This is Calarts. Arguably the best animation school in the US, its alumni include industry legends. The graduating class is booing school president Ravi Ranjan, he's been gutting creative programs and pushing Ai initiatives, corporatizing the school. His secretary is treating graduates like babies.

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

SIGN OF THE DAY…

what do you call it when the president steals an unfathomable amount of wealth from the treasury and then declares it illegal to investigate him

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

Ask yourself: Why would a settlement over leaked tax filings include a prohibition on examinations of previously filed returns? One answer, which lots of people are missing: For years, Trump has been fighting an IRS audit that could have resulted in a $100M bill. No longer, apparently.

Worth reading this if you haven’t been tracking the J6ers who presumably will be getting a lot of our money. Tw CSAM.

im just an armchair historian and even i know that the fucking victorians favorite hobby was making up shit because they were allergic any facts that didn't align with their view of white supremacy

I've been assured that this is purely a humanities issues, & will never bedevil STEM. Hmm. As Shel Silverstein put it: The Slithergadee has crawled out of the sea. He may catch all the others, but he won’t catch me. No you won’t catch me, old Slithergadee, you may catch all the others, but you wo-

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

this is it, this is the take. inventing sources is not new! expecting not to be called out on it is the new part

Very Roy Lichtenstein—with the big scale, and the ben-day dots.

“We want a beautiful poetic design that belongs to the West Desert." GUESS WHAT DOESNT BELONG IN A DESERT GENSLER

Winchester McMystery House

The Prince of Wales has announced a plan to invest £500 million into housing and environmental projects, to be funded by selling off 20 per cent of his property holdings.

I am going to shoot my computer with a gun

JUST TELL ME THE FUCKING POST OFFICE HOURS JESUS CHRIST

File under: guess they screwed up. Netflix is shuttering the Egyptian Theatre next month, less than two years after the $70 Million restoration was completed. This community space, gifted to a member-based nonprofit, was taken from YOU, Angeleno. esotouric.com/egyptianthea...

BREAKING: It took eight tries, but the Senate has voted 50-47 to advance a resolution to limit Trump’s war on Iran. Bill Cassidy flipped after losing his primary, joining Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Rand Paul in voting with Democrats. John Fetterman was the only Dem to vote against.

This where a door dasher from McDonalds is recruited to save the country.

He can stay in the bunker for as long as he wants. President AOC or Pritzker or whoever can just move into the building above and start working

John Fetterman, drone ballroom proponent.

"Lipstick on a Pig" meets Philip Johnson's "Architects are pretty much high-class whores." Gensler releases designs for Kevin O'Leary's obscene environmentally, resource and politically rapacious 7.5 gw data center, rammed through over massive protests. www.dezeen.com/2026/05/15/s...

If you're curious about the new form of warfare, this is best up-to-the-minute intro I've seen. Vehicles are instantly attacked by drones. Humans can run and hide in forest. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh and camera operator venture onto a road that can only be walked. Not being dramatic. It's 14x real.

Yup

They'll never see a penny. As soon as that money hits, Trump will transfer it out to a Cayman Bank account and, based on the language in the settlement, the US will have no recourse to do anything about it. I guarantee this will happen. That said, all J6'ers should've died that day so fuck 'em.

The Trump $1.776 billion slush fund is not mere corruption. Trump is giving his brownshirts money for recruiting, logistics, AR-15's and tactical gear. Nobody in the national media seems to be talking about this, or about how the Paycheck Protection Program played a central role in funding Jan 6

It's the underscore waiting to fill in the date that really does it for me.

Unfathomable levels of corruption.

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“Could”

The San Diego mosque attack looks like another case of white nationalist "great replacement theory" terrorism, the deadliest source of terrorist attacks in the US, Canada, Norway, New Zealand and more in recent years. No central org, a movement of self-starters who inspire and reference each other.

God I hate this garbage company

I actually think it's really interesting the way that certain powers that clearly exist as a matter of law under our Constitution are now seen as taboo/improper/beyond the pale Somehow no one seems to want to use the powers they actually have, to take on that responsibility

“According to Peter Melck Kuttel, a detention coordinator for Father Fabian Arias’ Saint Peter’s Church, he handed the agents copies of the ruling and told them that they could not be in the facility making detainments. 'We don’t care,’ they allegedly told him in response.”

Newsom on stage saying "you can not save democracy without democratizing the economy" while opposing the wealth tax is pretty fucking rich stuff.

“Defiant ICE agents appeared to disobey a judge’s order ruling on Tuesday when they made arrests at the immigration court within 26 Federal Plaza.” www.amny.com/news/ice-age...

They're calling it the most Freudian structure ever built

It's concerning that Don Trump Jr. regards the White House as his dad's house.

Trump is building a bunker. You will have to pry him out of there.

We still have not gotten the full story about Trump’s ballroom but his comments today about drones and missiles and snipers indicates there are much worse things going on there than a mere vanity project

Using that little guard post in the background of the conference, you can see that the new bunker is south of the old PEOC. The adjacent notch in the shoring, with modular forms, is also interesting. www.thebirthofacapital.info/trumps-bunker/

See here:

I don't have time to watch all of this, but he gave this press conference right above where the heaviest shoring (and presumably where the bunker) is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdZN...

’The meandering streets of Damascus made me also meander in my life and not be afraid to do things,’ writes Suad Amiry, winner of the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize for Contribution to Architecture 2025, part of the W Awards. To read the transcript of her inspiring talk from last year:

Bonneau reports Israeli attacks on nearly 50 towns in Lebanon over the past day, including the killings of a family in Qafarsir, a municipal worker distributing bread in Harouf, and a white phosphorus strike in Zawtar. Video: @courtneybonneauimages via X (@cbonneauimages)

The manager at Trump's Bedminster golf course has been consulting on the Reflecting Pool renovation and helped recruit one of the contractors, wild scoop from @fahrenthold.bsky.social and @maxinejoselow.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...