The girl dances her high school prom waltz 💔 It breaks my heart to see so many videos of kids and youths celebrating their graduation at the graves of their fathers instead of in their arms. This is what russia is stealing from Ukraine. Video the_samurai_music threads.

Or... women are more immune to manipulative flattery, having encountered it many times before.

Private equity landlords now own 1 in 8 apartments in the U.S. Their unfettered greed is making the housing crisis worse than ever — but there's a way for renters to organize and fight back.

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

This should be punishable as a serious felony. I mean, you can't steal much more from someone than their work and identity and reputation.

"Such intense concentration was not inevitable. It’s a product of decades of failure to enforce anti-merger laws that have been on the books since 1890." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...

GREG IP: “.. Adjusted for inflation, hourly wages are up 3% since the end of 2019 while profits are up 50%. That, in a nutshell, explains the chasm between an ebullient stock market and anxious public.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

And will you also swap @funranium.bsky.social Broughton in UC Berkeley?

‼️Look at this insanely perfect shot my husband just captured with his phone. We're both very sad he didn't have a real camera, but this is still amazing.

"When a clown takes over a palace, the clown does not become king; the palace becomes a circus." -- alleged to be a Turkish proverb

Yes, but almost nobody uses the full term "generative ai" they all just say "ai" and it's a terrible domain of confusion. medium.com/@colin.frase...

It’s interesting watching the people who absolutely love it when Trump calls female reporters “piggy” or “fucking bitches” clutch their pearls and cry because someone called Stephen Miller an ugly fuck.

Bread and circuses, but they keep all the bread

A former director of policy in USAID's Bureau for Global Health said D0GE team had no idea what the agency did. He recalled briefing its chief of staff, only to be met with the admission: "Wow, I had no idea that you did all this. I assumed it was just abortions". www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/...

On the other hand, she's also presiding over the permanent closing of 3 of the 4 large libraries at MIT, according to the faculty newsletter: fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

These were very nearly sacred spaces to me. I still go there occasionally to write. Deeply saddening. It's hard to understand what *other* financial pressure was put on them to make them save money by more or less destroying world-class libraries.

Oh, I totally agree: As someone who has spent an inordinate amount of a long life fiddling about with my religion, attempting to make both the institution & myself kinder & more charitable... these guys are *deeply* offensive in their attempts to weld on white supremacy and Christian nationalism.

Today's blog post: Some slighlty late thoughts on Memorial Day in the US, the Melian Dialogue, and philosopher cats. www.someweekendreading.blog/memorial-day...

Mere facts do not encompass him.

I could not love @edzitron.com’s latest newsletter edition more. We should shout this from the rooftops. www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-...

How does this interact with the US Constitution, Article I, section 9, clause 6 which says basically "you can't do that"? constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay...

“All that we want for Government is a man not criminal and insane…” — G. K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, p. 44. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nap...

Southern Baptist theology held for a hell of a long time that white supremacy was divine. God created the races as separate and unequal. At the time of their founding, slavery was the divinely-ordained relationship between the Black and white races. God required it. That divine sanction never left

Trump is, therefore, "incognito"?

New York Democrats have introduced a bill to tax 100% of all funds any New Yorker receives from Trump's January 6th slush fund.

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

A masked man in an armored vehicle, dressed as if he is in the middle of a war zone, training a weapon on unarmed protestors. This is simply incompatible with democratic expression.

A regrettably accurate summary.

People always tell introverts to be more talkative and leave their comfort zones, yet no one tells extroverts to shut up and make the zone comfortable

Just about to make some burgers with a mix of ground beef, minced mushrooms, caramelized onions, and demi-glace. Yeah, it's expensive out there!

A couple years ago, I had some thoughts on the complex, racially charged origins of Memorial Day. www.someweekendreading.blog/memorial-day...

An ad that argues private equity has too much power is taken down off the air by a private equity funded company that owns the team, the TV station that airs the team’s games, and the newspaper that covers the team. Platner couldn’t have written the script better himself.

In normal times, the fact that government officials at HHS blatantly lied to the public and got caught would be a scandal of unusual size. Everyone involved in this disinformation scheme against the people of the United States should be held accountable.

John Gorka's "Where No Monument Stands" is also a good one, so much that I have frequently quoted him on my blog on Memorial Day: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkVh...

the hungry observatory

Now that's an interesting point: Some people don't *just* want power, they want to shift the benchmark of evil to make themselves look not so bad by comparison.

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified…… History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - George Orwell -

Tipping exists because of this man....George Pullman. He revolutionized transportation by inventing "the sleeping car," which is essentially the "1st class" of train travel. But the true innovation was who he chose to hire

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

"Survival instincts". Depends, I guess, on whether that's an electric fence?

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Abrego Garcia should apply for compensation from the weaponization fund

This is fucking insanity www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Mom cat leaving her human to babysit so she can sleep 😴

They showed this version in schools for maybe 15 years and literally no one in my class had any reaction to a black woman being in it, someone yesterday said Eartha Kitt was Helen of Troy in 1950 and I looked it up and it was Orson Welles who cast her because she was a cabaret dancer and was hot!

By Jane Fisher Medium Oil painting

I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.

Imagine being a billionaire in an unequal society where the system has been massively rigged in your favor, watching as ordinary people fall further and further behind and get more and more desperate, and thinking a slightly higher tax rate is the worst possible thing that might ever happen to you.