human men: she needs to bring something to the table also meet a set of contradictory and unrealistic standards bird men: i built you a house and choreographed a dance and brought you shiny things please may i sniff your feathers

We wanted to understand what’s happening with the Strait of Hormuz. So we talked to five raw milk drinkers at an emergency room in Idaho.

Adorable young kestrels surprised by a butterfly.

“We live in fear of these strikes, and because of that, many people have stopped going out to fish.” The Trump administration’s boat strikes have killed over 200 civilians and upended the livelihoods of coastal communities across South America. This illegal bombing campaign must be stopped.

#UBI is one of those things where you can see why “give people ’free’ money” might seem too expensive to the general public, but *every time* a test run has been done, it’s turned out to be cost effective - for governments, that is; but not for big businesses, so of course it doesn’t go ahead.

Being an American during the 250th Aniversary of the United States feels a lot like if the terrorists in Die Hard demanded that the hostages continue having their Christmas party.

There is no statute of limitations for murder under either military or federal law.

DuckDuckGo Installs Up 30% After Google Announced AI Search https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/05/30/0511236/duckduckgo-installs-up-30-after-google-announced-ai-search?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Touching grass is not enough I need to share a sunny log with five or six turtles

An organization like FIRE is going to look at this and conclude the problem is with faculty, who are insufficiently heterodox, and not with the fact that one political party has made it their goal to dismantle my profession and everything I do. Why would we vote for those who openly hate us?

Democrats self-sabotaged in 2024 when they stopped talking about these guys as the weird perverts and assholes that they are. Most of the country sees people like Stephen Miller and think they're gross monsters. They will always respond well when leaders/institutions that affirm their gut vibes.

you know the kid lit publishing controversy that actually exists and I'd like you all to get on? The lack of marketing & publicity support for books by marginalized authors that don't sell and then are used as proof to not acquire more books from those authors.

I will never use AI in my writing, because I want my writing to be good

The best revenge is stealing the rotating plate from their microwave

This week's newsletter is out. It's kind of unfair to tell candidates to be more like Zohran Mamdani but he just did a great job of showing how Democrats can campaign as fiscal conservatives link.heartlandsignal.com/v/443/b6619d...

The world is watching in horror as ICE terror unfolds in another U.S. city. Solidarity with the people resisting inside and outside of Delaney Hall.

Have you guys seen this

I've been warning about this moment for two decades over at Techdirt The U.S. is too corrupt to regulate data brokers (and their exploitation and sale of location data) and the check has come due

The animation chat has me thinking one telling thing - in the years since AI arrived, there's not been a ground-up indie phenomenon, like we saw with earlier tech (Flash, etc). It hasn't unlocked anyone's creativity. For all the anti-gatekeeping rhetroic, nothing anyone cares about has been born.

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

Semiotic anthropologist here w/alt-text! As I tell students & everyone who will listen: One of the great lessons of anthropology is that we built this. All of it. And we choose throughout our days how we will continue or change the world we have built. We can & must build differently.

What a quote on Ken Paxton, by a party colleague. A gift basket to Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...

the wikipedia image for sexual roleplay is making my lose my mind

This is a crucial part of campaigning in Texas, even, where you are -- by the nature of the state's electorate -- courting the possibility of crossover voters

And like I want to emphasize this is not an outlying scenario that people are overreacting to. ~40% of us will be diagnosed with some kind of cancer in our lives. Forty. Percent.

“We, the detainees at the Delaney Hall Detention Facility, wish to express our objection to the violation of our rights as immigrant human beings.”

Send Tom Suozzi into retirement. Vote for Danielle Welch.

over at the newsletter I wrote about Jeff Bezos' sad little interview from last week:

#VisiblityBrigade #DelaneyHall Shut Down Delaney Hall Torture Camp

NEW AD: Meet Ken Paxton — the most corrupt politician in America. He’s gotten away with it for years. That ends this November.

Today's nugget of fury: so many people get abdominal pain during the luteal phase of a menstrual cycle (mostly with endo, but not always) and medical science is like "shrug, it happens, take an advil". Bitch, I can't, and it hurts. Pain isn't normal!

It's not about which is 'superior.' It's about the multitude of ways in which large corporations have normalized rent-seeking. When you have to maintain a subscription to operate everything from your music library to your fridge to your farm equipment, there's a problem. nfu.org/wp-content/u...

False equivalence. This is a convo about ownership. Spend $10.99/mo on CDs and in a year you've got 12 CDs. Yours forever even if you go broke and can't buy more. Spend $10.99/mo on streaming and then have to cancel? You've spent the same $ and you have...nothing. These are not equivalent systems.

I wrote about Elon Musk's attack on Lupita Nyong'o, and how it is important to put that in the context of the fact that Musk launched an actual ongoing genocide against non-white people which has already killed hundreds of thousands. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/musk-attac...

The oath of office *obligates* Dems to seek Trump's removal. Republican obstruction may be a reason why they should mostly seek to highlight Republican complicity with Trump's crimes. But it really can't justify abdicating the impeachment power altogether. www.offmessage.net/p/the-revisi...

For one thing, the idea that the first Trump impeachments accomplished nothing, and even backfired by creating a rally-around-the-leader effect, is bunk. www.offmessage.net/p/the-revisi...

Oh, we are. But there's also a big separation between the Federal sphere and the rest of the city's residents and culture. Each neighborhood is its own small town with its own celebrations and that's what we're focusing on.

"Jose" shares we are picking blueberries in Delano CA. "We get paid CA minimum wage and work 8 hours a day. As the blueberry bushes are very short, we spend our day crouched over as we work." #WeFeedYou

As a Serious Objective Scholarly Person I want to disagree with this but I can't. Ten years into the Trump era & this is basically correct.

Abortion is healthcare. That's not a snappy tagline designed to "pretty up" abortion. It's an absolute fact of life. This article proves it. They have outlawed healthcare for women. Women die because of it and Republicans pat themselves on the back for it. www.propublica.org/article/arka...

Video via @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social shows the silhouette of a person detained inside Delaney Hall as others unseen flash lights on and off, a sign that they can hear those outside, as a blockade of hundreds successfully stopped the transfer of a strike organizer. www.instagram.com/reel/DYvhDIM...

Telling my kids this is the papal encyclical on ai: "I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."

🚨BREAKING: Protesters trying to block transport van as ICE tries to transfer out Martin Soto, one of the leaders of massive hunger/labor strike at Delaney Hall ICE prison currently on day 3. Guards threatened to toss him in solitary confinement & threatened his wife w/ cutting off visitation. MORE⬇️

Once intolerance against one marginalised group is legitimised, it begins to legitimise intolerance towards all marginalised groups. If Starmer, Burnham, Streeting and co don’t drop their transphobic policies and embrace trans rights fast, Labour will face political demolition in the big cities. 🏳️‍⚧️🥀

Home Depot is just build a bear for divorced dads

-Students are afraid of writing like AI. -Graders have to check for AI writing. -Researchers have to make sure the people they're citing aren't citing AI hallucinations. -Journal reviewers have to check for AI writing and make sure AI isn't being cited. This is extra work for everyone.

Really good thread

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

This is a good point, I think. We have a progress Pride flag in the window and various stickers and signs inside and we put it on our website. Virtue signalling is good! Getting the customers you actually want is good!