SCOOP: California is pressuring public utilities to award $633 million in special contracts to "LGBT-owned" firms. To qualify, residents must go through the state's official gay-certification program—and face up to a year in jail if they're not gay enough. city-journal.org/article/cal…

You don’t hate the media enough

What could have been the best night in a New York Knicks fan’s life instead felt like a massive middle finger. From Jimmy and The Don, with love. This one’s open for all, yo nytimes.com/athletic/7343657…

I bucked all advice from my friends (and resisted my conservative bias) and decided to fully trust the Times journalists. As they left my home they asked that I not talk to any other outlets and I insisted then and repeatedly over the following weeks that I would keep my word and only share this story with them. But then the weeks dragged on. They kept coming back to us saying the editors needed more. I needed to go on the record (okay). We need more screenshots (okay). I met every bench mark they set, eager to provide more sources or evidence as needed. After the story went up I began to ask them … wait, where are the stories from the other women? Where are their accusations of sexual assault? Why am I the focus? Why are there 11 paragraphs dedicated to detailing my work history (more than has been published about Graham’s by far)? Why does it say “nobody could corroborate” when I offered them sources that COULD corroborate? Why did they include an out of context quote from a friend joking “do not call Graham” after I called off my wedding? (Because she knew I would never). Where were the screenshots they’d said they would use? Or the mention that I’d supported local democrats and that most of my family (and husband) are liberal? The editors said it was too much, they explained. The Times also failed to include any mention that I DID confide in multiple friends through the years that Graham had been abusive — long before he was running for office. Those friends confirm they told the Times so. It dawned on me that this really was a set up all along. The journalists I trusted who convinced me to share a story I never wanted to tell methodically delayed and twisted this into a gift to the Platner campaign. Violating the trust of his victims. Shattering the trust I placed in them with the most vulnerable story of my life. And at the end of my call with them I reluctantly accepted their insistence that this was still a powerful story and that I had done a brave thing. And I thanked them for all the hard work they had put into it. Still fawning after all these years.

I will soon be introducing a bill to give the public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America. This would guarantee that the trillions created by AI are used to improve the lives of all of us — and block oligarch decisions that harm the American people.

Charles Dickens’ views have been declared offensive and prejudiced by a Charles Dickens museum. Britain’s heritage sector is officially eating itself. Satire is dead, says Sean Walsh buff.ly/CFdtuUL

We like our upstate weekend place

PICARD: Data, shields up DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy. [camera shakes] WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't

Steven Bartlett says a few glasses of wine ruined the next 3 days of his life “It's one of those areas where you don't understand the hidden cost until you really give it up for a while. I stopped drinking at 30 years old. I'm now 33. When I was 31, I thought, I'll have a drink again because now I could really A/B test it. I had a year of not drinking, decided to have a drink again” “It ruined three days of my life. I had a couple of glasses of wine, didn't get drunk. It ruined three days of my life because of the domino effect it caused” “I got worse sleep that night, and then because I got worse sleep that night, I ate more poorly the next day because my dopamine system or whatever, the cortisol system was all messed up. I podcasted worse. I didn't go to the gym that day or the day after because I felt really bad. I then slept worse, and I could track all of this on my Whoop”

Kamala Harris is now calling for Democrats to hold a “No Bad Idea Brainstorm” where they discuss: - Abolishing the Electoral College - Packing the Supreme Court - Making Puerto Rico and D.C. states “We’ve got to neutralize these red states from cheating!”

Christopher Nolan explains why he cast Travis Scott in ‘THE ODYSSEY’: “I cast him because I wanted to nod towards the idea that this story has been handed down as oral poetry, which is analogous to rap.” (Source: time.com/article/2026/05/12/…)

"The American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time" - AOC

President Obama: “The White House shouldn’t be able to direct the Attorney General to go around prosecuting whoever the president wants prosecuted. The AG is the people’s lawyer, it’s not the president’s consigliere. You can’t have a situation in which whoever’s in charge of the government starts using that to go after their political enemies”

🚨OH. MY. GOSH!!!! An audit of Hurricane Helene Relief Funds, just uncovered ABSURD EXPENSES including: >2,000 Rhinoceros-Shaped Stress Balls >Fidget Toys >Succulent Plants >Massage Chairs > Aromatherapy Staff >Red Light and Salt Therapy >Foot Detoxes >Mental Health Flowers >Guided Bird Song Walks >$14,000 on "Headspace app Subscriptions" >$10,000 on "wellness journals" >A "Sobriety Bowl" Pizza Night WHAT?!!!!!!!!!!

salesforce going headless is bigger than people realize. software has been priced per seat for decades. the entire business model assumes a person logs in, clicks around, and gets value from a dashboard. agents don’t log in. they make API calls. so what happens to per-seat pricing when the primary user of your platform isn’t a person? when one company runs 50 agents that each make more API calls in a day than the entire sales team makes in a month? every SaaS company is about to face this question. salesforce just forced it into the open by going fully headless. the ones that figure out agent-native pricing first will own the next cycle. the ones still charging per seat while agents do the work will get left behind.

Woke Boston mayor hands out $500 haircut and MASSAGE vouchers to migrants despite city's budget plunging $50m in red trib.al/hZMIO9p