diversity of Christianity in Texas and beyond www.texasobserver.org/senate-james...

Here’s my dog going crazy in a ball pit if you need it

WOW. The New Jersey AG has charged an Essex County Prosecutor’s Office sergeant for allegedly stealing a photojournalist’s camera equipment while the journo was at a hospital being treated for injuries she suffered outside Delaney Hall. The bag had an air tag and was tracked to the cop's house.

I waited a while to write this one. The time finally felt right.

In case non-Texan political pundits needed further evidence that potato-and-egg is a time-honored #PuroSanAntonio taco option, fans can get one for free if the Spurs win Game 1.

a Very Special Episode of "to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities"

This is a big moment for Montclair State, my college, my Department, and public media in New Jersey. Journalists and profs: What do you want to see us do with this opportunity? I can have the most direct effect on student engagement and curricular development, but can pass along other ideas too.

This is a characteristically great piece by Ted Chiang on why it is both silly and dangerous to indulge the fantasy that LLMs might be conscious or capable of moral reasoning.

Read this (preferably right now). Mike does a great job discussing the alignment between decentralization of online platforms and democratization, not just of those platforms, but of society more broadly.

Presenter says the Westlaw Deep Research AI result is like what he would expect from a 2L or 3L law clerk, not good enough for a 2d year associate. (He still hires law clerks but has them use the AI result as a starting point to go deeper than the AI can)

The last concert I attended before seeing Florence and the Machine live last month was a performance of the National Symphony Orchestra in December of 2018, which was phenomenal. Please read what Ben Folds wrote and think about how you can help!!!

Such a good piece by @drdrbrockman.bsky.social on what we mainline Protestants see in Talarico - and why that crosses with the MAGA view of Christianity. www.texasobserver.org/senate-james...

In a statement to @benmullin.bsky.social, Scott Pelley disputes what Bari Weiss said in this morning's editorial meeting, claiming he was never offered "a way back" as she claimed. "These executives cannot gain the trust of the staff with lies. This is antithetical to everything we stand for..."

This may be @jamellebouie.net 's best column ever, which is really saying something. Here's a gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

Scott Pelley, like Dan Rather, Walter Cronkite, Jim Lehrer, and many other respected network broadcast journalists, is from Texas. Pelley grew up in Lubbock, went to Texas Tech.* He went out guns blazing, like a true Texan. *His "60 Minutes" package on Mike Leach was fantastic.

That was my thought last night - they’re so brazenly unmoored to any principle besides raw political power, it’s like they’re begging to be massively reformed

Scott Pelley should host a public access tv show in exurban Michigan tonight.

All press reporting on the Iran war operates as follows: Day 1: oil prices drop as Axios reports Trump says a magic faun has arrived to negotiate a deal where Iran surrenders Day 2: for reasons none can explain, there is no faun.

Ours is one. Much of the imposed “board of managers” aren’t from Fort Worth, don’t live here, never had kids in the district. They recently fired a Muslim woman as principal after right wingers attacked her. Banned teachers from putting posters on their walls. Imposed new classroom seating rules.

"I was sympathetic to members of the scientific establishment who played it carefully during last year’s budget negotiations. Getting the budget deal done was crucial. But that was then. The red light is now flashing. All hands, report to stations."

This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The absolute bottom of the journalistic barrel is people in the media chiding Scott Pelley for having the gall to confront Bilton. If you want a job licking boots, become a bootlicker. You’re not a journalist.

this woman notably reported a colleague to human resources FOR NOT GOING TO COFFEE WITH HER

lmao of course. by the standards alito has set out, there is effectively no such thing as intentional discrimination in voting. also, so much for the purcell principle!

Not that you need one from little ol me, lol, but Scott Pelley I will buy you a beer if I ever see you around in the city. So will every journalist with a spine. That might be the best -30- I’ve ever seen. Godspeed.

I just went 82-0, think you can go 82-0? www.82-0.com/share?id=KFo...