This week, Council passed @councilorkanal.bsky.social's Right to Know Who’s Policing You ordinance. This is about something very basic: if someone is exercising the power to stop, detain, or arrest you, you have a right to know who they are.

Saw someone respond to the idea of DC statehood with “so should every major city be its own state?” and yeah don’t threaten me with a good time.

BREAKING: Emmet Otter's Jug Band has also withdrawn from the Freedom 250 celebration

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

New species of ghost pipefish named after Sesame Street character found in Australia

Someday some one is going to call the police on me when I’m stalking a kingfisher because I look like I’m conducting a heist in an action movie. Hiding behind trees, using my car as a shield like I’m in a gunfight, I must look ridiculous #NemesisBird #birds 🌿

“His attorney, Juan C. Chavez, pointed out that neither the officers nor prosecutors sought video surveillance to support the arrest. When the defense obtained the footage, it contradicted the officers’ accounts.” www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...

Allegedly “some” people are leaving the Democratic Party because Platner being the candidate makes them feel unsafe? Are these people in Maine? If not, what special insight do they think they have? Solidarity, at some point, has to mean *trust*.

One thing to note about this EPI report is that Black unemployment is ~2x higher than white unemployment (though it depends by state). 1/2

“These conversations about him being a racist sort of guy ignore the fact that almost since the beginning of his campaign, Maine’s BIPOC community has seen him as a viable candidate and the support for him has only grown.” A must-read. www.patreon.com/posts/platne...

"Let's be honest about the broader political moment here. PDX voters approved progressive programs like PCEF & Preschool for All. Almost immediately, powerful institutions start looking for ways to shrink them, redirect the money or to argue that they shouldn't have even existed in the first place."

Fun fact: people aren’t more divided now because of a lack of exposure to other people‘s opinions. Studies strongly suggest we’re more divided because we are CONSTANTLY exposed to the unfiltered opinions of other people, and now we know what they truly are and what they truly want.

Council has three powers: legislate, allocate money, & do oversight. Half this council is uninterested in oversight. Whether it’s checking contracts with oil companies, investigating undisclosed housing funds, or figuring out how unhoused people are abused in our shelters, they’re not interested.

Little makes me angrier than how our country’s leadership has created an atmosphere of terror, hate, and violence towards transgender people. This is terrifying and could happen to someone you love. (If you don’t know and love someone who is trans, I suspect there is something wrong with you.) ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

This is absolutely nuts, as HMMER is an integral part of NCBI (NLM/NIH) informatics pipelines. 🧪

“Purity test” is a concept with limited use, in my view, but “coalition naïveté” is very real. If groups all shared the same interests and analyses, they wouldn’t have to form a coalition in the first place. All parties have to feel they have something to gain.

a good portion of what people mean by “crime” is “visible homeless people, some of whom are behaving erratically“

These Black militias, directly organized by their own communities, were radical abolitionists and a force to be reckoned with, fighting Union army racism and waging an effective guerrilla war against the confederacy. Lincoln was eager to stay on good terms with them. (From "Living in the Prologue")

With the establishment of the Confederate regime entire areas — from the hill country of Texas to much of Appalachia to the Great Dismal — are essentially in open rebellion almost immediately. The slavers respond with death squads and resistance intensifies scalawagmagazine.org/2017/07/the-...

Ok y'all, on this lovely day of burning plantation a quick thread about an incredibly important and very deliberately-erased part of this region's history that ain't fascist lost cause lies. Let's talk about the widespread anti-confederate resistance in the South...

Sure, a rose is a rose is a rose, but what about 🌺🌺🌺

We interrupt your regularly scheduled doomscrolling for this petite timeline cleanse. #DoomscrollingBreak

One high-profile issue this budget season in Orange County is based on funding for the Chapel Hill Public Library. After receiving over $620,000 annually, the library may lose that county funding. Here's what library-goers, library stakeholders and local politicians had to say:

The historic Alfred Street Baptist Church announced it would fund the Black student government whose funding was cut at Mizzou over DEI restrictions “We take care of our own people,” said Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley.

The state of disability education in this country is appalling. There are many good intentions out there and very little in the way of actual inclusive behavior. Glad you mean well. But your feelings do nothing to help make anything accessible. 😒

Things like this are why, despite everything, I’m a true believer in the need for clear and consistent processes in gov’t and law. The results are frequently not great, but their absence is inevitably worse. abovethelaw.com/2026/05/good...

Everyone wants dignity for the unhoused and a clean, tidy environment. The proposed bottle drop center tucked between a light rail line and a major street that has a disproportionate number of accidents, injuries and deaths is counterproductive for these goals. innerpowell.org

Very happy news! Still sad about Waz 😞

“Up to 70% of rooms reserved by Fifa in Boston, Dallas, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Seattle have been cancelled, the AHLA said” www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Trans people are not “fighting for unpopular positions that society isn’t ready for.” Trans people are fighting to KEEP the rights we have enjoyed for decades. We have been able to legally change our gender markers since the 70s and before. Same with bathrooms, sports, youth, all for decades.

Our org regularly tests us with the most asinine fake phishing emails. "Your Wal-Mart account has expired! You could lose points! Click to renew". I asked one of our IT guys, it's not possible those things actually fool anyone, right? He just looked at me in silence, with a peculiar expression.

Tammy Carpenter @oregontammy.bsky.social AHEAD by 150 votes in the most recent election data release! YES!!!!! #orpol #washingtoncounty

And Myrna Muñoz AHEAD by 150 votes from the most recent election data results!!! YESSSSSS!!!!! #datacenters #orpol #vote2026 @owfp.bsky.social

Google is moving from a Jeopardy! model (what is the correct answer?) to a Family Feud model (100 people surveyed, top six answers on the board). There's a reason nobody says, "Hey, you're very knowledgeable, you should go on Family Feud."

I didn’t know either! This is wonderful!

If anything ‘bathroom ban’ is understating it, since it bans us from changing rooms, gyms, support groups, etc. It will be illegal for *any* women’s group above 20 ppl – be it gardening, hiking, book clubs – to include trans women. It’s a ban on engaging in a public life to any meaningful degree.

This is legitimately insane. It's not an exaggeration to say this is actually a full on bathroom ban for trans people because they're banned from using spaces of their sex assigned at birth too!

Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.

The sandwich shops are usually good for vegetarians too, but yeah, this, especially the cost aspect.

State Rep. @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social wins the Democratic primary in the vacant #GA13, @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social projects. Clark is now poised to become the first Black woman PhD scientist to serve in Congress. My interview with her here: 19thnews.org/2026/05/geor...

its literally the same shit that trump, vance, and fox news say every day about muslims. but the msm wont admit that.

Yard signs got me all fucked up, voted for a local roofing company.

"The constitutional settlement under which all of us have lived for decades is already gone, it is already dead, and the war is now fought to determine what the next one will be." www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

“Let’s not forget that the reason the evidence won’t be admitted is because the police were outed for doing a tyranny on a guy.” abovethelaw.com/2026/05/luig...