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Virtually everyone who calls to complain about a detail in a story is someone with a particular/obsessive interest. The bigger problem is the mass of indifferent people who glimpse a purportedly misleading headline and register it as fact as they move on to the next item in their feeds

RESULT: Democrats easily defend a state House seat in South Carolina in a special election tonight. Keishan Scott, the 24-year old Dem nominee, won 71% to 29%, so by 42. (Harris had carried the district by 5% last fall; Biden won it by 15% in 2020.)

Absolutely horrifying. Note that at the end of the piece we learn that the UN staff member was reportedly beaten to death, not shot from a distance.

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

Future generations will never be able to understand Marlo crew’s ingenious map code in season 5 of The Wire. Or the entire newspaper subplot

As awful as the headline idea here seems, if you read the story it’s somehow even dumber than that www.mediaite.com/media/print/...

I cannot get over these cops wearing night vision to arrest a dude on a Southwest Airlines flight in broad daylight.

I would’ve said “I wouldn’t have sexual harassed all those women” but that’s just me

Ron DeSantis stranded drivers at a bridge with no warning just to stop rainbow colors from appearing on it.

nw (but just binged read the book)

Techno fascist capture of the cities infrastructure

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

This is one of the most exhausting misinformation campaigns we've encountered in recent memory, tbh. Just willful ignorance at this point, inflamed by a cadre of TikTok and Instagram randoms who are neither investigative journalists nor immigration experts. Bleak!!!

This is bad

This no-kill animal shelter is in desperate need of kitten food, kitten milk replacement, and other supplies. If you post a screenshot in my replies showing that you donated at least $10 (even as a Chewy gift card), I'll answer a style-related question for you. Donation info in their thread.

Musk is trying to signal that he's back at his businesses. But at Tesla, he was so checked out that a board member had to prep him for meetings, and he didn't ask to be briefed on tariffs until a few days before the earnings call. with @rmac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/b...

What the hell

Read this horrifying testimony from Israel's massacre of people just trying to get food:

guess i’m riding the gay train

The NYT seems to be insinuating that President Trump is having memory problems

"can a phone design cook too hard?" asked and answered

Does your Congressional representative distribute Narcan? Why not?? Politicians actually don’t have to suck!

the “evidence” for this is entirely social media driven. It’s a popular tiktok theme and there are several creators who make this their identity

A broken leaky man and his broken leaky AI

Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics…

What the hell…?

there's someone for everyone 🥰

If you don’t talk to your cats about catnip, who will?

Elon Musk may be stepping back from the government, but we’re not done reporting on the impact of his DOGE wrecking ball. If you have information to share with us, we want to hear from you. ➡️ propublica.org/tips

Just a reminder that Fox/Disney got rid of Clausen near the end of his career and just replaced him with a sound alike. His contribution to not just televisual composition cannot be understated.

hey that’s the cat shelter I volunteer at 🫵😯

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

So, as you might know, I have been in the process of tracking the activities of DOGE staff across the federal government. And now I've built an auto-updating website to browse the data It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info Enjoy!