1. The Supreme Court Is The Median Voter. I truly can't tell if this is well-researched and accurate, or truthy and glib. (I mean, I haven't gone so far as to click through on any of the sources like some sort of chump.)

I did listen to an interview recently with a pollster who said that the median voter is fiscally liberal and socially conservative. (Both of these in the context of 2025 Democrats and Republicans, not like worldwide standards or 1970 standards or something.) So that primed me to hear what this blogger is claiming.

2. This is so repulsive that I'm hesitant to link it, but you can read the commentary ahead of it, before deciding whether to read the actual thing. It's a very explicit, very horrible, first-person narrative of someone describing being raped by Trump at age 13ish.

I don't know how to evaluate it whatsoever. It's such a terrible allegation that it has to be held to a fairly high standard, and while it's totally plausible, I... I... I am handing it off to you all to finish this sentence.

For my 70th Birthday I Hired an Escort.

Surprisingly relatable. Also, Mitch, Mitch. Read the room, for god's sake.

Mossy Character writes: Last week, some people in Ireland find a literal message in a bottle. It's a distress message from a boat crew who went missing in December 2020. Fine. Except, the boat was fishing in the Pacific: USCG found it damaged and abandoned 1,100km NE of Midway. So:
1. Ockham's razor, it's a prank, in which case fuck you you asshole, that's 10 grieving families; or,
2. This bottle actually drifted from some island (the message mentions an island) in the North Pacific to Ireland in 4.5 years. Is that at all possible? I'm thinking the answer is yes, but you need some mechanism to explain how the bottle jumps from one gyre to another.
Original Irish Reddit post
Malaysian story with more detail
Indonesian story
Taiwanese 2021 incident report

Heebie's take: This is wild, and I'm going with that it's real. Based on scrolling a little through the Reddit user page of the guy that found it, there's nothing that remotely indicates he'd be capable of forging a convincing note in Taiwanese.