Emmanuel

“The police are very sensitive about being accused of violating a suspect's constitutional rights—they are, indeed, as sensitive to any and all criticism as aging beauty, queens…”
— James Baldwin, No Name In The Street

Rubio, on Trump cleanup duty, essentially says: “We have no clue what the fuck we’re doing, but we know that we want to make money from their oil and that we don’t give a shit about the people whose nation we invaded.”

The AI oligarchs are creating this “race” with China while giving them advance chips so that can catch up to make it somewhat of a race, which they can then use to justify their energy, resource and water-sucking data centers. It’s your patriotic duty to support it! Beat China!

The Best Comics of 2025! - Comic Book Herald The world’s on fire yet somehow comics persist. It’s really quite beautiful. I’ve kept up with as many new graphic novels and trades as possible, and have ranked my 2025 favorites in descending order ...

Congratulations everybody, my 50 favorite comics of 2025 are officially locked in!

www.comicbookherald.com/the-best-com...

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

SCOOP: Paul Ingrassia, a lawyer who previously represented the Tate brothers before joining the White House, chided authorities for seizing the brothers’ devices, saying it was not a good use of time or resources. He told DHS officials to give them back.

How Brutalism Became Both a Utopian Dream and a Dystopian Meme Brutalism, an architectural movement associated with state power and science fiction, is perpetually misunderstood – yet it has left an indelible imprint on popular culture.

in honor of the reopening of the met breuer, sotheby's, its new tenant, let me write the introductory text on brutalism and its many afterlives www.sothebys.com/en/articles/...

Ultimate Universe architect Jonathan Hickman didn't expect Marvel Comics to close the line down "He goes, ‘Why are we shutting it down?" remembered Marvel Comics president Dan Buckley about Jonathan Hickman's reaction to learning the company was shuttering the Ultimate Universe.

Does Doom know what the truth is here? www.thepopverse.com/comics-ultim...

NO

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

I wrote about Bari Weiss as the grim future of mainstream media under billionaire control: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

107 Days by Kamala Harris is the #1 Best Seller on the New York Times Best Seller List and Indie Bestsellers List

My new book is #1 on the New York Times Best Sellers and American Booksellers Association Indie Bestsellers lists.

I am deeply grateful for every person who has read, listened, and joined me to reflect on this journey. I look forward to continuing to see you on the road: kamalaharris.link/107Days

Federal judge rules against Trump admin, allows offshore wind project to resume A federal judge ruled that Denmark's Orsted may resume construction on Revolution Wind offshore project despite Trump administration's legal challenge.

Revolution Wind is back on track, and that's great for CT (and the region as a whole).

The offshore wind project is expected to power 350,000 homes — cutting carbon and creating jobs in the process!

RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That. While touting a $50 million initiative to identify the causes of autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is helping lead an administration that is rolling back protections against pollution and toxic chemicals,...

Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past two decades studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child.

RFK Jr. has now cut her entire division.

SESC Pompeia, SP, Brazil r/brutalism

RFK Jr. warned about giving the government your data. Now he wants it. The Health and Human Services secretary's pivot on wearables is a case study in how conspiracy extremists rebrand themselves once in positions of power.

RFK Jr. used to warn about a government takeover of our data. He said wearables and their tech were part of a plot to surveil us, enabled tyranny, caused cancer, and turned users into “permanent consumers” to Big Tech.

Now, he'd like your data, please.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

The Death of Democracy Promotion Despots and human-rights abusers can rest easy now that America has gotten out of their way.

"American democracy promotion is effectively dead," Brian Klaas writes. The world's authoritarians have taken note that they no longer need fear Washington's condemnation when they tighten their grip on power:

CORRUPTION UPDATE: Donald Trump accepted a “free” luxury jet from Qatar.

A new report says taxpayers will be on the hook for up to $1 billion for renovations.

All for a jet that's going to his future Presidential Library.

So, I was laid off by my job this week after 13 years.

Not only that, but it happened as bills from my recent heart attack-related medical visits come due.

Because of that, I'm doing a big sale for SKTCHD/Off Panel related things, so now's a good time to subscribe if you can...because I need it!

Lula Tells Trump Brazil Can Survive Without US Trade President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Brazil can survive without trade with the US and will look to other partners to replace it, a sharp response to Donald Trump after the American leader threatened 50% tariffs on the South American nation.

President Lula said Brazil can survive without trade with the US and will look to other partners to replace it, a sharp response to Donald Trump after the American leader threatened 50% tariffs on the South American nation

There is a certain pattern here:

-Gamed on WhiteWater
-Gamed on Iraq WMD
-Gamed on "but her emails"
-Bullied into dumping Public Editor
-Gamed on DEI etc by Rufo etc
-Gamed on this horrible latest piece, + rationalization.

Something seems really wrong at our most influential news institution.

There is no press outlet of any size, in any medium, that would offer this kind of coverage to a Democratic president, no matter the circumstances.

There is a massive, explicit agitprop operation on the right, devoted to the power of the conservative faction, & there is no analogue on the left.

The conservative majority on the Supreme Court remains one of the biggest threats to liberal democracy.

just absolutely insane that this is what Trump accused Biden of doing, and now he's done it himself.

FEMA Has Canceled Its Four-Year Strategic Plan Ahead of Hurricane Season Multiple FEMA employees tell WIRED that they did not know of another time when a strategic plan was rescinded without another in place.

Scoop from me and @mollytaft.com: FEMA Has Canceled Its Four-Year Strategic Plan Ahead of Hurricane Season

Rescinding the strategic plan would “make the agency so inept that the states or tribes have no option but to assume operations and responsibilities” themselves.

www.wired.com/story/fema-c...

The GOP bill kicks nearly 10% of my district off their health insurance.

It does the same for nearly as many of Elise Stefanik, Nicole Malliotakis, Nick Lalota and Mike Lawler's constituents.

It's a disaster for NY and America.

"Moderate" NY Rs can block it. They must vote it down.

Black Panther and She-Hulk ‘Imperial’ one-shots revealed Get caught up on two one-shots spinning out of Jonathan Hickman's 'Imperial' this August.

Returning to Marvel to write a Black Panther one-shot with Jonathan Hickman, part of his upcoming Imperial event.

Having fun causing all types of trouble for the king!

aiptcomics.com/2025/05/15/i...

‘Nobody’s seen it’: An elusive report could drive Empire Wind to… Sen. Chuck Schumer, Equinor, and Interior staff say Trump officials refuse to share NOAA documents that are the basis for Empire Wind’s costly stop-work…

New from @fieseler.bsky.social:

Empire Wind, a massive offshore wind project in New York, may soon be abandoned mid-construction due to a mysterious report that few — from the project developer to certain Interior staff — have seen.

www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

YouTube video by Steve Fulop Steve Fulop on Mass Transit

Mass transit policy is one of the key differences between my campaign + others. From my early support of congestion pricing due to health/environment/transit common sense, or my early commitment to cancel the $12b turnpike widening project + using the $ towards mass transit - youtu.be/pqa_y9qXho8

@meidastouch.com @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com

DOGE aims to pool federal data, putting personal information at risk A centralized system with unprecedented access to data about Social Security, taxes, medical diagnoses and other private information would create vulnerabilities, experts say.

DOGE "is racing to build a single centralized database with vast troves of personal information about millions of U.S. citizens and residents, a campaign that often violates or disregards core privacy and security protections meant to keep such information safe, government workers say."

Yeah, I also thought Captain Marvel going against the Supreme Intelligence was the story they should have told and only gave a glimpse of.