How is it possible to be online for decades without learning that social media accounts a) with an inexplicably large number of followers that b) post "facts" that require expertise to evaluate but feel satisfyingly "true" c) without sources or context are engagement-farming propaganda bots?

Are the chemicals in the room with us?!? Is the us food system royally messed up? Yes. Making stupid statements about ‘chemicals’ doesn’t actually address any of those concerns.

You know, I am pretty sure the State of Israel can survive the election of a single expressly anti-Israel U.S. senator. And it set itself on the path where there would be one the day Netanyahu started meddling in U.S. politics. What the fuck else did he and his supporters think would happen?

I'm sure there are men in ostentatiously expensive suits who use way too much product who aren't psychopaths. Probably just confirmation bias. But damn, feels like it would have made an impression if I'd ever met one.

Gill: All 100 senators last week passed a non-binding resolution condemning any pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell. They're simultaneously considering confirming the guy who met with her and moved her to a low-security facility as the top cop in the United States. That is so insane to me.

Most of us just have the one question, and no one will answer it. Though, oddly, it always comes out sounding more like a despair-tinged prayer than a question when we ask it out loud. Even among atheists and agnostics. www.npr.org/2026/05/27/n...

Trump's third check-up at Walter Reed raises more questions about his health : Trump's Terms

The White House is saying little about President Trump's check-up at Walter Reed Tuesday, his third in 13 months. Critics say the lack of transparency only raises more questions about his health. NPR'...

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I love the how diligently the press and the lawyers alike are in ignoring the "Idaho" part of this story. You know, the part where, if you were looking for a Guard whose members would be most likely to be very consciously white whites who hold hard right ideas, you'd pick "Idaho" first, every time.

NPR@npr.org · 2d ago

Military veteran and D.C. resident Anna King has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Idaho National Guard, saying three guard members assaulted her while detaining her in front of her home. n.pr/4wyjw9S

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha*gaaaaasp*hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

I mean this in all seriousness, this is a severely mentally ill & delusional person who not only should be removed from office under the 25th amendment, but he should be in a psych ward. This is pure insanity on so many levels. He lives in a fantasy world. He is unwell & has lost touch with reality.

CARTOON OF THE DAY (if you know who made this let us know)

Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

How’s it going?

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 2mo ago

Sorry, I stopped listening, but did corporate media report on the “Iran deal” as though it were real?

A frozen kielbasa going through a garbage disposal.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

RFK Jr yelling at Dana Bash sounds like a rabid dog barking

I never really thought Pirro was smarter than Trump. I guess now maybe it was mostly just the wine.

A caucus of violent, drunk ex-husbands controls three branches of government and both chambers of Congress.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

The name of this playlist is hilarious 😂😂😂 the songs are 🔥🔥🔥🔥

With the rise of self-driving vehicles, it must only be a matter of time before we get a country song where a guy’s truck leaves him too. 🐢💨

Anyone who has worked with domestic violence victims know the answer to this is too often yes.

The people who think math is an opinion and their feelings are math are going to get us all killed.

This is all happening because once he decided the color was a problem and personally fixed it with his peerless genius, it was an extension of him and the shame and humiliation are like physical agony. Because he is not sane. Reporting on him as if he is is deception. apnews.com/article/pirr...

Trump blasts Pirro after she refutes his claim that Reflecting Pool was damaged by vandals

President Donald Trump is sharply criticizing U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro after her assessment that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool following a recent renovation was caused by shoddy co...

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7 mo into Covid-19 after grueling 24hr caring for child with the disease, who survived. Showered at hosp, returned to office & informed staff, wasn't retiring the next mo, as had planned. Photo of that moment. This is my "diary". Nobody can change the reality of pandemic for those who lived it...

Okay, serious. Can anybody with journalistic experience actually articulate the reasoning and logistical process by which this is even newsworthy? Did Republicans fluff this thinking it helped them? Did some actual journalist find it it triggered a spinal "Gaffe!" response that bypassed reason?

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4d ago

No lies detected.

I was thinking for a moment there should be a drinking game where everyone downs a shot when the United States Attorney's office for the District of Columbia has to drop a frivolous indictment but then I realized only the United States Attorney herself could survive that game

It's a hell of a thing to have grown up in the 20th Century and realize not a damn one of the lessons of the period between Titanic and the dissolution of the USSR got through to later generations of Americans except either "America, Fuck Yeah!" or "tl;dr all morally indistinguishable colonizers."

Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.