“Units of the NIH are privately directing grantees to request permission in advance for any co-authorship with a scholar affiliated with a foreign institution, even if all the work was done in the United States.” Grantees also told to remove papers with foreign authors from progress reports.

Insanely cool potential here:

Let’s live up to the demands of our community because it’s not enough to just say George Floyd should be alive today, we have to wield our power to change the systems that murdered him.

Scientists are calling this the most metal shit they’ve ever seen

Memorial murals around the world for George Floyd, whose murder by Minneapolis police on 25 May 2020 sparked uprisings in cities around the US, and protests against police racism in various cities around the world.

AI boom discourse has gotten so out of hand that it’s making the New Yorker relatable🫢 (with alt text)

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

You can bulk edit all your videos to turn this off btw!

The concert last night in Watertown, Wisconsin was a beautiful example of community solidarity and love in the face of bigotry and censorship. I had some thoughts/feelings about it:

Happening in 5 minutes, livestream here: www.youtube.com/live/g862hiq... Actually getting emotional about this. What an incredible turnaround for these students & by this community. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

This bill is very bad. Wtf is wrong with the 8 Dems who voted for it?

It was a good yap! 🙏🏻😊

On the other hand, if you’re suing a billionaire, start demanding their AI logs in discovery

Whoa

Really happy to see a local Watertown, Wisconsin church hosting a performance of "A Mother of A Revolution" after the bigoted school board prevented the high school band from playing it last night. Bonus? Composer Omar Thomas will be there to conduct it! www.watertownimmanuel.org/concert

“Among the most corrupt acts in American political history” “A stunningly corrupt attempt for the president to take taxpayer money and put it in his pocket” “Part of a pattern where Trump is violating the basic separation of powers"

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...

gwen does fantastic work as usual on some of the 401,000 trans people who’ve had to flee hostile territory in their own country in the past 18 months.

Is he going to talk about Trump pardoning 70+ convicted fraudsters, or Trump being convicted of felony fraud himself, or Trump settling with Trump’s own justice department to transfer $10B in taxpayer dollars to Trump for no reason, or

Bangstad is in the comments on this post doing his usual name calling and wild deflection, notably not answering for any of the long list of receipts about his bad behavior and scamming, and certainly not offering any issue or policy vision.

Eric Trump joining Donald Trump on an official state visit to China is much more corrupt than anything involving Joe and Hunter Biden, yet New York Times coverage indicates the opposite. I show the contrast here, and challenge anyone to explain how it isn’t media bias in Trump’s favor.

He opened his Madison taproom near my daily bus stop in 2024, next to the neighborhood liquor store & payday loan place. I thought it was cute fun, a good cause. Bought some Dark Brandon Espresso Stout, lol. But eventually I googled him… 😬😬😬🙃 share.google/CqW3pvZd8WVW...

Great post from @millbot.bsky.social on the owner of Minoqua Brewing. Don't vote for this bozo. grist-from-the-mills.ghost.io...

This is the rough equivalent of Nazi Germany demanding that the Allies leave France in 1944 so that talks can start. But, even Putin knows the war only gets worse for him from here. www.kyivpost.com/post/76048

NEW: Award-winning contributor @millbot.bsky.social wrote about Kirk Bangstad. www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/alas-the-l...

Kirk Bangstad is a hack desperately in search of attention because his beer is firmly mediocre. As Emily notes, he's just another of the "self-aggrandizing white men who call themselves liberal and use big public stunts and shitty language to make a name for themselves while failing to do anything"

Look. I was gonna keep my mouth shut about this guy because he's mostly your run-of-the-mill narcissistic jerk. But then he went and decided to run for governor and people on the left are still supporting his obnoxious grifting ass so it was time to write about it. #wipolitics

The safest the city’s been in its 400-year history. Universal childcare on the way. More public restrooms! And every big business CEO and big-name VC fought against this tooth & nail.

warblers Warblers WARBLERS!! 🔊

I know I say it a lot, but ICE is present nearly every day in my area of Massachusetts. The only difference from a year ago is they're primarily focusing on abducting people in courthouses, out of view of the public. No big show of force, but the same fear and abuse.

We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country

america's reactionaries would love nothing more to nullify the reconstruction amendments and render them a dead letter of the constitution. this was as true in 1873 as it is today.

More & more eligible low-income people are losing SNAP because of H.R. 1’s bureaucratic hurdles, including this mom who has tried for months to get her family’s benefits back while working & caring for 2 young kids. Keep in mind: SNAP benefits average about $6 per person per day.

Huge congratulations to @millbot.bsky.social for winning GOLD in the Milwaukee Press Club awards, for "Best Single Editorial, Statement of Editorial Position or Opinion" for this column at The Recombobulation Area: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/how-ai-is-...

Please think about blocking, or at least unfollowing, @cwebbonline.com until he addresses and remedies this.

"Step by step, Israel had ordered roughly 14.3% of Lebanon’s territory to be vacated – displacing more than 1.2 million people from their homes" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

The panic followed by Zen emotional release of accidentally closing your web browser without saving the dozens of Emotional Support Tabs you had open. 😭😅

Any "leftist" taking MTG's side over AOC's is either an op or the biggest mark at the carnival

Happy Mothers Day in particular to the young woman working at the gas station while also tending to her toddler daughter playing in a high chair behind the counter. This fucking country.

"Cancel ONE THING from a billionaire today" - a thread!

Local hardware stores are some of my favourite places!

Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.

In a post promoting the British Army and their actions, Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, actually used footage of Bloody Sunday. There are no words.

This is literally going to kill people Test strips allow people to check their drugs to see if they contain deadly fentanyl IDIOTIC immoral fuckery www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...

More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.” (Published July 2025)

They're getting right to it.

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

A SCOTUS that believes that the Constitution protects the political rights of corporations more than it does those of non-White Americans is fundamentally illegitimate and its rulings should be treated as such