I have not opened my laptop for several days, so I have not been banging the drum on this fundraiser that I'm still runnnig for Georgia STOMP. Working to address period poverty here in Georgia, and end taxes on period products, as we're one of only (I think) 18 states who still tax them.

there is a REASON that literally 99% of humans do not pursue doctoral research yes, it's hard but it's also tedious as hell and you need to be at least a little not right in the head to do this long enough to get anywhere

No money for pediatric cancer research but there's $1.7 billion for people who beat cops and smeared feces on the walls of the US Capitol.

Feels impossible to convey to anyone under 35 or so how SI’s whole thing for decades was “we have the very best sportswriting.” That was the brand. Three generations of kids like me grew up with SI as the inspiration for our careers and as the dream job we all aspired to.

They hire anthropologists and other UX people, and then never listen to them: "Microsoft’s behavior over the last few months is nothing short of shocking. [T]he Windows and Xbox divisions suddenly started prioritizing user feedback and implementing requested features after years of ignoring them"

We stan a Privacy Queen who does not want to be perceived!

Hey Bluesky, could you help me signal boost my Big Cartel shop? Jeremy Creatures are designed and hand-sewed by me, and they take many hours to create. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

On Fri night, Brooklyn court staff forced a woman to give birth inside the courtroom. Per public defenders, she gave birth in handcuffs, unable to reposition herself, unable to pick up her infant. The men who’d shackled her looked on. The judge lauded the birth of a ‘beautiful baby’ on the record.

Big protest and march at Brooklyn Criminal Court and outside Brooklyn DA Gonzales's office in protest of this woman's treatment today. Organized by the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys, UAW Local 2325.

You may have read about the woman who gave birth in a Brooklyn courtroom Friday night while waiting to be arraigned. I spoke to an attorney who saw the whole thing, and says it was much worse than has previously been reported, a scene of "complete violence." hellgatenyc.com/birth-in-bro...

THIS IS HUGE: Colorado Supreme Court orders Colorado children's hospital to resume gender affirming care for trans youth. www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/05/18/c...

Whether it’s Ken Paxton committing multiple felonies or James Talarico ordering a vegetarian taco, both Texas Senate candidates have troubled pasts.

I keep thinking about how AI is the end result of Granny Weatherwax’s idea of sin meaning ”treating people as things” — it’s a thing they pretend is a person so they can justify treating all people as things.

After a trough of relatively less activity, that is fewer people calling me for help, I'm back up to 10 active habeas cases. I do not want to cause anyone undue alarm, but ICE has changed tactics and seems more likely to detain people when they go in for routine appointments with ICE.

Every week or so I think about the fact that the cops/government shot a white man, Alex Pretti, in cold blood and nothing has happened to his murderers. The murderers still have their jobs and the unarmed white man is a cautionary tale for white people to not challenge the white supremacist state.

¡Ándale!

I blame @vineyarddawg.bsky.social for this…

Tuesday!! Please vote!!!!

Please note if you are friends with me on here and play MapTap I am judging your score today…

Update: Louisiana voters tonight have rejected all five constitutional amendments that were on the ballot today; they were there with the support of the GOP legislature and Gov. Landry.

We think of the Southeast as a water abundant place but these rapid changes between drought and flood are going to keep happening and it’s causing tremendous ecosystem stress

Playing around with motivational plant posters this weekend

Gratulerer med dagen Norge 🇳🇴! W/ @rolfandersen.bsky.social

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

Kirishima goes down! 😱 Also shoutout to my boy Tobizaru for the best match(es) of the day!!!

Let’s get this candidate some love!

Can I just point out that the Dems failed to show up by 50k votes, which is disappointing, but surmountable, assuming anyone does anything remotely right in the next rounds, & all anyone is talking about is Cassidy's ouster & not that these are viable numbers to put a Louisiana Senate seat at play.

Any excuse to post this

When @rolfandersen.bsky.social screams in the living room and you run in to see what’s wrong.

One of my Norwegian bestie’s mom turned 70 this week so I’m surprising her with a cake at our national day celebrations tomorrow - 17 Mai is now 70 Mai! 🇳🇴🎂

Pets n mama, snoozy boy. Photos: @rolfandersen.bsky.social

This happened 11 days after Kent State.

The Texas Supreme Court rejected an effort to remove Democratic lawmakers from office. More than 50 state Democrats fled Texas last summer in an attempt to prevent Republicans from passing a partisan gerrymander. The ruling is noteworthy because all the justices are elected Republicans.

BIG STORY: ICE arrested, shackled and separated Israel and Max Makoka as they were about to board their school bus in Diamondhead, Miss. While one brother endured confinement and pressure to self-deport in a Louisiana prison, the other was sent to a youth home in Texas. Now, they tell their story.

Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton has frequently opted for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost taxpayers more than $24,000 for a day’s work. (Published July 2025 w/ @texastribune.org)

It is insane that person who is funding the world’s white supremacist movement & is daily spewing racism, who killed 100,000’s last year by yanking USAID without warning, is regularly discussed in Corporate Media as an industrialist, without any mention of the white supremacism or mass murder.

RIP to a real one.

Seriously, fuck this. I'm so sick of our profession's cowardice. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

¿Cuatro leches? ¿En esta economía???

Wow: Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, one of the biggest children's hospitals in the nation, will be forced to create the nation's first ever "detransition clinic" as part of a $10 million settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

The moment we all run over here to see his account. Also googling “Kumail Nanjiani age” to see how mature is mature 🤔 Alt text on quote image: Kumail and Joel Dommet hiding behind their hands on the Taskmaster stage like two embarrassed twins

A. lived in Germany since he was two months and last year gained German citizenship. Now he’s been stripped of it because of pro-Palestinian Instagram posts, in a disturbing legal case that points to the rise of citizenship-on-probation. My latest @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/05/germ...

Som om ikkje dette var ein altfor måndagete fredag allereie skal me altså måtte forhalde oss til dette rolset. Nordmenn er dummast i Europa og synst i tillegg at det rular å stele. Gratulerer.

incredible and shameful there isn’t international condemnation of the united states for collective punishment of 10 million people

saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)

BREAKING: The Louisiana Senate voted 27-10 to pass a GOP gerrymander that eliminates one of the state’s two majority-Black districts and likely hands Republicans one more House seat. The state House is expected to take up the measure next week. It must pass both chambers before June 1.

I am also begging journalists covering Callais to note that the VRA was not just about Black voting rights, it is about the voting rights of Native Americans in South and North Dakota, or Hispanic Americans in Texas and New Mexico, or Asian communities in NYC or California.