Every day we encounter a new series of words that has never before been strung together in that particular order. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Despite a tense national and statewide environment around LGTBQ+ issues, the Lexington Pride Festival saw a notable boom in sponsors this year. Here is a story on how organizers made that happen and what it says about Lexington's support of the queer community. www.kentucky.com/news/local/a...

Economic development leaders and elected local officials in Maysville have been in talks with an unnamed company to build a data center.

There's nothing quite as brain-deadening as trying to find a therapist. The profiles are read the same and you have to read pages and pages and pages of them. Surely there's a better way.

I won a regional Murrow award today for best continuing coverage for my series of stories last year on data centers in Kentucky. If you're so inclined to spend an hour reading them they're here:

This fills me with rage lol www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/b...

Pat Murphy is every parent of a wrestling fan in 1999

always funny when the most 37 year old man alive's clips get posted to the everyone's-37-years-old social media site and all the 37 year olds rush to agree with him (as i, a 37 year old, do)

As Jabba the Hutt's son I'm often gatekept from progressive spaces due to preconceived notions about my family. At the same time, I acknowledge the reasonable concerns my presence would raise, and I'm working every day to unlearn the harmful attitudes instilled in me on my father's pleasure barge.

Stellar work, as ever, from LPM's @morgreports.lpm.org and @justinhicks.lpm.org.

Google Gemini doing some great work, glad they're finally killing all news site traffic

The state of Kentucky was going to take away Ron Smith's driver's license... until John Cheves started asking questions. Read John's latest story about this man's insane bureaucratic nightmare:

NEW: UK is back in the NCAA Tournament for the fourth straight year. My look at UK's season, a quote from NCAA committee chair Michael Alford, and the big picture look at what this all means. www.batcatscentral.com/kentucky-sel...

he also snuck a prompt injection in there that ensouls your chatbot if you ask it to give you a summary so watch out

Finally, a clear repudiation of the brain-dead “it’s just a tool” argument that gets floated cynically about every new technology:

As good an opportunity as any to post Orson Welles talking about his role in this movie

lmfaooo

A surprise Phoebe Bridgers show at The Burl in Lexington sent fans scrambling for wristbands Friday morning.

Imagine tho if he didn’t exist, in fact none of the Beatles did, and then I just played all of the Beatles songs and pretend that I’d written them. I bet you’d be impressed with me, hell, I’d probably be just as famous as the Beatles. Might be a funny premise for a feature film.

If you've ever been a client or employee of Kentucky's Addiction Recovery Care, @aacquisto.bsky.social and @taylorsixhl.bsky.social want to talk to you about your experience.

It's Gorton vs. Carter in the fall. Gorton got only 46% of the vote as a two-term incumbent. Carter got 28%. The other five candidates - one who raised $3k, the others who raised $0 - earned a combined 26% of the vote. Gorton insists she's not in trouble! www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

you should feel HORRIBLE if you use doordash or ubereats. if you use these meal delivery services you are a MONSTER who should be in a CAGE. instead of WASTING ALL THAT MONEY ON DELIVERY you should use my factor75 CODE at CHECKOUT for up to $150 off and free breakfast for a year

I got many, many texts last night asking why it was taking so long for Fayette County votes to be published. Today, I decided to find out 🕵️‍♂️ www.kentucky.com/news/local/a...

Kentucky House Rep. Kim Banta, who lost her primary by 13 votes, is conceding defeat and not requesting a vote recanvass or recount. #kyga26

Massie’s first tweet after Tuesday’s election results is a response to Texas U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz #ky04

Check out a heatmap of where voters (both raw and as a % of the vote) selected Greenberg or Parrish-Wright, the two Louisville, KY mayor candidates who will move on to the general. public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...

It's Gorton vs. Carter in the fall. Gorton got only 46% of the vote as a two-term incumbent. Carter got 28%. The other five candidates - one who raised $3k, the others who raised $0 - earned a combined 26% of the vote. Gorton insists she's not in trouble! www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

Two hours at the Ramsey's parking lot. Come say hi if you're in the area!

Massie is now toasting the crowd with a glass of raw milk, which is a very Massie thing to do.

> be apple > give up on in-house AI ambitions immediately > win

Yang / Massie 2028?

It is 8:11pm, and no voter tallies have been posted from Fayette County yet. I have spent more time in the Ramsey's parking lot at this point than I have inside the Ramsey's in the last calendar year.

Congressman Hal Rogers, who is now 88, has won the GOP nomination for Kentucky's 5th Congressional District for the umpteenth time. From when he sat down with @austin-horn.bsky.social in December:

Starting KY election thread here. Gallrein and Barr leading the absentee vote in Kenton County. Hard to read too much into it, but it's a good sign for Barr and probably a neutral (or slightly pro-Gallrein) one for Massie/Gallrein.

An early call for the #KYSen GOP race: Rep. Andy Barr wins. More on that race here! www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

One of the wildest fun facts in this race: "Barr’s campaign and aligned PACs spent roughly at least $27 million on ads, whereas Cameron spent less than $1 million on ads over the course of the campaign." That's quite the ratio folks

Locked and loaded for two-term Mayor Linda Gorton's election night press conference at the *check notes* Zandale Ramsey's parking lot.

So deserved! Sylvia is a rockstar, and Kentuckians are lucky to have her covering the state Capitol and Kentucky politics.

I have a strong conviction that footnotes are the only acceptable style of note in a book. I can tolerate end-notes if they are at the end of each chapter, but if all your end-notes are at the back of the book? You hate your reader and want them to suffer.

you're laughing. two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert and you're laughing.

I’ve known some ships made of dead trees outlast the lives of men made of the most vital stuff of vital fathers.

Simply a must-read story about how Kloiber used an AI tool to connect someone's career as a Greek translator to why they should support him in the Dem. primary.

A door security camera shows Democratic candidate Max Morley taking a political advertisement out of a mailbox. He’s one of the three primary challengers hoping to unseat scandal-plagued Kentucky Rep. Daniel Grossberg, whose face and name were on the mailer. #kyga26

Waiting for comment from his campaign, but someone who at least appears to be Max Morley (one of the Democrats running against Daniel Grossberg in KY House Dem primary) is seen on ring camera taking a mail piece out of someone's mailbox... www.facebook.com/share/v/1ChP...

The Lexington Model Airplane Club has now officially been displaced from their 20+ year home to make way for a solar project. Here is what their final event looked like, and what they hope is next for the club. www.kentucky.com/news/local/a...

Here's my final election-issue story on the mayor's race: economic development! What will candidates do to bring more jobs to Lex? What kind of jobs will they be? Should they even be in Lex, or should we work to bring jobs to nearby counties (yes, that's a real Q)? www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

Here's my third of four stories on how Lexington's mayoral candidates stand on local issues, featuring: bike, pedestrian and traffic safety. www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

An important story from @austinrramsey.bsky.social this morning on the resurgence of black lung: