“It was a Great Honor meeting Zohran Mamdani, the new Mayor of New York City!”

It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle. And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.

What a great evening! Morgan Watkins of LPM and colleagues from UofL, WAVE3, InsideClimate News, and the CJ spoke of how to improve communication with the public about science and the environment. @morganwatkins.lpm.org

If we don’t measure hunger, it must not exist.

Nice throw and catch (risky though)

Great INT! It’d be nice to get a call go our way. Let’s go Cards!

Cardinals are getting tossed around by JMU.

@smdm.bsky.social Welcome to the Big House!

Breaking news: A prominent Minnesota Democrat and her spouse were killed early Saturday morning by a gunman impersonating a police officer. Another state lawmaker and his wife were shot overnight, believed to be connected to the same suspect, police said. A manhunt for the suspect is underway.

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I am Democrat Shawn Harris. I am a husband, father, retired General and farmer. I have announced my candidacy to defeat Marjorie Taylor Greene and I know we will together. Her hate and conspiracies do not belong in Congress. Let’s end the chaos together. Share and join me in this fight:

JOURNALISTS OF BLUESKY: I'm hiring! We're looking for a talented reporter to join the Lexington Herald-Leader on the Bluegrass Politics team. This position will cover state government — the legislature, Gov. Andy Beshear, agencies, etc. — and Kentucky politics. Questions? Reach out to me.

This is altogether terrific news, and highlights the contributions of the NIH to clinical practice. This kind of finding can save lives. It’s easier to launch a vaccination campaign when only one dose is needed. www.statnews.com/2025/04/28/h...

A huge new NIH-funded clinical trial of 20,000 girls has shown that a single dose of HPV vaccine yields the same response as two doses after 4.5 years. This is critical to public health efforts to save lives with this vaccine. Yes. We still have to battle RFK Jr. to ensure access to HPV vaccine.

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 45 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

Holy shit. Video posted by President Bukele’s team on X shows the moments before his press conference with Trump in which Trump tells him: “We want to do homegrown criminals next. You gotta build about five more places.” (h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)

THE NEW ARAB: Journalist burnt alive in Israel strike on press tent in Gaza www.newarab.com/news/journal... @newarab.com.web.brid.gy #photojournalism #journalism #journalismisnotacrime

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It’s been a devastating 24 hours with 3 NIH grants terminated…all focused on the health and wellbeing of trans or intersex youth. If folks have any ideas of foundations that may be interested in supporting the completion of these projects so years of work aren’t wasted, please let me know. 🙏

Kelsey, Chucky, Edwards Junior, Hadley, Waterman, Smith, and the rest of the team ,,, thank you for restoring fandom in Louisville. Tremendous season. We’re all sad to see it end, but are proud of you.

INCREDIBLE Ruling! Judge Reyes just ruled that transgender people have served honorably in the military, judges Trumps trans military ban - which states trans people are inherently dishonorable - as unconstitutional and motivated by animus. Trans military members may continue to serve.

These heroes existed. Real Americans are proud of all those who’ve stood tall for the Red White and Blue.

Bubba done screwed us.

First time I’ve seen a critically missed call go Louisville’s way. I’ll take it. But my heart rhythm is whacked! Go Cards.

Stunning win. Go Cards! Chucky. Edwards Jr. Scott.

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

We are living in the dumbest of times.

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It’s Chuck’s Louisville. @GoCards

72 minutes until the shopping blockade is over. How is everyone feeling?

Musk’s hackers burglarized "a vast trove of information about the entire federal workforce” on OPM computers even as Trump was being sworn in — that is "hours before Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was officially created by an executive order.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The FAA is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon to overhaul the communications system that serves as the backbone of the nation’s air traffic control and is awarding the work to Musk’s Starlink. Follow the money and see where it goes.

KY legislature passed out of committee a bill (HB495) legalizing CONVERSION therapy for people who are LGBT. Conversion therapy does not work. It is cruel. It violates the oath to do no harm. If you live in KY, contact your legislators now to OPPOSE HB495.

An ugly W is still a W.

This is a full purge of every single LGBTQ employee at the NSA. Rufo is falsely mischaracterizing a LGBTQ employee resource group as a "sex chat" to create pretext to fire every single member in it. This is a playbook they will run to purge the entire federal government.

House Republicans just voted to gut Medicaid, which covers 1 in 5 Americans overall, including 41% of births and 63% of nursing home care. They also just voted to gut SNAP, on which 41 million food insecure Americans rely. This won’t just harm people. This will kill people. They own this.

Rick Pitino is going to beat out Pat Kelsey for coach of the year, isn’t he?

The heartbreak. Trump claims USAID is bankrupting America—it’s less than 1% of the budget. Meanwhile, the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, is gutting the largest food aid provider. He could end world hunger & still be the richest man alive. But he won’t. Not just greed. We’re watching evil at work.

Prayers for Pope Francis.

UofL has a few loud obnoxious fans just abusing everyone not in white today.

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

Three updates: 1. The Justice Department has deleted a database tracking federal police misconduct. The database was first proposed in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.

Cards beat second ranked team in a row on the road.

Gloves dropped. 3x in the first 9 seconds of USA v Canada! This is a perfect start. #FourNationsFaceOff

During the great flood of 1937 citizens constructed a 1,800 foot long #bourbon barrel pontoon bridge, extending from East Jefferson Street to Baxter & Barrett Avenues, in what has to be the most #Louisville style engineering feat in history.

Detailed and concise 1-pager explaining what F&A does and how it underlies the competitive advantages of American sciences. F&A pays PEOPLE and allows universities to be the anchors of regional economies that they are! 🔗 www.cogr.edu/sites/defaul...

Guess Pat Riley can hold on to Three-Peat.

They should have stuck with Alex Smith I’ve always said this

calling it: this nike spot is the best one of the day

@scottbourne.bsky.social Enjoy the Superb Owl tonight! www.theatlantic.com/photo/2025/0...