American science right now is basically 10,000 of these stories, all with their own heartbreaking specificity Lost careers, lost progress, lost discoveries I feel so sad every day for all we’ve lost and continue to lose 💔

archaeologists have unearthed what many are calling "the most metal shit anyone's ever seen"

guardians of the galaxy giardia in estuary 🤝 rocket raccoon

too many people in senior government positions remind me of Jean-Ralphio and Mona-Lisa Saperstein

In November I broke this story about Andrew Paul Johnson, a pardoned J6er who molested children and used the promise of reparations to bribe his victims silence.

new California solar *and* wind records just dropped. new solar records starting in May is typical, but a *huge* jump in wind, nearly 2GW over the previous batch of records on 2022. new farm must be coming on line — must be SunZia in New Mexico www.eenews.net/articles/lar...

Look, Illinois. It is possible!

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

Musk loses.

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

Dems are polling crazy high based on the flaming catastrophe that is Republican fascist rule, so primarying as many of the bad weak complicit Democrats in favor of good determined angry ones has rarely if ever been more crucial

NEW — Alabama native, son of a civil rights movement pastor, and veteran journalist @solcrenshawjr.bsky.social attended the marches in Selma and Montgomery on Saturday to see up close the resurrected fight for Black rights. Read his moving and illuminating report:

Musk v Altman JUDGE: The jury has sent a question and the answer is no, the death penalty is not "available for both sides" please return to the jury room and limit your consideration to civil damages.

People are angry in a way they weren’t near for Reagan and didn’t quite reach for GWB and oh man Dems are going to pay hell if/when they don’t enact vengeance

A judge barred key pieces of evidence against Luigi Mangione from trial because of the way police handled his arrest

if you've seen how Fortune 500 CEOs send emails, you start to understand why conversations harvested from stoned idiots leaning out the window of their car as they try to remember what they like on their burrito is the most valuable training data in the LLM industry

America, let’s do this.

up and at them

Inkblot knows: POLITE! (when meeting people on a walk), “let’s do the thing” (our evening stick throwing), “find a stick”, stop that! down, wait, here, up, under, snoot, leave it, water, drop, plane/drone, “SERIOUSLY, Ink??” “Stop barking at the horses, they’re allowed to Horse!” #dog

I posted this before I saw Sorbo's post claiming Nolan's Oddessy was disrespecting Greece with its portrayal, but it turned out to be timely

Source after source told 60 Minutes they fear today’s insider trading scandal about military secrets is tomorrow’s national security scandal. If market-watchers can spot irregular trades, surely enemies can, too. And they’ll make their war plans accordingly. cbsn.ws/4uSxuCf

“.. We spotted nine Polymarket accounts .. who made collectively $2.4 million betting almost exclusively on U.S. Military operations. .. “.. Now, here is the crazy part. 98% win rates.” @mediaite.com www.mediaite.com/media/news/6...

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

my ballot is also not in my mailbox OR in the mystery bin, so just a heads up to DC folks to be aware that the post office sucking might be an issue

(respecting the stage reveal with my crude censure) Absolutely thrilled to announce that Maya will always be my Mary. Jinkx Monsoon and John Cameron Mitchell deserve all the praise but Rudolph somehow humanized Mary without losing any of the absurdity.

[frantically dialing the Dad Joke Hall of Fame]

I suspect this is less about declining domestic spirits consumption (which is a real thing!) and more about the regime's intentional destruction of export markets.

US prices lately have been like Benito Mussolini: suddenly up at the gas station, as an inevitable consequence of Fascist misrule

American politics in a nutshell

"YOU'RE the leader? LOL okay, take me to someone else."

Informative

Believing oneself to be exceptionally smart and good at critical thinking and immune to deception is, generally speaking, the best way to end up becoming a credulous doofus drowning in misinfo and conspiracy theories. The real way to protect yourself is *humility*, and constantly reminding…

no, PR would be done by repealing/replacing this federal statute en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform...

literally yes i expect someone to do that. i did that in university. it is not hard to source shit properly if you have access to papers (i had jstor access then but AA or sci-hub are options now as well), libraries (even if you have to wait for an ILL), and internet search

The Religious Right is desperate these days to pretend that "Christian Nationalism" is (1) a recently-invented term and (2) a pejorative invented by their enemies, but neither of those claims is remotely true. Here's a short thread, but I'm sure other historians will have examples too.

My favorite photo from when we shut down Trump’s rally here in 2016.

Toad walked up and down a few times. The seeds did not start to grow. Toad put his head close to the ground and said loudly, “Now seeds, start growing!”

There’s a universe where Little Marco gets Mar-A-Lago blown up somehow.

It would be hilarious if for the next seven months Cassidy showed as much loyalty to Trump with his votes in the Senate as Trump showed him.

The vampire hunt is ON! Do you have a beat up VHS, film print etc of the 1922 Nosferatu? Alexandre O Philippe and our team are making a doc about our global treasure hunt called IN SEARCH OF NOSFERATU. More info here, or email us at albingraufilms at gmail dot com deadline.com/2026/05/in-s...

How do Americans feel about the war? We asked ten big city homosexuals to share their thoughts.

"As they rushed into his apartment...he felt the jaws of a large dog biting into his ankle, knocking him to the floor. He screamed as the dog tore the flesh from his thighs, hip and wrist. Down the hall, agents took a mother and her 16-yr-old son at gunpoint..." www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

what i think @hurricanexyz.bsky.social is dead-on in highlighting here is that the VA supreme court ruling was a violation of the VA constitution itself, which quite explicitly notes that the power of the people to reform their constitution is sovereign and inalienable

Herbet Hoover kept 75% of his voters during the great depression and it was enough for him to lose in one of the larger landslides we've had. Pieces like this miss the forest for the trees and fundamentally don't understand what a coalition cracking looks like.

really insightful and horrifying stuff from @thefarce.org

The silver lining of Trump having done so much harm is you can talk SNAP demand destruction and China diplomatic failure to farmers, aluminum prices and Musk allyship to car dealers, Epstein to pizzagate zealots, Matthew 25 violations to actual Christians, sectarian beef to apostate Christians, etc.

probably nothing to worry about

The FDA’s rejection of a new skin cancer treatment under former Commissioner Marty Makary raised concerns about politics, inconsistency and trust.