A top Kennedy operative was reportedly arrested this weekend on allegations he choked and punched a woman in New York City. trib.al/Hx3phgW

Had low expectations for The Idea of You but it was so good!!? Like a reverse Notting Hill, but hotter and with a 40- year-old woman protagonist?? Romcoms are back baby

What the fuck

.Laura Bassett nails it:

'It’s just that the bar for our elected officials is already so wildly low that when one of them can’t even do the bare minimum to clear it, I feel like I am actually living in a Will Ferrell movie.'

open.substack.com/pub/laurabasse…

If Congress actually cared about antisemitism maybe they could do something about the fact that abortion bans literally infringe on Jews’ religious rights. No? No big push on this to support Jewish religious freedom? Crazy.

My god, politics are so stupid

I LOLed

A 27-year-old Twitch streamer was hunted down by cops in the Russian city of Krasnodar and forced to issue a public apology for saying Ukrainians are better looking than Russians.
trib.al/8mp0oQI

Wyoming removes anyone who didn't vote in the most recent election from voter rolls (in this case, the 2022 election).

So the state just purged 28% of its voter registrations: wyofile.com/wyoming-voids-…

Girl. What?

For the last few years, was almost as though 'militia' became a dirty word...but that seems to be changing.

I have a story in WIRED today about how militias, after laying low since Jan 6, have been quietly re-organizing and rebuilding on Facebook.

wired.com/story/extremis…

This lede from Caroline Kitchener.

washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05…

I've written on political dissent & violent policing for 15 years, particularly in NYC. Compared to Tuesday night, I have never witnessed, at the scene of a protest, the use of police power so disproportionate to the type of demonstration taking place. theintercept.com/2024/05/01/nyc…

The amount of war toys and riot cops we’re seeing at student protests and the mainstream media panic/disinformation about them is all the proof we need that they’ve really struck a nerve

It's very simple. You don't get to warn about the danger of fascism in November - which, as I have said for years, is very real! - without challenging, rather than colluding with, fascist tendencies *right now*

That changes nothing, go to hell Kristi

A group of 5-10 white men, organized and fundraised with 800 people, to mobilize a vote of 17,421 people to breakaway and create a new city in my home town.

People often ask me why I’m so direct about race. It’s in my face everyday how clear some in our city think about Black…

They're removing graduating students and threatening to withhold degrees for wearing a keffiyeh. Unconstitutional doesn't even begin to describe this.