👏 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/a...

It is literally *all* they know

21. Here's my interview with Shipwreck. www.editorialboard.com/trump-is-too...

1/ This is awful for so, so many reasons. Just to pick one: even if you thought it was lawful and appropriate to vet funded research for consistency with the government's priorities, *the president is not the government*.

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i’ll add to josh that in addition to this idea that only the president can identify national priorities, there is a conception of the president as something like the sovereign embodiment of “the people” themselves.

my favorite erick erickson moment is when he said that his family refused to eat asian food on the anniversary of pearl harbor to honor the tragedy. a reporter reached out to his mom to confirm whether this was true and she was like “i don’t know what the fuck he is talking about”

I genuinely feel sick. A company reached out to me on IG, linking me to an AI version of myself. You can even ask "me" questions. They are also advertising it using an AI photo of me. They told me if I like it, they will give me free access... to my own fucking content that they stole. /1

Izzy Aly, Egyptian-born engineer caught in the hell of immigration detention, is begging for medical care for his failing kidneys, even as his urine turns red Aly is the poster child for the growing humanitarian crisis inside ICE detention. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/izzy...

NEW: A group of activists have built an awesome new tool to help immigration attorneys and the general public know when an ICE flight is headed to their area. gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...

it's worse because Putting On A Show is the only thing he cares about. This is a lifelong failure, back from when Sinatra and the Stones refused to have anything to do with his casinos.

My latest rejection

OT but having a Great American State Fair in the only place in the US that's not in a state is kind of pathetic.

3/ The Vought White House, which has adopted UET on steroids, is extending this to the proposition that only the president can identify national priorities, even in the teeth of countervailing statutory language. That is personalist rule; it has nothing to do with rule by law.

have we considered that flo rida and vanilla ice might be locked in a deadly game of chicken where both performers have their entire net worth tied up in elaborate parallel kalshi bets that they will be the last act to drop out? I am asking us to consider it

FINALLY get to hear from Pam Bondi tomorrow on the Epstein Case—except the public won’t see or hear a single thing. Republicans who control the Committee unilaterally decided: NO cameras. NO video recordings. NO sworn oath. NO deposition. No matter what roadblocks they throw at us—we will not stop.

I'm from the Vietnam generation and I need to be super careful about this, but Trump really should surrender to Iran. It's not that Iran really deserves to win the war, as Vietnam did. It's just that Trump's idea of an Iran war was a garbagy idea with no chance of success.

"With political leadership so feckless, so incapable of planning, so willing to betray friends and allies for short-term advantage, so willing to lie and advocate criminal behavior, our military is simply not in responsible hands," argues @EliotACohen: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I wrote this piece a year ago, lamenting what the terror of ICE would do not just to immigrants, but to our entire society. I had no idea how much worse it would get. The amount of trauma is unfathomable. What cost, all this fear? It is incalculable. dot-connecting.ghost.io/what-cost-al...

Thank you!

This is a great race to contribute to--here's the link he should have posted. www.decillisforcongress.com

I’m Mike DeCillis and I’m a 3rd generation union guy with 35 years experience in public service. I’m a Democrat running against Trump loyalist, Nicole Malliotakis. Staten Island & South Brooklyn deserve better — donate to my campaign to send her packing in November.

Nominations for the Ann Snitow prize are open until July 15. I would like to encourage everyone to nominate a feminist intellectual and activist, living and working in the United States who you know. The award of $12,500 may be used however the recipient wishes. annsnitowprize.com/nominations/

Yes, I think the stink of 'master race' lurks therein. Soon enough the disabled will be cast aside and the Herrenmenschen will become the anointed and official breeders ...

Martina is now out!

Those scientists were hired for their brains, not their ability to do mixed martial arts and push ups with Bobby Jr.

It blew my mind when someone said Birmingham is a sanctuary city. Technically Alabama has a pre-emption law against that, but Birmingham went ahead anyway. bsky.app/profile/city...

And then there's this from Atlanta bsky.app/profile/city...

I wonder how many cities with international airports aren't reliably blue, even in red states, and functionally sanctuary cities, even if pre-emption laws officially forbid it.

It’s possible that this cartel of billionaires in Government not only don’t care about most Americans, but literally wouldn’t be able to identify what most Americans deal with day to day…

If he's planning to reroute 52 million passengers a year to International Trump Palm Beach or whatever they're calling it they'd better start building runways. But there's a reason why New York is where they want to land.

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I don't know about the reporter, but I'm calling Trump a liar. He's clearly obsessed with the midterms, as he shows with his desperate efforts to rig the coming vote, but handicapped by his lifelong Roy Cohn practice of never admitting a mistake except by doubling down on it...

Or a criminal and pathological liar. The Venn diagram of the unusual things Obama would do and unusual things Trump would do is pretty much two circles without any overlap.

We don’t reflect enough on how the revealed preference of the richest men in history, who can afford any material luxury or human experience, is often “being angry and resentful all the time.” Righteous grievance turns out to be the absolute pinnacle of Maslow’s pyramid. The ultimate luxury good

Couldn't make time for the wedding but sent such a nice present

I would vote for impeachment on this count alone if he signed such a bill. I realize there are hundreds of others that are far more consequential, but this is the purest Caesarism.

"Too soon because the order hadn't been implemented yet" Sorry that's exactly the right time to block the order, it's obviously unconstitutional

Right answer is same thing as other unions, right?

Action Alert: No Kings Day June 14 As some random spitballer on the Socials said, “we need a better HOA." Anyway, the next No King’s Day is June 14 — Flag Day and Grandpa Sundowner's 80th birthday — to counter-program the UFC fight at the White House. I’m far from an expert on the media, but given…

Second most corrupt politician in America, but other than that yes.

Until 1933, German universities led the world. They have never regained that position.

Agreed. And, this doesn’t appear to be an official act; therefore, Carroll’s attorneys must put this in front of the SCOTUS as quickly as possible to flush the SCOTUS out of hiding & make them declare it is or isn’t an official act.

Meanwhile www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/c...

When a Republican congressman last year unveiled the Donald J. Trump $250 Bill Act, it was largely dismissed as a sad joke. Fifteen months later, as the administration embraces the idea, the joke is suddenly a lot less funny. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Chicken shit can’t face them because he knows there’s no justification for what he’s done. Consciousnesses of guilt. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-v...

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