Rapid response groups are collectively reporting at least 4 people detained by federal immigration agents across Chicagoland today, including at a Cook County court facility on Chicago's far south side and at a business address in Waukegan, IL associated with Uline Shipping Supplies.

This. All of this. #Pinks #ProudBlue

🚨During lunch at his golf course with tobacco executives on May 2, Pres. Trump called Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Oz, furious. He wanted action on flavored vapes. And he soon got it, prompting the FDA commissioner to resign. w/ the amazing @kenvogel.bsky.social --> 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

MORE FACTS OF NATURE: As part of nature’s way to help spread the species throughout their ecological niche, bison often utilize a behavior naturalists have described as “ballooning.”

ComEd electric customers will see at least a 12% jump in monthly charges starting in June as big data centers increase demand for power and an unrelated consumer credit ends.

Telling pregnant women not to take the one pain reliever available to them while trying to sell kids vapes

A lot of people don't seem to know this but the Genocide Convention does not require a single person to have been killed for it to have been violated.

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1776 -- 1950s: Many Americans were comfortable with being openly racist. 1960s -- 2016 Many Americans became increasingly uncomfortable with being openly racist. 2016 --2026 Many Americans went back to being increasingly comfortable with being openly racist.

If you’ve ever swallowed an aspirin, put milk in your coffee, fed your pet, or filled a prescription, then you’ve relied on the lifesaving oversight of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. (cont.) 🧵 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Science, again, for the win

IMPORTANT FACT: Arnold Reuben, the German-Jewish genius who invented the Reuben sandwich, was ALSO the genius who thought to substitute cream cheese for milk curd in ... cheesecake creating a revolution in flavor a new relationship of Jews to an upcoming holiday and unwittingly, a Factory (tm)

You'll be shocked to learn the reporter Trump called a "dumb person" is a black woman (Akayla Gardner of MSNOW) thegrio.com/2026/05/12/t...

Sherrilyn Ifill reminding us, "No democracy can survive if tens of millions of its citizens refuse to fight to protect it because they 'don’t do politics.'”

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1/ Thread about Mayor Mamdani’s plan to tax second homes in NYC. From 2013-15, I served on the School Leadership Team (SLT) for PS 59, my daughter’s elementary school on 56 Street between 2nd & 3rd Avenues. SLT served as a strategic sounding board for the Principal, not fundraising (PTA).

"[C]orporations only exist because states allow them to. Which means that every power a corporation has was given to it by the state. Hawaii just took one of those powers off the list—starting next year, corporations in Hawaii can no longer spend money on state + local elections." #ShareGoodNewsToo

ok I know everyone is saying exactly the same thing at once but christ on cracker this is the president of the United States bragging that a fellow crook 'kept me out of jail for years.'

'Sea Holly' by Sarah Jane Humphrey, contemporary UK natural science/botanical illustrator #WomensArt

medical misogyny is one of the few true universals. And medical racism.

UPDATE: The Supreme Court extended its pause of a nationwide restriction on mifepristone for 3 more days, until May 14. This safe & effective medication remains available by mail and at pharmacies as the case continues.

The cost to repaint the Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC blue is now estimated to be over $13 million. Trump initially promised it would cost only $1.8 million. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u...

The important lesson to take away from this is not that we are all going to die of Hantavirus. We aren’t. It’s that the United States has zero pandemic prevention capacity at the present because of deliberate sabotage by the president and his appointed lackeys.

We owe it to Kevin and his family to fight for a humane immigration system that treats everyone with dignity. That starts with stopping Trump’s reconciliation bill that would fund #ICE and #CBP until 2029. Call your members of Congress. Demand they vote against any blank check for ICE & CBP.

“This week, Kevin had issued a public plea for his parents to be released from custody so they could travel to Mexico to be by his side as he battles the terminal illness, and on Saturday they were reunited in an emotional moment in Durango.”

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

Sean Duffy’s reality series is getting slammed for all of the obvious reasons, but don’t look past the fact that his show is being sponsored by companies his department oversees and regulates. In other words, it’s not just a political mess, it’s also an ethical one. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

this looks quite bad but i'll believe it when they stop putting people like him in office bsky.app/profile/left...

It’s cool how the most powerful person in the country is a decomposing 79-year-old

Just in case anyone forgot, the National Guard is still in DC ans ICE is still in Chicago, LA, Portland, Minneapolis and beyond…

New class alert! I’ll be teaching a class at Chicago Botanic Garden this June, on Mondays starting 6/8. About the intersection of birds, art, and history - Willughby, Catesby, Stone, and Bewick. Register on the garden’s website. #historysky

Good morning Blacksky. Teach the babies to play instruments.

One of the worst things this administration has normalized is “Say whatever shit you want. There are literally no consequences.”

Her husband also spend a not-insignificant portion of his time trying to get college professors publicly harassed and fired.

Freaking Chicago’s Ken Nordine, y’all!!

When Rubio abruptly halted foreign aid last year, cleanup crews in Vietnam were forced to abandon one of the largest chemical spills in the world for weeks. Left exposed: open pits of soil contaminated with dioxin, the deadly byproduct of Agent Orange. From Pulitzer finalist “The End of Aid”:

The “free speech champions” are at it again

Alabama House speaker said he hopes SCOTUS “will overturn Amendment 14,” the one that made Black people citizens and guaranteed equal protection under law. It wasn’t just a slip. Today’s newsletter. 👉 link.al.com/public/45636...

Thinking of the @anthonymoser.com line about how every time you see an article touting A.I. you should replace "A.I." with "improv comedy" and honestly "Will Improv Comedy Make College Obsolete?" would be a much better article.

Israeli television news investigation confirms what we already knew, which is that the 3 hostages who were shot and executed by Israeli soldiers were killed because the overarching rules of engagement in Gaza were such that "a man, no matter the age, you kill him straight away".

Be like John Lewis.

Plug-in solar systems are designed to be used w/o requiring specialized technicians or construction permits. In Europe, systems like this are wildly popular, especially for renters who do not have permission to install permanent solar panels on their buildings. No pay wall.

Botanical description and medical, culinary & other uses of the plants in the first volume of my American herbarium (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51519672) #nature #illustration #art

J'ignore où c'est, mais j'adore😍

Trump wanted a war with Iran because he thought Americans would rally around a war president and it would drive his poll numbers up. It did the opposite. So thousands of lives & billions of dollars were wasted, and the price you pay for gas is significantly higher, because Donald Trump is an idiot.

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I just can’t. How does anyone support this lunatic?

this is the closest I've ever come to actually suggesting a "one neat trick" suggestion for anything, but I'm so serious here. the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature the power to set retirement ages for judges "REGARDLESS OF THE TERM TO WHICH ELECTED OR APPOINTED." make it 54 right now.

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