I think it's nice that the president's most trusted aide is the It's All For You Damien nurse from The Omen. She's qualified and she's doing an amazing job.

BIg Beautiful Bill

post a perfect album from the 2000s (2000-2009).

Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 16h ago

post a perfect album from the 2000s (2000-2009).

Why, PW Children's Bookshelf? Without the book announcements, more than half the email was advertisements.

VoteHub projects Abdul El-Sayed to win the Democratic primary for Michigan U.S. Senate.

a republican congressman allegedly broke his two-year-old daughter's collarbone and he somehow hasn't been run out of congress. there really is no bridge too far for these ghouls.

‘Platner on steroids’: Max Miller abuse claims have Republicans silently sweating

The Ohio lawmaker denies the allegations as an Aug. 5 deadline to drop off the ballot approaches.

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New: Amidst a new Red Scare, New York’s democratic socialist mayor cuts red tape for small businesses My look, for the @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘I’m over the moon’: New York’s small business owners rejoice as Mamdani cuts red tape

Initiatives including cutting permits just to serve ice-cream amount to a sweeping program of deregulation

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Fox News insists racism doesn't exist, unless a Black actor plays a white character

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

NYT nails it.

Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."

E. Jean Carroll on Donald Trump: "I don't understand how people can be afraid of a fat elderly man who wears apricot makeup, his hair done up like Tippi Hedren in The Birds and sits in a court room and moans and groans and complains” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😎

Good. Good. Good. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

New York to impose the country’s first statewide moratorium on data centers

The order will pause state permitting for new large data centers and direct state regulators to create standards that address environmental impacts, energy demand, water usage and other factors, the g...

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This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Five living writers, each of whom have authored at least five books that I've read: Stephen Graham Jones Sonya Hartnett Nancy Werlin Elizabeth Hand Robert McCammon

ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.

5 authors who died while you were alive who you've read five books by each Fay Weldon Roald Dahl Arthur C. Clarke Agatha Christie Anne Rice

Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · last mo.

5 authors who died while you were alive who you've read five books by each Jean Valentine James Baldwin Tanith Lee Chester Himes Dr. Seuss

wrote about how Platner was absolutely never going to win, and Ds have a chance to beat Collins for ME senate really for the first time this cycle. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/ds-finally...

Ds Finally Have A Real Chance To Beat Collins

Platner was always going to lose.

everythingishorrible.net

This is going up tomorrow; sign up to the newsletter and it will appear in your inbox in the morning, whoosh. open.substack.com/pub/noahberl...

Ds Finally Have A Real Chance To Beat Collins

Platner was always going to lose.

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Sings** His name is Mamdani🔥🔥 And he's feeding the dogs! He's feeding the cats! Plus actually working for the people of NYC. Where is Democratic Socialism a problem? Billionaires is the answer. Vote more DSA politicians into congress. Fix America. #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance

🚨BREAKING: California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) will introduce new legislation making ballot seizure before they are counted and certified by a state or county official a felony. In a July 4 recorded speech, Newsom was not shy about who the law targets. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Gavin Newsom wants to make seizing ballots a felony

The California governor plans to introduce new legislation targeting "federal interference" in elections.

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again, peopel like Grim and Klippenstein aren't defending Platner to advance progressive goals or change Israel policy. they're doing rape apology because they have cultivated an audience that likes rape apology and sees subjugation of women as a political goal in itself.

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

what a fucking asshole

🚨BREAKING🚨 More than 600 workers at Hachette Book Group just voted overwhelmingly to unionize, creating the largest union in trade publishing history! newsguild.org/hachette-boo...

Hachette Book Group employees win election for largest union in trade publisher history | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA

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Platner hanging around and claiming he won't step down unless the replacement selected is someone he approves of is absolutely disgusting and underlines how monumentally unfit he is. 1

there are people who claim that Terry Pratchett would have been a TERF if he was still alive to them I say two things: 1. are you fucking serious 2. go fuck yourselves

Clips are going viral of the new $14M paint on the Reflecting Pool peeling off just 12 days after the pool reopened.

These assholes back down when we push back. We should push back more often. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...

Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring

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Ossoff: The president has been humiliated on the world stage. Many Americans are increasingly concerned about his stability and his capacity for the office. It’s deeply distressing to Americans to see a president so incompetent attempting and failing to represent the nation.

WOW. Trump fell asleep at MSG during Game 3 of the NBA Finals. They don’t call him Sleepy Don for nothing.