First day on the job and you want respect? Go right up to the most recognizable and respected guy in the newsroom and have him yell at you until you cry. Then it's time to send him a weepy email telling him how disappointed you were that he did all that. Shouldn't have any trouble after that.

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani will appear on HOT 97 Mornings with Mero tomorrow morning (Weds)

The low-hanging fruit is Blanche and maybe half a dozen others involved with the "fund." You campaign on putting them in prison, no one will stop you. "Intent to defraud," "two billion of your money to insurrectionists, crooks..." No one dares. That's how you get people used to the idea.

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

"Hostile work environment" is a legal standard with actual case law and balancing tests behind it. What it's NOT is an incantation that you can utter when firing someone that provides magical protection from lawsuits.

the supreme court majority is just reiterating again and again that it thinks that it's unconstitutional when Black people vote.

When your agents shot my coworker Alex, that was pretty fucking unlawful.

Dumb ol bitch

The US alone dedicates 30M acres to corn just for ethanol production. As solar, that would yield something like 6PWh annually. The US currently consumes about 4PWh annually. But who said it has to be all solar?

cool, so don’t fund his agency

1/ This company’s models were trained on web scraped datasets (like LAION) and their founders are ex-Stability AI employees who engage in the same thieving practices that led artists like myself to sue Stability. GenAi companies NEED big names to sanitize their exploitation and crippling PR.

Here’s another amazing one from today:

Welp there’s no unseeing this

another fun fact is that Pulte used to host meetups for fellow memestock fans and went through a period where he unironically wore a "bulletproof vest" to bars because he was concerned his Enemies would Stop Him

Ok? And who funded this study? Big Feeling Better?

So if I've got this right: Mike Ovitz basically convinced Scorcese to co-sign his AI scam on an extremely limited storyboarding basis, filmed a testimonial/endorsement that he wouldn't have to back up with press, and then it prepped exactly the kind of 'TIPPING POINT' press release you would expect

So apparently RFK Jr has been the one holding up funding for GAVI the vaccine alliance which among other things was trying to support testing for new Ebola vaccines for the variant that is now circulating in the DRC. Why RFK Jr is entrusted with influence on this is beyond me. Kick him to the curb.

In data science we call this problem "overfitting." The author, David frum's son, has memorized a bunch of facts about Normal Men without understanding the deeper relationships between those facts. Thus he has weak predictive power when trying to say other normal things.

My daughter Robyn would still be alive today if there had been a truely protected bicycle lane. What was the NYPD response to this tragedy? Ticket bicyclists! The box truck diver who killed my daughter? He got some tickets for vehicle issues, nothing for causing the death of Robyn! @mayor.nyc.gov

the current director of national intelligence is a guy who two years ago received a trophy declaring he “Fucks Only The Young” at an (oddly dildo focused) event he organized dedicated to the conspiracy that Bed Bath and Beyond never actually went bankrupt

If you're response to the vanity and frivolity of your opponent is just "doesn't this remind you of trans people" I don't think you're winning new voters or helping trans people

among the top 5 challenges of 2020s american politics is to get shitforbrains older liberals to stop giving money to this terrible newspaper

New research examines Waymo's California robotaxi trips btw Aug 2023 and Dec 2025. Conclusion: 46% of miles driven involved no one inside the car. That's 40 million miles of deadheading, with Waymo vehicles using road space w/o transporting a human. doi.org/10.32866/001...

It's just one thing. But vowing to make federal funding contingent on voters electing his favored candidate is unprecedented, incredibly destructive, and astonishingly corrupt. But he keeps doing it, and there's really no way to stop him.

The money was always there for the good things.

Absolutely breathtaking interaction

I’m sorry is this man suggesting that Talarico endear himself to Texas voters by crapping on ARCH MANNING?

so far AI only seems to be good for scams and non-consensual nudes. am i missing anything?

It’s pretty regularly erased in the contemporary retelling of the political moment, but acquittals like these of killers like George Zimmerman, along with in-custody deaths like Sandra Bland's, were a big part of the drumbeat of incidents that produced activism that led to the Floyd protests.

Jesus, I didn't realize Julie Menin's hotel licensing bill enshrined daily room cleaning in hotels into law. Do we want to be a nation of servants and the served forever? NY pols will stand up for any interest except the general public's. legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationD...

Here’s an idea for Zohran Mamdani to create more jobs in NYC: he could ask Julie Menin and City Council to relegalize the construction of new hotels, which Bill de Blasio banned citywide as a parting gift to the hotel workers union on his way out of office in 2021 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/n...

conditioning talks on your adversary giving up their strongest point of leverage — which they wouldn’t even have if it weren’t for your mistakes — is an utterly unserious, clown position

Our employer, the University of Southern California, is asking Donald Trump to overturn the results of our democratic union election before the count is even finished.

i love it when the clock strikes 10:30 every morning and the usual sites publish their 3 infuriating news stories that will drive all discourse today like zookeepers raising the enclosure's gate and letting the seals get into the day's bucket of chum

This is the “I have money to give away on Twitter” guy lmao

this is great. the thing about the bean counting dipshits currently running Hollywood is they are dumb even by their own lights. IPs are not an infinite resource, if you shit out endless sequels/reboots/remakes/etc to make "easy guaranteed money" then eventually people get sick of it

chopped franchise list, 1 playoff team 0 playoff wins

Reporting on how Talarico is reaching new people with his relatively run-of-the-mill mainline Christianity really shows how the media and political dominance of right wing evangelicalism has constrained the American religious imagination.

A week or so ago, I was looking for a couple books by an author from 10 and 15 years ago and my library didn't have them. I requested them via a library form. Today I got a notification in Libby that they purchased both titles. Asking your library for writers' books is an amazing way to support us.

This might be my favorite New York Post headline ever

love to dissect fox news propaganda so who is this "sports legend" backing spencer pratt in the la mayor race? someone big in la sports? is it magic? shaq? kareem? gretzky? lol no its... sinjin smith, a beach volleyball player who competed in the 1994 goodwill games and won a bronze.

the maine race is simple, the candidate telling the rich to fuck off is surging, i mean its really not more complicated than that

Because gender performance rules everything

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

I'd add that the blatantly racist behavior of the police in NYC *towards other police* around promotions and patronage creates a useful potential wedge to help try to crack corruption and insubordination in the department open that doesn't exist in other cities.

It seems pretty damming of society in general that even Farage is crossing the hygiene lines he once thought he couldn't.

Even when you've seen countless examples of it, it's still breathtaking how much criminal behavior our society accepts and indeed welcomes from the police.

Senate Democrats truly have no concept of what the state of this country is or the harms Republicans are doing to it. It's as if the moment a Senate Democrat is sworn in, they get lobotomized.