Key Biden-era regulations designed to protect the nation’s drinking water from the most dangerous cancer-causing per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, have been removed by the Trump administration. https://cnn.it/43i6QXC

“Liberals” still defend this penis.

“Graduates, the future is for the wealthy and our most innovative tech leaders to thrust knitting needles into your eyeballs and out the backs of your heads. In that way, you ARE the future. Wait, what? You don’t like that? Really? Wow. Huh.”

Sarah Sherman made fun of her own hair in this cut-for-time sketch, and got off a great line (close paraphrase): "It's a smullet." "What's that, a small mullet?" "No, a *smollett*, because as with Jesse Smollett, it's a hate crime I did to myself for attention." www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_zW...

Check out @vmr10.bsky.social’s feed. It will never not befuddle me that any sentient adult, however addled, can look through his own ravings and apparently not see the difference between them and the normal posts of normal people, who make up the vast majority.

“Tom”

Facebook is heavily reliant on thousands of pages that post a constant stream of profoundly idiotic, clearly fake AI videos of, like, boating accidents and avalanches, drawing traffic and comments from guys (it’s nearly all guys) clearing their throats to savvily tell everyone that they’re fake.

I saw three credulous reposts of this today. The president’s genuine ravings aren’t insane or terrifying enough, apparently.

lol any way 💅

Five hours later, this staggering, perverted act of gargantuan corruption is not even one of the top 10 news stories on the NYT homepage. NYT has normalized Trump’s degeneracy.

The homicides are the point, apparently. The Department of Homeland Security reportedly hired an ex-cop who was involved in at least four deadly shootings — and profanely described himself as having been a "savage" — to train immigration enforcement agents in the use of firearms and

And if it stopped shitting on itself, it would have champions! Instead, many mainline Dems are running around complaining that the party is too “woke” (a right wing talking point) even though essentially zero Dem pols are saying “woke” stuff, and none are emphasizing it. Just total self-abasement.

I will just add to this that, during the Biden presidency, I made a point of regularly calling out the good things the administration was doing -- which were continuous &, in aggregate, enormously consequential -- and ... none of that went viral. Very, very little engagement or amplification.

I promise you none of the people who manage your local bookstores would say the same. www.nbcnews.com/business/ceo...

Frank was the subject of decades of nasty, personal hate speech from the entire conservative movement, accusing him of horrible things because of his sexuality, and I am SO fascinated that on his death bed the one thing he wants us all to know is that he thinks they were right about trans people.

Curious to see how large the public payout is going to be for Enrique Tarrio, the man convicted of seditious conspiracy who was pardoned by Trump and has now moved on to promoting Mein Kampf reading groups led by white nationalists.

Sadly, there was no way for both of them to lose, but I’ll take this.

Imagine doing this with a straight face and absolutely zero self-awareness. They're all pod people. And here I will put my latest periodic reminder that Trump was far more mentally unfit for office in January 2017 than Biden was in January 2025. The media is catastrophically dysfunctional.

should prompt questions

Today would be a good day for @theatlantic.com to call out Trump as a deranged, law-breaking megalomaniac, unfit to be president. Instead, @jonlemire.bsky.social boldly calls for "even more questions than usual about his stability, judgment, and mental sharpness." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Dems are polling crazy high based on the flaming catastrophe that is Republican fascist rule, so primarying as many of the bad weak complicit Democrats in favor of good determined angry ones has rarely if ever been more crucial

I often think back to my complaints about the pre-Trump mainstream media: mainly, it was that it going in the direction of Buzzfeed, bringing marketers into the newsroom to act as "editors," but with titles like "SEO specialist" and "digital content strategist." Writing to appeal to machines.

It can be challenge to get across to people how you think it's completely fucked up that anyone could vote for Trump over just about any Democrat without sounding like you're a big supporter of Democrats. But it's only a challenge because so many people are unable to reason at a basic level.

🚨 @kamalaharris.com: Democrats must embrace bold reform. "Let’s invite ideas...about Supreme Court reform, including the notion of expanding the court...how do we push for statehood for Puerto Rico and DC, how are we thinking about the Electoral College.” www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala...

I know air shows are cool, but maybe once we get through the current emergency, we knock them off? They're obnoxiously loud, dangerous, and expensive. And, cool as they might be, they're also ostentatious displays of military might not very different from Trump's goofy-ass parades.

Briahna Joy Gray is both an authoritarian and a nihilist. She’s a wrecker who wants to destroy, not build. People like her want to destroy because they dream they will be the ones with power after their imagined revolution. (no) Those are right-wing ideas.

He declared that these are "very left wing positions." And one of them -- "decriminalizing border crossings" -- is essentially made up. Crossing the border isn't even a crime, for Jah's sake. The internet has given everybody "a voice," just as Jeff Jarvis dreamed of. It hasn't turned out well.

I continue to aver that midwitted white guys with college degrees are far more responsible for what's happening to us than MAGA itself is. They are who gave us MAGA: the reactionary centrists, the (snort) "libertarians," the media. Without them, Trump never would have happened.

In terms of public discourse, "the working class" no longer has anything to do with income or wealth. It just means "angry, white ignoramuses." And for some reason, they are widely considered, especially by the media, to be noblest among us.

Besides the made-up number here, he also reveals a gross misunderstanding of how media, politics, and public discourse work. *All* mainstream media outlets do this. And they all take their cues from the NYT, CNN, etc. Citizens don’t form their opinions in a void, which the media then panders to.

“Men refusing to use straws because it looks femmy is a common practice among everyday Americans that snooty coastal elitists will simply never understand.” — Emma Green

our system of knowledge production is under attack from an extraordinary array of forces and if the people putatively on the side of maintaining it cannot commit to the most basic standards (not using fake citations, writing your own words, etc) I fear there is no hope

When he was a Senator, Lamar Alexander voted against impeachment, for the 2017 Trump tax cut that disproportionately favored the rich, & for "skinny repeal" of the ACA, which would have kicked millions off their health insurance. Now, he has bravely written a memoir. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/u...

I'm begging for one article--just one--that is "Trump says Iran war is worth the economic pain. These urban voters in Harlem say `We told you he'd screw everything up, why didn't you listen to us?'" Just one. Just one "diner" interview in a place w a density above 1 per 1000 sq mi and < 95% white.

The New York Times has fully disintegrated. It essentially no longer exists.

This is one of bullshittiest defenses I’ve ever heard from a plagiarist. And the arrogant petulance with which Ross Barkan delivers it is especially galling given that it’s not a defense at all: he linked the plagiarized bits to the original material. But it’s still presented as being his own work.

Who could have guessed that a guy who named himself “centralbankocrat” would turn out to be a creep?

Wow. The Atlantic reports Katie Miller, MAGA podcaster and wife of top Trump aide Stephen Miller has been in talks to sell her poorly-viewed podcast to Paramount, just as it seeks to finalize proposed purchase of Warner Bros Discovery. Looks nothing like a payoff, I'm sure. https://loom.ly/OP1COXQ

“pushing the legal limits”

This is horrifying.

On the left is an Onion headline from March. On the right is Reuters, today.

I guess I'm thankful I still have the ability to be aghast, including by things that have bewildered me for years, like the fact that multitudes of people with college degrees, and who identify as liberal, take this guy seriously.

it's always funny when fertility rate guys namedrop random non-white majority countries to make their arguments appear sane when you need only scratch the surface to reveal the animating panic of "[slurs] are outbreeding aryans!!"

“And that is why I am here, talking to you.”

I kind of wish it wasn’t ruining the world because half of the country basing all of their political opinions on movies and Buzz Lightyear being woke instead of healthcare or clean water is objectively funny

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) announced Friday that he will end his political career rather than try to run in one of Tennessee’s newly created Republican districts. Cohen is the only Democratic member of the state’s congressional delegation. talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog-up...

Seems elementary. And yet.

California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra just took half a million dollars from the fossil fuel industry. This on top of the max contribution from Chevron. When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

Stephen Colbert and David Letterman throwing things off the Ed Sullivan Theater. Colbert: “Anything you’d like to say, Dave?” Letterman: “In the words of the great Edward R. Murrow to CBS: ‘Good night and good luck, motherfuckers.’”

He's proud of the imperialist theft.