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Discworld QOTD, from The Truth

Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?

NOW we've really done it.

Can’t wait until the incredible debt this administration is running up becomes an issue in 2029.

If you start your article or newscast with an unqualified “President Trump says…” what are you even doing?

The best way to get to the bottom of the McConnell question is for the governor to appoint a replacement. The GOP legislature passed a law stripping him of that power, but it goes against the state constitution. If they refuse to seat the replacement, take them to court. There’s zero downside.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Norwegian counterpart Jonas Gahr Store held a meeting in their World Cup team's football shirts ahead of a NATO summit in Turkey

BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

Palantir Acquires Pentagon For $800 Billion https://theonion.com/palantir-acquires-pentagon-for-800-billion/

“After months of negotiating, I am thrilled to announce that the U.S. government has accepted our terms and agreed to sell us the Department of War,” said Palantir CEO Alex Karp

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

Blade Runner was released 44 years ago today.

Yes, it does. 🤨 #jokesters

Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating

nobody in British politics seems to want to say it but the single biggest driver of their inability to keep a prime minister for any length of time is that Brexit was stupid and ruinous and made everyone’s lives worse

Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint

when i die i want everyone to make up their own cause of death and read it aloud at my funeral

I never imagined myself living in a cabin deep in the woods without any technology but that's looking more and more attractive every damn day now.

DOJ Launches Criminal Investigation Into All Women

The people who led the negotiating of Trump's slush fund were all Trump's personal lawyers, who had worked with one another. There was no-one there representing the public interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/u...

As Jeff said... fast forward to the 1:00:00 mark in this: youtu.be/DXbh5sf4YPc (Then pop back, because the whole thing is awesome, like Cyndi Lauper doing I Want To Break Free).

This flouf is one of 15 healthy California condor chicks to hatch at our conservation center this season. A new record! #Condorable #KeepCalmAndCarrion

Do people mad about the odyssey casting know about bible characters being cast as vegetables

But they were all of them deceived, for another leche was made...

That’s the BS, “can’t find the bullets ”. It was buck shot. Literally you can’t miss buck shot. It would be everywhere. He never shot. Nobody and I mean nobody is this stupid. They need to do better with their BS. Make it plausible believable. Americans deserve better lies.

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

Ok, this contrast between the Goldman Sachs projections for oil flows and the actual oil flows out of Hormuz are hilarious. But also it really is remarkable how disconnected the current futures markets remain from, like, the actual 1-2 month future.

Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day

in persian culture, telling someone "we're going to kill you all" is considered deeply offensive

One day, "It" will happen, by which I mean sudden and unexpected news that you want to celebrate. In such cases, you will want the right outfit. 🧵

kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

"Cat Nebula Collides With Light Sensing Equipment; Dark Matter Possibly Involved"

This is everything

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

I am forever grateful that Terry Pratchett was with us as long as he was and it was not even close to enough his work made me a better person, and I do not think I'm alone in that GNU Terry Pratchett, we are so much poorer without you

I rarely do this, but here goes. Dems should have VERY clear messaging on supplemental tied to the ouster of Whiskey Pete, Jared, and Witkoff. They've all ABSOLUTELY bolloxed the situation and if Trump wants $$, he needs to get rid of all of them.

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

“Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man. You take a step towards him, he takes a step back. Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man.” ~ @juliusgoat.bsky.social

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse