Trump's war cost 13 US lives and wounded hundreds , killed thousands of civilians, burned through billions of dollars, reduced Tehran and Beirut to rubble and saddled already struggling Americans with higher gas prices and an inflation surge. And for what? open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Fuck you @nbcnews.com

Freed from Desire is a choice, surviving relegation

Can someone tell NBC Tottenham’s rivals actually WON the Premier League??

1 - he never had the governing plot. 2 - what he cares about hasn’t changed from his 1st term. He’s just more bold now in his law breaking. 3 - to answer their question, YES. He’s a malignant narcissist and none of this is even remotely surprising at this point.

BREAKING: @us.theguardian.com has acquired the full, 26-man US men's national team World Cup roster. A couple of big surprises on there in addition to what's already been reported. Reporting w/@jeffrueter.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

The coup was a success.

Abrego García should apply for the “Anti-Weaponization Fund.” How many other people have a district court ruling actually *finding* vindictive prosecution?

Nooooo what the fuck

BREAKING: Federal judge dismisses criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

What do all these cabinet members have in common?

Oh my fucking god I thought they made this up. They did not. I just tried it myself

"It’s as if much of big media has decided that it’s too much trouble to focus, in any sustained way, on developments that would have resulted in weeks of headlines, if not impeachment and conviction, in the pre-Trump era." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Perry: "I do believe deeply in the presumption of regularity … That trust has been broken."

From the just released transcript of today’s closed door hearing in the Broadview case

(NYT) - House Republican leaders have pulled a resolution to halt the Iran war that had been scheduled for a vote Thursday evening, after it became clear they lacked enough votes to defeat it. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem

Moreover, Charles Littlejohn leaked hundreds of thousands of records to shed light on how billionaires like Trump avoided taxes in 2019, when Trump was president. The theory of weaponization here requires one to accept a dozen false premises and lies.

I’ve never really seen a prominent Dem tie the “defund the police” concept to fiscal responsibility and I don’t know why. A message that police are wasting tax payer dollars on settlements for abuse can still be spun as “backing the Blue”. It’s simply “draining the swamp”.

1) Yes, Jeff Bezos should pay more. 2) The real question is about the *rate* he pays relative to others and whether his company pays *anything* not if he pays large amounts personally. 3) Any interviewer tougher than Sorkin would home in on those issues with figures ready to go.

Two months ago. [March 15]

Barney Frank, the longtime Democratic congressman and leading liberal who brought new visibility to gay rights and crafted the most significant reforms to the financial system in a generation, has died. He was 86. https://to.pbs.org/3Rc6aAy

BREAKING: Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges, two law enforcement officers who clashed with Jan. 6 insurrectionists, have sued to block the Trump 'slush fund'. They're asking a federal judge to find the creation of the fund illegal and reverse any transfers that Treasury has made to DOJ to implement it.

When I was a kid, the dentist had these magazines for toddlers in the waiting room that you’d circle everything wrong on the page, like a dog with two heads or a car missing a wheel. That’s like advanced level shit to the US government.

Yep. The lessons from Democrats after Watergate was “How can we be better?” The Republicans’ lesson after Watergate was “How can we get away with it next time?”

Can’t amplify this sentiment enough.

It bears reminding: 1) Donald Trump repeatedly ordered his top DOJ officials to pursue Hunter Biden. 2) Trump unlawfully withheld $$ from Ukraine to get help in Rudy AND BILL BARR investigating the Bidens. 3) Bill Barr set up a way to criminally frame Hunter and Joe Biden.

“.. Martin also predicted the Justice Department would dole out millions of dollars to those charged, and then later pardoned, in the Jan 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, the people said. Even if it took until the end of President Donald Trump’s term.” @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Massie voted straight GOP the vast majority of the time. His only real break with Trump was over the Epstein files. Kentucky voters rejected the guy who wanted to expose the truth about a sex offender because Trump told them to. Think about what that means.

SIGN OF THE DAY…

hey everyone, go google Arsenal right now

“they called us bottlers… NOW WE’RE HOLDIN THE BOTTLE”

However appalled you are by this, it’s not enough. It’s a frank statement that Trump and Trumpists are above the law and need not even plausible excuses to loot your tax dollars. It’s a total failure of our civic institutions.

Love this great short thread. Reminds me of that line from Batman (1989) “Think about the future”

The AI boom is unsustainable because the entire thing is predicated on cannibalizing the future. Is this a better way to search? Maybe! Will there be anything new for the AI to search if no one gets web traffic from Google Search anymore? There will not.

@emptywheel.bsky.social is right, trump has given us a do-over on our collective failure to truly hold him accountable for Jan6. Lotta horrible people from red states in this thread. Call your senators/congresspeople and ask if they're cool with handing them cash payments from the stolen slush fund!

ARSENAL ARE CHAMPIONS OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE!!!! FIRST TIME IN 22 YEARS!!

Come on you Bournemouth Gunners!!

Watch City get like 9 minutes of added time even though there have hardly been any second half stopages

Watching JD Vance complain about the way J6ers never get an ounce of sympathy amidst the mass deportation and boat bombing campaign in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean ...

He promised to release his tax returns as soon as there were no more audits pending, and now there are no more audits pending.

This is crazy!

Good breakdown of the background and bottom line: "If you paid 2023 federal income taxes in the state of Connecticut, $3 out of every $100 you paid is now set aside for reimbursing people who a committee of people allied with the president decide were treated unfairly by government actions."

The type of thing you do when you are very, very guilty

The number of people who have died or will die as a result of Musk’s recklessness in slashing funding for USAID is already staggering. If Ebola gets loose, too, bookmark this moment.

*This* is to my mind the most problematic aspect of Callais. The mix of race and politics, esp. in the deep South, is complex and is perhaps the defining issue of American political history. The enforcement provisions of the 14th and 15th Ams recognize this by specifically empowering Congress. (6/7)

good morning!

Trump Just Created An Unconstitutional $1.776 Billion Loyalty Rewards Program For MAGA We discussed the rumor of this on Friday, but it's now real: Donald Trump has handed himself a $1.776 billion fund of taxpayer money — unappropriated by Congress — to dole out to friends in the MAGA movement who…

Apart from Piero Hincapie, Arsenal never leave themselves exposed at the back.