The Love Song Of James Alfred Comeyfrock
Tabs, Friday, May 16, 2025
Your morning news roundup and things to read!
James Comey went for a walk on the beach — possibly in white flannel trousers, while debating the wisdom of eating a peach — then posted an Instagram photo of seashells on a beach laid out to say “86 47,” and rightwing media wants him hanged from the highest yardarm for “threatening” Donald Trump. As a former busperson and waiter, I’ve never thought “86” meant anything other than “toss out.” We never once assassinated the wilted salad. Maybe wingnuts worked at tougher restaurants.
The Wall Street Journal reveals how Donald Trump talked Marjorie Taylor Greene out of running for the Senate against Jon Ossoff next year. His political team and pollsters ran a poll finding she’d easily win the primary, but would lose against Ossoff in a general election by 18 points. Neener, and might we also add, neener. Wait, what are we saying? We could be rid of her! Damn it, Trump!
Fun/horrifying HuffPost story looks at how the White House almost never seems to want to post transcripts of Trump’s word salad. Just 20 percent of his public appearances have been transcribed for the whitehouse.gov website, and the last transcript of Trump’s public remarks was on March 13. Why, it’s as if the White House’s claim to be the “most transparent government ever” is a joke.
Check out this cool interview with physicist/science journalist Adam Becker about how, for all their seeming whizbang futuristic aspirations, techbro billionaires tend to dismiss the actual science that would get in the way of their half-baked sci-fi aspirations. Thank goodness, really. The subtitle of Becker’s new book tells you plenty about the technodelusions he sets out to skewer: More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity.
You filthy fuckaducks didn’t think I’d deprive you of the obligatory Thornton picture, did you? Here he is, snoozling cutely on my office chair just before I sat down to write today’s Tabs. Li’l sweetheart! Wonkalonks!
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