"The biggest donor in the midterm elections is not Elon Musk, or George Soros, or any of the other billionaires who are often thought to wield the fattest wallets in politics. It is a venture capital firm: Andreessen Horowitz."

This is mass political violence. “More than 10,000 times, judges have said those detentions, typically carried out with no opportunity for detainees to plead their case, were illegal. That’s roughly 90 percent of all cases — a staggering rejection of a core piece of Trump’s immigration agenda.”

The Iran War Tax

IEA: “.. Rapidly shrinking buffers amid continued disruptions may herald future price spikes ahead.” Convexity fast approaching. ⛽️ @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/c5ac...

As Marcy says, Xi has Trump by the rare earth nuts.

I guess we don't have Ukraine's cards ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think we should generally ignore this shit. But this is absolutely something that should be asked, not hounded, about in China in front of Xi, just because it will infuriate him to be exposed as a sundowning freak in front of his hero.

This freak was fired because he didn't want to push vaping on kids. And because Trump can find dozens of similar freaks who will.

When the Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce is freaking out about global starvation, we're in trouble, girl.

Trump Heads to China to Celebrate Losing in Iran

RESULT: GOP’s effort to install an ally as Dem’s Senate nominee in Nebraska fails. An anti-abortion pastor has lost big to Cindy Burbank, who has signaled she’s likely to drop out to help independent Dan Osborn defeat the GOP Senator. GOP tried to kick Burbank off ballot but courts stepped in.

Weird shit going on in Russia, as @sanho.bsky.social keeps reminding us

Why are young people thinking like us fucked Xers on this?

in a dense urban areas there is no solution other than 'paying people to pick things up'. scofflaw littering might vary across places and cultures and reducing that is good, but some amount of stray trash is just inevitable

Trump is just going to rebrand his Iran war when it becomes clear he lost the first round. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

And you wonder why most people are angry.

There's been so much over 5 days, quick recap: —TN: GOP passed new map, erase Dem seat —VA: State SC struck down Dem referendum —AL: SCOTUS blessed GOP move to cancel ongoing elections, erase Dem seat —MO: State SC stalled veto referendum, allows GOP to end Dem seat —SC: Rushed GOP redraw derails

give DC statehood combine the dakotas save money on not having to change the flag

“Trump recently became frustrated with Makary for not moving fast enough to approve flavored vapes and other nicotine products. Makary in February refused to authorize blueberry and mango vape flavors from Los Angeles manufacturer Glas, worried that fruit flavors would encourage youth vaping.”

I want to be very clear about what's happening at FDA: The Trump Regime pushed out the most incompetent fuckup of a Commissioner in the agency's history so that they can install someone who **will be even worse for the health of America's children**

NEW: xAI appears to have added more than 500 MW (!) of unpermitted gas turbines to its Colossus 2 campus in a matter of weeks, according to internal emails between the company and regulators

Teaching the kids that this is Weezer's "Go Away"

About time Matt Bors got paid for creating that one comic everybody knows!

“However, it’s harder to offer people realistic hope than it is to sell them unbridled cynicism.” We could possibly swing this if we’re disciplined, creative, and lucky! does not kill in the algorithm.

Here is Jason’s essay about being the first active player in one of the four major men’s U.S. sports to come out as gay. What an absolute hero who will never be forgotten: www.si.com/more-sports/...

Thousands of childcare workers nationwide walked off the job today to protest low wages. paydayreport.com/10-memphis-c...

“It’s very rare for us to know in real time the effect of our actions.”

This week I wrote about about violence in the context of politics.

“As a whole, in fact, Moms .gov carries a strong anti-feminist undercurrent.” Schlaflying all the way to the bank.

Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

Michigan’s Medicaid expansion shows that a real healthcare safety net helps entire communities. Medical debt dropped and credit scores improved for working families across the state. ihpi.umich.edu/news-events/...

this is very clearly and directly genocidal: "Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group" is explicitly listed as a genocidal act in the 1948 convention, and Russia's intent to destroy Ukrainians as a people has been made clear over and over again

Amazing that he branded himself on this 50 years, and the one deal of his that anyone can name is him punishing Iran by giving it a tollbooth on the Strait of Hormuz.

I think if you use the word deficit, it's always right-coded, which is why this is a bit of trolling. But amazing that the greatest city on earth was sweating the cost of what we're wasting in a weekend bombing girls' schools in IRAN.

If anything, Democrats and our institutions have invested in digital and MORE of them create compelling Instagram and Tik tok content now, which I'll never defend, but I still think is better than telling your supporters to go and join a website that they don't enjoy

Ashamed to say I never knew the name C.T. Vivian until today.

A fun thing: several years ago, this dipshit put a Starbucks directly across the street from the very popular independent coffee place in my neighborhood, clearly trying to put it out of business. The Starbucks got its ass kicked because people aren't as hostile to business as they are to Starbucks.

Good morning from the Pentagon streaming site of war court hearings from Guantánamo Bay. The latest news is the judge has reset the trial date in the court’s other death-penalty case. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u...

I'm not completely unsympathetic to this view but I don't think it holds up when you consider that any truly effective means of confronting the right on X would have been made either impossible or bannable by its owner

It's hard to believe, but this really is the official position of our country's Very Serious Financial Analysts: "it would simply be too horrible if the strait stays closed, so ... [closes eyes tight, taps heels together] ... it won't!"

Notice that this characterizes Charlie Kirk’s murderer as a “radical who espoused extreme transgender ideology” even tho Tyler Robinson is a cisgender white man and the only (maybe) transgender person in this case is a witness who is cooperating with the prosecution and went into witness protection.

tremendous idea. just imagine the #content.

Audio clips allegedly show Juan Orlando Hernández detailing a plot in which Trump pardoned him so he'd lead a propaganda op returning him to power in Honduras & undermining leftist leaders in Mexico & Colombia I wrote it up here washingtonmonthly.com/2026/05/12/h... But let me walk you through it

Tom Morello signs the key second verse of "This Land Is Your Land" at the @handsoffnyc.bsky.social rally outside 26 Federal in NYC.

@robertgarcia.house.gov announced this morning the release of the below report, based on bank records & other documents, on how Alex Acosta's sweetheart plea deal helped Epstein continue and expand his global network of sexual abuse. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/do...

here's a window into what immigration judges are going through. in addition to the cruel enforcement we have seen, the administration is taking away the legal light at the end of the tunnel for those with asylum claims: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"Timothy Kuran wrote a book called 'Private Truths, Public Lies' about “preference falsification”—the idea that people fabricate their public preferences to match social pressure." Who should I read more on the Maygar approach to overwhelming authoritarian consolidation? A chapter model seems key.

“[W]e need a Supreme Court that is prepared to uphold a structure of laws that protect democracy in our country.” A tour de force from @sifill.bsky.social on why we need an expanded/constrained SCOTUS to save our democracy (& smash lawless white supremacy) open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

I'll assimilate to a carne asada burrito and my Hank Ballard playlist, thank you.

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this