"He takes his skin off to sleep, and, well, last night I wore it. Just around the house of course. It’s not weird if you’re in love." My weird little love/horror story "Coffee in Bed" has found a home - thank you @pacificalit.bsky.social ! www.pacificareview.com/coffee-in-bed/

Last night, President Trump deployed an additional 2,000 National Guard troops to quash protests in Los Angeles, over the objection of the governor. DHS also reportedly requested more military assistance and has asked the military to arrest people. Military troops have no place on our streets.

Colorado law now explicitly protects transgender people from being “deadnamed” or misgendered in certain places under legislation signed into law Friday by Gov. Jared Polis. The new law is named for Kelly Loving, a trans woman who died in the 2022 mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs.

saidsomethings.com/2025/05/09/m... "I eat my eggs voraciously, and the man in the next booth turns in his chair to glare at me. I know he thinks that I take up too much space, that I am too hungry, that I am too much. Expletive women."

www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/ Columbia's student journalists doing an amazing job covering today's protest.

*Brian Krebs found that one of the code libraries the whistleblower said a DOGE person downloaded from GitHub that none of the NLRB IT people or contractors used matched one that Marko Elez had on his own Github. Elez was at Labor in early March. infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/...

SCOOP: The Social Security Administration (SSA) will be shifting its public communication exclusively to X, sources tell WIRED. This comes as agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent.

Trump’s administration has falsely declared more than 6,300 immigrants dead—adding the names and ss numbers of thousands of living, breathing people to the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File. They will no longer be able to access their bank accounts or use their credit cards.

This is appalling. The US is rapidly losing our research edge and capacity under the current idiotic rulers Musk and Trump.

The president of the American Bar Association says that the Trump administration is targeting judges and lawyers who make decisions it disagrees with.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration works on two of the most urgent U.S. health problems and has generally received bipartisan support. By the end of this week, the staff of the agency could be cut by 50%, according to senior staff members.

The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects

NEW: The Office for Civil Rights’ locations in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco are being shuttered, ProPublica has learned. "What you've got left is a shell that can't function." This is the latest from me and @jodiscohen.bsky.social

www.propublica.org/article/prop... I am 100% unqualified for this, but what a dream training. Journalism friends apply! @propublica.org

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rviP... ☠️

Here now, I suppose.