A baseball bird drops by our feeder. (We also get cardinals, but no orioles.)

One problem with contemporary use of the adjective “edible” as a noun meaning “food containing marijuana” is that on first read I couldn’t figure out how one might eat a “pre-presser.”

“I knew that if he had lived, I would never have been born. I was alive specifically because of his sacrifice.”

Please read Charlie Sykes’s full post about his mother’s first husband, and hero, Lambert Hruska.

charliesykes.substack.com/p/remembering-…

On Memorial Day weekend, the son of the former president reflects on the meaning of sacrifice.

Good of Trump to just make it plain that when he calls for death sentences for drug traffickers, he means black and brown people. White ones get commutations.

Trump drew a poultry crowd

Martha-Ann Alito told The Post in 2021 that flag was ‘signal of distress’ - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

This scene went on for 10 minutes—the longest my daughter has ever sat still. ⁣

Amazing. (And a vibrant, you-are-there write-up by ⁦Lindsay Zoladz⁩.) nytimes.com/2024/05/24/art…

I really wish rich people were honest that they were pursuing class interest instead of something more noble than that.

You're concerned about antisemitism so you bankroll the coup guy who is talking about rounding people into camps to make White Nationalists vote for him?

Today, Soldiers from the The Old Guard placed U.S. flags at gravesites.

This was the 76th anniversary of 'Flags In' where over 1,500 service members placed more than 260,000 flags at every gravesite and niche column at ANC.

📷 U.S. Army photo by Elizabeth Fraser

New: DA & Trump's proposed jury charges landed on the paper docket. Law360 scanned them in for you.

(No final jury charge on paper until the jury hears it)
law360.com/newyork-vs-tru…

I hope future Biden ads remind voters that Trump reached the national political stage by smearing our first Black president as an illegal African.
nytimes.com/2024/05/23/us/…

That beach house flag is nothing to worry about, they said.

This is why I think a lot of liberal criticism of things like bad NY Times coverage is always besides the point (even when NY Times coverage often deserves harsh criticism). The real battle, a hard one, is reaching the low information voters.

Happy 83rd birthday to the great Bob Dylan
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This is how Trump chooses to appeal to Black voters. He thinks being indicted (for conspiracy to murder!) is a badge of honor.

Trump tried and failed last year to remove the NY case to federal court.
politico.com/news/2023/07/1…