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Kyiv reels after Russia unleashes massive missile, drone attack on Ukraine, killing at least 22; Ukraine strikes Russia's Ilsky oil refinery for at least 16th time since start of full-scale war; Russia demands access to investigation into its own drone strike in Romania; and more.

The entire premise of the movie Speed is wild because the whole time, the police department could have just given the guy his disability payments, WHICH THEY SHOULD HAVE, and they’d never have had the guy terrorizing the city in the first place.

Reason #104573719 why Ukraine should not “give up” Russian-occupied land for “peace”. See where the launches happened. Yeah.

Meta censors this saying it’s sensitive.

In the latest episode of Ukraine This Week, Anna Belokur examines Russia’s growing recruitment of fighters from African countries — and the tactics used to lure vulnerable people into military service.

“Zelensky confirmed that Russia used its Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile during the attack, the third time Russia has used the sophisticated weapon against Ukraine. The strike targeted Bila Tserkva, a town 50 miles south of Kyiv.”

It’s Memorial Day weekend. Translation: NOT AN AMERICA F YEAH FIREWORKS HOLIDAY grumble grumble

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On Stephen Colbert. www.johndickerson.com/p/stephen-co...

Here is the entire Colbert Questionnaire. Unedited: youtu.be/iRvWlAGx7EM

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is targeting LGBTQ stories. They are trying to control what you see on television. This government overreach is dangerous to the existence of an independent and free media. Take action: glaad.org/fcc

When I do a web search, I do not want Google to go to the websites for me, pull the information, and interpret it for me. I want it to give me a list of websites that I can read and evaluate myself because AI is frequently wrong: techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/g...

This is insanity: Trump's DOJ is about to "settle" his lawsuit against the IRS by creating a $1.7 billion slush fund to pay off victims of Biden "weaponization." I talked to Jamie Raskin about this. It's even more corrupt than it first appears. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2105...

Today is the 130th anniversary of the Supreme Court's 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling, which established that racial segregation laws did not violate the Constitution. In the Library's Prints & Photographs collection, there are many visual examples of the “separate but equal” doctrine in practice.

This is both amazing and heartbreaking.

It’s peak bird migration season. Turn off all unnecessary outside lights to help migrating birds! City lights can distract or get birds mixed up directionally.

THANK YOU!!!!!! Also, y’all should follow Dr. Fiesler.

*Furiously and frantically slaps the sign*

This must be shut down. In order to do that, we have to take back at least one house of Congress. Preferably both. Let’s go.

“That day, we realized the Russians had come to kill us” is how one theater survivor put it to me. “They didn’t come to fight with Ukrainian soldiers. They just wanted to kill us.” from James Verini, an excerpt from his book "The Theater" www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

What these women survived is a cult. It is not a religion, or a faith tradition or whatever. It’s straight-up a cult. I’d argue it’s the cult of Paul bc of how heavily Paul’s letters get relied upon for oppression.

I think we need to talk more openly about how white men in the U.S. benefitted from affirmative action for 200 years (i.e., systematic exclusion of women/minorities). This concept is missing from the national discourse and the public's understanding of the context underlying DEI initiatives.

Obligatory link youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...

Rules are rules - repost necessary

happy Tom Holland stormwater management day to all who celebrate.

On this day in 1935, FDR signed an executive order creating the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Of 2,000 WPA posters known to exist—publicizing community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs—the Library's collection of more than 900 is the largest.

In just over a month, the duration of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine will match that of the entire World War I. And the entire might of Russia and its totalitarian allies, as well as of the Kremlin's corrupt useful morons in the West, still can't defeat Ukraine.

Oh hecks yes

I am honored to share the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Best International Reporting with Dake Kang, Byron Tau, Aniruddha Ghosal and Garance Burke for our reporting revealing how Silicon Valley largely designed and built China's surveillance state and enabled human rights abuses.

NEWS: The Armenian Genocide memorial in Stepanakert/Khankendi was destroyed btw 7/14/25 and 4/25/26 (+ a nearby memorial complex). Built on the 100th anniversary of the 1915 atrocities, the bell tower housed relics (human remains) from Der Zor—the Syrian town where hundreds of thousands perished./5

'Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre', Maryland - I was privately commissioned to memorialise the BARC by a past employee after learning it will be shut down by the USDA after over 100 years of research. They wanted to focus of this aerial embroidery to be the field plots... 1/3 (see thread)

In honor of the AM radio spat youtu.be/hjg39XRkjVc

There is a whole class of apps that market themselves as "personal safety" or "anti-theft" that meet the definition of stalkerware and Cerberus Anti-Theft is one of them: hexproof.dev/datagrams/ce...

I hate this stuff.

I hate this. It’s obvious too in search results and it’s aggravating.

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...

Our new paper about initial stages of the flora development at the exposed bed of the former Kakhovka Reservoir just published in the new issue of the Black-Sea Botanical Journal cbj.kspu.edu/index.php/cbj

The Forest Service, USDA…..

Ok that’s cool. Or hot.

If you want a new memory card for your camera, you’re kinda screwed right now

The AI data center / compute boom and crunch is really fucking up a lot of things: www.404media.co/the-ai-compu...

“…all I can tell you is that it is a failure when you ask people to adapt to computers. Computers should adapt to people. Asking people to make themselves more legible to software —to turn themselves into a database — is a doomed idea.”

A very special Happy Earth Day to everyone posting AI generated "happy earth day" graphics. Amazing job. You definitely get it.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

I had to read Palantir's Technological Republic thread twice because the first time I was certain this was satire: twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...