Across the country, ICE is converting warehouses into immigrant detention centers. This story is a great look at how locals are using environmental regulations and land use restrictions to stop them. boltsmag.org/ice-warehous...

I know normalization is just what we've decided to do to cope but turning a botched assassination attempt on the president of the united states into a public debate on gilded playspace is FUCKING STUPID and I refuse to treat this bullshit pivot seriously or with respect.

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This is why the “people are shoplifting for fun/revenge against corporations” angle is bad all around. Actual things are happening to actual people, which is driving actual behavior, and it all gets subsumed into an internet culture war that contributes to the justifications for these policies.

The farm bill scheduled for a House floor vote this week does nothing to address this unfolding crisis — and could make it worse by providing sweeping authority for states to outsource core SNAP eligibility functions to private companies with minimal oversight.

Just saw a video on LinkedIn about "ways to tell someone is definitely using AI in their writing" -- and half of them are just normal things nearly all humans do (e.g. using triplets) I'm cooked 😑

OPINION: Austin’s guaranteed income program helped me break the cycle of generational poverty.

If you're a producer for a cable news show, you should have a tight two-minute montage with a sampling of the many times Donald Trump has encouraged political violence, just waiting for the inevitable Republican guest who tries to pretend Democrats are the real problem here.

I see this whenever I call out "inspirational" AI videos as being fake. People are mad at me instead of being mad at whoever manipulated them

I’m going back to an old flip phone and a Thomas Guide.

The replies to this are…grim. Our collective failure to imagine a better world while the fascists have unlimited vision for a worse one is our main stumbling block and I wish we’d get out of our own fucking way

I just saw a white woman call the cops on a group of women doing yoga and exercise in the park. Another sect of white suburban folks in Massachusetts called the cops on a day care for having kids play at the local park. Aint no latchkey kids now. Gen x would have them arrested!!!

All the latchkey kid shit kids did back then would get them put in juvie because the latchkey kids grew up to be extreme NIMBYs.

Ball room is a bipartisan preoccupation, as we know from recordings of LBJ's calls to his tailor

Peak CAA agent behavior.

Were they tipped off by the fact that trans athletes weren't a problem for all of human history until conservatives started purchasing every major media institution in 2013 or so

unbelievable

Congratulations to the U.S. for building an educational and economic powerhouse envied around the world and then dismantling it because colleges were so bold to give lip service to non-discrimination efforts. academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

I feel this is unfair to Stoop Kid.

I bet our National Park search and rescue teams feel this in their bones.

I think you mean the White House is breaking a law that was put in place by congress after Watergate.

I really think it’s important to underline that there was apparently no security breach. The gunman was confronted and stopped where he should have been according to the design—at the magnetometer perimeter. What this piece argues for is an *expansion* of the security perimeter in time and space.

The Unholy Trinity of Incels...yeah...that's going to be an interesting Dateline

but like the intersection of “political violence as spectacle” + “delusional belief that becoming famous will solve all your problems” is such a defining American phenomenon that in hindsight it seems inevitable that someone like Sondheim’s murder clowns would eventually become president himself

and a lot of this is the fault of how we study history, too, as if everyone who predates color photography had natural gravitas because they are from The Past. maybe if we more accurately remembered John Wilkes Booth as a huge loser, not a Shakespearean villain, our picture would be different

I sometimes feel that “Assassins” - which is nominally about shooting a President but really about America as a place where violence is a shortcut to fame - is the piece of media which most directly prophesied the Trump presidency. he’s their perfect heir except he destroyed the office and not a guy

The only good/interesting version of an MJ biopic is if the first part is about Michael surviving Joe and the second is Michael becoming horrifically worse than Joe, and I highly doubt anyone involved has the guts for that.

This is like staring into a kaleidoscopic magic eye puzzle but instead of falling down or even up the stairs you simply tumble into an abstract dimension like a Doctor Who episode where the stair pattern itself is the villain and David Tennant just says “I’m so sorry” while looking at you forlornly.

“for collard girls who have considered stir fry / when the rainbow chard is enuf”

They never want to talk about the guns. Ever. Under any circumstances.

excluding ONLY kash patel as a potential target within the administration is the funniest thing i’ve ever seen. trump is firing him with the next week

this essay does good work on exploring the thematic issues of fatherless characters, but doesn't really see why this must be the case for storytelling reasons, which is in English-set artistocratic romances, the dads have to be dead so the male main characters will have inherited their titles.

Alabama ranks at or near the bottom in the country for infant and maternal health. This clinic expanded to address the problem and also announced they're working with incarcerated moms. My latest for @al.com. www.al.com/news/2026/04...

it's actually wild to watch people take "the govt coordinated reactions to the shooting because the president only cares about his ballroom" and turn it into "they did a false flag shooting attack to get the ballroom", can we please not

Trump: I'm going to destroy an entire civilization. We're going to keep killing people in boats. Senator Kelly should be executed. ICE protesters are domestic terrorists. Immigrants are vermin. Raskin: Donald Trump is bad for this country. Bash: Do you regret your heated rhetoric, Rep. Raskin?

Last night’s gunfire at the White House Correspondents Dinner is a scathing indictment of those who disagree with any number of my political opinions.

So in the Guardians' eyes there's a good reason to use HRT (cis people getting their rocks off) and a bad reason to use HRT (trans people improving their quality of life that will be framed as them getting their rocks off) Cool

So, everyone is furious about the rank hypocrisy here (and they should be) but once we get past the hideous transphobic rag that is the Guardian and to the root of the matter: Trans healthcare helps everyone, including cis people. Squashing trans rights hurts everyone, including cis people.

wild to see ppl calling this a security failure, the security literally stopped the guy at the perimeter, it was a security success, the failure was the popularity of the person being targeted

a) We fucking called this before Roe fell ffs LISTEN TO US b) if they win this will set our whole society back to the 1950s or earlier. Workplace equality? Sexual freedom? What??? THIS MUST BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY AS AN ALL HANDS ON DECK ISSUE c) (see next skeet)

Police in Virginia used a technique called geofencing to tap into Google's databases to find out who was near the scene of a bank robbery. The Supreme Court will consider whether it is constitutional.

About last night’s scrambling from gun fire at White House reporters dinner .. Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) makes a critical point on CNN: “This is happening in schools across the country.. the kids have no resources to process their trauma”

Yeah that didn't take long

Timeline cleanse!

I saw this yesterday. I love when words have multiple meanings.

Anyway. I’m glad nobody was hurt and I’m sure the journalists who attended the WHCD will not center themselves and their personal experiences and instead remain focused on holding the powerful accountable and informing the people about their government.

Trump and Elon Musk destroyed most of the global H.I.V. program that saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Zambia. Now the US is threatening to cut remaining support, unless Zambia gives access to the country’s mineral resources. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

the irony is that there are many journalists who are threatened and killed for their work globally, except they don’t overlap at all with the people willing to attend the MAGA White House correspondent’s dinner

Rob Liefield-ass chickens

Wonder if the shooter was Equity, or if it was a non-union contract.