This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

There is no technology that is safe for law enforcement to use, because law enforcement is fundamentally at odds with safety.

Video evidence confirms that Kelver was alone, outnumbered, physically assaulted, and left on the ground facing multiple aggressors. So she pulled a gun. slate.trib.al/pc4K0cK

On Tuesday, queer Houstonians mourned Persia Conway, a trans woman found dead last week. After grief, there was rage. Rage at Houston PD. Rage at rumors that Persia was someone she wasn't. But most of all, rage over another trans woman of color taken too soon: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

In other words: ♦️That $1.8 Billion slush fund is absolutely still on the table.

Will it? Will it really "haunt" him? The pedo who never faces any consequences will be haunted by this?

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

1) Someone really needs to push back on this idea of 1st Amendment zones. I haven't taught polisci 101 in 20 years, but last time I checked the entire US was a 1st Amendment zone. 2) What's the point of having 1st Amendment zones if you're just going to have police rampage through them?

Protestors are also chanting Fuck Mikie Sherrill.

Second night of Jersey cops attacking protesters who are there supporting hunger strikers inside a sadistic immigrant jail

Federal agents use batons and pepper spray against anti-ICE protesters tonight in Newark, New Jersey

After a Wisconsin town did this, the mayor said: “The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product. They were never really selling to us in the first place. They're selling to much bigger agencies the ability to spy on a ton of people.” (via boltsmag.org/verona-wisco...)

capitalism is so good at innovation it invented brand new ways of destroying nature

Campos: While I want to thank CBS news for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship.

JUST NOW from @statuscoupnews.bsky.social livestream — ICE agents outside Delaney Hall in Newark, NJ pushed a protester into an 18-wheeler causing the truck to run over his leg. They then pinned him on the ground and carried him away.

Flirtation, by Eugene de Blaas, 1894

When performers do make money, financial barriers make it difficult to actually use it. Thanks to widespread financial discrimination and whorephobia throughout the banking industry, sex workers and adult content production companies are frequently barred from using common financial tools.

So unbelievably angry. This is blatant child abus, a shocking escalation in the kind of everyday violence against trans kids that has already cost lives. Everyone involved in enacting this must resign, and every teacher, counselor, and social worker must be vociferous in our condemnation. Get loud.

This is a seven alarm fire for the freedom to read.

It's truly amazing how often people on both bluesky and online in general, get One-Guy'd Everyone is not mad at you, you're a self conscious maniac who's easily manipulated

It was about protecting children, they said

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Many trans Kansans whose licenses were cancelled by a recent state law now face a kind of poll tax: To vote, they’ll have to pay $16 for a replacement license with a gender marker that doesn’t match their identity.

Due process is ending after 250 years. The demise of the long-running pillar of democracy made our critic think of another thing: maybe the government should just kill everybody they don't like immediately and get it over with.

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

This exemplifies how Hegseth has used the firing, and intimidation, of general officers to induce them not to satisfy their duties of candor to the Congress.

this is a masterpiece

"you're a male SHERO"

In 1952, Richard Nixon's career was nearly derailed by revelations that he had access to a slush fund of $18,000 -- less than a quarter million today." People used to give a shit about that kind of thing, you see.

This is the money paragraph for me.

???? They are absolutely shoving it down our throats! just spent 15 minutes this morning trying to figure out how to disable Gemini from the Gmail account I’ve been using for 20 years. I never opted in to AI being able to train itself using my private correspondence. It’s the default setting now!

I assumed the word "million" was accidentally dropped after the subbed note that he was fined "$200" for this but, no, the fine was two hundred dollars. For late disclosures on tens of millions of dollars. A fine of Two. Hundred. Dollars.

For my newsletter, I wrote about the killing of Juniper Blessing and ruminated on who the media thinks deserves attention in death. Friday newsletters are usually paywalled, but I have made the mini-essay portion of this post free to all: www.burnsnotice.com/her-name-was...

HUGE breaking news about sexual misconduct at ICE and CBP, and the investigative report that just forced CBP head Michael Banks to resign. 👏👏

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

is public service a joke, i guess it is

NEW: Seattle might declare a civil emergency to help LGBTQ (mostly trans) people fleeing red states, so I looked for a Texas angle. An organizer told me that Texas is #1 among trans people looking to relocate: "The baseline hostility to their existence is unbearable." www.chron.com/culture/arti...

I don't need A.I. I have a BRAIN I can THINK for myself Fuck OFF

The relevant portion of the Jason Collins discussion

In this clip, Speaker Johnson says maps that gave Black voters representation "divided Americans." This is the exact language used by segregationists and opponents of the Civil Rights movement to attack figures like MLK. They are using the same playbook to destroy his legacy.

This is simply bonkers. The White House is in active discussions with DOJ about settling Trump's lawsuit against the IRS in his favor, *precisely because* a judge might soon throw it out. WH apparently wants DOJ to agree to "settle" the lawsuit *before* that happens. Utter insanity.

You'll be shocked to learn the reporter Trump called a "dumb person" is a black woman (Akayla Gardner of MSNOW) thegrio.com/2026/05/12/t...

Trans rights are human rights and this administration is an abomination of hate and greed.

When we say medical misogyny kills people, this is the shit we mean.

ok i chuckled www.epicfurious.com

important thing to note here is dr oz cites a current american replacement rate of 1.5, which is not true. the american replacement level in 2025 was 1.79. interestingly, the white replacement rate is in fact at 1.5 though