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Even before latest thing I've been telling people for months Joni Ernst is way more vulnerable next year than people think. Dems should be investing a lot right now laying the ground work in the state.

Someone hacked into Susie Wiles' cellphone and ripped off her contacts - the most important people in the world - and then started calling them, using A.I. to mimic her voice to ask for cash transfers and pardon suggestions. Just a reminder that these people ran on information security.

By Jake Tapper

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

What makes glaciers melt, you may wonder. What could it be? Our planet is heating up due to humanity's folly. We can fix this. We choose not to.

As a designer, this evolution is absolute catnip to me, but I think you’ll enjoy this, too! Great quote—The editor in 1959 after a big glow-up: “We feel somewhat like an elderly lady … who has ventured to appear in a somewhat more daring gown than has been her custom.” [ht/ @bwjones.bsky.social]

The Free Speech Administration throwing down arguably the biggest sledgehammer against free thought and association in my lifetime.

NAILED IT

This is thievery Is there not a single significant person in the tech industry who will stand up for what’s right?

The Last of Us Science Adviser Says COVID Changed How We View Zombie Stories www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

RFK Jr. is the biggest threat to American health since COVID. Bigger.

Astronomers have found a decently big iceball on a ridiculously elongated elliptical orbit *way* out past Neptune. It hints at a whole population of these things, and does throw a monkey in the wrench for Planet Nine. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/astronomer... 🔭 🧪

We make jokes about this sometimes because it’s laughable. But when journalists try to make sense of the nonsensical, rational out of the irrational, and coherence out of the incoherence, they affirmatively do the public interest great harm.

Bob Dylan turns 84 today.

palo verde and morning sun joshua tree national park 5.24.25

Happy Caturday! "Wellies" by UK animation artist #DanBurgess.

I was a lifeguard at our local public pool and in the morning I did pasteup at a tiny local newspaper. My nostalgia runs deep and I still crave the caramel candies the snack stand sold. What great memories.

Just the opening few paragraphs—that JFK quote!— are worth your time. Actually, just sign up for the newsletter. My mornings are fueled by strong coffee and Charlie’s commentary/news roundups. Highly recommend.

Sooooo… ICE now has a bigger budget than the NIH which funds almost all of the biomedical research in America. This is precisely where the priorities of this administration lie.

If America didn’t want Covid boosters, you wouldn’t have to spend so much time making it harder for Americans to get them.

Matt Zoller Seitz talks with ‘Succession’ creator Jesse Armstrong about his next act, a farcical TV movie about four tech-bro billionaires that Armstrong wrote, produced, and directed in less than a year.