I don’t know who she is. And probably everyone who does will pretend they don’t either once the president has her fired.

“Putin would eat you for lunch.”

Today, exactly that happened.

I must be right because the person in the world who has the most to gain by our country falling apart said I’m right

Well, there you go then. More of our time and money wasted by Taco Trump.

Would 100% watch a sitcom in which Cuomo and Dershowitz end up roommates, Dershowitz is denied a pierogi every episode in exactly the same way, and Cuomo runs for successively lower-stakes office each week, only to lose again.

Guerrero!

Hegseth Signal messages came from email classified ‘SECRET,’ watchdog told The revelation contradicts the Trump administration’s long-standing claims that no classified information was shared by the defense secretary’s account during the “Signalgate” scandal.

SCOOP: Hegseth's texts about bombing Yemen derived from a classified email labeled "SECRET/NOFORN," per info provided to the DOD Inspector General for a forthcoming report, flying in the face of Trump administration claims that no classified info was shared www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

How Trump’s Cuts to Science Funding Are Derailing Young Scholars’ Careers Budding academics are delaying their graduate studies, continuing them abroad, or forgoing them entirely.

Well, at least we are not eating our seed corn.

We are feeding it to the birds.

This is basically like describing a Pizzagate promoter as someone "who writes often about child safety"

A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage

Orban’s Hungary is now officially the poorest nation in the EU Hungary now ranks last among European Union member states in a vital measure of household welfare—Actual Individual Consumption (AIC) per capita—according to June 18, 2025 data from Eurostat. At just ...

Our future.

"State-owned industries have been hollowed out, public subsidies redirected to political allies, and EU funds commandeered by power networks close to the government. Meanwhile, ordinary Hungarians contend with low real wages, high inflation, brain drain, and a hollowed middle class."

"The voicemail threatened to rig Mamdani's car to explode upon ignition, a plot that was foiled from the outset because the now Democratic nominee doesn't own his own vehicle."

Yes indeed, we have a New Yorker running for Mayor!

Relationality, Agency, and Injury: The Darkness of The Radical Aesthetic Abstract. This essay traces Isobel Armstrong's achievement in The Radical Aesthetic (2000) to her commitment to reflecting on difficult states of being — necessarily imperfect, inevitably incomplete —...

"where radical hope may live when it has been let down by a culture committed to the destruction of social solidarity in the pursuit of individual wealth and by an intellectual culture that cannot imagine a world different from the one we do inhabit."

Pleased this appreciation of Armstrong is out!

We're in so much trouble

31 | 2025 Museum Storytelling: Collecting Stories, Inventing Narra... Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone / Multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal on the English-speaking world

Very pleased to be in this special issue devoted to museums and the stories they tell.

"Tell me a story says the child, expecting something with a beginning a middle and an end, something new and yet recognizable, a narrative the familiar form of which brings comfort at night . . ."

Netanyahu stuns Israelis by describing ‘personal cost’ of Iran war - postponing son’s wedding Israeli prime minister prompts furious backlash for remarks in front of missile-struck hospital at height of Iran conflict

His obsession with cosplaying Churchill is pathological--and it is embarrassing that he cannot even recognize the suffering of others.

For example our President has not been able to play golf for weeks!

Palantir's CEO Throws Money Behind Andrew Cuomo in NYC Mayoral Race The creepy company's chief creep is backing a mayoral candidate who has been called a creep.

If you are in NYC and still thinking Cuomo is a good choice, know he’s getting money from Palantir,Peter Thiel’s company.

#nycmayoralrace

gizmodo.com/palantirs-ce...

Landers is out. Gave an uplifting, modest, inspiring speech.

someone must be enjoying this, otherwise it's a lot of my tax dollars going to waste

good

OK. Thanks. I knew they detained him there, but not that that is where he was being kept. I have a few things to do at home, then I'll head over. This is New York City, we don't really like racist authoritarians all that much. I also have kind of appreciated the democracy we've had till recently.

MAGestapo Brad Lander joins the ranks of Baraka, McIver, Dugan, Padilla—and Ernst Thälmann. ICE joins the ranks of criminal organizations like the Gestapo.

Brad Lander, NYC Comptroller, has been assaulted and kidnapped. No exaggeration: ICE is the American Gestapo.

MAGestapo open.substack.com/pub/virginia...

it is genuinely insane that we have just kind of acclimated to the fact that we have masked secret police now

Does anyone know where Brad Landers is being held? Shouldn't we be outside of wherever that is, showing support?

Like “Wandering between two worlds, one dead, /
The other powerless to be born”?

50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says Tax cuts for the wealthy didn't boost the economies of the U.S. and 17 other countries — but they did worsen income inequality.

“…study from the London School of Economics says 50 years of such tax cuts have only helped one group — the rich.”
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tax...

22-year-old dies after being unable to afford asthma inhaler In our new series “The Cost of Denial,” NBC News’ Anne Thompson reports on the young man who went to refill his asthma inhaler only to find it unaffordable because it was no longer covered by his insu...

He needed air. The price was $539.

When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price.
5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler.
He paid with his life.
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky

I have no tolerance for this shit. As a tutor, I met a person who had been in the TB death wards in Africa (not naming country for security reasons). They have so many cases they just warehouse the sick in a room. Very few survive.

Takes a lot of chutzpah to make a $290 million political donation, assume a powerful position in government, use that power to fire tens of thousands of people and do immeasurable harm to American state capacity, and expect not to have to answer for it afterwards.

Every American generation made more than their parents until 1980. Reagan fixed that - and it has not returned.

The rich are doing better than before the great depression. Marie Antoinette would blush.