So many people focused on Bari Weiss asking to make protesters look more violent and glossing over Pelley admitting they’d already dug deep for the most violent protester footage they could find. His interview is more of an indictment of corporate media than many want to admit.

people kept replying "its not out yet! its too early to say its a bomb!" and folks, it bombed.

Trump: "I didn't guarantee no war." Trump guaranteeing no more wars:

Can't recall a recent video that better captures Trump's essence. Misogynist goon sweatily belches out egregious lies to a woman reporter, insults and berates her when she asks for evidence, then storms off in anger, all while his spray-tan slowly slides down his face.

I would love to know how they decided to do the interview on this "We love farmers, Trump loves farmers" set.

Man this held up

Donald Trump Jr. invested in a startup. Three months later, the Pentagon handed that startup $620 million after the White House called and ordered them to fast-track it. The company's value went from $200 million to $2 billion overnight.

Misogynist: Ah, I remember when I used to be accused of being a misogynist. *5 seconds later* Misogynist: *Says Misogynistic shit*

Bari Weiss not beating the bootlicking propagandist allegations here:

I do appreciate when these people remind me about how "populism" is elites indulging misogyny and racism rather than being "popular" or relating to the "population".

Trying very hard to imagine being mad at the person who onboarded me, briefs us on healthcare and retirement options, and sends occasional emails announcing new hires.

Whenever I see ppl with the “bought this Tesla before Musk went crazy” no you didn’t, it was clear from the start to anyone paying attention.

Me, antifa's best propagandist and genuinely in the upper percentiles of skill at normal human interaction among my comrades: better make sure nobody associates d-day with the cause of antifa.

I feel like drivers sense this too, I can feel the vibes when I ride around downtown LA. They get mad because you have the freedom and fun that they were promised but will never get in a city. It’s why they get so mad about bikes not following the car rules; they want you to be miserable too.

They’re right to worry. Hegseth is clearly resegregating the military by race and sex.

You guys, the White House accidentally ordered 10x the amount of Porta-Potties that they needed. The lawn is just acres of Porta-Potties. It’s all fenced off and you can’t see, but I took this photo through a hole in the fence netting.

I specifically requested no more metaphors

Just saw some drone footage of a nearly 150-acre new development project up in Snohomish where my dad used to live. Clearcut god knows how many trees for more suburban sprawl. Makes me sick, and also angry at the urban "tree advocates" who think getting rid of one tree for infill is somehow worse.

This is a disgrace.

Fraud based economy we're running these days. apnews.com/article/buye...

I don’t want to make an account just to buy something. I don’t want to download an app either. I just want to pay for the thing and leave. I don’t want to join the rewards program. I don’t want to get the inevitable email that my information has been compromised.

to unpack this a little I think smokejumping’s nutsness is specifically masculine because it chains together a bunch of individually high risk activities in a way that from one perspective makes perfect sense as goal-oriented, iterated design but from another is wtf dude

It's pronounced "Nocks-sees", and I'm not saying they're Nazi's, that's WWII. These are naXis. Similar, but different.

naXi politics is littered with pedophiles, and that's why they want to gawk at your child's genitals.

▶️Overall traffic through Hormuz fell to its lowest point of the conflict in May, with dark transits surpassing traceable ones for the first time www.lloydslist.com/articles/202...

Stranded ships start to move as quiet US overwatch spurs Hormuz exits ▶️Nearly 40 formerly stranded, non-Iranian linked vessels have exited the Middle East Gulf in the past three weeks, bringing total departures since March to 142

142 total departures since March is basically on scale with what a busy *day's* traffic used to be.

Hormuz crisis is a ‘make or break’ moment for shipmanager relationships with crew and owners, says InterManager chief ▶️Seafarers face ‘tremendous stresses’ as managers balance repatriation requests with readiness to sail at short notice www.lloydslist.com/articles/202...

There is no way to undo the shame and humiliation of putting people like this in power. We can change back to trying to be good again, but right now the people representing us are the bad guys. People *choosing* to be villains, without a the benefit of a backstory compelling their decisions.

This is terrible. These continuous data series are invaluable and the fixed costs invested in building this network have already been covered. It's a travesty to both science AND commerce, since this information just goes away. It's also stupid, since the bulk of costs have already been incurred.

[death of irony, chapter 2145] (guy with dangerous ideology, speaking on a beach) "Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies'.

When Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson was running for president in the 1950s, a supporter purportedly said to him: “Every thinking person in America will be voting for you.” Stevenson replied, “I’m afraid that won’t do — I need a majority.”

AOC: ✅ had all three of her endorsed candidates win their primaries this week ✅ stayed far away from Platner even as Bernie and Warren, her political mentors, got behind him ✅ Refused to endorse Saikat and saw him get in third in California Few lefties move like her

It will be extremely annoying if the margin the Steyer vs Hilton contest comes down to spoiled ballots that were mailed on election day but not postmarked on election day due to Trump's efforst to fuck with mail-in balloting.

Infill housing requires around a third less in up-front infrastructure costs, and generate more property taxes than comparable greenfield development. As cities wrestle with budget shortfalls, they should allow more of this type of development. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Democrats are losing races because they have shut themselves into a bubble and don’t understand two key truths that working people believe: first, burglars should be raped, and second, that isn’t gay.

Stonewall Mine Trail - Cuyamaca Rancho State Park - San Diego County #trails

New from me: radleybalko.substack.com/p/how-bari-w...

For comparison, more than 13,000 eligible federal inmates were released early to home confinement during COVID, a policy which the Trump administration tried to reverse. By 2023, only 22 had reoffended.

The reality is that Maine gets the same 2 Senate seat allocation as CA, and so I don't need to take this Kobayashi Maru test myself, Mainers can stick us with this clown if they choose that's the flipside of outsized representation, I can't fix that and I don't have to lay out for it either.

Over on the bad site, Michael Tracey is Sephiroth-posting his way through the Platner allegations

ROSENBERG on #NFP: "I am not going to quibble," but "what stood out was this ongoing retrenchment in full-time jobs .. ".. the rebound was all in part-time employment and then some — full-time positions were cut -79k after a -424k slump in April and have been down in four of the past five months."

i miss when the FBI was run by honest, upstanding drunks who could dutifully sober up before the 11am press conferences and confine their weekday drinking to after 4pm

WTF? I mean, I can't imagine how this isn't a crime.

chicago fed wades into the consumer sentiment debate www.chicagofed.org/publications...

I am obsessed with this finalist in this year's Michigan “I voted” sticker design contest

* ASTRONAUTS ON INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ORDERED TO SHELTER IN SPACECRAFT, PREPARE FOR EVACUATION OVER WORSENING AIR LEAKS ON RUSSIAN SEGMENT -- NASA @reuters.com

"The breaking Platner stories are a pro-Israel conspiracy" is the absolutely worst path for this thing to follow, so of course I'm seeing it all over today.