hard to exaggerate how heroic these men were. they likely saved dozens of children's lives. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Nobody loves to tell you your fears of the bogeyman are silly and unfounded more than the bogeyman.

As everyone knows, living in a CliffsNotes version of the world was the primary goal of educators, authors, and scholars who raised concerns about AI swapping out research, reading, and critical thought for being wrong, being dumb, and breathing through the mouth. This is a huge win.

Gov Jared Polis told a Colorado Sun event that his decision to give clemency to Tina Peters "will be remembered fondly." He was later interrupted by protesters carrying an enormous banner reading EAT SHIT POLIS coloradosun.com/2026/05/19/j...

lmaoooooo www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

Unfathomable levels of corruption.

this feels like Ford inventing the Model T and then following it up with a mechanical donkey that jumps into lakes and sprays hot oil in your face when you try to brake

STUDIO EXEC: we just need audiences to believe that the song is very popular within the That Thing You Do universe. WRITERS: got it, write the greatest song of all time. STUDIO EXEC: well obviously you can't actually write the- WRITERS: [EYES OBSIDIAN BLACK] THE GREATEST SONG OF ALL TIME

"Republicans blocked a law to keep your taxpayer money from going to convicted pedophiles"

today's the day!! get to the polls, Georgia!!! Vote Rankin, Jordan, and Wooten!!! find your polling location here: mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/

NEW: Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) offered amendment to block Trump’s newly-established $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded pot of money from "making any payments to convicted child predators" Multiple pardoned Jan 6 rioters have been accused of child abuse Amendment was blocked

This is good politics. This shit needs to be made salient!

1. 1100 words is only very long if you’re an amoeba. 2. Asking an LLM a question is not a skill. 3. One dead teen is actually too many unless you are a sociopath. 4. You’re welcome.

NEW: Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for evading income taxes. It hasn’t stopped the FCC from sending him $1 million a year to sell obsolete internet service in Alaska. The money comes from a special government subsidy program. You help pay for it. w/ @adn.com

Do people mad about the odyssey casting know about bible characters being cast as vegetables

Union hotel housekeepers in New York City will soon make over $100,000 a year. A new contract the union and the owners of nearly 250 hotels would raise wages by more than 50%. If workers ratify the deal it'll mean life-changing money for 27,000 union members and their families.

I’ve been invited to testify on what the House calls “Court Packing: A Threat to SCOTUS’s Legitimacy.” Drawing on research w/ Daphna Renan for our book, Supremacy, Congress has the duty—and all the tools it needs—to protect our Constitution from judicial supremacy. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"Donald Trump filed a fake lawsuit against his own government so that that he could 'settle' it and give $2 billion in taxpayer dollars to reward January 6 rioters" is the kind of story that makes you sound unhinged if you say it out loud, but is also 100 percent accurate

Worth discussing mitigating the unreasonable power of the majority leader and speaker in their respective bodies. I’m sure the founders took into account a certain amount of gamesmanship, but they seem to have counted on people who could feel shame being put in those roles. A gross miscalculation.

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

Donald Trump just stole $1.7B from us — and he's creating a slush fund to reward his political allies. I've never seen anything like this in my 50 years in politics. It makes Nixon look like a boy scout. www.cnbc.com/2026/05/18/t...

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

I don’t really care about the personal convictions of a man in a… button-up bomber jacket and a zipper shirt? What?

“.. We spotted nine Polymarket accounts .. who made collectively $2.4 million betting almost exclusively on U.S. Military operations. .. “.. Now, here is the crazy part. 98% win rates.” @mediaite.com www.mediaite.com/media/news/6...

This gave me chills. Watch.

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

again, this is literally black-letter constitutional text in virginia. this is an inalienable power that supercedes any formal amendment process. the court went beyond its jurisdiction when it attempted to overturn the referendum.

Can’t wait for the LEGO Der Rarmorth and Narmintz sets to drop.

COLLINS: But if someone was paying $2.98 a gallon before the war, and now they're paying $4.53, saying 'that's life' might not make them feel better JIM JORDAN: Those are your words, not mine COLLINS: You said that just now. I quoted you.

33 years ago today, Krusty the Clown was forced to replace Itchy & Scratchy with Worker & Parasite. “Krusty Gets Kancelled” first aired on May 13, 1993.

“.. Good morning from Beijing, where the US-China meeting is a sidebar on the front page of the China Daily.” - Annmarie Hordern, @bloomberg.com

It’s not Calvinball. It’s racism.

wrote about Alabama, the "Purcell principle," and the Supreme Court playing KKKalvinball—blatantly changing the rules as it goes and affording greater legal weight to Republican lawmakers’ desire to subvert democracy than Black voters’ right to participate in it ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) defended his decision to suspend his state’s ongoing primary election to redraw the congressional maps, even after 45,000 ballots had already been cast, saying that discarding those votes was “not a big” deal. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

A 10-year-old wrote MAGA Congresswoman Virginia Foxx for a school project. He chose to write about an electric vehicle tax credit. He thought it was good for the environment. Virginia responded by attacking him and his teacher for being propagandized. These people have power over your life.

its crazy how literally everything is worse than it was two years ago

Thank you @aoc.bsky.social for calling for the biomedical research DOGE cut to be not just restored but expanded: “Research saves lives. We HAVE to get these studies back online and expand this important work.” YES: let’s #TripleTheNIHBudget as part of a New Deal for Health!

John Roberts has spent more than four decades trying to destroy the Voting Rights Act and the Callais decision and its disastrous aftermath shows how nakedly political and partisan the Roberts Court has always been www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

politicians & press alike insist we can never tell anti-immigrant voters they're wrong—but they are, & we should! my latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/respecting-r...

again, i don’t think any of this is necessary. just say that the court was out of bounds, that it may be correct on the definition of “election” but that this technical matter has no bearing on the results of the referendum, which occurred in a free and fair contest.

Alabama House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter told reporters that he hopes the Supreme Court would "overturn Amendment 14." Seconds later he said, "All we need now is for the courts to overturn 14 and we can look at a new election." The 14th Amendment is what made Black people in America citizens.

Possibility of heavily tilted House map that requires big D wins to take control, a Senate that is heavily malapportioned, and a Court that is R-dominated for decades - not ingredients for continued democratic legitimacy. The broader non-Trump democratic crisis could come sooner than people realize.

This Voting Rights Act charade has really got me down. It truly sucks watching bullies cheat right in front of you and laugh in your face because they know you can’t do anything to stop them and they think it’s funny that you’re mad.

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

Can reporters stop using the word deal? It’s an agreement, a settlement, a treaty, an understanding, an MOU etc. Using the word deal is accepting his simple-minded TV game-show framing and contributes to the bogus drama he is trying to create.