What's really astonishing is not the far right authoritarian party doing this, but the near-total lack of <loud public collective action> by university chancellors & presidents to oppose this existential crisis. Almost impossible to overstate how total a failure of leadership this is.

people think these stories are one off successes but everyone is yearning for tangible thrills after decades of cgi marvel action figures taking turns punching each pther

1/ This is awful for so, so many reasons. Just to pick one: even if you thought it was lawful and appropriate to vet funded research for consistency with the government's priorities, *the president is not the government*.

CC everyone with good taste in fruits in the Bay: "Hundreds of Indian Alphonso and Kesar mangoes will be distributed for free, as volunteers peel and slice the fruit on the spot."

Immigrant detainees at Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark, NJ have been forced to cook, clean, & repair the facility for as little as $1/day and sometimes for free. They are on a hunger & labor strike; protesters outside have been tear-gassed. Here's our report, including a quote from a detainee:

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.

Everyone loves land back anti colonialism until they take your undeveloped land to build condos

They’re almost done! vancouversun.com/news/local-n...

“On Wednesday morning, the Justice Department went to court to advance an argument that, if accepted, would all but erase the existence of transgender people in the law.” Read my report at Law Dork:

They want to preclude accountability and transparency. This is so wrong.

I have been thinking a lot about the dozens of people ICE has sent to what is now the Ebola outbreak zone, especially Adriana Zapata, and I really appreciate @melodyschreiber.com reporting this out. 🙏🙏🙏

And everyone is so precious about institutional regularity and respect for institutions we keep on acting like this is all normal or will pass within normal time and procedures. Instead, it should be a dire warning that our institutions are GONE and we are in new territory.

Not Orwell. Baudrillard. www.hipcrimevocab.net/stage-four-t...

This is a trans guy who confronted a bigoted couple while they were harassing someone else and got shot for it. It's being reported as an "altercation."

"the cherishing of antipathies is a luxury for which [people] ought willingly to pay, instead of transferring the hateful tax onto the victim" is such a bar, my god

On May 24, 1856, radical abolitionist John Brown led a group of men in the Pottawatomie Massacre in Kansas Territory. Enraged by the recent pro-slavery sacking of Lawrence, Kansas, and the brutal beating of Senator Charles Sumner, Brown and his followers executed five pro-slavers with broadswords.

Street medicine teams in Detroit bring healthcare directly to unhoused residents — treating patients under bridges, in abandoned buildings, and during life-threatening cold. Dr. Richard Bryce and volunteers are building trust where traditional healthcare has failed. planetdetroit.org/2026/05/stre...

Cuba does a lot of pharmaceutical production, and is rewarded with a blockade. Whenever the Clinton Administration is referred to, the overwhelming majority of even its critics seem to have no idea it took out half of Sudan's pharmaceutical capacity on a whim. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shif...

The flip side of this: when I went to Iceland, all of the signs about the interior had in big letters 'RESCUE SERVICES ARE FREE. AMERICANS PLEASE DO NOT DIE BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD NOT AFFORD RESCUE'

new S(ubstack)-Bahn post: in the 1980s, Medellin was the "murder capital of the world" under the terror of Pablo Escobar. the city at the same time sought to build a metro system. what got them to start this ambitious project, and how did they finish? www.substack-bahn.net/p/how-medell...

Gaza flotilla activists reveal injuries from Israeli detention, underscoring the #Israel‑#Gaza conflict and raising international scrutiny. #HumanRights #Detention https://metro.co.uk/2026/05/21/first-images-wounds-suffered-israeli-detention-gaza-flotilla-activists-fly-home-28469497/

The washing machine and the faucet are unparalleled engines of liberation.

Gov Jared Polis told a Colorado Sun event that his decision to give clemency to Tina Peters "will be remembered fondly." He was later interrupted by protesters carrying an enormous banner reading EAT SHIT POLIS coloradosun.com/2026/05/19/j...

Niche complaint, but back when I was still on trade mags I sometimes had to edit lawyers and it was always an absolute bloody nightmare. They were all under the impression they could write. They could not, in fact, write, and also did not understand the role of an editor.

17/5 2026 Three community #kitchen #workers among #eight #killed by #Israel in #Gaza Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed at least 871 Palestinians since the so-called ceasefire began last year. #Palestine #IDF #genocide #uspol #ilpol #eupol #dkpol aje.news/y30jbm

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🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere.

That Dan Goldman SuperPACs are attacking Lander over the city's prior investment in Elbit is: 1. a sign of how desperate his supporters are 2. a sign of how far we've come.

Not my cat 😮

"My reporting for this article is based on conversations with 14 men and women who said they had been sexually assaulted by Israeli settlers or members of the security forces". Why is this piece in the NYT Opinion section?

Today Deborah Lipstadt— who built a career on defending the memory of the Shoah & demanding historical justice for its victims— is amplifying a call for New York Times editors to face Nuremberg-style public hanging

My reporting finds that sexual violence against Palestinians by Israeli authorities is widespread. I'm grateful to these assault victims for sharing with me the brutality they endured. Whether we're pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian, we should unite in being anti-rape. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

As you can see, Arab Israelis enjoy full equalities, they even serve as public prosecutors

#OtD 9 May 1921 Sophie Scholl was born in Germany. Scholl became an anti-fascist activist, helping form the peaceful White Rose resistance group and was executed by the Nazis in 1943. Learn more about German youth resistance to Nazism in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-e...

I'd say it's also that they are intentionally terrible at hiring from without although maybe slightly better than state government where if you don't know someone getting a job in a wide variety of fields verges on impossible.

IDF soldier who participated in the mistaken killing of three Israeli hostages in Gaza City in Dec 2023 confirmed to his mother what was widely reported at the time: they killed the men, who were waving white flags, because their unit was under orders to kill all Gazan men they encountered.

this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more.

The problem—which both the GOP and the milquetoast institutionalists seem to not be grappling with here—is that the more you close off avenues of political change through the democratic process, the more you push people to see extra-institutional mechanisms as their only option

📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268

"You threatened to kill ICE agents" that is what the DOJ prosecutor said in a federal court hearing yesterday. I am requesting a jury trial for my trial June 23, 2026. Why isnt there evidence? Why don't I have charges for saying this? Too bad there are zero journalists willing to ask.

genuinely crazy how much more of a fuss the Virginia redistricting vote got compared to Florida ignoring the state constitution or Louisiana literally suspending elections the incentives here are completely FUBAR

UK Deepmind staff are unionizing in an attempt to prevent Google from using Deepmind's models for military purposes. Even if this falls through I think it sets a really positive precedent and hopefully makes researchers realize how important to the labs they currently are.

Featured story: “They gave us two hours of electricity. Not even enough time to breathe. The fridges didn’t cool down. The battery packs didn’t charge. This system is diabolical.”