The Martian meets Murderbot with a dash of Her and a twist of Edgar Allan Poe. #BookSky 💙📚

An absolute gem of a novel. #BookSky 💙📚

You know that rare book, the kind you might find once a year, that you literally hug when you finish reading it? Yeah. This is one of those. Pre-order it now. You’re going to love this one. #BookSky 💙📚

Pete Hegseth says he’s going to court-martial me for saying the same exact thing he said 9 years ago. What changed for Pete? Well to start, he spends all day thinking about how he can suck up to Trump. When Trump says jump, he says how high.

The most un-put-down-able memoir I’ve read this year. If you’re resisting because you’re not into running, get over it. An extraordinary read from @nicholas and a phenomenal Chrismukah gift for the book lover in your life. #Booksky 💙📚

Most business biographies fall into one of two camps: 📚 Great stories with no lessons — or lessons with no soul. Dirtbag Billionaire is the rare book that delivers both. I blazed through this and can’t recommend it more highly. #Booksky 💙📚

Wandered into Garden District Bookshop on a recent trip to New Orleans and picked up The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke — first in his Dave Robicheaux series. Hard-boiled, poetic, swampy noir. Raymond Chandler on po’boys and chicory coffee. Ripped through it. #Booksky 💙📚

Better late than never in coming to the Murderbot series #BookSky 💙📚

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

They misspelled Epstein again.

When Joint Terrorism Task Forces were first set up, people predicted they could eventually be used by an authoritarian government to go after political enemies. And now they are.

What starts as a war reporting satire evolves into a riveting character study of a spiraling young correspondent. Incredibly tough needle to thread setting this in Gaza pre-10/7 but deftly handled. Blazed through it. Hard to believe this is a debut novel. #booksky 💙📚

Jackbooted thugs

Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.

“Abundance contains within it a bigness that befits the American project…. It is a determination to align our collective genius with the needs of both the planet and each other.” #booksky 💙📚

Judge Boasberg was a prosecutor when I was a public defender. We battled. Hard. He is a paragon of integrity. This attack, to use a technical legal term, is just so deeply fucked.

Holds up. Unfortunately. #booksky 📚💙

Beep beep

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Love this.

Trump's SEC has dropped a major lawsuit against Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange. This comes just weeks after the Trump family's crypto venture (World Liberty Financial) helped broker a $2B deal between Binance and a UAE state-backed firm. It's all out in the open.

It’s fine, he’s just got all your personal data. 💊💉

👀 www.semafor.com/article/05/3...

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Sen. Joni Ernst, after an audience member yells, “People will die,” during her discussion on Medicaid cuts at her town hall: “Well, we all are going to die.”

Maybe we need US Senators who aren’t actually rooting for you to die.

So many snowflakes.

15 min. ago, Arya Sundaram, "migration reporter for Gothamist/WNYC" tweeted: "DHS agents just denied me entry to the immigration court on Varick St." That Immigration Court is at 201 Varick Street at Houston St. @aryasundaram.bsky.social of @wnyc.org/ @gothamist.com Link: x.com/arya_sundara...

This is a senior Justice Department official. Who is in charge of pardons. And also in charge of investigating the “politicization” of the Justice Department.

Trump cut staffing at the VA, and now Dallas vets are waiting months for care. Surgeries are being delayed. Vets are being left without mental health care. I’ve called for an investigation—because if you claim to support veterans, act like it.

AXIOS: Trump's move on Harvard "could hurt America's economy by reducing the number of startup founders. .. ".. Around 44% of U.S. unicorn companies — startups valued at $1 billion or more — are founded or cofounded by immigrants .." @axios.com www.axios.com/newsletters/...

Checking in with the BlueSky historians. How has appeasement worked out? You know. Like historically?

Because of course they did.

This “deep state” is in fact the last vestige of a democracy committed to equal rights and the common good in what had become a corrupt oligarchic sham of it. The “unelected bureaucrats” were the only ones listening to and responding to the people. All dismantled in the name of “democracy.”

The abusive weaponization of the Trump Justice Department is getting to be so extreme it would be a farce if it weren't so dangerous to our system of government. And remember, it's not my assertion -- this is what Trump himself vowed to do if returned to power.

1/ Another case meeting the international human rights law definition of disappearances. "A lawyer for the Justice Department, Elianis N. Perez ... declined to say where the second migrant ... was deported, saying it was classified information. 'Where is the plane?' Judge Murphy asked. ..."

This is unconscionable.

"I have a strong indication that my preliminary injunction order has been violated," Judge Murphy said after learning the Trump administration had swiftly deported a group of migrants to South Sudan. www.reuters.com/world/immigr...

Goldman on McIver charges: "I want to know what prosecutor is going to put his or her name on that indictment ... Alina Habba doesn't care. She's a hack. She doesn't even know how to introduce evidence in court during a trial, and yet she's the US attorney in New Jersey."

Just gets worse. "Law enforcement officials admit that the photo was of another suspect and the entry was removed last month from the Texas database, known as TxGANG, when authorities realized the mix-up. " www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

This seems bad

It’s been 61 days since Kilmar Abrego Garcia was illegally sent to an El Salvador prison and 35 days since the Supreme Court unanimously ruled the Trump Administration facilitate his return to the US. If they can do this to him…

(Denver Post) - Pilots flying into Denver International Airport on Monday couldn’t communicate with air traffic controllers for about six minutes after multiple radio transmitters failed, according to reporting from Denver7. @denverpost.com www.denverpost.com/2025/05/15/d...

Ostensibly written for Millennials & Gen Z, but as a Gen Xer learning to lead in this new world, it’s absolutely for us too. When We’re in Charge by @amandalitman.bsky.social will compel you to think differently about how you lead and that is high praise for any book in this category. #BookSky 📚💙

You MUST watch this exchange from today’s Tx House debate on anti-library HB3225. “This is about your desire to make sure that children have access to sexually explicit materials,” says the bill’s author. “Rep Alders, do you know what I have done for a living?” Says @voteannjohnson.bsky.social

They should head to the Mall and do a free concert with a Do You Hear the People Sing singalong. Like, for real.

Notice how this works. A year ago, the subhead here would have said “which is expressly forbidden by the constitution.” But Trump floats a crazy assertion and then WaPo retreats to saying “which most legal scholars say..” Stop he said/she saiding truth. It is expressly forbidden. Period.

I think the way to turn this administration’s tanking polls around is to have this creep talk about his plans for our children as much as possible.

Trump: "Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30"