This is appalling.

Incredibly disturbing story broken by @medpagetoday.com team. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. Internally called “NameTag,” it’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.

Scoop: Central Command is getting reports that military personnel are being targeted using commercially available location data. Few details available, but it’s a sign that the tech industry’s advertising-surveillance complex is having consequences on the battlefield. www.reuters.com/business/med...

I think about this a lot.

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These motherfuckers www.cnn.com/2026/05/27/p...

New: Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio said he's in "a lot of group chats" with "the J6 community" & "a lot of them want to use this money to start some type of political act," like "run for office" Tarrio also thought many would "spend their money on firearms." www.mediamatters.org/january-6-in...

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This is monstrous, evil shit "Cemetery officials confirmed to Task & Purpose that the pages were unpublished” to meet recent orders by President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth targeting race and gender-related language and policies in the military."

NEW: Gov. Jeff Landry’s office dismissed experts’ concerns that his tough-on-crime laws would swell the prison population and plunge Louisiana into financial ruin. His proposed prison budget, however, is a sign of taxpayer costs to come. With @veritenews.org

I’m sorry but as a person who grew up with Irish Catholic “you go to your second cousin’s middle school graduation” energy… this is hilarious.

Every American should be disgusted by this.

"They leaked his tax returns, they tried to destroy him." If revealing your official tax returns -- something every single president and VP for forty years before Trump did voluntarily -- could possibly "destroy" you, that is the scandal.

I know it's quaint to believe such things matter, but under 26 USC 7217 it's a crime for POTUS "to request, directly or indirectly, any [IRS] officer . . . to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer." www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

When I was a clerk, I tried to give my judge a crate of oranges I’d brought back from a trip home to FL & he politely refused bc it was too much of a hassle ethics-wise.

It’s not a settlement if Trump is on both sides of the case!

Sen. Van Hollen: Will people who assaulted Capitol Police officers be eligible for this slush fund? Blanche: Anyone is eligible to apply. Sen. Van Hollen: Will there be rules that say if you assaulted a Capitol Police officer you won't be eligible? Blanche: I'm not on the Commission.

Van Hollen: "This is an outrageous, unprecedented slush fund that you set up. Will individuals who assaulted Capitol Hill police officers be eligible for the fund?" Blanche: "Anybody in this country is eligible to apply."

When a federal agency tasked with protecting all Americans decides to mandate a specific religious worldview, it ceases to protect democracy and begins to threaten it.

Raskin: "This is about funding, or pre-funding, Donald Trump's private militia"

Trump doesn't care about the economic plight of the average American because he's too busy calling his broker His stunning 3,700 trades in just 3 months in firms like Palantir, Nvidia and Boeing should be another Watergate. Here's how to make it one My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

I don’t think DOJ should hand the president a multi-billion dollar slush fund he can divvy up between criminals he likes and his private bank account, nor that he should be able to buy stock then use taxpayer funds to boost that company. It’s corrupt. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.

the trump administration assertion that it is “unlawful” for private organizations to pursue diversity is nonsense. what this is, once again, is an effort to roll back desegregation that the ABA has surrendered to.

The corruption is staggering. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Request for ideas solicited from a new responsible AI research center — academics, ordinary people, anyone with a good idea welcome to contribute! www.csaip.org/rfi

This is insanity: Trump's DOJ is about to "settle" his lawsuit against the IRS by creating a $1.7 billion slush fund to pay off victims of Biden "weaponization." I talked to Jamie Raskin about this. It's even more corrupt than it first appears. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2105...

This is the very type of intentional racial discrimination that SCOTUS claims is still illegal even after Callais. SC is 25% Black but Norman says Black voters shouldn't be able to elect a candidate in any of the state's 7 districts

TL;DR: Many legal AI tools improve efficiency but may hinder the development of critical judgment skills in junior lawyers, leading to concerns about their long-term effectiveness in practice.

“One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

You gotta laugh because otherwise…

This, the US Supreme Court has explained to us, is what it looks like to finally live in a land free of racial discrimination. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u... South Carolina is 26% black. Louisiana is 33%. Mississippi is 37%.

We are watching the worst assault on multiracial democracy since the Pettus bridge. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

This is for *your* kids, you understand. The tech elites send *their* kids to private, screen-free Montessori schools. They know exactly what they're doing.

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

Todd Blanche exclusively dines at casinos and strip clubs.

Georgia's supreme court elections are in just 19 days. And they're so important: Two liberal attorneys are aiming to oust a pair of GOP-appointed justices. Voting rights already were a defining issue, & that was before Callais heightened the stakes. So much to unpack here. NEW in Bolts:

Philadelphia reported 39 murders through April which is the fewest reported there since 1963. New York City reported 75 murders through April 26 which is on track to be the fewest murders through April ever reported (previous low was 86 in 2018).

Frederick Douglass in 1883, after the Civil Rights Cases were handed down, cut to the chase: "O for a Supreme Court of the United States which shall be as true to the claims of humanity as the Supreme Court formerly was to the demands of slavery! omeka.coloredconventions.org/files/origin...

They are so juvenile they don’t realize how embarrassing and bizarre this is.

Must read. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Tfw your commitment to unitary executive theory impairs your ability to fleece taxpayers in a monumental act of corruption & self-enrichment… www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/u...

His name is now on some federal buildings, his signature will soon be on the dollar bill, his face will be on coins and national park passes. And now Trump is putting his own picture on US passports. apnews.com/article/pass...

Wtaf

For those who have been asking: here’s a piece on Kagi. I’ve subscribed for several months now and love it. Worth every penny for both privacy & functionality. Even got a family membership so that my kids could get good search results instead of internet slop + sponsored links.

Chatrie argument transcript is up: www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

Chatrie argument on constitutionality of geofencing happening now. Going to add some reactions.

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Justices Sotomayor and Thomas each made controversial public comments recently but with sharply different outcomes. In today’s @nytimes.com, @jessewegman.bsky.social explains what the contrast reveals about the Roberts Court.

I should be writing my dissertation, but instead I'm writing about the @nationalacademies.org being compromised. McNutt here saying that THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES will NOT ENGAGE ON "PARTISAN TOPICS" such as "vaccines" and "climate change". What happens when R's decide they don't believe in gravity?