Who believes this lyin' nonsense at this point?

The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal environments, marine ecosystems & powerful currents that affect the global climate. www.threads.com/@nytimes/pos...

A former Brazilian model has claimed the first lady was an “escort” for Epstein and met the president through the notorious sex offender. www.thedailybeast.com/melania-name...

"I had a very good call with Hezbollah"?

US court blocks Pentagon from removing transgender troops, for now reut.rs/4e2lZS3

With each passing day, I'm liking Jon Ossoff more and more. I think he may be the real deal.

The director, Rich Baris, historically supports Trump but has been more critical during his 2nd term over his support of Israel & the war in Iran. Baris warned it could be "all over for MAGA" if Trump further involved the US in a conflict with the Islamic Republic www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

The orange dum dum probably learned to spell as a young bully going through Halloween candy pillowcases he tore away from even younger kids. Violating others by force obviously became his modus operandi.

Thank you Seth for taking the time to write this. It helps me better understand what I’m seeing in the media reporting on him and the puzzling and contradictory takes on him in social media.

Reality

Maddow just called white supremacist nazi Greg Bovino ... that "tiny terror" Perfection. #Maddow

#Maddow #MaddowMonday Reality Check Break

PROTEST AND BOYCOTT GEO GROUP FOR RUNNING THESE ILLEGAL DETENTION CENTERS (AKA CONCENTRATION CAMPS) PER MADDOW

Mark Zandi: Trump Has Days to Strike Iran Deal Before US Economic Problems - Business Insider share.google/J2PGe9UJpBIJ...

Troops attending Trump’s America250 celebration have to meet height and weight standards. So the folks on The Weeknight decided it was time to put a reality check on Trump’s height and weight. 🤣 Spread this around and let’s remember to blast this clip again during Trump’s celebration. Okay?

If you don’t like what you’re seeing at Delaney Hall, pay attention to what’s happening in Congress this week.   We must stop giving ICE and for-profit companies like GEO Group a blank check to create chaos.

🔥Ukrainian mid-range drones torched Russian trucks on the highway near Taganrog, Rostov region — deep inside Russia. No border to 🇺🇦 crossed. No Starlink needed. Just pure logistics pain. Moscow’s convoys are catching fire BEFORE they even leave home soil. Keep coping, orcs! 😎

Wow. That got awkward fast, even considering the participants.

This is funny when you know how uptight donold is...lol

I began my investigation into Platner—which took me through his Reddit posts and what U.S. media has been writing about him for months—merely annoyed at those who come on my feed calling him a Nazi. Now that I know what I know, I’m angry at those people—and their disinformation.

So true it hurts

Have you no shame, CNN journalists? At long last, have you no shame? THIS IS NOT HOW YOU DO JOURNALISM. THERE IS NO ACTUAL NEWS HERE.

This new PROOF report will make you angry. It should. Platner isn’t a great candidate—but he’s also not the person corporate media is trying to paint him as. PROOF does a deep, exhaustively sourced dive into the lies being told to ensure MAGA keeps its Maine Senate seat.

@njdoc.bsky.social A Tesla driver stopped in the middle of Route 22 in Bridgewater on Sunday afternoon, which led to a fatal rear-end crash involving two other vehicles, authorities said. www.nj.com/somerset/202...

Iran is stopping message exchanges with U.S., may block Hormuz, Tasnim news agency says reut.rs/4fjY96G

Trump is ruthlessly exploiting this weakness, but he didn’t create it. Assuming that the Republic does eventually get past him and his grifting, it will need radical surgery, not merely a reset.”

“What we’ve learned during the past decade is that when the Supreme Court puts democracy up for sale, Congress is utterly beholden to a President, and if that President is a malign actor, the U.S. Constitution is no longer fit for purpose. Can Anything Stop Trump’s Corruption? - The New Yorker

"...outside countries should seize on Ukraine’s current advantages and help it exploit the gains, warning that they’re not going to be permanent." If we had a normal, sane President, we would jump on this opportunity to help Ukraine repel Russia. Unfortunately, we have a Russian puppet in office.

American workers just took home their smallest share of the nation's wealth since 1947 — even as corporate profits soar. Why? This chart has the answer.

New research shows nearly half of U.S. households didn't earn enough to cover the costs of basic necessities. Rising prices and stagnant wages are making life unaffordable for working families. That's why it's a top priority for our union. www.npr.org/2026/05/28/n...

The President of the United States is a grifter and a worthless human being.

Gene therapy tidbit: A single dose lowered "bad" LDL cholesterol by up to 62% in an early trial. That's a liver enzyme edit aiming for long-term heart health. Quiet progress.

Largest ever trial treated polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR, causes muscle pain & stiffness) with Cosentyx, an immunosuppressant. This is how we learn to target the *cause* of autoimmune diseases, not just the symptoms.

fda approved xocova, the first oral drug to prevent covid symptoms *after* exposure. it's a step toward managing spread, not just treating the sick. it's about proactive care now.

Postmodernism certainly didn't start this way in academia—but when it entered pop culture it became unusually rigid, binary, and dogmatically dialectical. It takes every situation as zero-sum: a war. Usually, it just ends up blowing up everything. America can't afford that here.

A key metamodern principle is "error breeds sense." We needn't war with every mistake; sometimes mistakes are just what we need. Platner isn't the ideal candidate, but he's *unquestionably* preferable to Collins—and his emergence now offers a fantastically useful teaching moment.

Is now a good time to speak of how a political party avoids Fettermans? Sure. But those urging Mainers to find Platner *categorically unacceptable* before the upcoming primaries are postmodernists whose simplistic dialectics will cause him to lose this fall. We can't afford that.

This Senate race is an opportunity to: * mobilize for DNC reform * firm up candidate vetting culture * reestablish values * learn more about Maine, vets, and how a man like Platner can go wrong * revisit what Maine is and who Collins is NONE of that involves voting for Collins.

We *must* find ways to live our values while not cannibalizing our political goals. As a dialectical worldview, postmodernism makes that impossible—metamodernism lets one hold firm to values and be realistic about who people are while *still working to advance the cause of Hope*.

One of my roles in academia was as a cultural theorist. I became a metamodernist in the 2010s after reading much late 20th c. scholarship showing that late postmodernism is killing progressives' ability to organize, protest and make change. I see it now in the attacks on Platner.

I understand the concerns over Platner—but no, as a Trump presidential historian, I can tell you they're not even in the *universe* of what we see in Trump and Paxton. Watch the great video his wife released, listen to his speeches, and consider that America is nearing its end.