Shohei Ohtani, tonight's starting pitcher and leadoff hitter, homers on the first pitch of the game from Randy Vásquez

seems fine

To mark Grace Jones’s 78th birthday, please enjoy her insisting that ‘Pull Up to the Bumper’ is simply a pleasant song about the joys of manoeuvring a long, well-waxed limousine into a very tight space, and ‘shame on you’ if you think otherwise! 🚘

I think Democrats like Cory Booker should take a hard look in the mirror and consider why Jeff Bezos loves their tax cut proposals so much. Billionaires would love to see a weak state with a gutted fiscal capacity.

Don’t really care if you use DoorDash or not but you should have Catholic Guilt about it

What a statement. An obvious lie. But they don't care. There is no bottom with these people. Morally depraved. “It is false to claim that the U.S.A.I.D. reform has negatively impacted our ability to respond to Ebola,” said Tommy Pigott, a spokesman for the department. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/h...

NEW: In the morning, lawmakers plan to introduce an amendment to a $580 billion transportation bill that would make federal highway funds contingent on states and cities killing off their automated license plate reader programs, i.e., Flock, in most cases.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) went full force against Trump's $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund" today, unveiling a bill to block it + using his role on the House Judiciary Committee to force a vote to subpoena Trump admin officials over it. He was one vote short. www.huffpost.com/entry/jamie-...

In most older adults, calcium, vitamin D, and combined supplements showed little to no clinically meaningful benefit for preventing fractures or falls. Some results may not extend to certain higher-risk groups.

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://bit.ly/44aNdkq

Malaria reintroduction into US is possible: CDC report A 2023 outbreak of locally acquired cases infected 10 people across 4 states. Read more: ow.ly/4PTO50Z2rNk

imagine getting back the parts of your attention drawn into wondering “is that legal? can they get away with that?”

Interesting that the Trump administration is laying down a marker that a military attack on an unarmed craft can be the basis for prosecuting senior government officials who supervised the attack in home countries of the vehicles' occupants.

It’s a small thing in the grand scheme of things where institutions of liberal democracy are basically ghosts but my first thought was of all the *curriculum* we built around Google searching. Understanding it. Manipulating it. Exploiting it. Thinking like it. Whew.

The U.S. Has Murdered More Than 190 Civilian in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All. SOUTHCOM is now counting the survivor of the last strike, on May 8, as another death. We have the running tally of strikes and deaths on our tracker @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

Uh, oh

They’re trying to normalize the idea of a national sales tax to end progressive taxation, and I’m already sick about the number of people who are going to fall for it because they hate the idea of other people enjoying anything.

Gift link for #MAEdu: wapo.st/4dvw1e4

Marty Makary went on Fox News and lied to all of us, saying that 10 children died from COVID19 vaccines. The report actually said, “No cases [of pediatric deaths] were classified as certain in relation to COVID-19 vaccination”. Makary also said that FDA approvals were a “mockery of science”.

Barney Frank dies, 86 www.nbcboston.com/news/local/f...

How the Democratic Republic of the Congo's health system — now at the center of the Ebola outbreak — changed after U.S. aid was cut, according to people who worked in the country:

I get so angry about the ubiquity of dwr treatments sometimes

they made justin timberlake

Breaking News: James Murdoch is buying New York magazine, Vox Media’s podcast network and the Vox website for more than $300 million, a dramatic expansion in U.S. media for the younger son of the media mogul Rupert Murdoch.

Solar plus storage in India is cheaper than building fossil fuel power plants. So they build the solar.

This isn’t about the tech , it’s about the design and all the people who think if you use their services you don’t deaerve limits and boundaries

Forgive my ignorance, but what does the T stand for?

Bezos, of course, is the reason The Post lost hundreds of thousands of subscribers, necessitating sweeping layoffs

“Linger” is a term you use for the aftereffects of something that’s over.

In case you've ever wondered what it's like to be trans in 2026: friends are texting each other today to be safe again, as we do every week, because the richest man in the world is yet again boosting false claims that neo-Nazis who attacked the Mosque were trans and there's a conspiracy to hide it.

This is like when the villain monologues. Please keep talking Jeff.

congrats to big tech for reinventing auditory hallucinations

Here’s a video from the same podcast as linked in my previous post where you can hear the audio too. I love this because it really lays bare how LLMs fool us - but really they’re just slotting words into linguistic patterns that we’re familiar with. Genres like a podcast or LinkedIn post.

The music of Seinfeld, divorced from the show itself, is nothing short of disgusting. Imagine if the show didn’t exist but the music somehow did. Hearing it, your face would twist in angry revulsion

Well said. Another of my recent readings makes the point that the oligarchic worldview has, however, found a symbiotic host in white Christian nationalism’s view of the world .

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

lol wut

Cockily saying “then do something about it” to a crowd of kids who are booing you seems like a bad idea…

Omg fuck this guy

and now, your moment of zen. 🎥 (https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYhEwUvv67q/)

Why does everyone hate the Democrats?

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate advances bill aimed at ending Iran war after GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy, defeated in primary, switches to support it.

They bought all of our choices, political, lifestyle and economic. But they did not wager the cost of our *refusal*. It is fascinating. Grim but fascinating.

AI is the lynchpin of the whole political project. It’s the container for the parallel governance they have promised each other. I truly think that they are surprised that people don’t like it…and that they can’t yet wholesale punish everyone for not liking them.

Do you know I actually think that these people are so inoculated from any public sentiment that they are legitimately shook by a handful of boos at commencements this week?

WHO rep: ‘Significant uncertainty’ about how far Ebola has spread. There are at least 500 suspected cases, including 130 deaths, so far in the outbreak. Read more: ow.ly/4A5z50Z1S22 📷: World Bank/Vincent Tremeau/Flickr cc

This you, @playboy.com?

The big story is about the unappropriated, misappropriated funds being dumped into an account for the enrichment of (in some to-be-determined combination) Trump personally, his personal lawyers and political lieutenants, and his insurrectionist rioting henchmen. 1/

Only for the articles making a hell of a debut here