Personally I don't think #Massachusetts should hand out free “I'm related to a deceased cop so please give me special treatment” license plates.

Congrats again to the 99 other Senators who voted to unanimously confirm this guy because it's a Big Club

Leaked Fetterman texts leave his own staff 'incredulous': 'Your entire party hates you' www.rawstory.com/fetterman-he...

The Nakba "marks not a concluded past, but the beginning of an ongoing system of dispossession and displacement upon the foundation of Israel in 1948 that continues to structurally deny Palestinian life today," writes Dania Abul Haj. Read more: dawnmena.org/the-nakba-is...

This is an attack on legal immigration! USCIS plans to deny most residency applications filed inside the US by spouses and parents of US citizens, legal workers, and more - for example, people who entered as students or tourists, trying to do things the right way. www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s election-security czar last year sought to ban voting machines used in more than half of U.S. states by asking whether the Commerce Department could declare their components national-security risks. www.aol.com/articles/exc...

UPDATE: Former "Broadview Six" defendant Brian Straw wants an order preserving emails, texts and other communication related to the grand jury proceedings. His attorneys write that they've "lost complete faith and confidence in this U.S. Attorney's Office to do the right thing on its own."

Uh.....Cuba is famously 90 miles from NATO.

It's kind of an interesting phenomenon to see it's mostly Democrats who are saying the government should have access to a tool that tracks all cars everywhere. This is a tool that's definitely been used to intercept and roundup immigrants, but opposition to the tech rn is greater among Republicans.

The rural hospital crisis is killing people and rapidly escalating. The Republican cuts to Medicaid are basically going to be the end of hospital services in the rural US.

Bhattacharya’s legacy The US had a “world-class Ebola lab in Frederick, Maryland, with the NIH,” designed to develop vaccines & treatments. The lab would normally be swinging into action. “But that lab was shuttered last year, with staff laid off abruptly”😢 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

They showed this version in schools for maybe 15 years and literally no one in my class had any reaction to a black woman being in it, someone yesterday said Eartha Kitt was Helen of Troy in 1950 and I looked it up and it was Orson Welles who cast her because she was a cabaret dancer and was hot!

meta will die in the next decade

Brazil’s forest losses fell by 42% in 2025, helping pull the global tropical deforestation curve back from a record high. The country only lost 16,000 km² of tropical primary forest, non-fire-related losses fell 41% to their lowest level since records began in 2001 buff.ly/4gyL7jV #ShareGoodNewsToo

Data centers add to the heat pressures already generated climate change. Via Gizmodo

While El Niño is expected to bring a quieter than usual Atlantic hurricane season, the reverse is true in the Pacific. I give a brief preview of the forecasts for the Pacific tropical cyclone season in today's post. yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/05/el-n...

Union busting is disgusting. matternews.org/community/th...

Aside from Helen of Troy being: a) fictional and B) often played by Black women in modern media The Mediterranean is not super white. It’s not even vaguely white. It never has been. The history of trade, migration, invasion, and cooperation makes that an impossible and deeply racist myth

Meta isn't capable of any of those things.

And what do you mean you used to not do psych screenings on cop trainers and still don't too

Like the fuck do you mean you didn't used to do psych screenings on cop recruits before they start cop training

More money for more cop training now including groundbreaking reforms like cops not hitting police recruits in the fucking head as a standard part of their police training, hiring a civilian babysitter, and psych screenings, for cop recruits, not for cop trainers hitting them in the head to death

The Israeli Knesset is considering a bill that would place Palestinian historical sites in the West Bank under direct Israeli civil law, stripping them of their protected status under international law. Experts say it's annexation in all but name. mondoweiss.net/2026/05/isra... #Palestine #Israel

New York's legislature has passed a bill banning 287(g) agreements with ICE, @nysfocus.com reports: nysfocus.com/2026/05/22/h... If the bill is adopted, New York would be the 11th state with a 287(g) ban, and the 5th (NJ, MD, NM, ME) to enact a ban this year alone. @boltsmag.org map for reference:

Trump admits that his original intent was to shovel cash from the US Treasury into his own pocket.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that fewer than 22,000 Pearl River map turtles remain in the wild.

It's funny because in polyamorous circles, swingers are known to be the most heteronormative, conservative prudes lmao but I guess they're still too spicy for some

‘First apartheid, then transfer’: Israeli columnist warns of West Bank expulsion plan

Supposedly they are shutting down ResDAC in 5 weeks, and, I’m told, replacing them with a totally novice firm with no experience/expertise in Medicare data.

The fact that Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap, a Republican, is feuding with the Board of Supervisors controlled by stalwart Republicans shows you that this election denial stuff is political meth — brain destroying. Election Denial: Not even once.™️

🚨STARBUCKS WORKERS JUST WON THEIR 700TH UNION ELECTION!! A huge congratulations to baristas around the country who are taking on corporate greed and fighting for a better workplace. We make change when we take action! ✊🔥

Thank you 🙏 @roganslist.bsky.social for the great list of actions to de-ICE Citizens Bank, including our national coordinated action June 6th. We’re almost at 100 locations- and there’s plenty of time to sign up to host one yourself! open.substack.com/pub/susanrog... @maddow.bsky.social

Of the 8 state voter file cases DOJ has lost, 4 were before judges appointed by Donald Trump.

This is key to understanding the attacks trans communities face, on both sides of the Atlantic. Trans genocide doesn't happen without liberal collaboration, and this is what's driving it.

Alright, I'm going to talk about one of my biggest reasons for unionizing on the Arena team. Forced relocation, aka "RTO" (Return to Office), "WFH protections" (Work From Home protections), or more recently "Ways of Working." Buckle in for a thread.

THE 3 DAY WEEKEND IS NOT A GAME

I try to clearly articulate where things currently stand here: open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

The deadly Ebola outbreak spreading across the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has killed at least 177 people, with more than 750 suspected cases reported in the DRC and neighboring Uganda, according to the World Health Organization.

“We are witnesses to the hollowing out of collective achievements—from the social safety net to basic limits on how war can be conducted. These were achievements that took generations to establish but can be burned down in short order.” dissentmagazine.org/article/amer...

Mississippi GOP was forced to redraw their legislative gerrymanders last year, resulting in Democratic gains & an end to GOP's supermajority. After Callais, that all looked on thin ice. Indeed courts have confirmed MS can go back to gerrymanders that'll reduce Black representation:

A NEW TWIST in Africa's soaring solar story: It's now manufacturing its own panels. The factories use imported Chinese cells, which are 40% of the value of panels, keeping much of the value domestically. 9 GW of cells+wafers in Mar/Apr alone🧵

Maulian Bryant from the Wabanaki Alliance: "Respect and Protect the Penobscot River. The Penobscot River is our oldest citizen. It is our heart." wabanakialliance.com/bdn-column-m...

Neo-Nazi group secures high court hearing over hate listing as it seeks to become a political party www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Hosea Williams, the man marching with John Lewis at the head of the protesters beaten on Pettus Bridge seeking voting rights, was a chemist from Georgia with an MA. Now an African-American microbiologist from Georgia with a PhD is going to Congress.

When I was younger it always seemed very clear to me that we'd reach a time, likely the 2020's, where some white dude US president aggrieved over loss of power would trash the world in a temper tantrum. But I thought it would be about peak oil, not Ghostbuster remake grievance and fear of windmills

"Mayor attends huge local sporting event and doesn't even get comped seats or sit in the best spot" is such a hilarious way to try to burn someone, really nypost.com/2026/05/22/u...

Hundreds of immigrants with valid work permits were detained in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge. These are some of their stories.

the platonic trumpist candidate. Secret libertine running on a platform of state social control for everyone else bsky.app/profile/sanh...

Disaster-in-the-making for research that helps improve the Medicare program (and that is largely federally funded!)

Playing a not-so-fun game in Kharkiv today: guessing if it's explosions or thunder. Thunder this time, but damn...