"The question this brings to my mind is: why is this a story at all? This is nothing more than the moderately unhinged opinion of a guy whose company owns a lot of real estate. Why is it in the newspaper?" stringinamaze.net/p/rich-guy-q...

enough. i’m tired of github actions. it’s time for github consequences

Josh Marshall: The message is simple: there are no rules. Only power. ... It's just a matter of what helps the GOP and the Court in that particular moment. In a way it's clarifying. Even helpful.

Keep getting an "uncaught reference error: wp is not defined" in a #Wordpress theme enqueing an editor script using wp.domready and my brain is fried. There's an easy fix for this somewhere right? Is the script loading before the wp object? No imports, no dependencies enqueued. Google is not helping

"For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

University Claims Withholding Water From Nuclear Weapons Data Center Is 'Unlawfully Discriminatory' to Data Centers www.404media.co/university-c... #goblue

#a2council 🧵 A brief history of Ann Arbor isn't a small town anymore

@thestrategist.com Think your feed is broken.

"Anyone with a passing familiarity with current events understands that Roberts’s argument — that the public is somehow mistaken about the Court’s function as the judicial arm of the Republican Party — is irreconcilable with reality." talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/theres-...

Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop severe bleeding. In many cases, oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Yet driven by misinformation, more parents are refusing the injection.

In #lume, if I want to author "page" content in a /src/pages folder but serve them from the top level of the site (so /src/pages/about.md is built to websitedotcom/about/) I can somehow do that, right? Some shenanigans in a shared data file? #deno #ssg

Save us worms! hackaday.com/2026/05/05/e...

"You cannot use the Constitution to remedy anti-Black racism, the Roberts Court says – in fact, if you do, you are the real racist; but you can totally engage in racial discrimination against non-white minorities as long as you pretend it’s all about partisanship." steady.page/en/democracy...

"At 54.1%, workers are netting the lowest earnings compared to the income they’re producing since the data started being collected in 1947. Meanwhile, labor productivity increased 0.8%, output increased 1.5%, and people worked 0.7% more month over month." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/u-s-wor...

Hooray. Kool-aid and sneakers for everyone. www.techdirt.com/2026/05/05/c...

"What CBS should be doing — what any media organization with a spine would do — is loudly defend the editing of the Trump interview as exactly what it is: standard journalism." www.techdirt.com/2026/05/04/t...

This is the source of my doomerism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNfz...

I'm just going to scrap every single one of my side projects. Empty my read-it-later queues. What the fuck is the point of anything. Nothing is making me feel like anything I do matters.

I don't know what the point is anymore. How does a sane person prepare to watch the slow grinding end of civilization?

Fuck me. Here comes the enshitifcation. www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

"Publicly funded research that generates politically inconvenient knowledge becomes grounds for isolation and retaliation." www.lawfaremedia.org/article/from...

“Worldwide, natural disasters drive people out of their homes more than twice as often as war and other conflict… The era of climate migration is already here. We’re just finally starting to realize it.”

All I want is a humble castle on the Irish coast, a crackling fire, a vintage mystery novel, an emotional support raven, a raging thunderstorm, a few purring cats, endless cups of tea, and a scandalous amount of freshly-baked pastries.

Last March, millions hit the streets worldwide to say No Kings. Now, with May Day fast approaching, people are looking for what’s next. So on May 1st, don’t work, don’t go to school, and don’t give big corporations a single cent. Join the fight this May Day!

Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

The U.S. is blessed with one of the most scientifically and technologically advanced health care systems in the world. And yet, when it comes to health outcomes among the world’s wealthiest countries, the U.S. ranks last. Read "Sick in a Hospital Town," a 2026 Hillman Prize winner:

Hey is anybody else in tech really stressed

"Our findings add to a growing body of evidence that international conflicts can carry significant costs for domestic economies through their effects on foreign visitor flows." www.promarket.org/2026/04/21/t...

"If the standard is only that one cop felt something violated the law, the First Amendment is meaningless." www.techdirt.com/2026/04/21/j...

"This is a useful, if somewhat sobering, lesson from the US: initial warnings will be ignored at best, dismissed at worst. The opposition has to keep at it, laying the foundations and creating the record that it will build on when things start to fall apart."

Louder for the people in the back. michiganadvance.com/2026/04/20/m...

I know it shouldn't be surprising to see Michigan show up in TPM, but it still surprises me. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/michiga...

Who the absolute fuck feels compelled to spend right now? I am continually appalled by my fellow citizens choosing to prioritize their comfort over political change and paying lip-service to progress while reveling in a thorough fucking by the status quo. www.axios.com/2026/04/01/r...

Nationwide General Strike Planned for May 1: No Kings Organizer | Common Dreams www.commondreams.org/news/no-king...

"Not broken in a “they pleaded it badly” kind of way, but broken in a “this theory does not describe an antitrust violation no matter how many drugs you’re taking or how convinced you are that the world owes you advertising dollars” kind of way." www.techdirt.com/2026/03/27/t...

You can't make this shit up. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

On the incompetency of the facsimile of the Trump government. "They don't actually have a message. It's just a rotating series of rationales that are often in conflict with each other." www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLIW...

There's something about sitting on the couch, home sick from work, with an upset stomach, reading a book, and sipping a home-brewed ginger shrub that makes me feel like "Take that military-industrial complex! You can't exploit my labor The Man!"

Lisbon’s COVID-19 Dolphin Resurgence is Coming to an End In Portugal, as around the world, the benefits of lockdown to wildlife have proved fleeting. by @leahbortskuperman.bsky.social www.biographic.com/lisbons-covi...

I've been wearing my t-shirt inside-out all day.

Well 2025 was the successful launch of a business intelligence team from scratch, as my partner in crime reminded me, and 2026 will be the successful launch of an entire SEO/GEO/AEO/ETC enterprise. It's so odd the breadth of what you can accomplish when you're allowed to.

Wide range of Michigan advocacy groups join coalition opposing constitutional convention  • Michigan Advance michiganadvance.com/briefs/wide-...

As a public university, U of M is exempt from local zoning requirements — meaning the project does not require township approval. planetdetroit.org/2026/03/univ...

SCOOP— Trump wants a 24k gold coin w/ his face on it for America 250, but an official at a late February coin advisory committee meeting called it something only done by "nations ruled by kings or dictators." After NYT reported the criticism, US Mint yanked online vid of the meeting w/o explanation.

"The entire exercise was supposed to pay for itself many times over. Instead, the taxpayer funded an $81 million operation that produced negative returns." www.techdirt.com/2026/03/17/d...

"A stunned and increasingly wounded world is now coming to terms with the realization that Trump’s disqualifying misbehavior is the sort of thing can happen in America, and moreover, the sort of thing that will be allowed to happen in America." www.techdirt.com/2026/03/16/a...

"I’m tired of working on myself as a full-time project. Not because I don’t care or I think nothing matters. But because turning every inner state into something that needs fixing has made life feel smaller, not more expansive." www.vogue.in/content/in-2...