Real shame James Bennet isn’t around anymore to bring us the Tom Cotton NYT Op-Ed “The Extrajudicial Murder Of Helpless Survivors For Non-Capital Crimes Is Good, Actually.”

*Sigh.* Denzel Aberdeen is leading UK in scoring and assists, while shooting 53, 39 and 80%

She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???

The vibes in Chicago right now are sort of like during the pandemic except if covid showed up in a random neighborhood every day and had to be driven off by everyone yelling at it

Great win, Gators. Fire Billy Napier into the sun.

Feel like King of the World is pretty great post-apocalyptic sci-fi

I really admired Kaleb Horton’s gifts as a writer, especially his strong sense of place, which is usually a hallmark of the greats. He also turned me on to the music of James McMurtry, for which I will remain grateful. RIP

Tomorrow night the box will read - Shaw, DNP, raptured

Head coach should fire the offensive coordinator imo

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

“American Experience” being on extended hiatus is a little too on the nose.

he’s fixed, brother

“This is madness. We are running out of words to describe it. And the people of Gaza are running out of time,” says Chris Hayes on the dire aid situation amid Israel’s war on Gaza.

Except in the world where that would happen, a competent news editor would have gotten to the part where the reporter learned that Mamdani wrote in "Ugandan" and would have spiked the story, because there was no news in it

six balls off this asshole landed in his beloved gulf

It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:

Time is a flat circle.

“latest shooting of gazans seeking food”

Good time to remember that these eleven states make up 22 percent of representation in the Senate, while accounting for less than 5 percent of the US population. It is a fundamentally broken institution.

Cops-- pathetic. Fuck off. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/youre-a-bu...

I’m a simple man with simple pleasures: a walk on a cool, sunny day, a pot of well-cooked beans, the thought of the world’s richest man tucking his penile implant into an adult diaper because he’s ruined his bladder with ketamine

This is really important - the GENIUS Act is, foreseeably, going to fill the whole American financial system with exposures to incredibly run-prone liability structures. slate.com/technology/2...

My god. What an abomination. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

The universe is cold and uncaring, and deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it: Manifest Flagg to Chicago!

oh my god they spelled responsibility wrong

Well, without an ankle monitor, what is to stop her from co-authoring another op-ed? 

NBC gets the rights back to “Roundball Rock” and we *immediately* get a Knicks-Pacers Eastern Conference Finals.

Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks

The Two-Thirds Man

It's working, I'm now aware of more antisemitism than I was before

Brother ain't ready to be reincarnated YET.

This piece doesn't use the phrase "political prisoner," but that's what it's describing. Ozturk is a political prisoner. She's not the only one, and if Trump and Rubio have their way, there will be many more. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/o...

“There isn't a single part of the entire thing that stands up to the smallest amount of scrutiny. The whole thing, the entire enterprise is just sheer lawlessness,” says Chris Hayes.

Seasteaders being back in the news gives me the chance to post one of my favorite pieces that I commissioned/adapted while at ITT, China Mieville on “Floating Utopias”: inthesetimes.com/article/floa...

The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.

Thank you to @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social for publishing the text of my letter to Notre Dame after they canceled my speech. inthesetimes.com/article/notr...

Oligarchy is the theory that the business elite know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

Imagine spending a half million dollars to attend Police State University, where you’ll get to experience NYPD brutality up close and where they might just revoke your degree for wrongthink even after you’ve graduated.

maybe we shouldn't be disappearing students via secret police for opposing the actions of a state that behaves in this way